The Drawn Cutlass

Attention Fellow Vets

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:11:00 +0000

If you haven't heard, all Golden Corral Restaurants will be offering free dinner for vets on Monday, November 16th, from 5-9 p.m., no ID required. Offer includes active duty, retired, and veterans.

So if you are in need of a good meal on Monday, go over and check them out, they put out a pretty good buffet and you can eat your fill. And be sure to thank them before you leave, ok?

If you're a blogger yourself, why not pass the word so Golden Corral gets a good response?

And happy Veteran's Day to all of you, my brothers and sisters in arms.

Assistant Manager for McDonald's at GTMO Needed.

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:50:00 +0000

Probably if you're going to be involved with fast food, this would be one of the more interesting locales you could work at. And yes, you DO provide food for the terrorists jailed there.

Waxing Poetic Over Moonshine

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000

"The finished product comes out clear as spring water and as strong as sin."

In this case the stuff wasn't corn liquor made by hillbillies, but fruit-flavored rum brewed in eastern NC. The price mentioned in the article - - $20 for a mason jar - - seems high. I though that the point of moonshining, apart from selling in dry counties, was to make a product that sold more cheaply than taxed liquor from state-run stores?

Astronaut Cops A Plea

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:17:00 +0000

Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak, who committed a bizarre attack on another woman over the affections of a male astronaut, has pleaded guilty to reduced charges and will escape jail time.

She's been given probation. And the judge also ordered her to write a letter of apology to her victim. Threw the book at her, he did.

Will the Navy cashier her now? Dishonorable or Bad Conduct Discharge? Can't imagine that they want to keep her at this point.

Tomorrow's Drudge Headline Today

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:50:00 +0000

"Fellatio Common Among Fruit Bats, Research Says."

There's even video!

Reason #1,725 Why Labour Will Lose The Next UK Election

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Bob McGowan, a 94-year-old veteran of the British Army, is poor and needs government assistance to help pay his heating bill. Because he was one day late for applying for his heating allowance after changing apartments, his request was denied by petty-minded bureaucrats.

Mr McGowan, who won the Burma Star, the Africa Star, the War Medal 1939 to 1945, the 1939-1945 Star and the Defence Medal following 2,133 days on active duty overseas, has vowed to mail the medals back to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown if the heating allowance squabble isn't resolved.

All the old man has left is his dignity and his medals, and bureaucrats are trying to take his dignity away, leaving only the medals.

Is Chlamydia A Natural Koala Disease?

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11:00 +0000

My question, indelicate though it might be, is how come all the koalas are coming down with chlamydia all of a sudden?

I suspect the Furries, myself.

Hanoi Jane, Septuagenarian Sex Fiend

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:00 +0000

Titanium hip and all, Bay-ay-by!

Just for the hell of it, let's have a poll:

YOU Push The Baby Stroller. No, YOU Push The Baby Stroller

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:34:00 +0000

Mclaren strollers sold in the USA have a design defect that can result in amputation of fingers when same are caught in the hinge area.

The recalled models include the Volo, Triumph, Quest Sport, Quest Mod, Techno XT, Techno XLR, Twin Triumph, Twin Techno and Easy Traveller.

I guess the ambulance chasers are going to love this revenue opportunity.

Charlotte, Montagnards and White-Tailed Deer

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +0000

Great article in the local paper about Montagnard refugees from Vietnam living in Charlotte, and how they benefit from overpopulation of deer herds in our Mecklenburg County parks.

I'll Be Damned

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:59:00 +0000

David Brooks of The New York Times wrote another column I find myself in agreement with:

Major Hasan was portrayed as a disturbed individual who was under a lot of stress. We learned about pre-traumatic stress syndrome, and secondary stress disorder, which one gets from hearing about other people’s stress. We heard the theory (unlikely in retrospect) that Hasan was so traumatized by the thought of going into a combat zone that he decided to take a gun and create one of his own.

A shroud of political correctness settled over the conversation. Hasan was portrayed as a victim of society, a poor soul who was pushed over the edge by prejudice and unhappiness.

There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.

This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.

Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.

It's Not Plagiarism, It's...Found Poetry, Yeah, That's It

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:49:00 +0000

The former Poet Laureate of UK, Andrew Motion, apparently is too lazy to write his own poetry anymore, so he uses poetry he finds elsewhere, claiming it is "found" poetry, and that he is justfied because Shakespeare did it, too.

I'll have to remember that defense the next time I "find" a wallet on the street.

