Dear God. FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) – So many Fort Lewis soldiers are being killed in Iraq the Army base will no longer hold individual memorial services. Starting next month Fort Lewis says it will hold one memorial a month for all the dead soldiers. Headline in the Honolulu Advertiser today: More than 200 troops …
Found money! My driver-side car window mechanism failed the other day, and since I invariably have it down while driving, I needed to get it fixed. I took it to the local glass shop and they diagnosed the problem as a broken regulator within the door and estimated the cost for parts and labor at …
Because you’re likely to be caught. Other writers don’t take kindly to that kind of theft. The offending blog was discovered, evidence gathered, the author confronted. It was taken down within two hours.
Remember when Bush said in the 2000 campaign he wanted to restore “honor and dignity” to the White House? If I were an Iraqi working for the Army/Marines/US government over there and there’s a withdrawal from Iraq on this President’s watch (yeah, yeah, unlikely, I know), I’d start looking to my hole card. This Administration …
Every year the Boy Scouts plant flags at every gravesite at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. My father and uncle are interred there, and yesterday my sister and niece went to pay their respects. They took along a camera and made this wonderful image.
During the National Memorial Day Concert from the Capitol, somebody introduced songs of World War 2. The first song was Moon River, written by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini for the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” in 1961. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore.
I’ve only loaded about a dozen CDs into iTunes, so there’s less diversity here than I expect there will be when I put the other 25 or so into the library, but nonetheless: Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel Love Me Like a Man – Bonnie Raitt Love is in the Air – …
Um. Does anyone else read this the way I do? This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes “National Essential Functions,” prescribes continuity requirements for all executive …
A discussion which began yesterday over at Library Thing asked: At the end of the Elantris discussion topic (the last one), there is a short discussion about favorite familiars, and I figured that (or they) deserved a separate topic. There are lots of familiars that I like, such as Merlin’s string bracelet (I can’t remember …
It takes a seriously warped sense of humor to put this conglomeration of screen shots together with fanfic text to recap Season 3. I’m glad somebody has one.