June 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

BLACKFIVE buys BLACKWATER

Well not yet. Apparently Blackwater is for sale and Noah at Danger Room is holding a contest to see who should buy it. I nominated BLACKFIVE as I think we are the perfect new owner. Matt and I have been there, me multiple times and we promise to turn...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 3:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

173rd Airborne memorial dedicated at Ft. Benning

There was a wonderful ceremony and a bunch of great events over the extended Memorial Day weekend down at Ft. Benning as the brand new 173rd Airborne Memorial was dedicated and members of the unit from Vietnam through the present gathered to remember...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 1:36 AM by BLACKFIVE

Ask An Infantryman - How to Solve the Oil Spill Crisis (and Kick Ass)

'Sup, Stallions... Blackfive here, filling in for your columnist Uber Pig. Got an email today and the CIB team might have some sage advice for this guy. Dear Uncle F###stick Where do you ####ing get off thinking you can criticize the POTUS during...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 1:02 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Ask An Infantryman

In the Crosshairs- Obama on whose ass to kick

I actually added a disclaimer since I was discussing the President. This was just so completely rich that I had to play. I realize that his advisers are telling him to show some emotion, but this was ludicrous. I kinda imagine that he heard the back-stabbing...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 3:02 PM by BLACKFIVE

Review of Laura Bush's book

Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE Former First Lady Laura Bush has written her memoirs, Spoken from the Heart. In the book Mrs. Bush re-tells her remarkable life from her upbringing in West Texas to her historic years in the White House. She provides insights...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 11:20 AM by BLACKFIVE

An Answer to a Question

Jimbo's favorite Juice Box Boy, Matthew Yglesias, asks a question. An alternative investigation might focus not on who leaked classified video of a U.S. military operations, but on the question of why that sort of video should be classified. Certainly...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 9:27 AM by BLACKFIVE

Shhhhhh...We're hunting Al Qaeda

This article, as Sean Linnane at Strombringer points out, in its breathless declaration of President Obama unleashing a horde of Jason Bournes upon the bad guys of the world, is a complete joke. It looks to me like the Obama Administration is, YET AGAIN...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 7:59 AM by BLACKFIVE

Amber Status in AFghanistan

RE: Rules of Engagement and Weapon Status Jeffrey Schogol who writes the Rumor Doctor column for the Stars & Stripes followed up on one soldier's claim that his unit was dismounted patrolling in Amber (no round chambered): ...The Rumor Doctor...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 6:54 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Meaning of "Duty, Honor, Country"

1LT Dan Berschinski is convalescing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he was seriously injured in Afghanistan in Aug 2009. Dan lost both his legs in an explosion when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while his unit secured a village...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 3:41 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Fallen But Never Forgotten

CIA doctors violated Nuremberg Code?

Good Lord these people are relentless. Based on zero new evidence, simply their own interpretation of memos about the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques a group of doctors is accusing the CIA doctors who supervised the program of essentially...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 1:36 AM by BLACKFIVE

U.S. Navy puts I.V.A.W. Concert on the off-limits list

IVAW puts on a concert on a cruise ship during Fleet Week in NYC. Navy opposes. And IVAW goes whack. Details over at the B5 Farm Team site...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 12:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

"Hot" Conservatives

So, below, Grim outs me (sort of) for having taken part as a judge in Right Wing News' "20 Hottest Conservative Women in the New Media" for 2010. I was pretty busy last week with Memorial Day activities and then catching up on life so I...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 12:18 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Weblogs

I See How It Is

So, apparently Newsweek is in a tizzy about some contest by Right Wing News called "The 20 Hottest Conservative Women." They said something about how it was a double standard, even though RWN did the same thing for right wing men (somehow missing...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 1:34 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Humor, Weblogs, Pop Culture

Collateral Murder leaker busted

Oh how precious, the sorry *** who leaked video of an Apache gunship taking out fools and insurgents now is in custody for that along with giving the WikiLeaks wankers around a quarter million classified diplomatic cables. Federal officials have arrested...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 1:16 PM by BLACKFIVE

In the Crosshairs- Helen Thomas, the ugly truth

I felt the need to praise her for the refreshing honesty. Usually she and her fellow-traveling haters manage to pretend they are just against the policies. Bravo Helen for unleashing the ugly truth. The t-shirt is available right here.

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 12:23 PM by BLACKFIVE

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