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Know Your Limitations
Published on 18 Nov 2009 at 9:44 am.
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It’s the fitness tip for the day. Seattle Police, wannabe ninja whose skills were not sufficient to the task found impaled on the metal fence he attempted to leap:
Thank You!
Published on 15 Nov 2009 at 1:53 pm.
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Still waiting on a final breakdown from Soldiers Angels on the Valour IT push, what it will buy, how it compares to years past, etc. But thanks to many of you who gave as you could, Team Marines under the leadership of the indomitable (and hot) Marine wife Villainous Company absolutely, positively blew it away, hitting 113 [...]
I Don’t Care Engage In Speculation At This Time …
Published on 12 Nov 2009 at 11:30 am.
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But the man considered by some to be a possible suspect in the incident of an as-yet undetermined nature that may have occured at Fort Hood last week when 13 Americans were killed by a guy yelling “Allah Akhbar” was wiring money to Pakistan. Dallas Morning News.
This is odd, because this United States Army officer who was without [...]
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Happy Birthday, Marine Baby
Published on 10 Nov 2009 at 11:21 pm.
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Happy birthday, United States Marine Corps. Born Nov. 10, 1775, in Tun’s Tavern, Philadelphia. And happy birthday, Marine baby Colin Joseph Van De Giesen, born today, Nov. 10, at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, just days after his father, Marine Capt. Kyle Van De Giesen, was laid to rest in the Massachusetts National Cemetery at Bourne. A little [...]
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VEE Day
Published on 9 Nov 2009 at 8:46 am.
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It’s Victory in Eastern Europe Day. Though I kind of like the sound of “VUSSR Day.” In Ivan’s face. PO Putin a little … for a change.
Obama of course couldn’t make it to the festivities. It’s an awkward one for him, given the recent retreat in the face of neo-Stalinism, and the fact that he’d [...]
“Young Man Of Morals”
Published on 7 Nov 2009 at 9:35 am.
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Mourned. Boston Herald on the funeral of USMC Capt. Kyle VanDeGiesen. His pregnant wife is following the casket.
The Many, The Generous …
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 11:38 am.
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Team Marines. Leading by more than seven grand and double-digit percentage points as of 11:30 a.m.
Just because Team Marines is kicking A doesn’t mean the war-wounded vets of all branches that Valour IT serves don’t still need your help.
Don’t hate Team Marines because we’re beautiful. That goes double for the lovely Cassandra at Villainous Company. Donate [...]
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Damn …
Published on 4 Nov 2009 at 1:34 pm.
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Check out Team Marines. As of 1:30 p.m. the scrappy little ocean-going, beach-hitting, mud-and-dust-loving service commands 59 percent of the Valour IT take to date … $20,866 of the $50,737 raised for laptops and specialized electronics for the war-wounded of all service branches.*
Valour IT Team Marines
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 12:42 pm.
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Who does America call when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight?
U.S. Marine Rat
That’s right… America’s 911 Force: the Few. The Loud. The Marine team!
The lovely Cassandra of Villainous Company, who is married to an Afghanistan-deployed Marine, recruited me for this year’s Valour IT USMC team … not for the actual Marines, thank God, because [...]
First Things First
Published on 18 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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The great Gatewaypundit opens a portal at First Things. Sporting a somewhat more button-downed look than the old anarchic, no-posts-bordered look of the old Gateway, and he makes vague references to “changes going on during the day” which sounds technical, lay-out oriented, as I trust the scathing incisiveness, conservative midwest reportage and farflung news net we’ve all come to rely [...]
Get Smart, Get Ready, Go!
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 8:15 pm.
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What you guys are reading, month to date, the site’s Amazon bestsellers plus some of your own individual reading regimens:
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Run For Your Lives!
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 11:31 am.
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Just got in that dirty little 2-miler around the house, the one with five hills. That and a quick 25 pushups, 25 crunches and 10 curls with the 13-year-old. It’s part of that Live Forever thing.* That, and being Fit for Combat.
