September 2011 - BlackFive - The Network of Care

Let's cut military retirement benefits

This should shock no one paying attention, but the benefits earned by military retirees are now fair game in the budget cutting farce. As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another...

Published Sun, Sep 18 2011 11:33 PM by BLACKFIVE

We Hate All Americans

Patrick Notestine in "Paramedic to the Prince" on Saudi support for terrorism, pp 294-295: A metaweh wrote on a popular Islamic web-site, "I'd like to say that the overwhelming majority of my fellow Saudis totally condemn terrorism...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 11:30 PM by BLACKFIVE

Pundit Review - 9/11 Edition

I was fortunate to take part in Pundit Review's 9/11 edition yesterday. There's lots of great commentary. Here's the link. [Tissue alert on the Rick Rescorla SYSK audio]

Published Mon, Sep 12 2011 12:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Today's Attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul

Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room posted up this video from NATO with this commentary: ...The security-analysis group Stratfor assesses that since the Taliban’s use of small arms can’t damage the embassy, “this attack was intended really to...

Published Tue, Sep 13 2011 4:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Mullen says Pakistan runs insurgent groups

Well no kidding. The sad thing is that he couldn't say the blisteringly obvious fact that Pakistan founded many of the Taliban and related insurgent groups that plague Afghanistan and they continue to fund and run them now. Politics and diplomacy...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 12:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

Men of Valor

An Air Force Combat Controller will be awarded the Air Force Cross - the service's second-highest decoration for valor - for actions during a 2009 firefight in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters had ambushed TSgt Robert Gutierrez and a team of Army Special...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2011 5:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

We all know Saddam had no WMDs

Right? Wrong. When American tanks smashed into Baghdad, Saddam had already completed construction of an anthrax production facility, which was a week away from going live. If it had been permitted to go into production, this one facility could have produced...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2011 1:53 PM by BLACKFIVE

How Terrorists Are Made

The co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv, author Robert Wright talks to anthropologist Scott Atran in this video above, "Lessons Learned: The Creation of Terrorists." Atran has written a book, "Talking to the Enemy: Faith...

Published Sun, Sep 18 2011 10:32 AM by BLACKFIVE

Some Thoughts On 9/11

Each year on this day, I've written something about that day. There is only so much one can share about your memories of the day without becoming maudlin and repetitive. Besides, my memories of the day are now intertwined with the smells and sights...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 9:18 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Fallen But Never Forgotten

Click To Help Gina Win

A quick and easy one for you this morning. You can help Gina Elise win a contest, and in so doing support troops and veterans. Just go here and vote for her. This is getting down to the wire, and it is close. So, go expend about 2-3 mouse clicks to help...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2011 9:07 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Is Civil Service The Same As Military Service? NO!

Well, according to some in Congress, yes, it is. In point of fact, not only is it the same but the honors at a funeral should be the same in terms of a flag draped casket and the presentation of a flag. TSO over at This Ain't Hell has an excellent...

Published Tue, Sep 06 2011 11:27 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Bust Their Chops

Sep 11: The Arab & Iranian Reaction

Al-Ahram Newspaper, Egypt, September 20, 2001, cartoon blaming the CIA & FBI for the Sep 11 attacks The folks at MEMRI helpfully gathered the Arab and Iranian reactions to the Sep 11 attacks five years after the fact and presented them in this 43...

Published Sun, Sep 11 2011 5:00 AM by BLACKFIVE

Where you were, 9-11-01, and where are you now...

This is a different kind of post for us. We want to take a look at how 9-11 has changed our readers. How it has affected you after 10 years, and how it is likely to affect you the next 10. This blog, and blogs like it, came about, eventually, as a result...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 11:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs, Fallen But Never Forgotten

The Last Moments Of Flight 77

Integrated Consultants, Inc. has animated the final seconds of the impact of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 as a fascinating exercise in forensic engineering. You must watch it here. For the brain-dead Truthers who...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 9:00 PM by BLACKFIVE

POW MIA Day

It may be news to many Americans that today is POW/MIA Day,but that doesn't mean its importance is less. To our knowledge we have only one POW and that is Bowe Bergdahl who has been held for more than two years now. I will quote from Chuck Z as to...

Published Fri, Sep 16 2011 1:46 AM by BLACKFIVE

September 2011 - BlackFive

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives