Out West

• OUT WEST

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  Photograph ©2009 Barry D. Jones. All Rights Reserved. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:48am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Legendary Hardasses

  Clockwise from upper left: Gen Wm Tecumseh Sherman; Gen George S Patton; Admiral Lord Nelson; Gen Andrew Jackson [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Reading

  Recently: Endurance: Shackelton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick   Next: To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, by Arthur Herman The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Happy Thanksgiving

  Get in mah belleh! Photograph ©2009 Barry D. Jones. All Rights Reserved. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Ridiculous work policy at Blue Sky Mines

  I work in a network operations center, or ‘NOC’. Our job at Blue Sky Mines LLC is to monitor the communications network used to control about 40,000 miles of pipeline from western Canada to southern California to Georgia to the upper Midwest. It is intense 24/7 work; hundreds of millions of [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Firefox

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  For months I have been under the impression that my pc was a piece of crap. Then I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5.5 with Adblock. Pages now load in scant seconds, and I can use WordPress without wanting to smash my pc with a hammer. It turns out Internet Explorer 7 [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Grim Milestone

  Two days ago was the 189th anniversary of the sinking of the Nantucket whaleship Essex after being rammed by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America. This real-life incident became the climactic scene in the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick. The men of the Essex [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:48pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Blog Crash

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  This blog recently deleted several post which included image galleries of Sarah Palin and Danica Patrick. Accordingly, my blogstats have crashed to near zero. This is my 4th blog. I’m not getting better at it. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:07pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Jacqueline Taieb

  Because there’s not enough 60s French girl pop music on teh interwebs for my taste. “7 heure du matin” [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Kay Hanley “Weaponize”

  Former lead singer of  the 90s band Letters To Cleo Kay Hanley has a new album in release- “Weaponize“. Kay is one of the few artists who I will automatically purchase/download when they come out with something new. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:15pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Film Reviews, Decades Late

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  Many times I will read a book or see a movie because of references to it in modern culture, and the desire to simply know what everyone is talking about in relation to that book or movie. This is why I have read Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights and some [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:40pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Obama’s Comments Could Set KSM Free

  Obama’s Comments Could Set KSM Free My friends, the time has come to consider whether or not the President of the United States is a complete idiot. In our country, in civil court, the defendant enjoys the presumption of innocence. It is up to the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:47am EST
  by Jones in CO

• NYC 9/11 Trials A Sham?

  So says Anthony Dick, writing at NRO’s The Corner: Unseriousness, Again   The strange thing about the Obama administration’s decision to hold these civilian al-Qaeda trials is that the project is flawed even based on the premises of its staunchest defenders:  They talk about due process and the rule of law, but the [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:22pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• January Jones on SNL

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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:06pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Broncos’ mid-season collapse, now in progress

  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Denver Broncos were defeated today by the Washington Redskins, 27-17. That’s Denver’s 3rd straight loss, having also dropped games to Pittsburgh and Baltimore in recent weeks. For their part, the Redskins break a 4-game losing streak and improve to 3-6. And now quarterback Kyle Orton is hurt with [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:18pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• This man is an embarrassment to the office and the institution of the Presidency.

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  US PRESIDENTS DO NOT SCRAPE AND BOW …except the fool who currently occupies the office once graced by great men. Here is b Hussein Obama, supplicating himself to the emperor of Japan: What an ass. The United States of America was founded by men who risked everything to throw off the chains of tyranny; [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Hidden Strategy Behind NYC 9/11 Trials

  Others are writing about how President Zero’s decision to bring the 9/11 conspirators to New York for trial is in part about staging a show trial of the entire Bush Administration approach to the global war against terrorism. While there is validity to that argument, I submit there may be another [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:56am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Atty General has ALREADY jeopardized the outcome of the upcoming 9/11 trials

  ‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first—verdict afterwards.’ This is the video of Attorney General Eric Holder’s press conference today, announcing that 5 detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be transferred to the US to stand trial for planning and executing the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks. The video runs about 25 minutes, [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:54pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Kate Beckinsale is the jelly doughnut to my Homer Simpson

  Many ugly events lately. The only thing that can shake that off for me is Kate. She’s jelly doughnuts. She’s more cowbell. She’s covered in awesome. [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• President Says 9/11 Terrorists Will Have Their Day In Court

  The Present of these Disunited States, b Hussein Obama, who was raised as a muslim, has decided that muslim terrorist Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the confessed mastermind of the September 11 terrorism attacks, is entitled to and will receive a trial in federal court in New York City. Just a couple [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Great Video

  Soldiers returning home, to their kids- and their dogs. Related: Army Dog Found After 14 Months Lost in Afghanistan [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:18pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Obama Caves

  Obama Grants FOXNEWS Interview, DRUDGE has learned; Major Garrett will conduct interview in China next week... [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:50pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• We Can Be Heroes

  Left to right, top to bottom: LTC Hal Moore, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie We Were Soldiers; George Washington, who accepted Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown, ending the War For Independence; Gen George S Patton, who steamrolled the Nazis across western Europe in 1944; Gen William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:08am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Fighting Men Of America

  For the veterans [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:51am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Thank You, Veterans

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  To all the men and women of the US Armed Forces, active duty and retired, living, and those who have gone before- THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS YOU.   [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Liberal Joke

  Jay Nordlinger writes at NRO: The general media reaction to the Ft. Hood massacre reminded me of an old joke. It’s about modern American liberals. One reason I feel secure in telling it is that I learned it from a liberal — from the commentator Mark Shields, who told it on [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:55pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Military experience of recent US Presidents

  Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan George HW Bush George W Bush Jimmy Carter   Bill Clinton: no info Barack Hussein Obama: no info [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:36pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Great Press Photos

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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Meet The New Miss England

  Back in July we wrote about British soldier Katrina Hodges being the runner-up in the Miss England beauty pageant. Now if you’ve ever watched a beauty pageant, you know the little spiel they give when they announce the name of the runner-up: ‘if for any reason, Miss Central Avenue Tire [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:35pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• The United States Army Has A Serious Problem

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     1977 muslims on active duty +603 muslims in the reserves +464 muslims in the National Guard = 3044 potential jihadis [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Saturday Night Music

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  Echo & The Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:09pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Compare and Contrast

  Friday night, former President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush visited the soldiers wounded in the Ft Hood shootings. Current Present b Hussein Obama took off for a relaxing weekend at Camp David.   [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:41pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Obama’s Perspective: Ever Flexible

  I find it interesting to consider how the current Present* decides to comment on breaking news stories. In July of this year, a black college professor- an acquaintance of the Present- was arrested for disorderly conduct by a white police officer. Obama’s reaction: “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:52pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• At US Army Base, Muslim Traitor Kills 12, Wounds 31

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  These are the facts as we know them right now: the shooter is Nidal Malik Hasan, a US- born MUSLIM he is an Army major and a psychiatrist contrary to early reports, he is alive and in custody there are 12 dead and 31 wounded It is also becoming apparent that Hasan was opposed to [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:40am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Present Obama, Keeping His Eye On The Ball (cont’d)

  What did the Present of the United States do last night- election night? Did he call John Corzine in New Jersey and offer words of encouragement? No. Did he call Creigh Deeds in Virginia and tell him ‘hang in there’? No. No, the Present watched himself on HBO. Because he is just that awesome! He can’t [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Present Obama, Keeping His Eye On The Ball (cont’d)

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  Jetting off to Copenhagen to politic for the Chicago 2016 Summer Olympics bid? CHECK! Jetting off to Oslo to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize? CHECK! Jetting off to Berlin to represent the United States of America at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:14am EST
  by Jones in CO

• MSNBC, The Morning After

  So last night, Republicans took back the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. The Present of the United States personally campaigned on behalf of incumbent NJ governor John “Does this beard make me look like a pirate?” Corzine, yet still the Republican challenger won. And the GOP victory in Virginia [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:58am EST
  by Jones in CO

• Rock Art of the San Rafael

  The San Rafael Swell is a vast area that straddles I-70 in central Utah. It’s a great place to go camping or 4-wheeling. It’s also a great place to see many examples of rock art left behind by the Anasazi, Fremont, Ute, and other prehistoric peoples of North America. There are [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:03pm EST
  by Jones in CO

• Ravens Hand Broncos 1st Loss, 30-7

  The Ravens sacked Denver QB Kyle Orton on the first play of the game, and it sort of set the tone for the rest of the afternoon. Baltimore played inspired defense all day; the Broncos couldn’t run the ball, but they made up for it by not passing it either. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:39pm EST
  by Jones in CO