tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37233992011-09-11T20:44:48.617-05:00Red CoyoteFrom Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Stop by, sit for a while, we'll talk. Weather, politics, religion, whatever. Updated sporadically, as the mood strikes.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-14720063057906599332011-09-11T20:03:00.003-05:002011-09-11T20:44:48.622-05:00I Will RememberI will always remember 11 September 2001. I will always remember sitting in my cubicle at work, reviewing help requests, when John L. walked quickly down the hallway toward the conference room, saying planes had hit the World Trade Center. I remember thinking what many others did upon hearing that news, that a couple of small planes had collided and landed on the buildings. As we Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-44005857075479704492011-02-14T21:05:00.003-06:002011-02-14T21:31:26.492-06:00This must be that new civility I've heard aboutToday the Northwest Florida Daily News presented this little gem of incandescent stupidity. Now, keep in mind that this was a "letter to the editor" and that (presumably) someone made a conscious decision to send it through for publication. A letter with perhaps three verifiable facts - the writer's name and city, and "... war in Iraq war costs $5 Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-62644508556403974872010-10-19T20:43:00.003-05:002010-10-19T21:06:33.205-05:00Morris FalloutExcellent! "Michael Coup, Sandra Norris and David Yacks were each found guilty Tuesday of racketeering and grand theft." It's a good start.State Attorney Bill Eddins praised Edgar and his prosecution team for their hardwork. He also repeated Edgar’s statement during the trial the investigation ofthe Sheriff’s Office scandal is not over.He declined to name who might be under scrutinyBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-18788728584247728402010-09-10T23:40:00.002-05:002010-09-10T23:46:32.614-05:009/11 + 9We have not forgotten. A good many of us have not forgiven. We will never forget, and we will not forgive.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-36638616002994508272009-10-14T21:10:00.003-05:002009-10-14T21:42:40.519-05:00Here She Comes, Ms Proud of Her CountrySeems that Eglin AFB is to be graced by Mrs Community Organizer in Chief during a whistlestop appearance tomorrow. Although it's pretty obvious that I'm not the type who'd go see her speak, I have a bone to pick with one or two of the folks interviewed for the nwfdailynews.com article. Let's take this appearance for what it's advertised to be - a chance Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-8253596361211922262009-09-10T20:43:00.003-05:002009-09-10T21:24:31.931-05:00We RememberEight years ago, on the morning of 11 September 2001, Patrick Quigley of Wellesley, Massachusetts, boarded United Airlines Flight 175 at Boston’s Logan International Airport. He was killed when the Boeing 767 was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center.At forty years old, Patrick was pretty squarely in the middle of the age range of those killed by Islamist terrorists thatBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-7970064439872514222009-05-31T21:12:00.002-05:002009-05-31T21:24:56.484-05:00Ding Dong...Not exactly "the witch is dead," but the result is good, very good indeed. George Tiller is dead, after far too many years walking this earth and far too many babies dead by his hand. His death should have no more impact than that of a roach, as his life was worth far less. I had thought at first that maybe it was a bad thing that it happened in a church, with probably a fair number Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-31949176355572656732009-04-22T20:39:00.002-05:002009-04-22T21:13:01.767-05:00Earth Day 2009So how did you commemorate Earth Day? Since I never got around to ordering that ton of high-sulfur coal I was going to burn in the back yard just for the hell of it, I figured a next-best would be to turn on a bunch of those oil-filled heaters in the house, set 'em to "max," turn the AC down to 60, turn on all the lights, leave the faucets running, and then go to work. Nah, I Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-81267011293330718572009-01-24T22:11:00.002-06:002009-01-24T22:16:28.749-06:00Not to Make Light ...Not to make light of this child's serious medical condition, but I had two thoughts after reading this. The first was "Wow, I hope she'll be OK." The second was, "I'm thinking of Chris Matthews and Barack Obama."From http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481866,00.html: "A 9-month old girl in Zambia is set to undergo a potentially lifesaving operation to remove the feet of a Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-59211467740503538202008-11-07T21:31:00.003-06:002008-11-07T21:57:06.795-06:00When circulation fails...In people, when circulation fails bad stuff happens - gangrene, amputation, death. It's not too different in the newspaper world. We don't take the local paper (heck, we don't subscribe to any newspaper), but this morning we had a freebie in the driveway, and in the plastic sleeve was a note from our friendly local