I’m more a fan of the movie Death Proof than the song. Hey, Quentin Tarantino makes good movies in my opinion…
Why the song Down In Mexico by The Coasters? So I could share video footage of Vanessa Ferlito performing a sexy lap dance–why else? Check out her website if you like what you see.
A special thanks to the lady who has my errant mind wandering about in this general direction this morning. This Song Of The Day is for you.
2. More jack-booted police thuggery. The excuse the Philadelphia police are making for such behavior is a lot of crap and whining. 12 hour shifts and 3 officers shot in three years is your weak excuse for such behavior? Sorry, I’m not buying that.
Why do we need police then? Hell, if lynching and simply gunning down people (like the Bell case in New York) is the best we can expect from police, we don’t really need them at all. We the People can form our own mobs and do the same. Why waste money on law enforcement and government that keeps trampling on our liberties, abusing We the People, and creating for-profit jails and prisons that are only profiting a few individuals while creating the world’s largest incarcerated population?
If you can’t handle the stress, get the hell out and find a job your weak ass can handle. As I have been saying all along, there are an awful lot of police who want to play the tough-guy/badass role of soldier, but that cannot handle it. Contrast their whiny cop excuses with the reality soldiers are facing every day. 3 killed in 3 years? Get over yourselves already.
If it’s so rough, why not just let everyone go armed and disband all the police? You won’t hear me whining. I promise you, there would be far fewer criminals and we wouldn’t have to worry about MS-13 gang numbers on the increase.
3. Speaking of MS-13 gang numbers on the rise, The Atlantic really missed with this article by Matthew Quirk. It isn’t America’s policy that is causing anything. It’s the lack of effort, control, and ineffectual government by Central American nations and the complicity of Mexico and its government in criminal endeavors and the invasion of America that are at fault.
The author seems to suggest that we shouldn’t bother trying to control our borders or deporting drains on our society. Rather, we should give them room and board at American taxpayer expense.
Here’s an idea. How about we solve America’s unemployment problem by giving every unemployed American a job and a gun—and stationing them on the border? I bet you would see the fastest decrease in the size of MS-13, the fastest reduction of narcotics traffic, the quickest reduction in unemployment, the quickest boost to the American economy, and the most secure border in our history. Alas, nothing that makes sense or is practical is ever done in America.
We might offend all those MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, terrorists, sex offenders and other illegal aliens who aren’t American citizens.
4. Middle Eastern armies are largely worthless and have been for centuries. They can’t fight major or pitched battles worth a damn—with the sole exception of Israel of course. They’re pretty good in the terrorist department, though.
Give them some explosives, some handy women and children and they will give you fits.
What unity is that? The unified we’re too scared to fight sort of unity? Or is it the we only fight Israelis sort of unity? Perhaps it is the we Muslim armies only wage war on infidels sort of unity?
If I were going to war and had to choose between taking a brigade from the Lebanese army and a truckload of armed Somalis, I would instead take Bobcat Goldthwait in his suggested VW beetle with a few bottles of MadDog.
Nothing like some old-school hardcore from NYC to get the blood pumping. One of my favorite bands, kicking out some slamming riffs with more energy than ten pep squads drowning in Red Bull. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun, this song.
Check out the Sick Of It All website and get acquainted with the band if you aren’t already. For two decades these guys have been at it, and they own the term hardcore.
And if you’re one of those silly people who is even dreaming about posting some stupid comment about the pits of today versus the ones of yesteryear or some such nonsense, forget it. If people aren’t getting knocked out by Jack Daniels bottles (You gotta admit, John—that was kinda funny!) and bodies aren’t flying about in your pits because you think such people are “ruining the art of pitting” or some other ridiculously lame sentiment, go whine to your Emo therapist at your Emo-core therapy group.
Does anyone else think that Obama and Clinton have been sabotaged by people close to them since their campaigns started? I honestly have to say I have never seen two more ineptly run campaigns in my 38 years.
With Friends Like That, Who Needs Enemies?
On Hillary’s side, you have Bill Clinton running off at the mouth, making chauvinistic comments, contradicting comments, disagreeing on policy issues, and in general not keeping his mouth shut when he should. Then there are her staffers and campaign workers who have engaged in they usual muck-raking and dirty politics, and her own trips to Fantasy Island…like the one where she dodged sniper fire on a visit to the Balkans.
On Barack’s side, you have the Reverend Wright with his racist statements. He just won’t go away and keep his mouth shut. If Obama loses the nomination, it will likely be because of Wright. How ironic that the first viable black candidate for President with a real chance of winning is getting sabotaged by another black man still living in the past, dragging down a younger man looking to move the nation forward. It’s even more ironic since it was the Democrat party that undid what anti-slavery progress had been made under the Missouri Compromise by passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Compromise of 1850—and which was supported by northern and southern Democrats alike.
Push Until They Die: There Is Profit In Death
Horse racing. Must not forget that. Today’s Kentucky Derby took the life of yet another horse, Eight Belles. The filly broke both her front ankles and was euthanized on the track. You know, I like horses as much as the next person and we had horses while I was growing up. Given the chance, I would rather ride one than miss out on an opportunity to do so.
I understand wanting to demonstrate and take pride in the prowess of one’s animals—be they pets, livestock or family members. However, to push and punish animals so that humans can make money and gamble on them does not sit well with me. Horse racing needlessly imperils the health and lives of magnificent animals whom I would rather have around me than the majority of those people who go to wager on them and watch them (like Chelsea Clinton, who was there).
Don’t get me wrong, I think there are hobbies and sports and animal trials that are just fine—most in fact. Horse racing though, is something altogether different. It is rather like dog fighting, without the fighting but based on the same principle, to push an animal to its physical limits for the enjoyment of people and gambling. One component of sports is excelling and being the best you can be, but when you put that onto an animal without choice and who cannot voice their health or pain and push them until they break and die for entertainment and money, it is no longer sporting at all.
I call that shameful and think it seems abusive as well.
Honestly, I’m totally underwhelmed by World Press Freedom Day—which at its heart certainly has good intentions. It’s just that every nation and society that seems to chime in about how wonderful the idea is, is only too willing to hypocritically forget about it once the day is over and continue planning to enjoy the Beijing Olympic games taking place in a country notorious for censoring Net access, silencing the press and voices of dissent.
Guy Berger wrote an interesting perspective piece on it over at the Mail & Guardian website. It’s worth a few minutes of reading and reflection.
Todays song is Open Your Eyes by Guano Apes. I used to set this song as the first in my playlist to wake me up in the morning (another good reason to have a Linux desktop), though I rotate songs through these days.
Sandra Nasic (who is Croatian and German) was a powerful vocalist and draped their songs with emotion—as well as in-your-face attitude. She is also incredibly sexy.
The German band truly rocked and I am saddened that they split up and went their separate ways. Still, the members have moved on with other projects and I hope they find as much success and have as much as they did in Guano Apes.
Global food shortages are just around the corner if something doesn’t change soon. Some people suggest we’re already in the midst of just such a crisis, while others are optimistic that any such crisis can be averted.
One thing is sure: whether global warming is naturally occurring, the result of human activity, or a combination of both—it is going to exacerbate the situation as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable.
An additional consideration is that increasing deforestation and widespread adoption of industrial scale agriculture will lead to more desertification and loss of valuable micro-habitat that certain species need to survive. Here in America, species that thrive in edge-growth, such as quail for example, are finding their habitat shrinking. Similar things are happening on a global scale. These things, coupled with the water shortage that the world is predicted to face beginning at the middle of the century bodes ill for everyone.
However, steps are being taken to address these issues. In many developing nations, there are efforts underway to educate and train farmers in improved agriculture methods. Reducing and eventually eliminating slash and burn agriculture will help in some respects, yet much more needs to be done. In some nations, staple foods are undergoing substitution as food costs, population growth and exports outstrip the capacity for production.
The UN recently set up a food crisis task force to address the needs of the world’s starving at the direction of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. An estimated 100 million are going without food right now and as the global population jumps from around 6.5 billion to an estimated 9 billion before the end of the century, a dire situation faces the world’s population if aggressive measures aren’t taken.
Wheat and rice prices are soaring. The price of rice in some places has doubled in the last six months. Wheat has risen by as much as 130%. Around the globe, labor unions and workers are protesting current global economic situations and the rising price of food.
Even here in America, land of plenty and amber waves of grain, there are concerns as people in the northeast part of the country have begun hoarding staples and other foods. Cooking oil, flour, rice and even grain stocks are being horded across the country. Rising gasoline prices aren’t helping things either.
Great song by a great band that I have enjoyed since the ’80s. Billy Duffy is one of the best guitarists/songwriters in the world of rock. Ian Astbury is the nearest thing to Jim Morrison going. I picked this one because I had to rise early this morning.
Congressional Democrats are looking for ways to kill a bill aimed at increasing educational benefits for veterans and ensuring that enlistees are getting the benefits they are promised. The $2 billion bill, Sen. Jim Webb’s Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, is meant to do the right thing for those serving their country, but Democrats are seeking to turn it into a weapon to use against the Bush administration by getting it vetoed.
President Bush has already said he will veto the bill if there are any attachments or amendments to it. Now, let’s look at why that is important…
The bill was created because educational benefits are one of the biggest enlistment incentives for prospective enlistees, and also because educational benefits are not keeping up with the cost of a college education. Congress is trying to do right by those protecting our nation—or rather, some in Congress are. The Democrats, however, see an opening—a way to wound the war machine they believe the current administration to be.
You see, if Democrats attach something to the bill, and the President vetoes it, it looks like the President is against increasing educational benefits for veterans he is sending off to war. It will also mean enlistment/recruiting efforts will suffer and many potential enlistees will think twice when they see that the military is not going to provide benefits that keep pace with costs of an education in America. You can’t hardly afford even a community college education on the current benefits.
Now, if this bill is to benefit our veterans, why can’t Democrats just leave it alone and allow those men and women to get what they have earned and more than deserve—more importantly, what they were promised? Because this is a chance to hurt enlistment, make the military and the administration look bad, a way to impact troop strength over the long term which will pressure the administration and the Department of Defense to wrap up the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan quickly. It could conceivably lead to premature withdrawal of troops as the military leadership begins to view the administration and Congress as non-supportive, leading to recommendations for disengagement from top generals—and which Congress and any administration would find hard to ignore.
Left alone, the bill will pass and provide the resources to ensure our veterans receive the benefits they signed up for and that they have earned. Left alone, it means more veterans are likely to complete a college or vocational education and find a new career after their military service is completed. Left alone, it means soldiers can plan for the next phase of their lives and try to get ahead in life, moving on as citizens with faith in the government, the military they served in, and their countrymen. It means a more brightly lighted path back to normalcy after enduring and surviving the war their countrymen determined they should fight.
So why the hell won’t Democrats leave the bill alone and do what is right?
Because the moonbat Democrats don’t want veterans moving on, or better educated. They might vote more Democrats out of jobs for one. Secondly, if veterans are upset and disenfranchised—and stories about it are making the rounds in the media for years to come—it hurts military recruitment.
It seems Democrats don’t want to honor soldiers. It appears that they just want to live as cheaply as possible behind the wall of safety those soldiers provide, while giving the country those soldiers fought for away—to those foreign invaders called illegal aliens. Come to think of it, at least one Republican running for President wants to do the same thing.
You know, this video just makes you think about the movie American Pie and “This one time, at band camp…” The song is now called Destination Calabria, after having started out as a track named Destination Unknown (not sure why the name change, but hey, strange stuff happens with dance music) in 2003. It features singer Crystal Waters.
If this doesn’t get a man’s blood pumping, he’s probably a corpse.
Ron Paul’s message is still resonating with a lot of Americans. Meanwhile, the Republican party and John McCain supporters are determined to sell-out our nation and our sovereignty, and give the country away to special interests and foreign invaders. The 2008 Presidential election will be the one remembered for the betrayal of America by the Republican party.
They had a true old time conservative in the form of Ron Paul running for President and instead gave the nation away to illegal immigrants. McCain is not the only Viet Nam veteran that ran for the Presidency, but he is the only one selling out our nation and wanting to give it away to foreign invaders.
Shame on the Republican party. Their fear of losing the White House and compromising their values for the sake of an easy win rather than standing for the one candidate who would have restored America’s sovereignty and the sanctity of the United States Constitution puts those Republicans who support John McCain on the same side as the Democratic candidates Obama and Clinton—against the working class American, against veterans and patriots, against the US Constitution, against American sovereignty.
Shame on the Republican party for abandoning the principles it once stood for.
Really, it is getting old, the constant stream of horrible conditions being revealed that our veterans returning from the Middle East are enduring. The latest video to publicize the issue shows the terrible conditions those fighting our wars are forced to live in…while defense contractors and certain politicians get rich off the wars.
Officers live separate from enlisted soldiers, mind you. But, what kind of leader lives in comfort at home while those soldiers that officer is responsible for live in squalor as bad or worse than the conditions his or her soldiers endured during the war? No leader worth a damn by any measure of the definition.
It is time for Majors, Colonels, Generals, the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Defense to be held accountable and for people to start losing their rank and jobs. People put in positions of trust and authority are showing they have no responsibility to the men and women we send to fight on our behalf. It is time to see the dismissal of field grade officers all the way up the chain of command, including the commanders of the 82nd Airborne Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps, FORSCOM and higher.
I’m a former infantryman myself, and find this beyond insulting to our soldiers. Infantrymen are famous for enduring harsh conditions and making things happen, getting things done, for not whining about such things as living in a hole scooped out of the sand for months, or slogging through jungles, or for patrolling the side of snowy mountains when it is -20 to -30 below. Infantrymen are used to the poorest conditions while those in other units have air conditioning and other creature comforts.
But the things shown in that video are an outrage.
Are those veterans to have survived war (often multiple tours) only to come home and fall ill because the Department of Defense is too damned cheap to provide them decent living conditions? Are they going to have to endure lung infections, lead poisoning, bacterial and fungal infections at home in America after having endured incredible hardships abroad fighting for those same stingy, cheap SOB’s leading this country?
What are Company Commanders and Platoon leaders doing, accepting this? Why aren’t they speaking out? Why aren’t Battalion Commanders raising hell about this? The officer corp is showing an incredible lack of balls and leadership on this. Is this how they think of and treat the soldiers they led in battle?
It is time to see heads roll. This is not an isolated incident, but one example of a long string of incompetent and gross miscarriages of decency in the military. First veterans were enduring terrible conditions at Walter Reed hospital. Next, they are being starved in Iraq. Now, they are living among mold, fungus, rust, peeling lead paint and shit.
OK, it has been more than a year has passed since the Walter Reed debacle, and yet nothing has changed. The Pentagon is doing absolutely nothing about this sort of thing which is endemic in the military.
Write your representative in Congress and voice your outrage at this. Better yet, write the President in the White House and let him know what a pathetic excuse of a human being he is (and a piss-poor Commander in Chief) for sending our soldiers to fight and risk their lives for this country and making them have to come home to these despicable conditions.
The sad thing is that right now, Company Commanders, First Sergeants, and Sergeant Majors are probably chewing soldiers’ asses, making them jump through hoops to slap paint on stuff, making them clean and repair buildings that should have been already in good shape for returning soldiers who have just endured the horrors of war—to cover up and prevent further examples from making their way into the public eye.
It is time to see those in high places lose their jobs and rank. When you vacate your leadership and responsibility you don’t deserve the rank, pay, or trappings of that office or rank.
The Global What the Hell on Terror is showing everything that is ugliest about America, and unfortunately, everything that is embarrassing us around the world is the fault of piss-poor leaders in the military officer corp, among our politicians, and in the greed of the military-industrial complex.
These days, our President, our Congress, our Generals and Admirals, our intelligence agencies, and our corporations are an embarrassment to everything it means to be American.
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