Sorry folks
My apologies on no post yesterday. I spent the day trying to find a menial job that i'm overqualified for. No luck though.
However I'm looking for some good blogging in the next few days. My brother has recently agreed to supply me with pictures and stories of what's going on in Iraq. So I will now have my own source in the area. He should be able to give us a good idea of what the situation looks like over there.
Since we will be relying on his judgement let me tell you a little bit about him. (I'm avoiding the use of his name at this point, because godforbid militants should get ahold of it and decide it might be publicity worthy.)
At the age of 18, my brother entered the Marine Corps. After boot camp he became a Force Recon Marine. He did service in the first Gulf War. After 9 years as a Marine, he left, to begin a Police Office in a major city in the South. There he was part of a team responsible for reducing crime in a major section of the city. This required his being a proactive and assertive police officer. Eventually, in an incident where his life and the life of his partner were put in jeopardy, he shot and killed a suspect.
As a result he was treated harshly by both the city, and a variety of so called "civil rights" organizations, with lawsuits and the like.
At the outbreak of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he joined a Airborne Recon unit of the National Guard, and deployed to Iraq protecting members of the Iraqi Survey Group. It was during this trip that he acquired numerous pictures of contraband weapons from a variety of "Axis of Weasel" countries.
After finishing that tour, he signed up with a Security Contracting firm, and shipped out again to Iraqi. He believes very firmly in what we are doing over there, and In my personal opinion, he's the very epitome of the American soldier.
Anyway, It is my hope that with him on the ground in country, equipped with a digital camera and alot of experience he can help provide us with some real information about what the situation is really like. I will keep you all informed, as well as i can.
Also, the Republican National Convention is coming up. I intend to cover it as well as I can from my couch here in South Carolina. I want to spend the majority of my time reflecting on how they different media organizations tackle the event, and what they spend their time on. But I'll also try to put my thoughts in on each of the major speakers, whether I thought they werre successful at what they were trying to achieve or not. Hopefully it will be a good time for all.
I'm sure, by the way, that there are quite a few people outside the convetion who are all excited about the prospect of turning it into Chicago in '69. There are alot of people my age, and maybe a little older, who are soo disappointed that they weren't able to live in the Age of Aquarius. It's pathetic, in my eyes. Hopefully the NYPD will keep everything in control and out of sight, however I'm expecting some of the news organizations to make as big a deal of it as they can.
Remember that these are not insigificant events, even though the participants have silly hair cuts and smell terrible. If the media identifies with these... anarchists, is what they really are, then they can have a much greater impact then they really deserve.
However I'm looking for some good blogging in the next few days. My brother has recently agreed to supply me with pictures and stories of what's going on in Iraq. So I will now have my own source in the area. He should be able to give us a good idea of what the situation looks like over there.
Since we will be relying on his judgement let me tell you a little bit about him. (I'm avoiding the use of his name at this point, because godforbid militants should get ahold of it and decide it might be publicity worthy.)
At the age of 18, my brother entered the Marine Corps. After boot camp he became a Force Recon Marine. He did service in the first Gulf War. After 9 years as a Marine, he left, to begin a Police Office in a major city in the South. There he was part of a team responsible for reducing crime in a major section of the city. This required his being a proactive and assertive police officer. Eventually, in an incident where his life and the life of his partner were put in jeopardy, he shot and killed a suspect.
As a result he was treated harshly by both the city, and a variety of so called "civil rights" organizations, with lawsuits and the like.
At the outbreak of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he joined a Airborne Recon unit of the National Guard, and deployed to Iraq protecting members of the Iraqi Survey Group. It was during this trip that he acquired numerous pictures of contraband weapons from a variety of "Axis of Weasel" countries.
After finishing that tour, he signed up with a Security Contracting firm, and shipped out again to Iraqi. He believes very firmly in what we are doing over there, and In my personal opinion, he's the very epitome of the American soldier.
Anyway, It is my hope that with him on the ground in country, equipped with a digital camera and alot of experience he can help provide us with some real information about what the situation is really like. I will keep you all informed, as well as i can.
Also, the Republican National Convention is coming up. I intend to cover it as well as I can from my couch here in South Carolina. I want to spend the majority of my time reflecting on how they different media organizations tackle the event, and what they spend their time on. But I'll also try to put my thoughts in on each of the major speakers, whether I thought they werre successful at what they were trying to achieve or not. Hopefully it will be a good time for all.
I'm sure, by the way, that there are quite a few people outside the convetion who are all excited about the prospect of turning it into Chicago in '69. There are alot of people my age, and maybe a little older, who are soo disappointed that they weren't able to live in the Age of Aquarius. It's pathetic, in my eyes. Hopefully the NYPD will keep everything in control and out of sight, however I'm expecting some of the news organizations to make as big a deal of it as they can.
Remember that these are not insigificant events, even though the participants have silly hair cuts and smell terrible. If the media identifies with these... anarchists, is what they really are, then they can have a much greater impact then they really deserve.
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