You Don't Mess With The Old Farts...

... like this guy. From FoxNews:

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LAKE WORTH, Fla. — Authorities say a 91-year-old man in South Florida jumped out out of bed naked and held an intruder breaking into his house at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Robert E. Thompson was awoken Saturday morning after a burglar climbed his backyard fence and was met by his charging dog, Rettt, a Rottweiler and Doberman Pinscher mix. Thompson heard the commotion, grabbed his .38-caliber revolver and phoned police without ever getting dressed.

Deputies say Thompson fired a warning shot at 26-year-old Jose Pasqual after the intruder started to come toward him. Pasqual was booked in the Palm Beach County Jail and did not immediately have an attorney.

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I can just hear the dialog:

OF: "Hold it right there!"

JP: "Esay, Mon! Call off you MF dog!"

OF: "Esay your behind! Get your moldy butt down on the ground, or I'll let Rett chew on you after I shoot your buttocks!"

JP: "OK, Mon, OK! I be down on the groun'!"

OF: "Good! I'm old, and cranky, and tired, and I am the one with the gun and a dog with a bad attitude."

JP: "Mon, dat dog, he look MEAN!"

OF: "Yah. But he mind ME, not you. And he's hungry, so don't you wiggle, don't you move... or I'll shoot YOU and let HIM have a little snack..."

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Heh...

Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, USMC, RIP

On 14 August 2009, LCPL Bernard, USMC, died in action in Afghanistan.

An AP photographer got a picture of him shortly after he was hit, and the AP decided to publish it.

It shows LCPL Bernard surrounded by his comrades-in-arms, doing their very best to keep him alive. Ultimately, they failed, and LCPL Bernard expired during surgery.

The AP has been taking some flak from the family and the Dept. of Defense.

I have viewed the photo (HERE), and I see Marines, doing what Marines are expected to do: Fight, and never leave a comrade behind.

I am also minded of the third verse of the Marins' Hymn:

"If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines."

I was a squid, once upon a time (That's US Navy, to you who don't know), and I always slept better knowing that the Jarheads were on watch.

My Father-in-Law is one of the last of the China Marines.

I expect that when I make it "up there", I'll be greeted by my TSgt FIL, and he'll have LCPL Bernard with him. And after they're off duty, I'll be allowed to fill their glasses, and tell them some great whoppin' lies about the USS Tuscorora, the legendary ship with seven straw decks, an all Marine crew, and a glass bottom....

Just Bein' What I Am...

Van Jones, the White House's "Green Jobs Czar" has declared, live and on video, that Republicans in the Congress that oppose the President's energy initiative are "assholes". See the article HERE.

Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes." Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube. He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration. "Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term." The questioner responded, "I was afraid that that was the answer." But Jones said that, even though Obama is "not an asshole," others have to step up the fight. "Now, I will say this. I can be an asshole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity," he said.

I must say, Mr. Jones, that you can indeed be an asshole. You're also a jerk, and a turd, and a slimy son-of-a-bitch.

Furthermore, sir, you are so clueless that if you dressed in a clue skin, doused yourself in clue musk, and did the clue dance in the middle of a field of horny
clues at the height of clue mating season, you still would not have a clue.

In addition to which, you have no idea of the proper use of vituperation, malignity, or of the fine art of aspersion.

You are a non-entity.

And yes, I do indeed oppose "Cap and Trade", and I have so informed my Congressman and both of my Senators. Which fact makes me an asshole as well, plus I'm a mean vindictive son-of-a-bitch.

If it should ever come to pass that you run for state-wide office in my state, I shall take the greatest of pleasure in voting against you. I shall savor the experience, and murmer to myself in round and dulcet tones, "Take THAT, asshole!"