Some overdue business

First, if you haven't checked out the NRSC Pledge, please do so.

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

Money talks, people. We need to fix the GOP, and letting them know that they won't get a damn cent of support from us unless they start listening to the people who elect them is a good start.

Second, I also recommend checking out the Victory Caucus.

We support victory in the war against radical Islamists. We supported the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and we believe victory is necessary in both countries for America's self-defense.

We believe that the radical regime in Iran, while not representative of the Iranian people, is a menace and that it cannot be allowed to obtain or build nuclear weapons.

We believe that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that has killed hundreds of Americans and which waged war against Israel in violation of every law of war this past summer, and will do so again in the future.

We believe Israel is our ally and friend and deserves the full assistance of the United States in its battle with radical Islamists. We believe that Israel has repeatedly shown its willingness to negotiate a just and lasting peace, but that its enemies do not want peace, but the destruction of Israel.

We believe that the American military is the finest in the world and indeed in history, well led and superbly trained, and populated at every level by America's best and brightest.

We support the troops, and those organizations which assist the wounded in their recoveries and support the families of those who sacrificed everything.

We support leaders who support victory.

Victory. Period. Not "Peace with Honor" which is Democrat American Communist Party shorthand for "Wait until no one is looking, then run away and screw our allies over." Not "phased withdrawl". We withdraw when the enemy is good and gone. Not "redeployment". That's a horseshit phrase for "Cut and Run". As Emperor Misha puts it so eloquently:

They can end it, right fucking now, by getting down on their fucking knees and begging us to stop. And frankly, anything less than that is nothing short of a defeat for us, and I don’t handle defeats very well. They tend to piss me off, and I get decidedly unpleasant when I’m pissed off.

So don’t give me any blather about “acceptable outcomes”, because there IS only ONE acceptable outcome, and that is us winning. There is the winner, and then there are the “also rans”, and I don’t much like belonging to the latter, because they’re worthless pukes. If you’re some metrosexual loser who can live with that, I’d much appreciate it if you’d just find a nice gun and eat a bullet from it, because you’re only fucking up my gene pool by continuing to waste oxygen.

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I mean, do you idiots really think that you can just opt out of wars? OK, so I have to confess something here, and that is the fact that I thought, back during the Cold War, just as everybody else stupid enough to volunteer for fighting in it (I was one of those stupid people), that once that one was over, if it was ever to be over, there would be no wars ever again. Heck, we dreamed about that fantasy world all the time because none of us really wanted to die, and then all of a sudden it happened, thanks to the Gipper. The Cold War was over, and we could all go back to dancing with the fucking unicorns and living high and mighty off of the Peace Dividend, right?

Wrong.

As long as there’s somebody in this world who has something that somebody else wants, there’ll be wars.

It’s uncomfortable, but it’s the truth.

And the only way to keep that bastard from taking away what’s yours is to kick him in the fucking nuts until he loses interest in your possessions because the pain in his scrotum distracts him from chopping your empty head off.

A little note

About Tim's post right below this one re: Marcotte getting fired.

What on earth possessed John Edwards to hire her in the first place? Did he look at what she wrote? Did he bother to do any homework at all? Or did he just say "Oh look, a wymyn blogger! Yeah!"

Because if you wanted to appeal to the loony Left, anti-America crowd, you got it. But if you wanted to appeal to the rest of America, you failed miserably.

While I'm happy she's been relegated back to her own blog, where I don't have to hear about her any more, I gotta admit, I was looking forward to that big target Marcotte painted on Edwards' forhead in '08.

Ding dong...

...the witch is dead.

Two can play the Asymmetrical game

Can't they?

Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003.

Yeah.

Shoot, we should be able to do the Asymmetrical thing better than anyone.

At least, until the Democrats demand hearings.

Instapundit.com

Is it just me

Or have all the celebrity award shows turned into acts of mass masturbation and Leftist propaganda?

I mean, I stopped giving a shit about the Grammies when Milli Vanilli won a damn Grammy. Look, I saw those two jokers on MTV back in the day, and they sucked. But the sad part was that it wasn't them! They sucked, and the song that they lip-synced to sucked, and it was just one big massive event of suckitude. Yet they won a Grammy, which was later taken away.

But they shouldn't have won a Grammy to begin with. THEY SUCKED! Or rather, the people who were actually singing SUCKED! Now, the 80's were a wasteland as far as music was concerned, but even in the 80's, Milli Vanilli fell to depths of suckage that most people couldn't attain if they tried.

And they still won a Grammy. I haven't watched a single Grammy show since then.

Now I find out, that even after being self-relegated to the dustbin of history, the Ditsy Twits have won not just one Grammy, but five of the fucking things.

Huh? They're still making music?

Just like the Oscars, the Grammies have fallen to new lows, which certainly isn't going to make me watch them. In fact, in order for me to begin watching any awards shows again, they'll have to return to something resembling sanity for about five years straight. Until then? Nuthin'. I wouldn't watch the Oscars or the Grammies if you paid me. And let's face it - they're nothing more than masturbatory orgies of people wildly patting themselves on the back for being so witty and cool.

Can anyone name off the last five Oscar Winners for Best Movie? Of the top of your head? I couldn't tell you who won it last year. That's how little I care about all these "awards".

Piss on 'em all. Screeching harpies winning awards I don't care about. They can all just piss up a rope together and then die of jerking off too much.

Holy S**T!

Wait, lemmee say that again - HOLY S**T!

I could give two fucks about WMDs. There were much more important reasons to topple Saddam—terrorism being one of them. The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education. What has stood in the way of those things has primarily been the regimes of Iraq, Iran, and Syria. We just got one of them out of the way.

Hommenahommenahommena.....

What makes this so amazing is where this guy comes from:

Making this movie cost me everything. I am a virtual outcast in Hollywood. After photos from a haircut party at Camp Iskandariyah made it back to the States, there were pictures of me with a new Mohawk and die shaved in my chest, and rumors swelled that I had finally snapped and turned into Travis Bickle, De Niro’s character in Taxi Driver. No one in L.A. understood what men in a combat zone would do to break the monotony, to create a chance to laugh. My family will barely speak to me anymore because they lean so far to the left. My soon-to-be fourth ex-wife and I are in a legal battle over visitation rights for our daughter. I know I can’t take care of my kid; I’m going back to Ramadi as soon as possible. It’s terrifying to go there. There’s a 10 percent chance you’re going to die, there’s a 30 percent chance you’re going to be wounded, and there’s a 100 percent chance that hot metal will go flying near your body.

Just. Go. READ!

Found at Cold Fury, who has also been dumpster diving at the Kostard's place and found a true Leftist hero: (The link is to Cold Fury. I don't link to any Kostard post.)

Among many reasons, I hate America for the near-extermination and subsequent oppression of its indigenous population. I hate it for its role in the African slave trade and for dropping atomic bombs on civilians. I hate its control of institutions like the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. I hate it for propping up brutal dictators like Suharto, Pinochet, Duvalier, Hussein, Marcos, and the Shah of Iran. I hate America for its unconditional support for Israel. I hate its bogus two-party system, its one-size-fits-all culture, and its income gap. I could go on for pages but I’ll sum up with this: I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy

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And check this out -

After a paragraph like that, you know what comes next: If you hate America so much, why don’t you leave? Leave America? That would potentially put me on the other end of U.S. foreign policy. No thanks.

As Mike says, this sniveling shitstain hates this country, but he ain't gonna leave it. He's more than happy to accept the benefits of living in America, even while he hates it and tries to tear it down.

THAT, my friends, is the Left in a nutshell. This shitstain is just an honest one.

For Quasimodo

The case against the Border Patrol agents is beginning to fall apart.

Two Border Patrol agents who testified against two co-workers convicted of shooting a drug smuggler will be fired [and a third resigned] for changing their stories about events surrounding the shooting, ...

The agents were given immunity in exchange for their testimony despite changing their accounts of the incident several times.

At this point, I'm not going to say conclusively that the agents are innocent. However, the fact that they were put into general population, where they were then beaten, combined with the hokey testimony against them, is setting off every alarm in my head.

There's something fishy about the whole thing, starting with the fact that the two agents would be prosecuted for doing their damn job, i.e. stopping a drug smuggler from entering the country.

I'm willing to bet my paycheck that the two agents now sitting in jail are innocent, and the case against them is a bunch of made-up crap.

Can't post, wait, CAN post, wait, I HATE NEW BLOGGER!

So, I had to change over to the "New" Blogger today. It wouldn't give me a choice; either I switched, or I didn't post.

I hate blogger just for that. Every time I see something is "NEW! IMPROVED" I find that it is new, and not improved at all. In fact, half the time it's quite the opposite.

We'll see what happens.

