6 days and a wake-up

As my last few days on dry land draw to a close a lot of things are going through my mind. Getting a lot of reading done about the ship I am going to, and life at sea. It's going to be interesting to be sure.

Doing some linking but not much thinking today, check the links for the continuation of the excerpt;

A few weeks ago my friend Steve over at The Old School, does a nod to Hugh Hefner. Steve is a dedicated Evangelical Christian .... Praying for Hef

"I dug into those stories, as told by Hugh Hefner and his magazine. I bought into Hef’s philosophy as I pursued all that the world of sexual freedom had to offer. I paid cash money for his magazines. I paid a higher price in abusive and broken relationships, and misplaced priorities. Every day I fight (and usually win) the mental battle to respect women, not ogle them. I receive supernatural help daily to honor the fabulously beautiful woman God has given me as wife."
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Senate Retreats on Shamnesty bill - from Protein Wisdom

53-46. Here’s the roll.

Allah liveblogged the thing

Of course, as Nanonymous notes in another thread, we are essentially celebrating the last of the President’s political capital having been pissed away. And, may I add, on something engineered in large part by Teddy Kennedy — who is as impervious to political fallout as Mary Jo Kopechne was to being able to breathe pond water.

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Bill Roggio as always is the best place for a daily GWOT in Iraq update.

Eleven days after Operation Arrowhead Ripper kicked off in the provincial capital of Baqubah, Coalition and Iraqi forces have been conducting operations throughout the province. In Baqubah, "at least 60 al-Qaida operatives have been killed, 74 have been detained, 31 weapons caches have been discovered, 81 improvised explosive devices have been destroyed and 18 booby-trapped structures have been destroyed," since the start of Arrowhead Ripper, Multinational Forces Iraq reported.

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