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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! September 25, 2005 Open PostBy GreyhawkNew! Improved! Illustrated! 
The Metro, Paris Posted by Greyhawk / September 25, 2005 11:23 PM | Permalink 32 TrackBacksHaving quickly run through the standard fifteen minutes of fame, uber-grieving mother Cindy Sheehan has decided to march on Washington DC with thousands of other regular Americans to pressure the President for additional time. Cindy Sheehan is not happ... Read More Are there no limits to the lengths that they will go to ensure the degradation of our Armed Forces? Apparently not. The NYCLU has announced a campaign to combat military recruiting in schools. Lets first start by explaining the alternatives to the cu... Read More At the Army's Land Combat Expo 2005, Gen McCaffery, the keynote speaker called the Pentagon planning for the Iraqi war "Childish" as reported in the European Stars and Stripes. Well, what do you know, now we have a 4 star general, veteran of the first ... Read More After a long runup to the arrival of Hurricane Rita, which breathless media commentators from all major networks promised was an imminent threat to the American people, the storm made landfall without causing the damage discussed for almost a week. Read More Goes to Leonard Stob and Ontario(CA) Christian school. Read More Ah, they miss his swagger more than his smirk. The Left Coaster said the president is pussy-whipped: "Top Republican Tells Post: Laura Has Taken Away Bush's Swagger." Read More I was thinking about the 'flight of the moonbats' taking place in Washington D.C., and I was struck by the revelation that I have seen these 2 people before... Read More One of the reasons politics is so mean-spirited and so uncompromising is that there is no incentive for cooperating. Read More Chalk this incident up as just another reminder that there won't be peace between the Israelis and Palestinians as long as Palestinians are involved. Read More The Washington Post ran a story with some fraudulent "novice" protesters, that happened to be picked up by Stars and Stripes in the Saturday 24 September... Read More Caption contests are just plain fun. They take on all flavors, and some are better than others, but all are worth the time to read. Come back here every Sunday for the weekly roundup. While you are here, leave a... Read More If you have any kind of high blood pressure condition I would caution you from reading this sick and demented characterization of an American Soldier. Read More In Feb. 2003, The Wall Street Journal published a letter that is as timely and thoughtful today as it was then. Here it is. Read More ...But whether they know it or not, in our multimedia, interconnected world "anti-war" activists are acting to make us lose, with all the disastrous results that implies. And they DO have the power to do it if we let them. Read More A coalition of homosexual activists and atheists plan to march on a Boy Scout camp in San Diego next month demanding the organization open its membership and leadership to them. The group Scouting For All plans to march and rally at a Boy Scout camp... Read More In today's Washington Post, George Will notes that most of America has missed the 250th anniversary of the birth of Chief Justice John Marshall, who served as Chief Justice of the United States for 35 years. Read More Jay Tea, of the venerable Wizbang has come up with a fabulous idea...[..] with the argument over the war on terror, 'our side has a bit of a dilemma. The other side has staked out anti-war as their rallying cray, Read More Via, World Net Daily A coalition of homosexual activists and atheists plan to march on a Boy Scout camp in San Diego next month demanding the organization open its membership and leadership to them. The group Scouting For All plans to march and ral... Read More Photo blogging let's people see lots of photos of events such as Saturday's rally. Those photos often undercut MSM liberal efforts to present a "nice and everyday" image of the far-Left crowd. Please read on. Read More In the last dispatch we looked at the various interests at work in Iraq. This time we'll continue with the theme that it is important the US not cut and run at this point. Read More Calculating how many protesters marched in the Washington D.C. anti-war demonstratiion today does not appear to be a simple matter. Associated Press, whose article appears on the FoxNews, and CNN web pages state that, "Police Chief Charles H. R... Read More I have always admired Chris Muir, from his first cartoon to the most recent days of Day By Day. Chris is able to state clearly what most of America really thinks in regards to all the liberal shibboleths as reported in the so called Main Stream Media ... Read More So you don’t think the GOP is conservative enough, or you don’t like everything they represent? OK, fine. Does the Democratic Party represent you better? Basically, that’s your choice right now–no third party, not Libertarian, not any–is going to sudde... Read More An Alphabetical GuideTo My Russ VaughnCollection Updated 2005.09.22 Read More Just when we once again thought it was safe to go in the water... Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina by Mark Townsend Houston Sunday September 25, 2005 The Observer It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the af... Read More Jonah Goldberg has posted a great article over at National Review. Here is the punch line: [...] A great many liberals in recent weeks have argued that conservative hostility to big government suggests we don't support agencies like FEMA or Read More This whole process highlights to a glaring degree that these nominations are not about selecting the most qualified candidate for the position, but in determining who will best support an ideological position. Read More Today's winners are Mary Gilbert, Jeff West, Mark P. Brumley, Peggy Diane Burge and Little Joe West. Read More Two weeks ago, while all eyes were on Hurricane Katrina, something extraordinary happened. In a farmhouse south of Baghdad, an American hostage was rescued by U.S. troops after being held for 10 months in a dark underground concrete cell. We first le... Read More Indian board issues gagging order Retching not mandatory, but encouraged. Psychologist: England 'like a little kid' Was reportedly “just playing dress up” Read More The neocon reason for moving the War on Terrorism to the Iraqi theater was simple: Eastablish a democracy in a terrorist state and set a good example for the Middle East Read More If you work for Senator Chuck Schumer (D) you do not have friends in the growing storm. Your world is changed. Charmaine Yoest on phone Top of Chuck Schumer's head center Your only friend is your lawyer. And even here... Read More 6 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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McCaffery is a liar.
He told nothing but lies when he was the Drug Czar.
I wouldn't belive a word he said about anything.
He once said the Dutch murder rate was 2x that of America. He blamed the easy availability of drugs. Actually the Dutch murder rate is 1/4 of America. I blame the easy availability of drugs.
When corrected by the Dutch Ambassador he never issued a retraction.
The man has no integrity.
FORT HOOD, Texas — A psychologist testified that Pfc. Lynndie England suffered from depression and has an overly compliant personality, making her a heedless participant in abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3367781
Arlington National Cemetary holds a distinct position in our nation's esteem. There lie interred in that hallowed ground Presidents, geniuses, philantropists, soldiers, airmen, sailors, marines and few known but to God. It is a place almost universally known by Americans as a place for this nation's honored dead.
So how could a scumbag double-murderer who died in prison be residing there in such company?
http://hoodathunk.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-lay-among-honored-dead.html
The Washington Post ran a story with some fraudulent "novice" protesters, that happened to be picked up by Stars and Stripes in the Saturday 24 September edition.
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Friends, there is a very sick five year old Iraqi girl stuck in Jordan waiting to get a visa to come to this country for a life saving operation. Her name is Rhma Taha Ahmed, and she has a congenital heart condition that is leading to a painful death. American doctors have pledged to do an operation, but there is some hang-up getting her a visa. Greyhawk posted on Rhma in June 2005.
Michael Yon is an embedded author with the troops in Iraq. Michael alerted us through his blog dispatches, http://www.michaelyon.blogspot.com/ to the history of this little girl and the peril that threatens her. Michael wrote, “The only thing certain is that without treatment Rhma will die.”
I am asking for each of you to help Rhma get to this country by creating the “political will” for any politician or bureaucrat who can grease the skids and make this visa happen. Please go to my blog “Rhma-A Little Girl Needs Our Help.” at http://simivalleysophist.blogspot.com/2005/09/rhma-little-girl-needs-our-help.html
You will find links to Michael Yon’s blogs, and for quicker reading I have quoted all of Michael’s dispatches on Rhma. Read about Rhma and commit to helping in this project.
I request that you mail, call or e-mail both of your federal senators, your house representative, the U.S. Embassy in Jordan and any other entity who you think can be of help. I have provided the links to all of the governmental entities in my blog. I have also posted a sample letter. Feel free to copy and paste the letter into any of your e-mails or letters. If you choose the e-mail option, it will only take you a few minutes to send e-mails to the embassy and your federal representatives. Please forward this e-mail to anyone in the media that you think can be of help and to your friends, family and co-workers.
Michael Yon is encouraging me in this effort. Please take a few minutes and let your voice be heard. We can do a big part in assisting this little girl to get the treatment that she needs to stay alive. It doesn’t cost us anything but a few moments of our lives to give her life.
Thank You One and All,
Paul
Thunder6 salutes the fallen