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le 6 Juin 1944
First off, I apologize for not yet posting anything today. I spent the morning running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure with some guys from my rugby team. We raised $430, so many thanks to the readers who donated. The race was not terribly fun, though. They kept us standing around for an hour while everyone from Joe Biden to some Eastern European monarch spoke, and when Joe Biden is the one who speaks for the least amount of time, that's not good. You know what else isn't good? When the pre-match ceremony is longer than the race itself. Still, a good cause is a good cause.
Second, thanks for your patience with the new blog design. I'm getting used to it myself, and we have a lot of kinks to still work out, mainly with the comments and the RSS feeds. I promise you we'll be on that like white on rice come Monday morning, but again, please have patience.
Finally, if you, like me, will be attending some barbecues later today, be sure to remember to raise a glass for the boys of Pointe du Hoc. (I noticed a few tan berets in the audience behind the president today in France. A few years ago, one of my old squad leaders brought me back a vial of sand from Omaha Beach that sits on my bookshelf in Tennessee.) The readers of this blog, meanwhile, might be interested in these cool maps and documents from the D-Day landings.
ROFL - you and your Lego
ROFL - you and your Lego insurgents!
ROFL - you and your Lego
ROFL - you and your Lego insurgents!
What are the privacy and
What are the privacy and identity tracking rules for the new site? Same as the old site? There should be an announcement of the specific data on commentators and visitors CNAS will get vis-a-vis the old rules?
Herbal says, We love the
Herbal says,
We love the lego guy. In our minds--despite the RPG and the AK--he is a counterinsurgent.
Your blog move made me think of The Jeffersons. I know you're getting tons of suggestions, but here's a few:
1. Go dark on the headlines, like the dark grey-blue in the background of the CNAS header;
2. Keep the print function.
3. Shrink the borders between comments, so we can see and compare more comments at a time on the screen.
Good luck with it next week!
As much as I despise black
As much as I despise black on white writing in computer documents (which I liken to reading the manufacturers information on a light bulb while it is turned on), I can live with it as long as the Lego Liberation Front continues to be graphically represented.
Perhaps you could start acting out classic tenants of Counterinsurgency doctrine on You Tube using Lego figures? Like Sesame Street for future National Security Policy Wonks\Wonkettes? Begin the Information Operations before the Defense Industry enlists a refurbished G.I. Joe cartoon series to advocate F-22s and FCS!!!!!!
Knowing is half the battle . . .
- Marauder Doc
...the other half is
...the other half is violence.
elf
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