Sacrilege.

I'm willing to go on record as saying the peanut butter and chocolate belong together...and Reece's Peanut Butter Cups are as close to a perfect blending of the two as you can get(although Drake's Funny Bones come close).  I always look forward to Easter, because then you can get the Reece's Peanut Butter Eggs, which are really just bigger peanut butter cups...how can you go wrong there?

Well, I'll tell you...some joker of an Easter Bunny can decide to give you the White Chocolate Reece's Peanut Butter Eggs instead of the regular kind.

Not close...not close at all. 

That's alright though...she made it up to me by getting me some microwave Bacon Popcorn. 

 

 

Might have to try a bag of that while watching the season finale of Walking Dead later tonight.  

My Easter.

Not having a very religious background, I tended to learn about the holidays my own way, and for me, the Easter Story will always be told this way:





Yeah...it's a little out there, but that was 40 years ago, and no one has yet to do it any better than Mr. Neeley and Mr. Anderson. 

Into the Sunset

Dropped the kids off at Nana's(for like the 2nd time this month!) to go have a nice anniversary dinner at The Main Street Ale House in Kingston.  It's all kinds of sentimental, since it was the place we went to on our first anniversry, and every so often thereafter.  Thanks to the badly losing money Washington State Ferry system, it's just a quick half hour ride from Edmonds to Kingston, and then a walk up the hill for a nice romatic dinner. 

How many more need to die?

Earlier this week, a 34-year old new mom went for an afternoon walk with her in-laws, with her 13-day old baby in a sling across her chest.  Sounds pretty idyllic, right?  And it might have been too, until 50 year old Mark Mullan came driving by in his pick-up truck and killed the grand-parents, and left the new mom and her 13-day old baby in comas from which they might not wake up.

A tragedy, yes...but a tragedy that should NOT have happened, because the filthy animal driving the truck had FIVE previous DUI's arrests...3 of them back in the 1990's, and two of them in the last half of 2012. 

Holy crap.  So...that is 5 previous times when he could have killed someone and didn't, and now, because our legal system is broken, he finally did, potentially wiping out a whole family.

I just don't get it.  Back in January, prosecutors said since Mullan's had not been charged with a DUI since the 90's, they had to treat him like a first time offender.  The fact that he had been arrested two weeks earlier in Snohomish County was not admissible...because he hadn't actually been found guilty yet.  So...dude is arrested for DUI in October, doesn't go to court until January...but the fact that he was arrested on Christmas Day for driving his truck into a HOTEL...TWICE! can't be used against him?

Yes...please, take my semi-automatic guns...they are certainly the problem. 

One Dozen, Please.

A dozen.  It's not a lot when you are talking eggs, but it's increasingly impressive when you are talking marriage. 

The picture above was taken in a nice little Japanese Garden Park in Virginia Beach Back in 2001.  Below, as you can tell by the extra snow on my mountain top, is one of more recent vintage.

I'm not sure how she does it. She looks better each year, and makes each year better than the one before.

If A = B, and B = C, then...

A must equal C.  Math can't lie in that manner.  So...when Joe Biden says "We believe that weapons of war have no place on our streets," what he is really saying that we could save A LOT of money by replacing all the select fire M-16's and M-4's out of troops hands and replace them with AR-15's, or heck, even 10-22's!  Think of all the money we will save when give our troops semi-auto .22's that are too dangerous to own in California! 

Damn, I so sick of hearing that an AR-15, or my Saiga 7.62 X 39 'are weapons of war'...

Okay...I'm over it now.  Tomorrow will be a better day. 

Not sure this one has a happy ending.

There is a story out of Spokane yesterday about an 'alleged' car thief who ended up very dead. dead, dead.  However, some of the details coming out so far...well, let's just say they are raising some questions about the justification of the shooting.

At first, it started out sounding like a good shoot.  The car owner called it in properly and said the guy had been armed.  But, once the police got there, it's looking like while that may be true, it appears the bad guy was shot in the back of the head through the rear window of the truck.

As he drove away down the street.

That paints a little different story, and means all you are really hanging your case on is that you were stopping a felony, and is different than if the bad guy was sticking a weapon in your face, and you drew your gun because you feared for your life at the beginning of the encounter.

Nope, this smacks a little too much like 'dude swiped my car out of the driveway, and he ain't gonna get away with it!'.  I'm not saying he is going to jail...but I wouldn't be surprised to see charges filed.  The shooter should just say his prayers that no one else got hurt after the Suburban lost control.  I imagine if it had wiped out three kids waiting for the school bus, the story would have a different slant.