Bookworm on Feb 09 2008 | Filed under: Military, Silly Stuff
It appears that Toledo, Ohio — or, at least, the mayor in Toledo, Ohio — is giving Berkeley a run for its money:
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was suppose to start a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
You can read here a story about the fact that Berkeley is trying to backpedal from its stupid, mean-spirited attack on the Marines, not for any principled reasons, but because some Republican Senators have said that, if Berkeley doesn’t take the Marines, it doesn’t get to enjoy the benefits of US taxpayer money. I can [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Military, San Francisco
A few months ago, San Francisco humiliated itself by refusing to allow the Marines to film part of a TV commercial on San Francisco’s streets. Looking at what the Marines eventually did for the Bay Area portion of their shot, which was to use the Golden Gate Bridge as soon from the Golden Gate [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Saudi Arabia
Dennis Prager likes to say (and I’m paraphrasing here) that liberals and conservatives have entirely incompatible world views. They understand facts in such a different way that there are few points of intersection. I had a reminder of that truism the other day when I watched Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center with a [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Military
It’s the annual Project Valour — IT fund-raiser, which raises money to buy laptops for severely wounded service members. Here’s a little more info about the fund-raiser:
As of October 2007, Valour-IT has distributed over 1500 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country.
Valour-IT accepts donations in any amount to support the [...]
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