November 2010 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Need A Calendar?

If so, do we have a couple of good suggestions for you! First, head over to Pin-Ups for Vets and get one for yourself and one to donate to someone in the VA or military hospital system. Then, head over to the Cooking with the Troops CafePress Store where...

Published Sun, Nov 14 2010 12:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Wounded Marine to receive first stem cell treatment for spinal injury

Groundbreaking spinal treatment - first stem cell recipient is a wounded Marine. ---/// COVINGTON, La. -- When a young marine learned his life had changed forever, he didn't know he would be the first person ever to try a groundbreaking medical treatment...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 7:33 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military, Current Affairs, Caring For The Defenders, Someone You Should Know

TSA - Is Our Outrage pointed at Increased Security or at Oppressive Incompetence

From the Independent Institute's blog. Sean Linnane at Stormbringer's site has a post up on the TSA kerfufles lately: ...so what we have is a bunch of government bureaucrats in uniform, unaccountable for their actions and smug in their power trip...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 2:04 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Military Humor, Bust Their Chops

Uber Pig Moves To "This Ain't Hell" For Triple the Pay

Just an announcement for all of you who are wondering where the enlisted swine have gone to, our own Uber Pig is moving over to This Ain't Hell and we're putting him in emeritus status on our sidebar. I fully support this move by my compadre,...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2010 12:30 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: About Blackfive

Paratrooper's List of What He's Thankful For

Reader Mark G. sent me this post about Thanksgiving from Life in the Infantry: What am I thank for? Quite a bit... There's associated photos with each item like this one: EOD guys who would gladly dig a tiny hole in the side of a road and dig until...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 6:28 AM by BLACKFIVE

Thanking American Muslims

...for ratting out the terrorist rat bastards (TRB) who are hiding amongst them/us. And when I say rat them out, that's as in an exterminator de-verminizing a neighborhood. I usually link to the American Prospect when there is a Juicebox Mafia beat...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 9:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

Tax dollars funding hate toward the military

Well this is some pretty outrageous activity and about as good an example of liberal hijacking of government as you will find. In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The title of...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 1:44 AM by BLACKFIVE

Feminized MOH guy does part three

No, I’m not going to go into another long dissertation/Fisking. We all know how I feel. Instead I’ll just point out that Mr. Fischer is still trying to justify his nonsense and using every tactic known to those losing an argument in an attempt to salvage...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:03 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Bust Their Chops

MOH has been feminized? Really?

Some goob who I assume thinks he knows what he's talking about has decided, based on something he read in the Wall Street Journal, that the Medal of Honor has become "feminized". That's right - "feminized". We all know what...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 12:59 PM by BLACKFIVE

How are those civilian terror trials working out?

Not at all. The first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court was acquitted on Wednesday of all but one of more than 280 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings of the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 9:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

Blog World (and more?) on GMA This Morning

If any of you have the chance, you may want to check out Good Morning America at the 0900 hour this morning. Seems that one of the roving reporters at this year's Blog World wasn't from new media but from the show, and will have a story up sometime...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 6:54 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Web/Tech

Veteran Jorge "El Conquistador" Rivera fights on Saturday night

One of our favorite fighters, Jorge Rivera, fights in UFC #122 on this Saturday night on Spike TV. We've posted about Jorge's fights, support of our troops, and a bit of his lighter side over the last year. Please get the word out to support this...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 3:50 AM by BLACKFIVE

Marine Corps Quotes

Many of my friends are Marines. To them, honor, courage, and commitment wasn't something they cast aside when they fulfilled their enlistment. They do what they say they will do, when they say they will do it. They improvise, adapt, and overcome....

Published Wed, Nov 10 2010 7:05 AM by BLACKFIVE

Rene-GADE - Someone You Should Know Follow Up 2010

Here are links to our previous stories on Major Dan Gade - first (2005), second, third and fourth (2009). One of the benefits of following these stories is becoming friends with these Warriors - Dan Gade is one of those stories. Dan was the first full...

Published Fri, Nov 26 2010 12:45 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Someone You Should Know

Escanaba in da Moonlight- a film review (kinda)

For the uninformed, bi-coastal elites, the U.P. is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and it's denizens are Yoopers. I have a long and storied history w/ da UP as wells as many quality Yoopers. Let's clear one ting (no H needed) up right away, da...

Published Sat, Nov 27 2010 2:58 AM by BLACKFIVE

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