The USS Shoup is to be commissioned soon. General David M. Shoup won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions as a Marine officer during World War II. He later served as Commandant of the Marine Corps. General Shoup is from my hometown of Covington, Indiana. [Defenselink News]
Mmm…. Courtyard coffee. Well, beats having nothing.
Beautiful.
Helen Hayes. “Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it’s a tragedy. A lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
I’ve read this week’s Time, Entertainment This Week, and Sports Illustrated in less than an hour. Mostly in the shower.. that’s friggin bad. Nothing good in them either. Even Rick Reilly’s column in Sports Illustrated, which I really used to enjoy, was boring…
Kerri’s getting perky… I gotta try this Friday Five thing.
Friday Five. On Monday. Suck it up.. To perk myself up, I’m going to do the Friday Five. Of course, you’ll get two this week, since I’m a wacko, and starting on a Monday. [kerri News]
I love it…
I think this sums up my attitude rather nicely, ac ….
I think this sums up my attitude rather nicely, actually…
:: how jedi are you? :: [Armed and Dangerous]
Very well said… Go read this blog entry, he states the reasons far better than I can…
After reading too much political news: Top Ten Re …. After reading too much political news:
Top Ten Reasons I’m Not A (Left-)Liberal:
- Gun control. Liberals are completely wrong about this. A fair number of them know better, too, but they sponsor lies about it as a form of class warfare against conservative-leaning gun owners.
- Nuclear power. They’re wrong about this, too, and the cost in both dollars and human deaths by pollution and other fossil-fuel side-effects has been enormous.
- Affirmative action. These programs couldn’t be a more diabolical or effective plan for entrenching racial prejudice if the Aryan Nations had designed them….
