Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us about Army Sgt. Julia Bringloe
A nearby Apache gunship pilot radioed Bringloe’s crew, “Medevac, you guys are crazy.â€
Helping her strap the dead translator to the line while she stayed behind, soldiers on the ground had to remind Bringloe to duck. “Somehow I think I’m impervious to bullets or something,†she said.With the translator’s body safely aboard the Black Hawk above, Bringloe latched herself to the now vacant cable. The insurgents on the ridgeline promptly concentrated their fire on her dangling form. The high velocity rounds streamed past her as she rose, and sounded like “a kind of whistling” she later explained. Troops below radioed to Sabiston above, “They’re shooting at your medic! Get out of here!â€
Unable to alter his position or risk dragging Bringloe into another tree, Sabiston had to remain hovering for a full 15 seconds while half-a-dozen insurgents pounded round after round at Bringloe on the rising cable. Breaking out the only weapon available, co-pilot CWO Ken Brodhead chambered a round in a nearby M4 and began firing from his window.
Though she doesn’t know how much it helped, Bringloe said “I thought it was pretty funny though. I love that guy.â€
Sgt. Julia Bringloe joins only six other women to have received the Distinguished Flying Cross, including Amelia Earhart. The Flying Cross recognizes “extraordinary achievement for an aerial flight.”
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. The SYSK segment started on WRKO in April 2006 and the archive can be found here and The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us about Medal of Honor recipient Leslie H. Sabo Jr.
SP4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr. distinguished himself, May 10, 1970, in Se San, Cambodia, while serving as a rifleman in Company B, 3d Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division.
Members of B. Co. were ambushed by a large enemy force. While conducting a reconnaissance patrol, 22-year-old Sabo, charged an enemy position, killing several enemy soldiers. Immediately thereafter, he assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat.
When a grenade landed nearby a wounded comrade, Sabo picked up the grenade threw it away while shielding his buddy with his own body, thus absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving the man’s life.Seriously wounded by the blast, Sabo, nonetheless, retained the initiative and single- handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon. He received several serious wounds from withering automatic weapons fire in the process. Despite being mortally injured, he crawled towards the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker. The resulting explosion silenced the enemy fire, but also ended Spc. 4 Sabo’s life.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. The SYSK segment started on WRKO in April 2006 and the archive can be found here and The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
With Fauxcahontas-gate entering month number two, we welcomed back to WRKO William Jacobson, an Ivy League law professor, to talk about Elizabeth Warren and her, ahem, authenticity problem. In the new media, this scandal has been advanced in two places, Breitbart, and Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson’s outstanding blog.
The fact that Elizabeth Warren is still today claiming Indian heritage, despite all we’ve learned about the lack of evidence, is astounding. She’s not doubling down, she’s googling down. Six short months ago, Massachusetts democrats cleared the deck for Elizabeth Warren because her candidacy was so strong. This weekend at the state convention, they cleared the deck again, but this time, because she is so weak.
Smug progressives can point to any poll they want showing this isn’t hurting Warren. They only show that they are as deeply in denial as their candidate.
The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Political season is heating up and so is the rhetoric. As your friendly RINO host in a conservative medium like talk radio, I am in a position where weekly I find myself disagreeing with callers, whether over social policy or the presidential aspirations of the likes of Herman Cain. On the radio, I always try to be civil, to respect their opinion, present mine and then at the end of the day (or call in this case) to agree to disagree. When you can do that, talking politics can be tremendously fun and enjoyable, not to mention educational. Tell me, where do you learn more, by talking to people who only agree with you, or by talking to those who challenge your positions.
As I said Sunday night, I think I do a good job of disagreeing without being disagreeable when hosting Pundit Review Radio. Where I don’t do a great job is on Twitter. It is such an easy medium to just blow someone up . I’m going to try and bring the same balance to Twitter going forward as I do to the radio show on Sunday’s and in my personal life.
To that end, I invited a personal friend by the name of Jonathan Lewis into the studio to talk politics. This is something we do often, with few areas of agreement. That said, we’ve never had an arguement or even anything slightly disagreeable. Basically, we talked politics Sunday night like we always do, except with 50,000-watt microphones.
In this hour of talk about disagreeing without being disagreeable, it was great to hear from regular caller Mike from Newton. Not only did Mike once again call me a RINO and tell me how I am what’s holding back the GOP. He had a new moniker for me this week, one I’ve never heard, a C-I-N-O. Catholic In Name Only.
