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This is an astounding rant. Money quote:
You silence them by calling them a racist. You have the racist finger out all the time.
But, the finger you use for personal responsibility, that … STAYS UP YOUR ASS. THAT NEVER LEAVES YOUR ASSHOLE YOU HYPOCRITICAL PUSSIES.
Now that I have your attention, let’s go to the boobs!
So a few years ago Tsar Putin I had a guy named Litvinenko killed in London using some sort of radioactive stuff in a needle. So the Brits decided to get tough and investigate it!
The results will stay secret. (Grauniad link, I had my choice of BBC, NY Times of the Grauniad, sorry).
Shit, those wimpy boobs in the Brit gov’t ar….damn that’s one fanfastic fucking gif up there.
Lest we think Britain is totally useless, check this out.
A GRANDAD whose house was pelted with stones by a schoolboy was NICKED and FINED after frogmarching him to his parents for a telling-off.
See? They’re not totally useless, they’re totally fucking useless!
In non-boob news, Columbia teaches us how to negotiate with terrorists.
Colombian government forces have killed a FARC brigade commander close to the Marxist group’s chief peace negotiator
Now that’s how you do it. FARC ceased their cease fire so the Columbians started killing them again. Nice.
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
No you idiots, all it does is illustrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that those Germans who claimed “I didn’t know!!!” were lying sacks of shit. Just like anybody with a brain already knew.
I have a hard time watching some war movies and not wishing we had perfected the bomb 2 years earlier. Especially in the Band of Brothers when they find the camp and Germans pretend they had no idea what was happening in that horrible place.
Damn, everybody wants to be where the revolution starts.
Brophy points to a section of the bill that defines a high-capacity magazine as one capable of accepting or — that can be readily converted — to accept more than 15 rounds or eight shotgun shells.
That’s just about every pump-action shotgun, you can put a mag extender on them so they’re illegal even without doing so.
So that’s why Biden was pushing double-barrels.
I know, I’m banging my chubby fists on the high-chair again, but….
Jonah Goldberg is upset they’re not inviting Christie to CPAC,
Oh, and he parroted the gun-control line and flip-flopped on accepting a federal bribe to accept Obamacare funding to expand Medicaid.
He thinks they need a big tent, stop being so strict about who they let in.
Yeah, that’s worked so well for the Church of England and the Catholic Church in America.
When your stock in trade is a belief system, it helps to actually FUCKING BELIEVE IN SOMETHING!
Sorry. I just get worked up. Added, I deleted “you assholes”, that was unnecessary. I was all worked up.
Heinlein always said that If “everybody knows” such-and-such, then it ain’t so, by at least ten thousand to one
Case in point. There aren’t more black men in prison than college.
I have to admit, I’ve always accepted that. It always embarrasses me when I forget that truism.
This one is funny on so many levels. 20 years after it could do any good, the state of Michigan is declaring Detroit a disaster area and taking over.
The quotes are what make it.
Mayor Dave Bing said Friday he does not favor an emergency manager to solve Detroit’s problems,
Wait, you mean a grifter is upset that he’s going to lose his source of graft? Color me pointing and laughing.
But wait, he demands his graft!
“There needs to be additional conversation with Lansing regarding their plan to move the city forward,” Bing said. “We have always said that we need help from Lansing to implement our initiatives such as public safety, transportation, lighting and others.
I’ll translate: Gimme, gimme, gimme.
I have to admit, I totally agree with this resident.
“I don’t think it’s right at all,”Angela Woodmere, 37, said Friday outside the Maccabees Building on Woodward. “We elected Detroit politicians and Snyder shouldn’t be dictating how they run the city.”
People get the gov’t they want, they voted for Henry Gondorff, they should keep him.
Speaking of scumbags. Via the Jawas we see Obama’s peace partners giving toys to children!!!! yay!!!!!
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to educate children about the dangers of toy-like bombs after militants allegedly targeted them recently with bombs disguised as candy, toys and even a string of ball-shaped explosives tied to a cricket bat.
Fucking savages. As for the Obama bit, it might not be the Taliban, but you know Obama would side with this set of boy-fucking savages just like he does with the Taliban.
Via Samizdata, we see this story about art. No, about Art!
So a hundred years ago some guy named Duchamp was at an art exhibit and he grabbed a urinal, signed it and put it on display. Some people are still doing it today. (Recall the janitor who “tidied up” a pile of garbage not realizing it was a million dollar pile of garbage). So the reviewer has this to say:
But it’s not going to come from repeating the same old tricks of 100 years ago. The urinal lovers now are the art establishment.
Hilariously true, but I laugh because I think of the haughty smugnitude you would get back from any Arteeeeest you said that to.
Couple Castle Arghhhhh! links.
