A lot of people hope Sarah Palin doesn’t run for President in 2012.  Personally, I’ll miss her if and when her 15 minutes finally run out.  She is the quintessential Republican, crying foul about the “liberal media” in a nearly non-stop chorus.  I do/… Read full post »

 ~Update~

Citing irreconcilable differences, I have broken up with myself.  I’m devastated.  I’ve tried talking to myself but I just won’t listen.  It seems that, while I am open to co/… Read full post »

Just when I think the right can’t get any more out of touch and irrelevent, a Facebook “friend” posts this intellectual gem:

What the crap? How can OUR president even THINK of having the 9 11 terrorists tried on OUR soil in NYC? Maybe we should ask Obama if… Read full post »

_{Dad (bottom right) and the "boys in the band" in WWI, The Big One}

I read Tom Brokaw’s book “The Greatest Generation” a few years ago and it was indeed inspiring.  My own parents lived through WWII, my dad serving in the Yukon/… Read full post »

  They sneak aboard at every harbor (or harbour if you're Canadian), constricting through tiny gaps you could never believe anyone could contort themselves through.  The Cap’n tries to do the right things.  He sets the crew about swabbing the decks, cleaning, sorting the r/… Read full post »

I wouldn't quit my day job for it if I had one, but I do have a paid writing gig now. I'm the Seattle Motorcycle Travel Examiner for Examiner.com.

I just posted my first article today if you want to check it out.

They are short, fluffy posts, 2-400 words/… Read full post »

As winter looms and the skies over QuiXand Ranch grow dark and damp, I've had quite enough of reality.  It's time to escape into adventures past.  Hope you enjoy this repost.

_{The Cap’s mean machine at a state park in South Central Oregon}

_{Little did}… Read full post »

My red '71 Chevelle even had the same wheels as this one.

My cousin Boots and I decided to join the Air Force together on the buddy system back around 1976.  I got all the paperwork together and signed by the local authorities and on/… Read full post »

 Cap'n Parrotdead - Testimony Pirate

I am the next to the youngest of six siblings raised in a loving, staunch Mormon family.  I am also the only boy.  I don’t know if that factors into this story in any way but I’ll give it the ol’ pasta test/… Read full post »

Here we go again.  On Tuesday, LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks likened the post-Proposition 8 backlash against Mormons to the persecution blacks endured during the civil-rights struggle.  He told students at Brigham Young University-Idaho that Latter-day Saints "must not be det… Read full post »

"Basically, just getting out of our situation. That was our focus, and basketball was a way out," says John Millsap, older brother to Paul Millsap of the Utah Jazz.

 The four Millsap brothers were raised by their single mom Bettye with the help of an uncle… Read full post »

 Note: This is a repost of my most popular post.  During a moment of insanity a while back it got deleted.  I got nothing else on this gloomy Monday and with the NBA season just around the corner, I thought I'd dust it off.

 … Read full post »

 A break from fools and pundits

Deep in the night

Early in the AM, really

Needing to pee

God and the bank gave… Read full post »

 We Americans sure do get hung up on sexuality.  Rigid religious beliefs have a lot to do with it, starting with the fact that religion prevents some from accepting that people are born either gay, straight or somewhere on the rainbow in between.  God doesn’t make… Read full post »

 George De Shon had a 50-foot dream and a 75-foot back yard. 

"It's been a long time in my mind that someday Merna and I would retire on a comfortable boat. What better way to see some of the world's wonderful sights and contemplate the beauty of… Read full post »

The "Golden Arches" - corporate symbol of the worlds largest killer and torturer of root vegatables.  Ever wondered why they're gold?

Folks, I’m sure you’ve all heard about PETA and their efforts to protect animals from exploitation.  This means, of course, no/… Read full post »

Folks, I know how you look forward to my regular “the world is going to hell in a hand basket” rants but I’m going to ask you to indulge me today while I speak of something different – and more important.

 You see, today is the ninth… Read full post »

Cap'n Parrotdead

PO Box XXX

Onalaska, WA 98570

Proprietor

Justice General Store

Onalaska, WA 98570

Dear Proprietor,

Last night I went to your store to make a purchase and was shocked… Read full post »

  Are We Really Going to Hell in a Bucket?

_{Who knew Zsa Zsa was the smart one?} 

I’m sick to death of all the negativity.  Everywhere I turn, I’m hit with it.  The Right is wrong, the left is discouraged and the middle is gone.  The money/… Read full post »

You may not know this but Cap'n Parrotdead is very involved in Fantasy Basketball.  I've run my own league for several years called the QuiXand Fantasy Basketball Association (QFBA). 

Now you may think that such a league is about basketball but it's not.  It's about trash-talk and at… Read full post »

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Mattel introduces Gwen, the world’s first homeless doll, as part of their American Girl series.  For $95, well-to-do suburban girls get their very own homeless person, complete with a dead-beat dad and an automotive arm rest f/… Read full post »

Here is is folks, the proof.  We've all been had!

I just have one question:  Even if he were the anti-christ, it's all part of God's plan for the end time and cannot be changed so what is the Christian Right so worried about? BTW, God sure comes up with some… Read full post »