Guard Dog

Anyone know a good recipe for a bad dog? I left a NY Strip on the counter to defrost and now the plate is lying in the floor, looking cleaner than ever, an a certain Rhodesian Ridgeback I won't name is looking entirely too happy with himself. There is only two of us here dammit. if I didn't eat it it had to have been him! I figure if I just cook him I'll be getting my steak. Now, where's the salt?

That's the British national past time (queue Henry V speech in the play of the same name)

Pan seared rock bass fillet with yellow squash and lima beans. And it was all fresh. I caught the fish this morning and the veggies came from my garden not two hours ago. I think that is so cool! I made sun tea today too. I wonder if lemon trees will grow here?

How is RTW2? Performance issues aside? *cough cough* Reviewed by us Sounds like it took a turn in the direction of Master of Orion III. I was either going to buy that or Football Manager 2014. I was leaning towards the latter actually since I still play all the other TW games regularly.

How is RTW2? Performance issues aside?

First pitch tonight and Hellboy gives up a walkoff homer. Hopefully it gets better from here. A three game sweep of the Rangers would not be enough to lock it up but it would help.

I haven't asked her yet. I'm going to do it while we're away. I'm hoping for moonlit Hawaiian beach or something memorably cheesy like that.

And in the news today Obama has used an Executive order to waive a law the prohibits the United States from giving arms to terrorist backed groups. So, he want to take my guns away from me and give guns to the Syrian rebels, terrorists and all. Is it 2016 yet? http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-waives-ban-on-arming-terrorists-to-allow-aid-to-syrian-opposition/article/2535885

I've been working in Arkansas the last week. I feel like a big weight has been lifted since my part of the Simon Mall project if now completed. I've got nothing really going on for the next two weeks then I'm going to Hawaii with Lady Guard Dog. I can't wait.

Rays 1, Rangers 0. So far so good but these next three games are just going to KILL me with suspense! But at least this will take my mind off of how lousy the Buccaneers have played these last two weeks.

You know Lady C I was having the same problem until very recently. Before that I found that diluting those feelings with lots of booze will leave you feeling a pleasant sort of apathy that, while not ideal, is certainly better than the alternatives. It's like you know the world will end someday but you just don't care.

Obama has come out of this looking like a total fool. I already had less than no respect for the man so I can hardly say I'm surprised this was botched. He would have been far wiser to have just stayed out of it and if he said anything at all just say the US was concerned and were looking into it. Instead he blustered, threatened, vacillated, then backed off and was clearly outmaneuvered. Whatever credibility he had left both at home and abroad are gone. While I am happy we are not committing military assets to a fight that has nothing to do with us and does us no favors whoever wins I am a little upset that my President and country come off looking like an idiot.

What Oerwinde said.

My condolences Alan. Grieving is an entirely personal process that everyone will do in their own way. I don't find your facebook tribute at all impersonal or inappropriate. Nonetheless removing it because your aunt asked you to was the right thing to do. I think Ros had a good point in his post.

We're going to have to agree to disagree then my friend. If you put a Sunni & a Shia together in a room and informed each that the other was the last of his kind they would fight to the death. They will stop fighting only when one has wiped other out. And then they remaining ones will look for someone else to fight. No one can help them.

Ugly loss last night. Just terrible. Yeah, forget the division title, now i'm just hoping they hold on to the last wildcard spot. Not looking good right now. This road trip has jut killed the season.

Ahhh the first day of the NFL season. GF is coming over. She's a big Titans fan (I LOVE women who are into sports, not THATS sexy) so were grilling shish-kabobs and watching the games and later on.... who knows!

Wals they are NOT fighting for a descent future. They are fighting to replace one strongman with another one whose religion they like. I'll repeat, there are no good guys here. This is one band of savages fighting several other bands of savages who all want something different. And when it's all over the bands of savages who survive will start fighting the other bands that survived. This war will not end with the fall of Assad. And it's just not our problem anymore. It's long past time the rest of the world begins to exploit their own resources and wash their hands of the middle east.

Of course it is, this is an internet forum after all! But on a serious note since it is a pretty well known fact that over half of the rebels fighting in Syria are affiliated with a terrorist backed group, and al Nusura outright claiming to be part of al Qaeda any action taken against Assad benefits them. So it really isn't that much of a stretch is it Hurlie?

