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April 19, 2008

Weekend Reading

Something old, something new... a few more bits.

Powerline points out someone who plays the double-standard card with more convincing detail than I've seen anywhere else. But whatever you do, don't call Obama "elitist," you racist.

The media reports from Basra at the end of March drove me absolutely nuts. They were contradictory, fragmentary and incomprehensible. At the time, I missed the explanation for that. It was a matter of geography. Once again, I shouldn't be surprised. *sigh*

We've already heard about a U.S. Navy Destroyer with a blogging XO, but did you know the Navy has an official policy of encouraging blogging? BZ, Navy!! Now if someone would just by the Air Force a clue...

The media does it again - outright lies. I don't see how it could be called anything else. As I said to an empty-headed fellow citizen who exclaimed to me with horror how she'd read on the front page of the NYT that an "entire Iraqi unit" deserted despite the Americans begging them to stay (of course she didn't know it was comprised of about 20 people, or that the thousands of earlier deserters had led to Iraq leadership being fired), our country is endangered by the lack of a competent, honest, accurate, professional media. God help us.

Nobody seemed to notice, but the long-awaited opening of Iraq's southern oil fields to outside investment began this week. Successful implementation will be the determining economic factor in Iraq's full recovery and reconstruction.

If you haven't read this from Michael Totten, you really should.

Reporting As Ordered, Sir! �

by FbL on Apr 19, 2008 | TrackBack (0)

April 8, 2007

Denizen link-fest!

Kat, over at The Middle Ground notes it's... Easter. And has some observations of Halliburton's ditching Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Princess Crabby, AKA Boston Maggie, has a Borescope and Pullover. Those who know, know.

I get all the military death notices via email, and when you see one that comes through of a soldier that died of wounds months after he was wounded, well, I wonder what the story is. One such of those last week was Specialist Curtis Spivey. And Fuzzybear Lioness of Fuzzilicious Thinking has the backstory on Specialist Spivey, and there is a Valour-IT connection. What's Valour-IT you say? I'm glad you asked - just click that link.

If you haven't visited the Castle Adjutant Brab of Righty in a Left State lately (understandable, she has been in the dungeon for a while) you've missed a wonderful error message and a jaundiced view of the Pacific Northwest.

Over at My Side of the Puddle, Denizen Were-kitty has stirred herself, providing some video entertainment. She's also a rare Denizen who *likes* her Representative, and has her own words for the MC's who voted for the "Surrender Bill."

The Snarkatron of Snark Patrol, aka Bad Cat Robot, has been busy. She reviewed 300, then spanked an eco-poseur. and applauds a little stick-in-the-eye action from the President.

SWWBO has a message for you. For some, you might perceive a digit waving proudly in the air, so to speak.

Just This Guy is just toying with Google. Careful dude, if they erase you from their databases... you cease to exist, y'know. One thing's for sure - I can use JTG's blogging schedule as an offset for the Castle's impact on the planet.

Trias really *did* pull the plug.

Cassandra of Villainous Company asks some questions, gets mostly snark in return... perhaps it's the karma-balance thing, since she's dishing some snark herself. Then she points out one of the reasons why, even if they *do* allow ownership of machineguns, the Castle is not located in Missouri.

Alan of GenX@40 has his own roundup of bits and pieces.

Over at Random Fate, we find we're with Jack on this. We *are* having bandwidth issues from it - which manifests itself in things like double-posting comments and other annoyances.

1SG Keith of My Army Life and Times, well, he's just been busy. Personally, I blame undead felines. Just sayin'.

Heh. Here's Alan again, this time on A Good Beer Blog. It appears that the lawyer in him is perplexipated by that Great American Experiment in Social Engineering, Prohibition. I use the term "great" advisedly. Now we would call it the War on Alcohol. Heh. Like the War on Drugs, back in the day, the War on Alcohol was responsible for a lot of gun deaths, which dropped when the government surrendered to the people on the issue. Hmmmm. Naw, it's completely different.

We'll conclude this bit by sending you to Murray at Hitting Metal with a Hammer. I see he noticed the same thing I did about the repatriated Brits, and he has an interesting comment on his Labour-led government.


Reporting As Ordered, Sir! �

by John on Apr 08, 2007

March 11, 2007

Denizen Link-Fest

Felt like taking a tour around the Denizen blogs... - FbL

Murray and his Ghome Homes have hit the bigtime. He's also apparently been having too much fun. And not to be outdone, A Good Beer Blog is getting famous, too.

Over at Random Fate, Jack has the Laptop and Blog Reconstruction Blues.

Last roundup, it was Rammer offering his thoughts on global warming. This time it's Punctilious herself.

Barb points out a recent SECDEF press release and offers him some advice. And on the same subject, Kat has been digging deep in her well-researched history of military medical care.

BCR has the best the best descriptor for the reviewers of 300 who see everything through an ideological haze.

According to AFSis, it's now "Burka, Burka," not "Durka, Durka."

Two Denizens had a mini blogmeet! Sneaky Denizens...

The saga of the keys--Beth and John need a teleporter.

The American military isn't unique: Canadian military suffers delays and cost overruns, too. They also ahave their own sickos..

FbL is prepared for the MilBlog Conference [btw, pre-registration has begun]. She also highlights some answers to the question "Why Do We Serve?"

Apparently Bloodspite has found the civilian insurance company with enough red tape to strangle the VA. Wow.

Reporting As Ordered, Sir! �

by Denizens on Mar 11, 2007