We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:48:00 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Scene: the back yard / garden / jungle of stately Tuttle Manor, post-thunderstorm. Yours Truly is sierra-sawing a 20-foot hemlock limb into kindling. Enter KtLW. KtLW: "What are you doing?" Me: "Turning the branches the storm knocked down into firewood." KtLW: "That's not important. Do something useful, like rolling up this hose and putting it away." Me: "Can't. I'll need it when I scrub the mud off the patio." KtLW: "Well, then, get to work scrubbing the patio!" Me: "Can't. First I have to use the blower to get all the leaves and stuff off the patio." KtLW: "Well, then,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:14:39 -0600 Hmmmm - Princess Crabby is in fine form today! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51064 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51064 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:52:25 -0600 Click this! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51060 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51060 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:33:29 -0600 Hey my name connects to something too. Click on it and it will take you directly ... do not pass go ... do not collect $200.00 .. to the dead letter office. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51057 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51057 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:34:59 -0600 BTW, who are you calling a lurker? My name actually connects to something. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51050 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51050 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:22:31 -0600 Where's my drink, knave? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51045 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51045 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:22:19 -0600 Ain't that different. The lurker showed up and slapped Bill this time. Life is good. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51044 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51044 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:10:55 -0600 JimB - You miss me baby? That's good. The Chief doesn't want to know what I think of his post. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51033 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51033 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:06:36 -0600 Hey! In *my* part of Kansas (which is pretty much the same terrain as JimBs part of Missouri, we've got woods *and* terrain relief. Yer thinking west of Salina... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51031 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51031 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:49:26 -0600 Kansas, remember?) and scanning the environs out to 5,000 meters* Nothin'... *switching to IR white hot* Nothin'... *switching to IR black hot* Ooop -- lurker in defilade...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51022 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51022 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:17:29 -0600 Psst .. Hey Bill ... it's quiet out there ... too quiet.. do a pop-up. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51020 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51020 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:18:17 -0600 Oh what the helk - I'll just help me myself to the treacle. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51017 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51017 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:48:40 -0600 wicked grin* ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51016 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51016 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:04:12 -0600 *Quickly dons the Armorer's Helm to prevent damage to innocents if my head explodes...* LMAO!!!!!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51015 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51015 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:01:47 -0600 Dunno about that whole fermionic fission business, but in my student days I found quantum mechanics much easier to understand after ingesting a good single malt ... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51014 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51014 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:39:02 -0600 *blinking innocently* *Quickly dons the Armorer's Helm to prevent damage to innocents if my head explodes...* ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51013 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51013 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:21:13 -0600 impish perverts, too... Or would that be the obverse of the reverse?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51012 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51012 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:23:28 -0600 Ha I think she just misspelled pervert. *blinking innocently*]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51010 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:27:28 -0600 Bill, you are perverse. Ha I think she just misspelled pervert.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51009 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51009 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:25:21 -0600 very perverse. :)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51007 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:09:10 -0600 *tossing down two fingers of wild turkey mixed with ol' grandad hunnert proof with a james beam float* Yup -- I can hardly wait. Here y' go... *slides fresh bottle of scoresby's toward jim's foxhole downrange* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51006 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51006 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:53:16 -0600 Leave it to Bill. I betcha he just started one of them wandering discussions that will end up diagraming nookular fishing, and touching on such burning questions as .... are we in Iraq or, is that all being shot on a Hollywood sound stage? The ladies will turn it to ... well you know what they turn it to and somehow Maggie will smack me. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51005 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/all_around_the_mulberry_bush.html#comment-51005 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:31:15 -0600