Airborne Combat Engineer

RIP, Terri. What good can come of this?

Assuming there's a better place, she's there now.

You are invited to offer positives that can come of this media circus.  The positives are what she gives to the world. All the negative thoughts have no doubt been expressed many times elsewhere.  If you want to argue for either side, please do that elsewhere.

I've already offered what I consider the most important learning: All adults (regardless of age) need to have a living will and an enduring power of attorney registered with the on-line site, with a sticker on our drivers' license. Pls. respond and say you've already done that.

A-C-E HITCHING POST FOR THU 31MAR05

ACE is just back from a special field assignment, but doesn't have time to post until this evening or Friday AM.

In the meantime, you are invited to read the last 10 comments and/or posts (linked in the right sidebar) or to visited the many great blogs or reference sources linked in the left sidebar.

Thanks for visiting, linking, and commenting constructively.

ACE on field assignment until Wednesday evening

ACE will be on field assignment for the next 24 hours, beginning 2020 Zulu, and will not be able to post.

In the interim, please check for new comments in the right sidebar (feel free to talk among yourselves, regulars), trackbacks and comments to this and this morning's HITCHING post, and the many great blogs and resources linked in the left sidebar.

Look for new A-C-E posts Wednesday evening or Th AM at the latest.

CRAM to defend against mortar attacks

The Army has developed a sytem (similar to the Navy's Phalanx system used to defend ships) to defend against incoming mortar attacks, which have been costly in Iraq.

This post will be expanded later. If you have some good links to info, pls. post them.

Democracy "flu" spreads to Bahrain

The Publius Pundit notes demonstrations for democratic reforms in Bahrain.

See lots of photos here.

Remember when we used to worry about communism spreading like this?

Minutemen ride again - on the border

The Minuteman Project is addressing the problem of a virtually uncontrolled migration across our southern border.

Defense Tech is concerned that this will complicates thing.

Probably so, but if the government abdicates its responsiblity, somebody has to step up and get the job done.

Right-wing blogs funded by White House

Wouldn't that be nice.

Then I wouldn't have to figuratively shake the few bucks (always appreciated, mind you) out of the tip jar in the right sidebar to offset the cost of maintaining A-C-E.

Patrick Schaeffer "really suspect[s] the Bushies of messing around with the blogosphere."

The left doesn't require any research or evidence to get the ball rolling on such accusations. Just throw it out there, like an Italian cook throws spaghetti on the wall, and see if it sticks. Who knows, maybe some documents "proving" it will suddenly show up.

But, he's not talking about a little blog like A-C-E which gets about 1K hits/day (of late - readership is down in proportion to effort expended -- which takes uncompensated time).  He's talking about "those with large readership or those better known to regular media as on-line trendsetters."  [Those like Powerline which caught the SeeBS fraud or those like Kerry Haters who made Kerry look silly during the campaign.]

A-C-E takes credit only for the [fair and balanced] John Kerry's Medals post, which pops in the top three in Google and was questioning Kerry's war record before the Swifies got started. W owes me BIGTIME for that, even if it is just a statement of what is known. (If JfK would sign his Form 180 -- it's been 58 days since he said he would -- see counter at bottom of right sidebar -- we'd know for sure.)

NOTE TO WHITE HOUSE: If you'd like to secretly fund A-C-E (including paying minimum wage for all the hours I spend researching topics) just leave a comment telling me whom to call.

Marines conducting final Osprey tests

CNN reports:

The U.S. Marine Corps said final tests began Monday (in  NC) on the military's Osprey aircraft, a helicopter-airplane hybrid that has been plagued by deadly crashes and design problems.

IMO, this is an inherently unstable aircraft design, and we'll be reading about Osprey crashes and Marine deaths from time to time until it is eventually phased out. We might even hear about a crash during this final test phase. But, what do I know? Time will tell.

If barking moonbats designed aircraft, they would look like this except they'd have millions of butterflies strapped to the blades instead of engines. From a weight distribution standpoint, that might be better. ;-)

Why white racists should vote Democratic

Check the 5 main reasons on this PW poster.

And, add to that the STUPID foreign policy votes (which would not have passed had not the majority of the Repubs voted for them) which Cynthia McKinney talks about in these video clips from PW linked at LGF (browse through the comments there if you have time.

Denny, The Grouchy Old Cripple has formally asked an AJC editor if the left wing fishwrap still endorses CM after these outrageous moonbat comments. Revisit his blog later to see if and how she replies.

Look up "barking moonbat" in almost any on-line dictionary and you'll see this photo as the best example:

Optional ACE ramblin' comments in the continuation.

A-C-E HITCHING POST FOR 25MAR05

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