One sunny day in 2005, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry.” The Marine replied, “Sir, Mr. Kerry is not President and doesn’t [...]
Jeff Moore has some interesting thoughts on GOTO in PHP. I’ve not seen or used a GOTO since sometime in 1987 when I concluded courses in FORTRAN and Assembler. With exceptions, try/catch and while/break/continue I have a hard time seeing the value of GOTO other than to reintroduce bad habits into new PHP programmers. Or [...]
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” –George Washington
…System Administrator Appreciation Day!
I’ve mostly ignored the convention as I have a weak stomach when it comes to listening to Liberals expound their patriotism. So to avoid chucking a prefectly good meal I simply turn it off. What makes me doubly nausious is how some of the conservative pundits are trying to make a good show of it [...]
Annie Jacobsen’s account (Terror in the Skys, Again?) have corroborated by another passenger on the flight. “I thought I was going to die,” the second passenger told The Washington Times. “And that makes me furious because that’s the whole point of terrorism, to make people afraid. It makes me mad that they achieved that. But [...]
Bush’s State of the Union speech redeemed
What a chain of events. Too bad I missed getting the link on the op-ed defending the Syrian band and calling the author of the first two articles a racist. I think the last link in this list takes care of that accusation quite handily. Terror in the Skies, Again? Part II: Terror in the [...]
When will we realize that wholesale deportation of illegal aliens and the actual enforcement of our immigration laws is necessary to protect this Country and her people? How many children must be victimized, how many Mexicans must die in the back of Coyote trucks or during desert crossings? Or are we going to wait until [...]
As much as the Gubenator was criticized for use of the term “girlie-men” it is interesting that the far left doesn’t feel Kerry and Edwards are girlie-men enough. This feminizing of America’s men is largely why we’ve become a nation of whimps, or girlie-men; too afraid of loosing our luxuries or enduring discomfort to do [...]
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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