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43 TrackBacksIn three weeks I will turn 50. As I was listening to Rush and Sean Hannity callers reminded me that it was twenty five years ago today that Ronald Reagan was first elected president. Within the month that followed, Steve McQueen, Mae West, and John Le... Read More The morning after an unprecedented eighth night of rioting in a northeastern Paris suburb, an exhausted but proud group of young Muslim participants awoke to discover that they had been named honorary United States sports fans. This news clearly buoyed Read More Today the administration still cannot seem to frame the debate in favorable terms. They seem content to allow the media, the Democrats, and the far left to frame the debate. Aside from curt sound bites about “staying the course” the administration ha... Read More Join Jean-Claude, a little French boy, as he learns about the Muslim Festival of Lights, Ch'arakar! 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Read More Paris suburb burns (Christophe Ena - AP)Update: Earlier Your Business Blogger suggested that France was a poor venue for business. Paris is now terrible even for tourists. France will be slow to deal with the Muslim Jihadists. Markets hate... Read More Link ‘em if you got ‘em. Please mention this post and link to it. I’ll move trackbacks up into the body of the post every hour or so. Ends Midnight CST Sunday. Other Blogs with open trackbacks: Mudville Gazette, The Political Teen, ... Read More No, it is not what you think. At least, I don't think it is. But take a look at the picture (link in title above) and see if you can see the look on Clinton's face and not think it! Read More Frankly, I'm surprised that the esteemed editorial staff didn't hit upon the obvious solution: Mr. Smith should leave public service and simply submit his resume to Al Jazeera. Why not? Worked for this guy. Read More Its time for Open Trackback Weekend. You can trackback and commont on any subject. Please Link back to my site. Read More Having doubts about the human spirit? Need a little help dropping some of that "table muscle" that's creeping up on you? Read More The Daily Demarche, a "blog by members of the State Department Republican Underground - conservative Foreign Service Officers serving overseas commenting on foreign policy and global reactions to America," writes: The "Paper of Record&q Read More Read my Saturday column for more. But enough about me. This is a Saturday Open Post! Yee-ha! Read More Much talk of this book had been about the investments by Michael Moore into such corporations such as Halliburton, Boeing and multiple HMO's, but there is so much more. Did you know that despite Moore's claims that he grew up in the humble, blue-coll... 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Read More Reports From The Front Lines You May Not Have Read In The Headlines: Read More (11/04/05: Update at the end of the post)Europe and the US seem to be addicted to oil and unable to pursue their security interests and moral values in regard to Saudi Arabia. US government reports indicate Saudi support for terrorism and the lack of Read More Fellow Fulbrighter Harry recommends a speech by former Vice President Al Gore who promoted his Current TV network at the "We Media" conference. Al Gore's speech began with the dire warning: American democracy is in grave danger. It is Read More I have decided to stop using the term "MSM" or "Mainstream Media." The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Reuters, The AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and most of the dominant newpapers are FAR from mainstream. Read More The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a ruling that every parent who cares about their rights regarding their children’s education needs to read. The court stated “… parents have no due process or privacy right to overri... Read More Trackback weekend. You can leave a trackback or comment on any subject. My trackback URL is: http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/113172399253786854 You can also use the wizbang standalone pinger to send trackbacks. It is my Birthday today, ... Read More 8 Comments |
November 26, 2010America@war [Greyhawk]
I think anyone who's ever pondered the "comment" option - once only available on blogs and bulletin boards, now ubiquitous on almost any web site - will appreciate this:
The so-called faculty of writing is not so much a faculty of writing as it is a faculty of thinking. When a man says, "I have an idea but I can't express it"; that man hasn't an idea but merely a vague feeling. If a man has a feeling of that kind, and will sit down for a half an hour and persistently try to put into writing what he feels, the probabilities are at least 90 percent that he will either be able to record it, or else realize that he has no idea at all. In either case, he will do himself a benefit. That's wisdom from the past, captured for posterity at the US Naval Institute, shared via the web on the institute's 137th anniversary. From their about page:
"The Naval Institute has three core activities," among them, History and Preservation: The Naval Institute also has recently introduced Americans at War, a living history of Americans at war in their own words and from their own experiences. These 90-second vignettes convey powerful stories of inspiration, pride, and patriotism. Take a look at the collection, and you'll see it's not limited to accounts from those who served on ships at sea, members of the other branches are well-represented. I'm fortunate to have met USNI's Mary Ripley, she's responsible for the institute's oral history program (and she's the daughter of the late John Ripley, whose story is told here). She also deserves much credit for their blog. ("We're not the Navy nor any government agency. Blog and comment freely.") We met at a milblog conference - Mary knew (and I would come to realize) that milbloggers are the 21st-century version of exactly what the US Naval Institute is all about. Once that light bulb came on in my head, I mentioned a vague idea for a project to her - milblogs as the 21st century oral history that they are. "Put that in writing," she said (of course - see first paragraph above!) - and here's part of the result. Shortly after the first tent was pitched by the American military in Iraq a wire was connected to a computer therein, and the internet was available to a generation of Americans at war - many of