paper carrier. In big letters across the top it says "Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-41689947132517439802008-11-03T21:16:00.003-06:002008-11-03T21:37:36.682-06:00In the course of human events...When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-56224188732550172742008-10-14T21:34:00.002-05:002008-10-14T21:49:23.163-05:00IllegitimateThree weeks from now the polls will be closed in most precincts, and the business of counting the votes will be well underway. In some precincts it will be complete. At what point is the point of no return crossed? When do we accept that some of the votes, illegitimate though they may be, have to be accepted as part of the total? I think we're getting close to that point now. I caughtBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-80620325409931310572008-09-11T07:14:00.001-05:002008-09-11T07:17:47.148-05:00We RememberYeah, what he said. Relevant and important five years ago, and just as much so today.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-62237884132140776502008-09-08T21:47:00.002-05:002008-09-08T21:55:43.345-05:00Kiss My AzzamWith a h/t to an article at The Corner, there's a report that "Azzam the American," aka Adam Gadahn, may be dead. If so, I hope he didn't die instantly in the strike. A hunk of shrapnel in the gut, followed by a long slow lingering painful demise from peritonitis, would be much more appropriate for his kind of slime.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-27144566274102374412008-08-23T23:38:00.004-05:002008-08-23T23:59:23.038-05:00JB ODAnyone else overdosed on Joe Biden coverage yet? I hit the wall on that subject well before noon. Now I'm looking forward to the Dem convention next week, and the continuation of the campaign. Not because I'm hanging on Obama's every word, but, like Peter Wehner over at The Corner, I think it's gonna be entertaining. I was concerned that O would pick Clinton, or maybe Sebelius, but withBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-52593955068416746942008-08-23T23:25:00.003-05:002008-08-24T00:02:47.069-05:00Fay? Where?Maybe the worst is yet to come, but here in South Okaloosa just off Mary Esther Fay's been a slightly blustery winter day, just warmer. The rain hasn't been more than a drizzle most of the time (and Weather Channel radar showed most of the heavy stuff disippating before it got close), and the wind hasn't been any stronger than a good thunderstorm. Around nine the wind was out of theBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-91906809936492385152008-08-22T10:41:00.002-05:002008-08-22T10:55:49.476-05:00Fay Fay, later todayOK, so sometime starting tonight the weather here is supposed to go downhill. It's been a nice mid/late summer day so far. I haven't heard too many folks expressing concern about Fay's approach, except for the expectation of a rained-out weekend. Folks in the north end of the county might have some issues with flooding, especially if the rainfall is anything like that around Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-15329513249979306032007-09-11T22:18:00.000-05:002007-09-11T22:35:03.871-05:00How 'Bout A Little Smiting InsteadFrom a post at NRO's the corner we get word of another version of the "love your killers" hippy-dippy garbage we've been hearing on and off since 11 September 2001:"We'll have a Mass for Peace, and pray for our enemies - so called."Hey, Sister, how 'bout a Mass for Smiting? I want a God who, if he won't directly intervene to protect His believers, will at least Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-20645768247328713252007-09-11T22:13:00.000-05:002007-09-11T22:18:41.284-05:00Six Years LaterIt's been a year since the 2996 project, and again we remember.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-85872929704360032072007-08-31T23:45:00.000-05:002007-08-31T23:55:50.948-05:00Broken Like BeckhamHow many millions did the Galaxy pay for this guy again? I wonder when they start to recoup their investment. Not that I really give a hoot about soccer, of course.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1159878167556450272006-10-03T07:00:00.000-05:002006-10-03T07:22:47.573-05:00Amish Schoolhouse ShootingWith s*** like this happening, it's getting to be damn hard to be a member of the NRA. Although there doesn't seem to have been much warning in this case, all of us pro-second amendment folks need to be alert to any erratic behavior or other warning signs that might indicate that an individual needs to be separated from any weapons (not just firearms) to which he or she Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1157943887555857242006-09-10T21:38:00.000-05:002006-09-10T22:04:47.616-05:00In Memory - Jerome Dominguez9/11 = 2996Geronimo (Jerome) Mark Patrick Dominguez, 37 years old, was killed at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.Jerome was an officer with the NYPD Emergency Services Unit. He had been with the NYPD since mid-1985 (another source indicates July 1987 - a typo in one, perhaps), and he was also in the Air Force Reserve, where a friend of Jerome's remembers "Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1147174994814523672006-05-09T06:39:00.000-05:002006-05-09T06:43:14.823-05:00Chinese Letters for "I'm A Dork"From an article on tattoo removal:She thought it said "blood and guts," but it really said "blood and intestines." He thought it said "rock 'n' roll," but it really said "to sway and to roll."Yeah, what all the Asian-character tats really say is "I'm a trendoid fashion victim, and I'm a big dork incapable of independent thought but trusting enough to let someone Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1146742768954416532006-05-04T06:29:00.000-05:002006-05-04T06:39:28.963-05:00May He RotSo ol' Zac Moussaoui gets life without parole. I hope he lives every second in fear that someone has found a way to get to him. Anyone want to start a "Shank Moussaoui Fund"? I'll kick in $100. Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger, if I recall correctly, has a scene describing a jailhouse extermination that, though effective and not without merit, would be too quick for this Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1146496780992191382006-05-01T10:14:00.000-05:002006-05-01T10:19:41.003-05:00Coming Soon - Day of the Wife-Beater!One interesting thing about this May 1st day of celebration of the illegal immigrant is that we get to see who's side various personalities and businesses are on. One reason I think this is interesting is it gives you some idea of how much respect these people and organizations have for the "law of the land," and for law-abiding people who are, and maybe now Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1126409410536499952005-09-10T22:22:00.000-05:002005-09-10T22:32:25.456-05:00A Matter of Timing...Just saw another ad on ABC for their Invasion series. I wonder if there's any editing of the first episode going on. The ads tonight haven't shown it, but earlier ones did - the aliens, or whatever they are, apparently arrive during a hurricane. The previous ads showed wrecked homes, people being pulled from the Everglades, and other stuff that's probably hitting raw nerves.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1126408862443889252005-09-10T22:09:00.000-05:002005-09-10T22:21:02.450-05:00If Quizilla Says So...From a post at The Anchoress, I hopped over and took a "Which saint are you?" quiz...it says I'm Joan of Arc...You are Joan of Arc! You don't really want to hurtanyone, but if they attack your friends or yourcountry and no-one else will stand up to fightthem, you head into the battle. Beware though,conviction tends to get you killed.Which Saint Are You?brought to you by Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125975503599486022005-09-05T21:44:00.000-05:002005-09-05T21:58:23.603-05:00Forgotten?From the Chicago Tribune (registration required):With this gravely wounded city now emptied of tens of thousands of the most desperate storm victims, the hidden tragedies of Hurricane Katrina began surfacing Sunday as officials prepared the public for a ghastly body count and the stories of some elderly victims who died forgotten in nursing homes began to be told.Forgotten? By whom? Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125974656616427092005-09-05T21:28:00.000-05:002005-09-05T21:44:16.623-05:00On What Planet?WWLTV.com is a goldmine. I just need to figure out where to get the original AP stories they're excerpting. Here's a good one, from a press conference given by Police Chief Compass (I saw part of this on TV, but missed this bit - good thing, too):4:32 P.M. - Compass: This mayor will go down in history as the greatest mayor inthe history of New Orleans. If we didn’t have Ray Nagin, Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125885945636107462005-09-04T20:56:00.000-05:002005-09-04T21:05:45.640-05:00The Long Arm of the BlogHello to Medea, author of http://medeafication.blogspot.com/, reading from Kyushu, Japan. It's amazing the data one finds when one looks in one's Site Meter log. She's battening down the hatches in preparation forTyphoon Nabi.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125806676922763692005-09-03T23:00:00.000-05:002005-09-03T23:04:36.926-05:00So, How Was Your Summer?W's just got even more interesting - Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist has died. (Saw the story on MSNBC while flipping past The Weather Channel, and got the link from Instapundit.)Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125584833007082832005-09-01T08:45:00.000-05:002005-09-01T09:27:13.013-05:00Oh, Woe Is Us, Gloom and Doom, Etc.I wasn't trying to play Pollyanna with last night's post (see below). I was, however, a little perturbed by Shepard Smith's reporting last night on Fox News. Maybe he was on some heavy downers, I don't know, but he was making it sound like New Orleans is down forever. I disagree. (At least one pundit, however, reads Shep's performance thus far differently. I doBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125543553248020592005-08-31T21:49:00.000-05:002005-08-31T21:59:13.253-05:00Quick PostJust a quick thought before sack time: Mother Nature, and a couple of other "mother-"blanks in the form of a wimpy mayor and a simpering governor, have thrown down a challenge to the engineers and other folks looking to patch the levees and get N'awlins back