The safety and security of our public schools is a joke

My son attends Giaudrone Middle School in Tacoma Washington. I will be the first to say that most public schools are hit-or-miss. Recently my son was attacked with brass knuckles by another student on the way home from school. A police report was filed. The student was identified. Neither the school or the police are doing anything. The child will not be suspended or disciplined in any way.

My understanding has always been that the school is responsible for you from the time you walked out your door, until you got home from school. If this happened when I was in school, the attacker would have been suspended.

My son was telling me about other things happening at local schools in within "the aroma of Tacoma". Apparently there have also been bomb threats and shootings . Once again it is just proof that the public has gone to hell, and not only are you no longer allowed to protect yourself, but, you can not count on the ones with responsibility to do so, either!!!

Anna Nichole Smith dead

Although I'm sure you've heard that by now. An autopsy is scheduled for today.

Although it's probably wrong of me, I'm going to predict that they'll find so many drugs in her system that the people in the autopsy room will have a contact high for at least a week.


Look, I really don't know why people paid so much attention to her, unless it was the "Trainwreck" syndrome. You know it's horrible, but you just can't look away. When they were showing videos of her C-section on the web, I though that had crossed the line. Why in g-d's name would you put something like that on the web? What's worse, PEOPLE WATCHED IT!

That level of obsession just ain't healthy.

Anyways, I figure that by the time I come back from the range, they'll figure out what happened to her, and plaster it all over the news. Not like there's anything really important going on, right? I mean, you can't have the biased press putting out horror story after horror story ALL the time, right? They need a break, right? Plus, after we all found out that Jamil Hussien was a lying SOB, if he even exists at all, they had to find someone else to give them their propaganda, and that takes TIME, people! You can't just fabricate stories in a day, you know! They need a break, so they had to find some way to distrac... HEY LOOK! ANNA NICHOLE SMITH DIED!

Gah. I'm off to go put some holes in some targets. I'll see you all Monday.

DAY-um!

OK, so even if you want to say that the Clinton's hands are clean, it still doesn't seem to be safe to be involved with any of their business.

You can call me SWEATY MAN!

Ever seen a man lose ten pounds of water weight in one day? Happens to me more than I would like down here. I'm also a bit sunburned. Oh joy. I can't wait to see what I look like after this weekend.

Anyways, since my unit is getting ready to go to the range, I'm going to be out of circulation for the next three days. I'll be back sometime Monday. I hope you can all live without me until then.

I'll do what I can to get the Raging Mrs. to blog in my absence.

Oh Dear Lord...

The Democrats American Communist Party and their mouthpiece the MSM are at it again, this time with what has got to be one of the most biased headlines I've seen in a good long while, accusing Republicans of "stifling debate".

Go read that link to Powerline, because explaining it would make my head explode. The biased press and their Orwellian doublespeak make me want to puke.

Sniveling dipwad soon to be court-martialed.

And it can't come too soon.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Accused by the Army of betraying his fellow soldiers, a lieutenant who refused to ship out to Iraq will have a chance to explain himself at his court-martial.

First Lt. Ehren Watada was expected to be one of two defense witnesses called when his court-martial resumes Wednesday, as he fights charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and missing movement for refusing to leave last June with his unit, the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.

This idiot signed up AFTER the invasion of Iraq. He knew what the Army was doing, where it was sending troops, and why. Yet he still raised his right hand, took an oath, and promptly crapped all over that oath when his unit was mobilized. As far as I'm concerned, he needs to be dishonorably discharged and sent on his way. I suppose four years in the Leavenworth Prison might not be a bad idea, but I myself wouldn't push that issue. What I think is important is the Dishonorable Discharge. As in, "You're such a slimy fuckweasel that we'll say so to anyone who asks."

At this point, I'm inclined to believe that his whole Army career was one big political statement in the making. I wouldn't want him in my unit, that's for sure. "Oh, I don't want to go to Iraq, why can't you send me to Afghanistan?" BECAUSE YOUR UNIT TRAINED TO GO TO IRAQ, YOU MISERABLE PISSANT! This selfish asshat violated most if not all of the Army Values in his pre-planned political statement, and it's the troops in his unit who will suffer the most for it.

Kick him out, tell the world what a slimy fuckweasel he is, and move on. He doesn't deserve to be associated with the Army.

So, Border Patrol....

How's that recruiting going, anyways?

One of two former Border Patrol agents sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting and wounding a suspected Mexican drug smuggler was beaten by a group of inmates last weekend, a Texas congressman confirmed to FOXNews.com.

Ignacio Ramos, who was transferred to the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex in Mississippi last month to begin serving his 12-year sentence for the February 2005 shooting of Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, was placed in a special housing unit after the incident pending an investigation, according to T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council.

"We received verbal confirmation from the prison folks that he was assaulted and went to the infirmary and was treated for injuries," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, told FOXNews.com, adding that he has requested a written report of the incident.

Another agent, Jose Compean, is serving 11 years in another facility for the same border shooting.

They went to jail because they shot a drug-smuggling asshole who had crossed over the border, ILLEGALY, with his ILLEGAL DRUGS, and pointed a gun at Border Patrol agents. Now they're in jail. Not just in jail, but in the general population which includes a whole bunch of illegal alien criminals.

I'm sure that people are just RUSHING to sign up with the Border Patrol, knowing that they could be SENT TO JAIL for DOING THEIR FUCKING JOBS!

They shouldn't go to jail for shooting a drug running criminal, they should be given a pay bonus and put back to work! At this point, I'm convinced that the gubmint doesn't give a shit about enforcing the law, and they're activly trying to make it easier for drug runners, illegal aliens, and other criminals to make it into the USA.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Maybe it's just me

But does anyone else think that if S.F. mayor Gavin Newsom was a Republican, he would have been forced out of office by the relentless drumbeat of modern "feminists" by now?

I mean, sleeping with the wife of a co-worker is probably accepted in San Fran, I'll grant you that. But I see a distict double standard in the way the Left treats it's adulterers, vs. how they treat anyone on the Right who acts the way the Left does.

Did that sentance make sense?

By the way, Cable can go to hell

Well, it's official - the cable company STILL hasn't gotten the channels back that they dumped, so we're dumping them. I see no reason to pay money every month for two hundred channels that I don't watch.

So, at the end of this month, we will be a TV free house.

Yay.

Super Bowl Notes

I thought that after the Bears ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown that we would have a barn-burner on our hands.

Rex Grossman needs some more seasoning. He's just too inexperienced at this point. Maybe in a couple of years, he'll be what he needs to be in order to win the big one.

That said, he's been to a game that most other QB's haven't, so maybe he doesn't have that far to go.

And on the topic of Grossman, one thing that chaps my ass is how everyone this year compared him to Trent Dilfer. "Hey, the Ravens won with Dilfer, how hard can it be?" To everyone who ever made that statement - piss off. You've just demonstrated that you have NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Look, Dilfer is never going to be confused with Joe Montana or John Elway. That's a simple observation. But Dilfer does what many QB's have a problem doing - he takes care of the ball. He doesn't turn it over. He didn't have to score forty points a game, because he had a great defense. But the reason he won is because he didn't pull any boneheaded plays and give the ball away. Ask yourself this question: Who were the Baltimore recievers when they won the Superbowl? If you don't have an answer ready, maybe that should tell you how good Dilfer was. You had a defense, a running back, and Dilfer. He didn't have Jerry Rice, or Micheal Irvine, or Shannon Sharpe, or Troy Brown, or ANYONE. But he still managed to get the ball to where it needed to go.

He might not be a great QB, but he's a good one. And lest we forget, he has something that Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and a host of other Hall of Famer's don't have. A Super Bowl Ring. You don't get those by making bonehead mistakes. Just ask Rex Grossman.

And since we're on the subject of QB's, can we please, please, PLEASE stop with the "Manning's good, but he hasn't won a (fill in the blank here) yet." That monkey is officially off his back. Period. He's got nothing left to prove to anyone but himself. I actually heard some talking head say "Does he have to win another Super Bowl to cement his legacy?" WHAT? I'm sorry, but the gazillions of yards thrown, the flaming assloads of TD's, the number of victories, now a Super Bowl win, and people don't think his legacy is set?

I mean, I know that these talking heads aren't exactly the smartest kids in class, but PUH-LEEZE!

Can someone please find out what the Indy defense was eating for breakfast over the past month, and ship a case of it to the Seattle Seahawks? Pretty please? They went from cardboard pushovers to rampaging beasts out for blood. Holy moly. We need some of that in Seattle!

Speaking of defense, how did the Chicago D-line get pushed around like gradeschool girls? What the hell was that about? Indy ran the ball down the Bear's throat, and all the Bears could do was say "Thank you sir, may I have another!" Not good. Brian Urlacher has to be spitting fire right about now, since he seemed to be the only Chicago defender actually playing the entire game. Hell, at one point he ran halfway across the field to make a tackle, since the three defenders currently in that area seemed to be more interested it studying the lay of the turf rather than making the tackle themselves.