Let's hope you don't catch a catfish, too. ... just

I love archery. I have two bows. One is a custom made recurve I had done by Mahsaka when I was working in Texas. That one is just for fun. I also have a 20 year old Browning Timberwolf compound bow. I use that one for hunting & fishing (once). Archery is ALL about technique. I always thought it was the purest form of marksmanship. You really should stick with it Woldan. (No pun intended )

@Wals: Striped bass, rock bass, speck and bream are the most common fish in the Hatchie River & Cold Creek which is where I do most of my fishing. They respond best to live bait like crickets, minnows, and night crawlers (earthworms to those of you not from the south). Top water artificial plugs and spins work well for striped bass but sinking lures are more for lakes since the current is so strong. I once caught a brown trout which was surprising since they are more common in the mountains out east. @Bruce: My property is bordered on the north side by the Anderson Tully Wildlife Management Area. and on the west by Cold Creek. I can walk to the Hatchee River in about 30 min. It is remote by any definition. I use DirectTv satellite for my TV & Internet since there is no cable or broadband service here. My cell phone work ok if I go outside. The nearest towns are Covington which is about 18 miles and Millington which is about 20. Memphis is the nearest city. My nearest neighbor is about 1 mile away. I have never met them but they wave when I drive by. But my house is not a cabin in the woods by any means. I just had it built four years ago. And while I do get a fair amount of produce from the garden and fish, fowl & venison from Tully most of my groceries come from Kroger! Which is fortunate because I only could 4 Gar fish today. You really can't eat them so I put them back. The only fish I'll be eating tonight will be fish sticks from Gortons!

Fish. I don't know what kind, I haven't gone down to the river yet. But we'll see.

That series with the Sox at the Trop is the whole season in three games. a sweep will not put the Rays in first but losing even 2 of 3 will put the division crown out of reach for good and all. But for God's sake you can't just lay down to the M's that way. The Yanks can't be counted on to make these losses a victimless crime!

I disagree. WWII allowed us to gain the military and technological advances that put us at the top of the food chain. WWII was a whole different story. We were attacked. Prior to that there was not much interest in involving ourselves in what was seen as a purely European affair. But then again nobody really knew Hitler was busy exterminating an entire race either. That might have shifted sentiment if it was known. WWI was a good example of a bad intervention. I could easily make the case they US involvement did nothing for us and may have actually made things worse. Korea and the Gulf War were also good interventions because we were defending an ally from an invasion. Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, now this were all expensive mistakes from which nothing good came on our part. I think the Gulf War was a good intervention, and I do believe American involvement in WW2 had a positive effect on the world. I'm unsure about WW1 - I'm sure I could find points both for and against - but I'm leaning towards saying it was a good intervention. You should check up how South Korea really was during the Korean war. It was a brutal, repressive dictatorship (and to be honest, at the time many people would probably have preferred to have lived in North Korea, global politics aside, very ironic of you compare it to the current situation) on a patch of land with no resources at all to talk about. The intervention in itself was also an atrocity in terms of the use of overwhelming force against civilians (compare Dresden, et.c.). Military leaders on the losing sides of wars have been convicted in international courts for less. The South Korean government might have been "allies" of the US on paper, but really Guard Dog, you have got to have one ounce of moral fiber in your body. You don't "ally" with dictatorships of that kind. You talk about "rights" and the American constitution but you're willing to pay a fortune to save a brutal dictatorship overseas which ****s in the face of those very same "rights" of it's own people? It's pointless to aid a foreign dictatorship when the only outcome is a different flavor of totalitarianism. By the same logic of yours, the US should also have aided Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. Not every ally is going to measure up to any moral standard we might have. Hell, most of them won't. But North Korea was backed by the Chinese and they invaded the South who was backed by us. We don't have to like of approve of the south to realize intervening is necessary or an alliance with the US is not worth the paper it's written on. If China invades Taiwan we're going to war with China. not because we like Taiwan but because that is what we agreed to do. I wasn't really comparing Korea to Syria though. Just pointing it out as an example of a good intervention. Or at least a necessary one. I think you agree the ultimate outcome of this Syrian conflict is not going to be a free and stable country no matter who wins. So why bother? We have no alliance to protect, both sides of the conflict are sworn enemies of both our allies and ourselves. We've spent the last twelve years fighting against Al-Qaeda, now Obama wants us to fight for them. No thank you.