Spook 86’s blog has a post that illustrates differences perceived between TX and LA in the handling of the 2 hurricanes.
It makes for reading that is both humorous and scornful.
I’m a Texan, been here since I was 2. Before then, I was a coon from Nawlins. It makes me proud to see how […]
Disclosure mode on: I am a Russophile, and have a degree in Russian
Disclosure mode off.
You are probably thinking I’m insane or a fool, and I do not rule either out.
BUT -
I hold that Russia, warts and all, is our best, most natural ally in the GWOT.
Why?
She is, as always, worried about external and […]
That is all. Carry on.
Well, hell….
Looters have begun to loot, and Rita isn’t even ashore.
Uh Oh, though - some people are still around, armed, and the HPD seems to have more cajones than the NOPD did…
Looters make note (as if any of you even know what the internet is) - people in Houston will shoot you, and the shooters […]
OK, right now, I am (edited) peeved to be in Dallas, as opposed to near the coast.
Probably nary a drop of rain - jusr friggin useless wind.
WE NEEDED THE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this on Military.com. It’s a very touching story, and familiar.
I’ll leave any description at that.
A Marine’s Last Words
Herald Net | September 19, 2005
SNOHOMISH - Marine Cpl. Jeffrey Starr’s last letter arrived home more than two months after his flag-draped casket.
It came unexpectedly, weeks after his parents had placed his dusty, […]
In the current Proceedings, fmr. Marine Philip Gold, a PhD in History, writes about what he sees the US’ role will be, post-Iraq.
(link to article here - registration req’d.)
Dr. Gold’s article ought to be required reading in this day and age. He, admittedly, fancies this to be a similar article to that penned post […]
Andrew Roberts of the New Criterion writes of how the Royal Navy is at it’s smallest stature since being founded by Henry VIII.
New Labor has defanged this one powerful nation.
Nothing highlighted this so forcibly as the International Naval Review on June 28, when the Queen reviewed 167 ships anchored off Portsmouth. When her grandfather, King […]
Via Lt. Smash, a message from the CNO, Admiral Michael G. Mullen:
Admirals,
I made a day trip to the Gulf Coast this weekend to visit with and thank our Sailors for the extraordinary work they are doing in the recovery and relief effort. I spent time in at the Seabee base in Gulfport, NSA New Orleans […]
This article in the New York Times touches on the reason the US military (not counting the National Guard) was not in the streets on New Orleans early on in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in […]
Contact info from Greyhawk:
http://www.dod.mil/home/features/2005/katrina/index.html - contact info for military families displaced by Katrina (also a great collection of news releases on the military efforts in hurricane relief)
http://www.guardfamily.org/ - info for Guard families impacted by the storm.
http://www.gxonline.com/gxintelnews?id=24147 - info for getting deployed Guard members in touch with their families who might be displaced by the storm […]