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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! February 27, 2005 Mudville ModifiedBy GreyhawkOkay, the changes to the site are about complete. Your feedback is still welcome, so comment away. The following changes have been made. Cosmetic: You might have to look closely. The red and blue are now different shades. Font colors for links have been changed too. Readability is the goal. (Those with problems with font size - this is configurable in your browser.) The Mudville banner at the top is new, but you will see that change routinely. Still to come: Big changes to blogrolls, other things in right side bar. The pictures aren't going away, but a low bandwidth version of Mudville may become available as a user-selectable option. Speaking of bandwidth: The speedier load time is a result of adding a very simple line of code recommended by NZ Bear. Compression is the name of the game - not only is the load time faster, but my bandwidth costs are lowered. If you're a blogger, check out the code from Scriptygoddess. Conceptual changes: Okay, here's where we really made some changes. But since we're all about options - you can ignore them if you want! The overall purpose of these changes is to "open" Mudville and make it more than a place to get two people's opinions. Here's how: In-line Trackback: Posts from other blogs that link Mudville will be linked automatically from the post they link. Readers are a click away from a second opinion (or a third, or a fourth...) On-page comment display: Comments are available for viewing right on the front page, just click Show comments here at the bottom of any post. These changes help fulfill my New Year's resolution to link more blogs more often, and are in line with my idea of what a blog post should be, that is a starting point for a discussion of a topic. In my own conceptual model the blogosphere is a big party with groups forming and breaking and conversations starting and migrating around the room as people move from place to place. Hopefully these few changes will facilitate that aspect of blogging for visitors with or without their own blogs. With that in mind, each day will begin with an "open post" - anyone can link with a post of their choice or leave a comment on any topic/recent news story. Consider this to be today's "open post" - have at it. Milbloggers, non-milbloggers, big or small, new or blogging for years, don't be shy - consider Mudville as a place to share your thoughts with a few thousand daily readers. And as another tip for new bloggers, if you haven't visited the above-mentioned NZ Bear and entered your blog into the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem then now is the time to do it. You aren't "in the blogosphere" if you haven't completed that simple step. Posted by Greyhawk / February 27, 2005 3:04 PM | Permalink 5 TrackBacksOkay, here's a topic for a conversation: Some have credited our victories in Afghanistan and Iraq to "Clinton's" military. I strongly disagree, and this article explains why. Read More I just listened to Mike Gallagher spend five minutes ripping into bloggers on his radio show. He started out by talking about the Jeff Gannon scandal, calling him a "creepy freaky guy." Gallagher went on the say that it is the "blogging atmosphere" that a Read More 7 Comments |
March 19, 2010Dawn Patrol 03/19/2003 [Greyhawk]
"Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and various sources around the world." Mudville was founded in March, 2003. Our efforts to bring the thoughts, words, and deeds of milbloggers to a wider world evolved to become The Dawn Patrol in March, 2005. With today's entry we're going to reset the clock - but not re-write the history - and recreate the world as it was - on a day the world changed...
Updating... more to follow.... MILBOGSAndrew Olmsted, 19 Mar 2003, Stateside: It would appear that the liberation of Iraq has begun. Greyhawk, 18 Mar 2003, Germany: A united world could have, just maybe, brought down Saddam without firing a shot. We will never know. 19 Mar: We'll never know what a united world could have achieved... the UN could not agree on anything, the situation degenerated, and here we are. Status quo was not working. The French were too desperate for oil and trade at any cost. Well-intentioned Americans were led into the streets by Communists (and others) with an agenda. The media distorted the split. Many in America and abroad thought they could manipulate the situation to their personal gain. They miscalculated. The fire is lit. Pontifx ex Machina, 18 Mar, undisclosed location: Rolling out the gate, the guard gets a quick "hook-em, horns" sign as we weave through the barricades. Then we're off, cruising through the desert in a battered-up SUV. On the eve of war, only one thing passes through our minds: is there going to be any appropriate music on the radio? Lt Smash, 19 Mar, undisclosed location: Read the President's speech today. The clock is ticking. Chief Wiggles, 22 Mar, Kuwait: The war started Wednesday morning for us right after the president gave a speech to the American people that lasted about 4 minutes. We were all very anxious for this whole thing to be either over or get it on its way. Will, 22 Mar, en route: I am going to Baghdad to personally shoot that paper hanging son of a bitch! Lt Smash 20 Mar, undisclosed location: Sgt Stryker, 20 Mar, Stateside: Iraq to File U.N. Complaint About Attack Primary Main Objective, 30 Mar, undisclosed location I Dare Kofi to Come Get Me.
