“What happened?”
(Via SurvivalBlog) Today was a travel day, flying back in time as I traversed the country from Oregon to Arizona to North Carolina. What happened…
Stuck
Every year, I attend a professional conference for IT folks that work in a specific area of the attractions industry. Every year, I’ve always left…
Failure
Rivrdog opines on the failure of our elected representatives. Nicely done, sir.
The Weasel List
Karen De Coster links us to the final vote tally for the House’s vote on bailing Wall Street out from it’s excesses with the tile…
I’m flattered, but
(Found at Call me Ahab) I find it a bit hard to believe. Your result for The Classic Leading Man Test… John Wayne You, my…
Wednesday was a good day for pictures
I had Wednesday to myself, before the start of the real reason I’m here in Oregon (work). I decided to go get lost. Taking Hwy…
Where’s the Freeholder?
Maybe this will give you a clue. I didn’t get a chance to take many decent pictures yesterday (hard to do when you have to…
Journalistic objectivity
Questions are being raised about PBS anchor Gwen Ifill’s objectivity after news surfaced that she is releasing a new book promoting Barack Obama and other…
Blogging may be slow for the next week
Or, it may not. I’m off to Oregon (yes, auspicious timing) for a conference. Connectivity gods willing, I’ll be posting from the left coast. And…
Hm-m-m
The House has rejected the financial stabilization bill (more commonly known as the bailout of Wall Street). Republicans voted 2-to-1 against, but almost 100 Democrats…
You have to have one of these
Saturday was spent in large part at one of the “fall festivals” that dot our area at this time of year. If you’ve been to…
Obama doesn’t want you to see this
But since I’m one of those bitter people who clings to his guns and religion, I want you to see it. As well as this…
Marines rock!
(Originally found at Timebomb 2000; origin tracked to BlackFive) Wolf- Just came from the memorial ceremony here at NORTHCOM. LTC (CH) Robert Leivers led the…
Impending culture shock
GunReports notes that “Effective October 1, 2008, BATFE’s Federal Firearms Licensing Center will begin its permanent transfer of function from Atlanta, Georgia to Martinsburg, West…
ATF allows electronic records. What’s wrong with that?
Well, nothing, exactly.The problem is with how the now-computerized records could be misused by an agency that has been called “out of control”. The Uninvited…
So…let’s talk bailout
Despite all of our super-duper finance people telling us that this bailout is necessary, and if we don’t get it the World As We Know…
Untitled Post
(Via Timebomb 2000) A Pasco County woman was in jail Sunday charged with aggravated domestic battery. Her live-in boyfriend called police to the couple’s Castile…
Quick! Call the asylum!
Because the inmates are on the loose–and they’ve taken charge of our economy. OK, this is going to be big-time snarkage, because the entire story…
The Joys of Cycling
(Forward to me by the Mountain Man, who still doesn’t have his own blog) The Joys of Cycling–in the 50s, in Ireland, no less. The…
Your Sunday Firepower Video
OK, let leave the normal Sunday big guns for something a bit more…personal.
Rut-Row, Raggy!
It seems like the big dino-wopping Wall Street bailout is running into politics. Bloomberg notes that” U.S. Democratic lawmakers said they would act quickly on…
Hey Dad, I found this old gun…
(Via The High Road) …that you carried during the Korean War. Against some pretty long odds, Virgil Richardson’s son Jim found the actual M1 Garand…
Jim’s Wins
From the Good News Department (yes, contrary to popular opinion, there is some good news to be had), a federal judge has cleared Jim’s Gun…
Well, that was a short intermission
Smelling “free money”, everyone is lining up for a taste of the pie: Senator Christopher Dodd, the Banking Committee chairman, said the plan’s framers should…
Intermission
Yes, it’s intermission time here at the Panic of 2008. I don’t think I’m overstating the situation. What those of us who watched the world-wide…
In other news
While we’ve all be fixating on Wall Street, Jihadistan decided to take a swing at us in Yemen, bombing the US Embassy in that country.…
Venturing into the undiscovered country
We’ve now entered into the early phases of the grand liquidation offinancial derivativesI wrote about last June. The most stunning—indeed flabbergasting—event so far has been…
I guess that didn’t work…
U.S. stocks tumbled as bank lending seized up in the wake of the government’s takeover of American International Group Inc., raising concern that more of…
This is uncomfortable
Remember when the Fed “persuaded” Bear Stearns to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for $2/share, only to eventually have the price go up to something…
Ross on Palin
John Ross is enthusiastic about Sarah Palin. Nothing of earth-shaking import here, but Ross is always fun to read.