Silflay Hraka

There has been a lot of argument about judicial nominations lately. I?m going to cut against type here for a few entries, over a few days, and try to talk about the situation in a serious manner.

This may bore you to freaking tears, and I’m cool with that. If you feel you will be bored, please scroll up, or scroll down. Everybody here is more fun to read than I am, when I get all serious. But if you want to get a pretty good ground-up (and biased) viewpoint on the judicial struggle, then read on.

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Picture released by the U.S. Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a U.S. Army
soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul, 360
km (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 2, 2005.

Hush-a-bye, don’t you cry
Go to sleep, little baby.
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses.
Blacks and bays, dapples and grays,
Coach and six-a-little horses.
Hush-a-bye, don’t you cry,
Go to sleep, little baby.

Presenting a corollary to the “Babe Theory of Political Movements”, which conjectures that the more pretty girls a political movement possesses, the more likely it is to succeed.

The Fugly Theory of Fascism

The more fascistic/totalitarian a movement is, the higher percentage of butt-ugly and/or pure-t stupid men it will attract, as the only way they will ever get laid is via the exercise of force.

Case in point, Al Qaeda, where many of the members really, really need there to be 75 virgins waiting for them in the afterlife.

From Left to Right;
Richard “Sasquatch” Reid
Ramzi “My Other Brother Darryl” Binalshibh
Khalid Shaikh “Morning Breath” Mohammed
Abu “Tears Of A Clown” Farraj al-Libbi

Additional examples welcome.

In a victory for my personal parenting philosophy, it seems that daycare and lots of television turn out to be just fine for children, as long as they have lots of books and the wife and I put ourselves through the drudgery of PTA meetings.

The U.S. Department of Education recently undertook a monumental project called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which tracks the progress of more than 20,000 American schoolchildren from kindergarten through the fifth grade. Aside from gathering each child’s test scores and the standard demographic information, the ECLS also asks the children’s parents a wide range of questions about the families’ habits and activities. The result is an extraordinarily rich set of data that, when given a rigorous economic analysis, tells some compelling stories about parenting technique.

?Doesn’t: The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten.

Finally I can feel good–or at least not guilty–about my use of Spongebob* as a babysitter.

* “Gooba gooba,” according to Scotty M.

A link that I promised to put up early this morning for the Sainted Wife, the egyptologist of the family; Magnificent mummy found in Egypt

“Mummy Clearest” slide show here.

And a link that I didn’t mention, but an enjoyable one–in a horrible, freak-out-anyone-with-a-scintilla-of-taste kind of way–nonetheless. Especially this one. (via althouse)

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June 22nd - This Blog Is Full Of Crap
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I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade

The latest from LTC Bob.

I got up and ran this morning at 0545 ? then CPT McNamara decided to smoke me just to prove how old and lame I am. But we ran about 3 miles, good run.

0730 - Battle Update Briefing (BUB)* in the Multinational Corps ? Iraq (MNC-I) Joint Operations Center (JOC).

This is the “war room” where all the guys sit in front of their computers and telephones and try to get some kind of picture of what is going on across Iraq. Our guys sit near the front, on both sides of the aisle. We have 4 desks. At 0730, GEN Casey (4 star), the MNF-I (Multinational National Force- Iraq) commander gets an update from his Force staff and the Corps staff gives his an operations update. All the ?troop units? are assigned to the Corps, and work for LTG Vines (3 star) who is normally the 18th Airborne Corps Commander at Ft Bragg. The briefings are done via VTC ? usually GEN Casey is here at his JOC in the Palace, but some days he is down in the IZ.

0800 ? immediately after the Force BUB ? meeting with Effects Chief**, BG Vangel in the War Room. Fortunately that one only lasted half an hour.

0830 ? check emails, talk to staff at Boathouse** ? (where the C7 is)

1000 ? Battle Space Management Board meeting ? group that coordinates basing for US forces. One hour.

1130 ? brief Chief of Staff on Military Construction budget ? 15 minutes

1330 ? C7 Staff Update ? internal staff meeting for the Engineers ? we do it twice a week. Yours truly in charge, only because both the boss and the other guy who outranks me are gone.

1500 ? go look at birds with CPT Trujillo

1700 ? CG Update meeting (run by CoS, since CG was busy)

1730 ? MNC-I BUB ? the battle update to MNC-I CG

That?s it. In between that stuff, I talk to CPTs, check PowerPoint slides, sign papers, do emails.

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*LTCB acronymizes Battle Update Briefing as “BUA,” rather than “BUB.” I am unsure as to whether it’s a typo or a more current usage, but I’ve exercised my editorial control and changed it to the more layman–me being the layman–friendly “BUB.”

**No idea. Ungoogleable. I am a failure as a man.