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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! March 31, 2006 Open PostBy GreyhawkSpot the moonshadow...  Hope the sun shines bright in your world this weekend. Posted by Greyhawk / March 31, 2006 9:55 PM | Permalink 24 TrackBacksGeorge Mason University A dozen years ago Your Business Blogger went school shopping. To buy an MBA. Living in Northern Virginia, we were considering one of the three local Georges -- Washington, 'Town, Mason. We were budgeting north of... Read More Health officials around the United States are reporting that a particularly virulent strain of Paris Hilton has emerged that is sure to be a wake-up call for venereal diseases worldwide. The new strain, scientifically known as paricoccus scatologivag, ... Read More Vanity Fair This vision of a Pakistan teetering on the brink of anarchy simply doesn’t square with reality, however. In recent parliamentary elections, no candidate, including Islamic radicals, got more than 11 percent of the vote—hardly a t... Read More ... We aren't just talking about hard-working people wanting to come here for a better life; as long as the border's open to them it's also open to drug runners, jihadis, and other assorted scum. After we get the border under control, using whatever me... Read More Let's see what our friends at MUDVILLE GAZETTE think. Read More Hello, I'm world famous physicist Stephen Hawking. Although generally I don't like much that comes out of North Carolina, scientists at Duke University, recently successfully attached a working robotic arm to a monkey test subject. Using i... Read More There’s something seriously wrong with our immigration policies, as I will demonstrate with fake, but accurate accounts. ... Read More Yeah, I know. You are wondering why in the world you are reading a story about how the Army is changing its Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) in Iraq. Join the club. What happened to the concern that we didn't want "bad guys" reading our inte... Read More It seems there are people are doing the same thing with really cool (read: EXPENSIVE!) cars like general aviation plane owners have been doing for years....time sharing! Read More My two oldest children (and my husband) have committed to shaving their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research. Read More The line has seen increased service of late, by everyone from conservatives to liberals; it is an haunting reminder of how night fell on Europe one darkening step after another in the years before 1939. It is now a line that is being perverted now t... Read More Doc Sanity's suffering a bit of burnout. Can't say I really blame her - she's getting a LOT of hate mail. It's starting to get not-fun for her, which is a real shame because I greatly enjoy her take on... Read More Leave me some Linky Lovin y'all Read More I hadn’t heard of this before. I’m really shocked by it. Anyone know anything about it? Prosecutors called it a scuffle that should have ended peacefully. However, on Thursday, Navy SEAL Ronald J. Gasper described his hand-to-hand c... Read More Mr. Suellentrop does a nice job here of recounting some of the more entertaining antics of this senator who is know for wild conspiracies and extreme paranoia.Slate - Chris Suellentrop...But being the Girl Who Cried Racism means that people will Read More This year will be the third annual Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day. It's a great idea I wish I had heard of before. On May 27th, ham radio folks will be setting up their rigs at numerous public places, allowing Read More Not that those who need to would ever listen, but Victor Davis Hanson attempts to correct the 6 Big Myths in opposition thinking about the War in Iraq, in todays National Review Online. Read More Today's winners are Lee County(Florida) School District Superintendent James Browder and high school consultant Herb Wiseman. Read More Today's winners are The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Leesburg Detective Gary Barret, Assistant State Attorney James Kershaw, and anyone else associated with the prosecution of Kenneth Malcom Robinson for raping a 13-year-old girl. Read More Debbie Schlussel brings to our attention the case of a US district attorney who's being persecuted for bringing terrorists to justice. Yes, you read that right. Richard Convertino has been targeted in the past three years for the fact that he critici... Read More 'Carroll Rejects Statements Made in Iraq.' Debbie Schlussel would disagree. Possibly the truth lies somewhere in between? I don't know. Read More One year ago today, I started this blog, for better or for worse. My first post was just a bit of a hello but was followed by Read More I see danger in the gulf for Iran & mullah-war, misfire, sectarianism backlash onto Iran by So. Iraq insurgents, and more earth changes. (Other than that they'll be fine ;) Read More Today's winners are Ken Hilzer and Robert Stein Inc. roofing company for whom he works, plus the Palm Beach County Building Division. Read More 2 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 BlogsAndrew 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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The Mexicans are not helping their cause. Many see the protests as a A slap in the face!
Allen Wall (an American Army Vet, living in Mexico) writes that Vicente Fox says: "In Ten Years, The US Will Be Begging Mexico For Workers.”
Read them both.
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Normally I'm reluctant to post pictures of my kids but... would you shave your head on a dare? How about if you were a girl?
My son and oldest daughter won't be doing it for a dare but to raise money for childhood cancer research. Check it out and if you can't donate at least leave an encouraging comment. This isn't going to be easy for my son, either, but in a month he'll have an inch of hair.
If you click through to the St. Baldricks team web-site, you'll see it's our karate group participating. That pretty blond in the dress? She's our senior black belt.