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Medal of Honor: Edger McWethy
Medal of Honor Another of my weekly salutes to our American heros. MCWETHY, EDGAR LEE, JR. Rank and organization: Specialist Fifth Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). place and date: Binh Dinh province, Republic of Vietnam, 21 June 1967. Entered service at: Denver, Colo. Born: 22 November 1944, Leadville, Colo. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Serving as a medical aidman with Company B, Sp5c. McWethy accompanied his platoon to the site of a downed helicopter. Shortly after the platoon established a defensive perimeter around the aircraft, a large enemy force attacked the position from 3 sides with a heavy volume of automatic weapons fire and grenades. The platoon … Read entire article »
Top Ten Ways for Saddam to Depart
10. Saddam and his generals are descending to the command bunker and Saddam falls down the stairs six times. 9. Saddam is playing with a pistol and accidentally shoots himself in the back of the head. 8. Saddam is run over by a limo exiting one of his palaces driven by Clara Harris. 7. Saddam is screwed to death by Miss Germany 6. Saddam is beaten to death with a frying pan by Mrs. Saddam after screwing Miss Germany. 5. Saddam catches anthrax while tending his sheep herd. 4. Saddam catches syphilis while tending his sheep herd. 3. Saddam is eaten by new roommate, Idi Amin. 2. Saddam develops lead poisoning from external application of .45 caliber pistol round. 1. Saddam following bin Laden’s advice to “Hole up in a bunker. They can’t get you there.†… Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Original writing, Satire, War on Terror
Medal of Honor: Joe Mann
In my LiveJournal blog, I had begun to reprint a Medal of Honor citation every so often, and I’m going to begin that practice here. So, the first of many stories of American HEROS. MANN, JOE E. Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company H, 502d Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Place and date: Best, Holland, 18 September 1944. Entered service at: Seattle, Wash. Birth: Rearden, Wash. G.O. No.: 73, 30 August 1945. Citation: He distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty. On 18 September 1944, in the vicinity of Best., Holland, his platoon, attempting to seize the bridge across the Wilhelmina Canal, was surrounded and isolated by an enemy force greatly superior in personnel and firepower. Acting as lead scout, Pfc. Mann boldly crept … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Military, World War II
Taking a Clue Bat to Molly Ivins
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, eh? Molly Ivins writes for Creators Syndicate. 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Bolded items from here on are my comments. We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of National Review, who admits that French-bashing is “shtick” (as it is to many American comedians), has popularized the phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” to describe the French. It gets a lot less attractive than that. Or funnier, depending on your point of view George Will saw fit to include in his latest Newsweek column this joke: “How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it’s never been tried.” That was certainly amusing. It’s called satire, Molly, one of the tools a writer uses to convey his point and still make … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Original writing
Smokey Update
Leave it to our old lady. She has a condition very rare in cats, Addison’s Disease, the exhaustion of the adrenal glands. One of the effects is no appetite. DOH! So, now we have a sweet old lady with an overactive thyroid, abdominal mass, and Addison’s Disease. She’s eating ok, peeing and pooping ok, vocal, washing herself, coming around to get petted. Looks funny with the bare front leg, shaved when the vet put in the sub-cu catheter. Her time is limited, but right now she’s ok, and seems happy to be home. Thank you to everyone who wrote! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cats, Me and Mine
Belgium
I’ve avoided talking about Belgium, well… because it’s a pissant, unimportant speck of a country. But, the powers compel me… sonorous organ music Belgium is a country divided between the Flemish and the Waloons. The Phlegms are Dutch that are too good for the Netherlands and would rather be German and the Loons are French wannabes. About 38,000 Belgians served in Hitler’s Waffen SS. See HERE. Based upon population records, that aproximates two percent of the adult male population of military age. Now, the Belgians have decided that their own national courts have the authority to try “international criminals” for crimes committed in other countries. They would like to try Arial Sharon, for example. I wonder how many Belgians they’re going to try for their criminal colonial acts in the Congo before, during … Read entire article »
CLUE BATS! ALERT!
FROM THE DENVER POST.COM From this point on, my comments are in bold. WARNING! Gibberish Alert! The column about to be fisked is apparently not written in English. Tuesday, February 11, 2003 – At the United Nations, they covered “Guernica.” That tells you something. Yeah, what’s happening in front is important. So? Thousands of pages of intelligence reports and hours of speeches, debates, rallies and demonstrations will have their effects, inching public opinion along by degrees. But nothing moves people like art. It’s subversive. Perhaps I slept through art appreciation? Art is whatever the individual believes it to be. Guernica, for example, is a stern warning about what happens when dictators are allowed to attack other nations. Politicians know this. So does Harvy Blanks.Who? Blanks is an actor who can feel it when the audience sighs knowingly, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Iraq, Original writing, War on Terror
Thank you, God
Thank you, God, St. Francis, St. Jude, Mary Our Mother, et al. Smokey is coming home tonight. She’s eating, drinking, peeing and pooping, and grooming. We’ll have to give her frequent meals and we can do that. It looks like we will have our old friend around a bit more. She’s not vomiting, and we’ll worry about the abdominal mass and the thyroid later. It sounds like she can be Smokey for a while longer, our friend, the matriarch, etc. We both agree that if she can lead a relatively normal life, she should be home. She’s a tough old broad. I’m glad we’ll have her companionship a little longer. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cats
Coming Soon: Future Posts
- Declaration of War 1812 (in 135 days)
- USS President vs HMS Belvidera (in 140 days)
- General Hull Invades Canada (in 159 days)
- First Battle of Sacketts Harbor (in 166 days)
On Y!CN
- Radioactive Gravel from Japanese Nuke Disaster Used in Buildings
- Fuel Supplies Reach Nome
- Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome
- Russians Sail to Rescue of Ice Bound Alaska Community
- Pope Embraces Anglicans in U.S. with New Ordinariate
- Nebraska Nuke Plant Placed on Special Inspection Status
- Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Nuke Site
- Japan Damaged Nuke Plants Still Not Under Control
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Dirty Bomb
February 14th, 2003 | Comments Off
A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive that is used to disperse radioactive material. Think about it for a minute. One of the largest bombs ever set off in the United States was the Oklahoma City bomb. It failed to collapse its target, and did lesser damage to other buildings. As a bomb it was ok, not the greatest, but it served its purpose. If Timmie had radioactive materials there, too, what would have happened? Radioactive materials hurt you in two ways. Radiation and poisoning. Most of the materials available for a dirty bomb give off the type of radiation that is only injurous if you ingest it. Alpha particles, blocked by your unbroken skin. Don’t inhale it or swallow it or get it in a cut. Other materials give off beta particles, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, War on Terror, WMD