On charity
Reading yesterday’s Merry Christmas greetings, it occurs to me that some of you may think I’ve went all mushy for the holiday season, or worse,…
Month: December 2007
Merry Christmas
I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from the Freehold South. I was a little worried about just how much Christmas it could be,…
Why we don’t allow Liberals/Progressives/Whatevers to write Christmas stories
(Found on the local newspapers’ website, which must remain nameless for OpSec.) “A Charlie Brown Holiday”: Charlie Brown is tasked with directing the play for…
Greetings from the Freehold South
I won’t bore you (much) with the details of a family vacation. If you’ve ever traveled, you know what that’s like. Interstates, rest stops and…
Heading South
The Family Freeholder is heading south toward a warmer clime and the House of the Mouse, among other attractions. Time and Wi-Fi access permitting, I’m…
Ammo prices got you down?
(Found on The High Road) If you shoot, you’ve probably been wondering if ammo prices will ever stop rising. gun-deals.com can’t make them stop rising,…
First Flight
Today is the anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3, the plane that popularized commercial flight. If you’re interested in my favorite DC-3…
How to hurt the nannies?
Make ’em pay: Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers’…
“…absolutely nothing illegal…”
(Via the Drudge Report) “Reverend” Al Sharpton is reportedly on an FBI videotape cutting a deal with a fundraiser in a New York hotel room.…
Way to go, Joe
Joe Namath, who won a national championship with the Crimson Tide in 1964 but quit school before going on to become a pro football great,…
Read this book
(Via Gun Talk) I have to listen to Gun Talk via podcast, since no radio station here will dare to carry a show about *gasp*…
What a wimp
(Via the Drudge Report) State police say a teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself in a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a…
High geekery–Time Nuts
OK, this gets a 9.0 on the WayCool-o-Meter. Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home Be sure to catch Part 2 when it…
Santa Claus, data thief
Well, sort of. At least it’s nice to know that other countries have people who are fully as stupid as some of our citizens. Santa…
Something you’re not going to see a lot of in the Lame-stream Media
I haven’t blogged much about the recent spate of shootings. Others, such as Say Uncle, Michael Bane and others have been there since the beginning,…
December 7, 1941
“…a date which will live in infamy…” Today, we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Click the link and then just sit there. Turn the…
Absolutely and utterly NSFW
(Found on Timebomb 2000) And if you click on it, you might want to cover your keyboard, too.
Tragedy compounding tragedy
John Lott hits it out of the park: A Google news search using the phrase “Omaha Mall Shooting” finds an incredible 2,794 news stories worldwide…
DVD sales are off
Hollyweird is worried that sales of DVD movies are tanking. As a public service, The Freeholder will enlighten you Hollyweirdos on why this is happening.…
Warm and cozy
One of the reasons that Mrs. Freeholder and I were able to agree on this particular house to be The Freehold v2 was the existence…
Didja ever hear the one…
About the mule between two bales of hay? He was so dumbfounded over his choice, he starved to death. It would seem the eco-idiots are…