Saturday, October 28, 2006
Thought for the Day
But I like the way the American radio host Dennis Prager put it the other day: some of us worry about a resurgent militant Islam and its attendant complications, some of us worry about global warming. In 20 years' time, some of us will be proved right and the others will look like idiots.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
I Shan't Hold My Breath
I see that Col. Day, a Vietnam POW and patriot, has filed suit in Philadelphia to force the Flopper to prove his war crime allegations that he parlayed into a Senate "career" - at least as a placeholder to the Admiral of the Chappaquidick Submarine Fleet. This has been tried before, but the slippery waste of oxygen has slipped out from under before this. Money doesn't talk, it hollers, and thanks to his second gigolo marriage, he can shout Justice right out of existence. So I won't hold my breath waiting for a real verdict.
He also thinks he has drawn the fangs of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Must grind his liberal guts that the guys he should be closest to in this life, his comrades from the war, hate and despise him. Well, at least 120 out of 124 do. Maybe you can't get comrades in a 4-month tour - I collected a few in my 23 months in the RVN....... He says he's ready to blow 'em out of the water this time... I'm lookin' forward to the 2008 elections. The blood in the water will be great. No prisoners will be taken and prisoners will be shot.
He also thinks he has drawn the fangs of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Must grind his liberal guts that the guys he should be closest to in this life, his comrades from the war, hate and despise him. Well, at least 120 out of 124 do. Maybe you can't get comrades in a 4-month tour - I collected a few in my 23 months in the RVN....... He says he's ready to blow 'em out of the water this time... I'm lookin' forward to the 2008 elections. The blood in the water will be great. No prisoners will be taken and prisoners will be shot.
Monday, October 23, 2006
There were these three guys....
Courtesy of www.mostlycajun.com/wordpress
A software engineer, hardware engineer and departmental manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland.
They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes failed. The car careened out of control, bouncing off guard rails until it miraculously ground to a scraping halt along the mountainside. The occupants of the car were unhurt, but they had a problem. They were stuck halfway down the mountain in a car with no brakes.
“I know” said the manager. “Let’s have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and through a process of Continuous Improvement, find a solution to the Critical Problems and we’ll be on our way.”
“No,” said the hardware engineer. “I’ve got my Swiss army knife with me. I can strip down the car’s braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we’ll be on our way.”
“Wait,” said the software engineer. “Before we do anything, shouldn’t we push the car back to the top of the mountain and see if it happens again?”
A software engineer, hardware engineer and departmental manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland.
They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes failed. The car careened out of control, bouncing off guard rails until it miraculously ground to a scraping halt along the mountainside. The occupants of the car were unhurt, but they had a problem. They were stuck halfway down the mountain in a car with no brakes.
“I know” said the manager. “Let’s have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and through a process of Continuous Improvement, find a solution to the Critical Problems and we’ll be on our way.”
“No,” said the hardware engineer. “I’ve got my Swiss army knife with me. I can strip down the car’s braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we’ll be on our way.”
“Wait,” said the software engineer. “Before we do anything, shouldn’t we push the car back to the top of the mountain and see if it happens again?”
Sunday, October 22, 2006
On being a linker
Victor Davis Hanson nails another one here. Seems so logical when he walks you through it - and so impossible in the doing..... Good luck getting them to stop feeling sorry for themselves - it's their sole product!
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Senator in the news
I swear that this is getting to be almost too easy. Anyone out there have a problem believing that the unindited senior manslaughterer from Massachusetts tried to work with the KGB to help the Democrats defeat Ronnie in his second run? Despite the fact that Kennedy is an American by birth, the siren song of power calls far too loudly to him to let a tiny bit of treason stand in the way of his pursuit of socialist democratisch Nirvana. Thank God this zipperhead (4runner to Mild Bill Clintoon, thanks to his waitress sandwiches) never was a serious Presidential contender, instead devolving into a hilarious Senatorial pretender.
Monday, October 16, 2006
More Senate Nanu
Why can't the Senate consolidate its RINO members and confirm John Bolton? Yah, the UN is still useless, but it bites the US a little less with him there.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Jeeze LaWheeze..
I'm dying from all these political commercials. The question that isn't addressed well until after the election is "What crook is better suited to my wants?" and then the only real question is "How long until they are better off monetarily than their constituents?"
