Winners on Monday.
Other Bloggy Caption Fun:
OTB.
Wizbang.
The Gone Rick Motel.
GOP And College is doing a dual caption/photoshop contest.
Just received this from SGT Garth P. Gehlen (USA). Smart PA guy, emailing bloggers. The Army better be careful, with brains like that, some contractor is going to snag him for their PR Department.
We just added this to the CENTCOM website. General John P. Abizaid, commander, United States Central Command, puts out an annual statement on the posture of the United States Central Command. This is the 2006 posture statement that discusses various topics on the Global War on Terrorism. Some of the topics include “Nature of the Enemy”, “Situation Overview in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa”, “Other Regional Partnerships” and “Iran and Syria.”
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Feel free to quote from and/or link to it. Thanks.
Read The General’s entire posture statment here.
I find this excerpt the one that must be repeated again, and again, and again. No matter which side of he political spectrum you shine on, you’ve got to get this through your head that this is who we’re fighting and who we must defeat.
A. THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY
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(U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Anthony Nelson Jr.)
1st. James Agenbroad: SSGT Jones demonstrates the propper application of the missile condom on the MIM 69 Bigboy missile.
2d. charles austin: “It’s twoo, it’s twoo!”
Honorable Mention. Maggie: “Stand still, Senator Kerry, I’ve got just a little bit more to pull down around you and then the press will never get the photo of you. ”
See ya Friday.
…but in this case, Paul’s got it right.
The Season Finale of BSG may just be the fastest crash and burn of a decent series that I’ve ever witnessed.
To say that it sucked is to insult sucktitude.
I mean, what the HELL was that?
As a lifetime member of the VFW I get emails from them from time to time. I don’t put all of them up here but I think this is a very good thing especially right now. We’re going to have a whole lot of disabled vets over the next couple decades and they deserve all the advocacy they can get.
Every year, thousands of veterans turn to VFW for help in fighting for disability benefits through the Veterans Administration (VA). Last year alone, VFW helped recover more than $700 million in hard-won entitlements.
VFW is determined that no veteran should ever “fall through the cracks”. Through our Benefits Delivery at Discharge (BDD) program, VFW works on eight military bases and installations across the country. We help America’s newest veterans get the help they need immediately upon leaving the service, not years later. And we need your help to continue this critical work for the more than 120,000 returning troops.
Our goal is to establish four new VFW Service Offices on military bases in the next twelve months. To jumpstart this effort – and to keep our veterans from waiting any longer for assistance – we need to have $10,000 in hand by March 30. Just think of the statement that will make. Each BDD office serves an average of 1,300 separating service members annually and helps recover nearly $2 million for these brave men and women.
Please help us achieve this critical goal by making a generous donation today. Every dollar puts us closer to serving more brave American veterans who need our help. Every dollar changes a veteran’s life.
At Chairforce.com.
Surf around their site, funny stuff. “Chairforce. Sit. Push buttons. Mission Complete.” Sums up the way most of my building thinks it’s done.
Via From the Inside.
…but I got nuthin’.
I was gonna bitch and m0an about how many freaking times Apple has upgraded iTunes THIS MONTH, but that just reeks of preaching the the choir. I just feel sorry for any poor soul who’s still on dialup trying to use it.
The story at Slate about autoflush toilets was a promising piggy back but I wasn’t in the mood for scatalogical humor. Besides, Ellen covered it pretty well in her last standup routine on HBO and I really hate it when Reynolds writes on something and other folks do a “me too” post.
Battlestar is getting ready to have its season finale. Yeah, and?
Meanwhile we’re starting to once again look at our stuff and decide what we want to take with us on this, with all probability, last PCS before retirement. If we don’t love it and haven’t used it for the last year, yard sale or Vet’s Home.
But you know me…it won’t take long before something strikes me as weird or funny or outrageous, just recently…not so much.
by Lt. Col. Frederick Wellman
Rodney Dill: “The new team is ready to go hunting with you now Mr. Vice President.”
With only three entries, Rodney is the sole winner this week.
Better luck for more input on Friday.
I’m having trouble figuring out which is funnier tonight, Hollywood congratulating themselves for their social consciousness or the live bloggers over at PJM bashing Hollywood for congratulating themselves for their social consciousness.
It’s a toss-up.
This makes me nuts because I had a high school history teacher that pounded the Bill of Rights into our thick noggins:
CHICAGO – U.S. citizens are far more knowledgeable about the
cast of “The Simpsons” television show than they are about
their First Amendment Freedoms, a poll shows. The McCormick
Tribune Freedom Museum in Chicago found 28 percent of people
are able to name more than one of the five fundamental free-
doms granted to them by the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. But 52 percent were able to name at least two
members of the cartoon family. More jarring is that 22
percent of those polled can name all five characters —
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie — but just 1-in-1,000
people surveyed — 0.01 percent — were able to name all
five freedoms.
From Bizarre News.
The First Amendment to the Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Although now that I think about it, if you actually spend time to read blogs you’re either smarter or more political than the average bear anyway so you already knew that.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
~~John Gillespie Magee, Jr~~
If I may be so bold…I would request that we, none of us, post anything for a full 24 hours… Or at least keep the posts related to Joe.
Gonna miss that ol’ man.
Reynolds and Yourish both want everyone to read this:
Charter explicitly details Hamas’ agendaBy Mark Lavie
JERUSALEM – It was summer 1988. We were sitting in a cramped office, more like a closet, just off a darkish corridor in the Islamic University in Gaza City, a block-like building with green hallways and cement floors, the nerve center of Hamas.
