The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle for the Wheatfield (7/2/1863) - Nov. 4th, 2004

members.aol.com/CWSurgeon0 ^ | May 24, 2001 | Jenny Goellnitz

[SAMWolf]

I've never really growed up.

I may have grown old but I refuse to grow up, just ask Snippy. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the excellent background on the Zouaves. IMHO those uniforms always looked out of place in our Civil War.

[SAMWolf]

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth.

Now I have someone to put the blame on.

[SAMWolf]

Great pictures aomagrat.

With all the USS WILKES-BARRE was involved with I'm surprised I can't recall ever hearing of her. Thanks for filling in a whole in my Naval history.

[SAMWolf]

Maybe not, I've heard a lot of conflicting reports. He's one I won't be shedding any tears over.

[SAMWolf]

Doesn't look like it, still need eletrical finished up, washroom fininshed and ceiling vents put in. :-(

[SAMWolf]

Not yet, We have to take possession and have all the Government units check it out.

[SAMWolf]

I sure hope our Marines will be solving that problem soon...permanently. :-)

[Samwise]

Viva el Presidente!

[Valin]

My goodness they were busy little beavers.

"Thereafter, the ship was subjected to underwater explosive tests."

Better than being made into razor blades.

[Valin]

It's all part of our business license.

Well you can't have just anyone going into business. Thankfuly the stalwart bureaucrats of your city are ON THE JOB.

[Valin]

At this time someone should say something nice about Yassir (that's my baby) Arafat.








Let me know if you find someone

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Would you believe they had to inspect the screws in the drywall before the workers could tape. That's not all, they had to inspect the grids of the drop ceiling before the tiles could go in!

[snippy_about_it]

I may have grown old but I refuse to grow up, just ask Snippy.

LOL. I think folks here can figure that out on their own. ;-)

[Valin]

I'd like to say I'm suprised...but I can't.

I owed a house about 6-7 years ago and had a new furnace put in, you'd of thought I was installing a nuke plant in my basement the way the building inspector decended on me.

Time for bed.

[Valin]

oh before I forget
gloat
gloat
gloat
:-)

[PhilDragoo]

Insanity plea key to Sickle slay of anthem author heir

An excerpt of the very interesting account:

Harper's itself editorialized on March 12, 1859 that Sickles did not need anyone's sympathies so far as his upcoming trial was concerned. If, as appeared certain, there had been a "guilty intrigue" between Key and his wife, "the public of the United States will justify him in killing the man who had dishonored his bed." As soon as Sickles learned of the affair, "he held the life" of his wife's seducer "in his hand." Of all the ways in which husbands might seek redress, the magazine continued, murder was best. It was the American way. The cuckold in France might challenge his wife's lover to a duel; in England the outraged husband might sue. Here he committed homicide and, terrible as that might be, it was "the most effectual, the wisest, and the most natural revenge." And, since this was the American way, and was becoming customary in much of Europe as well, there was not a jury in the country that would find Sickles guilty even of manslaughter, much less of murder.

To which I would only add that karma would have been best.

I arrived home early nearly thirty years ago to find the current addictive love interest in the throes with the would-be friend.

I held the excellent Plumb double-bladed ax for a moment of reflection before opting for karma as the final arbiter.

After six years she was murdered by her new husband, beaten about the skull with a four by four post.

The fellow was murdered by a hitchhiker in Colorado, his body only discovered by his father after searching the whole summer through.

And so it is with Yassir Arafat the great Clintonian hope for the final solution to the FJB problem--a victim of an insidious and undetectable poison.

It worked for Stalin and as soon as the recipe was resurrected hey presto, dead zombie in a headdress.

Bill Frist (1-202-224-3344; FAX 1-202-228-1246) must pass over Arlen Specter and appoint Chuck Grassley to chair Judiciary.

While the Moore article in WND suggests the coauthor of Unfit for Command, Corsi, is considering the next step.

Admiral Middendorf and Mark Sullivan comment in the WND article posted on FR as Ex-Navy sec to Kerry: Open up your records

Kerry said he was told there was no way to steal Ohio so he conceded. Meanwhile NM SecState Vigil-Giron blandly accepts her minions' having reduced the Bush lead from 12K to 7-8K with 18K provisional "to be counted".

The Crisco Kid will not disappoint Hitlery.

He's eying Secretary of Goiters & Bolo Ties in a Hitlery-Obama administration.

The pioneer legal precedent set by Sickles made it possible to say, "Pity the poor Menendez boys--they're orphans."

Gregory, are you sure you want to violate the one-question rule?

[snippy_about_it]

you'd of thought I was installing a nuke plant in my basement the way the building inspector decended on me.

What? You don't have a nuke plant in your basement?

[snippy_about_it]

hey presto, dead zombie in a headdress

LOL!

in a Hitlery-Obama administration

Oh geez what an awful thought.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Samwise.