Author: Dave

The Army is effectively shutting down Army blogs. This is stupid. Sgt Mom says something like: “What did you expect? It is all about Power and Control.” (see how easy it is to get a link from me? LOL) We need more information from the Army, not less. So what do they do? Put a…

Nice video by Jihad Watch about the positions of various candidates on the war. About 4 minutes. H/T Reliapundit Which got me looking around Youtube for other videos by Jihad Watch. Like this one on Obama. Who according to Jihad Watch should speak out on Muslim religious intolerance.

I keep wondering why the Democrat Party in America doesn’t support the democrats in Iraq? Perhaps they have something against democracy. Me? I’m an Animated Supporter of Democracy In Iraq. Cross Posted at Power and Control and at The Astute Bloggers

Clauzwitz says that the moral factor in war is the predominate factor. Fighting and sustaining the fighting has a moral calculus. The answer an individual gets will depend on the weight given to each component in the analysis. The weights are moral weights. Eric was taking a look at this and my relentless pursuit of…

Armed Liberal at Winds of Change is all hot and bothered about Rick Moran’s (they spelled his name wrong) suggestion that it was time to surrender to the Democrats and pull out of Iraq on the Democrat’s time table. The Answer Man has an answer for Armed Liberal: Might I suggest joining: I Support Democracy…

I just learned somethin new today about pain. What I learned is that Arthritis pain is processed in the brain’s ‘fear center’. Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered that arthritis pain, unlike that induced as part of an experiment, is processed in the parts of the brain concerned with emotions and fear. So…

My mother is Jewish. As I am. She grew up in the 20s and 30s. She knew about Roosevelt’s abandoning the Jews. She is a staunch believer in “never again”. And yet when I say that we can’t abandon the Iraqi people to the head choppers all I get back is “I hate George Bush”…

This was the first submission in our contest for a better logo: I Support Democracy In Iraq – Contest which also contains a link to some submission guidelines written by one of the judges. First prize in the contest is from Coyote Organics. Thanks to bo ure who created it. Cross Posted at The Astute…

Joe Lieberman has given an outstanding speech on the Iraq War funding bills now passing through the Senate. The video is about 3 3/4 minutes long and you can view it at Classical Values or at The Astute Bloggers. I highly reccommend it if you can spare the bandwidth. Joe asks why Oct. 1, 2007…

Joe Lieberman cuts the Democrats down to size in this 3 3/4 minute video. Very much worth a look if you haven’t seen it already. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers H/T Kurt at Flopping Aces

That is a truly novel approach to politics. Except when it comes to Obama’s friend Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Tony is a high powered developer of slum property with friends in City Hall. Well you know how it is in Chicago politics. Sometimes silence is better than an insurance policy. A life insurance policy. Which only…

New evidence continues to surface in the Haditha case that shows the Marines didn’t do it. Convincing evidence that corroborates NewsMax.com‘s accounts of the Haditha insurgent ambush has compelled the prosecution to take extraordinary steps to bolster their crumbling case. The stunning announcement that all charges are being dropped against Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz,…

Coyote Organics is offering a prize for the design of the logo for the I Support Democracy In Iraq campaign. A. Jacksonian of Dumb Looks Still Free thinks it should include a purple finger. So far the owner of Coyote Organics and I will judge the contest (I may add one or two other judges…

If any artist can turn this into a better graphic, I would be very grateful. As would the Iraqi democrats. Contact me at Power and Control, my e-mail is on the sidebar. For those who wish to join the campaign leave me a comment at I Support Democracy In Iraq. I’ll add you to my…

Tom Ligon reports that the report I posted about the Bussard Fusion work being funded was incorrect. The contract has merely been continued for a year without funding. Time to contact your Government to see if we can’t get this ball rolling. House of Representatives The Senate The President Cross Posted at Power and Control…

SFC SKI commented on my post The Objective – Iraq. The SFC makes some good points about the security situation in Iraq. To which I responded: Thanks so much for the comment!! You say: You really can’t split Iraq’s security problems along internal and external, they are intertwined to a tremendous extent. Agreed. However, what…

Justin has a post up on the current climate apocalypse scare with references to green skies in our future. Here is a band that put those ideas to music. Threw in some interpersonal relations and came up with with a very nice tune with a good beat. The thing is, I remember driving to Chicago…

Justin has a new “we are doomed” article up on global warming. I thought a little data on the subject might be in order. There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. For example, during the Jurassic Period (200 mya), average CO2 concentrations were about 1800 ppm or about 4.7…

This is the next piece in my look at our war strategy in Iraq. What is our objective in Iraq? It looks like we have a lot of them. The establishment of an Iraqi liberal democracy. Fighting a guerilla war. Establishing a viable Iraqi economy that is not based on oil socialism. Building/rebuilding infrastructure. Increasing…

Did you know that your soap can test positive for contraband by some field drug test kits? Don Bolles, drummer for the legendary punk band the Germs, was going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with his girlfriend, 21-year-old Cat Scandal, after picking her up for “a day off” from drug rehab, on April 4, when…