Doesn't the very name "Brian Urlacher" sound like a linebacker's name? The man was fated to play defense. Like Dick Butkis. Seems to me with a name like "Butkis" you have two options: turn into a whiny sissyboy, or rip people's heads off for a living. And with "Dick" as your first name? Sheesh. That's why he was such a great linebacker - he was so pissed off at his parents for giving him that name that he just wanted to kill people. Or plant them waist deep into the turf. Whatever. I bet a lot of the people he hit wished that he'd just pulled out a gun and blew them away, it would have hurt less. Same with Urlacher. I would love to be a fly on the wall when the defense gets together for their next meeting, by the way.

Meh. Back to work.

Super Bowl

I don't have a dog in this fight, so I'm watching it just to enjoy the game. However, if I was pressed to pick who I wanted to win, I would have to give my support to the Indianapolis Colts, since it was the ChiCAAAAgo Bears that knocked my Seahawks out of the playoffs.

Meh. Gimme da Colts by a field-goal.

What I'm really exited about, however, is the three pounds of chickwings I've got smoking right now. Once they're good and tasty, I'm going to cook 'em up with high heat, and then put a chipotle pepper sauce on 'em that'll have my colon leaping straight out my asshole and cooling off in the toilet bowl. I may need to bring a bowl of ice-cubes with me to the bathroom tomorrow morning.

YEE-HAW!

They don't support the troops;

Part one gazzilion and something or other.

The military’s place is to do the bidding of the United States citizenry…period! It is not for them to criticize the American population for deciding they no longer want to fund a war.

This, of course, is a point I have brought up many times and the Milblogs when crazy then. You, the military, are the servants of the people. That is what you signed up for. We send you to war and we bring you home. We tell you when to wake up and when to go to bed. If you do not like that, GET OUT. But, that is the life you chose.

The next thing the milblog right wingers were upset about was when Arkin called our Military a mercenary force. Well, guess what, it is!! To get people to fight this war we have had to add all sorts of additional benefits, bonuses, insurance etc. The only way to get people to go was to pay them a lot more - the definition of a mercenary. Also, if you count the 100,000 or so “contractors” over there, that is even more evidence of a mercenary force. I called it at this post last year.

If the military is going to “take on” the American public by saying we have no right to change how we want to deploy them then they have joined the fight. I have said all along, and in the book, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War the idea that the American military has lost contact with the United States Citizens has been proven. They have. Arkin called it right!

So in short, this asshat is saying "Shut up, you blood-thirsty mercenaries! We own you and we'll tell you want to do!"

Uh, no. We do NOT do the bidding of the US Citizenry, because the majority of the US citizenry isn't fit to direct a military operation! There's a reason officers need a degree to wear that metal on their shoulder. There's a reason officers and NCO's have to go to school after school after school. Most Sergeants Major have a Master's degree. You can barely sniff Sergeant First Class if you don't at least have a BA. To even get into Warrant Officer Candidate school you must have an Associate's Degree. We have the best educated, highest trained force the world has ever seen, and it's that way for a reason! Military operations take skill, coordination, and INTELLIGENCE, and I guaran-damn-TEE that the majority of Leftists babbling about the military couldn't even begin to do what a junior enlisted soldier does on a regular basis.

The military follows the orders of the Commander in Chief, and that CinC has the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who represent the branches of the military. The Joint Chiefs are all generals, the top of their profession. Every Joint Chief has a Command Sergeant Major on his staff (Or a Command Master Chief Petty Officer) so that both enlisted and commissioned soldiers can give their experience and wisdom to a decision that will effect millions of people. If the military is going to go to war, it will be on the orders of the President, after careful consideration with the Joint Chiefs. It will not be because some brain-dead fucktard from Berzerkley thinks that he can give orders to people who are ten times his better!

We do not do the citizenry's "bidding". If we did, we wouldn't have much of a military left. Let's look at the Oath of Enlistment, shall we?

I, Raging Dave, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God

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No mention of the peepul in there at all, is there? I support and defend the Constitution of the United States. I obey the orders of the President and the officers appointed over me. I do NOT serve at the whim of some half-baked craptard who thinks that the military is a bunch of mercenary brutes.

It's that simple.

When is the revolution coming again?

Let me repeat for the benefit of the gubbmint asswipes - when you no longer due the job you're supposed to do, when you have abdicated the responsibility given to you by the common man, when you no longer enforce the laws that this society runs on, the citizens will have no choice but to do the job themselves.

A Texas deputy sheriff who fired shots at a fleeing vehicle after the driver tried to run him down faces 10 years in prison for injuring one of the passengers, a Mexican national being smuggled illegally into the United States.

The U.S. attorney, who won lengthy prison terms last year for two U.S. Border Patrol agents in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, also prosecuted Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, who is to be sentenced next month

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You might think that this is a Clintoon appointed moron who cares more about the widdle feewings of wetback (or dirtyfeet!) criminals that the people who are in place to protect this country. Well... sadly, you would be wrong. This idiot was appointed by Bush in 2001. Right now I'm just wondering how long it's going to be before Americans simply snipe at wetbacks and leave their corpses in the desert rather than call the Border Patrol. After all, why call the BP when they're more likely to take the wetback for a steak and lobster dinner with taxpayer dollars than they are to actually arrest the bastard!

Let me make myself clear - I don't fault the Border Patrol on this. I know that there are plenty of BP agents who want to do their job. But worthless cockwads like this US Attorney are making it impossible.

Why don't we put that attorney into a jail cell with the people he's representing? Sounds like a decent strategy to me.

Found at Sondra K's place.

And Another

Last Tuesday, as President Bush got off the helicopter in front of the White House, he was carrying a baby piglet under each arm.

The squared away Marine guard snaps to attention, salutes, and says:

"Nice pigs, sir."

The President replies "Oh, young man, these are not pigs. You see, I just came back from Arkansas. These are authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Senator Hillary Clinton and I got one for our new Speaker of The House, Nancy Pelosi."

The squared away Marine again snaps to attention, salutes, and says:

"Excellent Trade Sir, Excellent Trade!"

Joke

A man walked into a very high-tech restaurant in a fancy hotel.

As he waited to be seated, he noticed that the Maitre D' was a robot.

The robot clicked to attention and said, "Sir, there is a one hour wait, And I am programmed to converse with you until a table is ready, If you please."

Intrigued, the man said, "OK."

The robot clicked a couple more times and then asked, "Sir, what is your IQ?"

The man answered, "Oh, about 164."

The robot then proceeded to discuss the theory of relativity, Interstellar space travel, the latest medical breakthroughs, etc.

The man was most impressed. The next day he returned, but thought he would try a different tack.

The robot again asked, "What is your IQ, sir?"

This time the man answered, "Oh, about 100".

So the robot started discussing NASCAR racing, the latest basketball scores, and what to expect the Red Sox to do this weekend.

The guy had to try it one more time. So the next day he returned.

Again the robot asked the question, "What is your IQ?"

This time the man drawled out, "Uh.....'bout 50."

The robot clicked, then leaned close and very slowly asked,

"A-r-e -- y-o-u -- p-e-o-p-l-e -- g-o-i-n-g -- t-o -- n-o-m-i-n-a-t-e -- H-i-l-l-a-r-y ????"

Praise for Russ Feingold?

Well, I still think he's a liberal twit who doesn't understand the consequences of a defeat in Iraq, but at least he can be credited with one thing.

Mr. Feingold's reward for honesty was to preside over what might have been the least-attended hearing so far in the Iraq debate. And those of his Senate colleagues who did bother to show up looked like they couldn't wait to hit an exit door. "If Congress doesn't stop this war, it's not because it doesn't have the power. It's because it doesn't have the will," declared Mr. Feingold. Ted Kennedy--one of two Democrats who put in an appearance--could be seen shifting uncomfortably in his seat.

That's because Sen. Feingold is coming uncomfortably close to unmasking the political charade playing on the Senate stage. Critics of President Bush want an unhappy public to see them taking action on the war. So we have the Biden-Warner compromise resolution condemning the plan to increase the forces. There is also talk of capping troops, of requiring redeployments to Afghanistan, of benchmarks and progress reports.

All these proposals have one overriding thing in common: While they may hurt the war effort, none are significant enough for Congress to take responsibility when Iraq is irrevocably lost. This is President Bush's war, and his critics won't take any step that puts them on the hook as well. Sen. Feingold's sin is to suggest that Congress do something more than play politics.
It's a delicate high-wire act, made more complex by the opponents' need to reassure the public that their actions, which will surely encourage the enemy and deflate troop morale, won't, in fact, encourage the enemy or deflate troop morale. This has led to the spectacle of the Senate one day unanimously voting to confirm Gen. David Petraeus, and the next taking up resolutions that would kneecap his plan for success. John Warner and Chuck Hagel are all for the troops, just not for letting them win. Very courageous indeed.

