tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191836612024-03-13T05:03:31.994-05:00LB1901Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. <br>Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton
locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comBlogger5853125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-23646213195600158162020-10-26T12:42:00.020-05:002020-10-26T12:55:01.384-05:00I suppose you're wondering why I asked ya'll here today...It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!"'They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests.'"Effe bombs warning because George Carlin. He gets a few things right, but is ju-ust a bit outside with the relentlesslocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-27219145693800979662020-09-05T10:58:00.011-05:002020-09-05T18:20:25.097-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons n memes'I don't think Ol' Remus done it this way' edition
locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-60446220741158904722020-08-15T13:41:00.001-05:002020-08-15T14:06:00.739-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Walk Off the Earth' edition
5-year-old boy shot and killed by a neighbor; "My baby didn't deserve this!"; Cannon’s two sisters witnessed gruesome murder of their brother in his own driveway, in broad daylight.
August 2020: Riders gather in Southlocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-26546713885345755172020-08-01T12:31:00.001-05:002020-08-01T12:35:24.231-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Gun control is hitting your target' edition
Racy Pulp Fiction Covers Perhaps it was a simpler age, or rather, it was more publicly repressed. Back before Hugh Hefner and Playboy mainstreamed softcore porn masquerading as sophisticated male entertainment - which one only locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-26513889143873689312020-07-26T17:47:00.001-05:002020-07-26T17:54:01.978-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Hunting the wild AntiFa for fun and profit' edition
Rasmussen: Black Voter Approval for Trump Has Surged to Over 40 Percent
Either despite, or in spite of the vile vicious Left’s campaign of burn, loot, murder across the nation, Rasmussen Reports says approval for Pres. Trump from likely black voters is now over locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-70086741903194675152020-07-24T10:24:00.002-05:002020-07-24T10:24:38.075-05:00Back from a little vacationC & O, stockpiling ammo, and range time relieves and relaxes. My curvaceous, raven-haired wife is the best. Days That End in 'Y' will be posted tomorrow, as it is (almost) every Saturday.
We are at war. Prepare accordingly.locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-5613412362431022882020-07-11T12:45:00.002-05:002020-07-11T15:15:39.863-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Our forefathers would be shooting by now' edition
Africa’s swarming threat
The worst locust outbreak in 70 years has plagued East Africa since late 2019, spurring people to look for creative solutions. By March, the insects had already destroyed hundreds locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-62545617901701314082020-07-04T12:05:00.000-05:002020-07-04T12:09:09.843-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Christ died to make men holy, let us live to make men free' edition
Why Did Yankee Doodle Call a Feather ‘Macaroni’?
"The first bit of context you need in order to understand the sense of this line is that the song “Yankee Doodle” was not always the proud, patriotic ditty we know today."
Barack Obama hates Americalocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-61977983253583296342020-06-27T15:02:00.001-05:002020-06-27T15:32:49.257-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'If you want peace, prepare for war' edition
During this time of war, I found this post by Krakatoa at AoSHQ to be helpful: Prepping the Mind, ep 1: Walk Away
"This isn't advice on getting away with murder. My best advice for that is to become a BLM activist. That is not a joke. This is just my gut take now on survivinglocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-36516028464351747222020-06-20T14:03:00.001-05:002020-06-20T15:08:36.709-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'The Left Declares War Against the USA' edition
Shoot? Don’t shoot? Now try it in the dark... pic.twitter.com/TQw1lkjh5D
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 18, 2020
The Left has declared war on the USA. Prepare accordingly.
— Jack Dorsey Is My Clock Holster (@Username19587) June 20, 2020
locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-83253502869742741382020-06-17T10:20:00.002-05:002020-06-17T10:24:15.381-05:00Mid-Week Expresso - Ephesians 6:12-13*June 17, 1987
Bernhard Goetz, the so-called NY subway shooter or vigilante, is acquited for attempted murder of four teen-agers who threatened to rob him on a Manhattan subway train in December 1984.
