Archives for the 'ground views' Category
Plane Bites Dog
Published on 16 Jan 2009 at 11:08 am.
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The plane that lands safely isn’t supposed to be news. Landing in the water, when the hero pilot manages to bring it down in one piece without hitting anything, is another story. Maybe it should be pilot bites public’s imagination. Good news hungry American can’t get enough. UPDATED:
Putting On The Sitz
Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 9:07 am.
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Better late than never. It was World Toilet Day Nov. 19. I let it go at the time.* But now squatters are back in the news. The la-di-da loos of Times Square. AP via Boston Herald. I’m inspired:
Ground View
Published on 1 Dec 2007 at 9:29 am.
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From a bad place getting better. Ralph Peters at NYPost brings us 1/4 Cav’s LTC Crider in Dura:
Hitting the Ground, A Quick Glance Around
Published on 16 Jun 2007 at 12:51 am.
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Nothing will take you there like a reporter who enjoys his work. You’re going to need to click on the “audio” feature here, and read the lookback here. Charles Levinson who famously brought us: “We’re not Jews!”
Apparently no one wants you to see what happened on the ground in Gaza.
What happens when the Star Spangled Banner loop breaks [...]
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A Look Around on the Ground
Published on 7 Jun 2007 at 9:43 pm.
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Days of My Life:
Lately my grandma, who lives in Baghdad, seemed tired from her voice , whenever my mom asked her, she answered “it is hot you know, and we don’t have electricity,” or “I am worried about you all in Mosul,” or “I am fine, don’t worry,” but mama didn’t believe, my grandma is too [...]
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A Quick Glance Around on the Ground
Published on 19 May 2007 at 11:48 am.
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Max Boot gets an email from Baghdad on the need to stand by Iraq: “How long, you ask? I am on my second tour following a year in Tikrit from 2004-2005. A realistic goal is to have stabilized this region by the time my eleven-year-old son is old enough to serve in the military.” Views don’t [...]
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Ground Views
Published on 12 May 2007 at 9:51 am.
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Godspeed, Maj. Zembiec.
Some soldier’s mom: “Lord, throw open the gates of Your Kingdom and welcome these Heroes to their rightful home.”
Desert Flier in the Trauma Bay.
Down On The Ground …
Published on 4 May 2007 at 10:48 am.
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… looking, listening, moving around:
Teflon Don takes a 40-hour road trip. I. Awkward First Dates. II. Hadji Houses. Part III isn’t up yet, but you’ll be able to find here when it is. Those who haven’t encountered Don before may want to check in here.
Michigan, Iraq.
Stanley Cup, Afghanistan.
JD Johannes, Outside the Wire, with notes on “How to beat [...]
Groundviews
Published on 17 Apr 2007 at 11:24 am.
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A quick glance around offers some groundviews of meaningless tragedy in Virginia. A mother waits and receives the word she had feared. Young students describe how the routine of a day can be strangely, horribly disrupted.
You have to be at ground level to understand the ethereal truth, how sometimes, it is possible to do unimagined things. Professor stays [...]
On The Ground
Published on 10 Apr 2007 at 9:05 am.
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”The Days of My Life.” A Baghdad schoolgirl talks about a class party, her report card, the car that exploded on her street, her sadness after the widow who used to clean her classroom was killed.
Days’ mom also blogs about the odds and ends of her days. Compellingly, chillingly.
A City Called Hell, Where the Date Palms [...]
Ground Pounding
Published on 4 Apr 2007 at 12:17 pm.
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A picture’s worth a thousand words: Pelosi hits the ground crawling. She’s also freelancing as a go-between for Israel. And it’s peace in our time! But how can Pelosi sort out the ancient woes of the Middle East and tell a peace partner from a terrorist when she hasn’t even read her own job description [...]
In The Trenches
Published on 28 Mar 2007 at 10:37 am.
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We’re all in the trenches in this war.
Since Day One people just like you and me have been forced to go over the top up in the airways. Passengers who try to be good self-defending citizens will soon have legal protection from nuisance suits under the Flying Imams Shield Law. Allahu akhbar! Vid link is [...]
Ground Views
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 10:31 am.
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It’s too easy to get stuck on the view from on high, and stare in fascination at the neverending trainwreck. But sometimes you need to get down on the ground and look around.
