It was the same motherfucker ( Read more... )

So here I have myself, a world away, finding conundrums as to social acceptable involved-ness. My wife is in El Paso, now. Setting up home and hearth for when I can get back. In the meantime she's staying with the family of one of my friends over here. On-post housing seems to come with it's attached drama. So within a week of being in Texas my ( Read more... )

So about a week ago, without any fanfare, Youtube just stopped working here. Apparently our overlords of Google decided that enabling such options to the Iraqi peoples, who have happily been posting things like beheadings and blowing up MRAPs all while praising God in between the usual blogs and videos of Iraqi people hitting each other in the head ( Read more... )

Been having a thing for Westerns lately, can't quite say way.
Listening to the music scored for Spaghetti Westerns, Old Clint Eastwood and John Wayne digs, classics and epics of bygone days.
'My mistake, four...'

Something cathartic about the ritual of cleaning a weapon. I feel like I should speak a mantra as I go ( Read more... )

I recall somewhere being taught that an indicator of the downfall of the Roman Empire was when it began hiring foreign mercenaries to supplement the Roman Legion, and later when the mercenaries began to outnumber the Roman Legionnaires, as it fell out of practice for Roman citizenry to serve in their own country's army. As has been pointed out, who ( Read more... )

I've come to notice that newspaper comics aren't really all that funny, anymore. More and more they seem to have grown with me, discussing political matters more than fun fun. Most assuredly, the authors have likewise grown older, and perhaps a sign that newspaper readers are less likely to be children in the day of webcomics and internet news. ( Read more... )

Roadside bombs have a dramatic ability to alter the course of your day ( Read more... )

First off, we're going to discuss the duality of integrity, one of those high held ideals on the military. Trust in another is a very important thing in this business, of course. Lives literally depend on it. Integrity, the soul of a man is in keeping his word and standing by it. 'To do what is morally and legally right'. Not quite the 'yes' of our ( Read more... )

The past few days have been interesting ( Read more... )