Thursday, June 26, 2008

More Good News: Iraqi and U.S. Troops Seize 7 EFPs, Mortar Systems in New Baghdad Night Raids - The Long War Journal

Iraqi and U.S. Troops Seize 7 EFPs, Mortar Systems in New Baghdad Night Raids - The Long War Journal

Read the whole thing.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Another Fun Video

Another video that, if this actually happened in real life, life would be MUCH more fun.

HT: Mad Ogre

Saturday, June 14, 2008

New Change with my Blog

After completing my Google Reader, I've added the Blog Roll to this blog. It's pretty cool in two ways: 1. You can see what I'm reading about because it imports the links from Google Reader. 2. It actually gives you a bit of a preview before actually clicking through.

Neat.

Oh, and if you want to add it to your blog, here's the link.

Friday, June 13, 2008

I've Been Bee-Peed

It happens from time to time living in Budapest. Something happens to you that you have absolutely no control over and you just have to suck it up and take it.

Someone stole the front license plate off of our car. Why I don't know, but it's going to cost me about $90 to get them both replaced. Oh, and I'll have to update all the paperwork for the car to match the new license plates. That will cost me about $60.

Well, in order to get the new plates, I had to report the theft. So, I was driving on my way to do that when I got pulled over and ticketed for not having the front plate. That cost me about $130. Nice. The cop either didn't believe that I was on my way or didn't care.

So, all-in-all, someone's lovely like jester will end up costing me about $280. Thank you, whoever you are.

Oh, and I spent about two and a half hours at the police station filling out a report. They were pretty nice about it all. Oh, and I will also spend untold hours visiting different government offices and getting all of the paperwork done. Ba!

May Recruiting | A Soldier's Perspective

May Recruiting | A Soldier's Perspective:

Take a look at the recruiting results for May. Does it look like we're having trouble recruiting to you? HT: A Soldier's Perspective

"Marine Corps - 122% of requirement
Army - 101% of requirement
Navy - 100% of requirement
Air Force - 100% of requirement
Air National Guard - 131% of requirement
Army Reserve - 107% of requirement
Marine Corps Reserve - 100% of requirement
Navy Reserve - 100% of requirement
Air Force Reserve - 100% of requirement
Army National Guard - 94% of requirement"

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Google Reader

Well, I had tried Google Reader a while back and was pretty disappointed. Mainly, I couldn't figure out how to subsribe to my favorite blogs.

Recently, I was remotivated by my friend Julie to give it another try. Wow. Talk about time saving! Thanks Julie!

Saturday, June 7, 2008

I Missed It

D-Day was yesterday. I meant to post something appropriate.

Thank you to all who participated in D-Day, 6 June 1944. We owe you a debt of gratitude.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More Good News

by Gina Chon of the WSJ: "BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi military officials said violence in Iraq has decreased significantly in recent weeks to levels not seen in four years."

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Go Baby! Go!

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide: "Futures Traders Bet on Dollar Gain For First Time Since 2005

By Bo Nielsen and Ye Xie
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Futures traders are betting for the first time since December 2005 that the dollar will gain against the euro."

Update: 1 U.S. dollar = 158.679784 Hungarian forints

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

YouTube - Banned Xbox 360 advert (train station)

Man, this would be fun. Life certainly would be more interesting.

YouTube - Banned Xbox 360 advert (train station)

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Surprise! Military hits recruiting goals across the board

Who says a war drives down recruiting? It certainly doesn't seem that way. Also, I'm sure the whole fiasco with CODEPINK probably helped, too. They're probably not happy about that.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Surprise! Military hits recruiting goals across the board

More Good News in Iraq

Just how are things going in Iraq? How damaged is AQI and how functional is it?

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys has some answers:

MG Lynch, Part II: Security.