UPDATES – PRE 2006

ROKs Cutting Down

South Korea will be cutting its Iraq troop strength by a third in 2006. The withdrawal equals about 1,000 of the 3,200 ROKs working in Kurdish territory in northern Iraq.

I never worked directly with the ROKs in Viet Nam, but I did work near them one time, and my team spent more time making sure we didn’t get near the ROK’s AO than we did looking for NVA. They were some savage bastards, and I use that phrase with mucho admiration. Nobody messed with ROK infantry who employed a certain — shall we say — brevity when it came to ascertaining “body counts.” They only brought back heads to count.


Gitmo Redux

Apparently 46 of the jihadist scum in the Gitmo lockup have joined a hunger strike, bringing the number to 84. Die … all 84 of you. And a Happy F-----g New Year as you do.


Duh! Redux

A recent Pew Foundation (I’m not real fond of their politics) study surmised that men and women use the Internet differently. And we had to have a study to find out men and women did something ELSE differently because why?


New Gaza Gang?

The British family of an aid worker was kidnapped along with the aid-worker daughter earlier in the week in Palestine. This sounds like a ransom for money thingee, different from jihadist ransom-for-money thingees, because EVERYbody in the neighborhood says they are looking to get the family back. This includes Palestinian police, terrorists like the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Hamas (both body exploders), etc. Either that or there’s a new gang working the Gaza.


Duh! Redux Redux

Midwives shouldn’t decide when to push a baby out, the mother should. So says a report from UT’s Southwestern Medical Center that appeared in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Let me get this straight. You’re trying to pass a bowling ball through an orifice that ain’t exactly the biggest thing in the world, and you’re gonna rely on someone who ISN’T passing the bowling ball to tell you when to do it?

You may as well rely on a man … and you know DAMN well, if we were having babies the only population EXplosion would be an IMplosion.