We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:18:24 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Simply, kewl. H/t, CAPT H. Update: As SGT Jeff points out, this story could also be a TINS that got out of hand over time... and sucker-punched the Guardian, too. I admit to scepticism when I first read it... but then saw where it was coming from and said... "Kewl". Geez. We can't fact-check *everything* the MSM does... even if we do fact-check each other out the wazoo! Even better, in a here and now sort of way - someone I know has sold their first novel! How kewl is that!... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:02:58 -0600 Is it too nasty to torture yer hubby with pix of the fighter pilots you could have had? No, just the ones you did. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32112 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32112 Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:43:00 -0600 Hmm. When Dad and I went through the safe deposit box after Mom died, we found several sets of what I think are Dutch East Indies Air Force pilots' wings. I think she kept them, like the photographs of their donors, to torture Dad when he got out of line. (The exiled East-Indian Dutch Aviators trained in MS during WWII.) Query, for the gals here: Is it too nasty to torture yer hubby with pix of the fighter pilots you could have had? Mom made the right choice, IMHO. Fighter pilots tend to die at a young age, and had she been silly that way, I wouldn't exist. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32078 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32078 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:12:43 -0600 Interesting. Nobody said "shot down", they said brought down,and the DC-3 is darn near indestructable. I'll put it in the wierd s**t happens catagory. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32073 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32073 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:07:47 -0600 Heh. Some have suggested a Guardian hoax, too - in which case they're having a good howl over their bitters! One thing's for sure - after today, there will be stuff in Google about Bert van Sloten! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32072 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32072 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:03:31 -0600 I'd be inclined to rechristen this one a TIBS http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32071 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32071 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:49:34 -0600 SGT Jeff is right, if you go back to Tim Blair's place, the controversy rages. A TINS that got out of control, perhaps. If that's the case, they got the Guardian! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32070 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32070 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:27:16 -0600 This one is looking more and more unlikely every moment... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32069 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32069 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:06:18 -0600 For a pilot, all things are possible; nay, even probable. Cheers JMH http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32067 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32067 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:06:21 -0600 How do you shoot down a Do-17 with a C-47, and then manage it to come atop a platoon of tanks? Geez, everything must have been aligned just right for that to happen. Oh - and Grolsch always has the same effect on me too. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32055 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/09/kewl.html#comment-32055 Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:03:43 -0600