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Optimists View — Hope he is Right
military news about Nations Around the World. A great Jay Leno like assessment of where we are from James Dunnigan.
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Iraq Weather
AccuWeather.com – Middle East Weather – Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and more. It’s a key variable the weather as the last 48 hours has shown. The miracle of the Internet means we can all see what is going on over there. Pretty warm and pleasant right now.
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Officer X and the Washington Post on Plan B
More Analysis. I thought I’d blog it so that we can compare notes and see what really happened. Daily Kos: More From Officer X. I’m not military guy, but a good analysis from Officer X on the mistakes in the plan. The essential one was planning based on the expectation that it would be a…
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HDTV STB Reviews
The Official AVS HDTV Forum STB Synopsis. At last one place where lots of HDTV set top box reviews are kept. Really hard to find this. Surprised that google couldn’t. Great reading on the current generation. I’m right now looking for an high definition television receiver for good old over-the-air with a plain old antenna.…
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Yet another analysis
Daily Kos: What the Experts Are Saying. Most cogent analysis I’ve read. Personally, I sure hope we take the middle course. That is slow up, let the 4th Infantry Division show up, have the 3rd ID be methodical. BTW, report on MSNBC was that the 82nd Airborne is in theater and is trying to solidify…
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A Better Day and Rumsfeld
Had lots of questions last night. Amazingly starting in the AM, they got answered. Main depressing thing is confirmation about the war planning overoptimism by Rumsfeld and other civilians, ignoring of advice and general meddling in lots of things. Ugh. Bureaucrats get people killed. Echoes of the Vietnam War. Depressing fact is that the 4th…
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Best LCD Monitors
Tom’s Hardware Guide Displays: LCD 17: Samsung 171N & NEC LCD1760V vs. Everyone Else – NEC LCD1760V (and 1760NX). Finally something other than the war. The battle of the 17″ LCD monitors is happening. Here’s the best according to Tom’s Hardware. The incredibly well anmed NEC LCD 1760V. Hey do these guys learn naming from…
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News Lockdown: Where is the 4th and 82nd
The AgonistFlash XLIX. He’s wondering where the 4th Infantry Division is and the 82nd. I thought a bunch of the 82nd Airborne is in Afghanistan and the 4th is in the US while their equipment makes it way around the Suez Canal. Points out there is a lockdown of information right now.
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Questions
Since there are so many great bloggers covering the news and so forth from whatever point of view, I thought I’d being a blog of the good questions I’ve heard over the last day. Then it’s off to sleep * On CNN, they asked the Comcent folks, who don’t you just turn off the Iraqi…
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It won't be a cake walk
You can hope and pray, but it won’t be. I was up until 1AM watching CNN the other night. I still can’t believe you can watch this stuff. Anyway, more websites for news junkies: * Eye On Iraq. Like Global Strategy, has a good listof things going on. * “Naval Open Source Intelligence”:http://nosi.editthispage.com/. Amazing what…