Archive for January, 2012
No Murtha Ship
I mentioned the other day that Ponsdorf called me to tell me that he couldn’t tell me something. Well, this is it, from our friend, Captain Larry Bailey; Folks, this is the official launch of our effort to convince the Secretary of the Navy that LPD-26, the ship that is to be launched next year, […]
Odds and Ends
Got a few things, none of which actually warrants it’s own post. However: 1) For some inexplicable reason, the Army wants to award me a GCM 6 years after I got out. There is no way I can accept it, right? Although technically I suppose my conduct might be construed as “good” it takes a […]
Broadwell vs. Stewart in a push up match for charity
Our buddy, Jeff Schogol at the Air Force Times, sent us this link to an article by Joe Gould at the Army Time’s Outside the Wire, with a link to the video of The Daily Show segment of a pushup contest between Jon Stewart and Paula Broadwell, General Petraeus’ biographer. The bet was for a […]
Phony in Las Vegas
Sporkmaster sent me this on Facebook from the Army WTF Facebook page, where someone snapped this in a casino in Las Vegas; First of all, get your hands out of your pockets, Big Sarge. And when you have to put your CIB on crooked just so it’ll fit on your uniform, you’re doin’ it wrong. […]
Vet charity closes because of phony
49-year-old Lehn Joseph Bundrick abandon his charity, The Long Road Home in Oregon when his phony record came to light. Sounds like something that happened in Colorado a few year back with Rick Duncan/Strandlof, doesn’t it? Local TV News reports; The charity helps veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. This summer Bundrick led a […]
US plunges in “Press Freedom Index”
I guess you probably won’t read this in too many places, which is why I’m writing about it. In George Bush’s last year, 2008, Reporters Without Borders ranked the US in 36th place in terms of the freedom of our media in relation to the other nations. Somehow, RWB credited the fact that we were […]
Having Some MORE Fun at John Kerry’s Expense
Many, or most, here won’t care, and it didn’t rise too high on my radar until Rurik sent Russ Vaughn’s link along. First The Photo I Google Fu-ed: A Fifth Purple Heart? Vietnam Vets Can Only Hope that it was one of them, seeking long-overdue justice for […]
Solz doubles down on teh Stupid
Jon Soltz, the executive director of VetVotes, freshly bathed from his tour of the war against terror, continues on from his blunt point last week about Mitt Romney’s tax returns. Apparently, last week, the meme from the White House was to beat up Romney about not releasing his returns, now his returns weren’t enough for […]
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