Recent content by 05C40

From my days as a Boy Scout, from memory: The grand old Duke of York, he had 10,000 men. He marched the up the hill again, and marched them down again. And when you're up, you're up, and when you're down, you're down. But when you're only half-way up, you're neither up nor down. When the word...

The statute from the shop of W. O. Wolfe that inspired the title for "Look Homeward Angel", located in Hendersonville cemetery.

You may be right, but I'm going to withhold judgment until I see how freaky the stuff Vald has on St. Donald really is. It will not be St. Donald with underage girls. It might be St. Donald with an oversized Cossack.

Agree with all you say, with one exception. The word "flattery." Unless "flattery" is now the hip new phrase the young folks are using to describe what we old folks called photographic blackmail. How can anyone doubt that Vlad "the Ras" Putin has some incredibly embarassing photos of St...

oh! wow! Who could have ever seen that coming? I'm pretty sure that St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago's tough negotiating with Vlad "the Ras" Putin complelely took off the table the President of Ukraine having to bend over and scream, "Please Sir! May I have another?" like Kevin Bacon did in "Animal...

What's the problem? It's not like they're talking about digging an undersea tunnel in an earthquake prone area. When was the last time there was a big earthquake in that area? I mean a big one, not some little trembler that feels like semi driving past your house. Sure, there was the little...

Link: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/gop-congressman-blames-swastika-flag-in-his-office-on-a-ruse-00612783 From Link: "In February, similar flags were delivered via the United States Postal Service “to multiple congressional offices,” a GOP Hill staffer, not from Taylor’s office...

And the very moment the President has a "(D)" after his or her name, the moderating effect of Blue Slips will once again be heralded by the GOP. That is, IF there is another President with a "(D)" after his or her name.

An excuse from the story, "which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye." Rep. Dave Taylor needs to have his eyesight immediately checked to determine whether he suffers from macular degeneration or scotoma, both of which compromise the center of...

How about this? Instead of a "friendship tunnel" Russia opens its borders and let as many of its citizens leave the Motherland as want to and as many of the world's citizens come to the "Worker's Paradise" that is present day Russia. Surely this would create a much-needed infusion of highly...

And 435 days later, Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash attempting to deliver relief supplies to the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.

Have we as a country been degraded to the point where Dr. Oz is the voice of reason, sanity, and restraint?

I agree. But there was some sort of talk about BMI in there. If the actual correlation is better represented by BMI rather than age, then I would be inclined to believe it. If the average BMI of teenage boys had dramatically increased, then it would not surprise me if their testosterone...

I disagree with the narrowness implicit in your assertion. My recollection of Shirer's writing was that this statement was not made by Germans discussing Brownshirt violence towards Jews, but by non-Jewish German nationals attempting to minimize the outrages committed by Nazis in general...