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/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:18:16 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... *********************************** From Bob Owens, who reads these things so that I don't have to... another fabulist, this time at Daily Kos. Funny thing about those "smaller [helicopter] carriers": they can handle Harrier jump jets, but there is no way in hell they can land an F18 Hornet. The Kossacks just TNR'd. Lex takes it down better... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:55:42 -0600 Too Little too late to be sure But it's hard to knock someone who is willing to stand up and say "Look, I fornicated the canine. I know it. I should have asked more questions, I didn't." I found it interesting, as a guitarist myself, that he mentions Woody Guthrie (with his infamous slogan of "This Machine kills Facists" placed on his guitar), with a touch of regret. But the best part I think was his statement on violence. Making him more of, for lack of better workds, an aging hippie at worst, versus a hardcore Red. Sort of like Upton Sinclair suddenly acknowledging Capitalism prevailed. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63982 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63982 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:33:29 -0600 dare you report good news from Iraq!"]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63961 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63961 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:40:47 -0600 That Maccabee thing just fell in my lap. Too easy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63958 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63958 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:34:02 -0600 It's official, Mr. Seeger - the overwhelming opinion *expressed* here is... too little, too late. Sorry. Now, small detail question - how many who rapped him actually *read* Ron Radosh's article I linked to? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63950 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63950 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:38:52 -0600 Seeger - another Stalin/communist apologist looking for a come-back song. Screw 'im and the nyt as well. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63949 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63949 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:25:01 -0600 Interesting mix of the left there. Maccabee talked way too much. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63947 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63947 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:27:21 -0600 More likely in that era, a Nagant. And later, a Makarov. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63946 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63946 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:12:25 -0600 That doesn't acknowledge that it was communists who killed one hundred million people while Seeger was singing their song. Pete toed the Party line, and the Party line was that the kulaks just had a run of bad luck. It'd be interesting to see that same interview if the USSR was still around writing the words to the tune, to mix a metaphor. Or, as in Uncle Joe's case, calling the shots -- as in, from a Tokarev...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63940 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63940 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:51:11 -0600 " He acknowledged that he underestimated, and perhaps still does, "how the majority of the human race has faith in violence." That doesn't acknowledge that it was communists who killed one hundred million people while Seeger was singing their song. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63939 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63939 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:40:52 -0600 As ever, Jim's a tough audience! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63930 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63930 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:02:35 -0600 This was a friend of yours? And now you're saying she "punked" you and are taking the words of Kossak's over your friend's? I am more convinced by this that you made it all up then by anything else so far. Blood. In. The. Water. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63922 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63922 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:19:16 -0600 Pete Seeger repents.... waaaaaaaay after the nick of time. Stalin is not a neat guy. Good for you Pete now get a quarter and see if you can find someone who cares what you think. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63915 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/hi_fires_02_sep_1.html#comment-63915 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:59:21 -0600