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/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:04:00 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/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:55:24 -0600 "Satan" Semper Fi Major]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69982 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69982 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:51:51 -0600 WELL DONE to our friends from the northern tundra who are providing scholarships to kids of their brave and capable troops killed in the war on terror! We salute their service, and mourn your losses as our own. I am proud to report that our state Legislature just approved free college tuition for dependents of state residents killed it the war. (We passed free tuition for Purple Heart recipients a few years ago!) Too bad if a couple of sports scholarships have to be dripped to pay for the above. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69967 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69967 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:31:20 -0600 Nope. No resonance here. There is a sort of Sein Fein / IRA symbiosis between these people and the political partisans in the media. The media reports bring the troops home, end the war, etc. with pictures, too. The unedited view of these protests shows bring the troops home, destroy Israel, end the war, destroy Israel, etc. With the power of the internet that whole view is available with unedited pictures, too. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69964 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69964 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:20:36 -0600 Russki choppers... is it the ultimate validation of the classic Socialist/Capitalist Cold War face-off that Russki helos are now for sale out of Pigeon Ford, Tennessee? Sheesh. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69960 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69960 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:45:20 -0600 John is completely right. But..., I would love to have practiced a little, "Wall-to-wall counseling" with the trespassers! Love, ;) ParatroopRN http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69959 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69959 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:30:15 -0600 I'm guessing the DC police chose not to make martyrs out of the protestors. What makes sense in small crowd law enforcement doesn't always make sense in large crowd law enforcement. If the police had gone in with batons swinging, these guys would Heroes of the Revolution. As it is - they look like the vandals they are - and however they are spinning this, they didn't get what the wanted - which was some nice violent confrontation with someone. The best of which would have been the recruiters. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69957 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69957 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:18:52 -0600 I may be wrong but would the general public and police have ignored such in the past? As I brought up before to AFSis i think it was, when you look at this it's the resonance of the general public with these actions which is the real problem and can and probably will spring up all sorts of this kind of thing. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69956 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69956 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:08:19 -0600 And as always, the Indymedia crowd is hooting and hollering over how they "stuck it to the man". Buncha morons that, if in a one on one situation would wet themselves and then run like a dog, if you ask me... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69955 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69955 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:56:32 -0600 Can we start smiting now? Please? Pretty please? With a Frag Grenade on top? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69954 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/hi_fires_21_feb_1.html#comment-69954 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:56:06 -0600