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/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:14 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ***************************** Interesting day in history: 1654 Parliament imposes the Pale on Ireland: The Irish confined west of the Shannon. While itself not the definitive source of the term, "Beyond the Pale" this is an exemplar of what the phrase means - though the Irish might object to certain details of it... 1707 Parliament forms the United... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html Tue, 01 May 2007 23:18:53 -0600 I'm not sure why the meme "Go it alone" forgien policy is repeated. I mean, we have Poland, Great Britian, Australia, Japan, South Korea, tacit approval (don't piss of the people buying consumer goods) from both China and India. If alone means "without France and Germany" then okay. I think we'd be better off without them. If we were to pull NATO apart, tell the Germans et all that they must now foot the bill for their own protection/ work out individual deals with the US, it would possibly work in our favor. Poland and other former eastern bloc states would jump at that chance. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59619 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59619 Wed, 02 May 2007 01:30:02 -0600 As I think I've written before, maybe here, maybe elswhere, McCain is an institutional guy. He is a third-generation Navy brat. I betcha he attended government schools as a kid. He went to USNA. He was an Aviator in the USN. He got shot down and imprisoned in an institution in the northern end of Viet-Nam. He got to come home and get therapy in govt. institutions, and then he ran for office, to get into another institution, the United States Senate. That boy has spent his entire life in one institution or another. Read some of Amanda Baggs's writings to understand how living in institutions can warp yer mind. She's trying to overcome that. I dunno about the Senato http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59617 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59617 Tue, 01 May 2007 22:51:55 -0600 Nevermind Steve - I'll just get it out of your brother next time he is in port. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59609 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59609 Tue, 01 May 2007 13:02:28 -0600 Steve - You could email it to me! It wasn't witty, just vulgar. Basically he didn't think too much of your junior senator or the antics of guys "playing" sailor. Which is strange because he's a guy, born in Kansas, who had never so much as looked at the ocean until he went into the Navy. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59607 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59607 Tue, 01 May 2007 11:48:19 -0600 I was on time last year. Name-tag man (Chaotic Synaptic Activity) can vouch for me. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59606 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59606 Tue, 01 May 2007 11:03:53 -0600 http://moneyformilitary.blogspot.com]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59601 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59601 Tue, 01 May 2007 09:20:28 -0600 Steve - You could email it to me! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59600 Tue, 01 May 2007 09:14:47 -0600 "You may fire when ready, Mr. Gridley" My brother Vernon served on the USS Gridley in the early 60s. You don't want to know what he says about a certain former presidential candidate who served on it later.(Well, you may or may not, but it won't pass the decency test.)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59598 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59598 Tue, 01 May 2007 09:06:03 -0600 "...or a limit beyond which it was not permissible to go." "...outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour..." Object? LOL That's where I live, baby! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59596 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_1_may.html#comment-59596 Tue, 01 May 2007 08:03:45 -0600