on her feet. They've kept the water out, until now, and they're not going to give up. My predictions: The levees are Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125453940468232182005-08-30T20:38:00.000-05:002005-08-30T21:05:40.473-05:00Oh....My.....The aerial video footage of Biloxi has been running on several channels here this evening (by now it should be national). Three words - holy f*****g s**t. If you've seen the footage you know what I mean. If you've ever been to Biloxi, seen the casinos and the neighborhoods between the Back Bay and the Gulf, it may be difficult to believe what's happened. I was thinking some of Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125429791580619102005-08-30T13:45:00.000-05:002005-08-30T14:25:01.126-05:00Observations and BabblesJust a thought regarding possible exaggerations in Katrina's wake:From WWLTV.com in New Orleans we have1:08 P.M. - "I'm very hopeful, with the devastation we've had, that the number (of deaths) will be much more reasonable than people think. There are not thousands of people floating around." -- Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security chief.Compare this to MississippiBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125336151263403252005-08-29T12:17:00.000-05:002005-08-29T12:22:31.270-05:00So Far So GoodMy little slice of northwest Florida seems to be doing well with the admittedly little we're getting of Katrina. The lights have been flickering, and actually went out for about a second around 0700. We've had less rain than we can get from a good summer thunderstorm. The wind has been moderately impressive, but hasn't caused any damage. I've been flipping around between Fox Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125283054557741772005-08-28T21:19:00.000-05:002005-08-28T21:56:08.453-05:00MiscellanyJust saw a bit of video on MSNBC, from the ShelterDome, I mean, Super Dome, in New Orleans. So bizarre seeing people essentially camped out on the artificial turf.Oh goodie, we just (at 2128 local) got a tornado warning. There's more crawling text and funky beeping and buzzing sounds on The Weather Channel than I've ever seen/heard.Other folks blogging about this hurricane (and other Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125278411607365512005-08-28T20:04:00.000-05:002005-08-28T21:57:23.973-05:00Katrina UpdateThe weather today in our part of Okaloosa County wasn't bad, no worse than any normal summer day. Winds haven't even really picked up yet. Light rain started here (just north of Mary Esther Cutoff) at 2000 local, with lightning and thunder in the distance (but getting closer). I don't think anyone in the neighborhood put up plywood or took any of the more visible protective Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1125180068542796382005-08-27T16:48:00.000-05:002005-08-27T17:01:08.546-05:00You Spin Me Right 'Round Baby...Less than two days ago it was looking like Katrina was heading into my front yard. Then it was Appalachicola. Now it's looking like N'awlins is gonna get nailed. Still more than a day out, though, and it wouldn't take much of a change in course to result in a swing back to the east (although I'm no pro, I wouldn't be surprised to see an update later today or early Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1124897570453564442005-08-24T10:17:00.000-05:002005-08-24T10:32:50.460-05:00I'm Walkin' On Sunshine, Whoa!OK, so maybe that should be "walkin' on storm surge" - yes, the latest and greatest from Katrina and the Waves. Here we go again - as of the National Hurricane Center's update #4, it looks like Katrina will be making landfall in the Escambia/Santa Rosa/Okaloosa region sometime Monday afternoon. A couple of suggestions for people in the storm's path:Everyone, make Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1121348712361393362005-07-14T08:28:00.000-05:002005-07-14T08:45:12.366-05:00Getting Back to NormalMost of the county is getting back to normal. There are some areas, such as Holiday Isle, that will need more work. One of my commentors (OK, so far my only commentor! And maybe commentor isn't really a word, but what else do you call someone who comments? Commentator doesn't really fit, at least not from what I can get from the dictionary.) was asking about Holiday Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1121052943116218432005-07-10T22:16:00.000-05:002005-07-10T22:35:43.123-05:00We Dodged A BulletThat's the phrase that pays. Dennis moved quickly, stayed small, and fell apart as the eye moved inland. Yeah, there's some damage, but so far it looks like small potatoes compared to either Opal or Ivan. Looks like the biggest thing in Okaloosa is power outages. Here at the house (just off Mary Esther, near Sun Plaza) it was out for about 50 minutes, but as of 2015 local Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1121000748428242432005-07-10T07:52:00.000-05:002005-07-10T08:05:48.433-05:00We may have more of a problem than it looked like last night. On top of Dennis strengthening to a Cat 4, the local news (WEAR TV, the ABC affiliate on channel 3) and at least one of their radio network reporters are thinking they've picked up a northerly wobble or jog in the storm's track. The National Hurricane Center isn't saying so, but we'll see what comes up on the next report. Due north Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1120965925968340432005-07-09T22:19:00.000-05:002005-07-09T22:25:25.973-05:00Yeah, tomorrow's gonna be a rough one. So far today the worst has been a couple of way-out-from-the-storm feeder bands, one around noon and another around 1900. Some thunder and lightning and a little wind, but nothing compared to what's in the near future.