Progressive–you knew it was coming

Paully sent me some articles earmarked “This is right up your alley.”

I think that when having a discussion it’s better to focus on what you agree about, or just some basic common ground. Then you both have something to work from.

A couple of days ago timmy talibann detonated a homicide car bomb or VCIED at a gate to Bagram Air Base. VP Dick Cheney was at the base at the time about a mile away. He was unharmed and in no danger.

The fact that he wasn’t murdered greatly upset liberals.

I know that many Democrats have said “He’s not my President, because I didn’t vote for him.” about George Bush. Remember that “common ground” I was talking about. Despite Bush Derangement Syndrome, President Bush is actually the President of all US citizens. Dick Cheney is actually the Vice President of all US citizens. Calling for their assassinations is treasonous, no matter which way you slice it. I would think that would make a good common ground, but it doesn’t.

(In Mexico, last year, they actually swore in 2 separate Presidents, because the losing party didn’t like the results of the election.)

The netroots are the heart and soul of the Democratic party. That’s their claim. Blogs and forums allow liberals to voice the concepts they would most like to see put into action, due to their near anonymity and freer dialogue it displays an accurate picture of what a “true liberal” actually is. Power to the people. And what do the liberal people want? The President and Vice President of the United States of America assassinated. Literally.



I don't think they mean "Take him down to Chinatown."


The Huffington Post got a lot of attention because it’s a high profile liberal website. I would link you to directly to their post but they have deleted the evidence of their true intent. The deleted the comments! I guess that’s easier than debating if it represents “mainstream liberals’. Just get rid of it and deny it later. That’s OK, someone got screenshots before they got canced. There’s plenty more at DU , KOS, and the thousands of liberal blogs on the interwebs cheering for the Taliban to literally kill our VP.

The first comment on the post now sarcastically reads:

“Glad the VP is OK.”

It originally read:

“Cheney’s spokeswoman said he was fine.
Fuck.”

But don’t question their patriotism.

There are some write-ups about it here and here, with some screenshots of the truth.

"You can't handle the truth!"



I watched a debate about it on FOX’s Hannity and Colmes and Kirsten Powers. It was almost like the participants of the debate had been reading the comments on my lowly blog.

Kirsten’s arguments were:
1. This behavior doesn’t represent liberals because not all liberals are this way.
All liberals don't cheer for the death of the President and VP? Oh, good good. At least it's not every single one. That's much more reasonable.

Then she switched to the backup argument.
2. You’re basing this concept of liberals on one (and only one) liberal.
One? That one person sure is busy. Get Real.

Then the final argument.

3. Conservatives do it too.
Conservatives cheer for terrorists, and plot the death of the Prez and VP? Get real.

Now please understand that Kirsten Powers and Alan Colmes are considered by the left as “Fake Liberals”, because they’re not liberal enough. Even Hillary Clinton and Lieberman aren’t liberal enough. In order to be “liberal enough” apparently you need to actually be a traitor.

But they’re “for the troops”.

One more thing. Don’t forget Code Pink who sent $600K to the “other side” in an effort to aid the insurgency and Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Eeeeeeeeeehhhh......Look it up.

Seriously, watch your back for these moonbats.

Brando: the formative years

What makes Brando the way he is?


When I was in 2nd grade our classroom had a cool little reading area to encourage us to read. It was basically a cardboard fort reinforced with some 2x4s in the shape of a wedge of cheese. All the kids took turns painting it yellow, and there was a little ached door so you could get in. Like a mouse hole. We had a few little chairs inside and a smattering of books. It was actually pretty cool, and as a class we felt like it was ours, because we thought that we had built it; but we had actually only painted it. I think the teacher was the most exited about it.



One day in class the teacher was really mad about something, and we got the general feeling that we were in big trouble. Well, apparently one of the kids in my class had taken a pencil and written the word “Fuck” really small on the inside of our mouse house. Invoking the f-word is on the order of a felony in the second grade. It was a big, big deal.

At one point, one of the kids said “Brando did it.”, and this was seconded by another kid. The entire class looked at me, and the teacher’s attention focused on me, and with a look of disdain she asked “Well, did you write it?”

