Monthly Archive for February 2003

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, [...]

10. Saddam and his generals are descending to the command bunker and Saddam falls down the stairssix times.
9. Saddam is playing with a pistol and accidentally shoots himselfin the back of the head.
8. Saddam is run over by a limo exiting one of his palacesdriven by Clara Harris.
7. Saddam is screwed to death by Miss [...]

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, [...]

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), [...]

Dirty Bomb

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, [...]

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.

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. [...]

CLUE BATS! ALERT!

FROM THE DENVER POST.COMFrom 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 [...]

Smokey is coming home tonight. She’s eating, drinking, peeing and pooping, and grooming.