Jay Nordinger on NRO: I'm a fan.

I like him. He's not the gunnie type, but he's a genuine man. A smart and cultivated conservative. Every time I read him I feel like I learn something.

And go hit Bill Whittle's latest PJTV on Instapundit. Cato, Hannibal and Acorn. Afterburner, indeed!

Where the sidewalk ends

The sidewalk outside our line of shops is fairly active. My photo studio-private- is on one end followed by antique dealers, interior design shoppe, the Redhead's Pilates joint, another garden and interior shop tax-write-off and a cleaners. Brady's coffee is around the next corner. We attract wanderers and beggars. A derelict day-walker took up position across the street to watch the Redhead a couple of years ago. (I knew the guy, from High school. We treated him like extra security, watching.) She had to wave off a pilgrim who stood in front of her plate glass and left a greasy face-plant while watching her class. I get door-knob rattlers and functionally illiterate folks, (PRIVATE), in my door. The redhead may instruct strangers to "ride on." I caution them that "we deal in lead, friend."

Typical incident this week. The antique dealers next door gave ten bucks to a woman who had been walking back and forth. I think they had her sweep a little. Before it was over she was shaking doors and DEMANDING money from every shop.

You just can't help. Doing so endangers everyone on the block.

My favorite beggar was one who showed up at my doorstep last fall pointing at the side-yard. " I must have mowed that yard three, four times last year," he said. "Never did get paid."

Ride on.

Im just saying.

Hosting the Dennis Miller Show.

As a diplomat at the UN.

Any chance Dennis Miller IS Muhammar Khadafi? Or vice versa? They at least have to be nephew and uncle.

Check out Dennis in his fez on the live cam. I'm right.

Who says there's no such thing as progress?

An 80.00 LeMat.

Determined Turkeyness.

These are some very impressive turkeys, though I don't exactly know what they think they are going to do if they catch you. I'd think the secret is to stand tall and spread your arms to appear as big as possible. Wouldn't hurt to hiss back. If you run, you're going to be chased.

And of course, don't go into the tall grass.

I bet he knows who Sarkosy is now!

Realpolitic from the French president. The CURRENT French president.

Update: He doesn't agree with Obama. Racist!

Thunderdome

I swear I just want to post files from my deercams and have lunch at Taco Wacco with the Redhead but I do need to note that this is my local school district that I pay for with my property taxes. Big cafeteria fight, (not a food fight), and then killing a guitar teacher? Who kills guitar teachers? With a knife? How did the school GET guitar teachers?

John Tyler is my alma mater. The school I went to way back in the mists of time when we had glaciers and wooly mammoths in the parking lot. We had a band, not guitars. I played a stone coronet and the drill team girls had tusks and fur. Then the comet came. Oh how things have changed!

We Tylerites pay 8,300.00 per student per year to educate children. The local private schools average annual charge is 7,000.00, so there's another shark jumped. Pay MORE! Get LESS!

If they didn't have the guns, jails and appraisal district I'm not sure I would be good for my fair share.

Update: Some friend in email suggested to not be a hater and go learn the Obama song. Now that's a helpful suggestion! Ummm, Ummm, UM!

Religion of Peace.

Nice guy. Beltbuckle with a pistol on it in rhinestones. Liked techno music. Smoked. Played with the kids. Always good for a ride in his Honda. Jordanian. Hard worker at a smokehouse. Drank. Had a couple of earrings.

Now all of those things will be banned by the TSA.

Can you find Jordan on a map?......cause this guy sure could find Dallas. Good thing all his bomber friends and suppliers were FBI agents. Sooner or later though, some Islamic true believer is going to get all the maps marked and wires connected. Any competent terrorist group could shut down the country in five days or two news cycles for less than 100K with multiple Malvo and Muhammed teams. Thank goodness for the backwardness of Islam, I guess.

Obama will be very troubled, and I just hate that for him.

Note to self: Two earrings, techno music Ipod, smoking with a rhinestone pistol buckle, the faint scent of smokehouse pork = SHOOT! SHOOT NOW!!!!

Update: A little grousing on the web about how helpful the FBI is to this guy. Heck, just because they chat him up with a fake sleeper Jihad cell, buy his bomb car, build his bomb, detonator and drive the getaway folks think this Jordanian is being entrapped? Sheesh. It's not like they picked his prayer rug for him did they? No. So there!

Bigtime

Here's one for my friend the good Doctor Sneed.

Those aggies. Always up to something important. Makes use of every education dollar seem important. OK, at least it beats learning the Obama song at school.

Daily Deercam

Big doe coming through.

No fawn.

Monkey people!

Six days in Maine while it rained. Wet coons on the cam. One doe came through, plus a group of simians. Would have like to have seen a fawn.

Home is where the cat and the guns are.

Mali the Portego hound, ready for sea.

Mark at the helm of the "S.V. Tula" sailing out of harbor, Blue Hill, Maine.

Coming ashore.

Walking down to the point.

A repeat in the Ellsworth bandshell.

Touristing.

A few photos from the weekend. Back in the home of the brave this evening. Off to work tomorrow and back to our normal lives.

The astounding miracle of travel

Sitting in Mark's living room with leaves changing in the fog out the window. Rent-dodge is packed. Gasoline, tickets on hand, arrangements have been made, monies exchanged, lists made. God and the TSA willing we will travel from Surry, Maine to where our cat is sleeping in Tyler, Texas over the course of a day. It's a miracle. Wonderful times to be alive.

They don't want me to have a gun though, what's that about?