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1120836979402159232005-07-08T10:36:00.000-05:002005-07-08T10:38:14.020-05:00This Is Only A Test...Let's see how well this "post by e-mail" gizmo works... It's another beautiful summer day in south Okaloosa county. As of Advisory 16 (11 AM EDT), Dennis is on a track to make landfall somewhere in the vicinity of the Florida-'Bama line. That's not far west of here, and is approximately where Ivan landed. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but it looks like Dennis will have a little more ooomph at Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1097286842059305932004-10-08T20:39:00.000-05:002004-10-08T20:54:02.060-05:00Advisory 1
The National Hurricane Center's first advisory on Matthew brings the storm almost directly over (tada!) Fort Walton Beach. That's all subject to change over the next couple of days, of course, but here I was thinking that I needed to get a post in about how dry it's been... Then we get this little blob of rain over the western gulf, and we get an actual chance of rain in the forecast.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095566617311554982004-09-18T22:49:00.000-05:002004-09-18T23:03:37.313-05:00Cleaning Up
Still no cable here. At least we have power - on the other side of the street, they don't (but they did when it came back on Thursday - go figure. Maybe some of the clean-up efforts broke something (which would be real interesting, since, other than the main line coming into the subdivision - and it's not involved in this problem - all of our lines are underground.))
When I get my Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095515602926114092004-09-18T08:48:00.000-05:002004-09-18T08:53:22.926-05:00Holy Sheet...
We're still here. Contact with "the outside world" may still be spotty - landlines have been intermittent, Nextel is either overloaded or "no service," and still no cable (TV or internet, at least here at the house). We lost power at approximately 2200 Wednesday night, and it came back on 22 hours later (absolutely incredible, considering that after Opal in '95 we didn't get Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095298641045834872004-09-15T20:19:00.000-05:002004-09-15T20:37:21.046-05:00A Big Night
Oh.My.
I've been mentioned on Instapundit! Wooohoo! Glenn had a posting with a few hurricane-bloggers, and he updated it to include me! Daaaamn...
And now Jim Cantore is in FWB. His co-correspondent Janine Albert said they were a couple of miles inland. If they're where I think they are, just north of Highway 98 near the western FWB city limit, it ain't two miles - they might be a Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095293505393694262004-09-15T19:02:00.000-05:002004-09-15T19:11:45.393-05:00Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
The rain hasn't been much over summer thunderstorm levels here, at least not yet, but the wind is picking up. We're getting more-frequent and increasingly strong gusts as Ivan creeps slowly to the north. Power's holding up pretty well - a couple of mini-brownouts, I suppose you could say, but not enough to knock the 'puter offline. (For those who know the Fort WaltonBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095270233332102222004-09-15T13:41:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:07:43.016-06:00A Video ClipOooh, hurricane video blogging! I'm really movin' up now, eh? Click here for a 15-second .mpg I made out on the island (same time and place as the photo below).Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095270106936822182004-09-15T13:38:00.000-05:002004-09-15T12:41:46.936-05:00Strike That Phrase, Please
Can we get rid of "hunker down," please? I know it fits the situation, but ohmigawd, with Charley, and Frances, and now Ivan, it's been beat into the ground. Every time I hear one of the weatherfolk say it, I get this image of that "Larry the cable guy" saying "Hunker down!" in the same way he says "Get 'er done!"
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095262854546190252004-09-15T10:18:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:10:00.990-06:00Looks Like It's On The Way...Still no heavy rain - just a few sprinkles. Winds have kinda sorta picked up inland (I'm about a mile and a half north of the sound, a little over two miles from the gulf, with Santa Rosa Island [aka Okaloosa Island] between the sound and the gulf). The gulf itself, though, is another matter...Click for larger image. This is the Gulf of Mexico, from Highway 98 about aBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095219433242961432004-09-14T22:20:00.000-05:002004-09-14T22:37:13.243-05:00Cantore - Italian for "Run Like Hell"?
