The music industry has shown some backbone in a non-partisan swell of support for our armed forces.

Billy Joel's new song (sung by Cass Dillon) "Christmas in Fallujah" will be on iTunes on the 4th.

Another group with many headliners including Mr. Joel - have donated some of their biggest hits to a cd that is being distributed free to any US Servicemember - "For The Troops"

Thanks for restoring *some* faith in the American entertainment industry!

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Because surely the world is too complicated a place to understand that a frackin' TIGER is a frackin' WILD ANIMAL and should be treated as though it may EAT YOU at any second. So where are all of the left-nuts decrying zoos and tigers and guns ?? (a cop shot the tiger with a gun!) - TRUST me - someone will call foul on SOMETHING here...and not just accept the fact that a wild animal ate people who were too slow to get out of the way...natural selection at work. Ask Siegfried where Roy is Of course those two nancy bois are in a river in Egypt about the whole thing - saying that actually the tiger was HELPING Roy as he had a stoke...so when I go to have a stroke, could someone just hit me with a car and drag me, trapped between the bumper and the road, to the hospital?

Thanks.

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A lonely Christmas for a lot of families…we owe them eternal thanks for buying our liberty with blood.>>

~Lost soldiers of 2007~
Jan-83>>

Feb-81 >>

March-81 >>

April-104
May-126 >>

June-101 >>

July-78 >>

Aug-84
Sept-65 >>

Oct-38 >>

Nov-37 >>

Dec-16

Each name below the fold...

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Luna  - she is damn near full, with a halo...Mars the brightest he has been in 4ever...the kiddos strung out on holiday candy and presents, now sleeping like the angels that they are…I am half drunk with expensive rum, wrapped up in a blanket embroidered with a penguin and, on the iPod, my favorite Christmas song… not entirely apropos, except in a good, sad, Christmas way…

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Merry Yule, Chanukah, Christmas, Quanza, Solstice and any others I might have missed. – I *think* I got all of the shopping done – the kiddos and the immediate fam are taken care of  - BTW – damn those Israeli hotties hawking their wares in the mall. My mom got a REALLY cool gift because I was, yet again, a sucker for a beautiful girl  I swear that accent and those eyes…where do I sign up for the IDF!?!?! (oh yeah – I am not Jewish…damn it all) Ya gotta love a free market!

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 Hat tip : 7.62mm Justice

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From a Patriot....

Thanks Fred Thompson....

You guys read up on Fred...and VOTE!!

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From Gina Elise !

And check out this VIDEO - DAMN - someone tell me WHY I don't have her calender yet?!?!?

Hat tip: Jawa

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Of course JUBA is mostly an enemy propaganda tool....but I love it when these guys get PWNED...even if they do it to themselves - some GREAT vid over @ JUBA SUCKS that had me doubled over with laughter - especially the one with the mortar guy - so you really must check that one out...SO FUNNY!

Have fun - Stay Frosty!

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I am torn over this….I need to research it more….as I have a strange and creeping feeling that this cat may not represent ALL of the Lakota Nation…Russell Means may not be an “official” representative of the Lakota Nation, and I cannot find proof that he is…although he did run with his running mate Larry Flynt (of “Hustler” porn magazine fame) against Reagan and Bush for the Republican nomination back in the 80s…Now here are the points of why I am torn…

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1)      TheUnited States has been guilty of abusing the various Native nations – before and after treaties were signed.

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2)      The Lakota nation (like many other Native nations) should enjoy some autonomy and self determination (as they do)

3)      Allowing the Lakota nation to secede from the union would set a VERY dangerous precedence.

4)      On the other hand – would we not, as a benevolent republic be honor bound to let the Lakota (and any others) secede if we could not resolve their treaty bound grievances?

5)      Are we not honor bound to address those grievances regardless of the desire to secede?

6)      The real issue, I think – lies in the exact status (legally) of the various nations as SOVEREIGN nations.  

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Many questions…the answers will bring on many more…

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For all you peeps out there - I am gonna be sporadic at best during the holidays...so much to do - so little time...but I might have some very special somethings to say occasionally...off to the mall I go...nootch

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DO NOT go out drinking on a Saturday when you have to stand in formation for an hour at parade rest on the following Sunday. Ouch. That hurt. Sleep when you die. Oh, I almost forgot... Note to half witted redneck idiots at the bar - DO NOT believe that because you are in a country bar that you have the right to drop the N bomb on an American Soldier that is about to deploy to Iraq without incurring the wrath of ALL of his battle buddies and thus risk grievous bodily harm. I am just saying. Is. All. more...

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In Omaha. It was an SKS (aka Simonov or type 56 Chinese). BY DEFINITION NOT AN ASSAULT RIFLE, albiet with some modifications can be "converted" to fit the BATFE definition of an assualt rifle.  I wish the leftists at the AP would stop calling EVERYTHING and assult rifle.

"Witnesses said the gunman sprayed fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur store using what police said was an SKS assault rifle they found at the scene."

full story here

(did the Police really call the SKS an "assault rifle" or just an SKS?)

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Below the fold... more...

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In Bosnia and Kosovo....maybe the Serbs weren't the *real* bad guys....in context of today....should we be regretting the order by the Clintonistas to go into the Balkins the way we did....sort of like we regretted not following Patton's advice near the end of WWII....

A photo essay of how wrong we were....here.

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"Quoth the Raven" is now putting the smackdown on those jihad-porn videos on YouTube and trying to actually help the Allies win the war...I only wish everyone in the blogosphere had this sort of initiative! So support the SMACK DOWN! click the pick below...

hat tip : JAWA

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Just got back from the morning run...we ran inside @ the gym today as a treat to the Soldiers...and the temperature difference made me sweat like a pig So here I am drinking a "Zipfizz" and water - Zipfizz....that shit is NASTY....of course it tasted MUCH better when I was drinking it from a cup - especially prepared for me by the SUPER fit young hottie that was hawking the stuff in Sam's Club. And yes - I bought a case of the stuff in lieu of my standard Gatoraid Rain. Damn it all for proper marketing, product placement and hot sales women. Such a sucker.

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He shall remain unnamed -

oh...before I forget - this story is a bit funny...and a bit gross....so for the faint of heart I will continue below the fold...

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something in the air this AM...not specific...just one of those things...will post some clarity this PM...

Be like the nature of water -

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This week was an exercise in Senior NCO diplomacy, typical army bureaucracy and extreme restraint as I battled incompetence in some of my “peers”,  raged against the bureaucratic machine that is echelons above company level and kept from putting a 1SG fatwa out on some Soldiers (junior NCOs at that) that have forgotten what it is to be a Soldier. That all having been said…the vast majority of the troops are stellar and I am very pleased with the unit so far.

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But the weekend brought legendary good times and a pretty decent hangover -

A quick shout out to those that have made this weekend stellar  - Deb and Justin, thanks for dinner, it was good to see you both! The regulars at the “James Joyce Pub”, thanks for the Irish Car Bombs, the rum and coke and the hang over! The ladies at the pub, the club and the bar - J thanks for the dancing and laughs! To my wingman – you know who you are – Raise what’s left of the flag for me!

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If you readers ever get to ATL and are in need of a great Pub – check out the James Joyce in Avondale Estates, in the Decatur area– damn fine joint…

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