Black and blacker…

Wave Rat. OK, so, Tirado registers the domain name tsunamirelief.com on the day the tsunami strikes with the full intention of profiting from it. She lists it for sale at $99. Clearly, Tirado intended to make a profit off of some one trying to help the tsunami victims. Kaplan has a plan to register the … Read more

A New Perspective on Christmas

Here’s a new perspective on Christmas for you. I’d bet money that the majority of you don’t appreciate whatever you found under your tree as much as the soldier Iraq who got 30 minutes on the phone with his family. Freedom isn’t free. Aloha

Christmas Eve Service

We went to the Christmas Eve service at Santa Cruz Bible last night. The service was really good. We even had some outstanding, traditional, a capella numbers from the choir. They did a great job. Through most of the service I couldn’t help but think about the fact that there are some 200,000 military service … Read more

Adventures in Coffee

We ordered a Cona D size coffee brewer. It came yesterday. Today, I was determined to make coffee with it. First, I discovered that my wife has been serving me Folgers coffee for the past month or so. I’ve been trying to be nice wondering why my wife’s usually wonderful coffee was tasting so bad. … Read more

Life is Happening…

There are so many things I would like to be talking about here. Many of them cannot be discussed here because this is a public forum. It would be impudent. I am hoping that there will be significant changes to talk about in the new year. aloha

Thanksgiving

This year I’m thankful for a lot of things. It’s been an eventful and exciting year. At the top of the list, I am thankful that I had the opportunity to serve my country in an endeavour to free the Iraqi people from tyrannical dictator who was a threat to world peace. There have been … Read more

In the news…

This is an excellent article on military action in Fallujah. Tough reading if you really think about what it is saying. B Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines fought hard and did well. Dexter Filkins documents the experience of B company in a fair and unbaise manner. In this Op-Ed piece, “Postcards from Iraq,” Mr. Friedman … Read more

Balanced Reporting?

Do you wonder how it could be that a United States Marine would shoot and kill a wounded, unarmed man in a Mosque in Fallujah? Well, maybe this will help. The following is a quote from this article in the San Jose Mercury News. I strongly recommend that you read the article. Lance Corporal Ailes … Read more

Life in OIF

I had a long email conversation with a gentleman from Des Moines, Iowa who is getting ready to go over to Kuwait. A reservist like me, he was looking for information about take he should take, what is useful, what is necessary, what is useless. As a result of that conversation I decided to create … Read more