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October 30, 2010
If they could, statues would hate them.
Statue cleaners surely do.
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October 14, 2010
Jim Henderson is serving us–that’s you and me as well as “US”–in Afghanistan.
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September 29, 2010
Back in May, I blogged that I’d shot well enough to earn an Outdoor Expert ranking.
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September 29, 2010
Hot? Did someone say it’s hot in Arizona? And at the end of September?
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September 22, 2010
Wow, what a turnout! We had a total of ten (10) shooters last night for the Nighthawks weekly event at the Phoenix Rod and Gun Club in spite of the unseasonal heat. That included three beginners and one out-of-state visitor. (Beginners and visitors is how the ranks will be built up. They are always welcome!)
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July 5, 2010
I went to the range yesterday, the 4th, for several reasons.
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June 26, 2010
About five years ago, the adult leader of the Boy Scouts of America troops in Phoenix said that the Arizona chapters had stopped their 100+ year old tradition of taking scouts out for camping trips to southern Arizona because “coyotes” with AK-47s were shepherding illegals into the scout camps and demanding food and water.
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June 12, 2010
My work takes me to many large and successful companies. Some of them build airplanes. Some of them make automobiles. And some of them … well, they won’t say what they do. They just smile and change the subject.