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Category: Link fest

  • Falling behind

    I’ve fallen behind posting your links and tips – I guess because it’s that time of year. By the way, if anyone has an idea what I should get TSO and Caroline for a wedding gift (they’re getting married Sunday and I’m going there on a road trip), I sure need some tips.

    Old Tanker sent this link as a reminder to the UN Human RIghts Commission.

    Zombie sent a link the latest in ZOmbie’s seeries on the state of our education system.

    ROS sends the CNN retraction of a Jeffrey Toobin comment in regards to the birther Lieutenant Colonel, Lakin.

    John Hawkins sends his interview with David Limbaugh.

    Adirondack Patriot sends a New York Times link about the Mideast Peace Talks along with his concerns about the long term effects it will have on our own national security;

    I know it doesn’t get much attention on the milblogs, but I think we need to get eyes on the Israel-Palestinian situation for no other reason that this: It’s the U.S. military that eventually pays the price for missteps of the State Department.

    President Obama is about to engage in “peace talks” with Israel and the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank. With no clear objectives to this round of “peace talks,” there will be no accomplishments and Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran will come out of this charade empowered. Palestinians and their friends in the world media will turn this into another Gaza flotilla fiasco.

    This is the first time that “peace talks” will be held in a world with a nuclear Iran, an enabling Russia at her side, and a NATO nation (Turkey) openly belligerant against Israel.

    Given Obama’s buffoonish foreign affairs record (he appears to again be role-playing as an empty-suited, speech-reading Nobel Peace Prize winner rather than a bona fide world leader who can think on his feet), his abandonment of the Negroponte Doctrine at the UN, and his absolute lack of vision for American diplomacy in the Middle East, these “peace talks” can only end badly.

    I mean, we’re talking about the beer summit President, the end of Ramadan on September 10th, Hamas on the outside looking in, and a nuclear Iran. What can possibly go wrong?

    Spade sent this link yesterday and asks you for your help at this link;

    Evidently the gentleman there is a WW2 vet living in a retirement home, and it’s his 90th birthday on the 4th. The local legion is having a party, but he really doesn’t have any friends of family left. So they’re advertising for people to come. Some internet folks (4chan, apparently, oddly enough) is organizing to send him cards and stuff.

    Tman sends this link about military families nervousness about the rising death toll of military members in Afghanistan by the LA Times.

    Iraq Veterans for Congress want to remind you that there are veterans running this election and they need your help.

    By the way, I’ll probably be off the net for most of the weekend because of the wedding of my two best friends so anyone who wants to fill in, let me know.

  • Some links

    Our friends are sending us links so I thought I’d throw them in one post;

    Some guy named MOTHAX at the Burn Pit sends us “Now learn about a man who couldn’t say “take this job and shove it”…” – a story about David Dolby, a Medal of Honor recipient.

    John Hawkins of Right Wing News sends us a link about his weekend in DC at the Restoring Honor rally. Of particular interest to me was the picture of Ericka Anderson – she emails me almost every day and now that I know what a cutie she is, I might start using her information. Thanks, John.

    Jimbo took his daughter to the Restoring Honor rally, too.

    Donald Douglas at the American Power blog responds to a New York Times article regarding the political complexion of Orange County, CA.

    Our buddy, DanNY at the Gathering of Eagles; NY blog writes “Justice Denied to the Cole Sailors Again“.

  • Some links

    My internet connection went out yesterday so I’m trying to catch up with some work from the paying job. Here are some links to keep you busy;

    Jake sent us a link to a story about bin Laden’s cook/driver who has been recommended for a 14 year sentence.

    Seadog sent us a link to an update on the William Clark fatboy phony SF Captain.

    The Bradley Manning Support network says we shouldn’t shoot the messenger. Tell me what his message was and I’ll consider not shooting him,

    The New York Times says the military is pressing for a slowdown in the timetable withdrawal in Afghanistan.

    Feel free to add your own links in the comments.

  • BP Coast Guard?

    I got a link off of FaceBook that makes a claim that the US Coast Guard is running interference for those that are trying to report on the BP spill and the oil that is being left on the Gulf. “This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,”Except that there is more to the story.

    Because I was following this on my phone I could not watch the video and it had trouble going to a second link. So I was on the assumption that the reporters where trying to get too close to the original oil platform and the Coast Guard was preventing them from entering the area. But it seems that the Coast Guard was preventing the reports entry into a undetermined gulf coast location. Well maybe it was the Coast Guard.

    When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.

    “This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,” someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they’re looking into it.


    Watch CBS News Videos Online

    So the entire story that claims that the that the US Coast Guard is trying run interference for BP is based on the claim that two people on the boat were USCG Officers. Yep that’s it. We also know that people never lie about military or government service.

    But that is not stopping people from accepting that as gospel.

    This is wrong in so many ways I hardly know where to start. What happened to laws about free access to navigable waters? Since when does BP get to arbitrarily impose LAW on free U.S. citizens? Why are the Coast Guard, a branch of our Armed Forces taking orders from a FOREIGN company?

    Also considering that BP made public a video of the underground oil pipe break almost a full week before this story came out. What did people think BP was trying to hide. I mean really.