Obama Shafts Gays
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Promises to end “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” How do they know he’s full of it? His lips were moving. New York Times:
Huge Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard Found
Published on 24 Sep 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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Ancestral loot located, under a farmer’s field in Staffordshire. Been wondering where that stuff was. BBC:
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Racism, Hate Speech Up
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 10:00 pm.
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Jimmy Carter and I agree! Hang on a sec. No, we don’t. Jimmy isn’t talking about himself and his views about Israel. He isn’t talking about Skip Gates, either. No, it’s not about Janeane Garofalo and Maureen Dowd, and all the efforts to disparage people who are upset about the concerted effort to drive up deficits and taxes [...]
Word Problem
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:00 pm.
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Via Vodkapundit, actual rocket scientist Ed Lambert does the numbers on Cash for Clunkers. It’s a gas:
How To Live Forever Part 3
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 1:50 pm.
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This is the “I told you so” part. via Boston Herald, Israeli researchers say even octogenarians can add years to their lives by exercising. A little goes a long way. Up to three years more life expectancy for active 85-year-olds.
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In Which The Lameness …
Published on 12 Sep 2009 at 8:49 am.
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… Of the Mass GOP — and the RNC, for that matter – is further demonstrated. There will be no national fight over the “Kennedy seat.”
Boston Herald: Bush I TransSec/Bush II chief of staff Andy Card bows out, effectively ceding the vacant U.S. Senate to the Dems, declining the effort of fundraising and running, and the indignity of a [...]
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Old? Fat? Feeling Death’s Icy Chill Down Your Neck?
Published on 1 Sep 2009 at 11:19 am.
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Want to live forever? I can’t imagine why, in this Vale of Tears, but here’s how it works.
I just turned 49, and ran five miles today. The last time I did that was the day before they moved us into the desert camps in Kuwait, six miles up and down Gulf Road, six and a half [...]
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What I Missed On My Obamacation
Published on 23 Aug 2009 at 10:55 am.
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Yeah, well, as predicted I didn’t finish The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815, but knocked out a dozen pages at Nauset Light Beach on Cape Cod, a few dozen more each night prior to nodding off … an excellent, quick-and-dirty yet intimately detailed view of grand events and the personalities that drove [...]
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What I did On My Obamacation
Published on 15 Aug 2009 at 9:49 am.
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Wife’s off at some la-di-da writing conference … her tax-writeoff vacation … and I’m enjoying my Obama vacation. That’s when you didn’t get any stimulus bucks, you just got dunned for someone else’s, and you’re home with the kids for the week … happy that it’s paid vacay and not a furlough or a layoff, and grateful [...]
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Homage To Jaffrey
Published on 10 Aug 2009 at 12:48 am.
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I went up and paid my respects to P.J. O’Rourke yesterday. Sort of. He didn’t even know I was in his town, Jaffrey, N.H.* I was wondering as I drove from south of Boston via 93, cutting across 495 to 3 to get off on the Amherst-Milford stretch of 101A, if it bothered him how generic that [...]
The Meaning Of Life, The Universe & Everything
Published on 4 Jun 2009 at 7:10 am.
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I’m ranked No. 42 in the Top 100 Wikio political blogs, by an algorithm that “puts everyone in the same pot. The list has mainstream media blogs — from ABC News, CNN, The New York Times, and others — alongside well-known partisan bloggers — Michelle Malkin, FireDogLake — and even government-run bloggers, like [...]
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Tough On Mideast Nukes
Published on 7 May 2009 at 12:40 pm.
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Intel scribbler Eli Lake at Washington Times: Obama grows a set, will finally get tough on Mideast nukes … Israeli ones.
HotAir notes that Obama thinks this show of good faith will bring the mullahs around. Hey, there’s a bridge down the street, not much too look at, but going cheap!
Gateway: Change!
Your Pirate Name
Published on 14 Apr 2009 at 9:40 am.
