Year: 2005

For better or worse, this week is over. I’m too tired to comment properly, so I won’t. Please continue to remember out British brothers in…

I’ve been following the story of the London terrorist bombings since I first heard about it on my drive to work. I kept checking in…

In keeping with these troubling times, I’m going to be posting more and more on the topic of emergency preparedness, or in less PC terms,…

I deliberately chose on to spend the 4th of July holiday not thinking about the challenges that face us as a country. Instead, I chose…

(Via Drudge) I seem to recall that usually, the result of unsolicited United States “advice” to Communist China is a quick statement that we’re interfering…

Sorry about the lack of bloggage the last few days. Busy, busy, busy. First, we had to pick up the kids from their summer camp…

(Via The High Road) Give Your Child an Early Inheritance by Al Doyle Don’t wait until you’re in the grave to give the kids something…

Taking only slightly longer than the town of Freeport, Texas took in making their landgrab, developer Logan Clements has decided that Supreme Court Justice David…

(Via The President of the United States) Remember, America Supports You.

The Revolutionary War Veterans Association is hosting The Carnival of Cordite #19. Nice job, guys.

I’ve been terribly lazy on updating the blogroll, but 2 items have forced me to it. First was Capt. Chuck’s wounding in Iraq (dammit). You…

(Via Bloodletting) We have a new record for the shortest time between a US Supreme Court decision and a local government taking advantage of it.…

Doc Russia is a bit perturbed at the recent Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo: …I think it is time to start shopping for a battle…

Being prepared can mean a lot of things. You may have a year’s worth of food set aside, gas and a generator, warm sleeping bags…

(Via The Travel Insider) A Minneapolis intellectual property lawyer had a $300 key to his Audi confiscated by the TSA as a “switchblade-type”. (NY Times…

Because they can still laugh at themselves: US Army Dynamic Entry Training Video

(Via Jerry Pournelle) For years, some have said that “We’re borrowing against our children’s incomes”. Might better include the grandkids and great grandkids as well.…

Jerry Pournelle, for whom I have great respect, has a different take on the Kelo decision. In light of what he says, I’m going to…

(Via WorldNet Daily) It just keeps getting better and better: A unanimous US Supreme Tribunal Court has ruled that is perfectly OK for the government…

A kids’ baseball team has been ejected from their league for being too good at the game. It seems that the coaches and the parents…

(Via The Drudge Report) I guess it wasn’t enough that banks, airlines and employers are “losing control” of your personal data. Now the IRS *SPIT*…

(Recalled to consciousness on The High Road) Liz Michael can get pretty strident for my tastes, but this is worth reading, given current events.

“Oh, you’re one of those survivalists, aren’t you?” Every time the subject of how fragile our civilization actually is comes up in conversation, I get…

However, if your local government decides that your property will generate more tax revenues if it’s removed from your ownership and transferred to someone who…

(Via Drudge) It seems that terrorism investigations are becoming the newest reason that the United States government can’t obey its own laws and policies. The…

The federal agency in charge of aviation security collected extensive personal information about airline passengers even though Congress forbade it and officials said they wouldn’t…

(Via Drudge) Vandals Spray Black Paint Over Faces In Confederate Monument I know what I’d like to paint on these losers. Followed closely by a…

On Techno Gypsy‘s site. What is it with these Texas bloggers and guns? *grin* There’s a ton to read; best get on it.

The weekend is nearly done, but I can’t let it finish without some gun and survival talk. Last weekend, you may remember, Old Friend’s Older…

Have a good weekend, everyone.