Old Patriot's Pen
Personal pontifications of an old geezer born 200 years too late.
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About Me

- Name: Old Patriot
- Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
I've been everywhere That was the title of a hit country-and-western song from the late 1950's, originally sung by Hank Snow, and made famous by Johnny Cash. I resemble that! My 26-year career in the Air Force took me to more than sixty nations on five continents - sometimes only for a few minutes, other times for as long as four years at a time. In all that travel, I also managed to find the perfect partner, help rear three children, earn more than 200 hours of college credit, write more than 3000 reports, papers, documents, pamphlets, and even a handful of novels, take about 10,000 photographs, and met a huge crowd of interesting people. I use this weblog and my personal website here to document my life, and discuss my views on subjects I find interesting.
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- "Why Does It Matter?"
- My "Other" Life
- Let there be ... Aliens?
- A change of passion.
- New Book
- Our Adolescent President
- Obama's total lack of Understanding
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- Where I'm coming from
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Experience
Judge me on what I write, based on what I know.26 years' experience as an enlisted member of the US Air Force, retired as MSgt (E-7); experience in mechanized personnel systems, imagery interpretation, management & supervision, document management, security, safety, deployment preparedness, office management, technical training, more. Civilian experience in seismic data processing (3 yrs), small computers & networking (6 yrs), technical training (2 yrs), technical writing (4 yrs).
You can contact me at mike dot weatherford AT gmail dot com or at mweather AT q dot com Make the appropriate changes to the information provided.
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Links
Places I try to check out every day:
RantburgTown Hall
National Review Online
NewsMax
Real Clear Politics
Truthful News
Tech Central Station
Wall Street Opinion Journal
Free Republic
The Corner at National Review
Other News Sources
Worldnet Daily NewsFront Page Magazine
Drudge Report
Red State
Lucianne
Wired News
Lone Star Times
Google News
The Weekly Standard
Cyberalerts
The Gazette (my local newspaper)
Other News Links I check:
Middle East Media Research InstituteThe Guardian
South China Morning Post (reg req)
London Times Online
The SUN
AftenPosten (Norway - English)
Gulf News (English)
EU Observer
Sydney Morning Herald (reg req)
International Herald Tribune
Financial Times
Australian New Net
Japan Times
The Straits Times (Singapore)
The Times of India
Rapa Nui News (Easter Island)
South America Daily
Mail & Guardian Online (South Africa)
Daily Dispatch (South Africa)
All Africa
Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
St. Lucia Mirror
Fact Checking
Urban LegendsFactCheck.Org
Bibliomania (Bible facts)
Encyclopedia Brittanica Online
Junk Science
Symantec Hoax Center
Mining Company Hoax Library
Weblogs
"Must Read"
Tim BlairCaptain's Quarters
Hugh Hewitt
Instapundit
Michelle Malkin
No Left Turns
One Hand Clapping
Power Line
My favorites:
The AgoraAnn Althouse
Baldilocks
Betsy's Page
Big Lizard's Blog
Chrenkoff Check out the "Good News" posts!
Country Store
Danegerous
Everything I Know is Wrong
Incoherent Ramblings
In DC Journal
In From the Cold
Jen in Spring
La Shawn Barber
Lead & Gold
Life in this Girl's Army
Little Green Footballs
Major Mike
Medpundit
Mudville Gazette
Random Probabilities
Rev. Mark Roberts
Sgt. Stryker (Julia - Sgt Mom - is a doll!)
Roger Simon
Small Dead Animals
Sound Politics
Swimming Through the Spin
The Truth Laid Bear
VietPundit
Winds of Change
Wizbang
Yankee Sailor
You Big Mouth, You
MSM/Business Blogs
Business Week BlogspottingOther sites I find interesting
2Slick's ForumAdventures of Chester
Alice in Texas
The Alpha Patriot
American Soldier (new link)
Anti-Anti-Americanism
The Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler
ArcheoBlog
BarcePundit from Barcelona, Spain
Becker-Posner Blog
Beef always Wins (Military/Iraq)
Beldar
Bird of Paradise
Blackfive
Blogs Against Hillary
Blogs of War
Brain Shavings
Chief Wiggles
Citizen Smash (Formerly Lt Smash)
Cold Fury
Cox & Forkum Political cartoonists
Terrance Coyle UK
Cut on the Bias
Daily Pundit
David Limbaugh
Discriminations
The Doctor is In
Double Toothpicks
Eric the Unread
EnviroSpin Watch
Freedom's Truth
Michael Fumento
G in Baghdad
Thomas Galvin
Gin Marie
The Green Side (not a blog, but letters home)
Gringo Unleashed
Hammorabi
Healing Iraq
Bill Hobbs Online
IMAO
In DC Journal
In Iraq for 365
India Uncut (India)
Iraq the Model
Iraq War News
Jessica's Well
Junkyard Blog
Kerry Haters
Just One Minute
The Lileks Bleat
Live from Brussels
MedianKritik Comments on German News
Megan McArdle
MegaPundit
My War
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog
News from the Fridge
No Pundit Intended
Not Quite Dead
Outside The Beltway
Pajama Hadin
The Patriette
Patterico's Pontifications
A Place to Talk About War
Politburo Diktat
Positaria
Poynter Online
Presto-Pundit
Q&O
Reb Lazer's Shtibble
Regime Change Iran
Regnum Crucis
The Right Coast
Right Wing News
Wes Roth
Sacred CowBurgers
Samizdata Net
Angie Shultz
Scrappleface (humor)
Sharp as a Marble
Short Final, Cleared to Land
A Shot in the Dark
Slings and Arrows
Small Town Veteran
A Small Victory
Tony Snow
SoxBlog
The Spoons Experience
Stones Cry Out
Training for Eternity
USS Neverdock
Vodka Pundit
The Volkh Conspiracy
Tim Worstall
Spookville
Blogs of people I've been assigned with at the following military units:| 497 RTG | 544 SIW |
|---|---|
| AFIS/IN | 1st TRS |
| 16th TRS | 12th RITS |
Charles Sakai
"Retired" Blogs
DiplomadAllah is in the House
USS Clueless
Global Warming
Skeptics
Acton GroupA Better Earth Organization
Cato Institute links page for global warming
Cato Institute report Excellent summary
CO2 Science Magazine
The Commons
Competetive Enterprise Institute
The Federalist Society
Freedomworks
Global Warming
Greening Earth Society
Heartland Group
Junk Science Global Warming links page
John Locke Foundation
Bjorn Lomborg
National Center for Policy Analysis
Mountain States Legal Action Group
Pacific Legal Action Group
Skepticism.net
Spiked News
Tech Central Station
Town Hall, Energy & Environment news
Neutral (or close)
EPAUS Geological Survey
Global Warming Links Much to think about!
Global Warming, a chilling prospect
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
National Academies report on climate change.
Study Works Online Read with an open mind - and a bit of caution.
Yahoo Links page
Proponents
The Discovery of Global WarmingGlobal Warming.Org Global Warming International Conference
Global Warming Information Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Natural Resources Defense Council
New Scientist
PBS - NOVA Series on Global Warming
Sierra Club
US Global Change Research Information Office
Union of Concerned Scientists
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