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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
12:50 pm	From Best-of-Craigslist From an Angry Soldier -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2007-04-10, 1:00PM PDT I'm having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I'm going to write this while I'm pissed off enough to do it right. I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you're right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you've been there, you don't know a god damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP! How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box. You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad. And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for. Oh while I'm good and worked up, the government doesn't even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so fucked up, you are a god-damn retard. They don't care about us. We're disposable. We're numbers on a page and they'd rather forget we exist so they don't have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they're sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they'd bring them home so their families wouldn't have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Because you can't explain it. We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED. So I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all. Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell. it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests PostingID: 309485032 (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
10:39 am	Final Words I'd like to close this with some words from Bill Maher, from his show "Real Time" on HBO: "This is to me the great dichotomy about Republicans. They're so macho, but they're so naive. They're such tough guys, but they're such sentimentalists. Who gives a fuck about the American spirit? People are dying and we lost the war. We lost it. It's never coming back. You know that, in your heart of hearts that this surge is a game of whack-a-mole that we're never going to win. Everything we feared that's going to happen in Iraq has already happened - the second we pull out. And they can out-wait us. They've been waiting since 632." And I can not, ever, ever say it better than that, therefore I'm done. From Irving, Texas, this is The Transplant. Peace. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 29th, 2006
8:56 pm	End of the year as we know it. Bob Dylan: John the Baptist after torturing a thief looks up at his hero, the Commander-in-Chief, saying, "Tell me, Great Hero, but please make it brief, is there a hole for me to get sick in?" The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly, saying, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry!" And dropping a barbell, he points to the sky, saying, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!" ----------------------------------------------- I'm going to take a shower now. Maybe I can wash the blood of 3000 dead kids and 1 dead dictator off my body. I just heard some of the loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life. A storm is coming. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
11:55 pm	Poor Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AIDVfMu9b8 This came out on Drudge today. Why is this news? Why is the Pentagon even commenting on this? These are soldiers. You people in your air conditioned offices with your comfy chairs and your air conditioning and your 24x7 internet and your Starbucks don't seem to understand what it really means to be a part of a team. It's summer camp bullshit, plain and simple. Yes, she's the only girl, yes, it's a little immature, but any one of these people would undoubtedly lay down in traffic for any of the others if they were asked. That's a team. And part of being part of a team is the screwing around. Give this video a moment to die down, then wait for the video of the payback she undoubtedly will give her comrades in arms when she gets the opportunity. These are soldiers, stand or die, rise or fall. Regardless of what I feel about the war, I don't see anything newsworthy here. Just a group of people blowing off steam, looking for a laugh in a place there is nothing funny about. (As to the uploader's comment about no humvees to fix today - do you know what they fix? Bulletholes, probably. I'm glad they have enough time ot duct tape this poor girl to a pole. That means nobody hit a roadside bomb or got shot that day. And I hope she has time to get her revenge.) (Also, if the video link isn't permanent, the video is of a bunch of soldiers duct taping a female comrade to a pole. Everyone's laughing, nobody is trying to get hurt.) This is funny. War is not. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