Keep in mind that at this point, I was already guilty. Nobody was “asking” if I had done this thing. It wasn’t an interview. It was an interrogation. They were simply trying to get me to admit to the guilt that was locked in their minds. The most likely thing in my mind was that the kid that accused me was the culprit, and his finger pointing was a bid to divert attention away from himself. But in the end, I didn’t know who did it. I only knew that it wasn’t me. If I were to counter accuse, I would be committing the grave sin that had just been committed against me.

If I were to deny it, it would just make me appear more guilty. And I shouldn’t have to deny anything, in the first place. I wasn’t the one making accusations. It was at that moment that I decided that the best course of action was to say nothing.


Well, after a few minutes of everyone talking about who they “think” did it, and me sitting silently, the group and teacher finally settled on the truth that I had done this thing. Keep in mind that the real villain was sitting right there in that class, and was likely a key player in “establishing” my guilt. I got a lecture from the teacher in front of the whole class about respecting other people’s property, and how it takes a group to keep things nice. It was a pretty good ass chewing. She was darn mad. She told me how this mouse house was supposed to be a class project that everyone could enjoy, but one bad apple had to ruin it for everyone.

Here’s the really odd thing. Even thought I was really angry about the injustice of the thing, I actually sort of enjoyed it. Isn’t that silly? On some level it was empowering. I was right. 100% and completely right, and they were wrong. If I got upset, or flew off the handle, I might have sullied it. A mere child could rightfully be superior to a classroom full of liars and sheep, including the adult. Without lifting a finger, I could be superior.

Well, after that I endured snide comments from the other kids about it, and was effectively barred from reading in the mouse house. A short time later, we got rid of the mouse house completely.

Anywho. That's one of the main reasons that I generally view accusations as a substandard way of information gathering.

Han Dan Maki

"SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended of two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.
A retired member of the U.S. military aged about 70 put suspect Warner Segura in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the 20-year-old and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus."

The tourists left on their Carnival cruise ship after the incident and Hernandez(police) said authorities do not plan to press any charges against them.

And this is the coolest part.

"All of the guests involved, who had booked the cruise together as a group, have opted to continue with their vacation plans.”

What an awesome vacation! When I go to Carnival I'd like the "kill the mugger with my bare hands" package. I wonder if that costs extra. Hey Costa Rica! Our blue hairs are tougher then your 20 year old criminals.

Mommy

When I was a young pup I saw Mommy Dearest on cable. I thought it was going to be a crappy old crapperton movie that was devoid of anything good like ALF, Time Machines, Barter Town, or cool talking cars.



Holy Smokes, was I ever wrong. That movie rocked the house.

It was not clear

I just saw this over at Michelle Malkin’s, and I got a big kick out of it because it’s right up my alley.

A liberal in Fredericksburg, Virginia saw someone’s name on a Republican website, and went to their house and assaulted them because they didn’t enlist in Bush’s war. Yes. Actually. Physically. Went into their house and assaulted them.

Seriously folks. Be careful if your opinion differs from that of a moonbat. They will try to come to your house and physically crush dissent because different opinions infuriate them. That’s why it takes moral courage to maintain your freedom. Come to my house and see what happens. Liberals say that I must submit to their will because they have violence? Well, I have violence too, and my violence says that I don’t have to submit to their will. Fear only works as a weapon, if you choose to be afraid. Liberals = pwnt.






My favorite part of the article was the last line.

“It was not clear in the report what political agenda Stone was supporting.”

Hahahahahhaha.





Hey Sam, you tell 'em for me.



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Update: Michelle Malkin has a good write-up on it, including facebook screenshots, and past threads. You gotta see it to believe it.

In all seriousness, be careful around liberals, they're willing to do anything.

Din Din time at Chez Brando

I made Kimbo Slice some dinner this Saturday for Valentine’s Day. It worked out pretty well.

The Slice loved it.

Cheese Plate w/ goat topped with fresh basil
Smoked Gouda
Spanish Manchego

Fresh Garlic Asiago Bread

White Wine = Yalumba Viognier 2005, South Australia
Red Wine = Protocolo 2004 Spain
Sparkling = Cristalino Brut, Spain

Bucket’s Rocket and Orange Salad

Surf-n-turf
5 oz filet, 5oz lobster tail, twice baked potato, fresh broccoli

Worlds best Flourless Chocolate Cake.

