Farm kid in the Marine Corps

There's a real kernel of truth in this.

Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once.. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'9' and 170 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your son,

John

Hat tip to Mike L

Poker grumbles...

So here I was in this tournament and close to being in the money... I catch an AK off suit on the button with three others... I push in $4000 and the BB and LB fold. This guy with about $7000 calls. An A flops... I push in $4000 and the guy calls and shows an A3.... yes dear hearts a 3 came on the river... So I'm short stacked and dead in about 10 more hands...'

grumble grumble grumble...

More good news for Obama - Russian Missiles

December 29, 2008: Russia has activated another two battalions (three missiles each) of Topol-M ICBMs. These are the road-mobile versions, that avoid destruction in a first strike, by constantly moving around on the roads 200-300kilometers northeast of Moscow. The two new battalions belong to the 54th Strategic Missile Division.

Remember when then VP candidate Biden told us Hussien, well okay, he said Obama, would face a crisis within six months? You know, I always have a tendancy to believe Biden because he loves to show off. Tell him something of great importance and he just can't keep quite.

What really bothers me is that Biden also said we wouldn't like "their" solution.

Link

Congressional Airliners

Aka Con Air

Pelosi's tax payer paid for private jet.

Hillary as a ventriloquist

Look closely.... You can't see her lips move.

Global warming facts.

With the appointment of Hussein's science advisor, and Hussein's terribly wrong declaration of man made global warming being of the utmost importance I thought you might enjoy these NPR interviews with Michael Crichriton.

If you watch them it will be helpful to do so in order. It will also be helpful to remember they are about 4 years old and do not reflect what Crichton thought about the decrease in temperatures and other changes.

I think you will find his conclusion interesting, in that even though he believes, he doesn't think we should be going gaga over it and that it would be, if it existed at all, a perfectly manageable situation and not worth the $568,000,000,000... that's $568 Trillion dollars.... that was the estimate to reduce the temperature by a half degree C... Remember that the new goal is to reduce it by 1 degree C and the cost would run into the Peta dollars.... that is 15 zeros.

Crichton Pt 1

Crichton Pt 2

Crichton Pt 3

Who is Barack Hussein Obama?

All the pundits keep asking this question. Why, I don't know, unless I am truly smarter than the average national talking head. Something that, even if true, really gives me little to brag about. But I digress.

The answer is.

Barack Hussein Obama is a second rate product of the Democratic Chicago Machine that has parlayed his race into becoming President of the United States.

His supporters have the stench of fanaticism around them and while he and they try and cloak him in the mantle of FDR and Kennedy, his closest actual role model is Truman, who was also a Democratic Machine Politician, although from Kansas City rather than Chicago.

In the end Truman's patriotism, basic honesty and common sense turned him into one the 10 best Presidents in history. Unfortunately Husssein has yet to demonstrate any of these traits.

And your next question is?