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Pirates ARRRRRRRe all the rage. You’re gonna need a pirate name if you want to be cool. Can’t come up with one yourself? That’s why they invented the Internet. Pirate name generator.
I’m Jelly-Legs Lazlo. Sounds about right.
The president of the United States? Eel-Skin Eugene. Kind of slippery.
The last president of the United States? Cap’n Billy Ropeburn. [...]
Eat-Sleep-Need-Take-Kill-Die-Live
Published on 11 Apr 2009 at 12:01 am.
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April 11, 2003:
We slept in the Jumhuriyah intersection again. I had a spot on the roof of the first sergeant’s M113 this time. In the morning, sitting on top of Ortiz’s 113, I began to see non-embedded press filtering through. I called out to some of them.
“Where you from?”
“New York Times”
“Oh yeah? Boston Herald.”
“You’re a [...]
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“Sucking Chest Wound”
Published on 10 Apr 2009 at 12:01 am.
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April 10, 2003
Baxter and Smitty and Sgt. Will were sitting in the Bradley’s shade, using one of the folding cots as a couch. It had only been three days since I had seen them, but seemed a lot longer.
“I got me a captain,” said Baxter. He showed me the camouflaged epaulet with some yellow insignia [...]
Petty Partisanship
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 11:19 pm.
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Has widened the approval gap for the most divisive presidential start out the gate to date. That’s the 61 percent gap between Obama’s 88 percent approval among Dems and 27 percent approval among Republicans, a gap that is 10 percent bigger than Bush’s at this point, even with the “stolen election” rage. Karl Rove on Obama at WSJ:
His [...]
Cafeteria Catholicism A No-Go
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 10:25 am.
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Former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, Clinton’s Ambassador to the Vatican, says Caroline’s pro-choice stance would make her ”a mistake” as Obama’s woman in the Holy See. Italian press is abuzz with Kennedy rumors. Boston Herald.
Flynn said while he understands the famous Kennedy clan is close to Obama, selecting Caroline could hurt the new president politically as the holiest [...]
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Massachusetts Tea Party
Published on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:01 am.
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Sisu: 100 or so show up in Newburyport, with plans to descend on State House on Tax Day.
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Ever Wonder …
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 11:00 pm.
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What’s it all about? Just ask Surber.
Liking Us Better
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 10:37 am.
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Only I think they’re laughing at us, not with us. AFP: Russian media yuks it up over the reset button.
Powerline with an explanation for the gaffe-a-palooza: Don’t Blame Us, We’re Incompetent!
Related, not so different, Goodwin at NYDN ponders Obama’s growing enemies list: not foreign, domestic.
I think he mght be making a domestic enemy in Surber, who’s [...]
Rum, Sodomy & The Lash*
Published on 13 Feb 2009 at 9:14 am.
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Nelson would have to do without two of the above if he were facing the French at Trafalgar today:
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Indecision
Published on 23 Jan 2009 at 8:56 am.
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Lack of principles and faulty logic prized. Forbes list of 25 most influential libs draws heavily on people who have a hard time making their minds up:
Talk About Faith
Published on 16 Jan 2009 at 7:58 pm.
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The pope wants Iran to work for peace and Iranian Catholics to develop “harmonious relations” with the mullahs. AP.
Hollywood, A Behind-Seen View
Published on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Iowahawk, who understands things so we don’t have to, explains how self-adoration keeps Hollywood alive and the Obamadoration won’t hurt, either. iHawk throws in a heck of a lot of 2009 sneak previews as a bonus. Because I don’t get lectured at home enough, I’ll have to decide whether to spend my disposable income on “Cold [...]
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“And Then They Came For Me”
Published on 12 Jan 2009 at 12:20 pm.
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Assassinated Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge writes his own eulogy. VOA reports Sri Lankan journos are protesting what they believe to be a government hit on a vocal critic of government corruption and the campaign against the Tamil Tigers. VOA notes, “Both sides have been accused of widespread human rights violations, in the conduct of [...]
