Pearl Harbor survivor James Cook of Slidell was honored during a ceremony Monday at Pearl Harbor Park in Chalmette, Cook, 84, was on the USS Rigel (AD-13) during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The Rigel, originally built in 1918, was at the [...] 
So now, America, freedom is slavery. Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah...I’m such a sucker!
A week or so ago I was at the mailbox and there was a new notice fluttering from the bulletin board. I read it. Somebody was trying to give away a pair of cats, brother and sister, littermates, declawed, neutered, indoor, shots up to date. What cat [...]
Concrete cloth, and some other new materials will peg your geek-o-meter.
68 years ago today:This story hit the big time this morning.
Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule
By JEFFREY BALL and CHARLES FORELLE
Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to [...]
This little jewel:
3300 pounds
Some of you may be interested. And at the time of this photo, it was just BARELY cool enough to touch.
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The Navy SEALs charged for giving a terrorist a fat lip face their arraignment today.1696 – Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull. Two days later sections are barricaded off with orange cones as twelve guys lean on the hoods of pickup trucks watching one guy with a shovel…
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to [...]
2 dates we should all remember: Pearl Harbor Day December 7, 1941 and DDay June 6, 1944.
Sirr JJ wanted to remind me of this most important date and wrote to me:
” Remember Pearl Harbor, 68 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, sinking or damaging 12 naval vessels, killing 2,402 [...]
Since is near Christmas, allow me to tender the following:
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FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees DATE: October 1, 2009
RE: Gala Christmas Party
I’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at [...]
As you may or may not know, I have this new gig Vlogging for Rightpundits.com They created a You Tube channel just for me and it is doing quite well. I moderate the comments as some of them were very hellacious. Most get approved and many make me [...]
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit is all OVER Kevin Jennings this week. I'm glad to see it. I posted on Jennings here, here, and here, among others, as has Michelle Malkin and other bloggers.
I woke up this morning to one of those bleak, grey days this morning. It was forty when I walked out to get the paper, up from the lower thirties last night. I’m scheduled to do posole for lunch. This sort of day just cries out for a hearty, steamy [...]
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. I remember encyclopedias on the shelves.
1862 – President Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians. Can’t be having these people get freedom and all that…
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning [...]
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to scream sarcasm at the weather folks. After a day full of breathless weather geeks on TV and radio issuing dire and serious warnings about the oncoming winter storm along with the earliest snow on record for this corner of [...]
Via Bride of Rove, this news caught my eye this morning:
This makes shady SEO practices even less effective and I'm all for it. It has never been more important to produce good quality content for your target audience.
' [...]1846 – C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive, commonly known as “guncotton” and a major component in smokeless gunpowder.
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1861 – [...]
For those who’ve been following my last blowup, which started here, you may have been thinking that you missed my declarations fo success in the restoration of full function to my 9000 horsepower electric drive at my compressor stion forty miles north of here.
There is a reason for that. [...]
It is snowing outside. Of course, the ground is wet and the temperature is above freezing so none of this is accumulating, but my ex-wife just called my son and told him to look outside, and it is indeed snowing big wet flakes.
You Yankees may now snort derisively…
[...]Yeah, I know… He said that whole thing is between him and his family. I guess that was true if he was Joe Schmuck working the second shift at the tractor factory, not the world’s best known golfer.
So, like the guy says: “The higher you climb up the flagpole, the [...]
It’s that time of the year when many families do things that have a way of forming lasting memories. When I was little, we lived next door to my grandmother, Mom’s mom. Visiting back and forth was almost daily and we often ended up there for Sunday dinner and such.
Once [...]
If Obama was Churchill:
Why the economy’s not taking off:
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail. Obama’s only tool is talk…
[...]1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas). What?!?! No participation by wise, compassionate, all-knowing native Americans?
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I [...]
This came by email:
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING
THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT.
AFTERNOON RAINS WILL CHANGE TO SNOW DURING THE EVENING HOURS ON
FRIDAY…ALTHOUGH A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL BE MORE LIKELY
ACROSS COASTAL AREAS AND AROUND VERMILION BAY. ACCUMULATIONS OF UP
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The Kiss my Gumbo radio show airs each Saturday morning from 9:00-10:00 (central) on AM 690 WIST or [...]
The things I find at lunch. If The Episcopal Church (tm) doesn't have a blessing for this already, I'm sure they will soon...
If you can't buy health insurance across state lines, it isn't 'interstate commerce', now is it? So how can Congress claim to mandate it and regulate it?
You know that awkward moment at a funeral when folks view the body? Everyone there knows the reality, yet they still say, "Doesn't she look nice."
1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia.
1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1967 – The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes [...]
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