Argghhh!

The MSM is reporting casualties in the hundreds from the VBIEDs, but two of the cadets with relatives in Baghdad say over a thousand people have been admitted to or treated and released from the local hospitals. One of them in particular should know -- his wife works in one of them.The small bright spot is that security forces stopped one of the car bombers before he and his fellow suicider could make it to their target -- the police at one particular checkpoint did everything by-the-book and captured...

Massa John is right in bleating about my paltry postings. Every time I try and gather strength for a post, Deh Funneh is just not *there*, as of late...

This would be over-the-top for a satire site, so clearly... it's true. Head of Air Force sex-assault prevention busted for allegedly groping woman. Leave aside the irony - Clearly, the vetting process was flawed. And one wonders, over a career, how many times a problem with alcohol was covered by his bosses? I.e., a cultural problem in the Air Force? And the Navy. And the Army. And, frankly, probably the USMC, as well. And the Democrat party. And the Republicans. Heh. I see that ol' demon...

For today through Wednesday, anyway... Iron Sentinels of Gettysburg... Hi-res, click here . Hi-res, click here . Hi-res, click here .

"Simon's gone." I hate emails that start like that, because it means a friend is no longer with us. Dusty has lost his wingcat. Hit by a car on the highway in front of our house. Wife and daughter saw his body on the way to school. I brought him back, wrapped in a t-shirt and we buried him in the fields out behind our home. He was our oldest and the most dignified of cats--never bullied, never shoved anybody out of the way for food. We rescued him from the pound in Newport News, huddled...

BOQ

Continuing the dip into the archives of November 2003 about the Maxim M1910... Good day, boys and girls! (Special handwave to Gunner and Sasa!) Two days ago we learned that the Sokolov Pulemyot Maxima, M1910, was HONKING HEAVY ! And, as anyone who has ever schlepped a ruck, ammo, water, and weapon knows, troops don't like stuff that's heavy. At all. So, in order to achieve that nearly 100 pound load for the gun, they took the thirty pound gun (with water) and put it on a 70 pound wheeled...

Dusty remembers Ben Hall .