Tam has the details.

Me: Mass hallucination is my guess. All those folks wearing rose colored glasses (it is LiberlLand, after all) must have caused some kind of refraction in the reflection of the sun from those self same glasses.

Or something.

I like Tam’s explanations better, but who knows???

ETA: Via Insty we get this, a much more rational explanation. Sadly, the military seems clueless about this idea. One would think that they could have pulled radar records and matched this flight fairly quickly.

Then again, perhaps they want to keep everyone guessing.

the Marine Corps came into existence.

Thank a Marine today, and say “Happy Birthday”.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank into the cold depths.

Sadly, few of us would remember were it not for the song by Gordon Lightfoot.

Take the time to read the pages and learn the story.

Remember that people still ply the lakes daily.

And the water and wind will try very hard to kill you on occasion.

Evidence of the racism of the Tea Party is to be found HERE.

I, for one, feel badly about this.

How many did the DNC promote…support, or finance?

Thought so.

Then why is lingerie such a big seller in the world?

Go HERE.

Shows how well thought out the whole administration agenda is.

Had a range session. My friend returned a pistol he had tuned for me, and I had to try out my new Llama .380.

LOVE the newly tuned Ruger. A trigger like a breaking glass rod, and absolutely ZERO takeup. (be careful though!)

The Llama I bought last week? Gonna need some work. Shoots well, but the ejection needs a bit (likely a LOT) of tuning and the trigger neeeds some polishing (along with the rest of the firearm). The thing is a little junior sized 1911, so I will have no issues working on it.


Midwest Chick shot 200+ rounds of assorted ammo through her new Sig P238. Now that we have the sights pointing to point of impact, it’s a sweet shooting pistol. Finicky though. I am gonna have to be real careful with sizing on reloads. Likes some ammo, hates others. Must be a really tight chamber.

All in all, it was nice to see the pile of brass at the end of the day…..

Recoil therapy is a Good Thing some weekends. This was one of those weekends.

Start at about 25%.

Me? I think they should get a raise only after unemployment reaches less than 5%. Until then, reduce by 25% then another 10% each year until things turn around. 

The forecast was for flurries. Light flurries overnight.

We got ’em. Wow, did we get ’em

2.5 inches of flurries.

So much for yardwork today.

If we cannot predict weather in the short term any better than this, how can we expect that the predictions for climate in the near long-term will be any better?