Grace And Beauty

She told me she would need a bucket of hot water to bathe with every night at this time. I filled a three gallon bucket and put it on the fire; while wondering how hunting with a woman was going to pan out. I used a small cross cut saw to buck up firewood and then split it with an ax. It made some great firewood and I was sure it would be toasty in the tent for Marcella, if she could keep the stove fed every two hours or so. I figured she must be done with her bath and called out that I was coming in with a load of firewood. She was sitting nude behind the bucket and still washing her self with a wash cloth. I dropped the firewood and turned around without saying a word. I spent the night outside and let her straighten out the firewood. I was mortified to have walked in on her, but I told her to tie the tent flaps closed, when she needed privacy. It was quite a shock for me to walk in on her in the nude; although, for a few fleeting seconds I was treated to a vision of beauty that was so rare for a country boy like me to see.

Suspicious wet diaper stripped from 95 year old cancer victim. Your TSA at work! [Reader Post]

This is simply unbelievable.

TSA security officers at Florida’s Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport patted down a cancer-stricken, 95-year-old woman and forcibly removed her adult diaper during the search, CNN reports. Could this end up being yet another TSA PR nightmare?

Quote of the Day

“I want to say that democracy is a bad idea. We should not feel ashamed to say it. It is a bad, backwards, and retarded idea…Even the freedoms, what are they? Among the freedoms inherent in the democratic system are freedom for women, freedom of ownership, freedom of homosexuality, personal freedom, freedom of conscience and expression, freedom to disbelieve in the Creator of Heaven and Earth. There’s mixing (of men and women), usury–all of this is in democracy, which is why I condemn it.” -Shaykh Sa‘id ’Abd-al-’Azim, leader of Egypt’s militant salafi movement

A Western Hat And Tennis Shoes

When I was a young man, I heard the old age that women used, “clothes make the man”; consequently, I tried to always dress well and look my best. The years have made dressing less important to me, but at one time, I looked pretty dang good.

I’ve always dressed in the Western Style, even though I received a lot of snickers in the Northeastern U.S. and in Europe, but I wasn’t going to slap my heritage in the face to look like someone else. The rudest thing I ever heard was from a couple of toughs in London who made a comment about wearing a chamber pot on the head. It took me several hours to figure out through their thick accents, that they were talking about my Western hat.

Politics and Policy, Then Anarchy? [Reader Post]

Today I was reading an article by Jack Dunphy about Los Angeles, California, policemen and fire fighters.1 The article was written with a very pro-union slant by a current member of the LAPPL. While I am not a union sympathizer, the article was quite thought provoking, particularly about the future of this country. So, having nothing better to do, I did some research about this country’s politics and policies, and what is currently happening in Europe. What I found may surprise you, may make you angry, and (hopefully) forewarn you.