When you flew by the seat of your pants... 

When Men Were Iron  

The Purple Finger Of Courage

They dipped their index finger of their right hand in indeleble ink to prevent voter fraud but despite that indeleble mark perhaps as high as 72% of Iraq's citizenry hit the polls to vote for the first time in their lives for democracy and a life without the sorts of terror that has been a part of their history. Chalk up one morevictory for democracy. Our media can say what it wants or nambie pambie liberals can whine all they want but take note people Freedom rings in still another part of the world. A part that has been dark and forbidden for all of time. Will it spread? Damn skippy it will. Perhaps in our lifetime we will see a fragile sort of peace in the middle east, But trust me people, Germany,The Soviet Union, Viet Nam , and countless other peoples have seen and embraced democracy and this is just the beginning. Let Freedom Ring !!!!!

Lets All Get Out And Vote

It fills me with wonder as to the outcomes of tomorrows elections in Iraq. I wonder just what the ratio between brave troops who are fighting for a democratic type of government in Iraq and actual votes cast will be. I pray that the Iraq's don't let themselves down and get out and vote tomorrow. In this country we all know that the democratic process works, although very few of our citizens avail themselves of the process (but hold dear the right to bitch about our government).Who knows, maybe soon we will have complaints of electioneering on the CBS news. Now that is a story I wanna hear them try to report without Mr. Blater errrr Slather ahhhhh Rather

Thirty One Marines

It is with great sadness that I heard of the loss of thirty one Marines in the crash of a CF 53 transport helecopter. Bad things happen to good people sometimes. This was one of those times. I will pray for their familys and hope that our objectives in Iraq are met soon so that all these familys can be re-united,but regardless of that we must stay the course and keep on keeping on. This process will work in time and it will get easier to accomplish on a daily basis. It just can't happen too soon as far as I am concerned.

A Legend Passes..........

It must be noted with great sadness the passing of Johnny Carson. He was a consumate professional who was missed intensly the day he retired and missed even more now that he has moved into the great beyond. I think (if the truth be known) that perhaps Johnny was the most effective form of birth control in common use here in America. His show was always entertaining, usually hystericaly funny and almost always over way too soon. He helped most of America`s comedians get started and anyone who makes us laugh or is responsible for finding folks to make us laugh is ok in my book. Mr. Carson thanks for the yuks, thanks for the memeories and I pray that somewhere, somehow some body is cracking you up even as I write this little note.

Yoi And Double Yoi

It was with a great deal of disapointment that I sat down to my steaming hot meal of crow yesterday,I went to a friends house to view the game and was asked to leave sumarily when the steelers increased their negative lead by more than 20 points. I can understand my friends chagrine but and this is a big ol but I never once heard this er ahh gentleman once complain or show the slightest bit of emotion as our losses in Iraq cimb steadily upward to nearly 1,400 now. I gotta wonder if people who have that little regard for our troops and allow a simple freakin football team to ruin a otherwise acceptable evening deserve to even own a TV or perhaps should the be out doin a little close order drill in that wonderous South Carolina sun or maybe trying to keep the sand out of your brothers wounds while you pray that a medic/corpsman shows up soon. Damn peeps its just a freakin game and it has only that worth in the scope of things.........keep saying it .....its just a game.....its just a game its..........just.........a.......game........

HOW BOUT DEM STEELERS !!!!!!!!!!!

I never, and I mean never, thought that I would hear my self utter these somehow incomprehensible words" I hope my team utterly humiliates and defeats the patriots tomorrow " But here we are one game away from playin in Jacksonville. I understand their stadium is bigger,the weather is better,and all of the other merriade reasons but why in the world isn`t the super bowl played at the home stadium of last years winners regardless of weather or not they are featured in this years big game. I ask myself why shouldn`t that community recieve the boost of having the game played there.I am sure any city could use the added revenue. Perhaps even use it to pay for the stadium that the general public voted against and was told well we are just gonna build it anyway so just get used to plan "B". Oh well don`t wanna get political about it just wanna hope my team comes out on top and pisses off most of the network anouncers.........GO STEELERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To some it is just a inconvienance

To some it is just a inconvienance

I'm sitting here enjoying the scenery as it turns brilliant white and seeing the trees become crystal scultptures like in some far away make believe world. There is so much beauty placed before our eyes.......I am so glad I finally learned to stop and actually look and appreciate these little gifts. A glimpse of something grander.Perhaps this is how a child always sees things........its been so long I can't hardly remember how things looked to me. I am sure at some point in time everything was new and shiny and I honestly wish I knew what dimmed my perspective or even if it were just one thing that managed to do it. It is so pristeen now it almost hurts to look at it. A cardinal just landed on the railing of my deck. His brilliant red plumage ablaze against the stark white of the ice and snow. I hope I can always rememeber these little glimpses of grandure that I have been allowed to see. Thank You for these eyes

A American Tribute

As I watched the inaugeration ceremonies yesterday much to my suprise ABC highlighted a brief story about a young army Leutenant who lost his left leg in a attack in Iraq. He was in the hospital and was offered a ticket to the ceremonies and immediately accepted it because he felt it was a privelege for him to actually see the democratic process work, for him to witness we the people turning power over to those who would govern us was in his opinion why he went to Iraq so that he could work towards helping the Iraq's enjoy the kind of freedom we enjoy here. May God bless you Leutenant and may you have a life full of joy and peace. I can`t begin to thank you enough for your sacrifice. You Sir are a credit to the American way of life.

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So lets all go to the ball or at least one reason to even invite Cinderella

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Well its inaugaration day and of course those detracters say we shouldn`t have this ceremony because we have lost so many lives fighting in Iraq. My feelings on this is this is all the more reason why we should have perhaps the most incredible celebration ever. Our brave men and women who have paid the ultimate price deserve to have proof of their way of life continuing,a afirmation that the reason they gave that sacrifice lives on and still thrives. Sure we get knocked down, after all we are only human. But we get back up again,and move on. We as a people strive to do what is right. We sent millions of dollars for aid for tsunami victems (to say nothing of the dollars we as Americans sent privately) So because we are at war we shouldn`t of done that? I can`t believe that I would ever hear a liberal say that so just why should we not celebrate the continuance of our democratic way of life. Come on folks lets not put a cloud of your self imposed guilt over the inaugeral ceremony. Instead lets welcome this as a chance to see our great nation move on towards recovery from 9/11 and all the other attacks on our great nation.

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ArathornsAlleyI soooooooooo wish I were able to figure out how to post a picture on my blog ...perhaps someday even the least of tech thingies won`t be a puzzelment to me.