For viewing pleasure

In case you haven’t heard already, Ken Burns’ look at World War II “The War” premieres tonight on your local PBS station.

You can go here for the official website

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Got It

Black and Blue and straight all over. Pics and the low-down on the morrow.

Now that I’m sorted for vehicles again, I’ve decided to be like Joe and put this on my official Christmas list w/The Wife


Video: VIP Protection Tool

I’ll let you know if I get it. You’ll have to bring your own ammo though.

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In Memorium: The Booty Eulogies

My only words that are coming to me is that Rome will forever be the lesser for John Thomas Booty’s passing.

He would spend so much time here, I with him. And while I know I was not his first Lady of the City, I will forever be his last.

Small compensation, I know. But I will hold on to it until the day I too pass.

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From our last week together. It seems so long ago.

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RNS Quote of the Day — 09/23/07

On the importance of firearms safety among Iranian student revolutionaries:

Oh, they used to love to play with their rifles. Mechanical masturbation. They had this habit of [pulling] back the charging handle, let it slide, and then for some god-unknown reason, pull the trigger, when there was no… magazine in — charge it and pull the trigger, make sure it went “click” — and they would do it 20, 30 times: pull the charging handle, pull the trigger, pull the charging handle, pull the trigger. And a couple of them forgot, when they had put the magazine in, they’d pull the charging handle, chamber a round, and pull the trigger and pop off a round.

[We had jokes that] they’d jack around and blow off their buddy’s head and claim the CIA had done it.

Former hostage Sgt. James Lopez, interviewed in 444 Days to Freedom: The Iranian Hostage Crisis.

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Yep

I half-assed it last week around here. Sorry about that, but let me tell you why.

Work has been very busy. Let me tell you how busy.

It’s been so busy that I did not realize until 1915 last night on my way to work that I posted The Soundboard tunage a day late.

Our deliveries this September are still at July levels. And if I may put on my leftist hat for a moment (which is very easy as I’m surrounded by them): Thank you George W. Bush. Thank you for cutting taxes which helped keep the economy humming along so swiftly that I have to work 13-14 hours a day to keep up with the billing at my work. Normally, I would only be this busy during the “Summer Building Season” of May through August. But because of your actions, I’m still working this much in September and am highly likely to be doing this in October. Thanks.

I’ll be going out car shoppin’ (which is one of my favorite activities, right up there with rangetime) later this AM, but before I go, I’d like to post up some stuff I’ve found really interesting but haven’t had time to post about.

The whole fallout from Dan Rather’s lawsuit is really just about causing me to laugh myself to death. Not only is Rather an idiot who is going to go down in flames, fighting a fight that he cannot hope to win in any sense of the word as defined by mentally stable people, the moonbatinati is getting themselves worked up into a lather over it.

And the funniest part about this development is that they seem to have forgotten their last line on the matter from right after the 2004 elections. “Fake, But Accurate” is no longer good enough for them, and are now pursuing a line of “Real and dead accurate and probably a ChimpyMcCheneyburtRovian scheme”.

The other surprise development that I’m enjoying this week is the shit rolling downhill from that Move On “Betray Us” ad. There was the vote in the Senate, which Hillarity voted for and Obama couldn’t gather up the balls to even cast a vote on.

To add to all the nonsense from the actual politicos, you’ve got the wannabe kingmakers in the leftosphere demanding that the pols support MoveOn’s ad or the Nutroots will stop sending money to the pols and divert it to MoveOn. Also, the Nutroots are threatening, in their own sort of cute little way, to run Primary challengers against the pols who don’t put their support 100% behind MoveOn.

Back after the 2006 elections, MoveOn’s leader declared that his group “Owned the Democrat Party”. Now they want their fealty.

The Senate vote became just another pledge drive for MoveOn, who declared themselves the victims. They raised $500K from the Nutroots because of it.

