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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! October 28, 2005 Open PostBy Greyhawk
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, Happy Birthday Lady Liberty! The 119th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty is today, October 28, 2005. It will be celebrated on Liberty Island with a patriotic ceremony commemorating the original dedication of the monument that now represents freedom to the world. Posted by Greyhawk / October 28, 2005 8:24 PM | Permalink 75 TrackBacksJoke of the day: A Marine walks into the bathroom and finds a sailor at the sink washing his hands. The Marine does his business and heads for the door. The sailor, shocked at this crude behavior says, "Hey! In the Navy we learned how to wash our hand... Read More With Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald handing down indictments against ‘Scooter’ Libby on charges of misleading a grand jury, giddy Democrats finally see hope for a victory that has eluded them over the last election cycles. “It’s been an uphill battle,... Read More In a surprise move earlier today, temporary Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers withdrew her acceptance to President Bush's Spooky Halloween Extravaganza. Miers cited a White House ban on shaving cream fights as the reason for the withdrawal. In respon... Read More TITLE: When Bloggers Go Wild URL: http://ipsofactocomic.blogspot.com/ IP: 66.159.239.140 BLOG NAME: Ipso Facto Cartoon Blog DATE: 10/28/2005 09:51:35 PM Read More T'was the night befor Fitzmas, and through the White House Every creature was wondering how this thing would turn out. Lawyers with briefcases sat on their chair, In case that indictments soon would be there. The Kos Kids were nestled all snug in th... Read More Open Trackback Fest Adding interesting links throughout the weekend, including... Mudville Gazette: Happy Birthday Lady Liberty and Ipso Facto: When Bloggers Go Wild Plus, read my review of Armstrong's book, "It's Not About the Bike" Read More We said just a few hours ago that the Democrats would be dishonestly spinning the indictment of Libby: First, it’s important to recognize that these indictments are for actions relating to the investigation, none of them address any underlying crime... Read More The Carnival of Kntting has been added to the Carnival Submit Form?70. The Carnival of Knitting seeks posts about knitting, crocheting, spinning, or weaving. In addition, for each edition there will be a special topic announced by the carnival organize... Read More If you have a relatively new cell phone, it most likely has some form of Global Positioning System (GPS) locator technology installed on it. On my LG-4650, there are two settings for the GPS feature --- one broadcasts your position to anyone capable ... Read More New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger is saying some confusing things about his newspaper. I think I know how he got so confused. It's a lesson for all. Read More Thhe need grows with the passing days. It does not wane because hurricanes arrive or Christmas approaches. It does not become less urgent because a couple dozen people have been helped so far. It does not pass away just because it passes from our con... Read More The lefties are shouting: We should never have gone into Iraq! A free Iraq is not worth fighting for! Bring the troops home NOW! These self styled compassionate liberals would have abandoned Iraqi kids like these to live under Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Friday's are good, not so much for Scooter Read More UPDATE: Valerie Plame was not a covert operative when this happened. Let me explain: Read More I was finally able to wrestle the digital camera away from MacGyver last night and upload the pictures he took of the unit loading on to the C5s to fly to Pakistan to assist in the earthquake recovery effort. Read More Time to kick back and relax with a Halloween Trackback Party. You link me, I check trackbacks and I link you. Links can be on anything. Offer void after noon on Sunday. Read More I'm off to muck stalls and tack up my horse this weekend so I'm starting our party early Read More Life Canada has a national billboard campaign going on. The billboards alert women to the abortion-breast cancer cover-up. According to Women’s Health News, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation doesn’t like it. ... Read More Synoeca reports on the relationships Russia is forging with China, Pakistan and Iran in a play to form a counterweight to US-led NATO. Read More Do you recall how the Lefties were all over how prepared for hurricanes Castro was compared to Chimpy McHaliburton President Bush. Like this from some group called "truthout":Merely sticking people in a stadium is unthinkable" in Read More Hope everyone has a spooky Halloween, and gets lots of candy! So share your tricks and treats with us for our Halloween trackback party! Here is how it works. Edit a post to include a link to this post, and send a trackback. No link to this post... Read More Well boys and girls it is time again for the trackback fest so Mr. Peabody, crank up the trackback machine and fill this page with trackbacks from any post you like. Trackback as many times as you like. Remember though to link to this site. I still... Read More Tommy says, "Check out these posts!" (and smile while you're doing it) 1. Test your History