Archive for: December 2007

Someone agrees with me over here.

What seems to me to be about a year ago, in a thread on the main page that I can’t find I bet my internet anonymity (such as it is) on a McCain nomination. …

They’re all insane.

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There, see, I told you it was simple. No math at all, let alone matrix rotations in 284 dimensions. You may now return to your regularly scheduled perversions.

Well, all right…

What does “insane” mean?

Every human personality …

It’s rare to see such unalloyed and gleeful leftist malevolence in an MSM publication. Hate and intolerance being a trait of ‘the other’ and those on the left being, oh so nuanced and sophisticated try not to show it so …

And I am having trouble sleeping with the noise from all the heads exploding.

I have been searching this picture for some signs of Cindy! or Code Pink  or any of our other little friends and I can’t seem to find them.

It’s that time of year..again! All is calm, all is bright. Christmas Eve, it’s time to (gasp) shop.

So, I get up early this morning; compose a blog post full of heavily-edited pictures from last night’s Titans-Jets game (the final home …

This seems like it should have been bigger news.

Indeed.  I sent him some money… after my contribution to JG, of course.

PILLAR I: POLITICAL AFFAIRS
NATO- CJTF-82 - US/Coalition Forces

US Military Orders Review of Coalition Strategy in Afghanistan
  Source: VOA, NYT 17 December 2007 — The U.S. military is making an assessment of coalition strategy in Afghanistan in an effort to ensure that a recent increase in violence does not threaten long-term progress. The assessment is being handled by Admiral William Fallon, commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military activity in the Middle East and East Africa, as well as Afghanistan. The New York Times reports that Admiral Fallon’s assessment is one of three that will feed into a broader Afghanistan policy review early next year. The Times says the others are being done by the State Department and the NATO alliance. On 14 December, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates got approval for the development of a long term plan for achieving stability in the country during a meeting of key NATO members with troops in Afghanistan. The administration is now committed to finding an international coordinator, described as a “super envoy,” to synchronize the full range of efforts in Afghanistan.
(Compare/contrast with Afghan Mission Is Reviewed as Concerns Rise - NYT )

Afghan border attacks drop 40 pct.
  Source: ABC News 16 December 2007, BAGRAM, Afghanistan –Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel stated on 16 December that attacks along the Afghan-Pakistan border have dropped more than 40 percent since July and the U.S. and its allies are making progress in the fight against the Taliban. He said the decrease in insurgent activity along the border could be attributed to the onset of winter, a rise in insurgent attacks in Pakistan and an increase in communication and coordination among NATO, Afghan and Pakistani forces.

Troops Purge Taliban Fighters From Afghan District
  Source: Blackanthem Military News 14 December 2007, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Afghan and coalition troops conducted follow-up operations on 13 Dember in a district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, after week-long clashes with Taliban fighters largely cleared the area of insurgents. Soldiers from the Afghan National Army’s 205th Corps and coalition forces discovered two insurgent safe houses yon 13 December in Musa Qalah, in Helmand province, military officials said. Inside the hideouts, Afghan national security forces found materials for making improvised explosive devices, suicide vests, and clothes belonging to senior-ranking insurgent leaders. Troops also discovered two insurgent sniper positions within one of the compounds.

OK, this Spears thing has me all confused. 

When I got home last night my 13 year old was still up and the first multi-syllable words to come grunting out of his teen-aged skull were, “Did you hear about Zoey 101?”

I …

Iraq: Security
Multinational Force

Bush not satisfied with progress in Iraq
President Bush said on December 20 that he was not satisfied with the central Iraqi government’s record on reconciling the country’s rival sectarian groups and carrying out reforms, vowing to press for more progress. President Bush conceded Prime Minister Maliki’s government needed to do more work but insisted it is functioning and passing budgets when asked if US troop reinforcements this year had given it enough room to press ahead with reconciliation as well as political and economic reform. (AFP)

US says it frees 100 detainees in Iraq
The U.S. military freed 100 detainees from Camp Cropper, the prison it operates near Baghdad airport, as a gesture of reconciliation during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. The release took place on December 19 after a joint U.S.-Iraq review board addressed their cases. The U.S. military frees detainees only after they are deemed to no longer be a threat to the security of Iraq. (AFP)

US Congress passes Iraq funding
The House of Representatives on December 19 voted for a $555 billion federal budget, with an extra $70 billion for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Faced with a veto threat from President Bush, Democrats dropped efforts to tie the funds to a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. The Senate had already approved the Iraq funds on December 18. The votes end a long-running battle in which Democrats tried unsuccessfully to change President Bush’s war policy. (BBC)