The Right To Life, Liberty...and Loud Orgasms?

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:41:00 +0000

A woman in UK who had a criminal charge lodged against her for her loud screaming during sex is appealing, saying that the charges violate her human rights.

I have to guess that moving to a secluded area was ruled out for some reason?

The Buried Treasures Of England

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:10:00 +0000

A UK Independent slideshow.

It should be noted that these are all ancient hoards, dating as far back as Roman times.

I'll Use the Proceeds To Get Me Teef Fixed.

Shipwreck Blog: Confederate Ship Appomattox

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000

A shipwreck discovered in NC's Pasquotank River has been identified as the Civil War-era Confederate ship Appomattox.

They were able to identify it after finding a silver-plated spoon inscribed with the name of one of the crewmen; there wasn't much else left of the wreck that might help to identify it.

Redneck Doughnuts?

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:47:00 +0000

The BBQ House in Oak Island, NC, comes up with a new variation on hush puppies.

Occam's Razor

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +0000

It Was A Duck. It Looked Like A Duck, Walked Like a Duck, Quacked Like A Duck.

It Was NOT A Duck. Don't Jump To Conclusions.

NOT. A. DUCK. The Soldier Who Says Otherwise Will Be Court-Martialed.

We're Not Certain What It Was, But We Are Certain It Was Not A Duck.

The Tingle In My Leg Tells Me It Was Not A Duck.

I Really Was Hoping It Would Be A Chicken, Myself.

Allahu QUACKbar!

Kirk Up, Spock

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

A columnist for the UK Telegraph expresses a growing concern that President Obama is too much of an emotionless cold fish.

President Obama Finally Visits Walter Reed Army Hospital

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:35:00 +0000

George W. Bush visited often. Guess President Obama has been busy with more important stuff. /snark

Fat, Stupid and Criminal Is No Way To Enter The Military, Son

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:27:00 +0000

75% of young Americans can't qualify to enter the military because of obesity, ignorance or criminality.

Yah, what Dean Wormer said:

Yeah, It's a Real Head-Scratcher

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:20:00 +0000

"Investigators Try To Understand Reason Behind Major Hasan's Rampage."

Yah, get Sherlock Holmes on the case, Scotland Yard can't figure it out...

/snark

That Was One INTENSE Orgasm

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:00 +0000

A 59-year-old American woman experienced such an intense orgasm during sex with her husband that she had an attack of amnesia and thought that Bill Clinton was still President.

Doctors diagnosed TGA (Transient Global Amnesia), which can be triggered in over-50 individuals by "strenuous activities, bowel movements, or - - commonly - - sex."

So I guess the old claim of shitting my brains out or fucking my brains out has some basis in medical science, hmm?

Incidentally, doctors also had to treat the woman's husband for an incredibly swollen head when he learned of the reason for his wife's memory loss.

In Health Care Paradise, Scurvy Becoming A Problem

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Figures show that in 2004/05, 61 children were admitted to hospital with scurvy in England. But in 2007/08, the figure had risen to 94, a rise of more than 50 per cent in the last three years.

Damn, how hard is it to drink a little orange juice? Or take a daily vitamin, which the article indicates can be had for free to needy families?

UK Telegraph: Ft. Hood Shooter Used "Cop Killer" Pistol

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Oh, Lord, here we go...

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, used an FN Five-Seven, a semi-automatic pistol popular with SWAT teams, that can fire armour-piercing bullets.

A total of 13 people died in the bloodbath at the Texas military base and 38 were wounded.

Hasan had bought the weapon legally at a gun store close to Fort Hood in August and practiced at a nearby shooting range.

During the attack he also carried a Smith & Wesson .357-calibre revolver but it was not clear if he used it.

Here's a pic of an FN 5.7 from Wikipedia:

You can expect to hear a lot about this gun in the next week or so, as anti-gunners try to demonize it and cause lawmakers to propose laws against it.

It's OK To Deplete This Fish Species

noreply@blogger.com (Bob) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Lionfish, which were accidentally introduced into the Caribbean Sea and have spread to the Atlantic Ocean, are already wreaking havoc with native fish populations.

They're tasty and good to eat, so environmentalists are happy if people would catch as many as possible in the Caribbean and Atlantic. Just beware of the spines when you clean 'em:

Would You Do Septuagenarian Jane Fonda?
	Are You Effing Kidding Me?
	Die, Bitch, Die!
	I'm Not Proud, I'd Do Her.
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