Americanique

I cross border, poor and broke …

Dr. Ed — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:18:53 +0000

I cross border, poor and broke, Take bus, see employment folk. Nice man treat me good in there, Say I need to see welfare.

Welfare say, “You come no more, We send cash right to your door.” Welfare checks, they make you wealthy, Medicaid it keep you healthy!

By and by, I got plenty money, Thanks to you, American dummy. Write to friends in motherland, Tell them come as fast as you can.

They come in rags and Chebby trucks, I buy big house with welfare bucks. They come here, we live together, More welfare [...]

The America no enemy could defeat

Dr. Ed — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:12:15 +0000

Live to fly another day

Dr. Ed — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:43:40 +0000

December 7, 2012, Lethbridge, Canada. Pilot ejects from damaged FA-18. Rockets blow away canopy. This is about 2 seconds before crash, shown below. (If you don’t have fast reactions, don’t fly these babies.)

Canopy gone, now the solid fuel rockets blast pilot from cockpit with drogue chute opened. Note left engine nozzle at rear is fully opened, showing engine #1 lost power. Severe G-force pins pilot’s head to his chest as his seat propels him from danger. Seat rockets burn for only [...]

What a great country!

Dr. Ed — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:39:59 +0000

This morning I went to sign up my dogs for welfare. At first the lady said,

“Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare.”

So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddy’s are. They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care.

So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. My dogs get their first checks [...]

A mother Otter and her baby

Dr. Ed — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:38:46 +0000

Samuel Alexander Armas: Hand of Hope

Dr. Ed — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:06:56 +0000

A 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas was operated on in his mother's womb by surgeon Joseph Bruner Continue reading →

Portraits of the Fallen – A Work of Love – Video

Dr. Ed — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:50:14 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7NQBN-lO0

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

Dr. Ed — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:36:53 +0000

Title written by Thomas William Parsons

Burial at Sea

by LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret)

In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial…

War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it. Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican Republic and was wounded there, Vietnam was my war.

Now 42 years have passed and, thankfully, I rarely think of those [...]

The Passing of Frank Buckles

Dr. Ed — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:50:58 +0000

by Thomas Conner, Ph.D., William P. Harris Professor of Military History, Hillsdale College

The United States lost its last surviving veteran of the First World War on February 28, 2011. Frank Buckles, of Charles Town, West Virginia, passed away just a few weeks after his 110th birthday. Born in 1901, he had enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at age sixteen after finally being able to fool a recruiter into thinking he was two years older and thus eligible to [...]

The Song of Hiawatha – Selected Chapters

Dr. Ed — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:06:46 +0000

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from University of Virginia Library

Introduction

Should you ask me, Whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains?

I should answer, I should tell you, “From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land [...]