tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60904152024-03-16T11:52:38.766-07:00ThebastidgeAn Evolving ViewpointLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.comBlogger550125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-67607166651015798162015-09-28T10:48:00.002-07:002015-09-28T10:48:24.034-07:00
Started working on a new theme: http://mil-surpmusings.blogspot.com/Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-51760100367635797202012-08-12T15:05:00.001-07:002012-08-12T15:05:24.338-07:00We just got word from Comcast that the commercial for Southwest Washington Surplus will debut this week in SW Washington and Portland during Shark Week on Discovery Channel along with ESPN, Fox News, HGTV, History Channel, National Geographic, and The Weather Channel!
It started today, let us know if you've already seen it.
http://swwsurplus.com
http://www.facebook.com/Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-26430454444622470222011-08-31T05:38:00.000-07:002011-08-31T05:40:08.355-07:00I suppose I should update thisI've been dragged into the "Hello Kitty of Blogging" as Morgan puts it. I can get to that from most anywhere in Afghanistan, and on my phone, but actually composing a post for blogger takes a computer interface to be comfortable for me, and it's so heavily filtered here, it's been difficult to get round to it.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-20436921030083936262011-05-29T02:01:00.001-07:002011-05-29T02:01:23.729-07:00The mainstream media makes me sickBoth AP and Reuters online today are reporting that Zelaya has returned to Honduras "ending a two-year strain in international relations" due to the "coup". Zelaya attempted to stay in power beyond his constitutionally mandated term limit. His removal from office was ordered by the Honduran Supreme Court. The military folllowed the court's orders and isolated him from Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-6930425568313658432011-03-23T23:36:00.000-07:002011-03-23T23:36:36.027-07:00The Smallest Minority: Our Economic TitanicThe Smallest Minority: Our Economic Titanic: "This is a harsh-your-mellow post of the Über-variety. You are forewarned. Every generation has its Chicken-Littles, foretelling gloom..."Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-34699760907596045382011-03-12T01:47:00.001-08:002011-03-12T01:47:24.219-08:00I'm feeling pretty good...Psychologists/psychiatrists never solve anything for anybody. The only thing that will take you from unhappy to happy is changing your circumstances. The first step to that may be recognizing your own behaviour and reactions. Another person can hold that mirror up for you, be they friend, mentor, boss, chaplain, or doctor. But until you take responsibility, take control, and change reality to Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-79436443376826673062011-02-24T05:16:00.001-08:002011-02-24T05:32:22.954-08:00Reboot FireflyThere's some buzz on twitter and facebook and various blogs about Nathan Fillian's (probably throw-away) comment about wishing he could buy the rights to Firefly and start it up again on his own. The perfect opportunity for synergy would be to get Bill Whittle's Declaration Entertainment involved. This is precisely the kind of subversive program we all instinctively love. (And you Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-85669494943073797742011-02-14T04:30:00.001-08:002011-02-14T04:30:07.945-08:00Risk ManagementI continually train myself. I find opportunities to learn new stuff as I am able, even when it's not directly applicable to my current job. In aid of this, I've been reading this: <a>http://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/CERConline/index.html</a> I'm going to quote a bit and paraphrase a bit and mixc it all up: Hazard is the seriousness of a risk from a technical Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-55102683122539232592011-02-01T10:13:00.000-08:002011-02-01T10:15:49.421-08:00My Letter to the BATFE0-I-E-I-OI understand you are studying a ruling on sporting purposes for shotguns.I believe it is very important to interpret this ruling very widely, to include any sport, organized or unorganized that individuals may lawfully engage in. "Plinking" is a sport every bit as much as frisbee golf or any other activity that people may engage in for fun, education, exercise, enjoyment of nature and being Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-84315624083969633862011-01-23T11:07:00.001-08:002011-01-23T11:07:55.536-08:00I am TJICI've been out of comms for a few days, long enough to miss all this broo-haha. http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-am-tjic.htmlhttp://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/01/cradle-and-grave-of-liberty.html http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2011/01/freedom-of-speech.html I'd go so far as to say the police officers who comitted this crime should have been shot. Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-80609953661876097992011-01-18T22:47:00.000-08:002011-01-18T23:47:17.357-08:00What's wrong with this picture?OK, first of all, I appreciate that the NRA and sponsors make these deals available to me. Second of all, I'mna hotlink these images, because, after all, it's their advertising, and it was hotlinked in my email, so I don't think they're gonna mind. But the main meat of this post, is WTF were they thinking? This is a training tool for teaching people how to shoot, and what does their picture show?Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-79977341439934128062011-01-17T08:42:00.001-08:002011-01-17T08:42:21.659-08:00Bastards.I had to turn off anonymous comments.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-50497456579459235332011-01-17T08:00:00.000-08:002011-01-17T08:01:18.979-08:00FOB-HoppingIi should be outta here in a day or so, and off to the next installation.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-42990266031659226252011-01-09T20:05:00.000-08:002011-01-09T20:06:19.519-08:00Fwd: SNNW Festival 2011Sent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:From: SNNW <seannosnw@gmail.com>Date: January 10, 2011 2:44:56 AM GMT+04:30To: larry.good@gmail.comSubject: SNNW Festival 20114th Annual Sean-nós Northwest Festival February 19-20, 2011 - Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (tentive schedule) Workshops: Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:00pm Registration 1:30-3:00pm Workshop 1 1. Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-71288376347739598842011-01-06T05:26:00.000-08:002011-01-06T05:27:53.227-08:00BlogspammersI hope they choke to death on a syphillitic cock. Seriously.Sent from my iPhoneLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-21825155235618542342010-12-29T03:39:00.000-08:002010-12-29T03:41:40.621-08:00BookmarkedOne of those classy, erudite, intelligent, sassy chicks who say f*&k a lot, as the group on Facebook has it.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-70068207524743449692010-12-14T23:48:00.001-08:002010-12-14T23:48:25.635-08:00Better sleepSo last night I tried putting the carpet on the bed, and it actually worked. It was still kinda lumpy where the carpet would sort of bubble up where the mattress had a depression from an elbow or sitting, but once I laid down on it, it was much smoother with my eweight more evenly distributed. I didn't wake up with red rings on my ribs from the mattress springs this morning, and I actually Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-8237531283325076472010-12-14T02:56:00.001-08:002010-12-14T02:56:16.153-08:00I'm in Kandahar- limited InternetI can't actually read blogs here in Kandahar, so I am cut off from a good deal of my daily Internet entertainment and missing the references to interesting things around the Web. I can email an update to my personal blog or to Facebook, but can't read either, so forgive the formatting if it's messed up. I may get commercial Internet for my iPhone and laptop, but I haven't had a Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-67216345709630548522010-12-11T01:31:00.000-08:002010-12-11T01:36:26.814-08:00Rambling...Found this piece by John Stossel over at at Morgan's place.I first ran into this concept about ten years ago. As I recall, it takes an average of 17 years in calendar time, and over a man-year in personal effort to get clear title to untitled land in Mexico, even if your family has lived on it undisputed for as many generations as anyone can recall. And you probably spend an entire year's income Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-18339573399726134672010-12-06T22:23:00.000-08:002010-12-06T22:35:08.115-08:00On WikileaksThis one is very simple.Julian Assange has the absolute right to say anything he wants to say, as publicly as he can get people to pay attention.What he does not have the right to, is other people's intellectual property. The information he is publishing does not belong to him. He is a thief, or at best, a fence knowingly dealing in stolen goods.The piece of shit who passed the information to himLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-56715542201648652072010-12-06T07:58:00.001-08:002010-12-06T07:58:44.175-08:00Congrats...... on becoming a Citizen...Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-11330366568421101132010-12-03T00:05:00.000-08:002010-12-03T00:07:14.810-08:00Not again?Got up at oh-gawd-oh-dark hundred this morning. Seriously, 3 am should be illegal. Why would I do soemthing so clearly stupid, the gentle reader may ask.I went to climb a mountain in Afghanistan.The idea has been bouncing around the "office" for a couple weeks now. The fun and edcuational value of climbing Mohman Ghar Mountain, that is. I was kinda iffy on it, and thought perhaps work Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-43585260321453033772010-11-30T04:14:00.001-08:002010-11-30T23:49:17.553-08:00Freedom of AssociationIt means free not to associate as well. It's an inescapable conclusion: Tears and Role-Play: Not to mention, Schadenfreude.Larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-74143382889889683982010-11-24T04:36:00.001-08:002010-11-24T07:40:39.768-08:00Burn it all down...Outrageous ProposalsLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090415.post-1933887766253542622010-11-24T03:44:00.001-08:002010-11-24T03:44:08.326-08:00Too insecure to back down...In comments on Facebook, to some of my former AF KorLing friends: Actually, DRPK and ROK have shot missiles and artillery past each other, have had naval skirmishes, the North Koreans even sank a South Korean vessel not too long ago. But putting artillery on a civilian target is a clear escalation. The fact that they actually exchanged artillery fire is another big deal- they usually end up doingLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03320361019553106478noreply@blogger.com0