Year: 2004

(Via Jerry Pournelle) The policeman found my penknife. ‘You’re going down, mate,’ he said Given Ridge’s Retards, Thousands Standing Around and the rest of the…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Man killed by Lava Lamp. How much longer can a civilized country stand this level of needless killing? We must register Lava…

According to PC World, it will if it’s a color laser printer manufactured in the last several years. This technology, originally included to help the…

But really it isn’t. We’ve done the feast several hours ago, and since neither my wife nor myself has a lot of family left living…

Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol…

From the residents of the Freehold, Happy Thanksgiving! When you number your blessings of this past year, please remember those who are far away from…

More on the issue of Marines killing terrorists. Previous posts, in chronological order, are: My obligatory post on Marines killing terrorists The other side of…

(Via rec.guns) A Volvo-driving, NPR-listening, DC-based reporter goes to the range. I’ve seen this sort of thing first-hand. If you can get a woman to…

(Davids Medienkritik via Mamamontezz) I don’t know if this guy is a big whoop in Europe (if he isn’t, he ought to be–they could use…

(Via The Drudge Report) Marines shoot insurgent who was ‘playing dead’ The US military says Marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who…

A lot is made in the media about the innocent victims of crime–the child orphaned by a murder, the family burned out of a home…

(Via Obnoxious Droppings) Col. Oliver North has the full skinny on what, how and why our intrepid Marine killed a terrorist in Iraq, from those…

(Via Across The Atlantic; originally from Power Line) We’ve all heard, to the point of saturation, the media’s version of the Marine shooting a terrorist…

I’ve watched and listened, swinging from amused to outraged, about the Kevin Sikes/NBC tape of a Marine shooting a terrorist. OK, let’s stipulate that he…

(Via NCSouth) Dr. Louis Rubin, professor emeritus of English at UNC-Chapel Hill and the founder of Algonquin Books, penned this piece on his experiences as…

I’d seen in several places that Sears was going above and beyond in it’s efforts to support their employees, who, as members of the military,…

(Via Capitalist Lion) Mike, the blogmiester of Cold Fury, really cuts the Seriously Loopy Leftists a new one. A quickie: Yep, that’s right, you commie…

I’ve pondered on what to say all day. Like some people, I had today off. Like most of them, there was no parade for me…

If anyone who could answer that question, it would be Yasser Arafat. Say Hello to Hitler, Stalin and the rest of the gang for us.…

I didn’t realize that today was the Marine Corps’ 229th birthday until this little gem showed up in my email box at work. It’s not…

(Via The Drudge Report) Half of BBC staff face the axe Oh, please, Please PLEASE! Tell me it’s being held by the headsman…. After some…

(Via Johnny Knuckles) Who’s in the White House? Heh. Just doing my part; reaching out to the Libs and all that.

Any morning that you pull into work to the strains of Hank Williams, Jr. singing “If Heaven Ain’t A Lot Like Dixie”, you know it…

I’ve been watching the Arlen Spector issue bloom over the last couple of days. I hope this traitorous so-and-so gets what he so justly deserves.…

(Via Drudge) Freedom squelches terrorist violence A John F. Kennedy School of Government researcher has cast doubt on the widely held belief that terrorism stems…

Just for grins, I was poking through the Sitemeter stats, you know, just to depress myself before bedtime. And who do I see has paid…

Talk about something coming the long way–Sheila O’Malley, from Dan, from Chedder X, originating at geeky.chick.blog. A new record. Answer the questions. A warning to…

It looks like party time in Fallujah. The Marines have entered the western end of the city, securing bridges and the city’s hospital. They should…

Yesterday was devoted to one of my favorite forms of entertainment–a trip to a gun show with one of my buddies. Heck, we not only…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) I have read some depressing, disturbing things in my life, but this one is bucking, hard, for top honors. What is Poverty?…