Monday, 30 May 2011
Lisa Mei Norton: Not In Vain (Memorial Day Tribute to Our Fallen Heroes and Their Families)
Another great song from our friend Lisa Mei
News..........
What I Remember
What will our Iraq War Memorial look like?
Venezuela: Next step to longer-range missiles
SECNAV Names Next CVN: USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CVN 79)
CDR Salamander: It could be a worse Kennedy
Libya: On a wing and a prayer
Wind farms: Britain is 'running out of wind'
Sesame Street and Friends 'pumping out left wing messages'
Kate Middleton provokes battle between Army regiments
China goes organic after years of 'glow in the dark pork' and 'exploding watermelons'
Dentures save Brazil man shot in face
North Korea 'nears completion' of naval base for 'attack hovercraft'
US could lift Cuba embargo after oil discovery
Vladimir Putin hints at Dominique Strauss-Kahn conspiracy
Ratko Mladic denies ordering massacre
Roadmap for the Energy Revolution: Germany to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2022
Woman sets fire to man in mosque
Taliban co-founder tipped off US on Osama bin Laden hideout: Report
Iran Plans to Unplug Internet , Create Iran's Islamic Internet
Police preparing for wide-scale rioting in September
IDF Purchasing Non-Lethal Weapons for September Riots
Anthony Weiner Twitter Scandal Breaking Wide Open
Bloggers are leading the story, but some mainstream (lame-stream) media outlets are closing in: "Anthony Weiner Scandal Now Links Porn Star Ginger Lee — And #WeinerGate Victim Gennette Cordova Speaks Out!"
Check the link for updates. This story is fascinating.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Sarah Palin Arrives at Rolling Thunder
On a Harley!!
She's crusin' with some help from the Rolling Thunder bikers. See NYT, "For Palin, a Short Ride With Lots of Rumbling."
VIDEO: Via Gateway Pundit, "ROLLING THUNDER… SARAH PALIN Rides Hog Into DC."
Crossed from American Power.
Memorial Day 2011
A poem by Henry Reed from World War Two captures the brutal absurdity of war as it depicts a new soldier listening to a field lecture on the various parts of a rifle and compares it to the beauty of the world around him. Unspoken is the need, from time to time, to fight for the freedom to enjoy that beauty.
Naming of Parts
By Henry Reed
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.
Editor's note: Henry Reed was a British poet.
Sunday Babe Blogging
Back by popular demand. This woman is a goddess: "Kate Upton Sports Illustrated Bodypaint Video — Phenomenal Rule 5 Encore!"
Quickies........
Got an e-mail today from a bored local housewife, 43, who was looking for some hot action ! So I sent her my ironing. That’ll keep the lazy woman busy.
I got invited to a party and was told to dress to kill. Apparently a turban, beard and a backpack wasn’t what they had in mind.
After a night of drink, drugs and wild sex, Bill woke up to find himself next to a really ugly woman. That’s when he realised he had made it home safely.
I’ve been charged with murder for killing a man with sandpaper. To be honest, I only intended to rough him up a bit.
After years of research, scientists have discovered what makes women happy. Nothing.
A lad comes home from school and excitedly tells his dad that he had a part in the school play and he was playing a man who had been married for 25 years. The dad says, “Never mind son, maybe next year you’ll get a speaking part.”
Just had my water bill of £175 drop on my mat. That’s a lot. Oxfam can supply a whole African village for just £2 a month: time to change supplier I think.
H/T Pete H
Lest we forget - Memorial Day 2011..........from Rico
When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today
The Sunday Best.............
Unintended consequences of green bunk
A German With A Master Plan–What Could Go Wrong? « SOYLENT GREEN
Yes, Palin was invited to Rolling Thunder « Hot Air
Russia to West: Don’t Defend Yourselves or We’ll Start an Arms Race « Hot Air
SEAL Team 6 - Rule 5 and a half
Supporting Our Troops
Moonbattery: Every Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by Third World Colonists
Memorial Day
Is President Obama all talk and no action?
Twitter reveals secrets: Details of British users handed over in landmark case
Chinese labour camp prisoners forced to play online games
Libya: Coalition forces prepare two-pronged blitz to finish off Gaddafi
Nato set to close key naval headquarters at Northwood, Hertfordshire
Libya's war from above: on board the RAF's E-3D spy plane
Europe's new diplomatic service under fire
Al-Qaeda gunmen seize Yemen city Zinjiba
Kabul gold rush: western billions bear fruit in luxury property boom for Afghan capital
Ratko Mladic capture: Was it all an elaborate set-up?
