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/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:03:42 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... Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:29:58 -0600 Thanks for the Gunner update. Not so sure I needed that tribble image though; time to bleach my brain! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69223 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69223 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:03 -0600 Good show at the Dole tonight. You guys all representred yourselves well. I especially like the emphasis on setting the record straight. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69173 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69173 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:27:30 -0600 Hey! Armorer-guy! Check your bloody email! I sent you a picture I'm sure you'll find interesting. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69171 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69171 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:09:25 -0600 Thank you, Kat-MO, if you were speaking about my post on Rivrdog blog. You might be interested to know that I studied at Mizzou, but way-back, in '61 and '62, and didn't finish up there but out here on the Weft Coast. It is interesting that the Second is the de-facto "enforcement" Amendment of the Bill of Rights, but these days, anyone daring to speak about it in that vein is labeled as a bomb-thrower. If these idjits who lack the most basic historical perspective ever get enough of a roll on, I and those who think like me will get a chance to demonstrate our dedication to our Constitution. The problem is, as I see that force taking the field, it will have an average age of over 50, and that does not bode well for the harsh conditions of combat, as the owner of this blog can more properly attest to. We need some young blood in the ranks of those who would protect the Constitution. It remains to be seen if Iraq war vets will take up our cudgels, but if they do, I'm going to say that our Constitution will be safe for one more generation. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69169 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69169 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:46:05 -0600 7:30PM, Dole Institute of Politics, KU Campus, Lawrence, KS - be there or be square. Since they're giving me a free dinner - I have chosen not to wear MU colors...Is there a pub crawl? by Maggie on January 29, 2008 11:56 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, if you get here quick enough, there *could* be... by John of Argghhh! on January 29, 2008 12:02 PM ********************** Nah........nevermind, I can't risk getting spanked again so soon.....LOL!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69161 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69161 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:17:39 -0600 YAY! I'm glad Gunner is ok!!! Nice to see him up and running after lil' critters again. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69157 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69157 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:49:33 -0600 Fred - that's a pretty succinct wrap-up. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69155 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69155 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:27:43 -0600 The internet is the new samizdat. It is disliked by the same kind of people who didn't like the old samizdat. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69154 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69154 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:08:20 -0600 Yeah, you do....LOL On another note, I found AT's treatise on the loss created by internet to be interestingly ironic. Not the least of why is that I was reading that on...wait for it..the internet. But, more interesting is the idea that the internet has some how changed how people have received information, for the worse. when, regardless of books or philosophical salons, there has always been those who are interested in reading, learning and thinking and those who are not. The internet is a tool of empowerment if you use it as such or it is a tool of entertainment and mind numbing. I think it is more about the people that use it than the effect of the tool itself. Reminds me of the laments about music being the devil's tool to drive young people from their morals when music simply expressed the morals of the people. To that effect, if you want to learn, obtain information and be a "thinker" the internet can be a powerful tool. I have personally read more classics via e-books, more history, more historical documents and books in the past three years than I did in the preceding decades. And, I was a prolific reader. It's just the search of information and what information that we want. I would hazard that those who historically gossiped and spoke of trivialities are the same as today. The quantity only relative to the growth of population, the percentage likely the same, though no study has been done to my knowledge to support any claim or disclaim. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69151 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69151 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:14:14 -0600 Heh. *I* have to worry about that! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69149 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69149 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:58:07 -0600 Now I have to see about the weather cooperating for a drive out. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69147 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69147 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:48:32 -0600 Well, if you get here quick enough, there *could* be... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69144 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69144 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:02:59 -0600 7:30PM, Dole Institute of Politics, KU Campus, Lawrence, KS - be there or be square. Since they're giving me a free dinner - I have chosen not to wear MU colors... Is there a pub crawl?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69142 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69142 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:56:22 -0600 Great 2nd Amendment writing there. glad I'm not the only one pushing the "gun nut" envelope. LOL I do keep trying to write something about the 2nd Amendment and defending the nation, but it keeps ending up sounding like a pulpit pounding sermon demanding "revolution today". And, I have to agree with Riverdog, whenever someone starts talking about the 2nd Amendment guarding our rights and our nation, people do start thinking "nutter revolutionary, separatist militia member". The problem being, very few of any citizens who are not directly interested in guns, thinks that they are ever going to have to defend the nation either from invasion or internal unrest. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69141 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/hi_fires_29_jan_1.html#comment-69141 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:49:04 -0600