As you all know, I regard all cats as inherently evil, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their uses. Here is a story of one cat battling back against our would be ursine masters.

National Geographic has a good article on Hawaiian New Year’s celebrations. We lived on a hill over looking Pearl Harbor, from the folks across the street’s back yard we could see the harbor and the towns around it. On new years it looked like a war zone, fireworks were going off everywhere, it was quite [...]

Which Super Villain are you?
I am Dr. Doom!
Your results:You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom

82%

Lex Luthor

68%

Mr. Freeze

58%

Apocalypse

54%

The Joker

53%

Green Goblin

53%

Poison Ivy

50%

Mystique

45%

Kingpin

43%

Magneto

43%

Venom

43%

Juggernaut

41%

Two-Face

41%

Dark Phoenix

39%

Catwoman

31%

Riddler

18%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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December 29th: Today in 1890 the US Army and Lakota Sioux began firing at one another leading to the deaths of twenty-five soldiers and over one hundred fifty Sioux at the Wounded Knee Massacre. What actually happened remains disputed, but during an attempt by the soldiers to disarm the Sioux someone began shooting and many [...]

December 28th:Today in 1835 a US Army column of 108 men commanded by Major Francis Dade was ambushed by Seminole Indians. Only two US Soldiers survived the ambush and one of them died shortly after of his wounds. The ambush was the start of the Second Seminole War in which the Seminole Indians were resisting [...]

Here are some more bookmarks I found while cleaning.

I am cleaning up my bookmarks this morning and came across some interesting things that I thought you all might like to see. Some are cool sites, some games and a couple of shops. I probably meant to post them up when I bookmarked them, but there are too many to flood the site with [...]

This is a great Field and Stream article on making small survival kits for hiking or car use. Well worth a read just to see if you agree on what you would pack into an altoids tin if you had to make a kit yourself. I used to have a car kit, I need to [...]

December 27th: Today in 1904 the play Peter Pan debuted in London, based on part of part of a book called The Little White Bird. After the massive success of the play the author, James Barrie, pulled out the Peter Pan sections of the book and released them as Peter and Wendy in 1911, now [...]

December 26th: Today in 1862 a group of 38 Dakota Indians were killed in the largest mass hanging in United States history. The Dakota had been part of the Sioux uprising, a brief but bloody uprising in which some two hundred white settlers were killed over broken promises and missed payments to the tribe. Originally [...]