Then I had a glass of Baileys of the rocks.

Here are the pics.
























I have to give props to Bucket for the guidance. She knows a thing or two about the vittles. I was a bit skeptical about the walnut oil, because it sort of stank, but it really grew on me. I was also unsure about the shallot, because that seemed like way too much onion flavor for a salad. The thing is that when you toast up shallots, they end up sweet instead of oniony, and that flavor meshed perfectly with the sweet oranges. My wife insisted that I make that salad for mother's day. Good call, Bucket.

True for me

A good buddy of mine gave me a cool book to read a while back. Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World. It’s about scientific method. You shouldn’t confuse “sciency” words with basic scientific method, and how many people lack the basic tools to understand their universe.




We live in a world of crazy people. There is an argument, or thought concept that people use all the time. It’s really stupid. It might even be in the realm of insanity. Ok, here it is.

Have you ever heard the phrase “Perception is reality”? It’s popular in advertising and politics. The concept is that if something is generally perceived to be true, then the historical record will follow, and then it will actually be true. It's crazy logic.

Many things are objectively true or false, or their existence isn’t contingent on a person’s belief. You're probably thinking, "well of course"! I see it all the time, even though a small child could understand it's absurdity.

I’ll give some examples.

On the first day of philosophy class, we all made an agreement to not use the phrase “true for me”. It’s a dishonest and deflective statement. When talking about God, it’s crazy to say “The existence of God is true for me.”, and you can clearly see why. God may or may not exist, and he could be different than what we expect, but if there is a extremely powerful being that created the universe, and time, and you, then that being’s very existence isn’t contingent on your belief in him. It’s such a goofy thing to proclaim. He created you, and yet your belief creates (or destroys) him? Get real. People in class still insisted on saying "true for me, true for you, true for them".

I’ve spoken to people who actually think this way. It's odd arguing with them because they just argue according to a reality they make up.

If someone has done something embarrassing in their past, and they deny it, they literally believe that they have changed the actual chain of events. They think that by rewriting the history books, and trying to perceive what they want, they will make the true false, and the false true. They are nuts.

I’ve had people do this with me in arguments. I see it in the news. And I certainly see it in forums.

Headlines like this make me roll my eyes. Can you guess what’s wrong with this garbage?


Calgon, take me away.

Fatty Boom Batty

I was skypin with Cory the other night and he told me about his adventures in Thailand. He said that one of the professors he’s working with said “You don’t look like an American...You’re not fat! Hahahahaha!” Is that a bit rude? Maybe. But we are fat though. And according to my “put up or shut up” rule Thai folks have every right to call us fat. Cory said that they’re really skinny, and that he towers over everyone. It's fair game and it’s a-ok to point out national and cultural flaw as long as you’re superior in that category and Cory could have easily have done the same.

Infant mortality rate? GDP? Military Coups? Prostitution Industry? Human Trafficking? Democracy? Emissions Standards? Hahahaha.

Have you ever seen The Family Guy episode where Stewie is grilling Brian about his novel and his voice keeps going higher and higher. That’s a good template.








“Ya gotta, um, nice little GDP brewing there? Hmmm? You have a monarchy for a form of government? Yes? Been workin’ on that for thousands of years now? How’s that commin? You gotta, gotta nice robust infectious disease rate? AIDS makes it a little more interesting for the sex tourist? Ludacris likes to Bangcock in Bankok? Friends become enemies and enemies become friends?”

SUPERSIZE YOUR FACE

Remember in ‘94 2004 when the movie Supersize Me came out. It was a big deal. It was nominated for an academy award, and was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. The premise was based on an experiment to see if ingesting 5000 calories per day of McDonalds food without exercising, would cause you to gain weight. I thought the idea was hilarious, but apparently others saw this as proof that McDonalds was bad, and should be held liable in a lawsuit. You don't have to put 37 fries in your mouth at once.



