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This could also be subtitled "The Wandering Eye of Newt"I know I personally suffer from Adult-Onset Attention Deficit (AOAD), but has the Tea Party buried their heads in their rectums these days? I know it was soooooo last century when the Newtster was House Speaker, but seriously, this man got a standing O last night for calling out the moderator for daring to question his despicable, hypocritical adulterous practices.   The reason I bring up...

This may very well prove that there is a God and he is merciful: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/breaking-perry-to-drop-out-thursday/?hpt=hp_t1&hpt=hp_c1 http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10189602-perry-to-drop-out-of-gop-presidential-race-endorse-gingrich This has certainly not come a moment too soon. Now the main problem will be getting him the hell out of the Governor's mansion ... oh wait, he hasn't been there for a couple of years either. How about we just cut off his freaking allowance(s), duct tape his mouth, and make him go live in a Tibetan monastery...

Perhaps you've heard. Our CongressNerds are doing the "gavel in/gavel out" thing and holding pro forma sessions trying to prevent the POTUS from making recess appointments for positions which have been vacant for months.From Wiki: "The term pro forma is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, perfunctory, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements or to conform to a convention or doctrine."The use of the pro forma...

I received this in an email from a friend of mine:In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years.In Vietnam, 4.3% served in 12 years.Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror.These are unbelievable statistics.Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse. Our troops were sent to war in Iraq by a Congress...

I saw a program this morning that portrayed a doomsday scenario of a nuclear weapon being detonated in the DC area and the series of events that would take place to begin rescue,  recovery and continuity of government.Seriously, we know that within a certain radius, there will be no such thing as recovery, but they did go on to talk about the super secret series of events that would take place to ensure COGCON 1...

Start the weekend with a jam:This punk is 13.Awesome....

I moved the blog, for those interested:http://www.untilmysoncomeshome.com/2011/11/17-days-and-wake-up.htmlHope to see you there!...

I ran across something interesting and rather provocative recently - a website called www.ghettophysics.com.It came through from a "What the Bleep" link that I've had for a while, so if this kind of quantum physics, one-world, personal accountability, make-it-happen-yourself philosophy isn't for you, then you may be on the wrong blog. :-)Ghetto Physics aligns pretty well with the Occupy movement that is going on right now. As a matter of fact, if you're participating in...

I could tell from my son's last letter that he was back in the Valley of Homesick again. This may be occurring about every 3-4 weeks. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the exhaustion he's probably feeling from the long days, odd hours, total lack of control over his own life, and dearth of female companionship. That would be military life.Family Day is coming up, but I won't be able to make...

You may have heard of something called SERE training if you know someone in the military. SERE stands for Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape. It's a 3-week course at Fort Bragg that trains soldiers in survival fieldcraft, evasion techniques, resistance to interrogation, and escape. The training is geared to what an evading soldier may need to know to be able to return to "friendly" control and, at the same time, not be detected by the enemy. Realism is crucial...

This week, my son turns 21. This will be the first birthday for which I have not been able to tell him "happy birthday" on his birthday, but I'm guessing it won't be the last.Birthdays became a pretty big deal for me with his arrival. I began to call MY mother on my birthday and thank her for bringing me into the world. It was as much her day as it was mine because it...

I received a nice surprise Sunday morning - a 37 min, 4 sec phone call at 9:33 AM from a number I didn't recognize. As I was hoping it might, it turned out to be my soldier son.After chastising him initially for only calling his dad several days prior when he received his replacement cell phone and not calling his mother to tell her he received it (you know, the mother who replaced the lost cell phone, pays...

With the recent political discourse on illegal immigrants, amnesty, in-state tuition, etc., let's have a real discussion based upon reality. If a child was brought to this country illegally, yes, he could certainly attend any school here with no questions asked. It wouldn't matter if his parents actually left the country and left him here to live with someone else, he could still attend public school with no problem. Okaaaay. If he were adopted by...

My soldier had his first "sick call" last week. I'd gotten a letter from him saying he felt like he was swallowing razorblades, and something was going around the barracks because several of the guys in his battalion had been sick previously. I'm guessing he was missing Dr. Mom at some point as I don't imagine his DS was quite as sympathetic as I might have been. The dichotomy may have been something like this:...

I received a 3-page letter this time. 3 pages, albeit small ones. Other than a required paper for college, I'm sure that's the most my son has ever written in one sitting. I know that as of the first two weeks he was in, I had already received more letters from him than I had in the preceding almost-21 years. You may not be surprised to learn, however, that this is a young man who...

I have had a few days to ponder the current 'situation' of my son being in the military. I obviously have my own perspective; I'm doing my best to see things from his perspective; and I honestly haven't thought too much about other people's perspectives so far, but a couple of things happened this week to make me stop and think about what it might mean to others. I got a letter from his Company...

On this, the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech, I would like to suggest that we take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished since 1963, and the work that we still need to do. We are still not at the point where "content of character" means more than anything else, so I would say we still have much to strive for.I would also like to talk about a dream of...

This week I have had visions of Marie Antoinette, powdered wigs, posh surroundings, starving peasants and so forth in my head, for some reason. Headlines this week included one about Ick Perry handing the Feds a bill for $350 million for incarcerating illegal aliens. This is the same guy that once called the idea of a border fence "nonsense" and resisted efforts to emulate Arizona's strict approach to illegal immigration, positions that helped him attract...

No call or letter this week, but I'm not surprised. He's on base now, ACUs and all, so I'm sure he's getting used to the pleasure of having a drill sergeant.  I decided to fill my time during this anticipated communication lull with research. I knew he would be going through a lot in training, but it's rather amazing when you delve into it. The wash-out rate for 18x is somewhere around 75-80%, so if...

I know I'm usually pretty good about being low key and keeping my opinions to myself, so it may come as a surprise to some of you to learn that I'm not a huge Rick Perry fan, which I guess in Texas Aggie terms would make me a "two-percenter".  (My sarcasm font isn't available on my computer today.) I've just been reading some of the stories from all over the place this morning, and thought I would...