I've just discovered (finally) how to make the links work!
Look to your right and you'll see two new PERMANENT features of my blog.
Major Mike is Michael Pacheco, Libertarian extraordinaire of New Hampshire. My Major - in charge of me and all my team. To do him credit, I need to devote an entire post to just him, later. But definitely click the link often and follow his progress as well. He lives here, he selected me for my post, (for which I'm eternally grateful). We work beside each other and go out on at least 50% of our missions together. In most of his pictures, whether I'm in them or not - I was there! These are the things I see. "Mike Greene" is his pen name - by some very odd coiincidence - owing to a name screwup by a booking agent, (or something), some years ago when his band "Groove Alliance" were finding their feet back home in New England.
Mark Steyn is my favorite columnist. The best writing today, as far as I'm concerned. Click it and read his latest, "The No-State Solution", about recent events in the middle east and what they portend.
All the best to all. With any luck, I'll be in Germany next week, the land where beer was born. You can shove Mecca and the Hajj up your ass. I'm on a pilgrimage to Munich.
Provincial Reconstruction in Baghdad.
QUOTES
The British in India, on the practice of satee: "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive,
we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. So build your funeral pyre, and beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.
You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." - Brigadier General Sir Charles Napier
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. . . A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his own personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." ) John Stuart Mill
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, then depart from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Brewer and Patriot, Samuel Adams
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." - President Ronald Reagan
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - Sir Winston Churchill
4 comments:
good luck in baghdad! congrats on your promotion to Sgt. i think my sister-in-law still outranks you eventhough she's in USAF. take care...
Hi Mastin.
I am proud of your attainment of your position, and I read with interest at what happens. Glad to hear you get a reprieve in Germany. How often do you get to go on leave, and for how long?
Best,
Matt Hanley
Hey Mastin. I tried posting here a week or two ago, and it never made it to the site. Oh well. Congratulations on the promotion! I got one the other day too. I will have a beer for you here in the ATL. Look me up when you get back. Be safe.
Dear Mastin:
We hope you enjoyed your R and R in
Germany. We are so proud of you and your commitment to our country
and to your personal convictions.
We love you and look forward to
your safe return home,
Love Dad and Wanda
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