My Am I Fat

Some analysis of how fat I am:

1.  The Navy was good for keeping me in a manageable range.  Retirement has meant wide swings.  It will get tougher and tougher to make the swings as I get older, I'm sure.

2.  Periods of unemployment are great; the first year of new jobs is terrible.

3.  I weigh less today than I did when I started keeping track over six years ago, though I am above my average weight--my average weight is "overweight" by BMI standards (28.6).  For me to no longer be overweight by BMI, I need to weigh 159--or 26.6 lbs less than I do today.  For those who remember, I weighed 158 on the day I got married (April 1989). 

4.  159 lbs is probably out of reach.  I'd like to settle in between 170 and 175.

Remember....

 Jack Punches

    Pat Dunn

Behold, The Incomparable Iowahawk--on Higher Education

This man is a genius.

CW Makes the Weekly Standard!

Rush on out to your newsstands and purchase this week's edition of The Weekly Standard--in it, you'll find this little ditty on the dangers of a declining Navy.

Big Fat Friday Free For All

A glorious morning here on the Eastern Shore, I hope it is great where you are too.  Let's get the Memorial Day Weekend off to a fast start with some old fashioned bitchin' and whinin'.   What's on your mind today folks?  Unburden yourselves!

President Acts Unilaterally; War on Terror Coalition Unravels

PAH'-kee-stahn has ordered the US to reduce U.S. troop presence and is closing three intelligence liaison centers, which is almost certain to hinder U.S. ability to find and eliminate insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This move is in response to the Administration's decision to, without Pakistan's permission, conduct a military action inside Pakistan's sovereign territory to execute Osama Bin Laden.

While most of this blog's readership, me included, agrees with the Administration's decision to take this action, one can't help but wonder just how deafening the indignation of leftward-leaning citizens and, in particular, our media would be were it not for the fact that the words "Barak Hussein Obama" lack the letter "W"

I once spoke to a Soviet citizen about the state newspaper, Pravda ("Truth"), in the USSR and asked him what it was like to have only news the state allowed to be printed. His response was surprisingly enlightened: "At least we KNOW what we read is not true. You, however, can never really know whether what you read is true or false." His words may never have been more pertinent than during this administration with this generation of journalists. The only thing deafening about the reaction to this news out of Pakistan is the silence accompanying it.

Yearbook Photos from Hell

One of these folks could be our next President.

Well, not him.

Bibi's Tour de Force

Prime Minister Netanyahu shows that America isn't the only country with a leader who can give a good speech.   This was a masterful performance.

Congratulations to General Dan!

Please join me in congratulating Colonel Dan Karbler, USA on his selection for promotion to Brigadier General.  A West Point man, Badger Fan and a good, straightforward thinker.   Dan is also a wonderful friend and the guy you call at 0300 when your car is broken down.  He and I shared an office for two years on the Joint Staff, and there wasn't a doubt in my mind that he'd someday make General.  I'm proud to know him and call him a friend.

End of the Line: The Conservative Wahoo Live!

After dinner last night, I was sitting with the Kitten, enjoying the view of the Miles River through a big new set of windows.  The girls had scurried upstairs and were giggling about something or another.  We got into a conversation about some subject long since forgotten, but the bottom line was that it was a damn pleasant scene.  For a moment, I thought to myself--"this is why I left the Navy".  And then--horror.  "Damn", I said out loud--"I gotta go do my radio show."

That's not how it should be--I should be raring to go--but I wasn't.  Don't get me wrong--I love DOING the show--I simply don't like that it never seems to fall at a convenient time for me, that it requires preparation time I'd much rather spend doing other things with, and that I spend an inordinate amount of time for the three days preceding the show wondering "should I talk about this?"

Bottom line is that The Conservative Wahoo Live! is no more.  I wrote Big Fred a note earlier today, and he agreed that it was time to end it.

Thanks to all who listened and called, especially LTJG G, the Hammer, Tom de Plume, Navy Austin.

What I will miss most about ending the show is the loss of an hour a week with Fred.  I'll look to figure out how to steal some in the future.

Gene Simmons Unhappy with O

The Israel-born KISS frontman, an Obama voter, is none too pleased with his stance on his homeland.

When you've lost Gene Simmons...

Renovation Progress

For the latest photos of the renovation, go here....

Agenda for Tonight's Radio Show

Join the fun tonight at 8PM on The Conservative Wahoo Live!  where our working agenda will be:

--President Obama and Israel

--President Obama and George Bush:  Foreign Policy Soulmates?

--Daniels out, T-Paw in:  Can the Republicans Field a Challenge?

--The President Goes to Europe

--The Sperminator

--IMF Head Perp Walk

Dial in at 347.637.2203 or click the link above to listen in.

World Leaders, As They Were

Two world leaders show how they spent their 20's.

