I'm 7 and 3/4

Hot chocolate: check. Book and lunch bags: check. Sunglasses: check. Cheerful and sunny disposition: check. Ok, Dad, let's get wakin' to school!

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Priceless

Watching the US play Algeria in the World Cup while sitting in an Irish pub in Germany and eating fish & chips and drinking a Newcastle: $16.76













Seeing the English euphoria over their Slovenia win get crushed when they realize they may have to take on the US: priceless



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Where am I? Somewhere tasty...

I was told it was a 'quesadilla' but, it seemed more like a 'burrito'. Good and filling either way.

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"Oh! Capitalism!" or "Oh! Crap!"

Russian arms manufacturer, Concern Morinformsystem-Agat, has a new nifty toy they would love to build and sell to you if you are "another state and not [to] any sort of nonstate actor or terrorist group," says Robert Hewson, editor of the arms-industry journal "Jane's Air-Launched Weapons."

This new system, which could be built but appears to not be currently sitting on a shelf, the 'Club-K', fits nicely inside a shipping container. These shipping containers could be put on ordinary cargo ships, trains or pulled by a semi as shown in their video. (Go to about 2:30 to get to the interesting parts)

Why do I not feel any safer knowing that they would not sell them directly to terrorists?

(For the same reason that a lot of Russian hardware already ens up in places it shouldn't? Or because restrictive gun laws in several US states haven't stopped people from reselling to criminals? I guess Pakistan could always report that a Club-K system was stolen, right?)

Why do I not feel any safer knowing that the systems -- as currently specified -- requires a satellite for guidance?

(Since it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to 'upgrade' the system to use more 'self-guiding' missiles)

Why do I see so many Russian mob-types on '24' with 'Jack Bauer' and they always end up in an 'import/export' companies dock facilities loaded up with -- you guessed it -- shipping containers? Or maybe I should say, 'shipping containers'.

Yeah... how could this go wrong? I mean, US arms don't end up in the hands of terrorists (unless you count all the stuff US arms companies have sold over the years, or how the US has given, literally, TONS of weapons to the Iraqi army and police which then turn around and sell them to whoever), right?

I think I see the plotline of the next '24' (if this wasn't to be the last season) or the next action movie...

Illinois Warriors Summit, started by Robert Malnik. Helping Vets new and old.

http://www.illinoiswarriorsummit.com/

The Lion Park in South Africa

Went to the Lion Park. It was a bit cold and wet. Saw lots of lions. Played with the cubs.

I'l update this with more later, but I'm hungry now.

Enjoy the pix.

PS: I didn't originally say this but, if you click on the Lion Park image above, it takes you to the pix and video I took.

And if you look out your left window...

You can see the skyline of downtown Chicago.

No, really: it's in there...




This week Dallas and next week THE WORLD! Ahh MUUUHAHAHAHhahahahah!

Well, not really the WORLD... just Johannesburg.


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