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The Original Taps

Courtesy of LL, here is a very talented young lady playing the original version of Taps, known as "Last Post" (aka Il Silenzio). Take the time to listen to it all the way through, it is well worth doing. LW Who knows that Bugler Bob in Germany...

Published Sat, Jan 29 2011 7:40 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Music

Does America stand against tyranny?

The answer is sometimes, and that is sad. This country was founded through violent revolution against a tyrannical government. We created the most beautiful founding documents that any country ever has in the Declaration and our Constitution. The core...

Published Sat, Jan 29 2011 4:29 AM by BLACKFIVE

Spec Ops Casting Call

Are you former special operations, U.S. or other? Are you in a position where you can devote a few weeks to a project? Are you up for the chance to win $100,000? If so, SPIKE and GRBTV want you: As with most such things, the selection process looks to...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 8:50 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Television

Book Review- Gut Feeling

This book is by a very interesting character whom I met (is whom right there?) when I joined the ad sales staff at madison.com, home of the two Madison papers. Not long before that there was a campaign to support the site that used some awesomely Soviet...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 3:15 AM by BLACKFIVE

Annoying text messsages

I'm not one of those people who live with their nose in their Blackberry constantly responding to inaninty after inanity. It is almost comical to watch these people unable to control themselves and like a monkey in a crack experiment, just hitting...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 12:35 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Great Egyptian Dithering

Boy I'm glad we have a guy who can really restore America's standing in the world and make our foreign policy something we can be proud of again. Near as I can tell this involves sitting silenty on the sidelines as dictators and tyrannical regimes...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 12:19 AM by BLACKFIVE

Douchebury on the 2nd Amendment

I realize that expecting intelligent commentary from Garry Trudeau on a hot button liberal issue is a waste of time, but his strip today is just patently offensive. His theme for the week is following armed Congressmen to their districts, which is dumb...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 3:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

The Fight: One Lone Retired Gurkha against a Train with 40 Bandits

Who wins? Yeah, you know who freakin' wins. Via the Army Rumour Service a Gurkha soldier's father posted this story (translation is a bit quirky): Lone Nepali Gorkha who subdued 40 train robbers MANOJ ADHIKARI/SANTOSH POKHAREL POKHARA, Jan 13...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 3:03 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Military

Thanks AFN!

AFN Europe has done a very nice story on Operation Fight Post Holiday Blues! Go check out the video here.

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 2:49 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Caring For The Defenders

Book Review- This time we win by Jim Robbins

Jim Robbins writes for the Washington Times and other pubs and he's also the guy who let's me come and play with his Masters in Terrorism course as a guest evaluator. It is fun to see how creative and how much more intelligent than our real enemies...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 2:24 AM by BLACKFIVE

An app for killing Taliban

Of course I support this, but I just have to note that this seems far less capable than UJ(p)'s Hellfire app. “An iPhone app that tracks down the Taliban has been developed by a US soldier who put his own money into the project. Captain Jonathan J...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 2:01 AM by BLACKFIVE

Counter pirates like we counter terrorists

By stacking them like cordwood, or returning them to their component molecules. Some Navy guy talkin' smack I can definitely get on board with. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. and its allies should put more pressure on Somali pirates on shore, before...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 1:31 AM by BLACKFIVE

Dugway Lockdown Lifted?

Interesting. Dugway Proving Grounds went on lockdown last night for a "serious concern" and and has apparently just lifted the lockdown about an hour ago. Dugway serves a number of functions, including being the site of testing related to chemical...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 8:09 PM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: Current Affairs

A Birthday Message From PinkFive

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 6:23 AM by BLACKFIVE

Filed under: About Blackfive

Reality TV check

Well this is just too rich to even start to rip on, so just here it be. Guys, I'm probably going to be on a reality TV show and they've asked me to help with casting. *pauses while his friends laugh, takes deep breath* I need a rigger and a fuel...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 3:37 AM by BLACKFIVE

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