Suppertime! got to go. may or may not be back. I'm guessing Silverado or Young Guns at this point.

Ya know, I think an argument could be made that a Col. would make a better CIC and a Leader for America than a General.

Navy, takes you to 100 and Sole Possession of 8th.

Navy Brat--50 for the stumper. I'm betting it's a classic western, but can't place it. That will probably be the last score on the Official Big Mick "name that classic allusion" list, but I will keep it in case I am allowed to make my way back here in the future. I'm not banned, just denying myself Town Hall while on a Spiritual Journey.

road kill. If I read you right, I agree. I have no interest in supporting a "liberal" (my semantically accurate usage for that "terminological inexactitude" is "commiequeer"--Statist Collectivist Redistributionism meets Common Agenda of Norming Perversion). Don't matter what letter follows their name, Commiequeer is as Commiequeer does.

yeah, had to stay away for a few weeks. Not banned, on a personal Spiritual Pilgrimage. Will probably disappear for a long while after tonight. will think of you often and remember you in my prayers. I will hang here a while tonight, then back on the Journey. You might say I'm giving up TH for Advent and Lent--that kind of thing. Like Chocolate, denying myself the Pleasure of the Town Hall Hurly Burly is an exercise in Spiritual Discipline of which I have a great need these days. I leave this Fray in order to Focus on a Deeper and Higher, if more personal, one. thanks for all of your encouragement in the past. Pass that on to all my friends, I deeply appreciate what I've experienced from them here, both the encouragement and the...

thanks, G. I leave the field in good hands.

Your please is misplaced. THEY work for US! The message should be "Gut the Fed Gov like we told ya or you're out next time."

Ya got an actual REBUTTAL to something acutally SAID, Markie, cough it up. I'll undertake to rebut your rebuttal. Put up or shut up.

MO Goes, Gunny SW Gal, and all the Good Troops, you know who you are. Don't know if anybody noticed, but I've been off on a Private Pilgrimage for the last 3 weeks. Will probably be gone again for a long time after tonight. I wasn't banned, just called away. If you don't see me, remember how much I respect the Good Fight ya'll wage, keep at it. Let those you consider to be my friends know I'm off on a Journey. God Bless and God Save the Republic. ps. Don't know how long I will tarry tonight. Probably not long.