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Since I have a flight that goes through Atlanta, I am, of course, sitting here at KCI waiting on a delayed flight. Heh. Might as well open up the H&I. Sooooo....
It would appear Right Wing Bloggers don't care too much for the Republican candidates for President... John Hawkins of Right Wing News has the least-loved right wingers... Not all of mine made the list - my list included every Republican convicted of corruption or tainted thereby...
There - mebbe that'll get y'all started! -the Armorer
Oooo! A plane!
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This is an attempt, futilely, trying to fill in the hole in male/female actions in society discussions that appeared when Cassie went of air/focused on milblogging over at milblogs. (Like stupid, ferret faced gollum is man enough to fill those coral colored high heel shoes, but we shall try.)
“The ‘Mom Job.’”
What the fark? I may not be down with the male bashing and class-warrior based outrage of the folks over at Feministing(language and one finger salute warning), but I am in agreement with this concept being utterly stupid and another step in the overly ‘Hollywoodization’ of what a woman should look like, at any point in her life. Real people don’t live on tabloid covers, air brushed and quaffed by $400/hr stylists into artificial ‘perfection’, and shouldn’t try. Stuuuuuuped.
(See, toldja I couldn’t fill Cassie’s shoes.)
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More of something that should simply go away: le affair du Plame. This time Novak fires across the bow. Sigh. This is almost like the Kennedy assassination. People will never let this go and conspiracy theories will exist forever.
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I don’t typically like citing newsbusters, since it’s a nakedly partisan site, but they’ve got a good bit of hypocrisy caught in their jaws and I think it worthy of posting, even if it is a nakedly partisan site: Increase in MNF-Iraq deaths instantly news but a decrease isn’t a newsworthy trend.
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Well, you could’ve waited until I got my replacement contact lens and could actually see, John. Whiner.(Aieeeee, it is the Hairy Eyeball! Must flee!)
--ry
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With a tip of The Hat(dingy, beat up, and now smelling heavily of smoke—long story) to Haft of the Spear comes a story about a domestic spying ring that was giving mil intel to SoCal police agencies about suspected terrorists and plots. People involved are now going to be neighbors of The Armorer for two years and rightly so.
Though, it does bring up the question of what happened to all this sharing of info amongst agencies that was supposed to happen after 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission. Has Gorelik’s wall slammed down like a 2 ton portcullis?
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone"
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