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/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:29:38 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... *********************************** Heh. Remember when people were arguing that the victory of the neo-Anabasis was a product of Clinton policy? Don’t hear much of them or that argument anymore do you. --- This is an old book review, but interesting to me none the less. The juicy stuff is toward the end and is a much more... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:26:45 -0600 But DougK, think of the possibilities of a low-rider tank! The chicks will dig it on the main drag on Saturday nights... John, haven't been around in a while; congrats on the new Manor. I'm green, now. Heh. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60983 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60983 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:47:17 -0600 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Ascout/M60A1FordExx.jpg]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60965 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60965 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:44:41 -0600 Oh dear! Hip and hot? That lets me out, as I'm in a square igloo up here in the Great White North. Do I want a tour of the "Jungle Room"? Well, if absolutely necessary. Veritas et Fidelis Semper http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60960 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60960 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:22:36 -0600 Someone needs to give Deborah a tour of the Jungle Room. We are hip and hot here at the Castle! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60959 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60959 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:33:46 -0600 I'm genuinely sorry that Gen. Pace won't be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for another two years. It has always seemed that he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, and blamed for the rest. Yet, he has always been the epitome of grace under fire. A good man, and an even better Marine; with no disrespect intended to anyone on this site. Veritas et Fidelis Semper P.S. I can't believe that P.H. was named, no matter how briefly, on this site! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60958 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60958 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:24:58 -0600 Concur with Cassandra's appreciation of Pace. However, this "Swabbie Doxie" (as the Armorer has called me).........has to point out........ ADM. Mike Mullen is going to replace him! Navy leads the way!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60954 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60954 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:47:16 -0600 re the JROTC camp - The kids get SO much out of opportunities like this. The mentoring and the leadership skills and the self confidence that these camps foster are priceless. The Marine!Goth got to go to the MCJROTC mock boot camp at Paris Island twice and the Army JROTC leadership camp once. He credits those experiences as a major part of his success in active duty. Glad that the funding was re-instated. And it's great to see new JROTC programs starting up. All too many school districts are cutting the funding. If you get a chance to talk up the JROTC programs to school board members and administration, please do. These kids are the future warriors. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60953 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60953 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:45:00 -0600 John, et al, I want a bill that will mandate a secure southern border, and the estblishment of a border defense force before anything else. As to the 12 million here, well, if they got in, then they can get back out. I am ALL for LEGAL immigration, but no dice to those who can't play by the rules. They expect us to play by the rules when we arrest them. They cry about not being given their rights, and then game the system against us. That's not right, and we need to deal with that. I want a bill that will deny citizenship to anyone born here whose parents are here illegally. Same with those visiting, etc. If your folks aren't in the que for citizenship, then you shouldn't get it just by being born here. In this country WE get to say who comes through the door. It's OUR house. We get to set the rules, the dress code, the behaviour rules, etc. I have no problem with legal immigration. Folks that want to play by the rules, to assimilate, to walk the road to propserity and freedom, then come on down! The rest that are hanging onto the bumpers, cutting in line, and sneaking in the back door need to be rounded up and booted out, and then they can get back in line and start again. Respects, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60947 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60947 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:53:39 -0600 BloodSpite - If you feel better baby, that's all that matters to me! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60946 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60946 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:36:30 -0600 Feather fest As for the new Bill, I want a new Bill, I do. But with less Amnesty, more enforcement, and after spending the last baying like the Hounds of Baskerville I've found there are a LOT of folks out there who are in the same agreement. According to Kitt Bond, Senator for Missouri whom I spoke to last week, he initially came out in support of the Bill, but both he and McCaskill (the other MO Senator) literally had to change step because they received hundreds of thousands of letters, E-mails and calls pertaining to just that: Enforcement. 98% of the communication he got, per him, was about Enforcing current laws, Hazleton & Farmers Branch style ordinances, and speeding up the current legal immigration process. All things I can get behind happily. I'm with you, we'll never get everything we want, but I'll feel a lot better when we get something with a lot more thought put in to it, instead of being a play to earn voters for the next election. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60940 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60940 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:04:21 -0600 Hey- at least we have the opportunity. It's all sausage making. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60937 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60937 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:36:18 -0600 Congrats on having all your details tied up. I over to Lia's place and told her that I wouldn't complain so much about her foolish mojitos in the future. I wouldn't celebrate too much about the immigration bill. It will be back and if they tone down just a few things it will squeak through. This version was just too far over the line. The next one won't have any enforcement in it either. (Sorry to be such a downer) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60934 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/06/hi_fires_08_jun.html#comment-60934 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:19:10 -0600