The Hall of Fire

A while back, I saw someone (maybe Voronwë?) rather self-disparagingly call himself a "Pollyanna". I didn't recognize the reference, and looked it up, and downloaded the book and eventually read it. Pollyanna had a perfectly lovely way of looking at things. I don't understand why anyone wo...

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McCain gets Social Security

You know what? This story just kind of rubs it in that McCain is well over retirement age....

Maria, if one understands Satan not as an anthropomorphic being with horns and pitchfork, but as a symbol for the worst, most evil impulses of the blackest corners of the human heart, then, yes, radical Jihadists are Satanic. Since Satanism IS an organized sort of religion, I don't think you can us...

BTW, where on earth do you get the idea that Jihadists are only in the Middle East, or that oil has any relation to their Satanic aims (aside from funding)? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I don't think that Islamic Jihadists have anything to do with Satanism. Have you ever read about Satanism? :sh...

:doh: I didn't think of testosterone supplements. It's so much simpler with animals. Eliminate the hormonal influences, vastly modify behavior. When we neutered our tom cat, he stopped raping the pillows and getting torn up in fights so much. He'll still attack without warning if he feels ornery, bu...

I favor castration for a first offense and permanent incarceration for second offenses.

edit: I mean physical castration, not that chemical castration stuff.

In fact the casualty rates were slighly higher for whites because of disproportionate white representation as pilots and junior infantry officers, the billets with the highest casualty rates. There were still jokes in my day about that: What's the life expectancy of a 2nd Lieutenant assigned as a f...

I'd like to see a "gaited" community. I bet they all ride gaited horses-- the ones with really smooth trots...

When my kids were little, about 8, 7 and 5, they'd spend hours making up elaborate stories together. It was really quite amazing. A few toys were involved (none had batteries), and sometimes a large cardboard box, but mostly it was just them weaving a story together. I thought it was really cool, bu...

Military people get reassigned every 3 years or sooner. People are always coming and going. You rarely finish out your 3 years in one place with the same people you started with. Just getting a command in a downsizing, peace time environment was an accomplishment- there is a lot of competition for s...

They were led by someone else after he left. The whole tone of a command will change with the commander.

I was an officer in the Army. My husband was too. We went to school together, and I got top grades and he got mediocre grades. However, when it came to leading people and winning their hearts and minds, he was head and shoulders above me in talent. The unit he lead loved him and when he left the ser...

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Oh gag. Obama loses points with me for this. Lets blur religion and state some more.

Gee, vison, anything a god wants, a god gets. So whoever wins, God must have either wanted it, or was indifferent.

Societies cycle. There are predictable shifts in the way each generation reacts to situations. There are four main steps in the US repeating social history. We are just finishing up with an "Unraveling" defined as: "a downcast era of strengthening individualism and weakening instituti...

Stars are intelligent life forms! Didn't you know that Prim?

Backtracking a bit- for the record, horses aren't the only form of animal transport. They are more like the sports cars of the genre (or the semi truck, with draft breeds). Oxen can pull heavier loads longer, they're just slower. And yes, if civilization falls, I'll be teaching our cows to pull a ca...

...end up living in the same neighbourhood as somebody who wouldn't mind driving a pair of fine Clydesdales to work each day or rolling many shopping trips into one in exchange for cleaner air. ( Do realize that I am applying some hyperbole here. ) Yeah, no one would drive 2 Clydesdales to work! Th...

I think it's interesting that has been only one hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006 and 2007, and that was just the little pop-up storm of Humberto. It was over with almost before it made the news. Of course, this lack of hurricanes has probably caused the severe drought of the SE states, so it'...