February 27, 2005
1989
I'm too young to have seen some beautiful things. Thing #1 I missed out on was the space race; I'd give anything to have seen a man go to the moon. Thing #2 was 1989; I was just a dumb kid who had no idea of the significance.
1989: A Pivot of History
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Heh, yeah, I remember all that too. It was somewhat surreal, being in Germany when all that happened. I'll admit that the fall of the Soviet Union, though, was a bit more interesting from a grunt's point of view.
I was hanging out with a friend off post, watching TV, when it all started. Feeling somewhat nervous, and over the objections of his wife, we returned to the barracks, wondering if if there was going to be an alert.
There wasn't, probably so we wouldn't make anyone too nervous.
Posted by: Jason at February 27, 2005 11:51 AM (8zouG)
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I was a little kid during the space race. My mom would keep us home to watch it on TV. I remember sleeping on the floor in my parents' room - where the TV was - the night of the moon landing, so we wouldn't miss out. It was really neat.
I was in high school during the late 70's, when Congress sold out Vietnam, and President Malaise sold out the rest of us to totalitarianism. My first Presidential ballot was for Reagan in 1980 (I met GHWB during the primaries at a pancake breakfast in my home town.) I never, ever thought, up until it happened, that the USSR would fall apart so quickly and, mostly, painlessly. Never, ever. God does answer prayer, after all.
Posted by: Paulie at The Commons at February 28, 2005 01:31 PM (4KwiQ)
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The big lesson from 89 - the elite was wrong, wrong, wrong. All those brilliant, progressive new age thought leaders were full of shit.
Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at February 28, 2005 04:14 PM (7XPVo)
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I know a lot of people think it's lame, but I was 19 in 1990 when Jesus Jones came out with the the song "Right Here Right Now".
It still gives me goosebumps. I'm getting them right now thinking about it. However, the end of Communism was not the end of all global tyrrany.
Today is just as imporant a time. Imagine if this really is the point in history when democracy spreads worlwide. This will be the finish of totalitarianism on earth.
I hope somebody cool writes a song about it and captures everything correctly.
My guess is, they way the left pervades the entertainment world and how they're loathing all these people going free under Republican leadership, we'll have to expect any such song from a country singer.
Posted by: Sean at February 28, 2005 04:17 PM (YK/wN)
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Have Red 6 take you for a drive up to Fulda,then out to the old border OPs. We went on alert when it happened, and I still have my piece of the "single metal grid" fence... Check out the old KP stones (marked the border for the King of Prussia). It was high adventure when the refugees came flooding west, we didn't know if it was the opening moves of WW III or what.... Thank goodness my wife was two weeks late delivering my first born, she was due on the day the border opened.
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February 25, 2005
FEMALES
Awww, man.
Protein Wisdom linked to like every girl in the blogosphere except me...
Why don't more women blog? Who cares? Just read the stuff and laugh or learn or whatever, and stop worrying about whether the author is wearing pajamas or a nightgown. Stop getting so worked up over trivial crap. Geez.
Now excuse me while I go put on makeup and water my houseplants...
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February 19, 2005
February 17, 2005
LINKS
Heh, this is why
my hair is down to my waist!
When Liberals Are Honest About The War In Iraq
I like
Lileks today too.
Selfishness is bad, right?
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What drives the left absolutely mad is that they still have to mouth the "we support the troops but not the war" line. They dont support the troops. Truth be told, they would love to return to the days of yelling "Baby Killer" at returning soldiers. The Anheiser Busch ad from the Super Bowl with the soldiers in DCU's at the airport must have made them all sick to there stomachs. Thankfully most of us see through the Lefty BS.
Posted by: CPTHAM at February 17, 2005 03:02 PM (NMK3S)
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I'll let
Julian Sanchez respond to that 'When the left is honest' post:
No, seriously, was anyone else awake when the case for this war was being made back in 2002? Does anyone have the impression that a case consisting of the argument that it was worth going to war so Iraqis could have a nice democracy and purple fingers would've been greeted with anything but incredulous laughter? The debate over the wisdom of this war was over months ago. The neocons lost, badly. That wouldn't change if Iraq became a Middle Eastern Switzerland tomorrow. It wasn't a good enough reason to go to war when it was a vague possibility, it's not good enough now that it's a vague possibility we've moved a few steps toward, and it won't be good enough if it becomes a reality.
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February 14, 2005
February 12, 2005
DANG
I started feeling tears well up in my eyes as I read
this story. And then I let out a long, deliberate ho...ly...crap when I got to the punchline.
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Maybe it's because you'd already mentioned there was a surprise ending, but the minute I got to the part about a bullet through the heart I thought "Eh? What about that bullet proof vest?"
Posted by: Oda Mae at February 12, 2005 05:37 AM (zOJH0)
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Hi Sarah,
I was reading the story... and ... wait a minute!
I did hear it before - it was on the radio in Denver last week.
Could you belive this women?
Posted by: Agnieszka O. at February 13, 2005 01:31 AM (MUNUu)
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February 10, 2005
HEH
Steve of
Hog on Ice is a Native American, just like Ward Churchill.
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Me too. My great-grandfather's birth data in the family bible lists "Mother--unknown", code of the time in Texas for "Mother was Indian". Apache. So don't be messin' with ME!
Posted by: Bunker at February 10, 2005 07:29 AM (cyYKH)
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Turns out I'm not a native American, though a Hawaiian aborigine we don't actually count as native Americans.
Dangnabit, I want some of that free money!!!
