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/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:54:11 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... *********************************** I gotta admit, my visceral reaction to reality TV is... "bleah!" And the Kid Nation one, based on the ads, looked to be a new low. Mary Hamm disagrees, and provides a useful example of why one should take care when ranting in the age of Google - especially if you haven't taken the time... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:17:27 -0600 Ry, the Georgia Piedmont accent of my Dad's family can be a bit harsh, I admit. Now my Mom's family's Mississippi accent is such that they can get at least 2.3 syllables into anything a DY would call a syllable. If you were sentenced to death by a Mississippi judge, you would weep; not at the prospect of imminent death, but from aesthetic admiration for the slow mellifluous and euphonious way he would have said, "...hanged by your neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul." I think I may have just figured out how Trent Lott has managed to get away with all he has done. I always liked Haley Barbour better, anyway http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63770 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63770 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:43:53 -0600 Boq, that looks like a pic of a *Canada* goose! I know that they sometimes refuse to go home in the Summer because silly people indulge them (yeah, ethercat, I'm talking about you) but they're not necessarily representative of SC culture. Can Cap'n H help us out here? With goose recipes? Best goose loads for one's gun? (I must confess I do, hate stepping in their poo.) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63769 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63769 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:21:28 -0600 GOOSE CREEK is. :@()]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63726 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63726 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:10:42 -0600 Gotta get the trash out. No, that doesn't mean you, Ry. Huh? You getting lenient in your dottage or something? I usually have to tunnel back in or bribe the interior guard with fresh tuna. Well, at least us Californians actually pronounce, like, every syllable in a word instead of just a few we happen to like, JTG.;)(Gawd, someone get me out of this state, pronto. Please?) Besides, she still had enough twang to know she wasn't from The Valley or any other part of CA. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63719 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63719 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:41:50 -0600 Whaddya know. Cassie shows up and *John* starts flouncing. What's next, Cass doing a five-parter titled, "Inter-Bellum Aiming Circles of the Sub-Saharan Military"...? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63708 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63708 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:12:42 -0600 I *still* think she said, "Osama people in the country don't have maps." A transparent hint to the folks at Rand-McNally that they didn't kick in enough to Barry's war chest... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63707 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63707 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:18:12 -0600 Now, it might be tricky to identify the rectangular states on a map, but my fifth-grade teacher told us, "Nebraska looks like a bus." Oh, and I do wish that silly bimbo actually talked like a South Carolina girl. She sounded like the most revolting kind of Valley Girl with that California accent she was using. Made her seem even dumber, y'know? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63706 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63706 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:28:01 -0600 true all, and i concur. and i have given names of who SHOULD have been standing alongside him in the docket. i still lean toward the gov't having tanked the case. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63703 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63703 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:35:10 -0600 MajMik e- Au contraire - he was accused, he went before a Court, presented his side of the story... and was acquitted of the worst charges, and got tagged on the "saver" the government had larded into it. Having sat on Courts Martial panels before - if they deliberated for 7 hours, there was a lot of talking, diagramming, dissecting and searching for an answer going on - and it sounds like the government didn't prove it's major case. Which just goes to show that the possibly the wrong people stood in the dock - and LTC Jordan should have just been slammed in his OERs. Unlike some officers who got slammed in their OERs, or who got Non-Judicial punishment. It just further highlights that the chain-of-command was broken at Abu Ghraib, and that LTG Sanchez, who lost his shot at a fourth star, and Colonel Karpinski, who lost her star, failed in their responsibilities, if not to the level of "provable in court negligence." For the same reason that it's easy to snag little hoods, but not get the Al Capones they work for expcept through tax evasion - the higher up the chain you go in a situation like this, the harder it is to pin a criminal culpability, and the "correction" has to come via professional accountability, and most of the officers involved have suffered in that regard. Yeah, I think we let senior people skate in ways we shouldn't, but I think in this case, everything was so muddy, we got about the best outcome we could ask for. Assuming the government just didn't tank it's case. And we took a far harder look at it than most other militaries in similar situations would have. The outcome wasn't perfect, but the lesson is there for the future. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63701 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63701 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:19:55 -0600 They make tutus in khaki? Actually, they're purple. To celebrate the diversity of 'jointness'...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63700 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63700 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:01:48 -0600 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294929,00.html split verdict on LTC Jordan.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63698 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63698 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:43:04 -0600 I'm surprised they still are running with that ammo story. Bizarre. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63697 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63697 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:16:09 -0600 On John, tutu's only come in "tacky"... not "khaki". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63695 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63695 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:36:37 -0600 They make tutus in khaki? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63694 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63694 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:34:15 -0600 Yeah, you *don't* want me to post that video again... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63688 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63688 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:37:51 -0600 Well, at least he's flouncing in a huff and not a tutu this time. John in a tutu is *not* a pretty sight. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63686 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63686 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:32:14 -0600 Me! In a huff! [which will bring Bill in for a snark...] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63685 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63685 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:14:59 -0600 **As proof no one reads anything around here, and just looks at the pictures - not *one* Canuckistanian commented on the props I gave them yesterday. [flounce!]** Clarification please. Who is flouncing here? *The Princess puts her hands close to her face....getting ready to cover here eyes, if necessary* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63683 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63683 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:09:01 -0600 re: the Brit father/son team. there's something to be said for the Regimental system... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63681 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/hi_fires_28_aug.html#comment-63681 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:19:38 -0600