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Somewhere, in a nice hot place, Kadaffi is rolling over in his grave A Lingerie contest, in Lebanon, sponsored by Absolut.
And they say progress is slow
In Memoriam: Vietnams Most Decorated Native American passes away.
-BloodSpite
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Lex has a tale of probably the funniest callsign(s) ever.
Embarrassingly, I don't know who Robert Kagan is, but he's got a column I'm surprised to see in a major media newspaper:
A front-page story in The Post last week suggested that the Bush administration has no backup plan in case the surge in Iraq doesn't work. I wonder if The Post and other newspapers have a backup plan in case it does.
And the Chicago Tribune has more "Words from the Front." - FbL
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Hell freezes over: Cosmo and Dr. Laura agree. More here.
Maybe I just don't run in the circles she's talking about, but I just find this pathetic:
In truth, it seems to me that in the chaos of our society, everybody should have the helpless feeling. To begin with, there are the same old practical and metaphysical problems that have been giving people the helpless feeling for millennia anyway. When you add the current dilemmas of our culture, of our technologies, of our seemingly insoluble social problems, you come to the conclusion that the basic old human organism just wasn't designed for this sort of thing, you know?Just. Ick. You're welcome to be pathetic, but don't pretend there's some virtue in choosing helplessness. Not all of us can run our corner of the world, but we can choose a point corresponding to our strengths and start to chip away at the problems. - FbL...They are everywhere, and the rest of us have no choice but to cohabit their world, and sit around having the helpless feeling.
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Chris Matthews says, "Conservatives don't like sex." Somehow, I don't think he's met the Castle Denizennes... [h/t Murdoc] - FbL
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".
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