I guess we still have some work to do.
The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
This was a double treat for our eight anniversary show on WRKO. One of my favorite guests has been Eric Maddox, author of Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein—As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture. This book was fantastic and the story of how Staff Sergeant Maddox used Saddam’s social network to squeeze his close in support was fascinating. It’s about to get the Hollywood treatment with Twilight’s Robert Pattison in the starring role. Eric has been a friend of the program ever since and returned tonight for his fourth appearance.
In the middle of the interview we heard from Senator Scott Brown. It is always great to hear from Senator Brown. He reminded me tonight that he has been calling into the show since his days as a state rep. I guess I can say I knew him when! It was neat to introduce Sen. Brown to the man who masterminded the capture of Saddam, you don’t get to do that everyday! Personally, I thank Sen. Brown for calling in during our eighth anniversary show.
The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us about Sgt. Clifford Wooldridge,
Wooldridge, 22, of Port Angeles, Wash., was a vehicle commander when his convoy came under enemy fire on June 18, 2010. He led four Marines in outflanking 15 Taliban fighters — killing eight of them and scattering the rest. Out of ammunition, Wooldridge wrestled a machine gun away from a Taliban and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with his enemy, killing him. Wooldridge was cited for “his bold actions and his courage under fire which disrupted the enemy attack on his platoon.â€
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. The SYSK segment started on WRKO in April 2006 and the archive can be found here and The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
From today’s Boston Herald in a story by aptly named Laurel Sweet and Chris Cassidy,
Parents: Rule’s half-baked: State’s junk food ban could take bite out of school fundraisers
State Sen. Susan Fargo (D-Lincoln), chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, said the problem of overweight children has reached “crisis†proportions. “If we didn’t have so many kids that were obese, we could have let things go,†Fargo said. “But,†she added, “this is a major public health problem and these kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life*.â€
Because bake sales are killing them. *Emphasis added to highlight the absurdity. The thoughtlessness of this is simply astounding. There has been a lot of talk today about the fundraising impact of this on schools. Again, from the Herald,
“If you want to make a quick $250, you hold a bake sale,†said Sandy Malec, vice president of the Horace Mann Elementary School PTO in Newtonville.
Maura Dawley of Scituate said the candy bars her 15-year-old son brought to school to help pay for a youth group trip to Guatemala “sold like wildfire.†She worries the ban “would seriously affect the bottom line of the PTOs.
“The goal is to raise money,†Dawley said. “You’re going to be able to sell pizza. You’re not going to get that selling apples and bananas. It’s silly.â€
Food fundraisers have helped send the renowned Danvers High School Falcon Band to the Rose Bowl Parade in California and the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. Danvers Parents for Music Education sell fudge because “it still works,†said the group’s president, Matthew Desmond. “Even my wife will buy it.â€
The Nanny State administrator Dr. Lauren Smith, DPH’s medical director says, “We’re not trying to get into anyone’s lunch box.â€
Yet. How could they not if Sen. Fargo is right, kids ability to live a healthy life is at stake. Certainly bake sales alone won’t cut it. How can they, in good conscience, let some kid pack a lunch with a Nutella sandwich and a couple Little Debbie’s?
Kids deserve a chance at a good, long healthy life. These are the same Massachusetts Democrats who not long ago were marketing abortion to teens as “easier than it sounds”. Remember Maria Talks?
The website features a fictional so-called hip teen called Maria, an 18 year old living in Boston, ‘who got overwhelmed with all of the information about birth control and sex on the web.’
Maria describes abortion as a ‘hot topic’ which is ‘more common than you might think.’ She goes on to say it is ‘safe and effective, though some people may experience temporary discomfort.’
In another section Maria says: ‘The reality of getting an abortion is much easier than it sounds here’ but also advises her young charges that it ‘can be pretty tough for some people, especially emotionally.’
Maria also suggests that teens don’t necessarily have to get parental approval for having an abortion.
‘It may be really hard for you to imagine talking to either your parents or a judge about getting an abortion, but there are people who can help you through it,’ she said.
For the record, “under state law, children under 18 seeking an abortion must have permission from a parent or a guardian.”
Politically, this state is a national laughingstock. We. Massachusetts Democrats Absolutely Deserve It.