POST V4.08-31-09

“POLITICAL PARALYSIS IN AMERICA
OR
THE GULF OF NO RETURN”
ONE GENERATION WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED AS THE GREATEST GENERATION, ANOTHER AS THE 60S GENERATION ( NO MATTER WHICH SIDE YOU FOUGHT ON). THE 70S AND 80S ARE, WELL, THE LOST GENERATION. WHO GIVES A RAT’S ASS ABOUT THE 90S? WHAT WILL THE PRESENT GENERATION BE REMEMBERED AS --
THE GREATEST GULF OF UNDERSTANDING?

THE SHORT LIST
pirate riffs on equality

FEMALE MARINES DON HEAD SCARVES IN AFGHANISTAN

SEEMS THIS PRACTICE IS RAISING A FEW EYEBROWS....
what do you think after reading the article and comments at creepingsharia.com ? tell the world at the mcws blog.

JOHN GEBHARDT IN IRAQ

John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to
execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head ... but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's
hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems
to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The
girl is coming along with her healing. He is a real Star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do. What we're doing over there is making a difference. Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

--James Gates, U.S.NAVY

GREAT CAESAR’S GHOST
vlad riffs on great military writers of history

Although obviously intended for use in the college classroom, Debating the 1960s is an absorbing read for all who were in their 20s or 30s in the 60s and seriously interested in public affairs. It has two authors--both historians and professors--but it avoids the dull, homogenized prose often characteristic of such joint projects by being composed of two well-written essays, one (by Steigerwald ) on the "Liberal-Radical" side and the other (by Flamm) on the "Liberal-Conservative" side. Each essay has its own set of notes and a brief selection of relevant documents, and there is in common a list of selected readings and an index.
From multiple points of view, much ground is covered--the civil rights movement, Cuba, the Cold War, Kennedy, Buckley, Martin Luther King, Johnson, the assassinations, the Great Society, Goldwater, the Viet Nam War, counterculture, the rebirth of conservatism, the rise of Reagan, and much more. For contemporary students (who may know little or nothing about the period) Debating the 1960s captures the essence and conveys the excitement; for those of us who lived through those years it provides ample food for reflection about how and why we got where we are now--for better and for worse.

Liberal? Conservative? how about rational-- and will work within our institutions to get our Country out of this ditch!
kim’s blog at organizing for america
mybarackobama.com

BORN FIGHTING
POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FOUNDED BY SENATOR JIM WEBB OF VIRGINIA

LIST OF THINK TANKS IN THE US
37% conservative, 47% centrist, and 16% liberal.....

WITH ALL THIS POLITICKING AND THINKING GOING ON,
WHY ARE WARRIORS STILL DYING?

Airman Mercedes McCoy-Garrett closes the door of a transfer vehicle holding transfer cases containing the remains of Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Lobosco, pictured, and Army Cpl. Darby T. Morin, not pictured, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Lobosco, 29, of Somerville, N.J. , died Aug. 22 in Yakhchal, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit and Morin, of Victoria, British Columbia, died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom (CRYPTOME).
Capt. Matthew C. Freeman, 29, of Richmond Hill, Ga., died Aug. 7 while supporting combat operations in Kapisa province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
The following Marines died Aug. 6 while supporting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan:
Lance Cpl. James D. Argentine, 22, of Farmingdale, N.Y.  Lance Cpl. Travis T. Babine, 20, of San Antonio, Texas.  Cpl. Christian A. Guzman Rivera, 21, of Homestead, Fla. Sgt. Jay M. Hoskins, 24, of Paris, Texas.
Argentine, Babine and Hoskins were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay.
Guzman Rivera was assigned to the 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony C. Garcia, 21, of Tyndall, Fla. died Aug. 5 while supporting combat operations in Farah Province, Afghanistan.
List courtesy of CRYPTOME

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR, ANOTHER WARRIOR SHORT - SOME OF US, LIKE VASIL PICTURED BELOW, WILL NEVER FORGET...
SOLDIER VASIL FORWARD
SOLDIER VASIL AFT
women warriors deserve respect not harassment or being turned into political pawns in an argument that lost steam in 1972.
“We don’t recruit women, we recruit warriors” - comment heard at 6th mcd hq.
‘NUF SAID ABOUT WOMEN WARRIORS AND WHAT THEY DO TO GET THE JOB DONE. pirate, out.
PLUS
”SUPER CHILL”

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