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As one of our noted geneaologists has noted of late, I am a mixed breed anglo mongrel of inferior genes. That last part is highly debateable, but I am Scottish and Irish. I tend to embrace the Irish side for some reason I can’t quite figure out except that they have a day of drinking devoted to them, and that always seems good.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, a buddy on Facebook was noting this weekend that he went to some Highland Games in NH this weekend, and saw my favorite Scottish band. As I’ve always said, if you only see one band all year that has four drummers and one bagpiper, make it Albannach. Just how much do they rock?<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nAnyway, there seem to be a ton of these Highland Games going on right now. My friend The Sniper took part in one a few weeks ago. Here he is throwing a hammer or somesuch thing. \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37696\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg?resize=416%2C513&ssl=1\" alt=\"sniper\" width=\"416\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg?w=416&ssl=1 416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg?resize=243%2C300&ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/sniper.jpg?resize=270%2C333&ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nAnyway, he also tossed a caber, and it hurt so much listening to him tell the story that I went home and chewed 3 percosets. Anyway, he was also telling me how the Highland Games are embracing wounded servicemembers. He told me of a double amputee that was tossing around the telephone poles.<\/p>\nThat takes some serious stones, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As one of our noted geneaologists has noted of late, I am a mixed breed anglo … <a title=\"Embracing your inner Scot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37695\">Embracing your inner Scot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}