And lest you forget, this isn't just a Democrat American Communist Party thing; there are Republicans who signed onto the whole Non-Binding Resolution as well. In fact, congresscritters from both sides of the isle have tossed their spines, convictions, and morals out the window in an effort to weasel their way into a military defeat in Iraq. The reason Republicans lost in November was because they too closely resembled their Democrat American Communist Party counterparts on the other side of the aisle. They still do. Never since Nixon have the Republicans shown such a lack of leadership, spine, common sense and direction. The Republicans of today have spun according to polls so damn much that they've spun themselves into the ground. About waist deep. And they keep spinning.

He might well worry. If one thing has defined the Bush years, it has been the president's willingness to exert his executive authority in defense of America. He's done it with detainees, with wiretaps, with military commissions. And he fervently believes success in Iraq is crucial to American security. In any thorny debate over just how much authority Congress has to interfere, it's a good bet Mr. Bush's own legal team will be pointing out the strong constitutional case that only the president has the right to decide where and how to deploy troops, as well as noting the peril of ceding any of that authority to 535 mini-me commanders in Congress.

What happens then? What happens if President Bush ignores Congress's attempt to direct the war? A few in the Democratic Party would love for an excuse to commence impeachment proceedings, but the rest understand that's political suicide. Then there's court. If liberals were unhappy about the Supremes deciding the 2000 election, imagine the theater of nine black robes deciding the outcome of the Iraq war.

Whatever comes, Congress is to blame. For a month the Senate has been trying to wrestle control of Iraq from the president, but undercover, and in a way that that avoids accountability. Sen. Feingold shone a light under that rock this week, and now the hard questions begin.

The Stupid Party needs to stand up, grab it's scrotum back, and say "Nope, we're not playing this game. We're going to win in Iraq." Hell, that might just get enough people back for a victory in November 2008. But if they keep on being weathervane-like jellyfish, they're toast.

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Tends to bite people in the ass. Unfortunately, the people it bites are not the people who it SHOULD bite. The link is to a Publicola piece about Colorado's anti-smoking measure, which banned smoking in, among other places, bars.

Now, let me first say this - any law that bans a legal activity on the basis of "health" should be unconstitutional. Nobody is going to force anyone into a bar. If you don't like to be in a smoking bar, STAY THE HELL OUT! It really is that simple.

Business is down substantially, and Von Feldt doesn't have the records to show that he earned 5 percent of revenues from tobacco prior to the deadline set by Colorado's anti-smoking law. So no smoking in Billy's, as of yet.
'My revenues are down 41 percent,' Von Feldt said. He has laid off two people and now opens the bar himself seven days a week.
'I do all the janitorial work myself, too,' he said.
'With all the snow, I couldn't afford to hire anyone to plow it, so I do it by hand.'
Von Feldt said, 'We still get the same crowd, but they just don't stay as long.
In this kind of weather, who could stand outside and smoke a cigarette?"

So, damn near half this bar owner's income is gone, and two people are laid off. Tell me, what's more hazardous to your health - working in a smoky environment, or getting kicked out of your house because you lost your job and can't pay the rent?

Gargh! Nanny-statist fucking PUKES!

I know how this guy feels

Can we win with the Left in full blown denial and gripped by BDS?

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.

America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. ItÂ?s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.

But it affects us. And when it is over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.

There's more than just those few paragraphs, but while thinking about Leftist asshat Bill Arkin, and why I was so pissed off at him, it struck me - The Left and their beloved "Chickenhawk" meme.

For years now, the Left has belittled anyone who hasn't served in the military if they supported the war. Hell, we had the entire Democrat American Communist Party calling President Bush a chickenhawk during the buildup to the Iraq invasion. I've been called a chickenhawk more than once, which as a soldier in the Army I find rather funny. But the Left's message was "If you haven't served, you can't give an opinion on war!"

That has also been coupled with the granting of absolute moral authority to anyone who lost a loved one and then protested the war. Example A: Cindy Sheehan. Rarely do you see anyone given more of a pulpit to bash the President, and the only reason she was able to do so was because her son died in Iraq.

Now you have the troops, the boots on the ground giving their opinion, the vast majority of which is pro-war, and suddenly the Left tells them to shut it. Quiet, you brainwashed kill-bots! You mercenaries! Why should we support you, you baby-raping bushco robots!

After screaming for years that if you haven't served or lost anyone you cared about in war, you shouldn't even be speaking, the Left suddenly cannot stand to hear the words of people who are currently serving and have lost loved ones.

The rank hypocrisy leaves me nauseated.

If we lose this war, it will not be because of the troops. It will not be because of any military battles. It will be because of the Democrat American Communist Party's desparate bid to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory. It will be because of the anti-American Left doing everything in it's power to shut down our military's might. It will be because of the people in this country who would rather have political victory than strategic victory, and quite honestly, it makes me sick.

Found at Castle Argghhh!

Systematic breakdown

You know, when the press functions as it should, it can be a boon. No, truly, it can. But in order for the press to actually function, it needs to be responsible and objective in it's reporting. And I don't think we've had a responsible, objective press corps in this country for over forty years now. Case in point regarding lack of responsibility? THIS.

A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York Times have triggered anger from his relatives and Army colleagues and revived a long-standing debate about which images of war are proper to show.

The journalists involved, Times reporter Damien Cave and Getty Images photographer Robert Nickelsberg, working for the Times, had their status as so-called embedded journalists suspended Tuesday by the Army corps in Baghdad, military officials said, because they violated a signed agreement not to publish photos or video of any wounded soldiers without official consent.

I believe that the lack of objectivity in today's media directly leads to it's lack of responsibility. To be blunt - the media's desire to push a biased agenda, i.e. Iraq is a quagmire, we're losing the war in Iraq, Bush is Hitler, ect. has led to the idiotic postings that violate every rule out there, such as not posting dead servicemember's photos until AFTER THE FAMILY HAS BEEN NOTIFIED!

I'll be blunt - the media, which hates the War in Iraq, is fighting against the military in general, and President Bush in particular. The media is a good part of why we left Vietnam, and they want to do the same thing to us today in the Middle East. In order to accomplish their goals, they have tossed aside every basic precept of objective journalism, and begun printing half-stories that are not the least objective. For Pete's sake, when a CBS reporter puts out an al-Qaeda propaganda video can calls it "news", you can no longer doubt their lack of objectivity!

The Press is broken, people. Cracked. Damaged. They're not anti-war, they're just on the other side. It's a systematic breakdown, resulting in a product that is worse than worthless.

More Laptop Troubles

So, we sent the laptop back to HP a few days ago. Got an email listing a few things that had to be corrected - more hardware problems. Not that I was too surprised. When I got it back last time, and still had issues with it despite taking all of your suggestions and applying them, I knew it wasn't just software that was causing the problems.

End result? More stuff getting replaced. Yay. Don't know when I'll get it back.

Happy Groundhog Day!

Although, living where I do, I couldn't care less if the fuzzy bastard sees his shadow or not. I'll be sweating my ass off either way.

Dave

Remember when we were kinda sorta considering shifting to the New Blogger?

Apparently, it, ahem, blows.

Say what?

Pelosi wants to use military planes for personal travel?

The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California delegation. A knowledgeable source called the request "carte blanche for an aircraft any time."

The Pentagon needs to tell Pelosi "Hell no!" and leave it at that. According to the report, Denny Hastert used military planes to travel from his district to D.C., but didn't use it for personal travel or for his staff. Well, fuck him too. The military isn't a shuttle service for pampered, over-paid congressional parasites! Let Pelosi use her millions to get back to San Fran! And if you don't remember how I feel about Hastert, let's just say that it wouldn't be polite to repeat my comments in front of children or good company.

Nice way to bring accountability to government, you worthless hag!

At least they're honest

Since I was over at Milblogs, I figured I would mention this little article, if you haven't seen it already. It's a picture perfect definition of someone who has never been in the military, never even been around the military, and doesn't support the military.

At least he's honest about it, even if he is a deluded halfwit who doesn't have a clue as to what he's talking about. I'd much rather deal with people who admit they can't stand the military, than deal with the liars who claim to "support" the troops when we all know what they really want to do is tear our military down and turn it into a UN peacekeeping force.

Here's one of the indicators of how the writer thinks of the troops:

But it is the United States and instead this NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.

We're all just mercenaries to him. What a festering genital sore.

UPDATE: John from OPFOR has written a response far more eloquent than I could.

I can't fight this type of ignorance. I just can't. As much as I'd like to, I can't grab Arkin by the ear, and show him one of our squadron chefs, a young airman who works on her masters when she's not cooking meals for our crews. I can't take him to my friend Ryan's grave, a college graduate killed by an IED in Baghdad, who opted to honor his obligations as an enlisted man instead of pursuing a more lucrative line of work. Or introduce him to the security forces airman who walks long patrols through the winter snow, reciting the epics of Homer to himself so that he'll be prepared for his Classics exam. These people aren't the exception, they are the standard.

