Tennis open thread
Last weekend was a freezing cold Saturday morning swimming meet open thread. Today it’s a chilly Saturday tennis match open thread. Have at it!
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Happy Birthday, Marines!
A few days ago, I jumped the gun. Today, however, really is the Marine Corps’ birthday. Happy Birthday, Marines!!
Continue readingI haven’t even had my 1st breakdown yet….
I haven’t had my first breakdown yet, and I’m not planning to, but this song has been running through my head: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1kTuVSUOw[/youtube] (Or view here.) I am ready, however, for a really good temper tantrum, along Garbo-esque lines: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tojjWQvlPN8[/youtube] (Or view here.) No big deal for those of you inclined
Continue readingBrrrr blogging open thread
Winter swim league — been here since 7 am in 40 degree weather, but at least I’m dry. The swimmers are bundled almost into immobility, but when you’re wet you’re cold. Hope you’re warm and comfortable. If you have something you’d like to say or share, feel free.
Continue readingI can see the future for Fairfax homeowners
Humans produce waste. Not just bodily waste, but all kinds of garbage. Most of what we know about Stone Age cultures comes from examining their garbage piles. If Fairfax, California, has its way, though, archaeologists are not going to have an easy time of it if they’re scavenging Fairfax garbage
Continue readingClarence Cain
Oh, it finally happened! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html The Liberal/Left Media has found two or more women willing to claim that Herman Cain was guilty of “sexually suggestive” language, thereby graduating the Liberal/Left’s “step n’ fetchit” caricaturization of Herman Cain to that of the predatory black male. Read that again, “sexually suggestive language”.
Continue readingSlouching into slavery
What the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use
Continue readingObama’s love song
Barack Obama has been on the national political scene for four years now, but it was only today that I suddenly realized that there’s a song out there that pretty much embodies Obama’s greatest love story: [youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJWzTasHE4[/youtube] And if that clip isn’t showing, just go here.
Continue readingDancing our way through martial arts
At the dojo today, we did a bit of sparring. Afterwards, the teacher told us about “The Book of Five Rings,” a fighting treatise that the great Samurai warrior, Miyamoto Musashi wrote in about 1645. Musashi was an extraordinary duelist, winning in part because of his skill, and in part
Continue readingBirds of a feather flocking together
As Orks from around the world gather at Mordor, I’m trying to keep track of all the endorsements that the OWS protestors have gathered unto themselves. Let’s see, there is: the Obama administration; Al Gore; the U.S. Communist party; the U.S. Nazi /White Supremacist parties; the KKK, CAIR; Iran’s Ahmadinejad; Anarchists;
Continue readingUniforms
I was talking with a friend (he knows who he is) about the uniforms we wear. The military imposes uniforms on its members, but most of us impose uniforms upon ourselves. Because I’m quite petite (being both short and reasonably slender) and because I have matching small feet, it is
Continue readingGreat moments in American oratory
“Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” Nathan Hale “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
Continue readingAnd what’s the guy’s citizenship have to do with the price of tea in China?
You’ve already heard about the horrible Southwest flight, during which Ali Reza Shahsauri screamed in Arabic: “Allahu Akbar… you’re all going to die.” Don’t worry, though. We’ve just been assured that it’s not terrorism (although it certainly managed to instill terror). Why isn’t it terrorism? Because: A spokesman said: ‘The
Continue readingI figured out how to end OWS
We know that the useful idiots at OWS want to shed their student loans. Warren Buffet wants to pay more. Buffet should therefore pay those loans. Isn’t that easy?
Continue readingOne of those bizarre family coincidences
My sister, her husband and I are all people who believe in evolution and the Big Bang. I discovered yesterday, though, that we also all believe in some variation of intelligent design. My brother-in-law believes that something, someone or some species seeded the universe with DNA (perhaps several times over)
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