Copied from the blog of BOREPATCH:

Col. McCrae's poem In Flanders Field:

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Veteran's Day.  It's not just a day that the garbage isn't picked up, or the mail not delivered.

Wo

Vacation

WoFat does indeed ride again.  Home from a week long vacation at Dauphin Island, Alabama.  You can't get much further south without landing in Cuba.

The government put a long sand berm along the beach, said berm being about 7 feet high.  Annoying.  They thought oil was going to overtake the beach and the island.  Didn't happen.  The bad publicity did in fact almost destroy island businesses, but the oil thing did little damage.

If you need a vacation and don't really want to hock the house and the car, try Dauphin Island.  A long (for America) history of conflict and interest.  Friendly people and lots of seafood.  Which I can't eat.  Allergic you know.  To the seafood.

Surprise, Surprise!

Results from last weekend’s parliamentary election in Afghanistan increasingly appear to be marred byfraud, with a third of the provinces affected -- an outcome that calls into question the U.S. and Afghaneffort to build a legitimategovernment, The New York Times reported Saturday.


Text and Photo from FOX News online.


Does NO ONE read history?  Has anyone in the government, or the Useless UN, EVER studied ANYTHING about Afghanistan?  At the very least, it might be said that the Afghanis have a long history of switching sides - from minute to minute.

Lohan the looser

I wonder when Lindsey the Looser is going to catch on to the fact that, in Hollywood, pretty little girls like her come twenty to the pack, like cigarettes.  But cigs, even if they cost more these days, are - like her - unrespected and without redeeming features.  What a shame.

Picture from the DRUDGE REPORT.

Being perpetually connected through social media can increase stress, weaken personal relationships, and even cause sleep loss, according to a U.S. university.

After imposing a week-long blackout in the use of Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging and other media, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in central Pennsylvania found that the pervasive technology had hidden pitfalls.
Above text and photo from Fox News online.


When I was in school nobody smoked dope or had a computer.  All we had to amuse ourselves was drinking and fooling around with the opposite sex.  That's why so many of my friends became a "young papa."  Nothing to do but screw.  Think how different the world would be if we'd had computers and cell phones with which to piss away our time.

New Novel

MURDER FOR THE HELL OF IT will soon be for sale on Amazon.com.
Another novel about murder in New Orleans.  In this book the author brings in Vietnamese criminal activity, his very favorite type of crime to investigate.  Alas, those days are over and now he can only write about it and not hit the streets himself.

ILLEGAL!

"It is ... not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted. We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee.

Above text from FOX News online

The Federal Judge seems to be coming out against the American people in blocking any actions against illegal immigrants.  What part of illegal do they not understand?  If ICE and its fellow agencies can't stop illegals it's against Federal Law for state or local cops to do it? Brilliant, simply brilliant.