BruceR, Flit, 19 Mar, Canada: AND SO IT BEGINS. Godspeed, Yanks. Come home safe and soon. Andrew Olmsted, 20 Mar 2003, Stateside: The most important thing to remember over the next few days is this: the first reports are almost always inaccurate. First reports are generally submitted in the heat of battle before any real analysis can take place. Therefore, they're highly subjective, based on limited information, and rarely hit the mark. So as the first reports of 'surgical strikes' on Iraqi forces come in, it's best to take those reports with a grain of salt... Iraqi BlogsSalam Pax, Baghdad: The bombing aould come and go in waves, nothing too heavy and not yet comparable to what was going on in 91. all radio and TV stations are still on and while the air raid began the Iraqi TV was showing patriotic songs and didn't even bother to inform viewers that we are under attack. at the moment they are re-airing yesterday's interview with the minister of interior affairs. THe sounds of the anti-aircarft artillery is still louder than the booms and bangs which means that they are still far from where we live, but the images we saw on Al Arabia news channel showed a building burning near one of my aunts house... Other BlogsCharles Johnson, Little green Footballs: SPEED BUMPS - I just had to go into Westwood (here in Los Angeles) and couldn't make it, because a small group of "peace activists" is blocking traffic and getting into scuffles with police. Unbelievable footage on local TV of these creeps taunting police, trying to grab their batons, sticking cameras into their faces... Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish: How much more morally indefensible is appeasement when we also have complete international authority to do what must be done? I think we will look back in the future and not ask, as so many now are, how it was that diplomacy didn't get unanimity on this matter. We will look back and see the moral obtuseness of Chirac and Putin and Schroder and Carter and feel nothing but contempt for them, and their preference for state terror over the responsibilities of the free world. That's why I felt enormous pride tonight in the stand being taken by Blair and Bush. The president's speech was measured, firm, just. Blair's political risks - in order to do what he believes is plainly right - will confirm him in history as a great prime minister, the conscience of his party, and the leader of his country. I say that before this war begins, because the cause is just whatever vicissitudes of conflict await us... Glenn Reynolds has a ton of links. Other OpinionsMark LeVine, Alternet - 'Bush Wins': The Left's Nightmare Scenario: ...With war seemingly imminent, the movement is being forced to fall back on a second scenario, "Everyone Loses," in which the warnings of a protracted and bloody war that destabilizes the Middle East and increases terrorism bear their bitter fruit. However unpalatable in terms of destroyed lives and infrastructure, this latter scenario would at least quash the Administration's imperial dreams and force the kind of soul searching of United States' policies that is a major goal of the movement. But this outcome is less likely than many assume, and the antiwar movement would be well advised to plan for a third scenario: "Bush Wins." In this third scenario, the war is over quickly with relatively low U.S. casualties, some sort of mechanism for transitional rule is put in place and President Bush and his policies gain unprecedented power and prestige. From my recent conversations with organizers and their latest pronouncements, it is clear that this possibility has yet to be addressed. Waiting much longer could spell disaster for the antiwar movement... The social and political forces unleashed by the end of decades of Hussein's murderous rule will not easily be penned in by a US-sponsored show-democracy; but whether these forces use a reopened public sphere or turn to violence to respond to the likely betrayal depends in good measure on how adroitly the world progressive community can lay fast but deep roots in Iraq. Newpapers
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Thanks for the opportunity in the open post.
I for one will take you up on it.
I noticed in the coverage of the courthouse shootings in Texas the other day, the media referred to a passerby being killed along with the gunman's ex-wife. That passerby was Mr. Wilson. A man with a permit to carry who saw innocents being killed and put his life on the line to help police and people he didn't know.
He lost his life in a valiant effort to help. He put 2 rounds into the creep but the body armor prevented those rounds from performing their intended objective. According to the sherriff dept. he saved the lives of several people including wounded law enforcement people who were being targetted as they lay wounded on the ground. In order to avoid presenting any sort of support for conceal carry, the MSM conveniently left out his actions and classified him as a passerby. Regardless of your views on conceal carry,you cannot deny this man gave up his life so that others might live. I doubt he had it in mind but the man is a hero! That is my opinion!
Hi-much faster today (dial up). Four minutes for the page, one additional minute for the pictures.
I have a great deal of difficulty reading the words on right hand side of page - the font colors are difficult to read...is that light blue? on brown....especially the blog links
I agree with the difficulty reading the font, but the overall color scheme is nice. The page loads good and I'm glad you stuck with the comment pop-up window.
:)
I have a dumb question about Iraq, and I haven't been able to find an answer. I know their oil production&shipment is down due to terrorist attacks on pumps&pipelines, but a lot of oil still must be getting through. Who is collecting that money? Where is it going? Who is keeping the books honest? We don't want another oil for food ripoff.
Anybody? Anybody?
Wow. Can classless moonbats link too? :)
The load time is MUCH better. Thanks very much. I love this blog.