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February 22, 2011

Armed Liberal On the Radio

By Armed Liberal at 18:45

Oh goody...

I had the pleasure of meeting John Phillips at a dinner on Sunday, and would have pegged him as an announcer before I was even told he hosted a radio show on KABC, here in in Los Angeles. I don't know him or his work, but will for sure know more tomorrow...

He's just invited me to join him at 8pm Pacific tonight...we'll see how that works out! You can listen in LA on AM 790, and you can stream it here.
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We're Not Dead Yet...

By Armed Liberal at 14:29

Joe and I aren't dead, or in an Iranian jail (take a moment to think about and act for Hoder). Joe's in Toronto on a (good news when he can share it) family mission; I'm working two jobs in New York and California plus trying to teach myself WordPress so I can migrate this blog by next monthend.

I'm almost ready to give it a shot, and so blogging will hopefully resume on a shiny new platform in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, I'm also wrestling with my reaction to the Tea Party.

On one hand, many of their political positions aren't mine. There is a genuinely conservative core to the movement. But...

...there's something more than that as well. Much more. They are aligned perfectly with me in opposing the Skybox nature of our modern politics, which has become almost entirely focused on rent-seeking and dominated by self-serving elites and those who serve them in the hope of joining them.

The leaders of the modern labor movement and other 'progressive' advocacy movements are, for the most part, simply fighting for their place at the trough.

The trough needs to be emptied, and I need to decide if that's more important than specific agreement on social or environmental issues.

More to come...

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May 27, 2010

Sorry

By Armed Liberal at 00:32
Had to kill the Google ad under the main post; I wasn't happy with the advertiser.
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February 16, 2010

Led By The Stupid And Loathsome

By Armed Liberal at 20:56

The last month or so hasn't been very good for me as a blogger...I feel like I've lost the will to write, and what has always been very easy for me (writing) suddenly became very hard.

I was mulling over why this weekend, deciding what to do, and kind of came to a conclusion about why, at least.

It's just massively depressing.

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January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!!

By Armed Liberal at 01:34

To everyone!!

Sorry for the hiatus...family matters (i.e. family is more important). But here's to a closing out 2009 and opening a great 2010 for all of us.

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And a special thought for Biggest Guy and his mates...may 2010 be smooth for them as well.
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December 16, 2009

Taking The Day off - In Support of CJ Grisham

By Armed Liberal at 08:02

From Bouhammer:
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On Wednesday 16 December 2009, many milblogs - including Bouhammer, This Ain't Hell, From My Position, Blackfive, Miss Ladybug, Boston Maggie, Grim's Hall, and those participating in the Wednesday Hero program - are going silent for the day. Some are choosing to go silent for a longer period of time. [Winds will be dark for the day - note that our server is set to Zulu time, so we'll be dark from 0800 on the 16th to 0800 on the 17th.]

The reason for this is two-fold. First, milblogs are facing an increasingly hostile environment from within the military. While senior leadership has embraced blogging and social media, many field grade officers and senior NCOs do not embrace the concept. From general apathy in not wanting to deal with the issue to outright hositility to it, many commands are not only failing to support such activities, but are aggressively acting against active duty milbloggers, milspouses, and others. The number of such incidents appears to be growing, with milbloggers receiving reprimands, verbal and written, not only for their activities but those of spouses and supporters.

The catalyst has been the treatment of milblogger C.J. Grisham of A Soldier's Perspective. C.J. has earned accolades and respect, from the White House on down for his honest, and sometimes blunt, discussion of issues - particularly PTSD. In the last few months, C.J. has seen an issue with a local school taken to his command who failed to back him, and has even seen his effort to deal with PTSD, and lead his men in same by example, used against him as a part of this. Ultimately, C.J. has had to sell his blog to help raise funds for his defense in this matter.

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You Have...The Plague!!

By Marc Danziger at 17:42

Well it wasn't the plague, and it wasn't the flu, but the last week kind of vanished into a blur where the only things I remember are orange juice and the ceiling of our bedroom. I wound up speaking on a panel about teh future of journalism in the world of blogs, and I need to find the name of the LA Times guy who I teed off on; my points were valid but perhaps I should have been more polite in making them. I'd use being sick and drugged as an excuse, but manners ought to hold even then.

..I'm 90% today and will work to catch up.

I did discover and release a huge bunch of comments in the comment queue - please comment or email one of us if your comment gets held up there.
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August 29, 2009

Heading to D.C.

By Armed Liberal at 23:47
I'm off to DC tonight for much of next week. I've got two draft posts I'll try and get out - one on Afghanistan, and one on Bacevitch - I'm going to try and do a post a week on "The Limits of Power" and deal with it chapter by chapter.
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July 15, 2009

Violating Your Privacy ... But For A Good Cause

By Armed Liberal at 23:30

Work will settle down soon (it better) and I hope to get back to being a blogger (one post in the queue on how blogging has changed as it's become professionalized and what that means to small fry amateurs like me).

But meanwhile, here's something to occupy your time.

Lexus is going to give a car to someone who registers on a marketing site and gets the largest number of votes from other registrants (you don't have to try for the car - you can just vote. And you can opt-out of them spamming you) - so go on over to the site and register, and then go to Captain Michael Valetta's page and vote for him.

As he puts it in his 'why me' piece:
I fly Blackhawks for a living for the U.S. Army. Its a pretty sweet job, I admit, but not without its drawbacks including time in Iraq and Kuwait away from my family. My 1997 Toyota Camry with 126k miles is another unfortunate drawback. I'd sure love to leave next time knowing that my wife and our two kids are trouble-free and driving in luxury!
Go gettum...
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Tech Issues

By Marc Danziger at 00:14

I just realized that commenting seems not to work...apologies, we'll look at it and get it fixed quickly.


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The Prodigal Returns

By Armed Liberal at 02:08

Sorry for the long absence; we scaled a wall at work (and now I get some more time...) and I'm just back from our annual motorcycle trip to the Sierra with a collection of friends (on my new motorcycle...).

I've got a backlog of stuff I want to write about, so please come by often and send your friends...
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RSS

By Armed Liberal at 00:00

So a few people mentioned that we'd broken their RSS feeds when we upgraded.

True, and sorry about that - I'm not sure what we could have done (although I welcome people using this as a teaching moment and telling me in the comments).

But we've dropped from over 900 sbscribers in Bloglines to 2 today (including me). So you may want to consider resubscribing, using the url on the bottom of the lefthand column.

By the way - what do people think of the changes??

The look is still a little cluttered and messy (we'll work on that), but in terms of function??

 


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