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            <title>H&amp;I Fires* 22 Nov 2008</title>
            <description><![CDATA[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.

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At the Weekly Standard -&nbsp;Jules Crittenden on President-elect Obama's debt to President Bush.

Over at SondraK's - you can never have too much bacon. Especially this time of year. H/t, Wendy.

And while it's not in vogue with the minimalist view of warfighting - when you're a participant, vice a pontificating bureaucrat...



-the Armorer 

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The War On Big Tobacco... BT is having a rough deployment, coping with several assaults on his dignity - such as being a Fobbit-by-his-own-admission, as well as the normal travails of a normal married male in a hot-charged environment.&nbsp; He's also a helluva a writer, much as I think it's going to cost him his chance at being President, the honesty of his writing can be uncomfortably brutal. He'll make more from&nbsp;the book he's going to get out of this deployment&nbsp;than he would as President anyway.&nbsp;This is one such post.&nbsp; There's some Joseph Heller and Jerzy Kozsinski in there, with a frisson of Vonnegut.&nbsp; If you don't want to wander that deeply into BT's emotional crannies, consider this lighter post - Queen for a Year.&nbsp; -the Armorer

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French blogger Jean-Marc Liotier shares American troops in Afghanistan through the eyes of a French OMLT infantryman, a translation from a French soldier's post A Nos Freres D'Armes Americains. The view of our soldiers through the eyes of one French soldier is a must read. H/T to Roger. - the Adjutant

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Thus does the Adjutant bust herself. Not only did she *not* take the quiz, she neglected to read the entry right above the quiz...&nbsp;&nbsp; 

8^ D&nbsp;

I shilled that French soldier link out to numerous Big Blogs, without a link bleg attached - I thought it best to go direct. C'est la guerre! -the Armorer
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Snerk!&nbsp; MSNBC goes Vegan!&nbsp; Tim Blair neatly skewers David Shuster et. cie.&nbsp; As have dozens of others.&nbsp; News for you, David - in the end, everything, including you, is food for something.&nbsp; It is the way of all flesh.&nbsp; Perhaps out on the farm, we're just a little closer to it, and so more comfortable with it.&nbsp; But unless you're going vegan, this was much more about Palin-bashing than where Thanksgiving Dinner comes from.&nbsp; Be thankful you live someplace where you don't have a more passing familiarity with life as it is for the bulk of the planet.&nbsp; the Armorer

Update: Mark Steyn sticks in the knife and twists...
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And that's Sarah Palin's real stroke of genius in these difficult times for the global economy. For, in an age when the government picks which banks to nationalize and which banks to fail, and guarantees mortgages that should never have been issued, and prepares to demand that those taxpayers with responsible and affordable pension plans prop up the lavish and unsustainable pension programs of Detroit, Governor Palin has given us a great teaching moment and a perfect snapshot of what my Brit reader would recognize as pre-Thatcher &quot;industrial policy&quot;:

When the government decides it can &quot;pick winners&quot; and spare them from the realities of the market, everyone else gets bled to death.

Thank you, Sarah. It's the first election ad of Campaign '12. 
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Indeed.&nbsp; -the Armorer

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            <title>Comment from Argent on 2008-11-22</title>
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                <![CDATA[Nice vid Mike.&nbsp; Now i know how the hair comes off.<br />
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Bacon breaks the all poultry rule but I bet it tastes good.&nbsp; I think my arteries clogged up just looking at it.<br />
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Masturbation, fears and insomnia.&nbsp; Not things people usually chose to be honest about.&nbsp; Actually the insomnia makes me wonder about his long term health.<br />
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As for Palin, well I do not consider her any good wich means more of you will consider her even better, but that's got nothing to do with turkey's becoming Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; Reminds me of this;<br />
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Q: Where does milk come from?<br />
A: The supermarket, silly.<br />
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            <title>Comment from Mike on 2008-11-22</title>
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                <![CDATA[John,<br />
The &quot;Big Tobacco&quot; link was inspired genius, six weeks old but, still, new to me. However, similar to&nbsp; mid-60's Alaska based &quot;aerospace power for peace and defense&quot; members &quot;Johnny Walker&quot; factor.<br />
If the vegan Left is upset with Sarah, let them go Obama's political base and check out&nbsp;the Chicago Reader: <br />
<a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/wholehog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/wholehog/</a><br />
&amp; here's a trailer for a great video showing us where our baby backs come from.<br />
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2254342" rel="nofollow">http://www.vimeo.com/2254342</a><br />
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