IQ; play the game PastMaster at the HistoryChannel.com 2. Visit MREater and leave a few encouraging comments as he gets ready to head back the the stat... Read More Toxic hazard tests of both natural and man made chemicals are placed in a context of relative threat to mankind, showing that familiar and safe foods are ranked similarly in alleged threat to often maligned synthetic chemicals. ... Read More Forwarded to me from Vietnam Veteran JR of the Vietnam Veterans Home Page. John Kerry and his fellow travellers continue their assault on Vietnam Veterans and the truth. John O'Neill Houston, Texas Dear Friend, Last year, when my fellow ... Read More Today, the greatest guitar riff in rock-and-roll history will be played in Melbourne, Australia by 2,000 guitarists as they play the opening bars of "Smoke on the Water." This will break the 11-year-old record set by 1,322 guitarists in Canada in 199... Read More A thread on Free Republicwas posted about the Palestine Hotel bombing and the soldier that saved the lives of many as a result of his actions to stop the cement truck that blew up prematurely before it got close to any buildings. This suggestion was m... Read More Roger NadeauBeethoven once said, "Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time..." Your Business Blogger was reminded of this yesterday. Major General Roger A. Nadeau gave a briefing on his portfolio to business leaders. I asked him... Read More Sites with Open Trackbacks for this weekend (it will update often, so keep checking back) Read More Joe Katzman writing at Winds of Change heralds "Chief Wiggles" book, Saving Babylon. Read More Well, I've started a new job which is crippling my computer use during the day so please excuse this week's late edition of TGIF. I won't bother rehashing links to stories and articles which you've probably read ten times already... Read More I wrote a few days ago about Cindy Sheehan preparing to tie herself to a fence once the 2000th soldier in Iraq had died. Well, didn’t go exactly as she planned it would seem. Read More It’s Saturday and I’ve got study groups to attend, so here’s a Drop Zone for y’all to gnaw on until I get back. Daisy Cutter has a great post up about political prosecution. Michael Yon has new stuff up, and I gotta say - h... Read More If its Friday, its Open Trackback time. Trackback AND link to this link and I will link to whatever you've trackbacked. You may trackback an unlimited number of articles. The trackback URL for this post is: http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.... Read More Reports From The Front Lines You May Not Have Read In The Headlines: Read More
VDH: Read More Krauthammer's depiction of Mr. Scowcroft, George H.W. Bush's National Security Advisor, reminded me how significantly my worldview had changed since college, and it almost makes me embarrassed to have ever been so cynical about human nature. Read More That's right. All of my favorite places in the blogosphere have been yammering on and on and on for days and days and days on the same tired old subject, passing around the same rumors and analysis, pissing and moaning... Read More Some Democrats Opposed 1982 Law At Center of Libby Probe! I say the media ignores this irony -- or as they call it when it is on the Republicans "hypocrisy." Read More ... I'll agree that what Dafydd suggests should have been done in addition to outing Plame, but I also think there are valid answers to Dafydd's question: ... Read More As many of you know this old Dog is a retired United States Soldier. I am proud to have served my country and am willing to go back if ever needed to end the reign of terror throughout the world. There are many patriots out there and they are coming... Read More Now is an opportune time to review the Clinton administration with the Bush administration. Yes Clinton cheated on his wife and had a tawdry affair in the oval office. But I prefer that to the criminal actions of Scotter Libby, Read More Here at Theodore's World aka PC Free Zone Gazette. There are sometimes things that a photo speaks for itself, or there may be something that is not important enough to do an entire post about. Like spending more then a... Read More Once Upon A time, In A Land Far Away... A regional panjandrum by the improbable name of Muhammad bin Saud met a fellow panjandrum cum mystic, then a radical islamist, by the equally improbable name of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab and decided together that... Read More In a surprise announcement, the Israeli Knesset agreed in principle with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by accepting his offer to have Israel "wiped off the map." Read More Do you recognize this photo? You may have seen it before if you read Michael Yon's blog. The photo was from Michael's post in July entitled Angel's Among Us. The soldier on the right is Walt Gaya who was... Read More Political Teen: Two Los Angeles television stations caught on tape a hyped up mob of union activists intimidating and roughing up a woman who had the courage to speak out in favor of the four reform initiatives. Whipping the crowd into a frenzy w... Read More I now understand that idealism is as important, in its own way, as realism in international relations. This week, I found that understanding has been useful in assessing the utility of several very good essays. Here’s an essay by Charles Kraut... 