whom had grown up online. From that point on, at any given moment, somewhere in Iraq a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine was at a keyboard sharing the events of his or her day with the folks back home. While most would simply fire off an email, others took advantage of the (then) relatively new online blogging platforms to post their thoughts and experiences for the entire world to see. The milblog was born - and from that moment to this stories detailing everything from the most mundane aspects of camp life to intense combat action (often described within hours of the event) have been available on the web... And et cetera - but since you're reading this on a milblog, you probably knew that. And you know that milblogs aren't just blogs written by troops at war, that many friends, family members, and supporters likewise documented their story of America at war online in near-real time, as those stories developed. The diversity in membership of that group is broad, the one thing we all have in common is the impulse to make sense of the seemingly senseless, and communicate the tale - for each of us that impulse was strong enough to overcome whatever barriers prevent the vast majority of people from doing the same. Everyone at some point has some vague idea they believe should be shared - we were the people who, from some combination of internal and external urging, found and spent those many half hours persistently trying to write it down. But where will all that be in another 137 years? Or five or ten, for that matter. That's something I've asked myself since at least 2004 - when I wrote this:
Membership in the ghost battalion has grown in the years since, and an ever growing majority of those abandoned-but-still-standing sites are vanishing. Have you checked out Lt Smash's site lately? How about Sgt Hook's? If you're a long-time milblog reader you know the first widely-read milblog from Operation Iraq Freedom and the first widely-read milblog from Afghanistan are both gone from the web. If you're a relative newcomer to this world you may never even have heard of them - or the dozens upon dozens of others who carried forth the standard they set down. If you have a vague notion that something should be done about that, (a notion I've heard expressed more than once...) then you and I and the good folks at the US Naval Institute are in agreement. Preserving the history documented by the milbloggers is just one of the goals of the milblog project, the once-vague idea that we're now making real. And it's a big idea, if I say so myself - too big to explain in one simple blog post, so stand by for more. Likewise, it's too big a task to be accomplished by just one person. So if you're a milblogger (and exactly what is a milblogger? is a topic for much further discussion on its own) I'm asking for your help. All I'll really need is just a little bit (maybe just one or two of those half hours...) of your time, and your willingness to tell the tale. We've already made history, it's time to save it. (More to follow...) Posted 4:02 PM | Permalink |
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The intefada seems to have moved to the home of Arafats wife. How strange it is to see the left stumble and attack each because a minister referred to the rioters as thugs. Meanwhile Paris is burning down one neighborhood at a time.
I expect the France to surrender as usual and allow the Muslim Brotherhood to set up a new West Bank in France. Once the new state (Muslim Hell Hole)is formed a new beachead will have been established. Much of France and Spain will wind up under the knives of the "New Moores".
What was that line about being "doomed to repeat history"?
I am so very sorry for the double trackbacks. I was having trouble with my computer tonight.
Speaking of items in the news, it would seem that a majority of Americans now supports impeaching the Liar-in-Chief. This is aacording to Zogby's polling.
http://www.impeachpac.org/?q=node/6
I can see it now:
WASHINGTON -- FoxNews has just learned that the polling firm of Zogby International is controlled by Osama bin Laden, and that it is filled with child molesters, devil worshippers, puppy stranglers and people who don't believe in good sportsmanship.
Noted patriot Ann Coulter, informed of these outrages by Fox's Bill O'Leilly, screeched, "Drawing and quartering is too good for these hippie scum!"
She repeated the comments on her blog, which was immediately linked to the Republican military site, Mudville Gazette.
Read this.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Double Track backs seem to be a recurring problem.
I was going to apologize and noticed I am not the only one suffering from the problem.
Sorry bout it anyhow :)!
The poll question, from the ImpeachPac site (with emphasis added).
"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
You forgot the "IF he did not tell the truth" part, Wilson ... and I think the "Bush lied" meme has gotten about as much traction among the American people, as the traction your assertion that Mudville is a shill for the GOP has gotten around here.
The American people are smart enough to tell the difference between a time-sensitive judgment call based on incomplete information ... and an intentional lie based on greed.
And, until the opposition to this President proves to the American people -- especially that majority who re-elected President Bush -- that they can do better in prosecuting this War on Terror, impeachment will be a REAL hard sell ... lie or no lie.
Given the past history and present-day rhetoric of the leadership of that opposition, they have a big job and a lot of changes ahead of them to provide that proof.
BTW, from what I've seen, Wilson, people who oppose this President as vigorously as you do, have many more reasons than the war to rip Bush. I have to ask -- what else don't you like about the President?
Rich, we already know that Bush lied about the reasons for war. The so-called "intelligence" was fake and the Bush administration knew it was fake. I don't think Bush will be impeached, by the way. The Republicans control congeress, and as we all know they think lying blowjobs is more important than lying about war and killing tens of thousands of people because of it.
Ah, morality.
Here's what Bush has in store for Americans:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/former-inmate-tells-of-torture/2005/11/06/1131211945880.html
Fox News will call it "college pranks," no doubt.