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Four years ago, I wrote a letter. It was meant to badger someone into doing something I thought was important. They refused, but I don’t apologize for it, even though I completely understand that person’s decision — and ironically, have made exactly the same one. Hypocritical? I don’ t […]

Crossposted from my comment over at blogHOUSTON:
I’m furious with CBS news again. How this network is still in business after trying to throw a national election is something I can’t explain.
What’s got me glaring at CBS news this time is last week’s coverage of the “5th anniversery” of the Iraq war. […]

I’ve been ignoring the whole Iran-Britain mess, simply because it nauseates me to see the leader of the former “empire on which the sun never set” run crying to mommy-on-Turtle-Bay. Steven noted that the EU prez has “come to the rescue,” and excerpted this quote
EU Foreign policy Chief Javier Solana has now stepped […]

Airplane hits building in Manhattan, everyone thinks “here we go again.” Fighter aircraft scrambled over several cities. Probably not Houston; ours have to come from upstate now.
Fortunately, it appears to be just semi-random stupidity; a small plane, not a major hijacking. That doesn’t mean it’s NOT terrorism, but it’s not large […]

I was going to make a snarky comment about what Pasadena’s city leaders might think of Houston planting these signs along Spencer, but when I went to look up info on the event, I realized that despite the name and location, this is not a celebration put on by the City of Houston. I […]

So I was chilling over at the Megatokyo forums, when I noticed an odd looking .sig file. Usually, they’re quite colorful and have fantasy or anime themes. Sometimes they have bad-ass guys, sometimes they have semi-naked women. Heck, if you know what I mean when I say sig file, you’ve probably seen […]

Yesterday’s comment by SDB about his difficulty in writing about proportional response by Israel resulted in my writing a brief grumble to him and rambling about my change in focus on Houblog. Two and a half years ago, when I started it, one of my major subjects was supposed to be the War on […]

Was this a massive failure of common sense or a bureacratic snafu over who was in charge? My money is on both. In a news story carried by the Chronicle today, we learn that the TSA let a man with bomb components and modified shoes board a flight at Hobby — because an […]

It’s just common fucking damn sense that you don’t go blabbing about secure programs, but these jackasses would have published the details of every convoy leaving New York in WWII. They just do not get it. They belong in jail. I mean, I called them “AlQueda’s Intelligence Bureau” a few days ago but it was meant to be satire, not reality.

Looks like he did get to suffer a bit. Still not nearly enough.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of massive internal injuries consistent with those caused by a bomb blast, the U.S. military said today.
That’s the entire […]

Apparently Zarqawi has been bagged and tagged. One more score for the good guys!
Over/under on how long until someone on the left claims we nailed him six months ago but kept the story on ice until we needed it (to derail the Haditha news): 5 minutes.
Edit: Is it just me, or […]

In the history of yellow journalism, little worse has been done to the fine military of the United States than this smear of the Marines. Tips of the hat to Michelle Malkin and The Absurd Report.
The weasaling done by the Times since then has been entirely disingenous and unbelieveable. I’m furious at these […]

Just in case you thought the War on Terror was over, here’s more news that it isn’t.
From the Toronto Star, courtesy of PJM:
“The group arrested yesterday allegedly had a list of targets, sources have told the Star, and the Toronto headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was one of them.So were the Parliament Buildings […]

I haven’t had anything to say about the latest mil-faker to be stupid in his smears against those who serve proudly (and get his ass fact-checked), because there are far more competent (and connected) people to write about that. But I just had to bring up this release from an Army spokesperson. You […]

Poolside with the U.S. Army.
We should send Moussaoui pictures like that on the anniversery of his conviction, every year.