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/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:44 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... Saw the latest Harry Potter movie last weekend. It was fine, but like the one before it, I didn't enjoy it near as much as I had the first movies. Thinking about it over the week, I've come to realize why - the later books in the series are so long, with the little sub-plots, that... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:31:45 -0600 Snerk, YP, you aren't a long time reader 'round here, that's obvious enough. I give the Soviets credit here and there, at the soldier/individual citizen level, for their performance in WWII. But if you're expecting a paean to Stalin as well, your pissing up a rope. And as a "Cold Warrior" with brief flashes of hot over a 24 year span, yeah, the sight of rusting soviet armor doesn't bother me that much. Much better than the sight of burned out hulks of soviet armor littering the North German Plain - not to mention the German, Brit, US, and other allied armor joining it. As for Afghanistan - and the Soviet involvement there, hey, sometimes they weren't always on the wrong side of things. But dude - take the comment in context, eh? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62424 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62424 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:03:53 -0600 When were those Soviet tanks used but to fight the Nazis and the Islamic loonies in Afghanistan? America should be ashamed for pussy-footing around while the Soviets were attacked by the Krauts. Then we supplied arms and aid to the very same people that flew planes into our buildings and killed 3000 innocent people. I don't see much to cheer about. Don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62423 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62423 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:49:51 -0600 I think it would work better as a television series...good grief they could keep it going for twenty years. Heh. Just finished DH at noon. We took the CLUs to the party and the youngest one crashed on one of the camp chairs. We saw lotsa friends and just out of curiosity; does crime go down for a bit after the release of the HP books? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62415 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62415 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:09:32 -0600 Trias - not really. They could do it like Lord of the Rings. Film it all at once, then edit 'em into the discrete movies... and then release 'em. I'm with ya, Walt. Gimme S.P.E.W. and Kreacher! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62409 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62409 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:23:32 -0600 Cmon Walter, Harry would be 82 before he finished Hogwarts Jr High if they did that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62406 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62406 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:17:38 -0600 I decided a couple of movies back that they just should accept the reality of larger and more complex books and issue TWO movies for each book. Get all the sub-plots and other great stuff, feed us Potter nuts even more and, and (wait for it) MAKE MORE MONEY FROM THE MOVIES (and popcorn, etc.). I know, it's too logical and reasonable for the entertainment folks to understand. Oh, well. Walter http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62404 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62404 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:15:07 -0600 The CLUs and I saw it last week. Kreacher wasn't nearly as 'fun' as he was in the book and Bellatrix was okay...and somehow, Umbridge wasn't nearly as nasty as I would have expected. She is a piece of work, but I was thinking along the lines of the actress who played the medium from Poltergeist. Yeah, we will be standing in line for our copy. This November I have a meeting in Utah. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62400 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62400 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:17:36 -0600 um well... it's a perfect fit in the "Funny But True" category and I *will* be printing it, though I spent my time in the gunner and TC seats. Kinda sad to see all that Russki armor mouldering away when we had plenty APDS to go around... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62399 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62399 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:07:04 -0600 Yet not a peep from you about the "Strange things go into tanks" post...? ;^ ) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62397 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62397 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:43:27 -0600 FIRE! How many flechettes could a woodchuck duck, if a woodchuck had duck luck? Sorry...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62396 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62396 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:37:38 -0600 http://www.americanlegends.blogspot.com/]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62395 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62395 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:26:56 -0600 One of those would make one helluva varmint-plinker, eh John? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62387 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62387 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:05:27 -0600 They should sell 'em! As tractors! I'd buy one. Well, mebbe not. Gotta cross a 7 ton culvert to get to the barn... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62386 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/hi_fires_20_jul.html#comment-62386 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:58:45 -0600