Johnny Depp is keen on teaching his children to handle guns.

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star, who learnt shooting at the age of six in Kentucky where he grew up, wants to pass on his experience to his kids.

“We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns......

Other than him living in France, I don’t see a problem with it.

Melissy in Texas

Our job is to get in there and get it back [from the Taliban] ... We don’t want to give the enemy one second to think about what he’s going to do. Because we’re going to be pushing so goddamn hard on the enemy. Our job is to go in there and make contact with the enemy — find the enemy, make contact with the enemy and then we’ll hold on. This is an enemy that’s used to having small-scale attacks and having the coalition pull back. There is no pullback. We will stay on him, and we will ride him until he’s either dead or surrenders.

All too often, it is us who have to think about where we’re going to go, where we’re going to attack, what we’re going to do. In this case, we’re going to be so thick in his AO [area of operation] that he’s going to have three choices: Stay and fight, which we hope he does; try to blend into the population and just pretend he’s a local, in which case the Afghan army and police can sure as hell help identify that along with local leaders; and the third thing is run. And if he tries to run, we’ve got people waiting for him.

We’ll kill and capture a hell of a lot of enemy over these next couple of weeks, I’m confident of that. And I hope the enemy does try to go chest-to-chest with you. It would be a hell of a big mistake, and I don’t think his last mistake. And I suspect we’ll see some of that.

Thank you, General Nicholson.
Godspeed, Marines.
via SupportYourLocalGunfighter

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race..........

If [it] were a long race that required a lot of endurance I’d win.........

......... U.S. President Barack Obama, at number 49........is the first sitting head of state to appear in the Forbes celebrity survey.......

Rush

I’m feeling energetic but decidedly uncreative… Planning the Independence Day Picnic Menu:

Various appetizers/snax
[maybe fresh salsa, if I can find good ‘maters]
[otherwise boring ol’ cheeze ‘n’ crackers… *sigh*]

Tri Tip slow-cooked to juicy-rare goodness
“Baked” Tater salad [with onions, bacon & sour cream dressing]
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Watermelon Chunks
Chocolate Cake [with whipped cream frosting and strawberries 'n' blueberries in the traditional pattern]

That blank space?  A desperate cry for another salad/side dish.  Or two. Last time the green salad didn’t go over so well.  Nor did the pasta salad.  I need something new and interesting. 

Ideas?  Salads?  Appetizers?