Parkway Rest Stop

Sunshine State, Here We Come.

Jim — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:15 +0000

Yes, sports fans. It’s again that time of the year when the Usual Suspects assault Southwest Florida. As in the past, there will be many cocktails, lots of laughs and a constant gator watch.

Play nice while I’m gone.

“Congress is Running Out of Things to Ask.”

Jim — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:03:36 +0000

In February of this year, a blogger posed a question to the Punk-in-Chief about transparency in general and Benghazi in particular. Here is his response.

He positively sickens me.

Things Like This …

Jim — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:42:51 +0000

… give me hope that civilization still has a chance.

Amazing Peeps.

Jim — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:14:47 +0000

Check out this video of people doing amazing (often, quite crazy) things. I figure that it must be a combination of brain chemistry and autonomic nervous system soup that drives people to do this stuff.

Special note to my buddy Denny (the other half of the Elderly Brothers): Pay special attention to 3:46 in the video. I think I saw you do something a bit like that in Helen, Georgia a couple years ago. Yo, I figure that, with a little practice, you could pull this one off.

Thanks to da Chef of da Future for the link.

Liberal Paradise.

Jim — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:17:19 +0000

Wow! It’s even better than San Francisco!

R.I.P. Mrs. Thatcher

Jim — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:50:47 +0000

The “Iron Lady” sure could kick ass and take names.

I wish she were still alive.

I wish she were American

I wish she were President.

Columbia University: Are You Shitting Me?

Jim — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:24:26 +0000

Columbia has just hired on Kathy Boudin, a domestic terrorist, convicted felon, ex-con and murdering piece of shit, as an adjunct professor.

Hey mom and dad, do you really want to invest the small fortune in tuition necessary to send your kid to this retirement home for 1960’s domestic bombers?

New Jersey and Airships.

Jim — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:25:52 +0000

Airships have not fared well in New Jersey. Of course, when one thinks of airship disasters, the fiery crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937 immediately comes to mind. We all have seen the frightening film and listened to the iconic “Oh, the humanity” live newscast.

By contrast, we never hear of the crash of the Airship U.S.S. Akron, which went down off the coast of New Jersey’s Barnegat Light, in 1933 killing 73 of the 76-man navy crew, making it the worst airship disaster in history.

Finally, after eighty years, the event and the crew have been officially remembered.

A ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the deadliest airship crash was held in Manchester Township, Ocean County, in front of the Grand Army Memorial Park’s Civil War monument, which has a piece of a USS Akron girder affixed to it. The names of the 73 dead from the USS Akron — plus two more men who were killed on a Navy blimp that tried to rescue the Akron survivors — were read aloud before “Taps” was played.

Check out the article, video and slideshow here.

More here, including photos of the incident in which three line handlers were pulled into the air when the Akron accidently climbed while attempting to land near San Diego in 1932. Two of the men fell to their death.

Opening Day.

Jim — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:20:50 +0000

Yes, today is Opening Day for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets.

I thought on this day you might like to see The Greatest Play in Baseball History.

You’re welcome.

Thanks to reader and commenter, John, for the timely reminder.

Easter Santa.

Jim — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:09:09 +0000

HAPPY EASTER! HO HO HO!