Bibi Netanyahu and Barack Obama

HT:  American Thinker

Say it Ain't So, Mitch

Mitch Daniels is out of the 2012 race.

More on Israel

I cross post most of the stuff I write here on Facebook, which tends to drive up the traffic.  Yesterday, I posted on the President's speech the other day, the one in which he called for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders.

That post has caused several people whose intellects I admire to question what I wrote.  I seek here to deal with each in turn.  For those who dislike long posts, stop reading now.  This will be a long one.

I must state right up front that I regret the wording in both the post and its intro on Facebook.  The very first word--"when" is incorrect and misleading.  It should have been "if"--as in "if" a war comes.  I realize this is a big difference, and I'll take my lumps for the poor word choice.  Fact is, using the word "when" could lead a reader to think that I predicted a war to be more likely to occur than not.  I don't believe this.  I would put the chance of an Israeli attack on Iran at 15 chances in a 100, certainly relatively low--but I would have put it at 5 chances in a 100 before the speech.  So if any of my correspondents took issue with me over this wording (which I doubt), I apologize for misleading you as to my true thoughts on the subject.  Let's start with the first comment:

I'm All Caveat Emptor--Until I See One-a-dem Narciss-Seals

Nevermind the colossal irony in naming a gas station after one of the biggest adversaries of the very industry who supplies this guy with the primary source of his profits; nor that a guy born in Yemen might think this President is an inspiring leader. What really tickles me the most is that this guy is going to make money, almost exclusively, off of liberals who will buy the vile fluid from his station for no more reason than they bought the campaign package--"oh look, it's Obama...it has to be good!" I hope he gets wealthy off of them because, for once, when these folks cast their votes for Obama [at his gas pumps], it will cost me neither a penny of my money nor an ounce of my freedom.

The last time I saw this much cheap gas being pumped at an Obama station, the station had a Presidential seal, microphones and teleprompters and Obama himself was doing the pumping.

Lookie Who Mudge Ran Into

One of the great things about working in DC (or its environs) is the random interactions one has with the famous and nearly famous.

Yesterday, I approached the little kiosk in the parking garage into which I provide money for the right to park. Standing there was this fetching little number in a pretty super hero outfit. She was simultaneously manipulating her superpower wrist bands and searching for the right pick up line to use on me...and I thought to myself, "hey honey, why not concentrate on one thing at a time." As I got closer, I saw that it was in fact, Megan Fox as Wonder Woman, one-time personal auto mechanic to Bumblebee of Transformers fame. As I approached, I said, "YOU used to work on my favorite Transformer car!" She looked up with a huge smile and said, "Ahh, that was just a car...sort of...but you, Mudge, YOU are a REAL man." After a bit of small talk (during which I feigned forgetting her name--stud), I took my leave and she begged me not to go!

"Get over it, Sweetheart" I told her. And with that, I walked out of the garage and back into the real world. C'mon CW, anyone can make this stuff up.

Lookie Who I Ran Into!

Dana Perino, Republican Hottie

One of the great things about working in DC (or its environs) is the random interactions one has with the famous and nearly famous.

Yesterday, I approached the little kiosk in the parking garage into which I provide money for the right to park.  Standing there was this fetching little number in a pretty dress.  She was simultaneously manipulating her Blackberry and searching for funds to release her own car...and I thought to myself, "hey honey, why not concentrate on one thing at a time."  As I got closer, I saw that it was in fact, Dana Perino, one-time Press Secretary to George W. Bush.  As I approached, I said, "YOU used to work for my favorite President".  She looked up with a huge smile and said, "he was my favorite too!".  After a bit of small talk (during which I admitted to forgetting her name--dunce), I took my leave and she thanked me for saying hello!

The President and Israel

When the war begins between Israel and US on the one side, and Iran on the other, historians will trace it to yesterday's speech by President Obama.  In it, he effectively told the Israelis that our "special relationship" is over, and that we consider them on the same moral and international plane as Fatah and Hamas.  When will this President realize that Israel's paranoia is warranted?  They don't conjure up in their collective imaginations the series of attacks perpetrated upon them over the past seven decades--these happened.  They don't imagine that there are those dedicated to wiping them off the face of the earth--they live among them. 

President Obama's equivalence of the Israeli and Palestinian causes will increasingly isolate Israel, who will no longer feel that they can rely upon the US.  The trust is gone.  Israel will attack Iran, and Iran will attack US interests as a result. 

We are reaping what we have sown in our OJT President.  He's simply not up to international affairs, thinking that HIS brilliance and HIS influence and HIS ideas are what stand between the world and peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  I fear that this is a phenomenally dangerous move by the President.  In the Fall, the Israelis will be ganged up on in the UN--and Europe will sit it out.  In the end, Israel will do what it must to guarantee its survival.  And I do not blame them.