WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this slide show consisting of fourteen (14) photographs of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge between Qingdao, in Shandong Province, and Huangdao District, China, which is 110 feet wide and 26.4 miles long, and which officially opened on Thursday 30 June 2011.



These photographs, along with the news report, were published in London, England's "DAILY MAIL" newspaper's web site.

Ah, but I'd always heard that the longest bridge in the World was the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco, California, because it goes all the way from Fairy Land to darkest Africa!

Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

Heh! Heh! Heh!

Awww - - - , did I offend anyone?

Gosh, gee whillikers, I surely do HOPE so!!!

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee 

Armed Forces Retirement Home 

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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BIRTH CERTIFICATE CONTROVERSY NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE

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This press conference was held by the WORLD NET DAILY web site on Wednesday 29 June 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

For the best effect, please be sure and watch this automated video series in "FULL SCREEN" mode.





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BARRY SOETORO'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE?

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ACCURATE HEBREW BIBLE TRANSLATION?

*************************************** *************************************** ********* WARNING ! ! ! ********* This dangerously illegal and immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronic Reconnaissance (i.e., B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.) as part of a coordinated official clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., N.A.Z.I.) and the Commission On Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., C.O.M.M.I.E.). Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined! **************************** Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Here is an automatic LINK to the URL of an Internet web site, where you can download a FREE copy of the HOLY BIBLE, in PDF format, allegedly translated from the original Hebrew and Aramaic languages, by Dr. James Scott Trimm, of the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism. Click to download PDF text The contents of this book may or may not be valid, for a search of the Internet reveals that there is controversy surrounding both the book and its alleged translator, including accusations that he both endorses and opposes the BOOK OF MORMON. So, use your own judgement in deciding whether this is a worthwhile resource. In any event, this development might be rather interesting and intriguing. Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Official Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan." *************************************** ***************************************

CRIMINAL SOILS PANTS ! ! !

This incident, reported by KGO-TV Channel 7, in San Francisco, California, occurred on the night of Sunday 27 February 2011, in Richmond, California.



This news report was referred to me by the SECOND AMENDMENT TELEVISION web site.

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM" - - - MONDAY 27 JUNE 2011

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM", drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., is one of my FAVORITE comic strips, and this one, posted on Monday 27 June 2011, is particularly hilarious!

For a larger version that's easier to read,
please click on the comic strip.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stranger."

AMTRAK "CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR" WRECK

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For the best effect, please watch these breaking news videos in "FULL SCREEN" mode, and for the latest updates, please click on this Internet LINK.



At approximately 1125 Hours on Friday 24 June 2011, a southbound semi-tractor truck hauling two (02) empty gravel trailers, operated by forty-three (43) year old Lawrence R. Valli, and leading a convoy of three (03) trucks from the John Davis Trucking Company of Battle Mountain, Nevada, skidded through the lowered gates of a railroad crossing and into the westbound AMTRAK "California Zephyr", approximately twenty miles outside of Lovelock, Nevada, which is located in Churchill County, Nevada, in the Forty Mile Desert.

For questions about the welfare or status of specific passengers aboard that train, please telephone:

800-523-9101

This was MY favorite train!!!

I've ridden the AMTRAK "California Zephyr" bunches of times, when travelling back and forth between Salt Lake City, Utah or Grand Junction, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois.

I love riding on that train, or at least, I used to, before the tyrants and traitors at the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration ruined everything, and a silently acquiescent American public just passively went along with it, without any semblance of a necessary and natural outraged protest and/or violent resistance.

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"THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART"

This episode of "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART" program aired on Tuesday 21 June 2011 on the COMEDY CENTRAL cable television channel.

I saw it posted at the SIPSEY STREET IRREGULARS web site, which is hosted by Mike Vanderboegh.

I recommend watching it in "FULL SCREEN" mode.

BREAKFAST ON THE TERRACE

Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: I rarely eat breakfast, but I just now returned from chow down at our mess hall here in the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Our mess hall has a terrace overlooking the ocean (actually, it's the Mississippi Sound), properly equipped with outdoor furniture, including canvas sunshades. When I do dine in our mess hall, it's generally dinner or supper, and if the weather is nice and sunny, I almost always choose to eat outside on the terrace, where I can bask in the sun and fresh air, while watching for the silhouettes of distant passing ships on the horizon. Very few other residents ever go outside to eat, which is a mystery to me, since the experience is so pleasant. Possibly, it's because the overwhelming majority of the residents here are physically unable to open and close a door while carrying a tray full of food, unassisted. Because there are steps outside the door, leading from the terrace to the garage, I'm guessing the administration doesn't want anyone out there who might fall down those steps and kill themselves, something which did happen in Washington, D.C. at the Old Soldiers' Home. Anyway, this morning, I had breakfast on the terrace. Now, just think about that for a second. I had breakfast on the terrace, looking out over the ocean. You only see that phrase in novels and major Hollywood motion picture productions (the kind with a buget of millions and a cast of thousands), and even then, it's only the very rich, ultra-sophisticated, and world famous celebrities who do it. Ain't that some kind of neat? I had breakfast on the terrace. Or to be a bit more stylish and snooty, I reckon I could say, "I breakfasted on the terrace." Who was that famous author who specialized in writing novels about life in his native Mississippi? Aaaah, William Faulkner! If only I'd had a female of the species to share the experience with, that would have made it perfect. By the way, so far as I could discern, I was the only resident, out of a population of approximately five hundred retirees living here, who did eat breakfast on the terrace. How tragic for the rest of them! Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan."

