Category Archives: Blogosphere

Viet Nam, 1969

Posted on June 1, 2010 | Comments Off on Viet Nam, 1969

Dick+Stanley+in+VietnamThis was somewhere in the foothills of the Annamese Cordillera southwest of Da Nang, late August or September. When I was using lace-up zippers in my boots but before, it seems to be, I started adding my dog tags to them for surer body identification. Note the bipod on the M-14 at left.

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I like my Kindle 2

Posted on June 1, 2010 | Comments Off on I like my Kindle 2

I’m only surprised at how quickly the battery runs down if you use it on and off all day long. I read a novel, Enders Game, over the weekend, is how I found out. It’s cool being able to surf the text Web for free and email personal Word and/or PDF files to the device for later use.

So far I just like to read. Currently that’s The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, The Media, The Mafia, and The Rest of Planet Earth, whose lazy author uses an incredible number of cliches but otherwise produced an entertaining tale of a Web startup’s vicissitudes. I have found this good site filled with Kindle advice, more than I’m ever likely to follow, but it’s nice to know it’s there.

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Turkey’s oppressed Kurdish minority

Posted on June 1, 2010 | Comments Off on Turkey’s oppressed Kurdish minority

By all means, let’s send a convoy to Turkey, to aid their repressed Kurdish minority which seeks a nation of its own. Since the Turks are sooo concerned about the Palestinians, let’s put the Ottoman slipper on the Turkish foot for a change. They haven’t changed that much since I lived there in the 1960s. They really hate having you mention their ethnic and religious intolerance. Merhaba, Mustafa!

Via Instapundit.

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Murder in the Home

Posted on May 31, 2010 | Comments Off on Murder in the Home

Things weren’t always peaceful at the state’s home for poor and disabled Confederate veterans, at 1600 West Sixth Street in Austin. More than 2,000 lived there, from 1887 to 1953—ironically quite close to Clarksville, a neighborhood of frame bungalows and freed slaves.

Here’s the tale, taken from a 1904 issue of the Dallas Morning News. The flight of the 74-year-old Rebel perp to downtown still wouldn’t be hard. It’s just a short walk, east across  Lamar Boulevard and a dozen blocks more. He was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon: a chair.

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Asymmetric warfare

Posted on May 31, 2010 | Comments Off on Asymmetric warfare

The “peace activists” on that Turkish ship clearly got what they deserved, i.e. gunfire, as shown in this IDF video from Jerusalem blogger Richard Landes. But Roger L. Simon also has a point in his PJTV interview with Landes: Why wasn’t the IDF better prepared for violent resistance when they boarded the Mavi Marmara to search its bound-for-Gaza cargo? Meanwhile, I agree with Landes that it’s time for Israel to recognize that Turkey is not its friend and to join the West in condemning Turkish complicity in the Armenian genocide. Long overdue.

UPDATE:  Sensible words from Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Tzachi HaNegbi (Kadima):  “After Operation Cast Lead, the government decided to impose a maritime blockade on Gaza [in accordance with international law governing parties in a state of armed conflict – ed.], and that all cargo headed for Gaza would be checked first in the Ashdod port…

“This issue is a matter of total consensus in Israel, and the reason is the sense of injustice that we all feel, the cynicism and hypocrisy that typify the attack on the State of Israel, and the sense we all have that the IDF’s operation yesterday was logical and ethical.

“We left Gaza five years ago, yet for years we have been attacked from Gaza, and our soldier Gilad Shalit is still being held in a dark dungeon in Gaza. We therefore feel that we have the right to act in the way we did.”

Via Arutz Sheva (Israel International News).

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Mr. B.’s bob-e-que

Posted on May 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Mr. B.’s bob-e-que

Mr.B.BBQWell, not our Mr. B., I don’t think. Unless he’s been holding out on us. Taken by TFG in his travels, on U.S. 67, between Glen Rose and Chalk Mountain

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Got a Kindle

Posted on May 27, 2010 | Comments Off on Got a Kindle

I’d thought about it, last year, after reading about TFG having one. But I dismissed the idea. Then I thought about it some more. Especially after reading twelve e-books on my Kindle for the PC program on my net book. The net book is clunky to carry around. I’m sure the Kindle will be easier. More later as I get used to it.

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