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Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Tryin’ to reason with hurricane season

(With apologies to Jimmy Buffet) Well, here in my part of North Carolina, Hurricane Charley was mostly a rainstorm. But for others, it has been…

August 15, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Connie, say it aint so!

With this post, Connie Du Toit, mistress of the Personal Effects blog, takes her leave of us. I haven’t been at this long (reading blogs…

August 13, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Continuing with the theme

(OK, so I’ve lapsed here and there. Whoop-de-do.) While I was born in the South, my family hails from West Virginia. Because of that, I…

August 13, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

A quickie on Hari-Kerry

Has anyone else noticed that Ketchup Boy wants to be acknowledged as a hero in a war that he protested and in which he claims…

August 13, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Reality interrupts

I said I was tired of blogging about politics and etc. True enough, but this needs to get out there. Immigration plan envisions ‘incentives’ to…

August 11, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

I won’t say this is a first…

(WARNING: GEEK ALERT!) Because I don’t know that for a fact. However, geeky though the subject matter is, this ought to worry any employee of…

August 11, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

And now for something completely different

(requisite apologies to Monty Python) After a certain period of time, political silliness, wars and rumors thereof and a general state of PO’dness at the…

August 6, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Australia’s sinking into the muck

The Smallest Minority has these thoughts on some current events in Australia. Read them through first, I’ll wait here… I had always thought “Gee, if…

August 5, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Only a Southerner Knows

My cousin sent me this. I’ve seen it before in many places on the Internet, but I want to enshrine it here. Only A Southerner…

August 4, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Attention Horticulturalists

I think I may be getting on a theme, here… (via FOXNews) Cops Make Major Hibiscus Bust No, this wasn’t some guy who is stealing…

August 4, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Attention Wisconsin Gun Owners: Turn in Your Weapons!

I’ve seen this in a few places in the blogosphere (sorry, I don’t remember where–Kim du Toit maybe?) but I want to note it here.…

August 4, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Valor more clearly defined

(Via Blackfive) OK, so now I know which one to do. Both. With the heros at Fallujah.

August 1, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

The Johns’ “Believe In America” Tour off to a good start

(via WorldNet Daily) Yep, nothing like a US Marine to get to the heart of the matter. “He imposed on us and I disagree with…

August 1, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

The faces of heros

(via Worldnet Daily) I’m so proud that this country still produces men like this that I don’t know whether to get all chocked up or…

August 1, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

And the Dems go home

Which some of the people in Boston are apparently quite happy to have happen. I saw a story on the NBC news about the various…

July 30, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Need a reason not to vote for Kerry?

If you need a reason not to vote for Kerry, just look at the people he hangs out with: John Edwards, liberal US Senator (OK, it’s…

July 28, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Your past can haunt you…

It isn’t getting much coverage from the Liberal-loving Left Wing mainstream media, but apparently a few years ago Teresa Heinz Kerry didn’t like Democrats very…

July 28, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Spaceman? More like Space Alien!

(via WorldNet Daily) Does Kerry as spaceman equal Dukakis in tank? It seems that some ace photog captured Kerry in full bunny-suit regalia during a…

July 28, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Bush and Kerry together?

Well, at least humorously.  I’ve seen this mentioned in a lot of places, but no blogs so far. So here’s George W. Bush and Ketchup…

July 28, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Your tax dollars at work

(via This Is True) So a network administrator at a government agency sees blatant computer abuse, and as a part of his assigned duties installs…

July 28, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

I guess civility only extends so far

Heinz Kerry Tells Reporter to ‘Shove It’ Let’s see if she catches as much crap as Dick Cheney did.  But I won’t be placing bets…

July 27, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

I wonder if it works on Democrats?

(via Worldnet Daily) Skunk Gel Repels Drug Users, Prostitutes

July 27, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Say What?

(via Worldnet Daily) Iowa first lady slammed blacks, Easterners and Southerners as bad speakers Lady, (and I use the term advisedly, but my momma taught…

July 27, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

I’m sorry–I’m WEAK!

I was hoping, I really was hoping, that I’d get through the entire Democrap National Love-In Convention without blogging about it.  After all, it the…

July 27, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

What good can a handgun do against an Army?

(Pointed out on a Usenet Newsgroup.  Thanks, Gunner.) What good can a handgun do against an Army? I’m not sure what I think about this…

July 26, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Cowboy? Thumos? Yeah!

(via Jessica’s Well) Go Ahead, Call Us Cowboys I refuse to comment on the piece, except to say you should read this.  I’d be detracting…

July 23, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Mind the hook, Linda

 It seems that there are some people in the US that take exception with celebrities bad-mouthing the President. Singer Linda Ronstadt’s eviction from a hotel…

July 22, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Fighting the Left–the right way

(Via FOXNews)   Some people get to have all the fun.  Protest Warrior is hitting the Marching Leftist Morons where they live–and they can’t do a…

July 17, 2004February 15, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

Priorities in public education

This from the classifieds of our local paper:   JOHNSON COUNTY SCHOOLS.  Johnson County, where our Number “One” Priority is Classroom Teachers, is Moving Forward…

July 17, 2004February 13, 2021
Tryin' to reason with hurricane season

“Liberal” = Bad? Well duh!

FOXNews has an excellent piece today, “When the Word ‘Liberal’ Attacks“.   It seems the Socialist Democratic Party takes exception to the use of this…

July 17, 2004February 15, 2021

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