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Roundup From The Ground Up
Published on 4 Jan 2009 at 1:25 pm.
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The great news arrived overnight, which is that Israel is (still) ignoring the handwringers (even more). What’s Hebrew for MYOB? I dunno, but “ground invasion” works. Washington Post kicks off the quick roundup with the first Israeli ground casualty, as the IDF moves in to bisect northern and southern Gaza and target missile launch sites.
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About
Published on 1 Jan 2009 at 12:59 pm.
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New Year’s Day is a time for reflection, a time for charting new courses. I’ve advanced beyond weight-loss concerns … which is to say I’ve accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray beard, length of tooth and wrinkles, I’ve earned it. But I don’t know whether anyone entirely advances beyond self-image issues, and I’m thinking about my [...]
Happy New Year
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 11:33 am.
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2008 is coming to an end. A wretched year overall, but you know me, eternal optimist, glass half full, all that. I’m coming out of it feeling pretty good.
War Is Hell
Published on 23 Dec 2008 at 9:05 am.
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But stateside’s a mofo. Ancient jarhead wisdom echoed by one soldier’s gripe, “Typical — ya got to a war zone and all of a sudden a garrison breaks out …” I’ve got one. Sgt Maj. Oggs telling us to pick up our MRE trash in the desert when we emptied out the track during a midnight [...]
Best Wishes
Published on 6 Dec 2008 at 9:16 am.
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To Ann Romney, undergoing treatment for early-stage breast cancer. On top of the multiple sclerosis, making her a living example of the fact that life, while it may be rich, rewarding and even privileged as it has been for this mother of five, is very often patently unfair. Boston Herald.
Nudists At War With Swingers
Published on 26 Nov 2008 at 8:16 am.
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Important news re the latest flareup of ethnic violence in Europe. Jawa:
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Dream On
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 8:44 am.
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Theo offers up the perfect location for blogging. You know, this might be a good time to pick up some low-lying atoll real estate. While real estate prices are depressed and before the warmth-panicked locals find out the tide will be receding again. Your one-stop desktop vacation spot’s also got some deep thots to mull and some marginally [...]
Look Cool
Published on 19 Nov 2008 at 10:53 pm.
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In your Iowahawk gear. Order info here. T’s come in basic Manhattan ennui black, Harley Davidson dealership-inspired black, knockoff 1996 “Ozzfest” black, replica ”Atlantic Tour 1943″ U-boat crew black, and white, all with the same attractive faux classic American heartland logo. The mug will be the coolest thing you can put your hot Joe in and will mark you as a brooding, thoughtful, [...]
More Moore
Published on 13 Nov 2008 at 8:21 am.
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Great series of photos from Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley by Getty Images’ John Moore, an Iraq invasion acquaintance. Here’s a recent interview with a lot of art.
The Obamagon
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 10:45 pm.
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Washington Independent on War-Lite top-heavy Center for a New American Strategy as a feeder pool for the Obama administration’s Pentagon. Roundup with an assist from Small Wars Journal, which links to this WSJ oped on the Obama admin’s expected shift of focus to Afghanistan.
When He’s Wright, He’s Wright
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 1:55 pm.
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The good rev lambastes the media for trying to use him as a “weapon of mass destruction” against Obama. Hartford Courant:
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Obama’s Attack Dog
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:20 pm.
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Rahm Emanuel takes the Chief of Staff job. It’s supposed to be a sign Obama will govern from the middle. I think it’s a sign Obama will get Pelosi and Reid to bark to his tune.
Thinking Challenged
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 7:58 am.
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Never mind the lack of interest in his terrorism-exulting, Hyde Park political soiree-hosting watercooler buddy Bill Ayers. They don’t even want to show vid of him hanging with Palestinian Israel-basher Rashid Khalidi. Why not? He’s just an Arab Studies prof. Here’s Fox on the LA Times reticence. Here’s CNS, meanwhile, with some of the reported tape content:
