Category Archives: The War

Constant CAP

Posted on June 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Constant CAP

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As in, "Sleep tight, America, (Predator’s) got the CAP." 24/7

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops

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Death to Dictators

Posted on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Death to Dictators

It may take some refreshing and repeat clicking, but this Iranian blogger’s site has good photos and video of the ongoing confrontations. Nice of the regime’s thugs to wear red helmets. Makes it easier to pick them out of the crowd.

Via Michael Totten, who also shares the story of freedom-fighting Nebraskan Howard Baskerville.

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Posted in Obamalot, The War

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Unhappy Father’s Day for Noam Shalit

Posted on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Unhappy Father’s Day for Noam Shalit

Three years after Hamas kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the terrorist group that former President Jimmy Carter recently asked be removed from the U.S. terrorist list, still has not provided his family any news of his health. Let alone agreed to release him or even allow him access to the International Red Cross.

Now the Jewish Community Association of Austin is joining in a JTA e-letter campaign to urge President Obama to not forget Gilad’s father, Noam, and his friends praying for Gilad’s safe return as former President Carter apparently has. Especially not on this Father’s Day.

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Iran’s real revolutionary

Posted on June 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Iran’s real revolutionary

Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi’s wife, has drawn Iranian women into the streets with her demands for their equal rights.

"I am not Iran’s Michelle Obama. I am Zahra, the follower of Fatimah Zahra [the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad]. I respect all women who are active."

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Stephen Tyrone Johns, R.I.P.

Posted on June 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Stephen Tyrone Johns, R.I.P.

While the crazed shooter, as usual, gets the news, the dead security guard plays second fiddle. Pity. Stephen Tyrone Johns, 39, was a brave man, obviously, and well worth remembering.

Via Simply Jews.

UPDATE:  The American Jewish Committee has set up a fund to raise money for his family, which includes a new child.

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Air France Flight 447

Posted on June 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Air France Flight 447

Back in the day, Air Force pilots used to joke about "Air Chance." Some civilians still mutter darkly about the fly-by-wire, automated Airbus, although this apparently is its first major crash with passengers. For now the proposed explanation for the disappearance of Flight 447 over the mid-Atlantic, is severe turbulence, a possible lightning strike and hail damage.

Yet airliners are designed and pilots are trained to handle weather. It’s tempting, in this day of terrorism, to assume it was a bomb. Reports of simultaneous electrical failure and loss of cabin pressure suggest something like that. But they’ll have to find the wreckage, and hopefully the black (actually orange) flight data and voice recorders before we will ever know the cause for certain. If then.

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Posted in Scribbles, The War, Weather/Climate

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American Legion wants apology

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on American Legion wants apology

From Barry’s loony chief of Homeland Security, the Napolitano creature whose latest warning report says we must watch out for returning veterans going postal. She must be a graduate of Penn State.

Not to mention her other warning about Americans who dare to prefer state and local power to federal. She must not have read the Constitution. Or met our Texas governor, who is a diehard Aggie and Sarah Palin supporter, although it is true that he likes federal money as much as the next governor. Yep, the Leftist lunatics have certainly taken over the federal asylum. Watch yourself out there.

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