Pat Buchanan has a new book coming out
(Via Drudge) I’m not sure how long sur how long this link will be good, so look now if you’re interested… A few select quotes…
I feel the breeze in my face
(Via Drudge) National ID seen in 9/11 panel plan “There needs to be consistent standards to ensure the integrity of both the document and the…
An upbeat note
(Via Worldnet Daily) Occasionally, I find something that gives me hope that all is not screwed up in the world. This is one of those…
Arrested? They ought to get a medal and a chance to finish the job!
You catch some pervert in a tree, pants around his ankles, watching your 5-year-old daughter who’s asleep in her bed. You and some loyal friends…
What Julio-Claudian Roman Emperer are you?
Fun quiz. I took it and… You’re Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. He had a lot of drive and skill, possessing a respectable spirit…
Gun-grabbers at it again
I had a heck of a day looking up things on the WWW today. Didn’t find what I was looking for, but I found a…
A lie or “situational ethics”
I was looking on the web for something else entirely and ran across a great opinion piece in the Illinois Leader by Joyce Morrison. It’s…
Vernon Blake update
You may remember my note on Vernon Blake last month. In the current “This Is True“, Randy Cassingham returned him to my consciousness, and I…
Jenny, I got your number…
(Via mensnewsdaily) Those of us who are children of the 80s (OK, so I had an extended childhood–sue me) are going to love this one:…
A little hacking, anyone?
(Via Drudge) With little fanfare, the Federal Reserve will begin transferring the nation’s money supply over an Internet-based system this month… The NY Post has…
Our Confederate Ancestors
(via WorldNet Daily) Family diary tells story of kindnesses given soldier held in Civil War prison Here we have an interesting (and interestingly enough, unbiased)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Valor more clearly defined
(Via Blackfive) OK, so now I know which one to do. Both. With the heros at Fallujah.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…