I hope that they spend every single dime on newspaper and TV ads just like the one they did on Patraeus. I want America to see who is empowering today’s Democrat Party. I want the Dems to have to defend where they get their money from in the public forum, even if it only gets the 10% coverage from the MSM that crooked Dems usually get.

And to the Nutroots, give, give, give, I say. Show those Democrats you mean business. Pressure them into making unpopular statements and jeopardizing their reelections. Please. The Repubs keep stepping on their dicks, but crap like this from the Nutroots and MoveOn makes it only feel like they’re doing it while wearing slippers.

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a forest murdering 4×4 to go and scope out for purchase. Wish me luck.

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The Soundboard: Pound of Sound

Week 4

Looks like you’ve gained some weight. Actually, my hope is that your CD collection has done so.

This week we’ll begin hearing from my favorite of the Hammond B3 musicians, Big John Patton

In 1966 he released the album Got A Good Thing Going, with Grant Green on Guitar, Richard Landrum on Congas and Hugh Walker on Drums.

The first track I’m loading up is, at least in my twisted little world, the song that the band was playing when all hell broke loose at the club described in The Hollies’ song Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.

Soul Woman (7:40)

This next bit of tunage has got more giddyap than Hi-Ho-Silver, my friend. It was written by both John Patton and Grant Green, very likely right there in the Van Gelder Studio that April night.

The Yodel (8:15)

I would like to let those of y’all whom I wrote to about the Pound of Sound that asked to link to these posts, that as of this week, my bandwidth has been metered and checked, and you may link to this post and next week’s if you feel the need to do so.

Oh, and because the aforementioned weight problem y’all are getting, I’m shorting you an ounce this week. Just cutting back a little so that I don’t send you into a musical diabetic shock.

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If he didn’t already have my vote

He would after this

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Thursday shrugged off harsh criticism from James Dobson, saying he has friends who likely know the influential Christian leader and they hold him in high regard.

In a private e-mail obtained by The Associated Press, Dobson accuses the former Tennessee senator and actor of being weak on the campaign trail and wrong on issues dear to social conservatives.

I’m sorry, but the phrase the NYT meant to use in place of “social conservatives” was actually “Christian Socialists” (People who want to use government to be “compassionate” instead of what the Constitution says it is supposed to be: Impartial)

Who are Dobson’s drones gonna vote for? Hillary? That slug can go take a long walk off a short pier. We’ll see if his holy-rollin ass can walk on water then.

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In relation

To the QotD (Part 2) just below

Fred Thompson on the latest HillaryCare idea

Said with exactly the right amount of vigor and humor.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 09/20/07 (Part 2)

Its funny because its true

It feels like 1994 again. Hillary Clinton is offering a health care plan, O.J. is in trouble with the law, and the Democrats are trying to raise taxes.

Terry Keenan – Fox News Anchor

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The Zombocalypse has arrived

Found this story at Instapundit the other day

A fireball fell from the sky and slammed into southern Peru over the weekend, creating a huge crater that emitted a sickeningly smelly gas, local authorities said. More than 600 villagers fell ill, the Peruvian radio network RPP reported Tuesday.

Authorities said that the crater was made Saturday by a falling meteorite. Agence France Presse quoted a local official, Marco Limache, as saying that “boiling water started coming out of the crater, and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby.”

Limache told RPP that the gases emanating from the crater caused nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches and stomach pain, so much so that authorities were considering calling a state of emergency. The newspaper La Republica reported that seven policemen became ill and were taken to a hospital.

A couple of notable quotes you’ll want to keep in mind:

I’m planning to be prepared for all contingencies. “Remember, don’t trust anything without a pulse.”
Glenn Reynolds

And

Now Caranca, Peru is a long ways away, but isn’t this how the movies always start? A remote incident with strange effects?

Maybe I’ll grab some more ammo while I’m running errands.

Mugwug of Moral Flexibility Blog and Author of Surviving the Zombocalypse.

Take heed and don’t waste your ammo on center of mass shots.

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