Archive for June, 2015
Richard Matt; DRT
By now you’ve heard that Marine Corps phony/murderer Richard Matt who escaped along with his murdering buddy, David Sweat, was made DRT (dead right there) by a Border Patrol agent in Upstate New York last Friday. According to the Christian Science Monitor, it was an interesting end to his career. For some reason, Matt shot […]
LTC Roy Tisdale
On June 28th, 2012, Lieutenant Colonel Roy Tisdale was murdered while he was giving a safety briefing to his troops in preparation for the 4th of July weekend at Fort Bragg, NC. Smitty served under him and wanted to remember him on the anniversary of his early departure, so these are Smitty’s words; In early […]
Sunday morning feel good story
David Mendoza, a restauranteur in Bemidji, Minnesota was forced to defend his business and his employees from a relative, Otoniel Carranza who he had fired a few weeks ago. Carranza had a habit of getting into altercations with the other employees, so Mendoza gave him $2000 to get back to his family in Atlanta, but […]
Melvin Lloyd Speed; another phony Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
Melvin Speed passed four years ago and his family planted him at the Houston National Cemetery. His gravestone reads that he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. Someone who knew the dearly departed, says nope, he was a Lieutenant Colonel but he’d been commissioned in the Texas State Guard (not to […]
Germans discuss personal defense
While I was looking for today’s feel good story, I found this one from Hamburg, Germany about an elderly man who fended off two folks who tried to force their way into his home. He shot one of them and that feller died nearby. It’s much less common in Germany than it is in the […]
More Thoughts on Guns and Murders
A comment by one of our regulars (VOV) the other day – along with a video posted by another reader in a different discussion – got me thinking. And it led me to look at a few numbers. I know that’s a huge surprise. Try to get over the shock. (smile) What I ran across […]
Saturday morning feel good story
Our story this morning comes from Union, Missouri, where a homeowner woke up to the sight of Eric M. Frazer standing over him holding the axe that Frazer had just used to break down the door. So, the homeowner put a knife through Mr. Frazer who, subsequently, un-assed the AO. Police found his car in […]
Weekend open thread
Since everyone seems to be swooning over the Supreme Court today, I’m going to take some time off from watching the spectacle that the media is making of it’s collective self. So here’s a picture from Ex-PH2 to stare at while it stares back.
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