No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for May 25th, 2007

Friday videos

by @ 10:58. Filed under Miscellaneous.

You’ll have to find these on your own next week, but don’t say you don’t know where to look because I’m leading you to the water this week:

The Peeps are back on HamNation. Content warning, there is a jihadi peep this week, and there is a “forward-looking statement”, so MKH and Katie cannot say that no peeps were harmed in the shooting of this week’s HamNation.

Today’s Vent turns up the heat on Homeland Security North Mexico Assimilation Secretary Michael Chertoff and leaves him extra crispy.

Dunno if we’ll have a Friday Freefly, but he’s busy writing a story about his experiences in the Waterborne Infiltration Course, and put up part 1.

Banned by the ChiComs – revisited

by @ 9:58. Filed under The Blog.

Scratch my previous claim that I’m actively blocked by the ChiComs. While going through my logs this morning, I found this (everything that could identify this visitor beyond the city and country of the visitor in question has been redacted to protect him/her, while the URL of the page that was screen-capped has been redacted to protect me) –


(click for the full-sized pic)

Last I checked, Beijing is the capital of Red China.

I could take it as bad news that my constant bashing of the murderous thugs hasn’t blocked me, or I could say that No Runny Eggs is helping to replant the seeds of freedom that were ripped up, run over and shot down in Tianemen Square back in 1989.

Roll bloat – ex-pat edition

by @ 9:18. Filed under The Blog.

One of the FReepers I mentioned in the last post, expatguy, has a blog called An American Expat in Southeast Asia. If this post on Pelosi’s road trip to Damascus and an unnamed foreign diplomat’s reaction was all he had, I would still add the blog to the roll, but that isn’t it. I’ll leave it to you to go read the entire blog.

North Korea getting frisky again

(H/T – HAL9000 at Free Republic)

Surprise, surprise, surprise. If it’s the end of May and North Korea isn’t getting their way, it’s time for a missile shoot into the Sea of Japan (note for those confused by the Korean references, they call it the East Sea). Because those missiles were anti-ship missiles, it is speculated that the launches were in retaliation for the launching of South Korea’s first Aegis destroyer. Nonetheless, South Korea (for reasons that are incomprehensible) and Japan (because the missiles were reportedly short-ranged missiles that couldn’t reach Japan) weren’t exactly concerned.

Of particular note are a series of posts at FR between FReepers AmericanInTokyo and expatguy, a couple of Americans on the far side of the Pacific, starting at #10. Just a sampling (this one from #39 by expatguy) –

Had lunch with a Eastern European diplomat today, we were talking about Iraq and the WOT ~ and he said to me ~ “You guys can’t even defend yourselves from being invaded by Mexico … what makes you think you can succeed in Afghanistan or Iraq?”

I highly suggest reading that thread.

Thoughts, AB?

For those of you who think that Iraq is “lost”

by @ 7:12. Filed under War on Terror.

(H/T – CDR Salamander)

You might want to read the latest e-mail from Michael Yon, who has been in the “irretreviably-lost” (if you believe the Dhimm crowd) Anbar province for quite a while, that Glenn Reynolds put up, as well as the follow-on correspondence. First, part of Yon’s e-mail:

Otherwise, 2-7 hardly have fired their weapons. Today, I accompanied LTC Doug Crissman, the commander, to three meetings with Iraqi police and civilian leadership. The meetings were important but thankfully more administrative than combat oriented. Subjects included police recruitment and local politics, and actually seemed more difficult to navigate than “simple combat.” And to think that only in January of this year, this city was a daily battle. Today, there are clear signs of development and the civilian population was out shopping. In addition to basic services being restored, the city of Hit has rebuilt its library. Citizens had stored away the books during the war here. They are preparing to re-stock the library. Glenn, you know that I do not hesitate to deliver bad news. I have no bad news to deliver today. The town of Hit clearly is doing much, much better. “Anbar the impossible” might be possible after all.

Next, a bit of Captain Michael Mulvania’s letter:

I’m actually sitting about 30 feet from Michael Yon as he types his dispatches, here in the town of Hit, Al Anbar province. As one of the soldiers in Task Force 2-7, I have to say it’s really heartening to have a journalist of his caliber out here reporting with us. Hit, along with Anbar generally, has settled down tremendously in the 4 months I’ve been in country this tour. It’s surreal to compare my first two months in downtown Ramadi – incessant gunfire, explosions, and unending violence – to the peacekeeping and institution-building we finally have underway here in Hit. You wouldn’t get that reading the papers, with their constant focus on the (obviously tragic) sectarian violence in Baghdad, but frankly what has happened in Anbar is near-miraculous – it’s a story that deserves to be reported far more heavily than it has so to date.

Isn’t it interesting how we’re not hearing much of anything out of Anbar anymore since we certainly seem to be succeeding there? Gee, could ABCCBSNBCCNNNYTWPMJSDhimmiRATsetal be more interested in defeating President Bush, the Republicans and conservatives than protecting people that want to just live from those that want to kill everybody, whether American or Iraqi, that isn’t 110% in agreement with them? Do note that I did NOT include Time. Even though Joe Klein did manage to sneak in a cheap shot or two, he did notice that we are making some serious progress against Al Qaeda in Anbar.

Minor housekeeping

by @ 6:43. Filed under The Blog.

A couple of minor things in the commenting department:

– For those of you using the preview comment function, I’ve made it a bit clearer that you’re previewing your comment and that it is not saved.

– I’ve also made it a bit clearer on what HTML you can use, including a handy link to an off-site reference page. If you insert HTML character/symbol codes, WordPress will pass that along as HTML and render the appropriate character/symbol.

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