Year: 2006

One thing I have found out with The Freehold V2–a bigger house and a larger yard mean more work. (Shocking discovery, huh?) The old riding…

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Ar-r-rg!

OK, this one’s for Gunner, since he asked for it in the comments to this post. The story of my parents growing up years during…

(Via Kim DuToit) No, it not time for me to buy one or you to buy one. It’s time for Tina to buy one. Go…

Wired News is reporting that, in a move reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, the Senate Judiciary committee has allowed this abortion of a bill to pass…

FOXNews is reporting that a recent photograph: was not authorized for release by the Pentagon. It shows a large number of Taliban gathered for a…

It’s been five years since our world changed. Two years ago, I wrote this piece on the subject. I’ve just went back and reread it.…

I’ve made some long-overdue changes to the blog roll. A couple of bloggers (Armor Geddon and Heads Bunker) who are no longer with us are…

YouTube is generally not my thing. However, I’ll poke around there from time to time. This time, I found this: For the fellow Browncoats, there…

The Geek With a .45 recently made a trip to Hungary. You should read these 2 posts (1 & 2) about a part of his…

OK. I saw this same quiz on Heartless Libertarian’s blog, but I didn’t really feel like taking it at the time. Now Countertop has taken…

(Via WorldNet Daily) A Turing Bombe, an early relative of the computer, has been recreated at the old WW II British code-breaking center, Bletchley Park.…

While looking at the Shatner piece, I noticed this on the sidebar: Why womenshouldfake orgasms Being a guy, this is guaranteed to attract my attention.…

(Via Drudge) As Captain Kirk he vowed to boldly go where no man had gone before, but away from the TV screen actor William Shatner…

(Via Wolfesblog) OK, so if you’ve read my blog or any of the other gunblogs, you know the story of The Great KT Ordinance ATF…

(Via TB2K–lots of good stuff there today) It seems that people outside of the “normal” survivalism groups are getting interested in being prepared for the…

(Via TB2K) …Skunk Baxter! Many of you will remember Skunk’s guitar work for Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. But Skunk can also design missile…

(Via Drudge) Even the uber-liberal Washington Post has had enough of the Valerie Plame foolishness. Their op-ed piece on the possibility that Richard Armitage possibly…

News.com is reporting that Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security overlord Secretary is promising that our privacy will be respected as we carry out the War on…

(Via This Is True) Now here’s an interesting online quiz, the “Belief-O-Matic“–answer 20 questions and find out what religious faith you’re most in agreement with.…

OK, OK! It’s Number 69! Given all the “chicks with guns” items lately, I guess you people have you minds in the gutter full-time, huh?

(Link via The Mountain Man. Dude, when are you going to start your own blog?) If you’ve been around computers long enough, you know what…

Back well-rested from overuse during the actual move of The Freehold, I’ve been working on the “customization” necessary to create The Freehold V2 out of…

(Via The Register) In the wake of the recent “liquid bomb” scare, have you caught yourself wondering just how much safer you really are now…

It’s a shame to see a first-world country turn into a third-world hellhole. South Africa Is Crap is chronicling the slide. Depressing but necessary reading.

Joe Rosenthal, the AP photographer who took the iconic photo of the US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, has died at age 94.…

(Via TB2K) Well, I’m afraid it isn’t Howdy Doody Time. Robert Tracinski, writing in The Intellectual Activist, believes it’s Five Minutes To Midnight. Mr. Tracinski…

Gunner at No Quarters shares his thoughts on food. Having grown up the son of parents who lived in the Great Depression, I see his…

(Via Wired Magazine’s Blogs) Monkey Bites is reporting on YouTube’s latest phenomenon, a 79 year old Englishman named Peter, who is posting videos of his…