If there is a war that's unwinnable, it's the war on this type of horrid ignorance. The type of uniformed, intellectually lazy thinking that can only exist in the sheltered bubble of cocktail parties and classrooms. Arkin is a gazer. A man forever condemned to peering out the window into the real world, watching the exertions of men better than himself. And yet he fancies himself the educated one. Any logical human being would trade career in journalism for the expertise gained by serving a mere one month in the box, yet this slime fancies his opinion so informed, so expert, so utterly irrefutable that even the very soldiers who are fighting this war are shamefully ignorant for daring to challenge his infallibility.

And Dan of Riehl World View says that the Press is at war. Dan, they've BEEN at war with us, ever since President Bush first ran for office. The only difference is that they're more open about it now.

And I think the last two stanzas of Kipling's "Tommy" seem fitting:

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! "
But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

If I didn't see it with my own eyes.......

I wouldn't believe that anyone could be this much of a brainwashed Leftoid idiot.

The myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran refuses to die. Despite Jerry Lembcke's debunking book from 1998, Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, and my best efforts to publicize his work, the press continues to repeat the fables as fact.

Every time someone calls for a "debate" with these bottomfeeders, I wonder just how much of a debate you can have with someone who is so lacking in reality that they say "Vietnam Vets didn't get spit on! It never happened! It's a myth!"

What. The. FUCK?!?!?!?!?!

I guess my father getting red paint poured on him was a myth too, huh? The accounts of all the vets who told of being spit on or worse is just a myth, right? How much of a leftist tool do you have to be in order to regurgitate this crap?

They aren't sane. They aren't rational. They are completely cut off from reality, and they do it to themselves.

Found at Milblogs.

"Too Important To Ignore"

I'll say! I mean, when an CBS correspondent is using al Qaeda propaganda videos and passing them off as "news", I'd say that is PRETTY FUCKING IMPORTANT TO KNOW!

CBS - working for the enemy since 1965!

Go for it Dave

Made you an admin, set the missus up as you please.

Why didn't I do this before?

FIRE FOR EFFECT

HOOAH!

See what you miss when you're out training to kill terrorist bastards? People start killing terrorist bastards!

The firefight raged for 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Defense reported 263 militants killed and over 300 captured.

GET SOME! GET SOME! HELL YEAH, GET SOME!

Found via KdT, who also has a letter to any troops who wonder about the amount of support back in the good 'ol US of A.

Hmmmmm...

Yep.

I am tired of the Democrats whining for months on T.V., in the New York Times, and in the House and Senate that we need more troops to win the war in Iraq, and then when my Commander in Chief plans to do just that, they say that is the wrong plan, it won’t work, and we need a “new direction.”


… I am tired of the decisions of Sergeants and Privates made in the heat of battle being scrutinized by lawyers who were not there and will never really know the state of mind of the young soldiers who were there and what is asked of them in order to survive.

… I am tired of Code Pink, Daily Kos, Al-Jazzera, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, the ACLU, and CAIR thinking that they somehow get to have a vote in how we blast, shoot and kill these animals who would seek to subdue us and destroy us.

… It is only possible to defeat an enemy who kills indiscriminately by utterly destroying him. He cannot be made to yield or surrender. He will fight to the death by the hundreds to kill only one or two of us.

… So let’s get it done. Until the fight is won and there is no more fight left.

Let me simply say that I agree with this troop.

Another Lie, Exposed Yet Again

"Oh, but it's patriotic to dissent!"

Sometimes, yes. Well reasoned debate is always welcome. But let's be blunt, shall we? The Left has not engaged in well reasoned debate ever since the 1950's.

So to all those Leftoids screaming about dissent being patriotic, I have no problem in responding "You're full of crap".

Readers of this blog will remember the name Joshua Sparling. In December 2005, the Iraq war veteran received a disgusting, anti-war death wish card while being treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. for injuries from a bomb explosion in Ramadi. Last month, his right leg was amputated.

And this weekend, while participating in a counter-protest against the moonbat convergence, he was spit at by anti-war demonstrators.

We haven't seen any patriotic dissent from the Left over the Iraq War. They haven't been patriotic since the Korean War, and the Viet Nam War showed just how far the rot of communism and anti-Americanism had penetrated the Democrat Party. Today? It's rotten to the core. There isn't a single part of the Left that's worth more than a mousefart.

Found via Cold Fury, who has additional commentary that I wholeheartedly agree with.

Now watch as the lunatics and their supposedly more reasonable supporters among the “reality”-based try to claim it never happened - or if it did, it didn’t mean what it obviously does. And watch as the MSM tries to cover for their partners in anti-patriotic crime, by throwing a blanket over this potential brush-fire of a story completely. If real Americans begin to get wind of this sort of thing happening again, no Lefty fuckwit in the country will be completely safe from violent retribution. As ambivalent as they may be about Bush’s handling of the war, I don’t think Americans suffer from any such irresolution over whether they want to see a repeat of the degradation of the 60’s era, when the Left snatched a wartime defeat from the jaws of victory, and dragged American honor, strength, and prestige through the mud. They got away with it once; they won’t again.

And honestly? I can’t say I have much of a problem with that. It’s a sad, tragic pass we’ve been brought to by these peurile simpletons, but here we are just the same. Those of us who are saddened by the displacement of the social contract by the unenlightened and boundless self-regard of the Petulant Left have some decidedly unpleasant realities to face up to here.

Mark my words: it’s going to get worse.

Indeed.

Well, as you can see

The Raging Mrs. decided to post a lil bit. Yannow, every now and then she just feels the urge to post, and does so under my name. We always make sure people know that it's her doing it.

Hell, Tim..... if you and TVE are going to be on extended vacation for a while longer, perhaps we should set her up with an account?

Oh, how public education and government fail us (A post by the Raging Mrs.)

Being in Puerto Rico is quite the experience. We have had the opportunity to work get to know a lot of federal employees, and people from other branches of the service. We have also had the opportunity to live inside of another culture, with all the good, bad, and ugly that entails(lots of bad and ugly). I think it is great that we have this community. Unfortunately the federal government and military alike can not figure out whether this is Overseas or USA. I not only say this because of my experiences, but, some of the abhorrent stories I have been told. My favorite being that someone was told to Drive their car to their next post. OK folks, lets get real. To start, Puerto Rico is a little island in the middle of the Caribbean. It may be a territory of the USA, but it is definitely a foreign county. In many ways I feel that the only the Puerto Rico has in common with the USA, is the US Dollar. Many of us were told (by native Puerto Ricans) that almost everyone here speaks English. That is only true if you consider Spanglish as English, even in the military:) The health care is so bad that I base my activities around the idea that my worst nightmare is to end up in an E-room here. Surgeries and most doctors appointments are done on a first come first serve bases. Traffic, maybe NewYork City is worse. Many of the people on a one-on-one basis are very nice. As a whole they are thoughtless, self centered and downright rude. With all of that said, I will say there are some beautiful beaches and other landmarks and they cook Pig better than anywhere. If you ever have the opportunity to come here, unless you have a personal friend, or stay at a resort and only use the resorts tours, don't!!! I have seen probably half of the families that come here leave with in six months. The few of us that do stay, are just that determined.

I really wish the government would come to the same realization that we have, and act accordingly, before they tell someone else to drive to their next assignment.

The Raging Mrs.

Oh dear lord!

This man was the Democrat American communist Party nominee for the Presidential election!

I can't... I mean, I just can't.... IMAGINE what the fuck is going on. Are we in a Bizzaro World? Have we crossed over into another dimension and someone forgot to tell me?

“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”…

Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”

*blink* *blink*

How the..... I mean, really, just what the fu.....

HOW CAN THIS EMPTY-HEADED PIECE OF SHIT BE AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE FROM ANY PLACE IN AMERICA?!?!?! JUST HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE TO GUZZLE FROM THE FOUNT OF ALL ABJECT STUPIDITY BEFORE YOU FELLATE A THEOCRATIC TURBANED TUMBLEFUCK ON AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE?!?!?!

Is this what America has come to? Our elected "representatives" giving a verbal blowjob to a theocrat who would just as soon see our entire country turned into a mushroom cloud rather than shake our hand?

Does anyone else feel like we've been tied to a railroad and the train is coming around the bend? Cause JEEBUS, I can't believe the crap I'm seeing today. I know that John F'n Kerry has a history of whoring himself out to America's enemies, but to be so blatant about it?

Dear lord help us all.

Ya don't say!

You mean the environmental movement is full of neo-socialist hypocritical snotwads who care more about their supposed ideals than the actual reality of the places they protest for?

No way!

Found at AOSHQ, who also has a letter from a soldier that you NEED TO READ.

Today the mission continues, it never stops. We have service scheduled in about an hour which I know will be very difficult to attend, but necessary so that we can honor them and begin to heal. The mission is first, for the defense of our country, for you and for ourselves we will persevere.

Know this, our soldiers will not quit. We win every battle, we hold any piece of ground that we want to take.
Do not listen to those in Washington who influence events by dishonesty, manipulation and greed. Listen to your hearts and know that America is a winner. We will not accept defeat.
Don't be fooled by the news media who so dishonorably portrays one side of the story for gain and sensationalism. We are not losing, we are not running, the enemy is reeling and is scared.

Washington politicians lie for political gain, while our troops continue to kick ass and take names.

Just like normal.

UPDATE!: WAITAMINNIT! You mean to tell me that Socialists are nothing more than hypocritical shitweasels who do not practice what they preach and care more about their own comfort than the people they claim to support?

No way!

The AP's commitment to "Serious" Journalism

Isn't so serious. But we already knew that, after the Jamil Hussein crap, don't we? Does the AP care about stories in Iraq? No. Does it care about the latest bills coming out of Congress? No. What does it care about?

Sex stories told by a stereotypical tart. Seriously. Go check out the Hot Air story, and listen to that girl's voice.

Like, OH. MY. GOD, Becky! I swear, you can hear the lack of brain cells in her voice with every word she speaks. Just listening to her babble on for the ten seconds or so made me want to beat her with a hickory axe handle. "SHUT UP, YOU BRAINLESS BABBLING BINT!"

So there we are. In order to get a video blog noticed by the AP, you have to WORK for the AP and talk about sexual topics. Real cutting edge journalism there!

Christ, you can't even use satire on these pricks. They've gone that far down the hole.

The Congressional Black Caucus

Needs to be abolished. So says Tom Tancredo. And you know what? I agree with him.

Think about this - what if we had the Congressional White Caucus? An organization who only allowed white members, who focused on the issues of white Americans? Would that be racist? You can bet your sweet patootie that the usual suspects would be HOWLING their OUTRAGE over it.

So why is it racist to have a White Caucus, but not a Black Caucus? It's the same damn issue, and the Black Caucus' refusal to allow a white congresscritter who represented a mostly black district shows that it's not about who you represent, it's about the color of your skin. It's racist, plain and simple.

It has no place in Congress. Let's get rid of it.

Funeral detail complete

There were a few issues, but none of them stemmed from the rifle team, so I'm happy. I have a sunburn on 2/3 of my face from standing at parade rest for so long in the direct sunlight, and I think I sweat more today that I did all week.

But you know what? It's worth it to have a gentlemen from the American Legion or VFW come by and thank us. It's worth it to have the family give us that look that shows their thanks. It's worth it when you see just how important it is to the family and friends of the departed.

Rest in peace, soldier.

Day is done
Gone the sun
From the hills
to the lakes to the sky
Rest in peace,
Soldier brave,
God is nigh.

History can die

And in fact does so, reminding us that the past isn't so far away after all. Emilio Mercado has passed away.

If you don't know who that is, he was until recently the oldest man in the world. He also happened to be the oldest Army veteran in the world, getting drafted in the waning months of World War One.

I will be in charge of the rifle detail at his funeral tomorrow. Since I'll be getting ready from here on out, don't expect any more posts from me today.

You know what's screwed up? Fox News doesn't have this. I couldn't really find a mention of it in any major US Newspapers. But the Calgary Herald? They got it.

Go Canada!

Oh joy.

I can hear the Leftoids sneer "It doesn't mean anything!"

A Russian man, authorities allege, tried to sell a small amount of nuclear-bomb grade uranium in a plastic bag in his jacket pocket.

The buy that took place last summer, it turned out, was a setup by Republic of Georgia authorities, with the help of the CIA.

One of the most absurd arguments I've ever heard come out of the Left is that countries like Iran and Iraq were no threat to the USA because they couldn't send their armies to our shores. Idiots. They don't need to. All they need is one man, armed with a suitcase nuke, and bye-bye Los Angeles. There are people out there who want to kill us, and they'll do whatever they can to accomplish their goal.

And the Left snivels on in their self-induced ignorance....

Oh, those horrible bloodthirsty brutes!

What will those babykilling murderers think of next?

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — The military calls its new weapon an "active denial system," but that's an understatement. It's a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire.

Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, the technology is supposed to be harmless — a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.

Military officials say it could save the lives of innocent civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

(.....)

Anyone hit by the beam immediately jumped out of its path because of the sudden blast of heat throughout the body. While the 130-degree heat did not cause lasting pain, it was intense enough to make the participants think their clothes were about to ignite.

"This is one of the key technologies for the future," said Marine Col. Kirk Hymes, director of the non-lethal weapons program at Quantico, Va., which helped develop the new weapon. "Non-lethal weapons are important for the escalation of force, especially in the environments our forces are operating in."

We're so bloodthirsty that we find ways of disabling our enemies without killing them. We constantly look for ways to win battles with a minimum of bloodshed. But to the Left, we're just a bunch of knuckledragging neadertals waiting for a chance to rape, kill and pillage. Has there ever been a military so focused on winning with a minimum of damage?

I don't theenk so, Lucy.

Altoids

Anyone else out there an Altoid Junkie? You know, the "Curiously Strong" peppermints? They've got 'em in cinnimon, wintergreen, yada yada yada. I still think the peppermint ones are the best.

My wife went to the PX yesterday, and brought back a box of Dark Chocolate covered Peppermint Altoids.

Great Googly Moogly! As if I didn't eat enough of them already.....

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up

Okay, look, fellas, it’s time to stop playing silly semantic games and come clean. You fear, mistrust, and despise the US military. They make you feel like the sunken-chested, slope-shouldered, gutless commie weinerschnitzels you really are, and you’ve always resented them for that, and you always will. I mean, we’ve all known all along that your puling little “chickenhawk” whimper was nothing more than a classic case of projection, from the real cowards onto those Americans who are made of sterner stuff.

Hell, you dinks are terrified of second-hand smoke, all contact sports, dissenting opinion, and pellet guns; it only stands to reason you’d also be afraid of hulking, rugged, rough-hewn types trained to a finely-honed edge in all the various deadly arts you shudder to even contemplate from the comfort of your dorm room, cubicle, boho hipster hair salon, or internet café. You’ve always thought Patton was a dangerous psycho, Schwarzkopf ate his own young, and Eisenhower was a lot scarier than those jackets made him look. Plus, deep down, the 60’s retreads among you really believe that if it weren’t for soldiers, their blockhead campaign to Give Peace A Chance! would have succeeded in abolishing all war forever by now.

Um.... Yep. Every time I hear a Leftist say "We support the troops" I have to restrain myself from belting them in the mouth. No, you DON'T support the troops, you mewling, cowardly maggot. And your lie just shows that you know how foul you really are.

Ready for an eye opener?

Go check out Family Watchdog. Go plug in your address and find out how many sex offenders reside next to you. You can see what they were convicted of as well.

Ugh.

Found at Grunt's Military Forums.

I have a confession to make

I didn't watch the SOTU address. Not one word of it. Why? Because I knew what will happen.

Bush will make a nice speech. It'll include many of the things that conservatives have talked about for the past six years, but when push came to shove the Republicans sat on their hands and did nothing.

We will be treated with the same classless morons who now control Congress acting like, well, classless morons. I expect the cameras will focus on Clinton, Obama, and Kennedy as much as possible. Right. The only one of those people who I don't vomit at the mere sight of is Obama. But that's only because he hasn't lived long enough for his outside to resemble true inside.

Bush will outline grandiose plans that will go nowhere, as the Democrats American Communist Party will torpedo the moment they hit the floor of the Capitol Building, as actually getting things done is not as important to them as hurting President Bush.

Besides.... Bush isn't going to say what really needs to be said, is he?

The disaster is that you, Congress and the American people, do not care to fight. Faced with a fundamental challenge to our own security, to everything we believe in, to the world order to peace and security for which we and our parents fought so hard for so many years, you now want to pretend like none of these threats are real. You want to surrender to the evil I have been telling you about. An evil that, unchecked, can consume large parts of the world and threatens to usher in a dark age.

You didn’t like it when I talked about evil. Sounded too simple, too uncompromising, too moralistic. Too … biblical.

I don’t know what else you call people who fly passenger jets into office buildings; who rape women in front of their husbands and children, and execute their opponents in acid baths; who seek to spread tyrannical and archaic religious regimes that enslave women and stifle fundamental freedoms. Who want to dominate the world’s primary oil fields with nuclear weapons.

I call it evil. Works for me.

