Sorry folks: One more thing… Jonn will understand, and I’ve been out brush hogging, and found a deer carcass… Think turkey vultures enjoying some tid-bits?
http://youtu.be/qHDdqubE7zQ
Category: Geezer Alert!
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Scene – A Touch of Melancholy on My Part
Several of us huddled around a cell phone, trying to remember all the words while listening to Kenneth Branagh offer the lines that end:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.The equivalent of three generations of vets with a civilian or two wondering what the fuss was all about. A look here and there said it all.
There it is… Made me feel good to share there, so I offer it here.
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Speaking of Pot
File under things that make ya go Hmmm….
4 Americans get pot from US government
Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.
She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.
The trooper and his supervisor were doubtful. But after a series of calls to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency and her physician, the troopers handed her back the card – and her pot.
It’s only 4 people, but the precedence is a bit scary. We have food stamps, why not pot stamps? Or… wait for it… outright BEER stamps?
Somewhere in some cubicle the bureaucrat who manages this program is wondering about ways to keep his job when these 4 die off.
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Pot = Kettle? Imanutjob meet al Qaeda
I dunno whether to cheer, laugh, or just giggle?
Al Qaeda to Iran: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy TheoryThe terror group al Qaeda has found itself curiously in agreement with the “Great Satan” — which it calls the U.S. — in issuing a stern message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: stop spreading 9/11 conspiracy theories.
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“The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government,” an article reads. “So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?”
Gee, I thought it was clear that The Mossad did it… Or maybe space aliens? I’m old and get the conspiracy theories confused.
Oh well, maybe this will lead to a fatwa from al Qaeda against Iran and save us the effort?
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Popeye Imanutjob’s Navy Plans a Caribbean Cruise
Iran says could deploy navy near U.S. coast
Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States’ Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries.
“Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders,” the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Strategically the idea does have merit, from an Iranian point of view, however I can’t find any mention of their logistical capabilities. That kind of forward projection takes a LOT of support. They are pals with Hugo Chavez so that makes Venezuela a likely port of call.
Which leads to the image of Iranian sailors on liberty call in one of Venezuela’s ports. Do they get drunk and chase women? Do they get drunk and chase goats? It’d have to be a culture shock for both sides.
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Geezer Reality Check… Phase one.
Dance with who ya brung.
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I Don’t Much Care About Sports.
To be filed under this geezer’s guidelines. This is a real, if rather public, attempt to establish my personal aims.
Some here follow sports. I don’t! Well I do care a bit about high school level stuff.
Pro sports are a business first. No remotely a bad thing, but I don’t follow Wall Street as a fan either.
College level sports are almost as bad. Any given player may, or may not, be from the state fronting the team. That’s even ignores the periodic scandal involving pay for play.
I genuinely respect what other folks do, if they do it well… but that doesn’t mean I have to pretend interest.
If there’s a vet involved I’ll have a go, but otherwise… not so much.
YMMV
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Road Trip Gone Bad!
Got to visit with Jonn for several hours (I was imbibing and he wasn’t) at The Sniper’s Beer Extravaganza this past Saturday. Therein lies a tale. A tale of of an Army guy browbeating this aging Sailor with demands for more posts.
Jonn can be quite intimidating!
Aside: He kept opening his jacket where SOMETHING resided in an inside pocket. Coulda been a gun or an odd shaped sex toy?
So… You folks are gonna be getting more of my efforts to struggle through. I’m not much of a writer, I know that, but would YOU say no to Jonn?