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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:38:19 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Time: 1500 on an evening roughly three months prior to the post that started this saga. The Place: The Plain of Reeds, northwest of Moc Hoa, RVN. Either the pace man had miscounted the number of streams they’d crossed or the compass man had oriented the map by placing it on the engine cover of the Ford tractor. Miscounting streams in the Plain of Reeds was excusable, especially during the interval between the end of the monsoon and the middle of the dry season – every stream, like everything else, was under two or three feet of water and... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:04:41 -0600 your writing style is like a good Latin sentence, with the action verb at the end. Gratias tibi -- cetera desunt et prenuncii sunt.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57076 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57076 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:24:55 -0600 your writing style is like a good Latin sentence, with the action verb at the end. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57063 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57063 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:11:42 -0600 Ab initio... Cetera desunt!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57062 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57062 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:07:16 -0600 A GIFT FROM AMERICA? um. YEAH. i got your "GIFT"... right HERE (flips bird) damn. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57052 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57052 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:11:08 -0600 Oh yeah I could picture the AFSC gang baying at the moon, with chants to Eleguá Cayombé. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57048 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57048 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:02:30 -0600 JTG - Back in the day, the AFSC wrapped itself in the Quaker mantle but acted more like a Santeria gang (I refuse to call *that* lot a congregation). The AFSC liked bloodshed and sorrow, so long as it was US military blood that was shed and US military families sorrowing. The %$#@ers even delivered phony "The President Regrets" telegrams to families of guys serving in RVN or showed up on their doorsteps -- in military uniform -- to announce the "deaths" of their sons and castigate them for having participated in an "immoral" war. They aren't quite as vicious these days -- yet -- but they still like to see US casualties. They *claim* they're faith-driven, but they're as agenda-driven as all the rest of the moonbats. And if I haven't made myself clear on the matter, I do *not* like the AFSC... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57047 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57047 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:18:27 -0600 Dang! And to think that at one time, back in the seventies, I would run my two-stroke street bike up to twice the speed limit when late for the Atlanta Friends Meeting, so that I could shut it off and coast the last two blocks with the clutch lever pulled so as not to make noise. There was an ex-F-100D driver in that Meeting, who had some stories. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57045 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/02/ab_initio_mutte.html#comment-57045 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:12:56 -0600