4:49 pm	The End of History From http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/ Thursday, 26 October 2006 ------------------------------ President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. ------------------------------ This is how it ends, doesn't it? 9/11/2001 gave birth to USA PATRIOT, and federalized port security under the Department of Homeland Security. Katrina 2005, the President federalizes the National Guard so that they can be directly controlled from Washington. Roundabout the same time, due to border security "concerns", the president can now deploy guard troops anywhere in the country. FTA: ------------------------------- Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy." -------------------------------- Look past the liberal rhetoric and see what's inside there. Ambiguity. More and more the powers reserved by the States are now being surrendered to Washington unconstitutionally, and without state approval. Now the pablum-puker who wrote the article obviously fears some kind of national conspiracy whereby the military takes over cities where mass demonstrations are taking place. Troops will be called in to keep the peace, habeas-corpus has already been suspended, for freedom-haters (an essential component of Martial Law), and curfews will be established. ET CETERA. I fear something much worse. The states won't deploy their own troops. They will refuse. The US Military will be activated under an emergency order by the executive. They will deploy in US Cities. 1957. Desegregation. Little Rock. US Military vs. Arkansas National Guard. Nobody fired a shot. San Francisco, 2007. Protest marches turn violent. The executive believes that Governor Schwarzenegger is unable to control the situation and orders guard troops deployed. The troops refuse. The US Army is deployed. The Governor deploys Guard troops to protect the citizens. When. Did. You. Stop. Remembering? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
1:00 am	Oh dear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism Czar. Talking about electronic voting machines. Quote from Real Time with Bill Maher: "You can hack anything that's electronic. Every one of these machines from every manufacturer has already been hacked, and anybody who knows how to do that can control an election." (Comment on this)
Monday, October 9th, 2006
10:24 am	Kim Jong Il is. Things I have learned watching Foxnews (The source for this is Foxnews, 8:00 - 10:00 am, 10/09/2006: Kim Jong Il is a pedophile. Kim Jong Il is short. Kim Jong Il is a drunk. Kim Jong Il is obsessed with sex. Kim Jong Il is producing nuclear weapons to sell to terrorists. Kim Jong Il likes James Bond films. Kim Jong Il likes fast cars. Kim Jong Il wears platforms to appear taller. [Apart from the pedophilia and production of weapons of mass destruction, he doesn't sound like a bad guy. Now if he had the Farscape DVDs and not Star Trek: TNG, I would be disappointed.] I didn't expect CNN's Heidi Collins to then parrot, nearly to the letter, over an hour later on CNN Newsroom, everything Foxnews had just said. I sent them this letter: Heidi Collins, at the 10:00 hour of CNN Newsroom, said of Kim Jong Il, "Some brand him a madman." I was wondering if you could please tell me your source for this. Who has branded Kim Jong Il a madman? Was the word "madman" used? In what context was his sanity questioned? In all of your coverage of Kim Jong Il, he never appeared to be mentally ill. Thank you for your response. I await their response. My guess is, this is just more "Wacky Iraqi" racist propaganda, meant to dehumanize our enemy so it's easier to see their corpses pile up and rot in mass graves. War will make corpses of us all. Report the news. Shut the fuck up about the rest. It is neverending, you people's bullshit. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 15th, 2006
5:11 pm	The Geneva Convention. From the Wikipedia article: "Article 3 covers internal armed conflict (not of an international character) and it provides similar protections for combatants as those described in the rest of this document for a prisoner of war. That Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including POWs; shall in all circumstances be treated humanely. It also lays out some basic rules for the treatment of all people combatants and non-combatants alike. Article 3 also states that parties to the internal conflict should endeavour to bring into force, by means of special agreements, all or part of the other provisions of GCIII." And now George Bush wants to... "define" ... the Geneva conventions. We need to "define" them, because we don't really understand what humane treatment of prisoners means (hint, no bags, no jumper cables, no faggotry). So, Mr. President, you're going to define Article 3? Just like you defined the first Amendment? You know? The Bill of Rights? The Amendment I to the Constitution of the United States? (Stewie voice now) So, "Freedom of speech"? That means as long as you are listening now? Freedom of the press? As long as you can put reporters in jail? Freedom to peaceably assemble, but not outside your house in Crawford? Freedom of Religon, as long as it's yours? You're defining this for us now? You're helping us? HOW'S THAT GOING FOR YA? (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
