I thought this song was about Georgia.
Well, I was wrong but the eyes are on Georgia 6 now. The Dems know how to pick ’em. The guy doesn’t live in the district because he wants to support a girlfriend he has been DATING 12 YEARS. What is the guy waiting for? Menopause?
Any predictions, BDBers?
Brent, is this a Aardvark knockoff Fitter candidate? Will he be man-Handeled?
One of the burdens and joys of being a grandpa is you become , with grandma, the oracle of family history. Grandma will remember all the names and relationships, but it can be grandpa’s duty to put the world in context to the family.
We were at the excellent Museum of Flight in Seattle with my daughter and family. The two oldest girls loved the interactive parts, where you could launch a rocket or crash the lunar lander. When it came to just looking at history it was harder for them to get excited.
I did the best I could and found a link. The Redheaded Irish Wisecracker’s dad worked for Republic Aviation during WW2, and was refused military service because of his skills in supervising the production lines for … Continue reading
The Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet scored its first kill when a Syrian SU-22 Fitter was downed by an F/A-18E Super Hornet most likely from the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) allegedly deployed to Sixth(6) Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea according to GlobalSecurity.org.
I was never Blessed to encounter SU-22’s or the earlier Su-17/20 variants or I would’ve been writing endless posts about “there I was….” shooting them down. Known by its NATO codename: Fitter, they are very fast air to ground attack airplanes built as a knock off the USAF F-111 Aardvark of the 70’s.
Fitters have very limited air-to-air capability and only carry archaic thermal seeking missiles … Continue reading
We have only one member with “dad” in the title but I would venture to guess that biology being what it is we had some situation with a dad. This is a day to say thanks and remember the good.
My dad loved people. He was a true character. I don’t know if I will ever meet someone like him ever again. He died at 77. I am left with many gems that he shared. He never lost the joy of the child.
In some ways my father-in-law was a father to me. I felt his love. How strange history is! I bet he never thought his daughter would marry an American. He was always there to help but never to push. I lost him a while back … Continue reading
So here’s the Audible.com blurb for a field guide to swamp-dwelling troglodytes.
A Thought-Provoking Journey
Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild journeys to Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. Though this community’s ideas differ vastly from her own, she realizes that Americans share a few key principles – the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for our children. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help listeners understand what it feels like to live in “red” America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: … Continue reading
http://www.weeklystandard.com/camille-paglia-on-trump-democrats-transgenderism-and-islamist-terror/article/2008464
H/T to Instapundit.
Camille Paglia gets to the point quickly and effectively. She is one liberal who is willing to think and push back. Even though I am sure we would disagree on different things at least we have important things we both value. PC and Regressive Left are not good for society.
I caught a YouTube of her commenting on how societies that are soon to fail go against masculine virtues.
What is your take?
Your own Olive checking in from an urban public school. Yesterday, during the students’ regular dose of Islamic indoctrination, one of the actors in a dramatic reading uttered the F word. Well, the students went wild. That got a big reaction, and I was very proud of our students, because we teach them not to talk like that, and we model professional behavior, and we would be hypocrites if we then turned around and let some actors in an assembly drop F-bombs everywhere.
After the students settled down, the performers carried on with their lament about how hard it was for Muslims in the U.S. after 9/11. No mention of how hard it was for firefighters’ families who lost loved ones on that day. No, the correct lamentation, … Continue reading