Get real. Go to a McDonalds and get a fish filet sandwich. With the hot flaky fish segments, and the tangy tarter sauce, and that soft spongy bread that is almost like cake. It’s not good for you, but it tastes great. Great I say! I’m the one who’s loving it. Get a hot apple pie in that little warmer sleeve too, and honestly tell me if that doesn’t rock the house for $4.99, or whatever it costs.

Can we do that with chocolate cake? I’m going to eat nothing but chocolate cake for a month. Morning, noon and night. 5000 calories per day, with no exercise. It’s going to be my little “experiment” to see if it’s actually good for you, or if it should be banned. What a goofy idea. Of course it’s bad for you.

Maybe I could do it with fois grais, or water, or tapioca pudding.

I know that this is an older vid, but I just saw it again and I loved it.

You knew it too

Listen to CNN’s Jack Cafferty. Check out what he’s actually arguing for. He condescendingly pretends to be confused about why we would have a problem with Iran killing American troops.



I bet the reason is because he actually thinks it's good when Americans are murdered.

"What? What? I don't see why that's a bad thing? They probably voted for Bush, right? They should get killed. amiright? They didn't make an effort to be smart, so now they're stuck in Iraq. Iran's just working for CNN. It's all good."

CNN I knew it.

I’ve also been looking at Pal Dollard’s website. Good Stuff.

One of my old Marines, Tamba, is putting together some of the footage from our deployment, and making an indy movie about it. I hope he makes us look good. I hope there’s no footage of me losing my temper at one of my corporals or picking my nose or something.

That's nice to see.

Alright, no more doom and gloom for a while. I’ve been harping on how... well, if you’ve read any of my blog, you know exactly what I’ve been harping on. Even though we have no shortage of knuckleheads in this world, we also have some pretty cool people too. All things considered, the world is a pretty great. It’s important to remember that. The A-holes shouldn’t get all the attention. My wife sent me this article to remind me that there are still good people.

Good ones.

Just about every morning for the past year, Bert Brady has been getting up, having a cup of coffee and heading over to the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. But this ritual has nothing to do with travel. He's at the terminal to welcome home American troops as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I went 300 days last year," Brady said. "They are glad to see us, and we are tickled to death to see them because they are our heroes."

*adam sandler goat voice*
That’s nice to see.


When we came back from Iraq, we landed in Maine first. We disembarked the plane and walked down the ramp into the airport. The ramp was filled with folks from the local Legion and VFW waiting there to greet us. The old guys shook our hands and the old ladies gave us hugs. They had a bunch of cell phones for us so we could call our loved ones and tell them that we had safely arrived back in CONUS. It was really, really cool. It was nice to be back on American ground. It’s a really hard feeling to describe. The air was cleaner, the food was tastier, and the people were just better. It was almost like the sky changed color. Home Sweet Home. I’m very thankful that those people took the time to greet us.

Also, one of the key things that I loved about leaving Iraq was.......beer.

Yes, I know that sounds superficial and lame, but the highest mark of civilization is it’s beer brewing. Iraq brews no beer, so what’s that tell ya?

As for the beer, we did a layover in Shannon, Ireland for about an hour on our return from Iraq, and promptly ambushed the bar. They have Beamish Stout on tap, and I ordered two pints. I drank the first one in one motion, and savored the second one. Beamish is now what I consider the finest warrior’s drink.




As we walked back through the airport to our plane, the civilians stood up and applauded us. It was really cool, and was an incredible feeling. It was just like the Superbowl commercial in 2005. A little bit embarrassing, but good.



Anyway, my reason for posting this was that I wanted to acknowledge all the people that take the time to defend the troops back home. There are plenty of pro-troop Americans that put a great deal of energy into countering the jerks. If you’ve ever corrected someone when they start repeating anti-serviceman hate, or done something to reassure a warrior that you love them, please know that the troops are indebted to you. There are too many people to name, but I would like you all to know that servicemen can hear you too. Keep fighting.

Plan To Bang

Remember when Saddam was bragging about the "near collapse" of the American economy? Yeah, I know we had a shallow recession after 9/11, but I would hardly say that we were close to folding. At any rate, I don’t think it was in his best interest to be claiming credit for it. I dunno. Maybe it paid off for him.



