March 2013 - Argghhh!

Since yer snarkin' me in email about "Old McDonald's Blog..." This is what a newborn kid should look like. Carrie just threw this doeling this morning. She's already holding her head up, alert, screaming, and has had her first poop - meaning things are moving inside like they're supposed to. At this point in his life, Francis was a limp dishrag, and there was no one home - it was as if his spirit hadn't been poured in yet. This one is only hours old, but she's well...

And in some respects, I think that's exactly what the Democrats, or more accurately, "Progressives" want to do. Break it. Make it less effective. Because, in their heart of hearts, they don't like the whole concept of an Army, and want to change it into some sort of fluffy-bunny simulacrum. That and because DoD is the one institution they can play with that will just do what it's told. Oft times reluctantly, but in the end it does what it's told. While, ironically, they...

Modern Survival Blog (picked up and rebroadcast by Gateway Pundit ) is sounding an alarm about 2,700 MRAPs having been bought by Homeland Defense for use as internal security vehicles in the US. Quoting from MSB: The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States. Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late...

...you just need a tank. Battle-damaged Renault FT-17 at the National WWI Museum, in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Stewart - now a teenager, like all teenies, he wants his driver's license... Molly - Defender of the Herd.

Oh, I know. Who needs an Army when you have the Marines. Right, now that *that* crap is out of the way, read on. Around the Pentagon, the budget cutters have put away their knives and are reaching for axes. In times like these, every service naturally circles the wagons around its share of the budget pie. The stress is so great that otherwise smart people take incredibly silly stands. Last week, for instance, the former chief of naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, published a paper that calls...

But life, the job, and another unexpected birth intervened. We're running a neonatal intensive care unit in the kitchen again. Meet Francis. Who we really didn't think was going to make it night before last. But all is not lost. The magazine logjam is starting to clear. Got a double-digit delivery of these yesterday...