Monthly Archives: February 2007

Muckdog lament

Posted on February 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Muckdog lament

Coach told the boys after practice today to practice more at home by playing catch. Too many can’t catch, he said, so by the end of the spring season he wants everyone to be good at playing catch at thirty feet. Mr. B.’s catching is improving, however. Now the main problem seems to be which arm to throw with. Coach says he throws straightest with his left, but Mr. B. insists he throws better with his right. Sigh.

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Mexico penal innocents

Posted on February 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Mexico penal innocents

One more excellant reason not to get arrested in Mexico for anything even remotely serious. Forty-two percent of Mexican prison inmates are legally innocent because they have never been sentenced, says Mark in Mexico.

"And the reason they’ve never been sentenced is usually because there is not enough evidence to convict them. So the prosecutors never call their cases. The inmates have no lawyers representing them to force the issue. So they are forgotten."

So you have a lawyer, right? Good for you. Next up, bureaucratic entropy. 

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Short

Posted on February 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Short

Ben of Mesopotamia is so short…

"I’m even more tired of seeing MedEvac helicopters skimming above the palm trees, ferrying more wounded soldiers to the Combat Support Hospital."

Short timer malaise in Baghdad. 

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Dustin Ross Donica, R.I.P.

Posted on February 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Dustin Ross Donica, R.I.P.

Army Specialist Donica, 22, from Spring, north of Houston, was killed by a sniper in Baghdad Dec. 28. He was the 3,000th U.S. serviceman to die during the war, and therefore the "grim milestone" of 2006 for much of the MSM. Wikipedia misspelled his name in their haste. His family, having none of it, made "a point of deflecting attention" from the fact, according to the March edition of Texas Monthly. Since then, they have put up an impressive Web site "dedicated to the memory of Dustin Donica, the Donica Family, and Dustin’s brothers in arms." The site includes photos and background Celtic music, as well as "American Soldier," a country ballad by Toby Keith. Texas Monthly eulogized Donica as one of more than 275 Texans killed in Iraq, "the highest number from any state other than California, and each one has left behind not just a family but a community."

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Too rich

Posted on February 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Too rich

Do as I say, not as I do. That’s Al Gore, the Oscar winner, for you.

"Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average"
“’As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk [the] walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,’ said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson."
 
Worth a read. Via Instapundit.
 
UPDATE  Gore’s response (that he is buying carbon indulgences) is just a rich hypocrite’s excuse, sez Captain Ed. 

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Support the troops

Posted on February 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Support the troops

americaisatthemall.jpg

Sad but true, except that the times they have changed. We don’t need Rosie the Riveter, or scrap drives to build ships. We have a consumer economy and if we don’t consume it falls. Al Q keeps hitting out at Wall Street, not realizing that it’s a movable feast. As long as they leave the malls alone. So do your part. Shop ’til you drop/ Getty Images.

Via Op-For 

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The other faces of Iraq

Posted on February 25, 2007 | Comments Off on The other faces of Iraq

"Iraq has its other face, a face of life and a degree of normalcy. This other face of Iraq is reflected in a series of pictures published by Halim Salman in his two monthly magazines published in London."

Via MEMRI. 

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