My Own Thoughts

A Canadian suggests Hilary and Bill Clinton as a dual ticket. H for Pres, B for VP. AAAHHHH! Run away!

Our house has three trashcans and ten garbage bags full of stuff out at the curb. We probably have as much again in the backyard, but after an hour I need another shower and have cuts on my legs and arms. Our doggie fence lost part of one piece. The yard is better but not [...]

Apparently not, despite those sweetly worded radio commercials. “Oh Allah, liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque from the defilement of the occupying and brutal Zionists….Oh Allah, punish the occupying Zionists and their supporters from among the corrupt infidels.” According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis preached that in a sermon in Mecca [...]

Gun seizures aren’t just in New Orleans. “Virginia Commonwealth University Police have become proactive and aggressive in seizing weapons.” “We’ve really targeted the guns,” VCU Police Sgt. Chris Preuss says. And on nights when they scour city streets for them, he says, police pick up “generally one to two every night.” Most of the guns [...]

I didn’t know. Sunday was Gold Star Mothers’ Day. Here’s an article from Salt Lake City. I was referred to the day by Absinthe and Cookies. If you are a Gold Star mother, I am so sorry and so grateful for your sacrifice. God bless you.

I have seen several posts, and heard several callers to radio talk shows, say that people shouldn’t have left or they wish they hadn’t left. I don’t get that. We left and we spent 21 hours making a 9 hour drive. I don’t regret that. If a Cat 5, which it was, had hit Houston [...]

Obviously you need your guns, your important papers, your family, and any small heirlooms you can get in your car. You need cash. Since the NY blackout we have kept about $40 in emergency $1 bills in a box. We took that with us. As well as the $100 we got at the bank on [...]

Our usual 9 hour trip only took 11 on the trip home today. We did have to go around Lufkin and Livingston, which had dead stop traffic, but overall we sailed down. We got gas in Oklahoma, which was a good thing, because all the gas from the border to Porter was either gone or [...]

The government shut down our classes on Thursday and Friday, so we had no classes. Which means I didn’t have to teach. Then the government asked that our area not come home till Tuesday. School reopens Wednesday. I have class on Thursday. I don’t really want to stay in Arkansas that long. I’m usually here [...]

Doc Russia’s wife (?) went in to work at the hospital. Not good things happened all the way around. And then bad things happened. Having been hurt a time or two dozen, I don’t have the bow down and worship respect for doctors that Doc Russia may be saying used to be around. But I [...]

And one thing I am concerned about is that, having gone through that gridlock, people won’t evacuate next time. I hope that a Category-5 will encourage them to leave, but my parents and my sister’s family didn’t leave this time- with it expected to hit us directly. So I guess folks who will leave, will [...]

We aren’t really expecting to get smashed by the hurricane. Strong winds could knock our trees over and we have lots of trees in our subdivision. Strong rain could cause our subdivision to flood, especially if the rain up north of us is fierce, because it drains to us. And, of course, if the hurricane [...]

Our prayers are with you and all of Texas as you brace for Rita. Please be safe and take what ever precautions are necessary. This from a Marine in Iraq. I sure did appreciate him taking time out. His wife was hit with Ophelia recently. I guess hurricanes are on his mind.

R’s best friend called this morning and said the roads are all clear. Another friend called and said the roads were still full all day yesterday and early this morning. At 3 pm my dad said the authorities have said not to leave now. There’s no gas and there’s no one to help if you [...]

As we were going on 254 to 69 we stopped. I had the dog in my lap and the window open and a wasp blew in on my lap. So I smothered it in the pillow and we pulled over on to the side of the road. I had a boy hop out, clip the [...]

21 hours after leaving our home, maybe a few minutes more, we had succeeded in reaching our destination- 9 hours from our house. At least, it is normally nine hours from home. We have always known there might be a danger of evacuation and every time we have moved we have looked for an alternate [...]

According to this post, Iraq helped McVeigh with the OKC bombing.

I came home from church tonight thinking about staying. The W’s are staying. And they were here during Alicia. The C’s are staying. (Though the wife said we were wise to leave.– Maybe it’s the guys who are insisting on staying.) So I’m thinking… maybe we should stay. But then again part of the reason [...]

Turn off brakers. This will protect your house from water problems in your electric service and from power surges. This was from the electric company, but it seems to me that then you’ve accelerated the heating of your house and the spoilage of your food. However, it is also recommended just before the storm by [...]

We got food. We got water. We got tarps and duct tape. We got batteries and lights that run on batteries. We bought a new gun. (To supplement the Walther hand gun we had.) We bought more ammunition. We bought dog food, too. We’ve been told to turn off the brakers to the house, in [...]