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From Yahoo news:
FORT WORTH, Texas - Fed up with deadly drive-by shootings, incessant drug dealing and graffiti, cities nationwide are trying a different tactic to combat gangs: They’re suing them.
Fort Worth and San Francisco are among the latest to file lawsuits against gang members, asking courts for injunctions barring them from hanging out together […]

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As you no doubt know, Shark Week started last night. I used to really like Shark Week, but over the last couple of years especially, I’ve been getting really sick of this nonsense about making apologies for sharks, you know, like, “Sharks never attack humans intentionally — they just want to be your friend, and […]

Carne asada (with guajillo puree), rojas, and guacamole (and tortillas, of course — click the pic to hugeify).

Recipe(s) here.

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I give you Caramel Apple Tarts (click image for full-size):

Here’s the recipe. If you’re not pastry adept, tarts are a good option. They use a short crumb dough, more like cookie dough than crust (just try not to eat it all as you’re working with it), and you can handle it as much as you […]

Fred on Federalism.

I had some tortellini in the refrigerator I needed to use (I’m making carne asada with rojas and guacamole tomorrow), as well as tomatoes I bought last week at the Amish farmers market (they needed to be used up, like today), so I decided this morning to make soup. Since today was the Pilgrimage to […]

Courtesy of Going to the Mat, we have Man, 93, shoots violent robber:
An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said.
Wing-nut! Er wait, I seem to be channeling a Democrat there. Back to the story:
Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police […]

To judge from the blogosphere, I must be the only human being alive who has never read a Harry Potter book (I’ve seen all the movies). I know I swore off non-fiction for a year, but at Valley Forge, I picked this up, and not only does it look fascinating, but it reads like a […]

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If you want to observe the Moronus Americanus in his native habitat, the best place to go are Lowe’s, Circuit City, or Staple’s to watch the idiot employees, or the supermarket to watch the drooling customers and employees. Today, I got the not so rare opportunity to watch two idiots be even more idiotic than […]

or as Allahpundit says, “An audience of idiots is a joy forever.”

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A DNS server must be down somewhere. I can’t get to about two-thirds of the sites I try.

In the Susquehanna Valley, we passed a very seedy, run-down shop with a sign in front that said “Ye Olde Adult Gift Shoppe.”
Never mind. I don’t want to go there.

While touring historical sites, we ran into multiple instances of adults either being idiots or forgetting what it was like to be a kid (take your pick). For example:

Two boys, probably 10 or 11, were bored to tears in the Valley Forge historical museum. A couple of adults, directly behind my right shoulder, talked about […]

All of the photos, including Gettysburg, are now posted, arranged in sets by day.

“Peace Eternal in a Nation United”
–Inscibed across the base of the memorial
From the placard:
Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies from across the nation converged on Gettysburg in 1938 — 75 years after the battle — for their last great reunion. All Civil War veterans were invited with expenses paid, and nearly 2,000 attended. The […]

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 through July 3, 1863, in the area of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this one battle, 7,708 men were killed, 26,856 were wounded, and 10,800 were missing or captured. In this one battle, there were 45,364 casualties on both sides.

Gettysburg Casualties

USA

CSA

Total

Killed
3,149
4,559
7,708

Wounded
14,501
12,355
26,856

Missing/Captured
5,157
5,643
10,800

Total
22,807
22,557
45,364

In one battle.
 
 

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It’s about 70 miles out of the way, but it should be worth it. Gettysburg is, on this route, almost to the mile halfway home (if we weren’t stopping at Gettysburg, we’d just go directly to Harrisburg, then take 322 back over the mountains).

There will be lots of pictures (it’s supposed to be mostly sunny […]

The NRO comes down — hard — on the side of Kos.

While the character of Manhattan is distinctly feminine, Chicago is unabashedly masculine. Chicago has plenty of posh, but stroll down Michigan Avenue, and you’ll see as many people in Bears jerseys as fur coats. Chicago is the city of “da Bears” and Mike Ditka. Chicago is the city of steak and chop houses.
When Chicago does […]

are posted here.

1,263 years before Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, but 1,242 years after the Giza pyramids were built.

It’s rather awe-inspiring to realize that less time has passed between the present and Cleopatra than there is between Cleopatra and the Giza pyramids. To Cleopatra the pyramids were far older than she is to us.

King Tut. I strongly suspect they won’t allow pictures, but I’ll take the camera just in case. Tomorrow, Gettysburg, then home.

Since your ad for the principal’s position states that you want, and I quote, "A hands-on principal with significant experience as an educator," I’m your man. Read on.

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The writers at Inside Higher Ed just can’t help but squeal and faint. The title really is enough to tell you what morons they are: Beer, Brotherhood, and (oh no!) Guns.

We switched hotels, so we’re several blocks west of where we were and a couple of streets down, not far from Rittenhouse Square. We decided to walk Restaurant Row (Walnut) and find someplace to eat.
We ate at Passage to India, at Juniper. I can sum up the entire eating experience, review, and recommendation in one […]

Lunch at Geno’s with celebrities. Pics here.

The difference between Fred and Hillary.

The Bush Comeback: How I helped George Win in Iraq.

John Edwards is Esquire’s pick for sexiest woman alive, and the already unhinged dive further into the depths.

You decide: Not just pussies, but puritanical pussies to boot.

It’s 52 right now back home in the mountains. It’s 71 here in Philadelphia now.
Today, we switch hotels, then I head to Geno’s for a gunblogger lunch with Wyatt, Sebastian, and Bitter. After that, no plans yet.
Apparently, we’re missing a big crime wave back in Centre County.

Friday evening
Friday night we were tired, and didn’t have much time to do any research, so we made a serious error and relied on the blurbs in the hotel magazine. We ended up just around the corner at El Vez.
When a “review” of a restaurant includes descriptions such as, “hip, young, brash,” it’s a good […]

The room in Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Federation, and the Constitution were adopted.

Did the historic district. Pics are here. Again, no moonbats demanding reparations for Brits.
Ate lunch at Karma, an Indian restaurant. Very good (better than the place we ate dinner at last night, and shelled out 100 bucks for). Should you find yourself on Chestnut almost to the river in Philadelphia, I highly recommend it.

It’s about the same distance from home to Philadelphia as it is from Bloomington to Chicago, but it’s a very different drive. The glacier line is about twenty miles north of Bloomington, so from that point north, the drive is level — see for miles and miles in all directions level (and boring, a lot […]

Disclaimer: The Revolutionary War was over two hundred years ago. This is not meant in any way as an anti-British diatribe. We got over that a long time ago.
I’m quite happy to report that Valley Forge is moonbat-free. You’ll recall that the Ft. Sumter museum (the national park service museum on the mainland, not the […]