11:44 am	Snakes? On my plane? So the AP runs a photo of some poor Russian chump who has to quaff an entire magnum of bubbly because he can't take the liquid on the plane. Where the FUCK is your head, Chertoff? Evian and nail polish? This is worse than the whole lighter ban thing. Think of a scenario whereby a liquid, let's say a litre maximum, could take down a plane. Go ahead. I'll wait. Still waiting. Yep, I hear ya talking. You got lots of "possibles" there, but I'm not hearing anything "plausible" come out of your mouth. And now, airport security is being bolstered with National Guard troops, federalized after Katrina, funded with "terror funding". I want to play that sound clip from Full Metal jacket, "What is that? WHAT. THE. FUCK IS THAT?" Jesus, people, use your fucking brains. And Chertoff, I hope your wife gets a secondary from a big woman with cold hands because she didn't check her makeup case. Current Music: Natalie Merchant - Ophelia (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
6:42 am	Bombs over Beirut Let me preface this by saying that if you have a family or you are ill, a child, old, sick, or weak, this doesn't apply to you. The rest of you: PUSSIES! All of you! Beirut is a safe, metropolitan city. Israel is shelling and bombing parts of the city where Hezbollah is/was/will be hiding. They are also sending in troops and launching air strikes against southern Lebanon because they don't want a terrorist group that the Lebanese government has left unchecked camping out on their northern border and kidnapping their soldiers. Think about it. You're based in the Middle East, right on the edge of a war that has been going on for two thousand years. This was Knights Templar stuff, remember that? Of course you don't because it was A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. And you went to Beirut and you got an apartment and you only drink bottled water cause you don't want to get the shits and you bitch to your friends over Budweiser beer that miss the comforts of home and once in a while but not often enough your mom sends you a care package with twinkies and animal crackers and little statues of JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST, all the things you can't get in Lebanon. And a few bombs go off and they close the airports and now you want to run away crying to Cyprus. Shame. On. You. You little maggot scumbag pussy. I've been trying for a year to get a gob in Beirut, and I'll be damned if I'm going to leave because a mortar blew up the roach coach. If you didn't know what you were getting into, then for god's sake, YOU ARE A MORON, you should be fired, and I want your job. I'll take it. I'll catch a plane to Cypress and I won't have any trouble getting passage on a ferry or a cruise ship or a transport to Lebanon, and do you know why? Because I'll be the only American with a true love for peace and the world trying to get in, while all you poseur wannabes telling stories to your friends "stateside" about how you "roughed it" for a week because you had to sleep on a blanket on the floor of your boss's house because your apartment was near a blast zone and it shook the bricks a little. Go back to America, fools. You douchebag fucking poseurs. Go back to America and be damned to the life of mediocre blandness you deserve. Whiny bastards. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: The Poem Adept (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
7:12 pm	The State of the Union From an IRC transcript. My current views. [19:00] all these fucking people [19:00] all these people voting republican [19:00] America for Americans [19:00] My COUNTRY, right or wrong! [19:01] All they need to do is watch some Star Trek [19:01] they need to smoke some pot [19:02] well that or somethign else [19:03] they need to look into themselves and think about how lonely it must be, how depressing that white heterosexuals with certain specific diplomatic ideaologies are the only people capable of living good lives. [19:05] we bomb sandy countries, we put active duty military personnel in the highest levels of intelligence office [19:05] immediately after we use Katrina to federalize the national guard. [19:06] we're a stone's throw away from putting troops on the street, like in Indianapolis when I was there for what, a Colts game? [19:07] there were national guardsmen on every block, all within sight of each other, so five would be on you in a second if you started some shit [19:10] I am so fucking glad that we have that gay marriage ammendment tabled for the time being, we can bring it up in another month. [19:10] that's great news [19:12] cause it means we've got the budget balanced, peace in iraq, secure borders, national disaster relief, and on top of it, we've caught osama bin laden and won the war on terror!! [19:12] asshats (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
