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You all may not know this, but it is International Bagpipe Day today.  So in honor of the day two videos with my favorite bagpipe player, Andy Letcher (from whom word of this day made it across the Pond as well).  Please note that Andy plays the English Border pipes, not Scottish (Great Highland Bagpipes)… Continue reading

Jesse Jackson Jr. is apparently running on a ‘pro-gun control’ platform against Debbie Halvorson.  What’s interesting is the ad specifically states that President Obama and Jesse Jackson Jr. fought ‘every step of the way’ to stop the NRA and pro-Second Amendment/anti-gun control (.17 in the ad below) moves in Congress. In light of Fast and… Continue reading

On the TSA blog there is a lame attempt to denigrate and minimize Jonathan Corbett’s finding that the backscatter machines are basically just big boondoggles.  The blogpost even refuses to name him, calling him ‘some guy’ and then launches into a paragraph that doesn’t address the issue and a second paragraph that basically goes into… Continue reading

Apparently redheads are not as susceptible to the pain caused by capsaisin and are a lot more susceptible to cold.  I don’t know if I’d describe myself as a redhead, but I do have some strawberry blonde going on sometimes.  Himself cooks to the edge of his pain threshold which generally leaves me at the… Continue reading

So Jonathan Corbett has proven that the TSA backscatter machines, aside from potentially causing cancer and radiation exposure, don’t make us any safer than the original metal detectors did and definitely no safer than being sexually assaulted so that you can travel from one part of this country to the other.  On his website here … Continue reading

Via  Free Republic, some good words from 2nd Division Vet regarding Andrew Breitbart: I am beyond heartbroken this remarkable man is dead. There are no words to describe how sickened I am that the Tolerant Left has seized his death as a cause for perverse rapture. All I can think to do in response to… Continue reading

I’m still in shock over Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death.  Never met the man but the world, I think, is a smaller, darker place with his passing.  Himself made the comment though, and I have to agree… Small comfort but maybe all of us can take up his torch and keep the light shining on the… Continue reading

There’s a big difference between cultural understanding and cultural stupidity (which is now labeled cultural sensitivity). One of the hardest things for me, as a Western woman, to learn when dealing with Middle Eastern folks is that the younger folks have to approach the older folks, rather than wait to be acknowledged, as things are… Continue reading

Andrew Breitbart helped to bring down ACORN, started the Bigs, which gave outlets for conservative commentary on Journalism, Government, Peace, and Hollywood, and wasn’t afraid to stand up to Media driven Leftists.  His light was too soon put out.  I don’t often cry over the loss of people I’ve never met, but his fire, drive,… Continue reading

A guy at worked was playing this music this morning and I thought it was too cool not to share.  Apparently these guys travel the globe and find street performers and put them together on video and with sound. Gimme Shelter | Playing For Change from Playing For Change on Vimeo. Continue reading