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Katrina: Recovery

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

The day to day mechanics of recovering from Hurricane Katrina are mind boggling. Though, my mind is boggled easily. Still and all, think of all the small businesses on up and what they’ll need to do to get back into business.
It’s business recovery that will drive everything else. The region needs the gas stations, food [...]

Ladies Lunch Out

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

The ladies in the office went out to lunch yesterday. To the House of Poon.
That news made me stammer.

LA Times Fails Reporting Standards

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

UPDATE 1999 scandal: It appears that the LA Times was involved in a tit-for-tat news for money arrangement. Maybe that’s the key, enough money and the scandal vanishes. Or, one could conclude that Old Media are just much higher paid prostitutes.
Salon 11/5/99: Two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Business Journal broke the story (that was [...]

Gunnery Sergeant Ismael Sagredo

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

You’ve met this hero before. The other soldier who helped rescue Lt. Ayres also got a Silver Star. His name is Lance Cpl. Abraham McCarver.
Leatherneck Magazine
If SSgt Sagredo was going to die, he had determined he wasn’t going to die in that house. He was going to die moving toward Alpha Co to the east.
Only [...]

Democrats In Jail

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

Duke Cunningham has pled guilty, and it’s a sure sign, for the moonbats, that all Republicans are corrupt. Well, I’ll see your Republican and raise you two Democrats.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A federal judge Tuesday sentenced former Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker to more than 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay a $150,000 fine and [...]

Rumsfeld Briefs

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

DoD News
Consider the progress of the Iraqi security forces over the past year. In August 2004, five Iraqi army battalions were effectively in the fight. Today the number is 95.
In July 2004, there were no ready operational Iraqi army [...]

Use of Outdated Images

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

Old media uses outdated images to portray conditions at Guantanamo Bay.

Blog Policy

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

I’d like to express the policy of this blog:
You Big Mouth, You! strongly supports the use of violent force to save lives of its workers (er, that’s me), readers, advertisers, or unrelated onlookers should they be kidnapped, held hostage, or caught in the middle of a conflict situation. The use of grossly excessive or gratuitous [...]

Victory For Iraq

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

The phrase is “Victory in Iraq” but the reality is that we win if Iraq wins. A richer, freer, more liberal Iraq means we win, too.
National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
VICTORY IN IRAQ DEFINED
As the central front in the global war on terror, success in Iraq is an essential element in the long war against [...]

Cutting Costs

Chuck Simmins | November 30, 2005

Army Transformation

Headlines for Tonight

Chuck Simmins | November 29, 2005

Here are some headlines you might not have seen tonight:
HIV Is Spreading Via India’s Highways… I did not realize that’s how you got it. Takes safe driving to a whole new level
Groups Protest Cannibalism in Video Games… I’m against cannibalism in general. How about you?
Drunken Moose Terrorizes Sweden Hey, Rockey! Watch me pull the [...]

500 K in sight

Chuck Simmins | November 29, 2005

As of right now, I’m at 499,606 visitors since I began this blog. The hits from the Corner link today will put me over the top. Nice to know that a conservative will be my 500,000 visit.

Loony Libs Lose Location

Chuck Simmins | November 29, 2005

Ok, the post won’t match the title exactly. Anyhoo… via James Taranto’s Best of the Web:
MoveOn uses a series of photos at their site to push their agenda and raise money for a new anti-Iraq ad. One of them shows a group of soldiers in a chow line. The caption is “a hundred and fifty [...]