10:28 am	What the fuck, over? I learned two new things before I got out of bed this morning. First, there is actually a show called "Honey Hole: Outdoors". Honey Hole. Second, I learned from TXCN (Texas Cable News channel, clips from local news across Texas), that a woman was asked not to come back to a chinese buffet because her kids were wasting food. In this investigative report, the woman appeared in silhouette for fear of being banned from other buffets. In an exclusive interview, the owner of the chinese buffet said she was wasting food. Other people in another buffet were interviewed, and they say that people who waste food are annoying because it just makes shit more expensive. When it cut back to the studio, the entire interview was MOCKED by the hosts. I can't remember ny exact quotes, but it was clear that they thought the entire concept of an investigative journalist doing a hard news piece about a woman being asked not to come back to the Drgon Inn was absurd as all hell. Did I mention she appeared in silhouette for fear of being buffet blacklisted? THIS IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU THE EDWARD R MURROW AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM... I checked TXCN, but I can't find a link to it. God. People. SHUT THE FUCK UP. As my dad used to say on slow news days, "Didn't Congress pass a law or something??" Okay. I'm done. P.S. All you Mexicans: TEXAS SUCKS. Cross into California, or New Mexico, or Arizona, but Texas licks my hairy ball sack in hell. The food sucks, the people suck, and the only culture worth anything (white, brown, yellow, or otherwise) around here is "Tex-Mex" which is like making a shit and chocolate mousse. Might as well stay in Mexico and .. plant fucking corn or something but just don't come here. IT FUCKING SUCKS. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 24th, 2006
7:18 am	I don't need your Civil War. Your power hungry selling soldiers in a human grocery store (ain't that fresh). Well, Mr. President. Looks like you've really screwed the pooch this time. Do you think you can walk into a country fragmented by religion and held together with the loose glue of fascism, kill the dictators, and expect everyone to hand olive branches to each other? Feh! You moron. You couldn't keep it together. You fucked up. And now the free people of Iraq are prisoners in their own country with your curfew. Now we're on the brink of an Iraqi civil war. Who is more foolish, Mr. President? The fool, or the fool who follows him? If the hick-town redneck red state jackasses who elected you twice would put aside sticking magnetic yellow ribbons on the back of their wood panel minivans for one minute to listen to some news, they would realize how foolish they really are. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 20th, 2006
6:01 pm	War Pigs -----8< U.S. Rejects Any 'Truce' With Bin Laden Jan 20, 8:10 AM (ET) By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON (AP) - Rejecting a suggestion by Osama bin Laden of a negotiated truce in the war on terror, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was only one way to deal with terrorists. "I think you have to destroy them," Cheney said. -----8< In the American Revolution, we were terrorists to the British. They brought terror to us. They quartered troops in our homes, made us feed them. All while they used force, guns, to maintain control of a legally established colony in North America. In the end, the war on terror proved too costly for the Redcoats. In the end, we made peace. They didn't destroy us. We didn't destroy them. Civilized men in civilized times made a civil choice. They chose peace. Fast forward to the War of the Nations, also known as World War I. In the end, we signed the Armistice, and peace was restored. Fast forward to the Great Patriotic War, or World War II. We used nuclear weapons for the first and last time in history. Again, bloody battles fought in trenches and now in the skies cost millions of lives. This was all pretty much because WWI (above) was not yet over for some, but in the end, we signed our treaties with the rest of the world. Peace was restored yet again. Do I really think Osama is going to end the war in Iraq? I wonder, as some thinking people do, how much control he actually has over Al Quaeda and other such armies these days. I wonder if maybe he's not already dead (greatly exaggerated, but still a possibility). His latest communication, however, offered a truce. Yitzhak Rabin told us that we don't make peace with our friends. We make peace with our enemies. With all this blustering and cock-waving on the part of the Bush administration talking about having to "destroy them" is well and good, because they need to put that front forward in order to keep our troops happy, validate the Iraqi provisional government, but I hope there are some kind of secret (informal) feelers going out to him. If he's ready to talk, maybe his people will be ready to listen. Otherwise, Cheney, and everyone like him, is simply a war pig. A foolhardy fanatic loving death and destruction over peace and freedom. Hillary (retch) is right, history will judge them harshly. But right now, peace is being sold at bargain basement prices. All we need to do is listen, and not dismiss the monster's remarks out of hand. Maybe he's ready to talk. (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
10:06 pm	Where is Walter Cronkite Two hours until the bell tolls, and where am I? Suburban hell. Once again. I fell a bit like Bilbo, getting cabin fever in the Shire. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, MOUNTAINS! Well, what have I learned in the past month? I guess getting a blowjob is an impeachable offense, but spying on Americans on American soil without a warrant is not. When it's "Who outed Valeria Plame?" the white house responds, "Wasn't me!" When it's "There are secret US torture bases in former Eastern Bloc countries" it's "Who snitched?" "The NSA has spied on Americans over 30 times since 9/11 without a warrant, not even the 'secret warrant' required by the USA PATRIOT Act," the white house wants to know "Who's giving this secret to our enemies? You're only helping the terrorists!" How many times have I heard the same tiresome line, we're fighting for democracy in Iraq by polluting it here? The USA PATRIOT Act has been extended. Did it take George Lucas to tell us that this is how democracy ends? With thunderous applause? Where is Walter Cronkite to tell us that Iraq is nothing but a stalemate? The Shiites will bide their time until we leave until they run in and crush the Sunnis, or vice-versa. And what of the Kurds? Do they not deserve their revenge? Isn't the Bath party not a deserving target of that revenge? Years ago, we had a war in Vietnam, which is now known more as an verb than a noun. This Blatant Disregard for human life in Iraq is offensive. Thousands of Americans dead, and do you know what they're not telling you? Those are the men and women who died IN-COUNTRY, not the ones they shipped off to die in Germany or Turkey or Kuwait City (which I heard from one of our fighting men is the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen). LOTR: "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?" Or Star Wars, Episode 4, as we beg for some sanity: Help me, Walter Cronkite. You're my only hope. (Comment on this)
Friday, November 25th, 2005
11:18 pm	Two in one day?! Just wanted to paste this little note I sent to MSNBC. Of course, I used my real name. Re: Web Story Url: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6083442/ How irresponsible are you? I'm watching your MSNBC Special Report on online child predators on Tivo here tonight, and I had to put it on pause to write you this email. Just who in the hell does Rita think she is? I came of age technologically before Sundevil. My mom knew nothing about computers. You know those little locks they used to have? I wired a jumper to the back of the case the first time she tried to lock me out. Cybersitter? Netnanny? Those are toys for children. Back in my day a kid had to have smarts to make their 286 call Cleveland. These days your average 13 year old can sam hack an admin password on a Windows box. Long story short, telling parents that there is any sort of technological solution to knowing what your kid is up to online is meaningless. To the egocentric Abercrombe kids who are too dumb to get dressed in the morning without the help of The Gap, Netnanny might be the solution. To people like me, who, when I was fourteen, considered every attempt to curtail my interface with technology as a higher hurdle to jump, or any security measure a problem to solve, Cybersitter is child's play. I'm talking about 14 years ago when I got started with technology. Kids today start earlier. They know more. They're more curious. And they have a lot of time on their hands. It takes guidance, patience, trust, and understanding to keep them safe, not virtual locks that can be defeated with the simplest of tools. Unless your parent wants to be a part time sysadmin, they better wise up and start understanding, knowing, and trusting. Their kids will turn into very, very smart, tech-savvy movers and shakers, or very, very smart, tech-savvy criminals. It all depends on whether, at that critical age, parents teach them which doors to open, or force them how to learn to pick locks. Either way, they learn. -- TheTransplant P.S. The attached is an unadulterated screen capture from your website. Maybe one of the dangers kids face online this Holiday Season is a $100 Visa Gift Card from Grandma and a visit to msnbc.com? [I can't do it without a paid account, but the image I attached (I hope they accept attachments) was a hilarious lil gem of an advertisement for buying wine online immediately to the right of DANGERS KIDS FACE... Damn near laughed my ass off.] (Comment on this)
