It is apparently not news to anyone that the office of the President of the US involves a degree of security – to include an official food-taster, as medieval as that sounds. Been going on for years, apparently, so having a designated expert to cover food safety with regards to the President isn’t something to… More »
As a terribly scarred and battle-hardened first gen Tea Partier, I am following the fortunes of the OWS with mixed emotions; those motions mostly being a combination of disbelief and horror. Your leaderless insurgency just sort of decided to get together, camp out in a public place and make enough of a spectacle for the… More »
In no particular order of importance, I contemplate the following: 1. Regretfully, Morgan Freeman has now joined my personal celebrity s**t list, for pronouncing the Tea Party to be racist. Usually those who fall into my list have a long track record of offences; he has done it in one fell swoop of a lengthy… More »
. . . in the words of Strother Martin, from the old Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke, “is failure to communicate.” Although, in the case of one Private Nasser Jason Abdo, one really does wonder how much of that deliberate non-receptivity is on the part of the receiver; firstly – being eighteen years of… More »
If I see one more politico or blogger who I used to respect stand up and tell me that Paul Revere actually WAS warning the British on his midnight ride, I’m going to vote for Obama just out of sheer spiteful frustration with the WingNuttery of it all. No, it’s NOT worse than 57 states,… More »
So, a scattershot essay with a number of different topics that have come bubbling up to the top of my admittedly scattered attention this last week: The Neighbors from Hell, part –I-don’t-know-how-many, there are just too many to count. See, there are bad neighbors who commit sins of omission, such as not mowing their lawn,… More »
I see by the headlines this morning that the President gave a prime-time speech on TV last night . . . gee, like that hasn’t happened lately? Or what seems like every week since a year ago January. Vacation, speech, vacation speech, party at the WH, speech, vacation, trip to someplace or other, speech, vacation… More »
From: Sgt Mom To: Various Re: Some Apparently Inconvenient Home Truths 1. Oh, my – the case of the absent-minded professor, the irreproducible results and the ‘dog-that-ate-my-data.’ Yet another stake through the heart of man-made-global-warming, to add to the existing collection; I swear, in popular media culture this global-warming c**p has more lives than Freddy… More »
From: Sgt Mom To: Various Re: Ft. Hood Murders 1. To the families, loved ones, comrades and friends of those killed at Ft. Hood this last week: I am so sorry; our prayers and condolences go out to you all. 2. To our current President: Please start going to your local Toastmaster’s organization, and work… More »
National Organization of Women slaps Letterman on the pee-pee-pipe for a crude joke involving Governor Sarah Palin, her daughter, a Hispanic baseball player and a visit to a baseball game. Way to go, ladies. About time. I thought you’d take notice … eventually.
In the 1987 movie “The Untouchables,” Sean Connery’s character, Officer James Malone, gives a brief, but to-the-point lesson to Federal Agent Elliott Ness: They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the *Chicago* way! It’s with a bit… More »
You can’t spell Blagojevich without J.A.I.L.. You would think that by now I’d be immune to being surprised by an Illinois Governor being arrested. But seriously, he had to know he was under investigation. Why would you talk about this stuff ON THE FREAKING PHONE!!! UPDATE: Because someone asked: If Blagojevich is convicted, he would… More »
According to the front page of the Air Force Cyber Command’s Website: 8/14/2008-Barksdale AFB, La. –The Air Force remains committed to providing full-spectrum cyber capabilities to include global command and control, electronic warfare and network defense. The Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force have considered delaying currently planned actions on Air Force… More »
Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra… More »
I guess this story was around earlier this week. I just heard about it on Fox News’ Red Eye. Hey, “Man Vs Wild” is a repeat. A cop comes into my kid’s classroom, tells him and his classmates that some of their friends were killed in a drunk driving accident, and then after an hour… More »
Temps in the 30s with wind, rain and snow, does NOT qualify as “SEVERE” weather. If I can see down my street clearly to the “T” intersection (about a block and a half away) this is not limited visibility. Visibility would be more limited if we weren’t getting any weather and the smog got a… More »
Working for Ginormous Worldwide Telecom can sometimes be a chore. Especially if you have a sense of personal responsibility. Right now, cell phone companies sell cell phones at hugely discounted prices, sometimes even giving them away, in return for a commitment from the customer to stick around for X amount of time. If you break… More »
There was a time when the British Empire would have wiped you off the face of the earth for threatening harm to one of their subjects…it wasn’t that long ago… …just sayin’.
To: Various From: Sgt. Mom Re: A Surfeit of Crow 1. What a deliciously rich week this has been, as regards legacy media meltdowns! I can barely keep up with it all. Every time I repair to the kitchen for another bowl of popcorn,( lightly salted with schadenfreude) there is another development. At this point… More »
To: The World, and Especially KDFW “News” Reporter Rebecca Aquilar From: Sgt Mom Re: Do-It-Yourself-Law-Enforcement 1. As you may have gathered by now, residents of Texas take a rather rough-hewn approach to law enforcement and defense of self and property. This sometimes results in the perforation and/or premature demise of assorted freelance criminal types. 2.… More »
What is it they say; the first time tragedy, second time farce? What do they call it when it was a farce the first time around only dressed up in the high seriousness of a Searing Sixty Minutes (dum-de-dum-dum!) Expose? Here it comes around again, with Mr. Rathers suit against CBS News for making… More »
Well, it took about a day longer than I estimated for the Beauchamp-TNR kerfuffle-du-jour to expand to the size of the Hindenburg, metaphorically speaking, and then explode like a couple of wads of dubble-bubble chewing gum once the upper expansion limits had been reached. Wow, look at all that sticky pink stuff all over the… More »
On Paris Hilton. Really. I promise. I also promise you won’t stop laughing.
Well, so much for active-duty Army mil-blogging, if the Army Powers-That-Be have their way. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, public affairs-wise but color me fairly unsurprised by this latest move to constrain active-duty Army bloggers. Frankly, if I am surprised at anything, its that milblogs by active-duty troops managed to escape the clammy… More »
If we pull out of Iraq, the United States will never be trusted by anyone ever again. If we pull out, the massacre that follows of anyone who even smiled at a U.S. soldier, much less who collaborated with us or accepted our help, will make the killing fields of Cambodia look like a freaking… More »
Last week I started getting a bit excited about the 2008 Election. Why? Senator/Actor Fred Dalton Thompson may be throwing his hat into the ring. I loved him as the Rear Admiral in “Hunt for Red October.” I’ve liked him in just about everything I’ve seen him do on the screen. I was immediately excited… More »
You would think that the absolute cluelessness of the American Media, and many bloggers I might add, would fail to shock me. You’d be wrong. Anyone who thinks this is going to do more than cause some hospitals to paint a wall or two, raise your hands. For almost 23 years I’ve mostly been given… More »