Artillery.  I love it.

Three rounds in 20 seconds. Hoorah.

The older I get, the more eccentric I think I'm becoming.

My choice of personal air transportation?

1947 Ercoupe, with the distinctive Liberator bomber tail.

My choice of land transportation (after my Dodge 1500), is the Morgan three wheeler.  Very odd. Very fun.

You are a Taliban soldier in a group moving across the mountains of Afghanistan.

The Marines somehow get wind of your position, but have no nearby assets to strike.

The answer is a record breaking artillery shot, over 22 miles, from a neighboring district, with the valentine of love pictured below. 

Taliban unit destroyed.

Hoorah!

Hat tip, Feral Irishman

Great sentiments from the occupant of the Ted Kennedy seat in Congress.

I've noticed a bit of this lately.

All things considered, blacks and the civil rights culture surrounding them are the most open and prolific purveyors of racism in America. This is an ironic travesty which spits upon the graves of history’s abolitionists and offends all who are committed to a dream of equality under the law and goodwill among men.

Anyone up for a little wooden boat action?

Hong Kong builds itself a 1000 ton gold vault, equivalent to 22% of the storage capacity of Fort Knox.

Wonder what they could be thinking?

The Proposition:  The media are vermin.

The evidence:

The autopilot of ideology charts only one course: when there is a gun-massacre or an act of terror, you blame your political rivals as long as possible and as often as possible because that is what the simplistic fairy tale of your world view demands. You immediately, long before any evidence is in, exculpate your allies, because this is also what your simplistic fairy tale demands.

George Zimmerman, a registered Democrat, is reported as being a “white Hispanic” because Caucasians shooting Negroes in cold blood fits the fairy tale, and the facts do not fit the fairy tale.

When Dr. Amy Bishop shot and killed three colleagues at a faculty meeting, the Left speculated that she was a Tea Partier because that fits the fairy tale, and the facts do not fit the fairy tale. In fact, she was lifelong Democrat and Obama donor.

James Lee, 43, took three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Maryland. The media speculation was that Lee a “climate-change denier” who’d resorted to violence.  . That fits the fairy tale, and the facts do not fit the fairy tale. In fact, he was a radical environmentalist who viewed humans as parasites on the Earth

The census-taker Bill Sparkman in rural Kentucky was supposedly hanged by extremist anti-tax Tea Partiers. Such insanely murderous acts by the peaceful protesters (who clean up after themselves when they gather in public areas) fits the fairy tale. In fact, he hanged himself. The facts do not fit the fairy tale

Mayor Bloomberg immediately speculated that the bomber was someone upset about the president’s new health-care law. The media trumpeted the idea that crazed conservatives had turned to violence. In fact, the perpetrator was Faisal Shahzad, jihadist terrorist. The facts do not fit the fairy tale.

Joe Stack who flew his plane into the IRS in Texas was supposedly a Tea Partier, because according to the fairy tale the ordinary Americans in the Tea Party are insane murdering scum. In fact, he quoted from the Communist Manifesto in his suicide note. But the facts do not fit the fairy tale.

Amidst the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque, Michael Enright stabbed a Muslim cab driver in the neck. It was immediately dubbed an “anti-Muslim stabbing,” with “rising Islamophobia” on the political right to blame. Because the fairy tale is that the Tea Party commit acts of random violence for political ends. In fact, Enright, a left-leaning art student, had worked with a firm that produced a pro-mosque statement.

John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon security officers at close range. The media went wild with speculation that a right-wing extremist had reached the end of his rope. Bedell turned out to be a registered Democrat and 9/11 Truther. The facts do not fit the fairy tale.

The Fort Hood shooting is reported as being unrelated to the religious affiliation of the gunman because this fits the fairy tale, and the facts do not fit the fairy tale.

When Congresswoman Giffords was shot, even though this was done by a deranged man with (as far as we know)  Leftwing political views, the rhetoric of the Right was blamed by Paul Krugman, and Sarah Palin was blamed.  By what torturous line of Palin-Derangement-Syndrome suffering stream-of-consciousness the Senator from Alaska is blamed for a shooting in Arizona, I leave for psychiatrists to explain.

Read it all here.

Thanks to Obamacare, a doctor representing the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons told The Daily Caller on Thursday that “physicians have reached a tipping point” under current health care laws, as they cannot both care for their patients and comply with mandated regulations.

We had relatives over to visit this weekend, and since nearly everyone is into photography, and because we needed to get out of the house, we loaded up the truck and hit the road on a photography expedition.

It was great fun, we got to wander around some local back roads, and we scored some nice shots to boot.

The corral on Tonzi Road, also known as the place of the hubcap.

Sam and Sam

My favorite of the angels

                                           Sam, Sam, John and Suzanne at Teresa's Italian

The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars. The hole appears to be an opening to an underground cavern, partly illuminated on the image right. Analysis of this and follow-up images revealed the opening to be about 35 meters across, while the interior shadow angle indicates that the underlying cavern is roughly 20 meters deep. Why there is a circular crater surrounding this hole remains a topic of speculation, as is the full extent of the underlying cavern. Holes such as this are of particular interest because their interior caves are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life. These pits are therefore prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.

This attempted mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado back in April did not make the news, because an armed citizen stopped it immediately.

The to these insane shooters is to make sure someone else is carrying as well, and the shooting is over right away because citizens will protect themselves.

Reason number 1 why Obama has to go in November.

We will never survive four more years of this type of debt, but then again, if he is pushing a Cloward - Piven strategy, that is in fact the plan.

Two British tourists from Salisbury came up to British Columbia on a fishing vacation, and hooked an enormous sturgeon in the Fraser River. 

It was as long as their boat.

Now that is a catch to remember back home in jolly old England.