12:10 pm	One prediction comes true, one on the horizon. Welcome to the future. See below, where I said: ...troop deployments in Iraq will begin their reduction in mid-year 2006... [Quoting From Reuters, 23 November 2005] ... "I suspect that American forces are not going to be needed in the numbers that they're there for all that much longer, because Iraqis are continuing to make progress in function, not just in numbers, but in their capabilities to do certain functions," [U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice told CNN on Tuesday. ... Quoting several senior military officers, the Post said Pentagon authorities also have set a series of "decision points" during 2006 to consider further force cuts that, under a "moderately optimistic" scenario, would drop the total number of troops to fewer than 100,000 from more than 150,000 now, including 10 combat brigades, by the end of the year. [endquote] What's that you say? "Duh?" "Who couldn't see that coming?" Fine, that was an easy one, but nobody could have seen that today's egocentric culture would create such a groundswell of support for an Iraq pullout? This isn't astroturfing, people, this is real. Oh, and hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! On Fox News, 25 November 2005, Fox News Military Analyst Lt. Col. Bill Cowan (Ret.) said, "...there are good indications that U.S. forces had crossed into Syria to pursue some insurgents, possibly Al Quaeda people..." Okay, so my prediction below, ... trade routes running Libyan guns to Syrian Jihadists paid with Saudi money will be exposed and shut down by the first of the year, 2006 ... was a little off in the timing, but cross-border incursions into a sovereign nation aren't often made lightly. Well, except by a Republican administration. Viva la Guerra! (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
9:53 pm	OH MY GAY!! Back to politics. Looks like Texas has come down with Gay Fever! Texans will vote on Proposition 2 on Tuesday. The State of Texas Proposed Constitutional Amendments page has the quote: "The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage." They offer a brief explanation (as if this .. whatever .. mindless redneck Texas rebel flag wearing separatist .. can I buy a modifier .. needs one: "HJR 6 would provide that marriage in Texas is solely the union of a man and woman, and that the state and its political subdivisions could not create or recognize any legal status identical to or similar to marriage, including such legal status relationships created outside of Texas." They have come for the jews. Do not *even* dismiss this as a liberal fag-friendly rant. Queers have long been a haven for sexually secure, yet for some reason unavailable single heterosexual women, making them unavailable in various bars, restaurants, and night clubs - but more on fag hags and their cockblocking sisters later. We're supposed to have an intelligent, progressive culture here. I've got one issue with it: Gay couples do not have the same legal rights as straight couples. Specifically, a gay man's .. husband .. partner .. whatever the proper term for it is .. can not have his .. wife's .. health benefits at work. This is simply a social injustice that has existed for years and must now be corrected. In order to do this, we need to make it easier, not more difficult, for companies to offer same-sex health benefits to their employees. This law would make it more difficult. So you have three choices: 1. Vote Yes on Proposition 2. You will effectively ban homosexual civil unions and continue the shameful practice of allowing companies who do not value their gay employees to receive the benefits their heterosexual coworkers are given. You hate fags, you toothless redneck son of a bitch. Fly your rebel flag, Jethro. Fly it proud. 2. Vote No on Proposition 2. You may not like or dislike fags. You may have no opinion on where a man puts his penis here on Anyhole Island, or you may find arsefiching really quite distasteful. Who knows? Who *cares*? A vote against Proposition 2 is a vote against prejudice, that is, a vote against the government legislating the conditions required for prejudice to thrive. 