I needed to get that fisting post off the top of my blog, I’m sorry ..
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Choosing a blog theme and learning to operate the dashboard occupies my mind.
However, the radio’s been on — and I’m occassionally popping into my new haunt.
On the front page of Redstate is Pat Walsh’s “A Chain of Command No-Go On the New Afghan Policy,” who, as an Army Ranger trainer, provides insight into the convulted inner-workings of our military.
You don’t have to read Walsh’s piece to know that the whole 30K-troop-decision feels like something just thrown together.
Imagine telling everyone a year — maybe a year and half to two years — that you want to have this huge, gargantuan party. It’s the most magnificent party in the whole world, you tell people. They have to attend and spare no expense. People have to book flights, book hotel rooms from across the country. And if they can’t afford it, you tell them to mortgage their house.
A couple of months into the planning, you start getting calls — is it still on? Yes, yes, you say. A few months later — again. Yes! It’s still on.
A month berfore your shindig, you get with your party planner who has worked her ass off .. and you come to find there’s .. miscommunication. Her objective was off, the date was off, the budget was off.
And that you can only really invite 10 people, because of a change of plans you never communicated to your poor party planner.
Your friends are left holding the bill. You suck.
Details and a post on that later. Just know I’m outraged — because regular people get fired over such stupidty.
Anyway, I have this migration business to deal with from my facebook account, where I plagued my poor friends with my incessant notations on current events. Did you know that I once had 117 FB friends & that eventually dwindled down to 20? Yes — at my own hand (delete key). You can read about it on my Redstate Diary here. You know more about why I set up shop here .. and of course, there’s all this, but the time for those words will come later. Not now.
This is a serious pain, I tell you. I almost despise this .. I want to settle this business so I can write.
