Posted in Editorial, Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2008
My husband’s grandfather, Pop, used to shoot a wild turkey every year for Thanksgiving, until he got too old to hunt.
The difference between putting a golden, succulent Butterball on the table, and putting a wild turkey on the table, is the difference between driving to the grocery store, or lying in wait, patient [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2008
I have shown you all kinds of flag videos on The Daily Flag, but Red Flag is not the usual.
Please fasten your seat belt, and block out 48:29 minutes from your day.
Hat Tip to Exile in Portales, via Steeljaw Scribe.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008
Ok. Not really playing hooky, nor larking about.
I need to rest my eyes, because I have stared at the computer screen for too long.
So I’m going to lie in bed with a ice pack over my eyes, and listen to jazz on the radio.
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Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008
I’ve been prowling around in the National Archives again, looking for interesting photographs that show the Stars and Stripes, and state flags, too. Found this one-of-a-kind photo taken in 1945.
How many of these U.S. Army Generals do you recognize? How many can you name?
The men are identified after the break below the photo.
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Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2008
This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in the Sublunary world.
I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to [...]
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