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Melanie Morgan on O’Reilly

melMelanie Morgan, a San Francisco Bay area talk show personality, appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s show this evening.

Set Your DVR’s To “Stun” – Melanie Morgan to Appear on O’Reilly

Get ready to be amazed by my brilliant rhetorical skills, stunning passion, and 2-day old acne outbreak.

That’s right, the “war whore” as the lefties call me, is going to be appearing today on The Factor with Bill O’Reilly – that’s Fox News Channel for those of you who aren’t paying attention.

I will be enunciating why a souless villian like Bill Ayers, Domestic Terrorist who can’t say he’s sorry, should be protested at St. Mary’s College tomorrow night.

Melanie Morgan’s website displays the ‘Never Forget Tribute‘ in their sidebar. The website has more information about the protests planned against Ayres.

27 Jan 2009 by Media

Tulip in the Morning Sunlight

When I came downstairs this morning, the light was just perfect for this shot. This is one of the dozen variegated orange and yellow tulips that I got at the supermarket flower concession last Friday. Click below for the 1024×768.

tulip.jpg

26 Jan 2009 by Home & Garden Photography

Range Report

Our weekly trip to the range was a lot of fun again. We shot the usual suite of firearms and the usual number of rounds. It was mostly uneventful except for shooting 12 gauge rounds through the Remington 870 Magnum Express.

We bought some Winchester Super X® 12 gauge ammo a week ago when it was on sale. The rounds were 2¾ inch 7½ shot. Today, we put 25 rounds through the big shotgun and found out that the Super X had most of the same problems as the “Universal” shells we bought (and regretted doing so) last summer. This is from our post complaining about the Winchester Universal Ammo – Read the Fine Print:”

Universal loads are a great value, ideal for dove, quail, grouse and recreational target shooting.
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Try Universal ammunition for fun and practice. Then, when you’re ready to do some serious hunting or target shooting, pick up a box of Winchester Super-X®, Supreme® or our famous AA® Target Loads.

Well, we were serious and ready for some target shooting, and thought we could trust the Super X ammo to perform. Wrong. There were stovepipes, failures to eject, and, at one point, a jam that required some serious disassembly of the firearm to clear out the spent round. I have one more box of 25 rounds to shoot and then no more Winchester shotgun ammo for us.

Despite that, we had an excellent time. Here is Damsel shooting her Warthog and definitely enjoying one of the brighter moments from the outing:

Maximum Plume

25 Jan 2009 by Firearms Shooting

Tiny Orange Orchids

This beautiful little orchid is in my Mom’s garden. It looks bright and beautiful even on a rainy day. A gentleman at the last orchid show told me that there wasn’t actually an orange pigment and the orange is really a combination of both red and yellow pigments.

Click below for the really big view.

Tiny Orange Orchids

24 Jan 2009 by Home & Garden

We’re in the Money Now!

big moneyLast month, we finally had our landline telephone service discontinued. I called AT&T to inform them that their services were no longer needed since we each now have a personal wireless device that does everything (and much more) than their service can provide.

I was reluctant, at first, to discontinue the service, since it has been our telephone number since before 1979 – we kept the same number from the previous owner when we moved here.

But, after doing all the trade-offs, it just had to be done.

Then, after all the smoke settled, I got this fantastic refund from the accounts payable folks at AT&T. Woo Woo. Where will I spend all this money? Maybe a lead 7½ shot ball in a 12 gauge shell? Yeah! That’s a great idea!

23 Jan 2009 by Money and Business Technobabble

Lookout Point – A Winter Panorama

While looking at some winter vacation pictures as I was eating my lunch today, I ran across several images I took at Grand Canyon last month. I stitched them together to form this panoramic image of the canyon seen from Lookout Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon. Lookout Studio, with all the icicles, is on the right. Just left of center, you can see the tower atop the El Tovar Hotel. This is much different than summer conditions at the Canyon.

Click on the image and scroll to view this panorama full sized.

Lookout Panorama

22 Jan 2009 by Panorama Travel

Jay Leno Gets It (Mostly) Right

Jay Leno

I didn’t stay up late enough to hear the monologue, but thanks to the Patriot Post, we are able to enjoy Jay Leno‘s takes on the changing of the guard:

You know a lot of celebrities in Washington for the inauguration. Isn’t that unbelievable? So many celebrities are out of town, over in Malibu, they had to close the Promises Rehab Center for a week.

Good luck trying to find a place to stay. Given how hard it is to get a room in Washington, even Bill and Hillary had to double up.

Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office, directing the closing of Guantanamo Bay. He said he needs the money for new prisons to hold Democratic mayors and governors.

Incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs said President-elect Barack Obama will allow gays to serve openly in the military. So the days of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are over. Actually, that’s not quite true. Congress will continue to use the phrase when referring to the bailout money. “Don’t Ask Us What We Did With It, We’re Not Going To Tell You Where It Went.”

At his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder said as far as he is concerned, waterboarding is torture. And Treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner said, “So is paying taxes.”

President Bush said he is leaving Washington with his head held high, because it is the best way to spot shoes that are coming at you.

21 Jan 2009 by Entertainment People Whacko Politics

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