August 2009 - Argghhh!

I want to make sure they've got their eye on this group of highly-trained and skilled military veterans who are clearly sliding into dangerous militia-style attitudes and probably bad right-wing politics, too.Just look - they *openly* display the sentiments of the Gadsden Flag, which is a well known and documented (just ask Potok at the Southern Poverty Law Center) indicia of Bad and Dangerous Thinking. Hopefully this group is under constant surveillance.U.S. Navy Petty Oficer 3rd Class Joshua...

Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. ************************************ In today's From the Front : (Click on link to read stories highlighted below) P.J. Tobia : Bravery And Afghan Voters Helmand Blog - Afghanistan : PICTURES: Polling day in Helmand At War : The Day After. Then the Wait Iraq the Model : Who Was Behind Wednesday's...

Remind us, Eld One, how many bullet holes are in Hubert in this picture?In the 1930's, when Indiana Jones was out searching for the Ark of the Covenant, he came across a small cave in the Horeb, whereupon he found a piece of scroll, the torn edges of which happen to match a Dead Sea Scroll upon which was found an early version of the Book of Exodus.Exodus 17. Water From The Rock.1. And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according...

...that altereth the reality of the thing. John Lyly said that, in Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit, in1579. It came to mind (yes, snippets like that actually do come to mind at times) as I observed this bit of written buffoonery from Frank Rich, writing, where else, in the New York Times.This uptick in the radical right predates the health care debate that is supposedly inspiring all the gun waving. Nor can this movement be attributed to a stepped-up attack by Democrats on this crowd’s holy Second...

The MSM is reporting casualties in the hundreds from the VBIEDs, but two of the cadets with relatives in Baghdad say over a thousand people have been admitted to or treated and released from the local hospitals. One of them in particular should know -- his wife works in one of them.The small bright spot is that security forces stopped one of the car bombers before he and his fellow suicider could make it to their target -- the police at one particular checkpoint did everything by-the-book and captured...

Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. ********************** These three articles are just a lovely way to start the day. Not. Save them for lunchtime reading: Release the Terrorist, Investigate the CIA : "I suppose that's what happens when control of the Justice Department shifts from the lawyers who spent the last eight years...

As I've noted before, we can't honor them all individually, so we honor the ones that catch our eye or have a connection, however tenuous, to the Castle. And readers who let us know that someone important to them has passed is a connection rather more substantial than tenous.Meet Elmer Kelton, who helped conquer the ***, and was himself conquered by an Austrian.SAN ANGELO — Elmer Stephen Kelton, 83, died Saturday. He was born April 29, 1926, at Horse Camp in Andrews County to Mr. and...