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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 reside here.”
The […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 Skies, Again?
Scouting […]

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 […]

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 […]

The liberals are all up in arms over the “civil rights” lost to the Patriot Act. But you’ll never see a town in conservative America violate the 2nd and 4th Amendments so thorougly as liberal haven Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And the Left accuse us of using Gestapo tactics?
Oshkosh, Wis. — Following the […]

The Federal Reserve has now determined that countries with booming economies have a population which believes in hell more than than the rest.
Taking a step back it’s not hard to understand that nations that believe there is “hell to pay” for inappropriate, unethical, illegal and/or immoral behavior are more inclined to […]

Finally, someone has come to their senses. Gun owners in general and concealed carriers in specific are eager to follow the laws of the land givin that we can get the information we need to be informed. Granted there are good sources of information available but the information is largely gathered, evaluated and […]

If people weren’t conviced by the bombing in Spain or the capitulation of the Filipino Government that showing weakness in the face of the enemy only invites more aggression then reason is not likely to take hold anytime soon. That not withstanding I found VP Cheney’s recent remarks on target.

When I heard that Fahrenheite 9/11 was to be distributed to the Troops I wondered as to the wisdom of it. National Center has posted a letter from Army Spc. Joe Roche that explains the effects this “documentary” is having on our Troopers overseas and it isn’t pretty.
Here we are, soldiers of the 1st Armored […]

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits
drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the
limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so
when it violates the rights of the individual.
–Thomas Jefferson

It pays to look into the top of trees before you start shaking them.

To their credit I asked for it. I walk under them every time I go check my targets down range and they’d not bothered. . Good thing I “found” them before I mowed that area again.
I counted about a […]

A study of failure

The anti-American’s simply do not have enough to do to keep them busy so now they are monitoring sermons to make sure there isn’t any politicing going on. I would ask if these guys have ever read the 1st Amendment (you know the one they claim Bush has totally destroyed?) but I already know. […]

Eight states are suing power companies under the guys of environmental concerns (the lack of objectivity in the article is frightening). But from here in the midwest it looks more like 8 states who have so over regulated their power industry that they’ve pushed themselves out of the competitive marketplace. So now they’re going […]

I’ll be going offline for a couple of days as I must tear down my desk in preparation for paint and carpet. It will likely be Saturday before I’m set back up.

If you’re in the mood for a funny though irreverent flash movie check out This Land.

If ever the leader of a major power acted like a spoiled 5 year old it has to be French President Jacques Chirac. It would be comical if this guy didn’t have Nukes.

It looks like the GOA is putting Kerry’s feet to the fire on his I’m a Uniter speech for the NAACP.

The foreign aid package is in front of the House and all that’s being reported is the measly $25,000 being withheld from Saudia Arabia. Since the Democrats don’t believe in the War on Terrorism their only remaining objective to blocking this paltry $25k is to spite President Bush who requested it remain in. […]