RANDOM THOUGHTS #11
Steve Cole muses: Just thinking to himself.
1. Is there any real doubt that the guy who wants to build that mosque at ground zero and the foreign contributors who are paying for it think it's a "victory mosque" on "conquered territory"? I mean, really? You can rest assured that virtually all Moslems regard it as a victory mosque.
2. A friend told me that TOP SHOT is casting for Season Two, but Petrick and I are combat shooters (the liver or kidney is as good as the heart, since either one puts the target down) not precision shooters. I may shoot High Expert (243 out of 250) on a military scoring system, but I could not qualify for the qualifying round of a precision-target competition.
3. If you think that the 20th Maine won the battle of Gettysburg, then you don't know as much about that battle as you think you do (and you absolutely don't know enough about the battle to be telling anyone else about it).
4. My old Guard chaplain dropped by one morning, asking me to write a screenplay about Elijah (or maybe Elisha, I'm not sure which). I am sure there would be a market for such a movie (given the number of serious Christians in this country) but I told him that I'm not the guy to write it. I would need a year of research about the man. (This should be written by some biblical scholar who already knows this stuff.) Even then, I have no Hollywood connections so the studios would not know if I was the one (out of one thousand guys trying to peddle a script) who actually had a winner.
5. In the recent scandal about corrupt politicians in a small town in California, over 500 newspaper, wire service, and television stories reported their ridiculously high salaries, but only one of those mentioned they were all Democrats. And the liberals still claim there is no media bias?
6. Something a lot of people don't realize is if you're even stopped for anything from a rolling stop to a busted tail light, the cops run wants and warrants on your vehicle and your driver's license, just in case there is a warrant out for your arrest. If it's an out of state warrant, you'll be sitting there until the state in question phones back and says if they do or don't want to pay to extradite you. None of this applies to me but I know a lady who does have an old warrant in a distant state that never wants to pay to extradite her, but it costs her several hours of sitting in a police station every time she gets a ticket.
7. When you see an actor swinging a heavy sword in a movie, the sword probably is aluminum because very few people who haven't done it for a lifetime have the strength to do it with a real steel sword.
8. Did you know that there are about 100 hate crimes against Moslems per year in the US and about 600 hate crimes per year against Jews in the US?
9. Did you know that dolphins actually have names they use to communicate with each other? Each dolphin selects his own name while an infant (being some combination of those strange sounds they make), and other dolphins address the individual using this self-selected name.
10. Spain has no concept of middle names or maiden names. (A woman keeps her surname after marriage, unlike in the US where she takes her husband's surname.) In Spain, everybody has two surnames, the first being your father's first surname and the second being your mother's first surname. Lots of women in Spain (and France) have a two-part first name, the first part of which is Maria (which they never use), going through life addressed by the second half of their first name.
1. Is there any real doubt that the guy who wants to build that mosque at ground zero and the foreign contributors who are paying for it think it's a "victory mosque" on "conquered territory"? I mean, really? You can rest assured that virtually all Moslems regard it as a victory mosque.
2. A friend told me that TOP SHOT is casting for Season Two, but Petrick and I are combat shooters (the liver or kidney is as good as the heart, since either one puts the target down) not precision shooters. I may shoot High Expert (243 out of 250) on a military scoring system, but I could not qualify for the qualifying round of a precision-target competition.
3. If you think that the 20th Maine won the battle of Gettysburg, then you don't know as much about that battle as you think you do (and you absolutely don't know enough about the battle to be telling anyone else about it).
4. My old Guard chaplain dropped by one morning, asking me to write a screenplay about Elijah (or maybe Elisha, I'm not sure which). I am sure there would be a market for such a movie (given the number of serious Christians in this country) but I told him that I'm not the guy to write it. I would need a year of research about the man. (This should be written by some biblical scholar who already knows this stuff.) Even then, I have no Hollywood connections so the studios would not know if I was the one (out of one thousand guys trying to peddle a script) who actually had a winner.
5. In the recent scandal about corrupt politicians in a small town in California, over 500 newspaper, wire service, and television stories reported their ridiculously high salaries, but only one of those mentioned they were all Democrats. And the liberals still claim there is no media bias?
6. Something a lot of people don't realize is if you're even stopped for anything from a rolling stop to a busted tail light, the cops run wants and warrants on your vehicle and your driver's license, just in case there is a warrant out for your arrest. If it's an out of state warrant, you'll be sitting there until the state in question phones back and says if they do or don't want to pay to extradite you. None of this applies to me but I know a lady who does have an old warrant in a distant state that never wants to pay to extradite her, but it costs her several hours of sitting in a police station every time she gets a ticket.
7. When you see an actor swinging a heavy sword in a movie, the sword probably is aluminum because very few people who haven't done it for a lifetime have the strength to do it with a real steel sword.
8. Did you know that there are about 100 hate crimes against Moslems per year in the US and about 600 hate crimes per year against Jews in the US?
9. Did you know that dolphins actually have names they use to communicate with each other? Each dolphin selects his own name while an infant (being some combination of those strange sounds they make), and other dolphins address the individual using this self-selected name.
10. Spain has no concept of middle names or maiden names. (A woman keeps her surname after marriage, unlike in the US where she takes her husband's surname.) In Spain, everybody has two surnames, the first being your father's first surname and the second being your mother's first surname. Lots of women in Spain (and France) have a two-part first name, the first part of which is Maria (which they never use), going through life addressed by the second half of their first name.
posted by Federation Commander at 9:11 AM
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