So the wife and I go out for dinner, find Friday's is one of the few places still open (yeah, even at 7:30 this evening - McDonald's, Publix, the list of closed places is a long one). We sit down, and of course The Weather Channel is up on the big screen, and who do they show? Jim Cantore, of course - can't have a hurricane without him. Commentors on at Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095189229784504432004-09-14T14:03:00.000-05:002004-09-14T14:13:49.783-05:00So Far So Good (But Then, It's Still Early)
It's a nice summer day here, where the only out-of-the-ordinary thing weatherwise is the breeze being a little stronger and gustier than normal. This morning started out with a ragged overcast, but most of the day it's been partly cloudy. Had lunch with the wife, and noticed a lot of homes and businesses boarded up. There was a hefty line at the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095131604002499702004-09-13T22:03:00.000-05:002004-09-13T22:13:24.003-05:00Fasten Your Seatbelts - It Could Be a Bumpy Week
We now have (as of National Hurricane Center Advisory 47) a hurricane watch up for the northern gulf coast, including good ol' Fort Walton Beach (and Destin, Pensacola, and so on and so forth). Still about two days out, so the current projected track with Ivan going right into Mobile Bay may change, intensity hard to predict, etc. Around the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1095041545502172852004-09-12T21:01:00.000-05:002004-09-12T21:12:25.503-05:00Watchful Waiting
Isn't that what you call it while you wait for a situation to either clear up, or turn to poop? That's about the deal right now with Ivan and us Fort Walton Beach folks, I suppose. Eye of the Storm is doing his hurricane thing, and in the course of his research dug up a bit about Eglin AFB! Eglin's maybe ten miles east of here, as the storm-driven trashcan flies. Just drop into Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1094958358396635232004-09-11T21:53:00.000-05:002004-09-11T22:05:58.396-05:00Uh Oh...
I never really wrapped up my Frances-blogging, mostly because there wasn't anything to wrap up. If the rain I noticed was typical of the rest of Okaloosa County, I'd say our total rainfall from Frances would maybe fill a Dixie cup. The wind? Baaaahhh - we get more than that from a good summer thunderstorm. Now, though, we have Ivan, and it looks like it's gonna get interesting. Cat 5 Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1094437803464075742004-09-05T21:16:00.000-05:002004-09-05T21:30:03.463-05:00So Far So Good...
The slightly gusty breeze we had earlier today has dropped off to almost nothing here at the house, but along Highway 98 in Fort Walton Beach, at least an hour ago, it was still a little windy. At the Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island, at approximately 7 PM local, the gulf was almost flat - definitely not the kind of conditions that attract surfers and cause the weather Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1094401838395676282004-09-05T11:23:00.000-05:002004-09-05T11:30:38.396-05:00Headed This Way
I guess it's official when the weather folks extend the hurricane warnings to an area less than 20 miles from your home. Destin is now included in the warning area. I've found another Florida Panhandle blogger at http://paperfrog.com/, and there's a little hurricane-blogging going on there. Picked up a case of water at Sam's on Thursday, but unless Frances does a massive Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1094354300095503772004-09-04T22:11:00.000-05:002004-09-04T22:18:20.096-05:00My First Hurricane-Blogging Attempt
Looks like ol' Frances is heading this way - eventually. It'd be nice to not have her screw up Monday - a little strengthening over the gulf and landfall for mid-day Tuesday would be fine (as long as Joanie Communist in our contracting office lets us scuzzball contractors out for the day). Any other bloggers in the Florida Panhandle? Helloooooo!
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1090948751478275732004-07-27T12:16:00.000-05:002004-07-27T12:19:11.480-05:00Impressive Numbers...
From Boston, but probably not the kind of thing the Dems want to shout from the rooftops. From http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/cullinan200407271222.asp comes this:
Boston, Mass — On Monday, day one of the Democratic Convention, Bostonians voted with their feet and stayed away from their city in droves.
