Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Quotes of the day

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From Ben & Bawb's Blog, where the brothers speculate that " You might be a rural Montanan if . . . " You laugh uproari...
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President Obama's Middle Eastern dilemma

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Robert Kagan has written a very thoughtful analysis in the Wall Street Journal about the choices and conundrums confronting President Obam...
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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Russia sends a message to ISIL - and Europe too

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I noted with interest the route followed by a Russian airstrike on ISIL in Syria recently.  The Daily Mail provides this map of the route ...
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Testing a Taurus Tracker .44 Magnum revolver: second follow-up

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Regular readers will recall how I 'torture-tested' two Taurus .44 Magnum revolvers at Blogorado last month.  I followed up that po...
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The chaotic situation in Syria and the Islamic world

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There are two useful sources of information about what's happened in Syria and the Islamic world to fuel the current 'refugee crisi...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

Not tacticool, but definitely tactile

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Courtesy of a link at The Feral Irishman's place, we find the tactical version of neuticles or truck nuts :  the TAC-SAC . App...
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The military-industrial complex at work

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Doesn't it make you proud to be a taxpayer?  Ares reports : Not surprisingly, the Long-Range Strike Bomber protest is on. Boeing an...

An Indiegogo campaign that's too funny

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I laughed out loud when Miss D. drew this Indiegogo campaign to my attention. Hello Mythos fans, Duck enthusiasts and Indiegogoers! Dt...
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It looks - and sounds - like a demented dragonfly!

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Here's a radio-controlled miniature helicopter performing some amazing stunts at the recent Southwest Heli Rodeo .  Frankly, I'd ne...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Armageddon, ISIL and the West

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I'm not superstitious;  nor am I a Biblical fundamentalist.  Nevertheless, the eschatological parallels between what the Book of Revel...
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Doofus Of The Day #865

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A tip o' the hat to reader DB for sending the link to this story .  Today's award goes to a particularly stupid criminal in Massach...
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Useful medical advice - sort of

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Namely, ' Don't Fart During an MRI '. Peter
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"A Crisis Our Universities Deserve"

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That's the title of an op-ed article in the New York Times last weekend.  Here's a brief excerpt. At small liberal-arts college...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

"America's Poorest White Town"

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That's what the Guardian calls Beattyville, Kentucky, in an in-depth study of the poorest region in the USA .  It's a long and hear...
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Hotel weirdness

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A Reddit thread asks, " Hotel workers of Reddit, what is the strangest thing you've seen guests doing? "  The answers are som...
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A side effect of Russian intervention in Syria

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I've been wondering why Russia had committed relatively few combat forces to its intervention in Syria.  Strategy Page has some thought...
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This image says it all about the Syrian refugee question

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Courtesy of Mike Miles : Click the image for a larger view, and please pass it on.  In the light of events in Paris last week, it...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

That must have been a wild ride . . .

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The US Air Force is scrapping a brand-new gunship after an in-flight incident that left it damaged beyond repair.  Flight Global reports : ...
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A damning statistic about Big Brother

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We've spoken before in these pages about asset forfeiture - the seizure by police and prosecutors of assets allegedly derived directl...
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Doofus Of The Day #864

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Today's award goes to the organizers of a sporting event in Bangkok, Thailand . An error by race organisers has turned Bangkok into ...
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