Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
I Think That’s Some Sort Of Bomb Iranian Mix
Well, since John Yoo is on vacation this week or something waterboarding herds of unicorns and John Bolton’s Mustache is busy with trying to adapt drone controls for use by facial hair (hard to fly straight and hit the red button at the same time when you’re only a mustache) to bomb Syria, it’s up [...]
February 6, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
127 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, War
PFC Manning to be Court-Martial’ed
In what has to be the least surprising military justice story of, well, ever, the Commanding General of the Military District of Washington has referred all charges against PFC Bradley Manning to trial by General Court-Martial The most serious of these charges is a specification of Aiding the Enemy, which has been referred for a [...]
February 3, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 43 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Open Thread
Our Continuing Moral Decay, and I Blame Scott Beauchamp
Every time I listen to wingnuts talk about family values, I wonder just what kind of fucked up family they come from. We’re used to hearing conservatives talk about the corruption of the American soul, and usually the corruption they are talking about is stuff they just don’t like- women controlling their own bodies, someone [...]
January 13, 2012
· John Cole · 137 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Military
File Under the heading of “The Least Surprising Military Justice Episode In The History Of Mankind”
The Article 32 Investigating Officer for PFC Bradley Manning’s case has recommended that a General Court Martial be convened to try PFC Manning on various charges stemming from accusations that he unlawfully downloaded to a non-secure information system (Army-speak for ‘computer’) and then caused that information to be delivered to one or more persons who [...]
January 12, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 97 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Open Thread
Early Morning Open Thread
One of my good and dear friends is about to be discharged with 100% disability from the Army. At 32 years old, he can’t remember what day it is, and sometimes he can’t remember if he’s back here in the states, or in Germany, or in Afghanistan where he got hurt. Traumatic Brain Injury is [...]
December 23, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 129 Comments
Posted in: Military, Open Thread
Manning Update
The Trial Counsel has rested in PFC Bradley Manning’s Article 32 hearing at Fort Meyer, VA. Today the Defense may begin to rebut the Trial Counsel’s case. This is not a trial, but more like a Grand Jury hearing (with a jury of one), except that the Defense has the right to call witnesses, present [...]
December 21, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 185 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Fucksaw, Military, Other
Manning Update
PFC Bradley Manning’s Article 32, UCMJ hearing is currently ongoing at Fort Meade, MD. Unlike a civilian Grand Jury proceeding, to which the Article 32 process is consistently compared, in an Art. 32 hearing, the Defense gets to put on witnesses, introduce evidence, and to cross-examine Prosecution witnesses. Many military defense attorneys consider the Article [...]
December 19, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 253 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Fucksaw, Military
“The Case of Dakota Meyer”
(Doonesbury via GoComics.com) Nothing I can add, but I wanted to share Amy Davidson’s New Yorker post: ... Meyer became the first living Marine since Vietnam to receive the Medal of Honor. At the White House ceremony, President Obama, with whom Meyer had shared a beer the previous afternoon, talked about how “down to earth” [...]
December 10, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 41 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Military
Manning Update
According to his lawyer’s blog, PFC Bradley Manning’s case will finally get an Article 32 hearing. It is scheduled to start on the 16th of December and run for five days at Fort Meade, MD. The Article 32 hearing for PFC Bradley Manning will begin on December 16, 2011 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The hearing [...]
November 27, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 336 Comments
Posted in: Bradley Manning, Military
Keep Your Enemies Close, Keep Pakistan Closer
Pakistan is pretty pissed off right now as a NATO gunship assault on a border checkpoint near Afghanistan has resulted in at least 26 dead Pakistani soldiers so far. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called an emergency meeting of military services chiefs to formulate his country’s response, his spokesman said. The Defense Committee [...]
November 26, 2011
· Zandar · 145 Comments
Posted in: Military, Security Theatre, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Friday Evening Open Thread
Doesn’t really seem correct to type “Happy Veterans Day”, but my best regards to the veterans among us. And a fervent wish that we could stop making veterans with such great carelessness, too also. Happy birthday to Southern Beale, too, even though I’m mad jealous that the gods left the birthday kitten I asked for [...]
November 11, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 102 Comments
Posted in: Military, Music, Open Thread
Ugly War Stories: “No one can go to Dover and feel as though everything is right in the world “
I am not qualified to add anything here, but this is not to be missed. Chris Jones, in Esquire: My visit to the Port Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in late 2007, part of my research for the story “The Things That Carried Him,” was maybe the most haunting experience of my career. That [...]
November 10, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 30 Comments
Posted in: Excellent Links, Military, Seriously
Telling to the Revolution
The sound is crappy and hard to understand at times, and I generally have reservations about people who want to throw themselves into the abyss that is YouTube stardom* – even when it’s a devastatingly cute serviceman from Alabama who still calls his dad “Sir” and says “Oh my lord”. Nevertheless, this made me cry: [...]
September 22, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 73 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Military, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!
No Money for Butter, But Always Money for More Bigger Guns
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff chair Admiral Mike Mullen are already shrieking like neurotic lapdogs confronted with a nail-clipping… I mean, “warn[ing] of dire consequences if the Pentagon is forced to make cuts to its budget beyond the $400 billion in savings planned for the next decade… “ “We’re already taking our share of [...]
August 5, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 72 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Military, Security Theatre
For the Record: An Alternate View
Barney Frank has written a clear, detailed and carefully reasoned explanation of why he voted against the debt ceiling bill. It’s long enough to send most of behind the screen, but I want to highlight on the front page what my congressman had to say about our job now: Dear Friend, I appreciate you taking [...]
August 4, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 78 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Military, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Political Establishment