After 9/11 we really insisted on those inspections. Saddam responded with his “Rivers of Blood” proclamation. It wasn't the best idea. He should have been behaving as though he wasn’t a threat, but instead he thought is was better to posture as though he was a gigantic threat. Maybe he was following the old adage:

“Act strong when you’re weak. Act weak when you’re strong.”

It probably would have served him better to follow the American sage Outkast:

“Don’t pull your thang out unless you plan to bang. Don’t even bang, unless you hit somethang.”


Get our your lollerskates, cause it’s time for the lolz.


Mr. Jinxy has recently noticed that war footage is always set to “Shitty Stripper Music”, so I figured I’d mix some good ole Iraqi dancing with Iraqi’s favorite song. Crank it up to 11. Oh and by the way. I make 3 cameo appearances in this vid. If you are the first to spot all three, I’ll send you a 4th MarDiv patch.

The Savages

If you’ve ever been on a military base, you’ve seen that things are neat and orderly. Especially in bootcamp. The whole spit-n-polish stuff is taken completely to the extreme in the Marine Corps. All the brass is shiny, the floors have an absurd amount of wax on them, and all the bathrooms are spotless with a good nose-stinging bleach smell. Your personal grooming standards are enforced. You get a haircut once or twice a week, shave once or twice per day, and your uniforms have to be pressed in specific manner. Your boots are always black, including the little eyelets, and your laces always go left-over-right. The rocks and sand are raked, and they measure the grass. Everything nice, neat, and orderly in a military manner.


Let’s contrast that with Iraqis.

At the Iraqi National Guard (ING) base they were getting sick and had terrible diarrhea. We went to where they were preparing their food, and saw that the soldiers were shitting on the ground all around the building. I don’t know what the official distance is keeping your shitting away from your food prep, but our platoon used 100yards, and we made a little trench shitter. Just like you learned in the boy scouts. We tried to explain to them the simple concept that bacteria and creatures live in shit, flies eat shit, flies land in your food, then you have horrible stomach cramps. Washing your hands of feces before touching food is also important. It’s a very clear cause-and-effect type of deal. They didn’t believe us. The got angry and argued with us. They didn’t believe in bacteria, and wouldn’t be lectured by Americans. They’re an ancient culture. It was actually sort of embarrassing for us, to have to tell grown ass men to get their own feces off of their hands before putting them in their mouths. Imagine having a similar conversation with one of your co-workers. Something that you would have never imagined that you would have to explain to another adult.
“Um, Bill, can I talk to you for a minute? Seriously, Yeah, I’m going to have to ask you to just go ahead and just stop smearing human shit on your face. Don’t be offended. It’s just company policy.”

Also, one of the Iraqis with diabetes said that he caught it from being scared during the shock and awe campaign.

I was “shocked and awed” that he thought he could get diabetes from loud noises.

Did I also mention that it was a Iraqi cultural virtue to BEHEAD PEOPLE?

Anyway. Back to the squatting and pooping. On one of our joint missions we had to babysit a bridge. The ING lived in a little 3 room house next to ours, and I’d go over there every few hours to get ‘em going on patrol or to make sure that they always had at least one person awake. Bare minimum, military type stuff. It stank like a damn chicken coop in there. It also smelled like sex, and it was all guys. Well, I opened one of the doors, and shit squished and smeared underneath the door, and across the linoleum. When I opened the door all the way, I saw that the floor was covered in piles of shit, from them just squatting down and releasing their bowels. They slept and ate in the very next room, and burned lots of insense to cover the stench. Even animals know not to shit where they eat. Also, one night when one of my Marines went up to an ING vehicle to get them to go out on a little vehicle patrol, he caught an ING sucking another one off. He told everyone and we laughed uncomfortably. Can they at least pretend to have some military bearing, and not make a mockery of the entire warrior profession?

Did I mention the time that they the police fled at the threat of battle, and we had to retake their police station for them? That made me think real highly of them. Well, actually it was sort of fun.

They demand our respect.

Well, I demand they “Get Real”.