Not that they're ALL crooks, y'unnerstand.
Not much......
Not that they're ALL crooks, y'unnerstand.
Not much......
Friday, October 13, 2006
Didn't think it could happen
Gitcher butt over to Michelle's. Looky as MKHam, LaShawn Barber, and Kirsten Powers join Michelle in doing a watchable version of "The View". DAMN, those ladies are good. Can't wait to see the video of their field trip.....
Monday, October 09, 2006
I've had all I can stands
..cause I can't stands no more.
If W is indeed pocket vetoing (ask your civics prof, I'm busy) the fence bill, he has just started the Republicans' self-destruct sequence. No bloody excuse. If I had wanted a complete asshole in the White House, I'd have voted for Kerry.
When Shrillary is elected, he will be to blame......
If W is indeed pocket vetoing (ask your civics prof, I'm busy) the fence bill, he has just started the Republicans' self-destruct sequence. No bloody excuse. If I had wanted a complete asshole in the White House, I'd have voted for Kerry.
When Shrillary is elected, he will be to blame......
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Obscenity deleted
Rats. I have a great little Compaq laptop (let's hear it for wireless!) that I've been keeping this blog up on. Seven days ago I tried to update the blog on my laptop and it proceeded to keep shutting itself off. This is not normal. So on Tuesday I took into into the Comp USA where I had purchased it. Today I got a phone call from them stating that the local repair unit couldn't square it away, so it's off to the Big House for a week-and-a-half to two weeks (they said). I purchased the extended warranty, and will keep you folks updated on what happens.
I see where the party of Shrillary and the Moore-ons had a very interesting photo of a soldier on the DNC Military and their Families page. I think it's absolutely great that the Democrats support the uniformed services. But I think they should support the US military, not the Canadian military. Seems if they're such great boosters, the Democrats should be able to tell the difference and know what our guys wear..... But maybe they plan on gutting the US military like the Canadian military was if they are ever elected and use the same uniforms as a cost-cutting measure.
L&T wife just informed me (as an aside) that I'd had 7 units of blood during my surgery. She ALWAYS gets sucked in to "Extreme Makeover Home Edition", so I have time to do a little surfin' and a post here. Missed this thang.... Take care.
I see where the party of Shrillary and the Moore-ons had a very interesting photo of a soldier on the DNC Military and their Families page. I think it's absolutely great that the Democrats support the uniformed services. But I think they should support the US military, not the Canadian military. Seems if they're such great boosters, the Democrats should be able to tell the difference and know what our guys wear..... But maybe they plan on gutting the US military like the Canadian military was if they are ever elected and use the same uniforms as a cost-cutting measure.
L&T wife just informed me (as an aside) that I'd had 7 units of blood during my surgery. She ALWAYS gets sucked in to "Extreme Makeover Home Edition", so I have time to do a little surfin' and a post here. Missed this thang.... Take care.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Not-so-common Sense
Veritably ripped from The LawDog Files:
Meditations on the Combat Mindset
Long-time readers of this blog know that I am firmly of the opinion that any man or woman has only one weapon.That weapon is the human mind.
And that weapon is the only weapon that you had in the past, it is that only weapon that you have now, and it is the only weapon that you will have at any time in the future.A gun is not a weapon. A gun is a tool, and nothing more.It is a tool designed to initiate and contain a rapid gas expansion for the purposes of driving a malleable alloy pellet along a repeatable trajectory.And that, Gentle Readers, is the only thing a gun is designed to do.
Now -- who, what or where that trajectory intersects is completely up to the human mind holding that gun.The gun is a tool, a tool that the human mind may choose to use to threaten, injure or kill, but simply a tool.
This is a simple concept, but it is one that I see rapidly disappearing.
We have the regrettable and distasteful habit of putting all of our faith into one thing -- and for some fundamentally inconceivable reason that thing that people put their faith in is never the human mind.
I truly don't understand that.
I see that I have already lost some of my readers. Allow me to give an example.There are people who style themselves as warriors. And they have practiced with firearms until they are capable of doing things with their firearms that leave me in awe, so who am I to disagree with that styling?Yet, these same people will come to me weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth, "LawDog, I have to take a plane flight, and TSA is going to disarm me at the terminal."
Goodness, I didn't realize that TSA was installing brain-suckers at every airport.
