Nightly Ramble for 2/17/11

First, some great news to pass along. I’ve been assigned a new (to me) truck… and boy it’s a beauty. I had the chance to drive it for a day last summer and fell in love.  Never figured I’d get

This is a truck I caught outside Carlisle, PA. This picture doesn’t really do the truck justice, but you get the idea.

The pictures above are all from one day in Southern NY around the Binghamton, NY area last week.

Florence, NJ– Eric is a hurting unit, today. I fell off the truck day before yesterday, while doing a roadside repair, and I’m felling all of it, the day after. Other than that, I’m actually doing fairly well, I think. 

Rome, NY– As this is posted, I’m in the old Griffith Air Force base.  They’re using a whole bunch of the old base being used for industry, these days. One of the industries is a Family Dollar distribution center, to

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• GOP Disappointed In Schwarzenegger? Sure and there’s a damned good reason

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• THE ULTIMATE INSULT? Apparently those who don’t like the tea party

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• AS REGARDS DAVE WIEGEL...Does anyone not understand that the reason that the Post hired him in the first place

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

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• RESPONSIBILITY AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOVERNMENT REMOVES IT: So much for the utopia that then candidate Obama promised us, once he

Single issue Ramble today. I want to speak briefly about Memorial day which is today.

It’s always been a special day for me, because honoring our vets has always held special meaning for me; it’s a lesson my parents instilled

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• DON”T FORGET THE OTHER MILLIONS, ANN:

  Ann Althouse, writing at Instapundit, says:
  

  “STILL I AM A MARXIST,” says the Dalai Lama,

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• A LIE BY ANY OTHER NAME I notice Ed Driscoll who is filling in for Glenn Reynolds  has an extended post up

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• THERE IS A COST To be paid for the disorganized and totally ineffectual way the White House has been dealing with Iran.
• IF

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It’s a somewhat shorter version this evening because I am out on the road.

• MISS, USA: Why is it that beauty pageants

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• YEP, IT’S OBAMA’S KATRINA, ALL RIGHT: Not that there was EVER any doubt at all. We now have a month between now