http://www.julescrittenden.com Forward Movement Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:40:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I say, Muffy, that deuced gunnery is flattening the bubbly!  Old Ironsides' la-di-da waterfront condo neighbors want to muffle the guns ... a.m. and p.m. salutes to the flag, unsettling. Boston Herald:  Miffed residents of a posh condo complex have invited the commanding officer of the USS Constitution over for a ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/07/big-guns-make-bad-neighbors/ ... deserve Purple Hearts. Their killer probably deserves desertion, treason and terrorism charges if, as all indicators seem to very strongly suggest, he was engaged in jihad, from his violence-inciting, hateful rants about the Koran, his denunciation of the United States as "the aggressor" in arguments with fellow soldiers, to his shouts ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/06/combat-wounded-combat-dead/ Prof. Hullabaloo Digby, lefty blogger extraordinaire, instructing:  I have no idea what happened at Ft Hood. They've confirmed that the perpetrators were military. They don't know the reason for the killings. "I have no idea what happened" is a great phrase that generally signals you're dealing with someone who doesn't know what ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/06/jackass-101/ Not in time, anyway. The murders of 12 people and wounding of 31 others by one man with two handguns probably made a lot of things painfully obvious, and probably helped cut through a lot of clutter and red tape pretty quickly. But when, within a matter of hours, the following ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/06/dots-not-connected/ 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 ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/the-many-the-generous/ I would approve of this fine snark at Legal Insurrection, but then I'd have to think the New York Yankees and their Evil Empire are the GOP of baseball, and I can't do that. As long as we're plumbing the baseball-sports nexus, hope to change "There's always next year" to "There's also ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/the-phillies-won/ Flip side of that ancient "All Politics Is Local" wisdom, and Gibbs' claim that it isn't. The reinvented-politics dotcom startup has been looking a little inflated ever since it failed to mobilize for the stimulus or health care. So did it just get its shoe-leather, bricks-and-mortar, pocketbook issues comeuppance? Maybe ear-to-ear bandwidth, glitzy graphics and ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/did-os-re-invented-politics-bubble-just-pop/ Congratulations, New Jersey and Virginia. You're Obamically insignificant! Gibbs, Virginia and New Jersey politics are local. via CNN:  WASHINGTON (CNN) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Democratic electoral defeats in New Jersey and Virginia as "two very local elections" that say nothing about President Barack Obama's standing with the American ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/all-politics-is-local-2/ Two more waiting to receive their copies of Fit for Combat: When Fitness is a Matter of Life or Death for a total of 18 since last month. Two got The Complete Guide to Navy SEAL Fitness. One got The Official United States Navy SEAL Workout. And one, sensibly, got the Joist Mount Chin ... http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/ready-to-hurt-more/ You get the presidency if you buy everyone else shrimp tacos. via Director Blue. http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/05/hope-and-shrimp-tacos/