San Diego Suffers From ED*

*Explosive Disfunction

The planned 20 minute show only lasted 15 seconds?

Somebody needs a really big blue pill…

I Come Not To Praise The Old Krone

Just trying to get my head around negative interest rates

Denmark’s central bank cut its main borrowing costs to record lows and brought the rate it offers on certificates of deposit below zero, as policy makers test uncharted territory to fight a capital influx.

The benchmark lending rate was cut to 0.2 percent from 0.45 percent, while the deposit rate was reduced to minus 0.2 percent from 0.05 percent, Copenhagen-based Nationalbanken said in a statement today.

Attention Danish people with money: my mattress is currently offering firm (though somewhat lumpy) yields of 0%. Send your krone to Bingley Banque!

Makes Me Want To Beat A Poster With A Shoe

Either they’re extras from a bad Charlie Chapman movie or they’re Assad loyalists

A video uploaded to YouTube this week purports to show captured members of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s shabiha militia, with their mustaches half-shaven off, chanting “Allah bless the Free [Syrian] Army.”

The enforced shaving of the ostensible Assad loyalists, a mark of disgrace and humiliation in Arab culture, presumably took place after they were captured by Free Syrian Army forces.

“A mark of disgrace and humiliation in Arab culture.”

They seem to have a lot of those.

Do we have any marks of disgrace and humiliation in our culture?

Other than being current on your mortgage, I guess.

So major dad Was a Sport Yesterday, Standing in Line at a Book Signing for HOURS

It was all good and totally red, white and blue!

Hundreds of folks showed up in spite of the biblical weather. We were numbers 84 and 85 in line and ~ WHEW! ~ thankful to be so when they started stretching through the bookstacks behind…around…and into the music section behind us! Go, Pensacola!!!

One of the great surprises and TRUE delights of the day besides seeing my Senator again? Reconnecting with someone I absolutely came to adore working with during the campaign ~ Luke Marchant. He’d been Marco’s Political Director and now runs his own political consulting firm out of Austin, Texas. Seems he’d been asked back to help with the Florida leg of the book tour and LUCKY DANG ME! (We had a fantastic evening out with him after the event.)

Handsome honey maintains his dignity as always…

…but you just can’t keep some damn groupies from clawing and scratching their way on the tour bus, you know?

They need better security around a fellow who really IS a national treasure.

Happy Fourth of July!

“As I Write These Words, the Enemy Is Plainly Within Sight Across the River”

“…But, dear God, what brave men I shall lose before this business ends.”

God bless them, every one.

Happy Fourth of July!!

Quote Of The Day

From a nice lady at church, when we were discussing giving our dogs bottled water during our boil-water advisory of the past few days

I’m not giving my dog bottled water: dogs drink from puddles and lick each other’s butts. Tap won’t hurt her.

Couldn’t really argue with that!

Update: Here’s the picture I think Chancy Girl is talking about in the comments

Happy Birthday, Dear Sweet Land!

May we continue to enjoy her prosperity, and never stop striving to ensure it for those that follow. She is a unique gift, and one perilously easy to squander.

Camelot!

(Shhh! It’s only a model!)

This week, officials in the city of Downey turned their attention to another shuttle, long forgotten to most of the world. Sitting in a nondescript warehouse in Downey, under a coat of dust and waves of plastic sheeting, is a full-scale mock-up — largely made of wood and plastic — built in 1972 by shuttle manufacturer Rockwell.

Kinda neat.

CNBC’s Joe Kernen Eats Ben and Jerry’s CEO Alive

And it ain’t the ice cream whetting his ferociousness.

Headline Of The Day

Deadly storms leave millions with power in extreme heat wave

Package For You, Ma’am!

Forget UPS: the MPS, the Marine Projectile Service, delivers some lovin’ from 22 miles away

A Marine unit that recently returned from Afghanistan killed a team of Taliban insurgents with a record-setting artillery strike.

Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., dropped the 155mm M982 Excalibur round on insurgents 36 kilometers away — more than 22 miles — in Helmand province. The strike was launched Feb. 12 from an M777 howitzer on a mountainside at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge, in Kajaki, to neighboring Musa Qala district, Marines said.

A gliding artillery shell. Pretty neat stuff.

Romney Was Running for President When These Scandalous Pictures Were Taken in 2007

Damn right he’s not like the current occupant.

Found in the comments of an Instapundit link. THAT story…well. Obama wants you to buy a T-Shirt while Romney’s folks are setting up campaign centers to help with donations for aid in Virginia.

In Case You Had Any Doubts About the Lay of THAT Particular Land

…DON’T use Google “shopping” to feed your firearm and BANGBANG addiction. Stick to their search engine.

Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).