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Breaking News- Jack on the... Read More President Bush announced the new Supreme Court nominee this morning after a weekend at Camp David. It is Samuel A. Alito, Jr of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This from Law.com : The Mild-Mannered ScaliaThere's a nickname for federal appeals J... Read More “I ran over an IED yesterday,” Wayne typed much too slowly for my caffeinated mind to comprehend. “That was interesting.” Read More Islamic extremists have called for the murder of veteran Egyptian actor Omar Sharif Omar Sharif because he played St Peter in an Italian TV film. Of course, to call for murder because you don’t like the role an actor selected is pretty twiste... Read More Not long ago, one Mark A York infested this neighborhood, this spot on the web that I call my blog. I banned said York following some rather vulger comments, and I deleted the most offensive of his verbage. I'm amazed at how trolls feel they have the r... Read More The network of people who communicate via MSN Messenger are being subjected to a particularly terrifying joke. Essentially, someone has created a set of three animated smileys that appear to be a downloading virus. The standard method for applying the... Read More A while back, Peg-Eye Nate asked me the first things I would do when I took over the world. There were two high priorities as I saw them: (1) Buy a controlling interest in Sargento's Cheese. (2) Pass a... Read More 5 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 Mudville Gazette is the on-line voice of an American warrior and his wife who stands by him. They prefer to see peaceful change render force of arms unnecessary. Until that day they stand fast with those who struggle for freedom, strike for reason, and pray for a better tomorrow.
 
 
 Furthermore, I will occasionally use satire or parody herein. The bottom line: it's my house. I like having visitors to my house. I hope you are entertained. I fight for your right to free speech, and am thrilled when you exercise said rights here. Comments and e-mails are welcome, but all such communication is to be assumed to be 1)the original work of any who initiate said communication and 2)the property of the Mudville Gazette, with free use granted thereto for publication in electronic or written form. If you do NOT wish to have your message posted, write "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line of your email. Original content copyright © 2003 - 2011 by Greyhawk. Fair, not-for-profit use of said material by others is encouraged, as long as acknowledgement and credit is given, to include the url of the original source post. Other arrangements can be made as needed. Contact: greyhawk at mudvillegazette dot com  Tending Distant Far from hearth and home, watching What tales we'll tell When things grim Some distant sunset, vision fading Saluting fallen friends whose names - Greyhawk, Baghdad, December 2004 |
The men who made the molds and poured the molten metals,
knew how to achieve their individual tasks.
There were few interrogatories into the project as a whole,
just blind faith in those who guidance they'ed ask.
What shall we ask then of those whose faith wanes
for no noble cause but political gains.
And how do they deal with the blood and the mayhem
of our Sons and Daughters who's resolve is above them.
That they would abandon the whole out of hand
whose Liberty seems they'd rathed disband.
"Throw rocks from the back and you'll just wound your own" the old weathered old Brujo professed.
As the Kennedys, Ralls and Boxers go on
I must still for their souls grace's press.
Apologies for the double post, feel free to delete one...Everytime it happens here, I contact Blog City about it and they swear the problem is here, not Blog City...I have no clue...Anyhoo, if you see any in the future please delete one of them. Sorry and THANKS, MKL
A Happy Birthfday to Lady Liberty. Thank you for reminding us.
It looks like you've been on vacation (sounds fun!). When you get back, please look for emails I've sent you about something VERY important and time-sensitive. Thanks!
Is this just an excellent rant or is it just the truth finally being told?
"Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald explores some of the delusions that pass for truth today, and how it is that they have become so widespread:
The world of Islam is a world of nonsense and lies and denial and deception and filial piety that refuses to face up to facts. It could be called, too sweetly in my view, the "Dream Palace of the Arabs." Come to think of it, it has been called that by Fouad Ajami, who is too intelligent not to know the truth about Islam, but too afraid that he would be cutting his ties, and his career prospects, and his usefulness, if he were to engage with the real subject that underlies his "we were all Nasserites in those days, sitting in Beirut cafes and drinking endless cups of thick muddy coffee..." (or words, and shtick, to that effect).
The Arab Mind by Patai is said to be read earnestly at The Pentagon. Fine. But it continually failes to relate the behavior of Arabs, as uber-Muslims, to Islam itself. A better book for those purposes, which has been mentioned endlessly at JW, is Andre Servier's The Psychology of the Musulman, last published in 1923..."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008758.php#more
Please, Read it all.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA