One million blogs wanted, they are at 963. That amounts to being 0.096% of the way there, or nearly .1% better than the GPA of Daniel Simpson Day at Faber College.
In terms of sheer numbers, the fund drive is going better, clocking in at 0.91%.
Either way, love both graphics.
Fat, drunk and stupid (and smelly) is no way to go through life Hippies.
OK, so IVAW is getting themselves a new coffeehouse in Washington, outside the gates of Ft Lewis. I just watched this (surprisingly well done) video documenting their search and the thinking going into it.
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Anyway, totally think the (tentative) name, “Ogive Plunger” sucks. It’s a piece on the Mk19, which is the preferred weapon of an IVAW member when telling a story about shooting unarmed women carrying groceries. It makes a distinctive noise when told to you through the sobs of the largely ridiculous audience, and the quiet chuckling of the 2 asshat bloggers in the back.
Anyway, I thought of three right off the bat which I think work well, but thought maybe our readers could come up with more.
Your thoughts?
If you haven’t heard, Bob Novak has a brain tumor. Last week he hit a pedestrian with his car. That’s enough evidence for these folks that it was fake.
librechik
54. very convenient. If a brain tumor can be called that. If there is a real brain tumor, or a nice arrangement with a doctor friend who can’t be forced to talk about his patient’s condition.
Sure, that conforms with Occam’s razor…
Prisoner_Number_Six
7. So he probably DIDN’T remember seeing a body on his windshield.
Not even a traitor deserves a brain tumor- he should have been put up against a wall and shot for his crimes while he was still healthy.
It’s how I feel.
Go and read the rest of them, because it’s tough to paste the damn things in here.
Imagine you read this:
The folks at the [organization] go on to note that [a certain ethnicty] “often have histories of alcohol abuse, gambling, or credit problems” and are at higher risk of suicide or murder-suicide.
Further, the [organization] goes on to assert that this group of people should be held to a higher standard by law enforcement. Can you even imagine the outrage?
When you arrive in the war zone, that uniform stands for destruction and chaos and death. – IVAW’s Eli Wright.
When you arrive in the war zone, that uniform stands for destruction and chaos and death. – IVAW’s Eli Wright.
When you arrive in the war zone, that uniform stands for destruction and chaos and death. – IVAW’s Eli Wright.
When you arrive in the war zone, that uniform stands for destruction and chaos and death. – IVAW’s Eli Wright.
Thanks to Blackfive for providing the evidence in support of Mr. Wrights beliefs.
A bill now in Congress would pay them an additional $1,500 a month of extended duty. The measure, introduced by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), also would make payments retroactive to October 2001, covering servicemen and women affected by stop-loss since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is being considered by committees in both houses.
Got that from a website I am not linking to, but they stole it from a Philadelphia Inquirer article which I couldn’t immediately locate. (Ok, now located)
Either way, this is wrong on several different levels. First off, you signed the enlistment contract either a) knowing that Stop/Loss could potentially effect you, or b) without doing even cursory/rudimentary research. I refuse to believe anyone who says they didn’t know about it who also claims to have looked into what they were getting into. Usually anyone saying that is of the “I joined the infantry because they said I would have a lot of field time, which I thought meant picking carrots and stuff” type of moran.
Secondly, because of my own personal situation, which as you will see would benefit me to the tune of $7500. I joined the National Guard in March of 05 on a “try one” contract. You essentially try out the Guard and see how you like it. I knew when I signed the papers I would be deployed in 1 week. I did the try one so I never had to do any of that home station crap I always loathed. I wanted to deploy, and deploy I did.
So you mean to tell me that because I signed on a “try one” fully knowing I would get stop lossed because the deployment was 18 months, that I should get an extra $1500 per month? That’s just ludicrous. If that were the case, I advise EVERYONE to get out immediately. Find a NG unit leaving, and do a try one. You’ll get an extra $7500 each deployment tax free, and never have to do a day of drilling.
In September 2003, I was put in charge of 80 soldiers who entered Iraq without any weapons or ammunition. We were mortared for three days in Balad, north of Baghdad, before arriving in Al Anbar province to link up with our unit. We were unable to return fire.
Dude, I thought I had some pretty good troops. But not a one of them could shoot a mortar out of the sky as it came at us. Also, none of them could reach out and touch someone at 3,490 m especially when they aren’t line of sight.
Raoul found this thing by IVAW’s Montalvan that is hilarious. Seriously, go ahead and read it, but turn down your BS detector before doing so or it might drive you nuts. Montalvan has always been one of my favoritest crazies.
On another occasion, my higher headquarters ordered me (unlawfully) not to offer humanitarian assistance to refugees caught between the Syrian and Iraqi borders. Dozens would have died had we not disobeyed those orders.
Even assuming the facts are accurate, what gives you the right to go outside Iraqi borders to do anything? Why is such an order unlawful? And why the F didn’t you resign your commission after being ordered into a country without a weapon and being ordered illegally to let people die?
A friend of mine said it best: “if you saw all that, why wasn’t THAT your Winter Soldier testimony, instead of that boring shit you forced us to listen to?”
Exit question: Do I even bother contacting a PAO to debunk the ridiculous “we had no weapons” story, or just a waste of my time?
As Obama continues his World Wide Adulation Tour, poor McCain can’t get anyone to come to his events.
The senator’s low-key arrival in Manchester stood in stark contrast to his Democratic rival’s ongoing visit to the Middle East…. McCain spent most of the day in Maine, where he joined former President George H.W. Bush in Kennebunkport and later campaigned in Portland with the state’s two Republican senators.
In Manchester last night, there was just one reporter and one photographer waiting for McCain as his plane — a white, blue and gold Boeing 737-400 emblazoned with his campaign slogan, “Reform, Prosperity, Peace” — touched down on the Wiggins Airways tarmac.
I think your problem may be two fold. First, before campaigning in New England, it is inadvisable to be seen sitting in Yankee Stadium with a guy wearing the hat of the Evil Empire.
Secondly, Maine is far more excited right now about the Secretary of Offense of Red Sox Nation who is playing in Portland.
David Ortiz continued in his minor league rehab assignment in Portland, Maine. Big Papi delivered in his first game with the Sea Dogs. Ortiz went 2 for 3 with an RBI in his fourth minor league game.
My Dad, who is an inveterate liberal thinks that Obama planned the whole thing. Sea Dogs tickets sold out in 8 minutes.