Tuesday Tid-Bits
It looks as though the Marines in Berkeley recently received some well deserved support:
On March 22, 2008, a coalition of patriotic and veterans’ groups held a large rally in front of Berkeley’s “U.S. Marine Corps Officer Selection Office” (better known as the Marines recruiting office) in support of American troops and their missions.
This rally — with at least 400 participants at any one time and probably well over 500 grand total — was much larger than any of the previous anti-troop protests at the office organized by Code Pink or World Can’t Wait, which usually range from less than ten people to perhaps 50 at most on a few rare occasions.
Great pictures at the link!
From Michael Yon:
Desert Battles are unfolding in hidden and faraway places. Bullets snapp through air, then splap through flesh and men fall. Bodies crumple onto the desert, a fly lands on the lip of an open mouth, fingers twitch as the flesh dies and the winds kick up and dust settles on unblinking eyes. The dry earth drinks their sticky blood and they are forgotten. Their families do not know they are dead. They came to kill Americans and innocent Iraqis. Instead, they were killed themselves. In a desert landscape, sometimes the color of a war can bleed out into black and white.
Four pages laden with excellent photograhs make “Color of War” another of Michael’s must reads.
Color me shocked. Governor Rendell praises Fox News:
The surprises just keep coming in this campaign season!
Rich Galen has penned a piece which warms the heart:
September 6, 1995 I flew to Austin, Texas to watch a baseball game on TV with The Lad who was then an undergrad at the University of Texas. The occasion was Cal Ripken’s 2,131st consecutive Major League baseball game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s record.
Baseball has been a bond between us.
When the Lad played Little League I rarely missed a game. In McLean, Virginia it was not at all noteworthy to see national leaders - Administration and Congressional, Democrat and Republican - working in the snack bar or helping prepare one of the fields.
It was not unusual to be watching a game, leaning on the centerfield fence with the head of the President’s Domestic Policy Council on one side and a US Senator on the other, discussing the most important issue of the day: Shouldn’t the shortstop (who was about 11-years-old) be playing a couple of steps toward second base with a left-handed batter up?
Ah, how wonderful, those things we call memories.
Written by Sue
Guss Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 4:33 amVisit Guss
I know that this must be shocking but I agree with the Gov. 100%.
Sue Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 8:10 amVisit Sue
Hi Guss:
Now I know it must be true!!!
Hope all is well with you.
~J~ Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 11:35 amVisit ~J~
Wow! Rendell’s statement is indeed rare and refreshing.
I love you, Guss!