Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck | September 30, 2005
I received an e-mail request to add the logo and link for Central Command to this site. You will find it over on the left, just above the archives. CentCom is a good starting place for information about the War on Terror.
I don’t know whether we can credit Al Gore for it, but I have [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 30, 2005
Hugh Hewlitt says it best:
Everything that American media could throw at a story, it threw at New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. No expense was spared. All hands were on deck. And yet not one news organization produced anything like complete coverage of the events unfolding inside the city’s convention center or the [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 27, 2005
I received the following letter. I have not changed anything but the word wrapping since it came through very poorly formatted. Not the writer’s fault, an Internet glitch.
A recurring theme in your commentary on Skippy, Chuck, is your smug confidence in the integrity and thoroughness of the military’s internal self-policing. You dismiss the possibility that [...]
Chuck | September 26, 2005
How this for a wack job? I’m thinking, something I try to do regularily, and I see a box. On the box is the French phrase for tomato ketchup. It dawns on me that the French are actually saying ketchup with tomato. Odd, I think. Then I realize that in English, the word tomato is [...]
Chuck | September 25, 2005
How can I help with the recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita? Two ways. First, give to charity, one run by your church, or to the Red Cross or Salvation Army. Give what you can, and a dollar more. Secondly, participate in the Pork Busters project.
This project is an effort by bloggers to identify [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 25, 2005
ShellShell Oil Company and Motiva Enterprises LLC are reporting that greater than 1.8 million gallons of fuel have been shipped to gasoline stations across the greater Houston area and strategic locations along major return routes. As of approximately 6 p.m. CDT Sunday, Sept. 25, Shell and Motiva had shipped 201 tank loads with plans to [...]
Chuck | September 25, 2005
From Hitler’s death camps to “Frozen Chosen”. I saw this before I got sick and it moved me. Google up some additional information on this extraordinary man, a true hero. America is fortunate that he chose our nation to live in.
Mudville GazetteFor conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond [...]
Chuck Simmins | September 23, 2005
As I have blogged before, Hamas is the Arab group that vows to drive all Jews from the land they call Palestine. They hate Jews, Masons, Lions Clubs and the Rotary, in no particular order. So, I smiled, just a little, at this.
AP via YahooA pickup truck carrying masked militants and two homemade rockets blew [...]
Chuck | September 23, 2005
One dose of Vicodan will not relieve a caffine withdrawal headache but it will make you not care quite so much. Two will make you not care about anything, and the headache will go away.
God bless nurses. I will never say a bad thing about them again. They have to deal with the gross and [...]
Chuck | September 23, 2005
I’d been having some GI problems for about two weeks. At first I thought I had some food poisoning. Sharp yet non-radiating pain in lower right quadrant, and other symptoms. It went away, then came back last Friday. Sunday I was a mess. Decided at work on Monday that the pain meant something so I [...]
Chuck | September 22, 2005
I just got out of the hospital. Bad infection. More tomorrow.
Chuck | September 21, 2005
Iraq Weekly Update [PDF file]On September 14, the Iraqi government’s contract committee approved an additional $12 million in funding for the first fully functional, long-range civilian radar in Iraq. Raytheon is scheduled to complete the civilian radar system in December.
A nephew of Saddam Hussein was sentenced on September 19 to life in prison for funding [...]
Chuck | September 20, 2005
$889,808,142.
Yes, I know the papers all say over a billion. I’m trying very hard not to duplicate figures and I am not finding a lot of information about individual versus corporate donations. I actually think we might be as high as $1.25 billion. There is a big, BIG delay in getting donations totaled up. The [...]