One of the biggest problems I see is that Congress, hell, ALL politicians, are living in their own make believe world, which doesn't resemble the real world at all. Yet they make their decisions based on that make believe world, try to press their decisions in the real world, and learn NOTHING when they fail because reality won't conform itself to their fantasy. And still they learn nothing. NOTHING!

Fuck it. Why should I watch a large group of deluded pricks talk to themselves? The more I see of our political "leadership", the more I wonder just when the next revolution is coming.

Round and round and round we go

"It’s an unwritten rule. It’s understood. It’s clear."

SayUncle » Not a double standard

Yep. Crystal.

Dear Lord....

I can't believe this:

1

3-2320. Domestic terrorism; classification

A. An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.

So the Minutemen currently watching the border would be classified as "Domestic Terrorists".

What. A. Crock. Of. SHIT!

I think it's about time we start telling the government to shove off. Piss up a rope. Take a long walk off a short pier. Take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

Dear nanny-statist pinheads: PISS OFF!

Found at RNS.

Questions for Hillary?

Bill Frist has a list of questions that he wants to ask Hillary Clinton.

Do you favor personal savings accounts as a voluntary part of Social Security Reform?

Do you favor an increase in retirement age as part of Medicare reform?

Should Medicare have an element of means testing?

Do you favor opening up Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration?

How do you propose expanding Health Savings Accounts?

Do you favor giving citizenship to those who are in this country illegally?

Should the United States send troops to stop the genocide in Darfur?

Will you make the Presidents tax cuts permanent?

Would you favor elimination of the death tax?

Would you support a flat tax?

Do you support President Bush's plan for Iraq?

Will you seek to meet with the leaders of Syria or North Korea or Iran?

Should the United States end the embargo of Cuba?

The hell with Hillary, we all know what her answers would be. This list of questions should be asked EACH AND EVERY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE before the primaries.

Light posting day

I had a pass today, so I'm focused on taking care of the business that I couldn't attend to this weekend. Lawn mowing, dish washing, laundry, that sort of stuff. The wife loves to bake, and I love fresh baked bread, but it's my responsibility to wash the flaming assloads of dishes that is created.

But hey, we've got a kick ass blogroll, don't we?

I know, I know

I didn't blog at all this weekend. That had something to do with it being drill weekend, and me being the only guy with the time and inclination to teach people how to shoot.

And dear g-d, I needed help.

There's something about living in a culture where guns are practically forbidden. Hoplophobia, the fear of weapons. You have to start from scratch just about every time they pick up a weapon. "OK, now you need to have the correct posture. Don't put your entire finger on the trigger, just use the tip of your finger. Breath control, breath control, now get a good sight picture...." Things that people who are familiar with weapons do almost instinctively. Every time we pull out the weapons, I have to start over with the basics and fundamentals before I can get them to even get a good shot grouping. I have a Laser Marksmanship Training System that I use to get them used to the actions of firing a weapon, but it takes time.... I've got two or three people who are naturals at it, but the rest of the troops need practice. And what pisses me off is that this gun grabbing, GFW, socialist government on this corrupt island makes it so damn hard to get a gun that I can't even take the troops to the range on my off time and let them practice.

And trust me, they need practice.

Anyways, I'm sorry for the suckage of non-posting, but I had my hands full. Hell, I didn't even get online this weekend to check my email, much less blog. Any time not spend working was spend on the couch, where I would collapse every night after I got home.

By the way, in case you haven't heard, the AP is still a worthless, anti-American craphole, and they've been proven liars. Remember, they're not anti-war, they're just on the other side.

And once again, HOW BOUT THAT GLOBAL WARMING?! California lost about a billion dollars worth of citrus fruit because of the cold weather there. Y'know, when I think about global warming, the last thing that comes to mind is losing citrus fruit in Cali. But gosh, I'm sure the moonbats and bullshit artists will come up with an "explanation". They always do. Just like I'm sure they'll find a way to blame snow in Tucson on human action as well. The global warming theory is a load of horse-shit, plain and simple.

Alright. That's it for this morning. I still have a crapload of work on my desk, and I have to find time to do it all.

A hard truth

Over at the Anchoress, I saw this link of "Casual sex is a con". I know I've spoken a bit before on this subject, but what the hell, why not bring it up again?

The Sixties generation thought everything should be free. But only a few decades later the hippies were selling water at rock festivals for $5 a bottle. But for me the price of “free love” was even higher.

I sacrificed what should have been the best years of my life for the black lie of free love. All the sex I ever had — and I had more than my fair share — far from bringing me the lasting relationship I sought, only made marriage a more distant prospect.

And I am not alone. Count me among the dissatisfied daughters of the sexual revolution, a new counterculture of women who are realising that casual sex is a con and are choosing to remain chaste instead.

This is all part of a big lie foisted on people by "progressives" who saw the moral establishment of the day as nothing more than something to be torn down. For what reasons, I don't know. I have my opinions on that, but I'm not going to go into them right now. But much like the lie of "You can have a family AND work at the same time!" the mantra of "free sex" I think has done more damage to society than we know, or can even caculate right now.

Men and women are different creatures. Anyone who doubts that need only look at which commercials are aimed at men, and then compare them to commercials aimed at the female demographic. We are two sides of the same coin, yes, and without both sides, the coin becomes worthless. But by trying to erase the differences between the sexes, the modern feminist movement has also erased what makes women special. This essay is from a woman's perspective, so I'm not going to expound upon her view very much. But I'll give you a guy's view. And let me say this right now. I can in no way give a full explination of why I think that cheap sex is a bad idea. I don't have that kind of time right now. Perhaps later I'll write out the four-page essay that it would require. As for right now, a decent length post will suffice.

Casual sex, from a man's point of view, is great. We get what we want with no strings attached, point blank. I say this as a former philanderer who has spend more than his share of time in bed with various women. But the effects of casual sex take it's toll on men and women in different ways. When men are looked upon as un-neccessary, and are treated as living sex objects, then that is what men will become. Look, I'm a guy, and I'm going to say it flat out - if you free a man from responsibility, give him unfettered access to women's bodies with no regrets, then a man will happily go around screwing anything with two tits, a hole, and a heartbeat. Be a father? Why? We only had sex! Be responsible? Why? That's not what you wanted when you climbed into my bed! Commit to a relationship? Why? I only want sex, and if you're not going to give it to me, I'll dump you and find another sperm receptical!

Women who try to attract men with just their bodies quickly find out that it's only your body we're interested in.

By making cheap, casual sex the norm, you have effectively removed all responsibility from the men you have sex with. Not only that, but you've devalued yourself. You've turned yourself into nothing more than some place for men to ejaculate into. Cheap sex means you're not a woman, you're just an object with which we can sate our lust for the time being, and maybe have a beer with from time to time.

Does that seem harsh? I hope so. What I think that most women don't understand is that the most civilizing force on the face of this earth is a woman. Sure, men may have made a great deal of noise about clubbing a mastadon on the head and dragging it back to the cave, but it's a simple fact that he brought it to the cave because a woman was there. Mankind is a brute, elemental force. We are physically stronger than women, faster than women, and for the most part, more brutal and aggresive. We are the ones that went out and killed things to eat, because we could. We're the ones who built things, because we had the physical strength to do so. We're the ones who protected the home and hearth, because we're built for it.

But somewhere along the way, society forgot about what a woman brings to the relationship. It's a woman who can take that primal strength and channel it to something useful. It's a woman who can take a man's wild energy and direct it. As I said before, free a man from his responsibilities, and he'll happily go around screwing anything that moves. It's a woman who gives a man a reason NOT to go around like a rutting billygoat.

By treating your body as nothing more than a pleasure factory, something to be given away for a night of supposed fun, you pretty much toss all that away. Part of what made sex special was that it wasn't something you could just go out and have. It was part of what made marriage special as well. Shall we look at what has happened to marriage in the "If it feels good, do it" era?

Now, I don't think that society's preoccupation with easy sex is the one and only reason for the problems that we face today. However, it is one that has far reaching consequences, and is intertwined with many other reasons. There is no one thing we can point at and say "THIS is why things are going to hell!"

But like a turd in a pool, cheap sex keeps rising to the top of the various problems we have.

GRRRGROWLSNARL (or, I need your opinions)

So, I mentioned a while back that my computer was having problems. It got sent off. Returned on Tuesday, with several components replaced. Joy. Tried it out, and it seemed to work fine.

I tried turning it on today at lunch, and the fucking thing froze up on the start-up screen. I had to shut it down and restart it. So now it seems to be working, but what happens if it freezes up again? And what the FUCK would cause it to freeze up in the first place?

C'mon, all you computer people. What gives? What the hell is going on? Because right now, I'm planning on just shipping the hunk of crap back to HP and telling them to give me my money back. There is no reason I can see for the damn thing to not even start up properly.

Should I just give up on it and ship it back? Or is there a halfway logical reason for the fucking thing to freeze while it's starting up?

While we're doing screenshots...

A clear cut summation

Of why the Fed's hiking of the minimum wage is wrong.

I think I'll email it to all of my congresscritters. Perhaps you should too.

New Roundup

Boy, how bout that Global Warming, eh?

This is just sick. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. I hope they find the guy, cover his ass in ground beef, and toss him into a pit of hungry dogs. Some people, burning is too good for 'em.

Join the Border Patrol! Protect the country! Shoot a drug smuggling criminal and go to jail! Boy, that'll do wonders for their recruitment, eh?

Gee, not a good day to be a terrorist.

REALLY not a good day to be a terrorist.

AP Headline: School Bush crashes in Kentucky. It's no joke - they really DO blame him for everything!

(Anyone wanna save that screen? I can't do it from this computer.)

Sheesh. Who needs comedy when you have news like we do?

[UPDATE: Here's your screenshot. SB.]

Remember, Remember....

...that Hollywood is full of people living in, and devoted to crafting, fantasy worlds. They can produce fantastic works of art, and I wish to make clear that I appreciate the film in this review as such. V for Vendetta is a story of revolution against totalitarianism. It is rich in it's use of language and imagery. At points it is capable of functioning as a mirror on the world, as was the intent of it's creators. There are some aspects of the movie, however, that are far removed from any semblance of life as we know it. These representations can serve to remove the viewer from the story and shatter the illusion. Such is the case with the depiction of the films villans. The cartoonish villans represented in V are religious nationalists against freedom of speech, expression, and the press and they are intensely anti-homosexual. They are nationalistic in so far as they advocate the security of England. This is not, itself, a bad thing (unless you're a transnationalist or a clueless peacenik). But these characters take such principles to the extreme. They silence anyone who merely speaks out against them by hauling them off to secret detention facilities where they are tortured and experimented on. Indeed, this is what created V. He survived one such facility. Muslims are scapegoats in this film. The government kills it's own people. The Koran is banned. Those who engage in homosexual behavior are indentified, taken prisoner, tortured, and eventually killed for no other reason that their sexual preference. Of course, I dislike these cartoonish villans because of the horrid things they do just like I can appreciate the heroes devotion to freedom and the democratic process regardless of their various political inclinations. The film's hero, V, is out to kill those who tortured him and he is a revolutionary (though one that does not intend to see the light of day beyond any revolution he'd help bring about). He preaches no political dogma - simply that there is "something wrong with this country" (from his perspective I am sure this is partly because those who wronged him are the ones in power). He intends to set things straight by successfully realizing the goals of a historic English revolutionary (whom he borrows his visage from) - destroying Parliment and bringing down the government of England. The heroine of the film played by Natalie Portman transforms (thanks to V) from a contented citizen into even more simply - a revolutionary. Some of the more cartoonish villany of the film involves the elimination of the closeted homosexual host of a show who dares make fun of the High Chancellor (he would have gotten off easier but he had possession of the "poetic" Koran), the imprisonment of lesbians for being lesbians, the abduction of Portman's parents for being anti-war critics, and goose stepping soldiers parading before the High Chancellor. This stands in stark contrast to reality so in order to appreciate the illusion, we must forget that Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and thousands of other wealthy mouthy celebs run free to this day and need not ever worry about government retaliation for their outrageous proclamations. Forget that skit-comedy show, sit-com, film, and cartoon alike continue to savage President Bush to this day. Forget that Nazis were socialists and that they murdered Jews as well as Christians. Forget that, even now, Hitler's book "My Head" is popular in the arab world owing in part to the fact that arab leaders were united with Hitler's National Socialist Worker's Regime in hatred of Jews. Forget that the people who are actively murdering homosexuals for being homosexuals are Muslims. Forget that England is far from falling into the iron clad grasp of conservatives (quite the opposite). Forget that no one is proposing to ban the Koran. Forget all this - we are dealing with a fantasy film. What stirred me to write this review was a lable from the film and an attitude from one of the actors expressed in a "making-of" documentary. The lable - In the film, V is referred to by the films cartoonish conservative villans as "a terrorist". He is not a terrorist, he is a revolutionary. His big "terrorist" attack in the opening of the film is nothing more than the destrution of a symbol. Loss of human life was neither the goal of this attack, nor was it highlighted in the film as part of the results. The individuals V kills are those he has sworn vengence against, or those standing in between him and his continued freedom (such as security agents, police, etc). The attitude expressed by the actor in the documentary I mentioned previously ties directly in with this - The actor plays the High Chancellor character and he remarks that he finds it curious that only terrorism is stigmatized among all the "forms of warfare" which he considers equally ghastly. A more ignorant statement one is want to find. Why oh why would this "form of warfare" be stigmatized? Could it be because the terrorism that we are familiar with is the kind that could take the life of this actor as easily as it could take the life of any innocent civilian going about their daily lives? You betcha! Today, terrorism targets the unsuspecting, the civilian, the innocent. Such acts are accompanied by ultimatums - "Do as we say or we will kill more of you." The only other "form of warfare" this actor probably had in mind was the "warfare" that civilized nations engage in. Nations like the USA and the UK do not enter into such "warfare" for selfish reasons or without great trepidation, rather to protect their citizens, protect the innocent and oppressed, or remove tyrants. When they do engage in "warfare", they take great pains to avoid innocent casualties (which is particularly difficult given current conflicts where the enemy regularly uses civilians as shields). It is at once disturbing and surreal that educated people can seriously equate both "forms of warfare". Anyone advancing such a premise in the present day is responsible for excusing slaughter by barbarians and prolonging conflicts with the same. "The American War", as it is referred to in past-tense in the film, is in reality a war where one side fights to give others a chance at self determination and freedom from oppression, and the other side fights for oppressive, brutal rule by religious caliphate and employs tactics like murdering and terrorizing those who choose to cooperate with the agents of liberation by choosing to partake in representative government, and to spread their horrid influence across the entire globe. They are not equal. Their tactics are not equal. Their goals are not equal. I can look past the cartoonish representation of conservatives in V, but I flatly condemn the redefinition of terrorism in this film. It is irresponsibly misleading and tragically ignorant.

Dear Communist Shitstain Rangel

For the second time, Fuck You. Fuck you, fuck your worthless anti-American politics, fuck your god-damned bill, and yet again FUCK YOU!

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., introduced a new military draft bill Wednesday and a resolution calling on the Defense Department to drop all restrictions on families, the public and the media being present when the remains of service members arrive and depart from military bases.

(.....)

“I don’t see how anyone who supports the war in Iraq would not support reinstatement of the draft,” he said.

I don't see how someone so fucking completely worthless could ever get elected to Congress. Oh, wait, you're from New York Fucking City, the home of brainless infected cumbubbles, the home of morons with inferiority and superiority complexes, both at the same fucking time, so maybe I could understand that after all. But since your such a brainless fucking idiot, let me educate you, not that it will do much good since you're a stalwart member of the Democrat American Communist Party.

The military doesn't need a draft. We don't want a draft. We will do whatever we can to avoid a draft. See, if there's a draft up and running, there's a good chance that some of us will have to serve next to a corrupt, gutless, yellow bellied fuckstick like you. And trust me, you fucking shitwad, I'm being polite for the sake of THE CHILDREN, otherwise I would let you know how I really feel. I'm tired of communist jizz-wipes like you attempting to do what you can in order to destroy this country's military. So lest you think that you're trying to help (and I don't think you actually think you're trying to help, I think you're trying to destroy the military, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt right now)....

We do not want a draft. We do not need a draft. What we in the military need is for the anti-American cocksucking Communist fuckwitted shitstains like you to STEP THE FUCK BACK AND LET US DO OUR JOB, YOU WORTHLESS FUCKING PARASITE! IF I COULD, I'D RIP OUT YOUR FUCKING GUTS AND TOSS THEM AROUND LIKE TINSEL!

The only good that Rangel can do for humanity is to die and fertilize the earth with his putrid corpse. Just fucking die, you cockwart. Just. Fucking. DIE! Make this Army grunt happy and fucking die,.

Seahawks lose

Well, for all intents and purposes, my football season is done. Although, I really can't say I'm all that surprised, since we were pulling a damn loan officer off the street and putting him in at cornerback.

Seriously. We didn't have ANY cornerbacks. And it's kind of hard to win if you don't have a secondary to help you out. The fact that the Seahawks won as many games as they did, and given all the injuries that they had this year, I was amazed that they won their first playoff game. Hasselback out for weeks, Alexander out for weeks, every cornerback out with injury, receivers out, (and by the way, why the FUCK do we still have Darrel "I let the ball hit my hands and then drop it" Jackson? WHY?), injuries all over the O line...

Hell, I'm amazed that we were actually able to field a team, since by and large most of the people in uniform were on the IRL.

So here's hoping for next year, as Seattle has always done. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, right?

Fuck.