'Nannied' police given bedtime routines and packed lunch advice
Italian UN peacekeepers targeted by Lebanon bomb
General Daud Daud and at least two German soldiers killed by suicide bomb
After Ratko Mladic arrest, attention turns to Goran Hadzic
Lockheed Martin Hit by Unspecified Cyber Incident
Tornado dog crawls home to owners on broken legs
Spiegel Greek Hit Piece #2: Bailout Troika Finds "Greece Missed All Fiscal Targets" - Next Steps: Game Over?
and finally.........
The Maggie's Farm Breakfast Scientific Survey
GARMSIR DISTRICT, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Navy Seaman Daniel Freeman provides security as his squad exits a V-22 Osprey during Operation Black Dawn here, May 17. Freeman is a corpsman in 1st Squad, 1st Platoon, Bravo Company. Along with his squad, the Woodstock, Ga., native conducted security patrols and vehicle checks in the desert of Eastern Garmsir for 24-hours. During the operation, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment's focused on pinpointing trouble areas and narcotic smuggling lanes in Garmsir. The battalion supports Regimental Combat Team 1, the Marine ground combat element in Southern Helmand province. The mission of the RCT is to partner with Afghanistan to conduct counterinsurgency operations to secure the Afghan people, defeat insurgent forces, and enable Afghanistan to assume security responsibilities in the region. Ultimately, the partnered forces promote the expansion of stability, development and legitimate governance. Photo by Cpl. Colby Brown
H/T Marc
Video: 'Terrorists' Attack Jefferson Memorial with Deadly Dance Moves
Editors Note: The Police response does seem a bit excessive, but there again I don't know what the rules are for public behavior in the Memorial. Anyone wishing to explain this please leave a comment.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner Underwear Twitter Controversy
A report: "Representative Anthony Weiner Twitter Underwear Scandal!"
The guy tweeted a photo of himself aroused, in his underwear, to a woman whose Twitter page has now been deleted. Click through at the link for more ... I'm updating as more information becomes available.
Code Pink- Weenie Hut Juniors Hook Up
When Code Pink's concern d'jour is hit up with the damoneoconically delish Straussian "Which one of these things is not like the other thing?" microscope - it's more than risible, sad or dumb - it's outrageous.
And all the cool kids know about the Weenie Hut Juniors guy. Named after the hangout in Spongebob Squarepants home turf of 'Bikini Bottom" Professor Walt often worries about the wrong thing, like his "Binding Great Satan For Dummies" (go ahead - all together now - 'Who in their right mind would want that?) - and, but of course, mademoiselle, l'piece d'risible resistance - the tell tale naughty Nakbah Necronomicom "Little Satan Posse."
Also - be to sure to know about how Professor Walt like ruined everything with Belfer's Iran Wargames. He pretended to be DefSec Gates and started yet another war - this time with an ally. Allowing Gary Sick (who was pretending to be Preacher Command) to win by default as Professor Walt dang near launched a war of aggression on Little Satan over some apartment/duplex thingys - that - as best understood - have failed to kill anyone or threaten to change the balance of power in any meaningful way.
Nodobbys perfect - no doubt - (in fact, see how a certain element truly ruined the Committee of Five's SOCOM2015 war gaming sexercise with a nasty surprise launched from Mexico that obliterated Ft Huachuca's entire Army Intell school sometime).
Yet, just like lost weekends, lost panties and wicked rumors tend to pile up on a girl faster than uncles at a family game of touch football - Professor Walt's suspect judgement in hooking up with a group of women haters, America haters, P4 haters and democrazy haters ( not to mention his curious trysts with despots like Colonel Khadaffy) - may ensure he is widely regarded as a hater - instead of a non compos mentis academic.
So, this is realpolitik - the ancient amoral corrupt Cult of Stability and one of it's ancient corrupt amoral High Priests.
Ann Althouse Says it's Unfair to Compare Scott Lemieux to Spencer Ackerman
See: "Scott Lemieux's Spencer Ackerman moment." And from the comments there:
LG&M is nothing but the repository of smug, snotty, too-clever-by-half leftist egocentric academics--as is, in the main, the crowd who regularly comments there. If one ever wanted a prime example of "Group-think" one could do far worse than peruse the archives and comments sections for, oh, say, as long as the blog has been in existence. Crooked Timber, Part II.Ouch.
And scroll down the comments. I asked Ann to clarify.
My original entry is here: "Professor Scott Lemieux: Lone Pro-Life Wacko More Threatening to Americans Than Phony, Unconstitutional Global War on Terror, or Something."
Video: Ferocious Frankie and MH434 at Duxford
Pair display by the Old Flying Machine Company's P-51D Mustang 'Ferocious Frankie' and Spitfire MkIX MH434 during the Duxford Autumn Show in 2009.
H/T Canis 61
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