This was a small Iraqi base south of Mahmudiyah. One of my Marines is re-teaching them how to make a trench-shitter, and I’m just filming the evidence, because people back home wouldn’t believe it.

Holy Balls

I'm finished with liberals.

Hammer Time

Ok. On this post were going to slow it down a little bit. This one is going to have some tight rules on arguing. Maybe there’s not even a need to argue. Usually I just argue to the lowest common denominator, because that’s the easiest and the most fun. I often denounce a certain claim or behavior that is truly abysmal, and announce it’s a trait within a population. The end result is that I’m sort of arguing with “everybody and nobody”.

When I’m speaking to an individual, I treat them as though it is simply them speaking, and I expect that they treat me the same way. Bucket summed it up pretty well when she described it as “tribe on tribe”. Two different ideologies can be compared (tribe on tribe), and those discussions are very predictable, because there are certain catchphrases and counter-arguments, with little thought to their internal consistency. I can probably repeat liberal dogma better than most, because I’ve had it fed to me for so long. For this post, and comment thread, we’re not going to fill in any blanks. Everything must be clearly stated. Everyone is free to join in, but respond only to what is said, and not to something someone else said to you a week ago.

Hammer, from the famous blog Throwing Hammers asked this.

“Quick question, but answer carefully because it's an important one. In your mind can a person support the troops without supporting the war? If not, then can you lay out for me the a logic behind that?...I may have to tease this out a bit over at my own piece of electronic real estate, but I maintain that you can support the troops without supporting the war. However, if you disagree I'm willing to have a reasonable debate on the subject.”


I think I know what you mean by your question, but I’m going to ask to be as precise as possible.

It could mean a number of things.

1. When people say they are “For the troops, but against the war.”, sometimes that’s just a euphemism for “I hate the troops, but I don’t want to be criticized for it”. Sort of like saying “I respect South Americans, but they are a stupid lot”. It’s the equivalent of throwing out the phrase “I’m just sayin’” after spewing forth something unforgivable. It’s an unstatement.



2. The unqualified statement STOP THE WAR means “I want all of America’s military, intelligence agencies, security companies, and foreign allies to immediately stop fighting the war on terror.” They’re not saying it to the terrorists too. Just America. Completely disarm, and trust that jihadists and foreign militaries will allow us to continue to survive and have a country.



This is usually what I take a person to mean, when they are saying they are against “The War”. “I want America to be destroyed.” It's much like when someone says that we "should close Gitmo", they are saying that we should close the entire base, and disband the units there.

3. They might also mean a sort of philosophical concept of being “against war” in general. Maybe a pacifist or pseudo-pacifist view. Nothing is worth fighting for. It would be like asking someone if they were for or against root-canals. It doesn’t really break down into “pro-root canal” and “anti-root canal”. If someone said that they were just flat-out anti-root canal, then I could safely say that they were also anti-teeth. Yet very few people are for having root canals all the time, on all of your teeth, for no reason at all.

4. Some other concept that I haven't thought of.

I need some real specifics of what you’re against when you say “The War”, because that could mean a variety of things. The question might me so loaded that I can’t honestly answer right now, and I want to be sure I'm speaking with one person and not with an inconsistant group.

Look what the enemy did.

I know that sometimes people don’t comprehend that terrorism is real, and that as Americans we’re so insulated from danger that we don’t see the forest for the trees.

Honestly assess the enemy’s Rules of Engagement(ROE), and compare them to America’s ROEs. Be honest.

Homicide Bombers Kill 61

Most news agencies (besides Fox), refuse to call it homicide, because they don’t consider it homicide. Think about that for a second. Most news agencies don’t consider terror attacks homicide.

The never column should be maxed out at 100%

source

Weakest Generation

What a turd.

Seriously, read that article.

I don't even have the words to express how ..... Grrrrrrr.

I knew it.

If you're a pseudo-liberal, who only likes some aspects of the ideology, it might be time to reject this madness.

I freakin' knew it.

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Update: the Washington Post is still at it.

William M. Arkin has a follow-up article titled: “The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out”

I don’t think he means himself.
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Another Update: He still won't repent.

Arkin does an interview and tells the world exactly how it is from the liberal point of view.

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Video Update.