Our trip started in Bonn after we arrived in Frankfurt. We rented the car at the airport- I thought I had a BMW reserved, but when I asked them for a navigation system, it threw them for a loop. After some scrambling, we ended up with a KIA Sonata-which was
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I'll bet Disney's not too happy about this..
This is just so wrong on so many levels (Warning Sexual Content): REMOVED BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO TURN IT OFF!
Continue readingI’ll bet Disney’s not too happy about this..
This is just so wrong on so many levels (Warning Sexual Content): REMOVED BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO TURN IT OFF!
Continue readingNot quite as patriotic as you think…..
When Lex writes about aviation-the words that trip off the page or the screen are a thing of beauty and convey the real joy that came from a career in Naval Aviation. When he writes about politics-er, not so much. In writing the following, he has badly misjudged the Republican
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While staying in Bonn, we drove up to Cologne. We visited the famous cathedral located on the West Bank of the Rhine River there: The cathedral is huge. Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete– a period of over 600 years. The
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And they say it is supposed to snow here today-in Alabama! The S.O. got a flat tire yesterday-following which I got a panicked phone call from her about what to do about it. Somehow telling her, “Just change the tire and put on the spare”-did not seem to appease her.
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As a good reason to hate both tea-baggers and neocons: As I’ve said before, Americans have come to believe that spending government revenues on U.S. citizens here at home is usually a bad thing and should be viewed with suspicion, but spending billions on vast social engineering projects overseas is
Continue readingObligatory Afghanistan post…….
I don’t have a lot to say about the President’s speech last night. He essentially gave in to what can only be described as a back door blackmail by his Centcom commander and the commander in charge of the specific theater. Because he took so long to make the decision
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Meredith Baxter is into carpet munching: “I guess I wanted to… say that I’m a lesbian,” Meredith revealed on the NBC morning program. “It was a later-in-life recognition of that fact.” Meredith, 62, has been living life as a lesbian for seven years and confirmed to Matt that she has
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