Argghhh!

I love Rock Creek Park (Click on the Map HERE ). For those not familiar with Washington D.C., It is a lesser known feature of the city...

What a difference a few decades makes... What Saddam Hussein called "The Mother of all Battles" opened with the bombs falling on Baghdad. At least it started far as Saddam was concerned, as there were some Iraqi radar operators who had already gotten their virgins as SpecOps and Apaches kicked open a few corridors for the non-stealthy sorties bearing down on his armed forces. And of course the Kuwaitis and veterans of the Battle of Khafji *also* had a different perspective - but for most...

Especially for our Coastie friends... The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle is shown at the Lynnhaven anchorage off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., June 8, 2012. The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle participated in the Parade of Sail as part of Operation Sail 2012. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Marin. The pic embiggens.

...who wishes to remain anonymous, which I support, as I understand why. They occupy a position of prominence in a *very* PC workplace. They have adopted the pseudonym of Liberator.The sensationalism has to stop-and with the release of CIA’s IG report, “Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities September 2001-October 2003,” it might. Maybe. Hopefully. But with lurid horror-show allusions to the use of a power drill in an interrogation (it was revved up but never applied...

From a post on the VietVet forum I belong to:...the following is the letter written to the PGR. Anyone that lives in the Fort Drum area is welcome to attend. Hopefully the weather will be fall like, as it is a 7 hour one way ride.We don't need any snow.... GaryMy family is honoring a Great Grandfather and Revolutionary War Soldier, Ebenezer Wallace who served in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army in 1781 under command of General George Washington. He was discharged from West...

That's a scan of a piece of paper that's pretty rare. A seventh Purple Heart. With the passing of the Auld Soldier I've been going through the accumulated "stuff" of a long, and at times adventurous, life well lived. The Purple Heart is a funny thing. It's a medal no one wants, but is very proud of if they get it.There's a famous politician who got three of them, none requiring a stitch or a moment of lost time, much less a day or years in the hands of the medical system...

Little Tykes and Union Thugs are two words that should never be said in the same breath of air. Yet, that is exactly what is happening in the Democratic controlled state of Michigan. It seems that AFCME and the UAW have found a back-door way to "unionize" privately owned daycare centers across their state...

This morning, I was having a casual conversation with Castle Denizen Argent about the finer points of deep frying cooking. Boq