That's why the long-expected commuter nightmare failed to Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1089496319341633412004-07-10T16:38:00.000-05:002004-07-10T16:51:59.340-05:00Singing Monkeys
I had planned to see The Manchurian Candidate when it comes out in the next few weeks, but, based on Meryl Streep's performance at the JohnJohn fundraiser earlier this week, I've decided against it. Denzel Washington's a great actor, and the movie certainly looks interesting (from what I've seen in the commercials), but Ms Streep's comments (link to New York Times, registration Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1077505947626116672004-02-22T21:12:00.000-06:002004-02-22T21:17:35.606-06:00Scared S****less
Based on this site, presumably created by someone backing one of the Dem candidates (or the Dems in general), I'd say the Dems are running severely scared. If that wasn't enough, Terry McAuliffe is freakin' big-time, I understand. Hehehehehehehe. If you're a Bush supporter and you can spare it, kick $10 to ol' Ralph. Think of the pain you're causing Scary Kerry, Pretty EddieBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1077370228032751382004-02-21T07:30:00.000-06:002004-02-21T07:35:22.043-06:00Go Ralph Go!
Maybe tomorrow there will actually be something worth seeing on the Sunday talk shows. If Nader really does decide to run, then I think it's very possible the Dems don't have a chance this year. If Ralphie goes for it, I'll probably kick a few bucks his way. Kerry isn't so scary with Ralph Nutso in the race!Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1077164802249371542004-02-18T22:26:00.000-06:002004-02-18T22:31:22.996-06:00Now this is interesting - found it via a link at Instapundit: Tigersushi. It's a music site, the musical part not yet fully explored, but I just really dig the cat icon. And the site map - has a funky kind of SimCity-ish feel.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-1077158829204221842004-02-18T20:47:00.000-06:002004-02-18T20:49:45.920-06:00Wow - here I am, making one of those "I used to update my blog every couple of weeks" remarks. Couple of weeks heck - more like every few months! A good part of the long time between my previous posts was my internet connection - good ol' dialup. Recently, though, I hooked up with Cox's "high-speed internet" service. Dang, it is fast for sure! I got the service because of a course I'm takingBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-106328485560608692003-09-11T07:46:00.000-05:002003-09-11T07:54:15.586-05:009-11+2
Hey, Osama, if you're really out there, put up or shut up, will ya? And it would be nice if CNN and the rest of the media would stop treating every "new" Osama or Saddam tape as "Breaking News." Chances are they were recorded a long time ago, and have about as much threat content as an Eminem song - annoying, but harmless.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-106316357792104142003-09-09T22:12:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:05:13.563-06:00The Date Shows Up In the Strangest Places...Not unreasonable, just the way these things go, but still, it's a reminder.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-884280852003-02-02T11:44:00.000-06:002003-02-02T11:44:02.390-06:00WHERE WERE YOU WHEN - Just what we didn't need, another "Where were you when..." moment. Not this kind, at least. Yesterday morning I checked the local forecast on The Weather Channel, then tapped the channel down button to start seeing what else was on. The next channel down is MSNBC, and they were running video of what looked like a bolide. For a second I thought I was seeing a real-world Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-883681672003-02-01T01:07:00.000-06:002003-02-01T01:07:54.823-06:00Speaking of oil, and Arianna Huffington, I just went to my local DM (Destruction Motors) dealer and ordered a 2003 Behemoth XXL. Yes, the XXL is because it's just plain friggin' huge. They start at XL, and go up to UG (UltraGrande), but you have to drive the UG models on the centerline, because they're about 30 feet wide. The XXL is just a tad wider than a Ford Excursion. These babies come Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-883681312003-02-01T01:06:00.000-06:002003-02-01T01:06:33.040-06:00From The Moody Blues "I Know You're Out There Somewhere":
"And if you wake up wondering
In the darkness I'll be there
My arms will close around you
And protect you with the truth"
Yes, it sounds like a song to the one true love not yet met, or the one true love lost, but that last line - why does it have a resonance now, when so many are demanding proof of Iraq's bad intentions? Soon, we'll Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-830976302002-10-16T22:10:00.000-05:002002-10-16T22:10:29.800-05:00Blog-tech time... Here I was, trying to get RedCoyote to start using permalinks, and it looks like Blogger took care of it for me! If you want to link to any of my posts, you might be better off to use the link provided by the hyperlink/underlined timestamp at the end of the post (the part that looks like - Bob, 9:21 PM). By the way, if you're reading this and you haven't let me know already,Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-830443172002-10-15T21:53:00.000-05:002002-10-15T21:53:29.740-05:00In the wake of the Bali attack, if those who claim to speak for Islam do not, cannot, or will not come forward to condemn the bombing, in the strongest possible terms, and if they do not do everything in their power to excise the Islamofascist wing of their "religion," then they deserve whatever fate may fall upon them and their houses. I was raised to be tolerant, even accepting, of the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-822954262002-09-29T22:06:00.000-05:002002-09-29T22:12:10.000-05:00I'm not sure this is a proper Fisking (go to Instapundit for some good info on the concept), but here goes...
