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/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:57:55 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/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:35:43 -0600 John, It's just hugely humorous as to how many people can get sucked in just because its April 1! It'd be believable if the city were San Francisco or Seattle, but, Cheney country Cheyenne? LoL. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71489 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71489 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:57:29 -0600 Now let me see if I have this straight. If you have U.A.S's to get in the air, you have to lower UAS so the one on the ground can be uppa UAS and get off? oooookaaay. got it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71488 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71488 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:37:56 -0600 http://bostonmaggie.blogspot.com/2008/04/no-its-not-april-fools-day-joke.html]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71484 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71484 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:55:57 -0600 But they would not, he said, be allowed to bring their pets into the city. "We will let the county deal with all those extra animals," he said. Laramie County Commission Jeff Ketcham has hailed the measure, calling it a form of "reverse annexation." He welcomed all pet owners to move outside city limits after he had an angry exchange with Spiker at a recent public meeting on the matter. APRIL FOOLS! The comments are hilarious!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71480 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71480 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:26:25 -0600 Tropical fish will be allowed as long as they stay in their tanks. I did, but for some reason that one escaped me. So, April fools?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71479 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71479 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:16:24 -0600 John, Here's a little known fact for you. Okinawa was the only time (so far) in history that a Marine has commanded a U.S. Army in combat. Upon the death of LGEN Simon Bolivar Buckner USA, command was trasfered to LGEN Roy Geiger USMC. Geiger is also uniqued in that, I believe, he is the only aviator to command an army in the field. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71475 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71475 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:38:49 -0600 So would that make one a "SPLOGGER" who was working for "BLOPS" (Blog Ops)? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71474 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71474 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:17:58 -0600 Kat - someone didn't read the *whole* article... 8^ ) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71473 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71473 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:14:45 -0600 the media doesn't know how to treat the whole Sadr/Iraqi government conflict because they still don't know what it was about. They are still trying to peg Iraq as within our greater war against al qaida. They claim we are fixated on that and it is the reason we have declared war wherever, but truly, that is the prism through which they want to judge everything. If they can't peg it as "al qaida" related, then it is the Iraqi "civil war". Somebody must lose or win in a war, right? They don't comprehend that sometimes, battles are really "armed negotiation" where one side doesn't necessarily "win" the entire prize because both sides actually come out with something they want. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71472 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71472 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:03:24 -0600 "I think this is an historic vote," Mayor Jack Spiker. "Not only is the city treating all pet owners the same, but this is a unanimous decision on the part of the council -- the first in a long time." Yeah, historically stupid. Their concern was dog feces at the park? In Cheyenne, WY where, I know for a fact, the antelope really do play in every open field, on the air port strip and other public places? Where bears and coyotes and horses and cattle leave their feces all over the place? And they are worried about their kids getting dog feces on them from a few dogs? You know what the problem is? The Kevin Costner crowd moved out west and took over these little towns. Now all the yuppie "look at me I'm living in the wide open, but I don't want to see, smell or touch any animals" have taken over the town councils. Seriously, none of these people must leave the confines of their homes or businesses or else they would be trying to figure out how to make the feed lots stop stinking things up with the 9 billion tons of cow manure it collects. That is some seriously farcical feces.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71471 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71471 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:50:01 -0600 Going back up to your (current) lead item, I believe Sgt. Wright got the better part of the deal. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71470 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71470 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:22:03 -0600 Having read William Manchester's book GOODBYE DARKNESS, one passage in the work seemed to describe the battle for Okinawa rather succinctly. Manchester's Marine unit had been assigned to clear the north end of the island and, as the fighting in the south intensified, they were trucked south to re-enforce the line. After de-trucking Manchester(out of curiousity) climbed a small hill to see what lay ahead. It so happened that it gave him a panoramic view of the Shuri line which he described as a series of gray hills denuded of all greenry, like rows of rotting teeth. Looking out over it he was struck by the revelation that "The worse thing in the world that could happen to me was about to". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71468 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71468 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:18:21 -0600 Oh, come on, you didn't see the humor there? You're going to pay us? As if. I almost laughed when I saw it. Not that the gov't wouldn't like to try in times of crisis, but it wouldn't work. Not with the likes of TPMuckraker and Noah out there chomping at the bit to expose even the slightest hint or imagining of impropriety. It's funny. I'm around. Just trying to keep my head on straight. Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep your favorites if you've only ever used the ISP provided browser? Ai yah. Couple of hundred sites you have to save by hand. And they lie about how easy it is to transfer your address book too. BUt, at half the price of the old ISP, I can't complain too much. (Just means I can't put 'brevity is for the weak' into practice.). Oh, and has anyone else noticed a renewed fervor for a takedown of DPRK lately? Scary. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71467 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71467 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:10:57 -0600 Ry, I'm no expert, but that sounds to me more like a "thought exercise" than anything else. And good to see you 'round again, ry! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71466 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71466 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:11 -0600 Ry, we pay for quality, not quantity. This isn't the government. Tuttle and Dusty hardly post, and I pay them 3 times what I pay you. Of course, you haven't been posting much, either... so I think I'll dock your pay. Do note the date on the document - 2006. And I (and others) have been fighting this bad idea when it pops up in our contacts with the IO and StratComms folks for quite a while now. It's an idea that hasn't had much traction, once we pointed out the really significant downside of getting caught at it. Which they would. Because, as they constantly tell us - we can't keep a secret! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71462 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71462 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:37 -0600 Heh. Kat's comment just kinda slaps it all down, doesn't it? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71461 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71461 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:14:08 -0600 My grandfather was at the battle of Okinawa. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71460 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71460 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:50:24 -0600 Ahhhhhhh- that's really tough. However, I am going to come down on that side. She was not elected by the morons in my state to go to the Senate, so I don't LOATHE her. Anyway, I am stripping down to get in the shower so I will just keep my eyes open under the water and wash my eyeballs out. I'm good. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71458 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71458 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:37:05 -0600 that was a nasty way to start my day!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71455 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71455 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:11:00 -0600 John Kerry, first thing in the morning, ugh! I hate April Fool's Day! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71454 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71454 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:08:33 -0600 Oh, sure, blame todays header graphic on Dusty. Silly Hanoi Jane. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71453 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/hi_fires_1_apri.html#comment-71453 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:58:15 -0600