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Well, I actually had plenty of bloggy time today, but I spent it reading the archives of the two newest additions to me blogroll. The first is Ma Deuce Gunner (hat tip: sarahk). I moseyed over there and the first thing I noticed was his tagline:

PROTECTING FREEDOM... HALF AN INCH AT A TIME.

Well, that piqued my interest. And made me laugh. Explanation: The Ma Deuce is our pet name for the M-2 machine gun, which is pretty much the Bad MamaJama of U.S. Army machine guns. It's the .50-cal, which means that the round it fires is .50 inches in diameter- half an inch wide. Dirty Harry said something once about a .44 Magnum "blowing your head clean off"- well, MDG can correct me if I'm mistaken here, but one round from his fifty will chop your body in half.

So anyway, I read his blog, and it's good. Like really really good. He's in the middle of a tour in Iraq right now, and he has a unique perspective on how things are really going over there. Hint: it's not as bad as some would have us think! Plus he's a bad-pinkytoe Cav Scout, and that's just frickin' hooah.

The other blog I discovered because she's MDG's blogdaughter- Jennifer's Musings. I never imagined a 14-year-old girl could have such a firm grasp of the way things are in the world- she pretty much feels the same way I do about the war, the MSM, Hollyweird, liberal moobats, and above all Christ. If she understands things at her age, then Democrats in their forties have no excuse.

Oh, wait, they never did. Anywho. Go. Read now. I'll be here when you get done.

whistles idly, twiddles thumbs

Oh hey, you're back. Told ya they were good. On to the rest of the post.

Well, Adrian turned out to be largely a dud, thank God. Casualties were light to nonexistent- just a major nuisance. Okay, I can't say how big of a nuisance- I'm not a native El Salvadoran, I don't know what they went through. I imagine evacuating from there is more difficult than evacuating the Florida coast. I'm just thankful everybody's okay- a hurricane that would be an inconvience in the States can be a massacre in Central America.

As for me, my doom & gloom prediction was just that- Hurricane Adrian for me consisted of a drizzly, somewhat chilly day that reminded me of a typical summer day in Michigan. No wind. No power outages. No storms, even- just rain. Heck, it's rainy season here anyway- I guess the effect of ol' Adrian on this area is pretty much nil. Lord, thank You for taking care of us, and now- on to the weekend!

Oh, and Mother Nature- we're back on speaking terms. Good job.

That reminds me, if you click on that post's link, it'll look different 'cuz the NHC updated it. I really need to learn how to do screen caps.

Hmm, what else.

There's some picture going around of a crusty old man in his underpants. SITYSK's™ Official Position:

"What, he ain't dead yet?"

Uh...

Guess that's all for now. Still don't know if I'll be able to post this weekend. buh-BYE.

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