Kalroy
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February 08, 2005
COOL
I've been meaning to point out something Oda Mae steered me towards:
Cox & Forkum's tribute to Ayn Rand
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The thing about Ayn Rand is that she should be hated by the Right on many counts. She is an atheist who derides Christianity angrily. She opposed democracy. In her personal life she was a hypocrite and an immoral coward - she was an immigrant but railed on the evils of immigration, she cheated on her husband with Nathaniel Branden, she was a drug addict hooked on speed, she preached an arch-individualistic ideology, but developed an organization of followers adhering to a cult like following. Worst, she embodied the thought of Nietzche, who was both the father of the modern left's ideology, as well as an inspiration for the Nazis. On top of all that, she was a horrible writer - her characters were cardboard cutouts who engaged in incessant and unbearable rants disguised as monologues. If you look kat the actions of her heros, rather than just their words, they were really just as despicable as her villains.
I realize that it is CPC (Conservative Politically Correct) to be a Rand fan, but I just don't get it. At least there are some conservatives that get what an odious figure she was:
http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback200501050715.asp
Posted by: VOT at February 08, 2005 04:49 PM (sWOH9)
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One other thing I meant to add that in the Fountainhead she justified r a p e! That is truly sick. Rand spits in the face of family values.
Posted by: VOT at February 08, 2005 04:57 PM (sWOH9)
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Hmmm, AyN Rand is useful up to a certain point, beyond which the partakers seem to end up being somewhat inhuman. I appreciate the theory but found the practice in the Rand form as somewhat distasteful. Probably because I have a bit of faith. Cold Hearted is the word that comes to mind. But since I avoided delving deep into it, I don't know whether I am really blessed or unknowing. But I still found the synopsis interesting.
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FIGHT
Bunker pointed out a great
post by Michael Totten. The hook:
Believe me, you donÂ’t know what a tense political fight feels like until the person yelling at you is from a country you recently bombed and currently occupy.
It's was a very interesting evening. And don't miss the Iraqi's one sentence summary of feelings towards the US.
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THANK YOU
I know it was a commercial and it was staged, but it sure choked me up. We OCONUS folks can watch the Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ad
here. I don't care if we are in Germany; Budweiser is still the king of beers.
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We CONUS folks here got all choked up, too. It was a very touching tribute, staged or not.
Posted by: Susan at February 08, 2005 11:05 AM (7qlZr)
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February 06, 2005
ELECTION
My friend sent me a wonderful email forward:
To all,
Rarely do I send emails to everyone in the command. I highly suggest you take 3 minutes and 12 seconds (the length of this video) out of your day to view the fruits of your labor. With all the negative spin and focused attention on the struggles, difficulties, and bloodshed going on in Iraq, this should be a true verification of what the REALISM is behind our sacrifice and dedication as American Soldiers. As an augmented Special Forces guy on the ground in Iraq during the early part of the war, I saw it every single day. But trying to communicate what that is like, is often difficult. If this doesn't make you proud to be an American, and TREASURE what we have built here in the United States, now alive and well in Iraq, then nothing will. To each and all who have given everything to uphold, support, and defend FREEDOM THROUGH MILITARY VICTORY, I offer my personal thanks for a job WELL DONE.
http://adamkeiper.blogs.com/comparevideo/files/Iraq_Election.wmv
Very Respectfully,
LCDR Keith Harrison, USN
So go watch it. And smile.
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February 04, 2005
QUICKIES
-- When, when, WHEN is Viagra "medically necessary"? I honestly can't figure it out. Medicare is now going to
pay for Viagra only when it's necessary, but when in the heck is that? Please explain it to me, because I can't quite figure it out.
-- The German economy is the worst it's been since Hitler came to power. Heh, just wait until troop realignment!
-- Janeane Garofalo was disgusted that Republicans wore blue ink to the State of the Union. Naturally, she managed to compare them to Nazis. How can a show of solidarity like that be disgusting? Yale students did the same, and I would've done it too if I had thought of it. I think it's a wonderful display of support. What a grumpy old bitch Garofalo is.
-- And my favorite news bit from today: U.S. General Says It Is 'Fun to Shoot Some People'. Always a touchy subject to bring up, but you've read Red 6's blog; true soldiers love battle. My husband said once that getting his soldiers to go on regular missions is like pulling teeth, but offer them the slight chance that they might get into a fight and they're immediately all business. Many bloggers have said that the hardest thing about war is not enjoying killing, but no one has quite voiced this truth like LTG Mattis. And who could be easier to kill than the people who oppress and abuse women, force the handicapped into suicide bomb vests, and behead prisoners? It's not hard to dehumanize this enemy.
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I think that Janeane Garofalo must be a seriously depressed woman, and she used to be so funny. I really liked her characters in movies, always the smart and funny chick. I haven't seen her in any movies lately...she has a Michael-Moore-like obsession to bring Bush down...but that animosity is so ugly to so many people. The bitterness is alienating many people. I can remember that even Jon Stewart was shocked when she came on his show last summer and declared that a vote for Bush would be indication of a character flaw. I think Stewart found her amusing, and liked the controversy, but he really didn't quite know what to say to that.
Posted by: calivalleygirl at February 04, 2005 05:20 AM (1+lJb)
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I don't know, but it just seems to me that using Viagra is like corking the bat.
Posted by: SSG Pooh at February 04, 2005 03:04 PM (fqvpi)
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Even we peace-time soldiers (especially we peace-time soldiers who attend liberal ivy league universities) know some thoughts ought to stay within the family. Not because they're necessarily immoral, wrong or evil, but because context matters.
Posted by: Eric at February 05, 2005 12:34 PM (D85c4)
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The only references to Nazis are by the people at World Net Daily. You are being suckered by people trying to stir up a phony controversy.
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