And now for something completely different...

...who doesn't want to dress like they are going on a safari, or, could be going on one any minute?


Silver Ridge™ II Short Sleeve Shirt
From cutthroat-packed rivers in Big Sky country to the saffron-scented markets of old Delhi, the Silver Ridge II Short Sleeve is ingeniously designed to keep you cool, calm, and comfortable.*
Advanced evaporation technology makes this shirt a quick-drying classic. Unlike other crinkly and abrasive members of the button-up family, this piece features a soft, quiet fabric that’s a luxury to wear. During the intense heat of high summer, integrated venting keeps the cool air flowing. Authentic fit.

FEATURES:

•Fabric: 100% nylon basketweave
•Omni-Shade UPF 50 sun protection
•Omni-Dry® advanced evaporation
•Vented
•Multi-functional storage pockets
•Imported
•Other guys will wonder if you've just come back from a Safari
(*Alligator riding gear not included)

Silver Ridge™ II Long Sleeve Shirt
Refined yet rugged and always up for a journey, this wonderfully wearable button-up is the ideal accompaniment to adventure. Unlike other crinkly and abrasive members of the button-up family, the Silver Ridge features a soft, quiet fabric that’s a luxury to wear.

I hate to say it...

THIS STORY...

is not about the FBI, its about federal government employees. The fact that this guy was on the wrong end of a stand-off with police, TWICE! Normally, people wouldn't necessarily be fired from their job for that, especially if they were never charged with a crime. But this guy was a law enforcement officer, he should have been fired 18 years ago. Read the article, the former head of the Dallas FBI says that Washington would not let him fire the guy.

Think about it, if the FBI can't fire an agent for threatening the lives of others, do you think they are firing ANYBODY in the federal government?

One time, I...

Somers Point, New Jersey..

Joey and John - final entry

Joey and John - first entry

Read some in between. Short stories about the places he went, people he met, and tidbits about hiking and surviving.

American Idol...

...this is what you get, when candidates for the President of the United States go on late night talk shows, SNL, and can say anything they want in a debate without being questioned by the moderator...

Why Obama Won't Embrace the Declaration of Independence BY Jeffrey H. Anderson

"... In a 29-page overview of the respect (or lack thereof) for rights shown in America and throughout American history, the administration couldn’t find space for a single meaningful reference to the document that lays out and informs our fundamental conceptions of rights more than any other: the Declaration of Independence. This omission offers further compelling evidence to support an increasingly obvious truth: President Obama doesn’t take seriously the ideals of the American revolutionary period. Or, to state it more exactly, he takes very seriously the project of overcoming or supplanting those ideals...

...It offers self-aggrandizing statements — “Thirty years ago, the idea of having an African-American president would not have seemed possible; today it is our reality” (Did the thought of a black President really seem impossible in 1980?) — false and peculiar statements — “Our recent health care reform bill also lowers costs and offers greater choices for women, and ends insurance company discrimination against them” — and utterly confused statements: “The recession in the United States was fueled largely by a housing crisis, which coincided with some discriminatory lending practices.”

Really, the housing crisis 'coincided' with discriminatory lending practices? More realistically: The Congress of the United States bullied banks into lending money to people who could not afford to pay it back. This was HUGE in changing the face of mortgage lending in America. It coincided with discriminatory lending practices, which were ALREADY illegal in America, and were never in numbers great enough to "fuel" a recession in the United States. The word COINCIDED was chosen specifically. Don't we all know now that the "fix" to discriminatory lending practices was what led to "housing crisis"? It doesn't matter. You tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth...

...just ask BP.

Mexican Immigration Policy...

Survivor Details Massacre of 72 Migrants by Drug Cartel in Mexico

"...A wounded migrant stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in Mexico's bloody drug war: a room strewn with the bodies of 72 fellow travelers, some piled on top of each other, just 100 miles from their goal, the U.S. border.

The 58 men and 14 women were killed, the migrant told investigators Wednesday, by the Zetas cartel, a group of former Mexican army special forces known to extort migrants who pass through its territory...

...Many residents in the state tell of loved ones or friends who have disappeared traveling from one town to the next. Many of these kidnappings are never reported for fear that police are in league with the criminals...

...The migrant told authorities his captors identified themselves as Zetas, and that the migrants were from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras..."

Lets remember this when the 'logical' arguments for the legalization of marijuana come around.

I think Mexican "officials" can stop wasting their time commenting on Arizona's laws, and start focusing on saving their country from destruction. Can any "official" be trusted in this country?

Also in the last few weeks...

Body of kidnapped mayor dumped in northern Mexico

Police Arrested in Slaying of Mexico Mayor

4 Headless Bodies Hung From Bridge in Mexico

Bloggerific...

...I'm so bloggin bloggie that I blog while on lunch break. Of course, I am still caught in my Nicholas Fehn bloggers block, which inhibits my ability to type while in shock about the audacity of the news...

...anywho, back to one of my favorite authors, THOMAS SOWELL:

Medical Care Facts and Fables
Obamacare threatens the unparalleled success of US medicine.

"...We hear a lot about how wonderful it is that the Canadians or the British or the Swedes get free medical treatment because the government runs the system. But we don’t hear much about the quality of that medical care.

We don’t hear about more than 4,000 expectant mothers who gave birth inside a hospital, but not in the maternity ward, in Britain in just one year. They had their babies in hallways, bathrooms, and even elevators.

British newspapers have for years carried stories about the neglect of patients under the National Health Service. When nurses don’t get around to taking a pregnant woman to the maternity ward in time, the baby doesn’t wait.

But the American media don’t tell you about such things when they are gushing over the wonders of “universal health care” that will “bring down the cost of medical care.”

...if you leave out people who are victims of homicide or who die in automobile accidents, Americans live longer than people in any other Western country.

Doctors do not prevent homicides or car crashes. In the things that doctors can affect, such as the survival rates of cancer patients, the United States leads the world.

...Americans get the latest pharmaceutical drugs, sometimes years before those drugs are available to people in Britain or in other countries where the government runs the medical system. Why? Because the latest drugs cost more and it is cheaper to let people die.

The media have often said that we have higher infant mortality rates than other countries with government medical-care systems. But we count every baby that dies and other countries do not. If the media don’t tell you that, so much the better for Obamacare."

Israelis don't need lectures from American leaders by George Will

"...JERUSALEM — In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S. population, that would be 42,000, approaching the toll of America's eight years in Vietnam. During the onslaught, which began 10 Septembers ago, Israeli parents sending two children to a school would put them on separate buses to decrease the chance that neither would return for dinner. Surely most Americans can imagine, even if their tone-deaf leaders cannot, how grating it is when those leaders lecture Israel on the need to take "risks for peace."...

...In May, a flotilla launched from Turkey approached Gaza in order to provoke a confrontation with Israel, which, like Egypt, administers a blockade to prevent arms from reaching Hamas. The flotilla's pretense was humanitarian relief for Gaza — where the infant mortality rate is lower and life expectancy is higher than in Turkey...

...The creation of Israel did not involve the destruction of a Palestinian state, there having been no such state since the Romans arrived. And if the Jewish percentage of the world's population were today what it was when the Romans ruled Palestine, there would be 200 million Jews. After a uniquely hazardous passage through two millennia without a homeland, there are 13 million Jews...."