Subject: U.S. Armed Forces Activities

• A Third Anniversary Gift for Iraq

  Who knew that our political and military leaders were such a bunch of ol' sentimental softies? As a gift for the Iraqi people to mark the third invasion of their country, our leaders got them a miniature version of the invasion, Operation Swarmer. The mini-invasion has all feature that made that full-sized original so special. Lots of hardware directed against a virtually nonexistant but relentless overhyped threat? Yes. True motive hidden behind a threadbare pretext? Check. A spoon-fed media wi

  March 18, 2006

• Staying the Course

  At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.The est

  October 11, 2006

• War Games

  Meant to blog this yesterday, based on something we saw on ABC's Nightline, but it's also reported on by InfoWorld. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on May 4. Among the speakers was a specialist whose company we taxpayers are paying more than $7 million a year. Their job: to scour the Internet for instances where al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting new members online. So this specialist tells the committee that his group had recently discovered t

  June 23, 2006

• The Great Photo

  The Guinness Book of World records has announced a gigantic photo taken from an airport hangar turned camera obscura at Irvine's Great Park, the former Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro, is the largest in the world! According to a release from the Great Park's marketing people, “The Great Picture was created over the nine months leading up to July 2006 by six well-known photographic artists collectively known as the Legacy Project, aided by 400 volunteers, artists and experts. Working in t

  August 9, 2007

• Wake Up and Suck the Orange 1.29.08

  I hope you're sitting down. For one thing, checking a blog while standing up is just ... weird. BYE-BYE RENT CONTROL? LA Times - A June 3rd ballot proposal could end the practice of rent control in California. Lawyers and landlords are both circling. If you prick a landlord, does it not bleed? PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN HUNTINGTON BEACH: OC Register - Not that it's a slow news day at the Reg (it is); I just wanted to point out an innocent death in Huntington Beach not caused by a police officer. A

  January 29, 2008

• Colonel of Wisdom

  This toll road debate is starting to feel like Clue—who's going to kill the project? Was it Colonel Magness, in the media, with cold, hard facts? Col. Thomas Magness wrote a little letter the Transportation Corridor Agencies didn't like. The letter disclosed that the TCA's preferred, certified alignment for their Foothill-South (241) toll road extension was not in fact the Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative (LEDPA). In layman's terms, LEDPA means "that which is least idio

  April 23, 2008

• The Few, the Proud, the Spies

  July 15, 1999

• The Death Ray

  October 7, 1999

• He Who Forgets History is a Damned Fool

  March 9, 2000

• Huntington Beach Babbitt

  August 24, 2000

• Letters

  October 26, 2000

• After Saddam

  November 28, 2002

• Burying the Dead

  July 10, 2003

• Local Vets of Earlier Wars Say They Know What the New Iraq and Afghanistan PTSD Sufferers Are In For

  November 6, 2008

• Just a Random Female

  Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  November 22, 2007

• History Vs. Memory

  May 17, 2001

• Our Man in San Salvador

  August 29, 2002

• Trestles Tussle

  The TCA’s expansion plans spark renewed activism

  June 7, 2007

• Sleeping Disorder in the Court

  October 7, 1999

• Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

  January 15, 2004

• Go with the Flow

  September 2, 1999

• Cocaine Airways

  September 14, 2006

• We Respond to Register Letters!

  June 15, 2006

• 2 Few, 2 Proud

  May 25, 2006

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Weekly Index

  September 16, 2004

• Burning Bush

  June 10, 2004

• Burning Bush

  May 20, 2004

• Scorecard

  June 19, 2003

• Everybodys All-American Mexican

  April 17, 2003

• After Saddam

  April 3, 2003

• The Education of Corporal Gunderson

  March 13, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• War Is Heck

  February 7, 2002

• Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

  November 22, 2001

• Bleccccccccccch!

  September 20, 2001

• The Wreckfinder

  May 3, 2001

• Spooks

  September 14, 2000

• Letters

  September 21, 2000

• Letters

  June 15, 2000

• Who Killed Col. James Sabow?

  February 24, 2000

• Letters

  August 26, 1999

• Never Mind War, El Toro Is Hell

  June 24, 1999

• Bargain Base Mint

  June 10, 1999

• Summer Beach & Beer Guide

  June 3, 1999

• No Fly Zone

  April 29, 1999

• Crossing Guard

  March 4, 1999

• Ron Packard, Military Whore

  October 8, 1998

• Consumer Group Lashes Out at "Fringe" PETA's Camp Pendleton Protest

  ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a "fringe group" that is hypocritical about euthanizing animals, charges a Washington, D.C.-based consumer group that also denounced today's PETA protest against Camp Pendleton's use of live pigs in medical training for troops.The Center for Consumer Freedom was reacting to today's preview of the PETA protest by the Orange County Register's Vik Jolly, who quoted animal-rights activists saying the medical trauma training outside of Camp Pendleton

  August 12, 2009

• Pendleton Marine Up Face Murder for Alleged Drunken Driving Death

  ​What happens when just before being released from duty at Camp Pendleton for the weekend, you allegedly: participate in a mandatory safety briefing that covers the dangers of drunken driving, including the tidbit that should you get behind the wheel while drunk, you'll likely kill someone; go on to chug alcohol for two hours; tell everyone you're going to drive home to Santa Ana; pass out in your barracks; have your car keys removed from your pocket as you're passed out by a lance corporal; w

  November 19, 2009