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| Blog Name: | Castle Argghhh! |
| Url: | http://www.thedonovan.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | military, politics, guns |
| Description: | Observations on things military, politics, and firearms. From the right, but not that far right... |
| Popularity: | 34 Followers |
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H&I FIRES* 01 DEC 2009
| 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. ************************** My take on the whole AGW thing mirrors that of the Pedant-General - if it's real, working on how to adapt to it makes more sense than spending all those gazillions of dollars that might not do anything to mitigate it. But I bring that up because he has a nice take-down of Climategate. (Though, in truth, I prefer Iain Murray's formulation - Climaquiddick, at least when watching how the MSM is dealing. Mr. Right notes that the Watermelons are at Code Red in the |
Recognizing friends and allies...
| Heartless Lib reports from Afstan:Today, December 1st, is Romanian National Day, recognizing the unification of the provinces of Romania from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following WWI.Romania, with 23 million citizens, became a NATO member in 2004, and currently has 1200 troops deployed in Afghanistan.Most of the troops from the former Warsaw Pact countries haven't forgotten that the Afghans played a role in freeing them from Moscow.An amusing quote, from an anonymous Romanian officer, spotting a couple of the Russian girls who work in the barbershop at ISAF: "The Russians [insert past-tense of versatile anglo-saxon word here] us for 50... |
How to spot a terrorist-in-uniform
| A helpful guide from the United States Army. Remember when the story broke about Major Hasan, and I noted that he flew under the radar both because of political correctness *and* that whole "presumption of innocence" thingy we really like around here when it applies to us, but not so much when it applies to others we don't like? And I, and just about everybody else who ever served, said, "Now we'll get some policy guidance, closing that barn door after the horse escaped?"And, because it's what bureacracies do, seasoned with that that whole Constitution thingy, that new guidance was going to... |
How to spot a terrorist-in-uniform
| A helpful guide from the United States Army. Remember when the story broke about Major Hasan, and I noted that he flew under the radar both because of political correctness *and* that whole "presumption of innocence" thingy we really like around here when it applies to us, but not so much when it applies to others we don't like? And I, and just about everybody else who ever served, said, "Now we'll get some policy guidance, closing that barn door after the horse escaped?"And, because it's what bureacracies do, seasoned with that that whole Constitution thingy, that new guidance was going to... |
H&I FIRES* 30 NOV 2009
| 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. ************************** In today's From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below) Sour Swinger: Photos From Mission Part 3 Bouhammer: Another example that Afghanistan is not Iraq Katherine Tiedemann: Daily brief Free Range International: The Cost of Risk Aversion In Iraq Now (at 56): Life Here Seems to be on Hold, but Life Goes on Back Home Noah Shachtman: More Troops to Afghanistan, But What Will They Do? Greyhawk: More Over Tora Bora Benchmarks in Wartime: As Reliable |
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