Category: Tryin’ to reason with hurricane season

It doesn’t need any. Why do I get the distinct feeling I’m going to be updating the blogroll soon?

(via Southern Knight) First take the poll. I scored “87% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?” Well, yes, I do–several. But I’m a little…

(Via Usenet) Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders Some old school Brits apparently take offence when their livelihoods are threatened: WHEN 35 Greenpeace…

I was perusing the Site Meter stats, and see I’ve had a visitor from the house.gov domain. Whoever you are, a big howdy to ya.

(Via WorldNet Daily) So we have a New York jewelry store owner, gun to his head, and he pulls his gun, fires, wounds one Bad…

(Pointer courtesy of GaijinBiker) WorldNet Daily is reporting that another witness (Navy-type person) has partially corroborated Lt. Pantano’s version of the April 15, 2003 incident…

Another one of those “meaningless milestones” has occurred–the blog has had it’s 2000th visitor. I note this mostly because the visitor was from the .jp…

WorldNet Daily is reporting “Marines urge patience in accused-officer case”. Americans outraged at the murder charges against a Marine who claims he killed two insurgent…

(Via WorldNet Daily) It seems that the Christmas Tsunami has uncovered a lost treasure. I guess all clouds do have a silver lining, even if…

(Via WorldNet Daily) Mexican officials, criticize U.S. immigration control bill (I love the punctuation–journalism school graduate, no doubt.) So we’re going to build some walls,…

(Via WorldNet Daily) Marine’s charges set ‘terrible precedent’ Second Lieutenant Ilario G. Pantano was charged with premeditated murder in connection with the April 15, 2004,…

(Via Drudge; also reported on FOXNews.) Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — New York City doctors have discovered a man with a previously unseen strain of HIV…

Well damn. Yesterday was my one year “blogoversary”. And I missed it! I’m reminded of The Simpson’s 100th episode, where Bart’s chalkboard quotation was “I…

It would seem that the Basque group ETA has learned the lesson of the Madrid bombings. I wonder how long it will take the Spanish…

(Via Drudge) It would seem that the bad guys have discovered a way to get even, although with who is still an open question: Contaminated…

I’m not much on football, so I didn’t see the Super Bowl last night. Capt. Teach at Pirate’s Cove points out that I missed out…

(Oh, please tell me Schumer or Hellary or Barbara the Boxer just keeled over reading that!) For a change from the last two cold, miserable,…

An oldie but goodie from Clair Wolfe.

(Via WorldNet Daily) WARNING: GEEK ALERT! Cryptographers unlock code of ‘thiefproof’ car key Matthew Green starts his 2005 Ford Escape with a duplicate key he…

At least if you’re a member of the boot-licking Liberal Left Mainstream Media: CNN: Iraqis vote amid violence Insurgents carried out more than a dozen…

A bomb exploded Sunday in a Mediterranean resort hotel in southeast Spain after a telephone warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, Interior Ministry officials…

Loyal Readers will remember that life here at The Freehold has, well, been forcibly reorganized due to the medical and other needs of an aging…

Johnny Carson is dead at 79. Damn. Damn, Damn, DAMN! I started watching “The Carson Show” when I was a teenager, probably around 14. Then,…

For many years, one of the eco-whatevers big issues has been to force us gas-guzzling unwashed off our vehicles and onto public (government supported, paid…

(Via The High Road) You think only the military should have this much fun? Oh, and where to buy…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Did you happen to catch President Bush’s inaugural speech? Very inspiring, especially the part about spreading freedom and democracy. The nice thing…

For readers of the Shotgun News, Neal Knox’s column was a wealth of information on the continual fight to protect the Second Amendment. It was…

(Via Frugal’s Forums) Proof that gun bans can’t work. You have to love American ingenuity.

My few daily visitors will note I haven’t posted for a week. Pardon the abrupt disappearance, but I’ve been dealing with the medical issues of…

(Via Drudge) Hillary Clinton’s Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted And her husband did not have sex with “that woman”.