The other people in the room, sipping coffee, trading cigarettes and jokes, were two of the founders of Hamas – Mahmoud Zahar, a physician, and Atef al-Adwan, a professor at the Islamic University.Outside on the dusty, steaming streets and rutted paths of poverty-stricken, overcrowded Gaza, Palestinians were battling Israeli soldiers with rocks, bottles and firebombs. The first “intifada,” or uprising, had erupted in the winter, leading to the emergence of Hamas, an Arabic anagram for Islamic Resistance Movement.
Hamas was a whole new concept for fighting Israel. The PLO, Israel’s prototype enemy for decades, paled in comparison.
Since I’m a Zionist by Hamas’ definition, I have to say reading that is a good idea.
Malkin posts about 12 intellectuals signing their name to a document calling for an end to Islamism.
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.
Sign me up.
This war truly is creating strange allies. If you had told me last year that Michelle Malkin was promoting a “manifesto” calling for “secular values for all” I would have asked you what you were smoking.
Over at Cox and Forkum.
I’ve been in the dentist’s chair a lot in the past month or so and Thursday they “extracted” (climbed up on my head and RIPPED) a tooth out of my head. Had a relatively good weekend and then this morning they “removed the temporary bridge” (used pliars to crush, break and pinch pieces of acrylic) from my mouth.
The drugs have taken the edge off but at the same time, they tend to bend the line between what I find funny and what the rest of the world may find funny. Of course, I bend that line all the time, but I’d rather do it when it’s my own sense of humor being naturally skewed vs having a vicodin derivitive “helping” me out.
For instance, when I heard that Saddam had ended his hunger strike, my first thought was, “Does that mean he’s back to eating Kurds and whey?”
See…that kills me, but I’m guessing the rest of you are thinking, “Okayyyyyyy, Tim needs a nap.”
So I’ll take one.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christina D. Ponte
Our own Kevin Connors with: “That the other members of his squad called him “Dogface” was particularly apt, as he really liked having a cold nose.”
The man after my own…mind award goes to Charles Austin: “Beans again last night, eh Cap’n?”
Check in on Friday for another.
I don’t feel any better about finding out that British companies are currently running our ports. I kind of like the idea that an American company would run American ports.
I know, it’s so 1970s of me, but that’s how I feel.
I was going to review my memories of him but you’ve got your own.
Frequent commenter Robin, comments in an earlier post that last night’s Battlestar Gallactica, Downloaded, was the best episode ever.
It didn’t have the most action. It didn’t have the most drama and yet, I have to say that I agree. The plot twist thrown down last night has the potential to twist everything we know about the human vs cylon conflict off it’s moral and spiritual axis. After last week’s abortion issue episode, this was a breath of fresh air to the series.
Discuss freely in comments.
Warning to all, I’m not going to delete spoilers in the comments, so if you don’t want to know, don’t read the comments.
Remember, all Battlestar Gallactica episodes are available on iTunes Video. You don’t have to have an iPod to play the episodes, you can download straight to your computer and play them using Quicktime.
This is a brilliant case of the obvious:
Sex Pistols turn down Hall of Fame honor
By Chris Morris
The Sex Pistols have opted out on appearing at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.The groundbreaking English punk rock group officially declined the honor — to be handed out March 13 at a dinner and performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York — in a crudely scrawled, mispunctuated handwritten message posted on the band’s Web site Friday.
Anybody who thought they’d show up, smack yourself in the head and call yourself a goof.
Via Shivas.
That’s the Fourth Annual International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day.
March 15th. Mark your calanders. If it’s warm, I’ll cook out, if not, we’ll head to a local BBQ.
Via Meryl Yourish who’s looking for a banner to promote the day.
Pablo over at Digital Warfighter, has tagged me for another meme. I didn’t know it was coming, I would have been prepared to think harder, my brain already mostly shut down for the night.
4 jobs I’ve had: Mover. Photo-Studio Chem Engineer. Hot Tar Roofer. Bartender.
4 movies I can watch over and over: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; Pulp Fiction; Underworld; Enter the Dragon. There are just so many…I’ll stop at four though.
4 places I’ve lived: Chicago IL; Tarzana CA; Las Vegas NV; Honolulu HI.
4 TV shows I love: House; Boston Legal; Cold Case; Battlestar Galactica.
4 highly regarded and recommended TV shows I haven’t seen: Buffy; Arrested Development; Desperate Housewives; The Shield.
4 places I’ve vacationed: I’m like Pablo, I travel a lot so a vacation for me is staying home for a week with not much to do.
4 of my favorite dishes: BBQ Babyback Ribs; Grilled Salmon; BiBimBop; Jaegershnitzel.
4 sites I visit daily: It Comes In Pints?; Sondra K; Blackfive; Sisu.
4 places I’d rather be right now: Boise ID; Anchorage AK; West Coast of Maui; Romeo’s Pizza in Landstuhl Germany.
4 bloggers I’m tagging: Jay Tea; Damion The Prince of Darkness; Kate; and Dean because I haven’t annoyed him in forever.
From David J., aka Zombie Boy, over at Resurrection Song.
Seven Songs I can’t currently get out of my head:
1. “Head On” by The Jesus & Mary Chain. Makes me want to grab a girl and dance fast and nasty.
2. “Mysterious Ways” and all of its remixes, U2 and various Producers. Probably the one U2 song that really haunts me.
3. “You Don’t Get Much” The BoDeans. It’s the drums mostly…and I can relate the the words all to well.
4. “Crazy (Tony Kanal Remix) [Full Version]” Alanis Morissette. I love the original by Seal and this version just relaxes me instantly.
5. “Kashmir” Led Zepplin. What? I need a reason? It’s Kashmir and it gets better every time I listen to it.
6. “Remedy” Bird York. Love this lady’s voice.
7. “Angel Eyes” John Hiatt. Again, it needs no explanation.
If you read this, consider yourself tagged.