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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:20:49 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:48:28 -0600

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78657 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78657 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:40:57 -0600 Jim, we are thrilled with your update. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78648 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78648 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:49:49 -0600 Time out for a note of thanks. Thanks to all those of you who visit here and prayed for my granddaughter Julie.

I followed her dad Pete to the hospital through the snow on Jan 5 2008. She had passed out and fallen down the stairs in her house. She was diagnosed and confirmed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. This disease is a progressive illness. The doctor shocked us with that diagnosis and told us she may have 2 days, 2 months, 2 years to live. We were devastated.

Today my fingers are cramped from keeping them crossed. Julie’s schoolmates and her church along with people we don’t even know, collected money and sent her and the family to Lourdes, France. Like many of you they all prayed for her. After the trip to Lourdes, Julie's health has improved dramatically. I credit all of you and all your prayers. Mary's Son is being very gentle with our Julie.

They took away her wheel chair, and her oxygen. The told her to stop taking all but one of her meds (they were the kind of pills that destroy body parts but keep you alive for now) They let her take that last med until she ran out and discontinued it.

All she takes now is vitamins.

Tonight was her brother Petie's 11th birthday. On the way to her house we stopped to talk to Peter and Julie out in the circle.

They were on their skateboards playing. The party was great. Big Pete (Sergeant Pete USMCR) has my old pull up bar in his back yard. It was great to watch Julie and her cousin Emily doing a pull up or two, and playing soccer in the dark in the yard.

Now we pray prayers of thanksgiving. Of course none of us lives forever, but for now we have out Julie back. For whatever number of good days we have with her .... we will always be grateful.

For now things are frankly ..... very normal.

Thanks to those of you who offered prayers and support.
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Others will probably poo-poo this statement. You're free to. But these people are professionals in the media business, and they make their money influencing our purchasing and viewing decisions, and they make their money by shaping our opinions.

One of the most fascinating things I've ever seen was a television show where a British guy "predicted" what a couple of people would come up with as an ad campaign for a bogus product or marketing idea. He made a rough drawing of the visuals and images these guys would come up with in their marketing brochure or poster, or whatever it was. And it was very accurate.

At the end, he told these guys and the television audience how he did it. What he had done was place visual items all along the route that these guys took in their cab to their meeting with him, where he first told them what he wanted them to do.

They had subconsciously retained these visuals in the minds, and used them in their brochure or poster.

This is what the media is doing to us right now. It's what they've always done. The sad reality is that far too few us are aware of just how much we're impacted by this.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78640 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78640 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:56:10 -0600 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78635 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78635 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:38:52 -0600
She makes Obama look bad if they portray her accurately.  You know you suck when the other teams second string makes you look bad.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78628 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/09/hi_fires_26_sep_1.html#comment-78628 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:42:22 -0600