Or perhaps not.  I'd be interested to read your thoughts on this.  Especially those of you on the left.

I want to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving, but my smoker is kinda cruddy.  It's my own fault.  I left ashes in the tray, they got wet and with the cover on...well.

So I bought Easy-Off Grill Cleaner - BBQ.  I didn't actually read the entire label at the store because, a.) I am a guy, and b.) I wanted grill cleaner and it does in fact say "Grill ( Read more... )

So, someone I went to high school with who I thought nominally was my friend has stated publicly that, as a member of the military, my attitude towards my Commander-in-Chief "borders on Sedition and Treason", and then issued some thinly-veiled threat along those lines.

Normally these things wouldn't bother me, but this one does for some reason.  ( Read more... )

And why exactly, is he sticking his hand down the tube? But I especially like it when he shakes it and looks down the tube.  Glad to see there are knuckleheads in the Russian Army as well.

Ёб твою мать!

We have a running joke about this, which seems to be going slightly viral, at least among a small circle of our friends and acquaintances.

See, we love home improvement projects.  When we were living in South Carolina, we were in the middle of yet another project and were at Home Depot to buy some drywall.  If you've ever bought or handled drywall ( Read more... )

I like my barber.  Seriously.  Pam in Culpeper (300 S East St) has one chair.  She recently had to raise her rates to (hold on...) $10.00.  She used to cut hair at Quantico and knows how to cut a military haircut.  Best of all, I am in and out of her chair in about ten minutes.  Pam is sweet and nice, but I have been going to her since we moved to ( Read more... )

This kind of thing makes me so angry, I don't even know what to say.

The article isn't even titled correctly.  It is entitled: Army anger as soldier killed saving journalist who ignored Taliban warning.  Implying the Taliban warned him.  Not that it is a huge difference, but "Afghan police and intelligence officers repeatedly warned journalists ( Read more... )

Exactly what good does it do for the public to know this?  So you know a truck is going through your town carrying nuclear material.  So what?  How does this help you?  Doesn't Friends of the Earth realize that Ahmed also surfs?  The reason these trucks look like normal trucks and don't bear large banners emblazoned with; "Caution! Crunchy Raw ( Read more... )

Change the name of course.  We're now engaged in "Contingency Operations on Man-Caused Disasters"

Hmmm...

What difference does a name make?  Well, it sounds better than "Global WAR on TERROR" doesn't it?  Sure.  Less edgy.  I get it.  Here's a couple of problems I see straight away:

- All those people in both sides who died in a war have now died in ( Read more... )

We're returning from deployment and still on active duty orders, attached to an active duty unit.  So what does my unit do?  Some kind of drug deal to bring us back under their AdCon and OpCon (reserve units aren't even set up to handle things like leave for active duty personnel).  Okay, so my Commander has issues.  Been there, done that.  Sucky ( Read more... )