This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Zero Ponsdorf

  • Clarksburg VAMC – A Bit of a Pleasant Surprise

    Went to their ER as a walk–in.

    Check-in took a few minutes.

    Hadn’t been in the place for years and so I was escorted to the place for blood work and ex-rays.

    Again it took just a few minutes for both.

    Back to the ER and a treatment room.

    Test results take a finite time to process, but still didn’t amount to much over a half hour.

    The doctor did have a rather thick accent, but was professional.

    Thing is…  I was genuinely astonished.  And pleasantly so!

    I will continue to rail mightily against bureaucracies and their ilk, but I WILL also acknowledge when things do work.

    Of course, another time and another facility might be different, but it sure seemed those folks were trying and I wanted to say Thanks.

  • They’re Here…

    Every year about this time about 300,000 folks with guns descend on West Virginia. Yeah, it IS an invasion, but it is a GOOD kind of invasion.

    Big Bucks:

    The West Virginia traditional buck firearms season begins on Monday, and deer hunters should enjoy a good season, said Curtis I. Taylor, chief of the Wildlife Resources Section of the Division of Natural Resources.

    “Mast conditions are not as good this year as last year, and deer will be more concentrated around specific food sources,” Taylor said in a news release. “In addition, there should be more mature bucks available to hunters this year because of the lower harvest and abundant food conditions in 2010.”

    Three bucks already taken from my back yard during bow season.

    Averaging 10 to 20 total deer on any given night.

  • Welcome to The Imaginarium

    Victor Davis Hanson puts it all together with ribbons and a wry twist or two that makes for a fun, if a bit frightening, read.

    Obama’s Imaginarium

    It’s a bit long for some so let me quote the last paragraph as a tease:

    In the imaginarium, community organizer Barack Obama never lived in a small mansion. John “two Americas” Edwards never lived in a big one. “Earth in the balance” Al Gore never lived in a few of them, and yacht owning John Kerry never lived in lots of them. You see in the imaginarium of Barack Obama you can be whatever you wish to be. Just wishing and saying something can wonderfully make it so.

    I found myself chuckling here and there… and then I realized it ain’t the least bit humorous.

    YMMV

  • He Said Balls!

    They’re Coming for Our Balls

    A public school in Toronto has put a ban on most balls their kiddos toss around during recess because school administrators have deemed such projectiles dangerous. Well hello, wittle wussies.

    The author goes on to suggest:

    While you’re busy outlawing hard balls, why don’t you also mandate that everyone in your school wear pink tutus, chartreuse neckerchiefs and signs on their butts that say, “China and Islamic Radicals: Kick Me Hard.”

    It is a sign of the times, I guess, but they ARE coming for our balls, and have been for some time.

    Now excuse me while I go look up the lyrics for Kumbaya.

  • Strange This? And I Do Like Strange!

    This is making the rounds as the OWS manifesto?

    I’ll admit I have no idea what the last item even means, but I like the rest of it. In fact I’ve read similar from The TEA Party??

    If it wasn’t so dang cold I think I’d organize an Occupy Rock Cave thing myself.

    ETA: Note to self – Never again do a post at TAH after imbibing peach ‘shine! I get smarter when drinking  beer; NOT the good stuff.        Life lesson #267394

  • “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

    I’ll add to Santayana’s much quoted aphorism: Or they must bend over and learn to enjoy  the love.

    This issue has been cussed and discussed here at TAH and elsewhere, but Ollie North puts it all together quite nicely.

    The Next War

    It is an unalterable fact of human nature that the perception of weakness invites aggression. For us, it has been that way since the founding of the republic. We disarmed after the American Revolution. That’s how we ended up with the War of 1812.

    Take the time to read the whole thing.

     

  • When is a Head NOT a Head?

    Answer: When it is just a metal room with curious seating arrangements.

    This story just cries out for bad puns, but I’ll try to stick to the facts.
    Toilet Troubles Add to Sailors’ Deployment Stress

    It may seem like a trivial inconvenience in the scheme of things, but it’s become routine enough that some sailors aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush say it’s affecting their morale, their health and their job performance: Since the ship left for its maiden combat deployment in May, its toilet system has suffered outages so frequently that crew members sometimes can’t find a single working commode.

    I’ve served on ships that ran out of fresh water, or been dead in the water, but never lacked for a place to take a dump.

    The problem lies with the vacuum system that pulls waste through the ship’s 250 miles of pipe. The Bush is the first aircraft carrier to be outfitted with a vacuum system, similar to those on commercial airplanes and cruise ships.

    So we have a systems that sucks because it doesn’t suck?

    Too many questions.  It seems someone got in trouble for taking a leak over the side? I reckon taking dump over the rail would be a hanging offense?

  • Tired of OWS Posts?

    Been under the weather a bit, but I’m feeling MUCH better now.

    H/T Maggie G. via FB