Revenge of the Syndicate

Vacation at Oak Island

What I had for lunch today: turkey (with cranberry sauce), hotdog (with chili), new york strip, turnips, corn relish, cheese dip with crackers, pimento cheese, butter beans, green beans.

Tonight's menu: oysters and shrimp.

Open-Ended Question

What was the single most important event in 2007?

A JSS Christmas

TheCamel spent Christmas day out in the city, with a special candlelight service and holiday meal. He didn't have the day off, but they had lighter patrols and were able to get permission to have the entire battery 'out' at the same time so that they could celebrate together...

His AO has nearly doubled recently, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on, so he's spending a lot more time out there instead of back on base.. but redeployment is at least on the horizon now, and pops has a new calendar to start marking off the days.

Pictures of a JSS Christmas
(TheCamel is featured playing boardgames)

2007 Year in Review

Let's devote this posting to links to our favorite various "year in reviews". Here's one from Weorge Gill:

"A Seattle day-care center banned Lego building blocks because the beastly children "were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys, assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society." The center reinstated Legos but allowed the children to build only "public structures" dedicated to "collectivity and consensus."

New Year's Resolution

Each year, we savor the derivation and the obedience to a New Year's Resolution developed solely by ourselves and typically consisting of a pretty badass goal, which we fail to achieve.  The NYR has brought about two of the most significant changes in my personal life.  Due to these successes, we tolerate the failures.  Or perhaps we cherish them. 

I smell like fruit

I rented a car to drive to ONFQC on Monday because my car has serious mechanical problems that I haven't gotten fixed yet. 

Yesterday as soon as I parked my rental car in front of my place to unload all my stuff, I realized that I'd left the keys to my place at my parents' house in ONFQC. 

Cross Price Elasticity

The drought is good news for certain toilet salesmen. Who knew?

Blinton: Baking Cookies, Not Playing President

The ROTS community is no doubt tired of me, a mere blogger, harping on the fact that Cillary has virtually no relevant experience to be commander in chief (except that she is familiar with the intense schedule) and yet she claims to be the most experienced major candidate. Granted, B'bama and Jowards have excruciatingly little experience, either. But it is her arrogant claims and dismissals of their experience that is so annoying to me.

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Despite the uncertainty surrounding the presidential primaries, one thing that is certain is that most of the candidates will lose. This raises an important question for loser candidates that descend into a mellowed out but still embittered post-campaign state. For example, should she lose, what kind of woe-is-me Gobert Alre Jr.-esque beard shenanigans can we expect?

We win

Boo-yah