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Now I remember!
Why I really never got into the “joys of home ownership”. I forgot how you quickly become a slave to your house. It is not that I cannot do things around the house-I can quite well thank you very much-it is just that I never enjoyed it. Not in my
Continue readingKicking Ivy League ass……….
There is a certain amount of satisfaction in this headline: The Citadel Rallies to 37-24 Victory Over Princeton Life is good!
Continue readingJust not in the mood….
To discuss politics….or even to blog for that matter. This weekend began for me with waking up in palatial Skippy-estates, fully secure in the knowledge that I would be : a) Installing a new shower head-since the S.O. wants one of the ones like she had in Japan with the
Continue readingSpread the word……..
I came across this little tidbit a couple of days ago. I sent it over to Phibian because I knew he could capture in writing, the proper level of outrage that this particular type of thinking by our once great Navy deserves. Go read the particulars over at Phibs’s place-here.
Continue readingSo much for the rally……….
My 401K is rapidly becoming a 200.5K. So much for buying that bar in Phuket!
Continue readingPot……meet kettle.
Really busy, but I have to admit I raised an eyebrow when I saw this little gem: Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiornia was asked whether she thought Sarah Palin was qualified to lead a company like HP. Here, courtesy of St. Louis’s KTRS radio, is her answer: HOST: “Do
Continue readingRejoining the ranks…….
Of the landed gentry…………. Somehow it is probably fitting that the day I jump back into the debt pool, just happens to be the day the stock market drops by over 500 points. Timing as they say is every thing. However today was an auspicious day for me-especially when you
Continue readingI know the feeling…..
Big White Guy is back in Canada. He verbalizes what I have been feeling for the past 4 months: This may sound strange, but seeing so many Caucasian people all in one place feels a little odd. In other words, I’ve grown used to being the visible minority; I’m comfortable
Continue readingAt least they are having a debate…….
The Army is-among itself. Andrew Bacevich chronicles it. The chief participants in this debate—all Iraq War veterans—fixate on two large questions. First, why, after its promising start, did Operation Iraqi Freedom go so badly wrong? Second, how should the hard-earned lessons of Iraq inform future policy? Hovering in the background
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