Gunning down persons in the teevee industry has a certain emotional appeal, but we probably should stifle the urge.
And our excitable cops who get all Dirty Harry and confuse cell phones with handguns are falling somewhat short of their "serve and protect" marketing slogan.
Oct 14, 2010
Oct 13, 2010
Pretty up the veggies, Tom. Chad and Carol are still eyeballing the fries.
This is petty theft compared to what feds have proven themselves capable of, but I suppose some people still think $2 million is a respectable piece of money.
For a lot less, I would have explained to the Potomac Yokels -- led by Tom Vilsack in this case -- that it won't work. The kids are smarter than the psychologists, and if they have a taste for a cheeseburger, you are not going to feed them a kumquat, no matter how pretty the basket.
I know there's a Constitutional requirement that caring Intellectuals in Washington supervise the luncheon habits of the middle school in Nazareth, Arkansas. I just can't think of it at the moment.
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Tom Vilsack? He got to be Secretary of Agriculture because he was Iowa governor and did not make a stink about Obama's Illinois supporters slipping across the Mississippi and packing the 2008 Iowa caucuses.
He got be governor because the Democrats needed a sacrificial lamb to run against Jim Ross Lightfoot in 1998. Lightfoot was unbeatable prior to taking the campaign advice of the Iowa Republican Party. Vilsack became the first Democrat elected Hawkeye governor in 30 years.
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It's a nice day and I gotta go paint, but I think you are entitled to one more fact about Secretary Vilsack's authority to run American Agriculture and superintend the National Diet. You see, prior to whipping Lightfoot, he was mayor of Mount Pleasant where he hardly ever failed to raise a very nice tomato plant in a five-gallon bucket on the deck. I mean, almost every year, unless his wife forgot to water it or something.
For a lot less, I would have explained to the Potomac Yokels -- led by Tom Vilsack in this case -- that it won't work. The kids are smarter than the psychologists, and if they have a taste for a cheeseburger, you are not going to feed them a kumquat, no matter how pretty the basket.
I know there's a Constitutional requirement that caring Intellectuals in Washington supervise the luncheon habits of the middle school in Nazareth, Arkansas. I just can't think of it at the moment.
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Tom Vilsack? He got to be Secretary of Agriculture because he was Iowa governor and did not make a stink about Obama's Illinois supporters slipping across the Mississippi and packing the 2008 Iowa caucuses.
He got be governor because the Democrats needed a sacrificial lamb to run against Jim Ross Lightfoot in 1998. Lightfoot was unbeatable prior to taking the campaign advice of the Iowa Republican Party. Vilsack became the first Democrat elected Hawkeye governor in 30 years.
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It's a nice day and I gotta go paint, but I think you are entitled to one more fact about Secretary Vilsack's authority to run American Agriculture and superintend the National Diet. You see, prior to whipping Lightfoot, he was mayor of Mount Pleasant where he hardly ever failed to raise a very nice tomato plant in a five-gallon bucket on the deck. I mean, almost every year, unless his wife forgot to water it or something.
Oct 12, 2010
Tom Mix
He killed himself in a car crash seventy years ago today, not far from Florence, Arizona.
Tom Mix, Texas native, working cowboy, marshall, Texas Ranger, veteran of the nation's wars.
Ayup.
Don't you just hate the revisionist nitpickers who re-edited that bio from Tom's press agent? Pennsylvania kid. Army deserter. Most heroic military and/or law enforcement position held: drum major.
Tom Mix, Texas native, working cowboy, marshall, Texas Ranger, veteran of the nation's wars.
Ayup.
Don't you just hate the revisionist nitpickers who re-edited that bio from Tom's press agent? Pennsylvania kid. Army deserter. Most heroic military and/or law enforcement position held: drum major.
Oct 8, 2010
Competence in South Africa
Our buddy Wouter in Capetown is a shooter, home improver, electronics geek, a jack of most, if not all, trades. Good thing, and a good thing also that he runs with a pack of similarly competent men and women.
It takes a crowd like that to put together an international steel shoot more or less from scratch, conquering all obstacles with salvaged wire, borrowed equipment, and a can-do mindset which even allowed for reasonable handling of a strange Finn.
As a side note, the USA is listed as a IMSSU member but we didn't seem to have anyone at the South African shoot.
It takes a crowd like that to put together an international steel shoot more or less from scratch, conquering all obstacles with salvaged wire, borrowed equipment, and a can-do mindset which even allowed for reasonable handling of a strange Finn.
As a side note, the USA is listed as a IMSSU member but we didn't seem to have anyone at the South African shoot.
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