3. Do nothing. You're not gay, so why do you care? What difference does this make to you? Think about something you value, something that you love. Now think about the government offering up an amendment to the constitution making it perfectly legal for someone to deny you that thing you love, whatever it may be. This is different, you say? Not remotely. You think that by not speaking, you are not being heard, and therefore your lack of opinion will go unnoticed. Trust and believe, the silent majority does more harm to this country than any vocal minority (and vocal people are a minority, no president in recent history has been elected by a majority of the population because the majority don't vote). They came for the Jews, and you were not a Jew. Turn the oven on, you sympathizer. Put it on "broil" and stick your head in. Go find a bumper sticker that says "Don't Blame Me, I voted for the Other Guy" and replace the "Voted for The Other Guy" with "sat on my ass drinking Budweiser and watching NASCAR and didn't vote, because it didn't concern me." If I had my way, NASCAR would be outlawed. Kiss my fat ass, Texas. I, for one, *do* care, and I will be voting NO on Proposition 2 on November 8th. Even if I didn't care, I would still vote NO. Texans, send a message to your state. THOU SHALT NOT LEGALIZE HATE. End of discussion. Current Music: It's Rainign Men (Comment on this)
Monday, October 31st, 2005
8:03 pm	Personal Notes Well, I've got nothing to say about the war, and haven't for a long time. The body count is up to 2000. The Bush administration has its first real scandal, now covered up with a Supreme Court nomination. What did Bill Maher say? "One guy got his dick sucked, the other guy outed a CIA agent. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!" Anyhow, I just wanted to add a little personal note on teaching. In a former life, I was a public school teacher. I'm in the process of getting credentialed in Texas. $7 for a copy of my transcripts to the Texas DOE. $177 for Texas to do a review of my out of state credentials $45 for fingerprints, BUT WAIT... Michigan's DOE doesn't issue qualification letters. Michigan issues certificates. So.. $125 for a provisional teaching certificate in Michigan $Dunno to take Red Cross Adult / Child CPR course required by Michigan $55 for a standard certificate in Texas. That's over $400 just to get a piece of paper that should have come with my degree! Add onto that the $300 worth of tests I took back in 2003 in order to get certified, and you've got a nice chunk of change. Now I can afford this, but PLEASE.. If I were working on a teacher's salary, this would be about a week's pay! So now I have to get a credential in Michigan I'll probably never use, give it to the Texas DOE to be "reviewed" so they can issue a certificate in Texas. I have to pay all this in order to be qualified to be hired into an ill-paying, dead-end job, and we're cutting food stamps to pay for war? The Vogons can't get here fast enough. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Dido - Here With Me (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
10:23 pm	Today we mourn. (As an aside: Today we mourn Judge Rehnquist. Conservative but fairly so. He died in the judiciary. Much respect to him.) Today we mourn the victims of government inadequacy with regard to FEMA's inability to handle a crisis situation. Wasn't this one of the 'lessons learned' after 9/11/2001? Weren't we pouring all this money into the coordination of rescue efforts? Weren't we developing evacuation plans and Guard troop movements? We pay an extra 'security tax' on our airfares, not to mention taxes on the middle class are higher than ever, because we all have to do our part when it comes to saving lives. You can't put a price on that. And no, I'm not donating to the Red Cross DRF or any fund of the sort. Mr. President: WHERE IS THE FUCKING MONEY? Today we mourn civility and common decency. After the looting and shooting I saw live on Foxnews yesterday and today, I no longer have respect for the poor. Today we mourn common sense. Why is Texas bring this scum into Houston? Time to start setting the burglar alarm. Think about this, I'm being completely serious. You have a neighbour. Your neighbour is a single mother of three. She keeps a clean house, her kids are well-behaved, her lawn is mowed. Life is good. Now she gets into a horrible car wreck caused by a meth-addicted drunk driver. A relative sits with the kids for a month, but she has to go back to school on Monday. The kids' mother gets out of Physical Therapy on Wednesday. Two scenarios: The kids were well behaved all month, called their mother every day and visited her on weekends. Do you offer to take them for three days until their mother gets out of PT? The kids trashed the house, bitched about mom not being home, and stole everything not locked down from the old lady across the street. Now do you offer to take them? At the risk of sounding like Airplane... I say, let em crash! This Cajun trash is worse than the average Texans I deal with every day, and they're pretty bad. Get Geraldo off the news. Bring in the hardest of the hardcore motherfucking Marines to fire at will at any looters, suspected looters, or anything that moves after 9pm. And get Bush's monkey mug off the damn TV, he's making me sick. Restore order, Louisiana...then I'll look after your kids. Current Mood: cynical Current Music: Tital A.E. Soundtrack (Comment on this)