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I’m a Fred Thompson supporter, and for the worst of reasons: I like his style.
There’s also the fact that the rest of the Republican field makes Paris Hilton look substantive and electable. Come on, you know it’s true; this is 1996 all over again. Without Fred Thompson in the pack the Republican National Convention is […]

Editorial Note: I like profanity and find it very useful (as I often demonstrate on this blog). There are times when no other word will do. I also hate governmental intrusion, artistic insincerity, and the criminalization of thought. All of those feelings, and not any specific animosity toward the author of the comments, lead me […]

H/T: Blackfive
Kharmah Awakens
I’ve never been to Iraq, and barring some miracle cure for emphysema I won’t be going. My ignorance of conditions on the ground does not make me hesitant to state the following: we are losing the war on terrorism in every theater in which we are currently engaged.

I see the Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is considering Ubuntu, so I thought I’d post some thoughts. I’ve been using Linux since about 1999 but up until this year I have never found a Linux distro that I felt had any chance of gaining any appreciable share of the desktop market. They […]

FOXNews.com - U.S. Military: Leaders Can’t Lead - FOX Fan
Now, I’m no retired colonel, I was never anything more than a piss ant squad leader, so I feel obligated to defer to Col. Hunt’s rank –but that’s where my deference ends. It’s hard for me to fathom how a man can be so mistaken, especially […]

A bit of black paratrooper humor. This is the 82nd Airborne Division Chorus performing “Blood Upon The Risers.”
Blood Upon The Risers

Mah boyz earnin’ dher pay (and then some).

Some more cover tunes.
Cash’s “Fulsom Prison Blues” Done sort of rockabilly style.

Dave Van Ronk’s arrangement of “House of the Rising Sun” as an homage to the prison gang work songs.

Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”. Anyone who has ever been an addict has a connection to this song.

Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” - One of the Boss’ […]

At my core I’m a paratrooper. The only thing I am more proud of and would defend with more zeal are my children. I feel a sense of deep kinship with other paratroopers and it is for that reason that I post the following list of the fallen. Their sacrifice was not greater than that […]

H/T: Blackfive
If Only War Reporting Were More Like Sports Reporting - Early Warning
I didn’t comment on the William Arkin comments earlier this year. The guy is just so obviously a Class A Tool™ that I wouldn’t have known where to begin.
I’ve also been trying to tone down the rhetoric and profanity level here in an […]

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This is just a fantastically poignant song. I’d love it even if it weren’t for the video. I understand that this is old news to those in the UK (and that some are even burnt on the song over there) but most over here haven’t heard or seen this.
The video was […]

» This is so predictable » MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Despite my distaste for modern science, I couldn’t help but wonder if Beth’s assertion had any merit. In the interest of the empirical process I thought I’d give it a go.
So, anyway, Ron Paul is an isolationist hack that doesn’t seem to realize that you […]

KWTX - HomePage - Shark Attack
I’ve talked about sharks before on this blog. To me they are the embodiment of everything that is both wonderful and terrible about nature. But they are also used as pawns in the neo-environmentalist fight and any attempt to characterize them as what they truly are –dispassionate eating machine […]

Some of my cover tunes for your listening enjoyment –or not. I’ll freely admit that some are better than others, and that a couple were done while under the influence of copious amounts of alcohol, so they can be a bit “pitchy” in places. The recording quality varies depending on whether I was in the […]

BLACKFIVE: The fight in Afghanistan
Matt has an excerpt from a buddy in Afghanistan up over at Blackfive today, and in that excerpt this NCO touches on what, I think, ought to be the number one talking point in this War on Terror. Sad to say that it is the single least touched on point by […]

The War on Guns: Guest Editorial: Rock Em
I’m gonna sum up the above linked post for you and then descend into caustic commentary.
Summation: The American Way of Life is being threatened by illegal immigration and the proper response to inattentive politicians is pointless vandalism. The reason this would be a proper and possibly effective response […]

Today we’ve got The White Buffalo (aka Jake Smith) out of Portland by San Diego; Nathan Asher and the Infantry out of Raleigh, NC; Lori McKenna out of Stoughton, MA; a three-fer of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, out of Nashville; and the late Elliott Smith, formerly of Portland, now of the afterlife and whatever […]

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My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (who I’m happy as hell to see is still around and blogging. Beth’s no slacker like Yours Truly. Though, now I want to know how I can get banned in Red China and India too)
Man who claimed war crimes in Iraq charged with falsifying record
You know, if there […]

I’m writing this in response to an Op/Ed up (for more than a few days now –give me a break, I’m just getting back on the bike) over at The Storytellers Blog entitled Why Are Most Artists Liberal?.
Go ahead and click out, I’ll wait.
Back? Good.
Now, I have no bone to pick with author Guy […]

Sicko is Socko | TIME
OK, I get it. George Bush is bad, everybody hates him. But there has to be a point when one examines themselves for subjective opinions and views that might be skewing one’s reaction to an issue. I would argue that time for such reflection would be, oh, I dunno, right before […]