Here’s the picture. Jonn has been posting while riding with his (far too beautiful) wife is doing the driving. If you aren’t following Jonn on FB he DID NOT get an MRI he was expecting.
Now I think he was just avoiding a Colonoscopy You Army guys will be more understanding methinks?
We’ve talked about The Nuge and the fallout from his intemperate, if accurate, words.
The reaction is heading towards that offered to Rush Limbaugh.
This bit might have been more of the same and it offers pix of the complainers. Sorry Charley Longo. Some folks in Maine may take you seriously, but…
Waterfront Concerts promoter Alex Gray said Sunday that he doesn’t plan to call off Ted Nugent’s Bangor performance despite remarks from two city councilors that the controversial rock star shouldn’t be allowed to play in the city.
ETA: Lest anyone be confused. I’ve been wrestling with the formatting for a while. Sorry.
Today is Earth Day!
All the bad guys in the world are most certainly taking the day off from their various activities to celebrate. There will be no robberies or IED planting for the 24 hours or so while the celebrations go on.
How will YOU celebrate the day?
Me… I’m contemplating a world where where every plane, train, boat, automobile, and semi-truck are powered by electricity. Every animal will stop trying to eat each other and just hug.
I DO love the smell of Unicorn Farts in the mornings…
I do hope Jonn will forgive…
A look ahead it seems?
Ted Nugent Under Fire for Obama Threat
Ted Nugent has the Secret Service keeping an eye on him, according to New York’s Vulture blog. Nugent landed on their radar over the weekend, when the musician attended the National Rifle Association’s convention in St. Louis Missouri and said of Democrats, “We need to ride into the battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”
A Secret Service spokesman told Vulture, “We are aware of it, and we’ll conduct an appropriate follow up.”
Karzai demands US commitment on funding
American troops prepare for what could be their last major offensive
And our own TSO arrives in theater…
For those of you not following along our hirsute representative arrived (in Kygryzstan) earlier today wearing flip-flops!
This confluence of events MUST mean something? His arrival, a major offensive, and money? I kinda stopped listening to stuff about TSO’s feet when he was complaining about blisters, but now I suspect something much larger is in play?
Disclaimer: I don’t watch ‘reality’ TV as a rule so my appraisal has little real value. YMMV
NBC has announced a new reality show called Stars Earn Stripes, where “nine celebrities from music, sports and Hollywood will be paired with trainers at a top-notch, secret training facility” and “will face weekly challenges such as hostage-rescue exercises or placing a laser target atop a mountain.”
It’s likely I won’t recognize most of these ‘stars’, but the idea is intriguing.
So many scenarios that would be fun to watch come to mind: MREs or catering? Self applied Camo make-up or make-up artists? Tailored uniforms or off the shelf? Tough NCOs or fitness coaches?
Jonn is on the road today and seemingly lost?
If you don’t follow Jonn of FB let me back fill a bit for you. I’m kinda worried myself.
“Kentucky! It smells like beef jerky.”
“Do I have to sit in a cage, too?”
“I was too busy waving my Glock at the meth heads”
See why I’m concerned?
The set-up: Current day from down south: Bill would punish attacks on military, disabled vets
Jim Craig, of Monroe, told legislators Wednesday that he received a cruel homecoming upon his return from the Vietnam War roughly 40 years ago.
“I had several people take a swing at me. I was spit on,” Craig said to the Louisiana House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice, in support of legislation to toughen penalties against people who physically attack servicemen and disabled veterans.
The panel advanced House Bill 18 by state Rep. Jay Morris, R-Monroe, to subject the attackers to at least a year behind bars.
Morris said whether a victim is a member of the military or a disabled veteran should be a factor in determining sentences, just as it is when the victim is a police officer. “Members of the armed forces are equally deserving of some form of a little extra benefit,” he said.
Seems to me an attempt to define a sort of ‘hate’ crime?
And from a few years ago at a place I used to blog: Veterans as an Ethnic Minority.
Read it if you like; it does set up a premise, but I’ll cut to the final bit.
Then I observe the hedonistic slackers around me, those who do not, and will not serve. Those with no self-discipline or any willingness even to wipe their own lardbutts. Who demand, but do not give, who seek to cash in on the colors of their hides or their choice of sexual oddity, who worship only the Eternal ME. I say to myself, these are NOT my people.
I do not care what the color of your skin, or of your uniform. If you served honorably, you are my brother or sister. By the Grace of God and the US Congress, I am a Veteran-American. And proud. And you WILL NOT make me hide in the closet.
I think Rurik hit the nail on the head… Most annoying is that it fits now maybe more than it did in ’06? OWS anyone?
However, my exit question is: As true as this notion might be; is it the way YOU view your service?
Personally, even though I agree mostly… I don’t exactly feel like a victim?