It’s My Birthday
Chuck Simmins | July 31, 2006
It’s my fifty-first birthday. I trimmed the hedge in 90 degree weather.
Chuck Simmins | July 31, 2006
It’s my fifty-first birthday. I trimmed the hedge in 90 degree weather.
Chuck Simmins | July 30, 2006
Twelve hours today at the ambulance, with three calls.
The heat was tough, but not the worst I’ve been in.
FYI, when a patient says to you “I’m at extreme danger to hurt myself or other people.” take him seriously.
Never take that same patient’s boots off. Footpowder, dispersal, surprise. I’m just saying.
Chuck Simmins | July 29, 2006
A group of young people ride to help rebuld the Gulf
Chuck Simmins | July 28, 2006

Some years ago, a bright idea occurred to the city fathers of Rochester, New York. Why not find a way to increase tourism and commerce, and revitalize the lake front at the same time?
An angel spoke to Mayor Johnson, who was not a baboon at the time, in a dream. “Lo, I shall send you [...]
Chuck Simmins | July 27, 2006
State Dept. PDF of 7-19-2006
Modernization of the Maternity and Child Hospital in Irbil, a city of about 900,000, is now complete. The $6.8 million in USG-funded renovations included major structural repairs, a water purification system, a medical waste incinerator, and back-up generators for uninterrupted power.
The Iraqi Police Service graduated 3,412 students from basic training courses [...]
Chuck Simmins | July 27, 2006
The House is on record about earmarks, and it is not pretty.
Chuck Simmins | July 26, 2006
Here’s a story of Iraqis working together, on their own initiative.
Chuck Simmins | July 25, 2006
Larry C. Johnson testified before Congress that Saddam’s Iraq supported international terrorism
Chuck Simmins | July 25, 2006
Michael Bane
Still, I think I’d rather be hit with a sweaty athletic blonde 1,057,000-grain projectile from a bicycle than a 230-grain one from a 1911.
Go read the whole thing, gun pr0n and blondes.
Chuck Simmins | July 25, 2006
Using the following biographies:
Fox News
B.E.R.G. Associates
No Quarter
1976: B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, University of Missouri
1978: M.S. degree in Community Development, University of Missouri
1979-1983: American University’s School of International Service, teaching and working towards a Ph.D. in political science
1985 through September 1989: employed by Central Intelligence Agency, paramilitary training, served [...]
Chuck Simmins | July 25, 2006
I always though Larry Johnson was just a tool
Chuck Simmins | July 25, 2006
Well, if you can have deranged thoughts, what is the opposite?
The American Legion had its New York State convention in Rochester last week. No additional police were needed.
I did discover something about myself. Based on close observation of those attending the convention, with my slight stoop and pot belly, I must have Legionaire’s Disease.
The second [...]