One Brick Short

Do I know how to work this?

Here’s the story as told by the Associated Press: Danville police were serving a warrant on a fine, upstanding citizen of that community when they happened to notice a pit bull puppy with its ears cut off. Not just cut off, but sliced off by a man with a box cutter—a razor blade, in other words. Seems it wasn’t just a horrible act of mutilation, it was done on purpose

Roll call:

U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas A. Robertson, 27, of Old Town, Maine, died April 3 at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds suffered April 2 while conducting dismounted combat operations in the Zahn Khan District, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.

Phone call, raid, Prince Albert in the can

I don’t do it to make an anti-war statement. I don’t do it to make a pro-war statement. The only statement I make is that there are lives in the balance, American lives, names of people who deserve our support until such time as we can bring everyone home and find peace in our time, peace with honor, a war to end all wars and some way for infidels and heathen and the chosen and God’s Own to sit down and make peace.