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From Murray - "Sticking up for America, because someone has to do it."
Note for Fairweather Patriots everywhere, regardless of party:
Just sayin'!
On the flip side - sometimes you can be too much in view. John Lilyea at This Ain't Hell wanders the Mall so you don't have to. -the Armorer
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Oh, and by the way - "Change" is not a destination, and "Hope" is not a method. -the Armorer
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Mr. Bush? Thank you, sir. It's been a tough 8 years. And I really appreciate the hour out of it you took to talk to us milbloggers. -the Armorer
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Fascinating graph in the Wall Street Journal regarding Presidential job approval ratings. Being a war President doesn't do you very well, unless you are assasinated at the very beginning. Ending wars helps, though. Being generally upbeat and positive helps, too, looking at Eisenhower, Reagan and Clinton. In fact, being genial, generally upbeat, and not having to fight actual hot wars (or ending one, as in Korea) makes up for a lot of sins. -the Armorer
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Heh. A new "killer app" for the iPod. Literally, in a sense. And one more thing dangling off your rifle. -the Armorer
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Bad Cat Robot was in fine fettle yesterday:
I love the smell of snark in the morning... -the ArmorerTomorrow Belongs to Me
I'm going to be paying for it, anyway. Literally, in the sense of taxes. Metaphorically, in terms of damage done to the country's institutions. Bad laws that will be easy to pass and very hard to remove. Astronomical bailout debt that nobody seems to be able to account for. Lo, the hammer of Fate descends towards my thumb. My only hope is the Democrat-controlled Congress, the brain trust that would die of thirst in a swimming pool, continues to break new ground in ineffectiveness.
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The quartet and original arrangement performed after Biden's swearing in was beautiful. But oh, the irony! Check out the lyrics of the song (beautifully expressed in the arrangement itself), which was originally sung by a religious sect that valued simplicity and humility:
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain'd,
To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come round right.
- FbL
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone.
I'll be up early on the morning of January 21st. If the Magic Rainbows are late delivering my gold-farting unicorn there <b>will</b> be consequences.
Promises have been made.
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Have you decided you really *do* need a boyfriend, after all?
2. I have never been anti-boyfriend (and you know that perfectly well, brat!)
3. It's obvious you've been deployed too long. :P
1. That was not a personal ad!
Oh, puh-leeze!
Boys *always* pick on the girls when they like them. At least they do in elementary school, which is about as old (mentally speaking, of course) John and Bill are!
Just *what*, prithee tell, are you inferring -- hmmmmmmmmm?
I was inferring nothing more than what was stated--you know perfectly well I am not anti-boyfriend, you @#$^$@!
BillT, you are such a brat!!!!
Oh, wait...
Ummmm. Based on my somewhat limited knowledge of typéd emoticons, I can't help but notice your work appears to involves using your
*ahem*
*tongue* a lot....
<munch munch munch>
Dutch Uncle?
Cheers
ooohhh The Double Entendre Speech Interceptor!
Almost as good as the Dangling Participle Observer! ;-)
Make it quick and hard enough to knock me into unconciousness for the next four years. I don't think my heart can take living through it.
At least somebody is being nice to me today... *flounce*
Okay, so were you implying that we should infer something based on that which you implied by the application of selected verbage commonly used to implicate an inference?
There -- wasn't that better?
BTW, BCR, the velociraptors are 'bout midway through the Paleocene -- the glaciers slowed them a bit.