Yep, we’re stingy alright
From FoxNews: In dollar terms, the United States leads the world in foreign aid from government sources. But individual and corporate charity from the United…
Year: 2004
We Have A Winnah!
Patrick Hughes wins the prize for Top Family Christmas Blog Post of 2004. It brings a tear to my eye–really. I guess I’m just a…
Guns, blogs and influence
(Via The Smallest Minority) Publicola has written an excellent piece on guns, gun blogging, the AWB and the influence of all us Internet-connected gunowners. A…
Here he goes again…
…with the silly on-line quizzes. A tip o’ the virtual gimme hat to Emige with a Digital Cluebat, arrived at via Mamamontezz. What Classic Movie…
Sorry…NOT SORRY!
(Via Worldnet Daily.) “Author” Susan Sontag is dead at 71. Sorry, but I won’t be convinced this is a big loss. In her rage and…
Ah-hah!
(Via Jerry Pournelle. As an aside, I encourage you to read, if not subscribe to, his site. There are a lot of Very Smart People…
Maybe we can close the books on 2004 MN4
Interesting developments on our Friday the 13th visitor. The number of observations has dropped to 139 from the previous 165, and the probability of an…
You knew this was coming…
(Via Drudge) We’ve all heard about the “Christmas Tsunami”, the destruction and loss of life (over 44,000 at last report). As usual with these events,…
Asteroid 2004 MN4
I’ve edited the first post to change the impact to 4/13/2029. I’m not sure where my fevered imagination got 2030.) Good news is that they’re…
Another one bites the dust
(Via The High Road) Another loser finds out that armed homeowners make poor targets: Strain and his 15-year-old nephew, both armed with handguns, forced their…
More on Mr. Asteroid
Various takes from some of the specialized media: Space.com Universe Today SpaceRef And some of the mainstream media is awake: MSNBC (quoting odds of 1-in-45…
Paging Bruce Willis
OK, you’re going to have to see this yourselves. There may be an asteroid on the way, impact 4/13/2029. Got to wonder if that is…
Merry Christmas
Here I am, blogging on a holiday again. You gotta love the way my life works…. All us Freeholders are in the “mid-morning break”, as…
Gettin’ short
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (or A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house…
And there’s a problem here?
(Via The Register) It would seem that the UK’s Operation Ore child porn investigation has a unexpected consequence: 32 of the misbegotten so-and-sos have done…
Day By Day is back
God, I am losing it. I knew that Chris Muir was returning to Day By Day on December 1, but just let it slip away.…
Catching up
For no obvious reason, I really haven’t felt like blogging much lately. Outside of a very select few, I haven’t even been reading blogs much…
Gun-grabbers at it yet again
It seems that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would like to disarm the residents, creating a “criminals ply your trade here” zone. For those…
But of course, the Liberals won’t want to hear this…
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead…
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
Today is a little known holiday, Bill of Rights Day. This is a fairly new holiday, first observed on December 15, 1941. (Yes, 8 days…
Things that make you go…Uh-huh.
I doubt I’m the first blogger to note the stories that Rumsfeld may have been set up for “the question” by a reporter for the…
Crime Control
(Via WorldNet Daily.) A gas station clerk fought back when a suspect tried to rob her store. And there’s video. Woo-hoo! There’s no happy ending–her…
“…a day that shall live in Infamy…”
“Air Raid–Pearl Harbor! This Is No Drill!” Not how the men of the Pacific Fleet planned on spending their Sunday morning. Pearl Harbor was a…
Rule 1: Drive Fast
The Capitalist Lion expounds on “How to drive in The Big City“. I’ve never driven in New York City, but I’ve driven in a few…
P.E.S.T.
His Majesty holds forth on Post Election Stupidity Selection Trauma. A rant of such quality needs nothing further from me.
I’m what?!
(Via Who Tends The Fires) I’m a bit of a sucker for these silly Internet quizes. The latest: You scored as Jewish. You are a…
The Bloggers’ Legal Defense Society
All of us who blog know, even if we don’t think about it, that our big mouths could get us into trouble. For better or…
Dear Spain,
Appeasing terrorists does not work. Good luck in the future. Sincerely, The Freeholder
Hm-m-m
I wonder if this would ever stand a chance: In the event of a WMD attack by terrorists on the U.S. homeland or U.S. military…
Supporting the troops
There’s a lot of good groups doing good work supporting our fighting men and women overseas and at home. I ran into this one the…