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Time for a Denizen Round-up... - FbL

Barb has redecorated!

Kat covers Rosie's latest idiocy, complete with visual aids.

The Torch points out Canada's forgotten military missions and the accompanying issues.

Jack of Random Fate muses about childhood friendships lost.

On the humor front, Maggie suffers through disrespect (you know that's why you love 'em, Maggie), and AFSis spotlights the presidential sense of humor (Bush's speechwriter deserves a mega raise).

In further amusing offerings, Punctilious introduces us to Song of the Software Engineer, and JTG has one last fling before evil Google forces him to change (horrors!), while Murray continues lessons with his cat (of course, he's the one being trained).

And Cassandra and company offer one of their trademark caption contests. She also points her snark cannon at Senator Webb, with devastating results.

Speaking of snarkage, Alan gives the BBC's horrified discovery of cyber-bullying the respect it deserves. [FbL sez: In all seriousness, I've experienced a mild case of cyber-bullying and had at least one friend physically threatened by the same bully, but a "Code of Conduct" is going to address that about as effectively as outlawing guns in DC keeps them out of the hands of local criminals.]

And FbL also writes of the intersection between Internet community and "real space," but with a very different result: Once again, it's a small world.

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For a little more Rosie Humor: Rosie the Scare Crow

On a serious note, I was direted to this article that paints a small picture of what it will be like when we leave Iraq X 1,000,000 or more and probably worse: Iraq Sunni widow with four children calls for help to keep from being evicted by Mahdi militia. Good guys show up and stop the eviction. Next day, she is murdered at the market.

Interesting, after being quoted by the President, Iraq the Model gets "Midnight Company".

And, if you want to know about "cyber bullying" you should see the comments at their site and the emails they get. The least of which is being labeled "CIA" plants. The worst being death threats, something they have already experienced when their brother in law was murdered while trying to open a medical clinic. They assume Sunni extremists, but who knows (yes, the brothers are Sunni but secularists). A real favorite was "Me in the New Islamic State" when AQ in Iraq declared an Islamic State of Iraq.

These guys are an inspiration.

-Kat

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Speaking of Rosie, Kat (and we really shouldn't any more than we have to), no less than Popular Mechanics has decided that she's in desperate need of a fact-checking (ht:DP).

Who knew whales could jump sharks? - Damian

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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".