Hillsborough: How did this wind up in Ybor?
The other day someone found a Patriot Missile at a scrap yard over in Tampa (a quick ride over the bridge from here).
Airman Lucas Mefford, a member of MacDill’s ordnance team, said the missile still had its rocket motor and guidance system. He said it appears to have been a training model.
“It’s pretty rare to find a Patriot,” Mefford said.
Yesterday I started up my stimulant habit again. That’s right friends, America’s Favorite Stimulant rides again! The post-chemo heartburn has been a memory for a week now – and many of you know how draining a case of insomnia can be, so it was high time for some fine grind brew.
Ummmm, UMMMM! I love my coffee. Three hearty tablespoons of beans (freshly ground), three cups of water heated to…
At a time when the current Republican administration is (in)famously pushing the voter fraud agenda on the Department of Justice (seemingly setting quotas for prosecutions, wether there are real cases of voter fraud to prosecute or not), I thought this press release from Project Vote was interesting:
Washington, DC–Late last week, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) published its…
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were on Meet the Press Sunday morning to discuss Iraq. Since it is impossible for a Republican to say the word “Iraq” without “al-Qaeda” in the same sentence, I was treated to another round of “why it is important to defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq.” My head starts to hurt every time I hear a politician say we need to fight terrorists over…
A terrible pall has enshrouded my weekend.
It started with a ring of my doorbell. An unassuming man with a pen and a composition notebook was standing at my door, clad in his company t-shirt… a tree service. He allowed as how they were working on a tree down the street, and noticed my tree. I was immediately suspicious, but I listed to his spiel. We get these kinds of solicitations all the…
I’ve been trying to post this entry for most of this week. Between the news, blogs, and private discussions I’ve been trying to put my finger on how I feel about the POTUS.
By the way… I like saying POTUS, particularly when it comes to this president. When you stress the first syllable, with a slightly snide curling of the lips, it kind of sounds like an insult. “Shut up you potus!”…