SIGNAL CORPS 151ST BIRTHDAY ! ! !

********************************* ********************************* Comrades in Arms: Congratulations on the 151st Birthday of our UNITED STATES ARMY SIGNAL CORPS, officially created on 21 June 1860, with the appointment "to the Signal Department of Assistant Surgeon Albert J. Myer to be Signal Officer, with the rank of Major". As for myself, I received my advanced individual training in the United States Army Southeastern Signal School (USASESS) at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 1968 as a Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair Specialist (MOS 31L20). Repairing an AN/TCC-70 multiplexer at the 501st Signal Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, in the Republic of Viet Nam, probably in 1970  Of course, after all these years, neither the job nor the equipment still exists, and several of the units I served in, also no longer exist. So, Comrades, unlax and enjoy some good ol' cake and ice cream, 'cause you've EARNED it!!! With Respect, John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan." ********************************* *********************************

"LEST DARKNESS FALL"

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For the best effect, please enjoy reading, "LEST DARKNESS FALL", a novel written in 1939 by LYON SPRAGUE DE CAMP, in "FULL SCREEN" mode.



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AMTRAK "CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR"

To really enjoy this railroad video, please be sure to watch it in "FULL SCREEN" mode.



This video of the westbound AMTRAK "CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR" was posted on the YOU TUBE web site by BOB, who recorded it on Saturday 18 June 2011 in Galesburg, Illinois.

I've ridden the "CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR" many times back and forth, between either Salt Lake City, Utah and/or Grand Junction, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, and I really LOVE it!!!

But, alas, time passes and things change, and unfortunately, sometimes, not for the better.

Due to the current immoral tyranny now being forced at gunpoint on a silently acquiescent general public by treasonous agents of the Transportation Security Administration in blatant violation of our divinely inspired Constitution of the United States of America, I'll probably never again be able to enjoy the simple pleasure of riding railroad trains in what used to be the United States of America.

A RECOMMENDED BOOK



For a larger view that's easier to read, please click on the picture.

Please click on this link to the AMAZON web site to read a sample, or to purchase the book by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.



THURSDAY 16 JUNE 2011 POLITICAL CARTOON

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For a larger view (that's easier to read) of this Thursday 16 June 2011 political cartoon drawn by artist, Glenn McCoy, please click on the picture.

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ALERT ! ! !

Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Alert! Alert! I just now looked outside my window, and I thought I saw a lert! Have you ever been a lert? Would you like to be a lert? Then see your nearest lert recruiter. Okay, let's get serious for a moment. Here's the REAL purpose of this message: TODAY, right NOW, this very minute, Thursday 16 June 2011 is NATIONAL FUDGE DAY ! ! ! Well, what do YOU intend to do about THAT? So, let's all buckle down and do our patriotic duty on this all-American holiday! I realize it's a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan."

NUCLEAR DISASTER AT OMAHA?

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I don't know how serious this is, because I haven't seen anything reported about it in the mainstream news media.



Obviously, this has me personally concerned, for I have a bunch of kinfolk in Omaha, whom I stop to visit everytime I go out West, as they're right along my route.

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* * * * * HAPPY 236TH BIRTHDAY, UNITED STATES ARMY ! ! ! * * * * *

**************************** **************************** Basic Combat Training Company "D", Third Battalion, First Brigade Fort Lewis, Washington Winter, 1968 Comrades in Arms: Today is Tuesday 14 June 2011. Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, on 14 June 1775, the Continental Congress authorized George Washington to raise a body of troops for waging a war of independence from Great Britain. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TROOPERS ! ! ! *********************** Go, ARMY ! At Your Service, John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan." 501st Signal Battalion 101st Airborne Division "SCREAMING EAGLES" Hai Vanh Pass, Republic of Viet Nam 1971 **************************** ****************************

ARMED ROBBER DEFEATED BY PIZZA GUY

This video is furnished through the generous courtesy of the SECOND AMENDMENT TELEVISION web site.