  • The Jarhead Thread

    There have been a few stories that I have been wanting to blog about involving the Marines, so instead of making several posts I have decided to make one. I think it will make it easier to comment and for you Army pukes to talk to trash. Enjoy…

    22nd MEU Deploying to Haiti

    These Marines just got off a six-month long deployment, most of it spent in Kuwait and other parts of the Middle East. I doubt many of the Marines that are part of this MEU are happy about this and I have no doubt if Bush were still President I’m sure Katie Couric would be in Jacksonville interviewing families about the strain this emergency deployment is putting on them. Oh the double standard…

    Politics aside, a MEU is the best equipped military unit to handle a disaster like this. A MEU has a perfect mix of equipment for operations like this, including its own fleet of helicopters, amphibious vehicles, and engineering equipment. I saw a report on CNN that said the road leading out of the main port in Port-au-Prince was heavily damaged and most of the unloading equipment was destroyed in the earthquake. The 22nd MEU can offload supplies onto any beach in Haiti while its combat engineers repair the roads and equipment at the port. This is why almost every year the three forward deployed MEUs (one out of Japan, Pendleton, and Lejuene) conduct multiple humanitarian missions every year.

    A little side story about the Marines that responded to Hurricane Katrina. Most of the Marines were rotated out when they had been in the disaster zone 29 days. Why 29 days? Because at 30 days the Marine Corps the would have to start paying separation allowances and hazardous duty pay. Most Marines were also denied the Humanitarian Service Medal, probably by a bunch of pogue officers that the closest they got to New Orleans was an office in Quantico. I wonder if this will happen again…

    San Diego Man Pleads Guilty for Posing as Marine Two Star General

    One place where it is probably not a good idea to fake being a general is at a VFW hall, especially on the Marine Corps’ birthday. But then again, you have to be pretty stupid to attempt something like this in the first place.

    Scott Ritter Arrested in Online Sex Sting……AGAIN

    What does this have to do with the Marines? Well, just like Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, and John Wayne Bobbitt, Scott Ritter was a former Marine. His first arrest wasn’t widely reported, for reasons unknown to me (maybe it had something to do with his views on the Iraq War…) Hopefully they will keep his dumbass locked up this time.

    Last Marines Leave Iraq

    The last Marines are leaving Iraq this month, officially turning everything over to the Army and the Iraqis. When the Marines rolled into Anbar in 2004, it was the center of the Sunni insurgency. Today, it is one of the most stable parts of Iraq and has seen the quickest drawdown of American forces. The Marine Corps, Army, and Navy (the SEALs, EOD, Seabees, Corpsmans, etc.) and even the Air Force (especially in retrograde of equipment) all contributed to the victory there and it should be a point of pride in all the services.

    Semper Fidelis….

  • Tomatoes for Sarah, hugs for SEALs, and unrelated stuff

    I’m backed up with real work this morning, so here are some links to keep you busy;

    American Power blog has the story of some dildo tossing tomatoes at Palin and the Democratic Underground’s predictable reaction.

    Our buddy, Bubba took pictures at the rally for the SEALs in Norfolk yesterday.

    The RNC sent me a link to an editorial in the Washington Times yesterday about the Justice Department’s interference in the indictment of the Philly Black Panthers’ subpoenas for the voter intimidation case we’re all so familiar with.

    Here’s our latest public service photo;
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  • Some Tuesday links

    My email box is filling up so I thought I’d put these links out for you;

    Militaryboots.com wants pictures of your nastiest boots (I dunno, it sounds like a fetish) but the nastiest boots win a new pair of boots for life.

    There’s a new blog which has the sole purpose to Stop Valerie Jarret.

    Republicans have set up a reading room in which they read you the healthcare bill in a webcast. They provide a link to the actual document (in .pdf) if you don’t think you want it read to you.

    Get up to date on the war at The Thunder Run.

  • Saturday’s reading

    I’ve been riding my bike all day so I’ll let you read along with me. I don’t want to see your lips moving, though;

    First, a must-read that Rob emailed us from the from the father of the young troop who was photographed while he was dying by the AP photographer.

    Bob Parks at Black & Right goes off on Janeane Garafalo for her continuing rant about racists.

    Aunt Agatha at Bloodthirsty Liberal says Ahmadinejad is The Ultimate Self-Loathing Jew.

    Blue Crab Boulevard reports that Nippon Airways is doing their best impression of your father before a long car trip.

    Confederate Yankee writes that another Right Wing terrorist Left Wing terrorist strikes in Texas. Where’s DHS and SPLC?

    The Conservative Grapevine has changed their name to Linkiest and DPUD gave us our inaugural link from there yesterday morning.

    Don Surber has the picture of Sean Penn kicking a photographer like a big homo.

    Dust My Broom‘s Darcey wonders if his Canada is the same Canada that Liberals there want to save.

    Wordsmith at Flopping Aces catches the New York Times complaining that the US won’t send money to terrorists in Somalia.

    Gateway Pundit has the video of Karl Rove telling Juan Williams things Williams had hoped wouldn’t get said.

    Grouchy Old Cripple’s Saturday Blonde Joke

    Jammie Wearing Fool says Polanski not only screwed his victim, he screwed her, too.

    Hey, look, Nixon took time out from chasing Thai trannies to link to me.

    Our buddy, William Teach at Pirate’s Cove writes about the environmental crazies ramping up the fear. My pal, John who lives in David, Panama wrote me this morning that while Al Gore was down there this week trying to scare Panamanians, he rode around in a Prius – while his security detail followed him around in a fleet of Explorers.

    Bruce McQuain of QandO explains why the US Olympic bid failed.

    Solomonia has the video of Gilad Shalit in case you missed it.

    Warner Todd Huston asks why do the Obamas have to lie?

    Track-a-crat, with whom I shared a few pints last week, writes about the new racism.