This brings back memories;
Category: Pointless blather
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Geezers Rule!
This story has been making the rounds here in REAL West Virginia.
At noon Saturday, 72 year old Menuard Frazier’s home was invaded by three men who beat him and tied him up while they robbed his residence.
According to WSAZ, the three men knocked and asked the retiree to use the phone. As he led them to the kitchen, they jumped him, tied his legs up and put a sheet over his head.
When the crew left, Frazier dragged himself to the kitchen, got a butcher knife and cut himself free.
After grabbing his 9-millimeter automatic pistol he spotted the thieves making their way back across his yard from robbing his son’s home, and they opened up with weapons they’d stolen from the younger Frazier’s house.
Frazier returned fire as the trio rushed to their pick-up for a get away.
Moving out of pistol range, Frazier dumped the 9-millimeter and grabbed a Remington 1100 auto-loading, tactical shotgun and emptied that into the back of the truck.
An angry Frazier told police: “I ran out on the porch with an 11-hundred automatic and emptied it as they drove across the creek down here,” he said. “I did my best to kill everyone of them.”
If this story don’t make you smile and/or applaud yer toooo young!
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The Other Shoe?
A friend sent this link along.
One of Kerry’s enablers in propounding his imaginary heroism was a man named Wade Sanders, who himself held a Silver Star, and who introduced Kerry to the Democratic Convention. Scott Swett, who was central to the unraveling of the Kerry storyline, tells us that the Kerry enabler has been exposed for what he is. His Winter Soldier site has the details:
John Kerry was introduced at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Wade Sanders, a retired Navy Captain and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy who served as a Swift Boat officer in Vietnam. Like Kerry, Sanders was the recipient of a Silver Star for gallantry in action. During the 2004 campaign, Sanders functioned as Kerry lead attack dog against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, repeatedly denouncing the veterans on the air as liars and comparing them to Nazi propagandists.
Wade Sanders is now in Federal prison, serving a 37-month sentence for possessing child pornography. Now the Navy Times reports that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has revoked Sanders’ Silver Star. The highly unusual decision appears unrelated to Sanders’ felony conviction. A Navy spokesman cited “subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself.” John Kerry has to be hoping this doesn’t become a trend.
Not much to add. Child porn is disgusting unless yer a member of a certain peaceful religious group (look it up), but I highlighted the kicker for me. Looks like a stolen valor case, but I don’t have the skill set or time to explore that aspect.
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Don’t be a bear in Montana
I saw this the other day and just found the video;
That 12 foot drop on his nose is probably still with him. Bears should work on their PLFs (Parachute Landing Falls for you nasty legs out there) if they’re going to venture into town.
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Pat Boone Ain’t No Chuck Norris, But…
Even the AARP (no link – don’t like ’em) is reminding us that seniors make up a potential 50 million voter bloc.
Pat Boone speaks a bit clearer on the issue.
President Barack Obama has ignored the concerns of senior citizens because his only interest is “gaining absolute power over government,” a position that could hurt him in 2012, legendary singer and seniors advocate Pat Boone tells Newsmax.TV.
The spokesman for the 60 Plus Association and recent recipient of the Conservative Political Action Conference’s Lifetime Achievement Award said the senior vote could swing the election in 2012. “I think if seniors all get exercised, we do have enough votes to make the difference,” he said.
“I don’t think President Obama has really taken seniors much into account,” he explained. “But still he has an agenda, a political agenda, and he is only interested in gaining absolute power over government. He wants it to be a one-party nation.
This actually makes me feel just a bit better about our future.
Seniors, disabled vets, military retired, and a rather long list of otherwise peripheral ‘special interest groups’ might just stave off something ugly with little more a few bruised egos?
As usual with my ramblings… YMMV. TAH is an open advocate for Truth, Justice, and The American Way, but some may use a more nuanced view than I.
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“What’s Past is Prologue”
The Past:
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
Thomas Paine: The Crisis. December 1776
The Present:
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana
On the Fourth of July I did a post that has thus far engendered over 300 comments. I claim no credit for the video, mind you, but I am responsible for posting it. That responsibility means I am notified with (and read) each comment. Setting aside the troll visits the comments have been enlightening.
That process, and the process ongoing now is DC, have melded in my head a bit. Toss in this being the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and the admixture has me scratching my head in curiosity or shaking it in wonder much of the time.
So… In the spirit of sharing with everyone That Damn Song I can’t get of of my head; Is common sense a thing of the past, as lost and useless as knapping flint in the iron age?
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Later folks.
With this pronouncement The Wife and I may disappear from the web…and elsewhere.
Mr. Obama told Pelley “this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out.”
Damn us disabled vets and baby boomers anyway. It’s us that suck the life out of the economy. Doesn’t matter what price we might have paid, nor how much we put into “The System”.
Too stunned to find words. Heads up Military Retired. BOHICA!
ETA: Just to get it said… I’m hardly naive enough to not recognize political posturing, whatever the source. Nor am I beyond using hyperbole as a fun reaction to hyperbole.
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The final space launch
Casey J Porter made this excellent tribute video of the Atlantis launch the other day, and so I thought I’d share it with you;