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The Christmas Truce

Posted on December 28, 2014 | 3 comments

Historically, the Christmas Truce goes back to World War I and possibly earlier. But we had them in Viet Nam, too, though I only recall the one of 1969 when I was there.

Russ Wheat, an OCS classmate, recalls a ditty his rifle company used to sing about that time: “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, VC in the grass, you can take your Christmas Truce and shove it da-da-da.”

Of course such truces made a certain sense in a European war, but none at all in an Asian one where the enemy not only did not celebrate Christmas but had few if any Christians. Likewise they didn’t “respect” the red crosses on the medevac birds, no more than the Taliban has in Afghanistan.

The Christmas Truce of 1969 was pure politics, consumption entirely for the home folks for whom the anti-war protests were becoming ferocious. It had little or no effect on us with the misfortune of having to fight the damn war.

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The Eric Holder Sewage Plant

Posted on September 26, 2014 | 1 comment

“Holder will be remembered as the most corrupt Attorney General in history and as the man who did the most to violate the civil rights of American citizens since the late FBI Director J Edgar Hoover. Despite his misconduct Hoover got a building named after him so at some future date I guess we’ll see the ‘Eric Holder Sewage Plant’ or some such construct. The Democratic and Republican crime gangs afford each other these little courtesies, after all.”

Well, so far as we know, Eric is not a cross-dresser like the old boss of Fart, Barf & Itch. But, then, there’s been no Republican Watergate to spur the recalcitrant snooze media into reporting on Eric’s private life. They have enough trouble reporting his public one. Don’t miss the photo at the link above of Eric probing his nose for a booger.

Via Dustbury.

UPDATE:  Holder was just the latest incompetent legal crony to hold the office. And the fact that he is one of the president’s closest friends tells you all you need to know about Wormtongue.

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Mooch’s ‘death stare’

Posted on December 11, 2013 | 2 comments

I love it when sourpuss Mooch looks angry. She does it so often. There’s not a shred of diplomacy in her. Hard to believe she was once in charge of “diversity” at a Chicago hospital. Maybe that’s why she wasn’t replaced when she left. Among other reasons.

Via Dustbury

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Knowing **it from Shinola

Posted on August 8, 2013 | 7 comments

Chas at Dustbury has a funny post on Shinola shoe wax which, as it happens, was a Detroit product when it finally went toes up long, long ago. Where better for the demise of a product than bankrupt Detroit?

Only folks who still wear leather shoes that need periodic shining are likely to have ever heard of Shinola, despite the old put down phrase of my youth many probably have heard but don’t really understand.

I requested (and hope Chas’s impeccable research will out) a post on Vitalis or Brylcreem. Awful stuff. I used to slather one or the other on my hair in high school back in the 50s when motor oil [Vitalis] or bacon grease [Brycreem] was the only choice of hair products and the conformity of teenage “cool” demanded one or the other.

I still recall with a shudder the way the residue used to slide down my forehead and neck when the temperature rose above eighty degrees. Talk about poop. No one was more grateful than I when, in the 70s blow-dry became the norm. Followed, for those of us at a certain age, by hair spray.

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Bye, bye AltaVista

Posted on July 8, 2013 | Comments Off on Bye, bye AltaVista

Years ago when I was new to the Web, I thought the AltaVista search engine was the epitome of what was possible. It didn’t hurt that I was then living on Alta Vista Avenue in the Travis Heights neighborhood of South Austin, though if there was any connection I never found it.

Alas, today is the day that owner Yahoo! is scheduled to put AltaVista to permanent digital sleep. It’s been little more than “a front end for Yahoo! Search,” according to the Bandwidth Wastage Station, “and Marissa Mayer needs to cut costs.” Adios, amigo.

Via Dustbury.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Texana

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Rule 5: Fahriye Evcen

Posted on June 10, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Fahriye Evcen

Turkish television actress Fahriye Evcen doesn’t look like the sort of covered woman PM Erdogen has in mind for his country’s fundy Muslim future. She was born in Germany of immigrant Turkish parents. But her appearance nevertheless represents the young, freedom-seeking Ankara Istanbul protesters now trying to overthrow Erdogen. I suspect Evcen would join me in wishing them good fortune and god speed.

Via Dustbury.

UPDATE: Now it gets bloody. Erdogen’s police forces move in. Crunch time.

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Racing clouds preceded twister

Posted on May 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Racing clouds preceded twister

Was out in the back forty about noon Monday, checking to see if any new deer had jumped the privacy fence to get at the rancho’s roses. Had one Sunday, and an earlier one a week ago. Still trying to figure where they’re getting over.

Saw no deer but was struck by the clouds overhead. Coming out of the northwest and the southeast. They were just racing north. Wind was picking up, of course. Had to be a low out there somewhere, in the direction of Round Rock, probably. Hoped it would spawn a thunderstorm and bring us some rain.

Had no idea then that the low was as far north as Oklahoma or that about 3 p.m. CDT it would spawn a killer tornado that would wipe out two elementary schools south of Oklahoma City. G-d bless the dead and the injured and the devastated untouched, so to speak. Glad to see that CGHill at Dustbury, at the Bandwidth Wastage Station, survived this “last rite of spring” as he blogged it.

Heard some fool Democrat blaming global warming/climate change. The usual dreck. This is Tornado Alley, nitwit, beginning down here around Austin and stretching as far north as South Dakota. We get these bastards every year about this time. Wouldn’t have wished it on Oklahoma, especially not those dead kids and their devastated parents. But I’m sure thankful it didn’t spin up anywhere near us.

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Posted in Antique Roses, Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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