There are different accounts of the shooting, and how many times each man was shot, but the bottom line is that all four of them were hospitalized, two in critical conditionlocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-36088322420771926362020-06-14T14:41:00.002-05:002020-06-14T15:39:52.954-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Cancel culture cancels itself' edition
Refusing to tolerate dissent is an admission that your own ideas can only be imposed by force. Persuasion is hard work. Pay close attention when people say they're not interested in doing it.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) June 12, 2020
locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-75714109735086438152020-06-13T16:39:00.002-05:002020-06-13T16:39:16.534-05:00Flotsam n jetsamDays that end in 'y' will be published later this evening or tomorrow morning. My business is booming, and today was work, work, work with no time for blogging. (So unfair! [:>o)locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-39318419809383292942020-06-12T10:39:00.001-05:002020-06-12T12:49:54.906-05:00Friday Expresso - If you want peace, prepare for warNever forget - the totalitarian Left has declared WAR against the USA. To quote Lincoln, "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
The Left is vicious; violent; it hates you. Assimilation into the collective is forced, stripped of your locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-32229657467798004182020-06-10T09:33:00.000-05:002020-06-10T09:34:46.139-05:00Mid-Week Cappuccino - Best of the interwebs "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
*June 10, 1977
Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
The first motherboard-only Apple II computers shipped on May 10, 1977, for those who wanted to add their own case, keyboard, and power supply (or wanted to update their locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-80387666317901512382020-06-06T11:46:00.002-05:002020-06-06T12:03:50.891-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'V is for VICTORY' edition
The men of Easy Company at Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest”, 1945
Toward the end of World War II, American soldiers of Easy Company were assigned to occupation duty in Germany, specifically to Berchtesgaden, which was home to Adolf Hitler’s famous Eagle’s Nest. Specifically, the duty of capturing locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-43086705958241205972020-06-03T11:14:00.003-05:002020-06-03T12:01:48.023-05:00Mid Week Espresso - Pelosi's 'dog whistle' incites lies & violenceARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamp post. - The Devil's Dictionary
*June 3, 1916
The National Defense Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson(D) in response to the campaign by the 'Preparedness Movement' championed by former president Theodore Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood. The National Defense Act of 1916locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-40258740372365700842020-06-01T11:05:00.004-05:002020-06-01T11:11:13.307-05:00Morning Coffee - Aqua vitae and there will be mathREPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. - The Devil's Dictionary
*June 1, 1495
The Scottish govt. records Friar John Cor as the creator of the first known batch of scotch whisky. An entry in the royal Exchequer Rolls - a record of taxation and government spending - from that year reads: “Eight bolls of malt to Friar John Cor wherewith to locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-3650778751097465102020-05-30T13:21:00.000-05:002020-05-30T13:29:58.112-05:00Days That End in 'Y' - editorial 'toons & memes'Almost 100% riot free' edition
Absolutely disgusting watching these looters destroy American businesses when they aren’t even infectious disease experts.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 29, 2020
The First Airlocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-23943210974671289152020-05-30T09:25:00.002-05:002020-05-30T09:47:14.173-05:00Morning Coffee - Saturday Throwed RollsRIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. - The Devil's Dictionary
*May 30, 1806
Future U.S. president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel
Former Congressman Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson were prominent lawyers and plantation owners in Tennessee. They were also known for their dueling proclivities; Dickinson was renownedlocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-54757943630914568582020-05-29T15:07:00.004-05:002020-05-29T15:07:52.635-05:00Florida Man Friday - give it to meNaked Florida man spent 24 hours vandalizing high school, police say
"Miramar police have made an arrest in a Memorial Day vandalism spree inside Miramar High School of a man caught on surveillance video trashing the school wearing a hat, headphones, and nothing else.It is not known if (the vandal) had some affiliation to the high school."
Uh, ok. But was alcohol involved?Florida manlocomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-53688471900843525952020-05-29T11:48:00.002-05:002020-05-29T11:54:10.948-05:00Morning Coffee - mailing it inCALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. - The Devil's Dictionary
*May 29, 1954
First of the annual Bilderberg conferences was held in the Hotel de Bilderberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands. This year's meeting will take place in Sierra City, CA., unless cancelled due to Wuhan Corona Virus concerns.
The annual Bilderberg Meeting has been a locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-2140825382637711682020-05-28T11:55:00.002-05:002020-05-28T13:07:52.386-05:00 Morning Coffee - blues skies from now on"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Steven Wright
*May 28, 1936
English mathematician and logician Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, describing what came to be called the "Turing Machine." It was officially published on Nov. 30 and Dec. 23, 1936 in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
Undoubtedly the most famous locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-39885421275040471212020-05-27T09:11:00.001-05:002020-05-27T09:12:41.466-05:00Morning Cappuccino - a day which will end in 'Y'"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain (ex.: twitter)
*May 27, 1930
The 1,046 foot Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. The building was formally opened in a ceremony that coincided with the 42nd Street Property Owners and Merchants locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19183661.post-85814255814946064192020-05-26T09:12:00.004-05:002020-05-26T09:15:24.564-05:00Morning Coffee - best of the interwebs“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.” - Gen. George S. Patton
*May 26, 1868
The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of locomotivebreath1901http://www.blogger.com/profile/00467785916176575838noreply@blogger.com