In a an article on CNN's web site, we were treated to news of Barbra Streisand's latest pronouncement from on high. Text from the article is in bold.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barbra Streisand has instructed an aide to fire off a letter urging House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt to "go onBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-820253542002-09-23T21:47:00.000-05:002002-09-23T21:47:17.456-05:00MARYLAND - DISARMED AND BROKE From an article in Time on Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, running for governor of Maryland: "And her association with Governor Parris Glendening has saddled her with some blame for next year's projected $1.3 billion deficit." If I recall correctly, Glendening has been one of the more rabidly anti-gun governors, and it was primarily for that reason that I hoped someoneBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-819349532002-09-21T21:47:00.000-05:002002-09-21T21:48:47.000-05:00In a well-written but potentially controversial article, Steven Den Beste, captain of the USS Clueless, writes: "The existing Arab culture which is the source of this war is a total loss. It must be shattered, annihilated, leaving behind no more traces in the Arab lands than the Samurai left in Japan or the mounted knights left in Europe." Den Beste puts in a lot of supporting detail, and the Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-814905222002-09-11T22:48:00.000-05:002002-09-11T22:48:48.900-05:00Tonight I graduated three students from a private pilot ground school class (Kay, Dustin, Ryan - good on ya!). I didn't intentionally plan for their final exam to fall on 11 September - it just worked out that way. As I was putting the schedule together, back in June, and came up to the final exam date, I was a little taken aback to see it fell on the first anniversary of That Day. I Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-814904362002-09-11T22:46:00.000-05:002002-09-11T22:48:02.000-05:00Hey, this is pretty cool! Ran into it on one of the other blogs (don't remember which one, now - note to self: keep better notes!)
What revolution are You?Made by altern_active
Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-814379562002-09-10T22:43:00.000-05:002002-09-10T22:50:58.000-05:00I just watched PBS's Why the Towers Fell and Stranded Yanks: Diary Between Friends, and in the contrast between the insane violence shown in the first and the incredible generosity in the second, I see how an oft-discussed concept works. Some call it karma, others say "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," still others, "What goes around comes around." To all those who've stood by America in the past Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-813378242002-09-08T21:37:00.000-05:002002-09-08T21:37:57.676-05:00Too much TV coverage on 11 Sept 2002 of the events on 11 Sept 2001? Not possible. The image of airliners being flown into buildings, of towers of steel and concrete crumbling, pulverizing the people left inside, should be burned into every American's mind. Those who think That Day should be swept under the rug deserve to be visited by this nightmare scene every time they close their eyes. Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-813371272002-09-08T21:21:00.000-05:002002-09-08T21:21:29.673-05:00OK, so what's the deal with Scott Ritter? Isn't this the guy who the Iraqis called a cowboy because of his persistence when he was on the weapons inspection team a few years ago? What's changed his mind to make him Sadam Hussein's best close personal bud, saying that Iraq has no WMD, nor ability to develop them? Maybe his mention of letting the inspectors back in is one of those rope-a-dope Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-810149132002-09-01T22:22:00.000-05:002002-09-01T22:30:20.000-05:00Ten days until The Anniversary. My two cents on rebuilding: replace the towers. Add one floor to each, to give Osama a nice concrete and steel poke in the eye, to say, "You knock it down, we'll build it back, bigger and better." Consider relocating the towers on the site, and preserve the original "footprints" as memorial space, but, assuming there is a continuing need for the office space, Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3723399.post-808881262002-08-29T16:36:00.000-05:002002-08-29T16:36:05.633-05:00This is the first posting of my first blog. Welcome! I'm Bob Powell, and I'm pleased you've taken the time to stop by and check out my blog. I've taken inspiration in this blogging business from Instapundit, LILEKS, and many others. I'll provide links to them in the future, but I want to get the blogball rolling.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017917923425295830noreply@blogger.com0