The Freepr Foxhole Profiles Clarence "Kelly" Johnson March 10, 2006

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[Professional Engineer]

RIP g-nome.

[Soaring Feather]

Yupper, Pop, I put those crackers in the wipes
thought I give the Nativity folks a break
not put them in your shoes tonight
but dreamed up a soggy delight one night
and just chuckled at the sight of soggy wipes in Pop's hands!

[Soaring Feather]

Get yer Pirate Name Here

[Peanut Gallery]

LOL! Yesterday she completely disrobed herself before I got her up for the day. Karateboy and I walked in to get her hand she was nekkid as a jaybird!

Now she is up here telling me, "have a boo-boo" over and over. Methinks she wants a bandaid. (There is no boo-boo.) Heh, now she is gonna try it on daddy!

[Soaring Feather]

LOL

My kids did the same things. Nekkid as jaybirds. Funny as heck.

[snippy_about_it]

Glad to hear you are okay. Just getting in myself because the comcast is having issues I guess. Sorry to hear about your son's truck and roof.

[snippy_about_it]

xoxoxo

I'm sure comcast will drop again so I had to hurry in to say hello.

[snippy_about_it]

You were destined to be a soldier, Snippy. Just like me. Just like Sam.

You honor me, sir. Thank you for the compliments. See, you really are a sweetheart. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

The Bridge.

I like it!

[snippy_about_it]

Reading Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary. This is not verbatim but from memory as it's a few chapters back:

The angels came down to retrieve Stonewall Jackson's soul but couldn't find him, they return to heaven crying but there he was... He he had flanked them and gone in the gates ahead of them!

[alfa6]

Late Sunday night bump for the Freeper Foxhole.

Meterological update as of 11pm there is one final line of storms moving through Western Missouri. The line is about 75 miles east of the Missouri/Kansas line. A most unusual day in that the storms started about 7am this morning in Eastern Kansas and are just now finishing up. Western Missouri has been hit the hardest. Pettis County, about 90 miles east of Kansas City, had a tornado on the ground for over 20 miles. The twister went just south of Sedalia from the west county line to the east county line.

Lot of straight line wind damage as well. There are as of this time reports of two or three deaths as well as several reports of folks missing. So prayers for those who have been hardeat hit.

One humorous note. My daughter of the T-shirts was walking back to her apartment about 3pm when the Tornadeee sireens went of in Warrensburg. She was just a few minutes from the building when the sireens went off. When sahe got to the building a large numbner of the International Students were out in front of the building, cameras in hand waiting to get a picture of the tornado. She just laughed at 'em and went inside. As I am familar with the area where these student were standing they had almost no chance of getting a picture and being here to show the picture. Fortunately there was no twister there.

My daughter repeorted that Knob Knoster got hit pretty hard. Several houses were destroyed. Knob Knoster is home to Whiteman Air Force Base and the B-2s. Y'all knew I would get airplanes in here some way didn't ya.

Well things are winding down weather wise and I need to get back to work.

See ya tomorrow

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

[Professional Engineer]

Bloody Tom Flint I learned a while back.

[w_over_w]

and I would glorify my maker with my song.

Amen . . .

[w_over_w]

Dirty Tom Rackham?!?!?!

Who wrote that pirate program?

[Soaring Feather]

LOL. You may use any name you wish if you're not happy with the one you have. ;)


Morning to you D-T-over-R.

[w_over_w]

I answered one of the questions, "I take a bath daily" and then the description for DTR says the crew wants to throw me overboard because I stink?

I want my money back!

Oh . . . wait . . . it was free. Never mind. ;^)

[Soaring Feather]

"I take a bath daily"

LOL See that's where you erred. A pirate never takes a bath. ;)

[Iris7]

Howdy, W,

Big weak spot to the east of the Union position. The Confederates were about marched out, though. Remember the shoes situation and that all of the wells on the march route had been drunk dry. No shoes and no water makes for poor marching, eh?

A huge weakness to the Union north but also hard to exploit. No roads.

Gettysburg looks to me to be very well done by the Federals. I think Lee was too impressed by Napoleon. Lee's "Cee cubed" really collapsed under the strain of long and rapid march and deployment. Napoleon got away with this sort of thing before the invasion of Russia (Napoleon for a while had a seemingly infinite supply of well motivated soldiers and sure did use those guys up) but Lee did not pull it off.

Same thing got Jackson killed and defeated Hooker at Chancellorsville. Bragg was so bad at this art that Forrest just went nuclear over it. Command, communications, and control was vastly easier in prepared defensive positions (even an hour for organization made a big difference) than in attack. The world had shifted from Napoleonic manuever to Great War supremacy of defense.

[Iris7]

Chesnut's diary is very useful. War is politics written in blood, hopes, dreams, and suffering, and I find Chesnut the best window into that world we have. Confederate group think, shared illusions, are what really killed them (as is, as far as I know, always the case).

Chesnut thought Joe Johnston horrible for criticizing Davis so sharply, "attacking his president in time of war" sort of thing. Johnston turned out to be correct, though. No room for Chesnut's sentimentality (I sure do understand her viewpoint, though) unless you don't care if you lose.

Shameless plug for Nathan Bedford Forrest and Ulysses Simpson Grant here; both were clear thinking and prompt acting under the greatest pressure and true men of war. Also both were very good with their subordinates. Two men of the very highest quality.

Me, I am more the excitable and irritable type (more like Sherman). With a great boss like Grant Sherman could be careful, accurate, decisive, quick moving, and make few mistakes.

Sherman sure did get mad at Forrest! Emotional storms, rash outbursts! Feelings easily hurt! Urge to kill! Too bloody minded though nothing compared to Sheridan.