Argghhh!

There isn't one. A rare day in the year for which there are no actions that earned the Medal....

...Prodigal Son, when he and future Wonderful Daughter-in-Law showed up to say, "We're pregnant!" this isn't what she looked like.

Normally, we have one or two sad little sign-holders outside the gate of the Fort once or twice a week since PFC Manning got shipped here for safe storage pending his trial (though, I admit, one does have to wonder about the lack of speedy justice here and with Major Hasan, but those are rants for a different time). But now we're gonna have a rally and everything! Finally, we get some of that traffic-snarling crap you easterners get to play with all the time! And people are going to drive in...

Those of you who opined it was a powder can were essentially correct - I was pushing you to see if you would figure out it was a *big* powder can. Because it is a big powder can, or, as the Navy terms them, "16in Tank, Mark 4."

...by an active duty officer , no less. The Army officer who once taught that the U.S. ought to consider “Hiroshima tactics” for a “total war” on Islam has put America’s top general on notice for a possible lawsuit. Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley is accusing the government of concealing “the truth about Islam” at a time when proponents of his view of an inevitable clash between Islam and the West have succeeded at fanning precisely those flames. I had this up on...

Something new has been added -- see the ad for My Bullet in the sidebar?I am in the unique position of being able to tell you that it's a genuine Good Deal. I know the product, and I know one of the guys who owns the company -- LTC (Ret) Paul Spangler's a fellow Viet vet Army Aviator (okay, he mostly flew fixed wing, part of an outfit that Wasn't There and did things You Can't Prove). Ya see, when Spanky (we call him Spanky on the Viet vet Aviation forum) got the idea for My Bullet...

Anyone ready for Syria?

And these guys are some seriously inventive mofos. <===(You *seriously* want to click that link - the article is chock full of embiggenable pics of this stuff!)A Libyan rebel fighter, in a vehicle rigged with armor plating, flashes a victory sign at a territory taken from forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi, after rebels pushed several kilometers in the direction of Zlitan, west of the rebel-held port city of Misrata, on June 13, 2011. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra) Also of note is the typical crappy storage...