I got really cornered into doing some surgery on a chicken foot. Okay, I’m a sissy in this particular area and put it off longer than I would have had I been raised killing and cutting up things for meat rather than buying it in nifty packages from the meat market.
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Archive for the ‘culture’ Category
homegrown surgery
Sunday, September 5th, 2010The farmer and the financial analyst
Monday, May 17th, 2010The farmer learns to read nature from nature herself. Similarly, his knowledge of economics, society, politics and current events comes from self-directed study that led him to Mises .org, Lew Rockwell .com, The Daily Reckoning .com, The Mental Militia .com, Rational Review Digest .com and an extensive library of economics, history, politics and sociology books.
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Obama’s good side
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Obama may well be the best thing that has happened to this country in 100 years. Lemme explain. But first, the latest outrage from Washington DC.
You just spent $179,000,000 in foreign aid to Haiti, but are the only country involved who is hiding their flag. This is a very important fact – and you probably know by now that I’m not your regular fan-in-the-stands flag waver.
uncommon cold response
Saturday, April 10th, 2010I come from such a normal mother. How did this happen to me? How did I get so far out of whack?
I catch a cold. It gets bad enough that I miss work. I frustrate Mom because I don’t go to an AMA- and state-licensed physician.
life is not a spectator sport
Monday, February 8th, 2010Another day – known in some circles as “Superbowl Sunday”.
We went to the annual gun show for the local club. Renewed our membership, watched the mandatory 1-hour show to earn a key to the outdoor range, drooled all down the front of my sweater…
ongoing TSA saga
Friday, January 8th, 2010Just so you don’t think I or TSA have taken a day off:
The Duluth International Airport was evacuated today after a piece of unattended baggage was found in the terminal area.
The evacuation impacted the entire airport, and lasted for approximately two hours.
Roads around the airport were blocked off as the Duluth Airguard was called in to investigate.
According to Brian Grefe, director of Operations at the Airport, all passengers are being allowed to re-enter the terminal as of 1:45 p.m. this afternoon.
Only one comment:
further flights of fright
Thursday, January 7th, 2010CNN: Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became “uncooperative,” an airline official said Wednesday.
As this drama at 30,000 feet unfolds, keep in mind that the F-15 Strike Eagles cost $30,000,000 each and $40,000 per hour to operate.
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TSA panic attack
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Reuters (01/05/10): Authorities shut down a California airport on Tuesday after a suspicious amber liquid in a passenger’s bag tested positive for explosives. U.S. Transportation and Security administration screeners turned up five Gatorade bottles full of what they called a ‘suspicious-looking liquid.’ Swabs of the bag and bottles tested positive for the explosives TNT and TATP. When the bottles were opened, two of the screeners smelled a strong chemical odor, complained of nausea and were rushed to a local hospital, where they treated and released, Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Michael Whorf said.
Kern County Sheriffs deputies, fire crews, FBI agents and members of a ‘joint terrorism task force’ responded to the scene and spent the day questioning Ramirez before further tests showed that the liquid was honey.”
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provisioning three teens
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009I work with three smart, active, ambitious and industrious young adults. I like them a lot. I see a lot of me at their age. I understand many of the influences that got them where they are. I sometimes ponder where I may have gone if someone had been able to reach me with some key bits of information. How many stupid moves could I have avoided? I wonder if anyone from the older generation could have reached me at all. That they didn’t could mean nobody tried or that I wasn’t reachable. I’ll never know.
Yesterday I took a chance and loaned these three some books out of my personal library. In their cases, I can at lest know that one person tried.
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farewell good friend
Friday, November 13th, 2009We said goodbye to an old friend today.
We remembered many, many, many wonderful moments, behaviors and his absolute devotion.