"No! I can't take a gun or knife on a plane! I'm going to be helpless!"
Codswallop.
Put a Masterlock and a thin leather dress belt in your carry-on. If a critter presents himself, thread the Masterlock onto the dress belt and break his skull with it.
If TSA takes away your Masterlock, then beat the critter to death with your walking stick.
If they confiscate your walking stick, then you take a pencil, a fountain pen or a biro, and you puncture his vital organs in alphabetical order.
If your writing utensils are banned, you garrote the bastard with your bootlaces.
If TSA forbids foot-wear, then you break a CD disk and you cut his sodding throat with the jagged edges, BUT DON'T BLOODY WELL GIVE ME THIS "HELPLESS" BULL[DELETED]!
LawDog, they won't let me carry a gun -- I'm helpless.
LawDog, they won't let them have pocket-knives, they are helpless.BULL. [DELETED].Helpless, my furry arse. You are helpless because you're fixated on tools. You're helpless because you -- your mind -- is letting you think that you're helpless just because some daftie took away your pretty tools.
Stop it.
Firearms don't have a single godsdamned thing to do with the Combat Mindset.
Knives don't have a single flaming thing to do with the Combat Mindset.
Combat Mindset has not a bloody thing to do with tools, and everything to do with your mind -- that's why it's called "The Combat Mindset" and not "The Combat Toolset".
Period.
Full stop.
End of statement.
LawDog
Kinda reminds ya of Ship Sgt Zim and the throwing knife.....
Meditations on the Combat Mindset
Long-time readers of this blog know that I am firmly of the opinion that any man or woman has only one weapon.That weapon is the human mind.
And that weapon is the only weapon that you had in the past, it is that only weapon that you have now, and it is the only weapon that you will have at any time in the future.A gun is not a weapon. A gun is a tool, and nothing more.It is a tool designed to initiate and contain a rapid gas expansion for the purposes of driving a malleable alloy pellet along a repeatable trajectory.And that, Gentle Readers, is the only thing a gun is designed to do.
Now -- who, what or where that trajectory intersects is completely up to the human mind holding that gun.The gun is a tool, a tool that the human mind may choose to use to threaten, injure or kill, but simply a tool.
This is a simple concept, but it is one that I see rapidly disappearing.
We have the regrettable and distasteful habit of putting all of our faith into one thing -- and for some fundamentally inconceivable reason that thing that people put their faith in is never the human mind.
I truly don't understand that.
I see that I have already lost some of my readers. Allow me to give an example.There are people who style themselves as warriors. And they have practiced with firearms until they are capable of doing things with their firearms that leave me in awe, so who am I to disagree with that styling?Yet, these same people will come to me weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth, "LawDog, I have to take a plane flight, and TSA is going to disarm me at the terminal."
Goodness, I didn't realize that TSA was installing brain-suckers at every airport.
"No! I can't take a gun or knife on a plane! I'm going to be helpless!"
Codswallop.
Put a Masterlock and a thin leather dress belt in your carry-on. If a critter presents himself, thread the Masterlock onto the dress belt and break his skull with it.
If TSA takes away your Masterlock, then beat the critter to death with your walking stick.
If they confiscate your walking stick, then you take a pencil, a fountain pen or a biro, and you puncture his vital organs in alphabetical order.
If your writing utensils are banned, you garrote the bastard with your bootlaces.
If TSA forbids foot-wear, then you break a CD disk and you cut his sodding throat with the jagged edges, BUT DON'T BLOODY WELL GIVE ME THIS "HELPLESS" BULL[DELETED]!
LawDog, they won't let me carry a gun -- I'm helpless.
LawDog, they won't let them have pocket-knives, they are helpless.BULL. [DELETED].Helpless, my furry arse. You are helpless because you're fixated on tools. You're helpless because you -- your mind -- is letting you think that you're helpless just because some daftie took away your pretty tools.
Stop it.
Firearms don't have a single godsdamned thing to do with the Combat Mindset.
Knives don't have a single flaming thing to do with the Combat Mindset.
Combat Mindset has not a bloody thing to do with tools, and everything to do with your mind -- that's why it's called "The Combat Mindset" and not "The Combat Toolset".
Period.
Full stop.
End of statement.
LawDog
Kinda reminds ya of Ship Sgt Zim and the throwing knife.....
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