TERRY'S BEAR

******************************** ******************************** ********* WARNING ! ! ! ********* This dangerously illegal and immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronic Reconnaissance (i.e., B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.) as part of a coordinated official clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., N.A.Z.I.) and the Commission On Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., C.O.M.M.I.E.). Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined! **************************** Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Here's a photograph of a bear that was watching my friend, Terry Sawyer, as he was snacking on a tuna sandwich. In his e-mail, he didn't say where or when this happened, but he did say that the bear spent so much time watching him eat, that he threw the sandwich in the bear's direction, and eased away. As a result of his repeated acts of heroism while receiving enemy fire in Viet Nam with the United States Army, Terry Sawyer was decorated with the Combat Medical Badge, the Silver Star Medal, and two (02) awards of the Purple Heart Medal for his combat wounds. Later, he became a professional wrestler on national television. Terry Sawyer, who is a native of Norfolk, Virginia, was a fellow resident at the Ol' Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C. , which is how he and I became acquainted. A licensed expert amateur radio operator and instructor, he helped me obtain my own license, KB3KWS, from the Federal Communications Commission, and even gave me my first amateur radio, a hand held two meter band Kenwood TR-2500. Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan." ******************************** ********************************

"CLOSE TO HOME"

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For a larger view (so it can be read), please click on the picture.

"CLOSE TO HOME", drawn by cartoon artist, John McPherson, is one of my favorite comic strip panels, which I read daily on the Internet, and when I see one that is especially funny, I like to share it.

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MY FAVORITE SLIPPERS!

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I just now received two (02) pair of extra large navy blue fleece bootie slippers, which I had ordered from the LAND'S END web site only five (05) days ago on D-Day, Monday 06 June 2011.

I bought a pair of these slippers a couple of years ago, and I love them so much, that I ordered two (02) more pair, to replace my current pair, which has a small hole on the right foot gradually worn through by my big toe.

These are THE most comfortable slippers I've ever worn!

Not only that, at $13.99 per pair, they're very inexpensive.

With shipping and handling (sent parcel post to my mailbox), plus taxes, my order totalled $39.52.

Ain't that neat?

I wear them constantly here at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi, just as I did when I was living at the Ol' Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.

They are SOOOOOOOO comfortable!

Aaaaaahhh!!!

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QUESTIONS FOR YOUR POLITICAL CANDIDATES

QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK OF ANY CANDIDATE WHO IS CAMPAIGNING FOR ELECTION TO ANY PUBLIC OFFICE:

01. Do you believe that our divinely inspired Constitution of the United States of America is the "supreme law of the land" and that the Bill of Rights acknowledges our unalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?

02. If so, should these unalienable individual rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government, including city, county, and state?

03. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider constitutional.

04. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider unconstitutional.

05. Does the right to bear arms include the right for any peaceable citizen to carry them concealed, without a permit, as in Vermont, Arizona, and Wyoming?

06. Do you believe that ordinary private citizens in the United States of America have an unalienable right to own, use, and/or carry weapons of military pattern, and will you use the prestige of elected office to publicly promote that right?

07. Why do you support or oppose registration of weapons?

08. Why do you support or oppose licensing requirements to own or carry firearms?

09. What specific gun laws will you work to get repealed?

10. If elected, how will you back up your words of support for firearms rights with consistent actions?

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I'm very grateful to Brock Townsend at the FREE NORTH CAROLINA web site for suggesting the above list of questions.

QUARTERMASTER'S INCORRECT STORE POLICY

Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: I just now got woke up from a sound sleep by a telephone call from an employee at the QUARTERMASTER mail order company, which has me VERY irate!!! At first, I couldn't understand her, because of her accent. Eventually, she made me understand it was a store calling me, and in my stuporous confusion, I asked if she was trying to sell me something. After some difficulty, she finally managed to make me understand that she was inquiring about a recent order I'd placed, so I asked which store it was, since I'd recently ordered a couple of things over the Internet. So, she told me it was QUARTERMASTER, and then I remembered that I'd placed the order last night for FIRST CHOICE Level II concealed body armor, which was on sale. She said she needed to verify my police credentials, and then, the fun began! I asked her where she was located, and she said QUARTERMASTER was in California. I told her that no proof of police credentials was necessary, because it was not against the law for private citizens to own body armor. She said it was company policy not to sell body armor to anyone but police officers. I told her that it was wrong, and that I was a private citizen and an old man who's retired. I told her this policy violated unalienable rights, and that private citizens are just as entitled to personal protection as police officers are. She didn't understand what I meant by unalienable rights, nor could she understand why private citizens should be able to own guns and body armor. I finally pointed out that she was obviously Mexican (I forgot to ask if she was illegal, or part of a local gang), and therefore, she didn't know or understand the history and heritage of the United States of America. At that point, she hung up on me. Earlier, I'd placed an order with QUARTERMASTER for a triple extra large khaki 5.11 Taclite Pro Vest, which apparently is out of stock and backordered. I think that after that order arrives, I'll cease to do anymore business with QUARTERMASTER, or any other store that says private citizens have less rights than police officers, especially in light of all the current murderous violence against law abiding private citizens by abusive anti-American police all across our nation, with the most prominent example being the cold blooded murder of Jose Guerena in Tucson, Arizona. JOSE GUERENA Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Offical Bard of Clan Henderson Armed Forces Retirement Home Gulfport, Mississippi  39507 NOTE: "My unpopular and controversial personal opinions do not represent my Scottish clan."