First, the dumbest thing I’ve seen all day. (and that’s fucking saying something)
Cadets on the Brigade Energy and Environmental staff will introduce a new insignia to the Corps when they don their cadet uniforms this week. These cadet energy and environmental officers and noncommissioned officers, or E2Os, are tasked with leading the charge on initiatives related to recycling, energy and water conservation at the academy.
What does 4 up, 3 squiggly mean to you soldier? You’re pathetic sergeant!
The Silver Gore can’t be far behind. I swear, they’re just fucking with us now.
At first glance this looks awesome, but look closer.
Where the hell is the mine sweeper guy! Geez, they’re gonna be boned without him. Everybody knows the dinosaurs plant mines.
A sad post and one where the NY Post blew the headline again.
A massive spill at a Chivas plant has sent the smell of spirits flowing through a Scottish sewer
It should read Hundreds of people found in the sewers of Dumbarton, Scotland.
True Heroes! I so rarely get to use that category. There are only 4 of Doolittle’s Raider’s left alive.
There’s only one thing about that that doesn’t totally suck.
Years ago the President of Hennessy Company presented a bottle of 1896 vintage “Very Special Hennessy” cognac to General Jimmy Doolittle, in honor of his birth year and it was decided that the last two survivors would toast the fallen with it. Due to their advanced age it was decided that they would make the toast this year, before there were none left.
Nice.
Edition.
First, via the Jawas we get a link with a quote.
Catholic priests say they are living in fear after a clergyman was murdered on the final day of a music festival promoting religious tolerance.
So who else was involved? You can’t tell the players without a program.
I’ll try my hand at a Drudgetaposition.
Christie not invited to CPAC
Christie announces expansion of medicare.
Via Wyatt, I finally looked at that article where Kerry called Americans idiots, I didn’t realize he wasn’t in America when he said that (Kerry, not Wyatt).
If he had been in his home nation I wouldn’t have had a problem with him saying what we all know he ‘thinks’, but he wasn’t in France, he was in fucking Germany. Asshole.
I like Michael Z. Williamson’s books, so I felt bad about making fun of his “Manly Guns” list (I still think it wasn’t good with the AK being ridiculous on that list), so I’m happy I get to link him with an Atta Boy.
Headline
Vice President Shithead Doesn’t Understand The Constitution
Then he starts to explain why, beginning with this
“How can I say this politely?
Not sure, but you made a good start.
Next time you’re thinking how counter-productive the minimum wage is, ponder this Aussie nannarchism. This is that Aussie pub owner in Queensland that I like linking, talking about the gov’t mandated pay rates for his employees.
The payscale section of the industrial award or instrument (not my terminology) that applies to the Wayside Tavern has 962 pay rates, yes Nine-Hundred-and-Sixty-Two.(emphasis original V)
He says, “Why not a thousand?”
Cuz that would just be ridiculous.
Okay, this one is darn funny. As we all know (or not), in EUnuchstan they kept finding horse meat in everything a week or two ago., Well, in South Africa they’re finding
Soya, donkey, goat, water buffalo and plant material were found in up to 68 percent of the 139 minced meats, burger patties, delicatessen meats, sausages and dried meats tested by the university.
Well duh. I’d be happy it’s not people. I just hope nobody checks the food in the Congo. I’d bet that pork loin was long pig.
When I was in Kenya in 1984, my buddy was living there so we just rented a Suzuki Samurai and cruised all over,. I ate red curry “kabob and chips” everywhere. If they had refrigeration, plates and silverware, I would even eat the cole slaw. Often they didn’t, it was just some shack with a bubbling pot of oil for french fries and a rusty car fender over a fire for cooking kabob.
I didn’t want to know what the hell meat I was eating, I was mostly hoping it wasn’t people. I’d bet a dollar I’ve eaten baboon, monkey, water buffalo and maybe even lion if I was lucky.
A little Veeshir Vlashback. I was looking for something else when I saw this Round the Tubes link. It’s from one of the previous times the debt “crisis” was GONNA KILL US ALL!!!!!! (the subtitle’s “Game Over Man, Game Over!)
First, even if Congress makes a “Deal”, all it’s going to do is attempt to kick the can down the road. They’ll just raise the borrowing limit (because this time, THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!, they’re going to fix the US fiscal state), before not cutting shit. Hell, they can ‘t even “cut” the increases, does anybody think they can actually cut spending in the way anybody not of our self-proclaimed Elite would think of it? If so, I have some prime beach land for sale, sure you can’t quite see the ocean from here, but it’s very sandy and sunny.
Wash, rinse, raise my taxes. Repeat. Well, at least this time we’ll have the hilarity of them all freaking out over there being no budget that they’ll fix by passing a continuing spending resolution instead of a budget. You see, earmarks are only in budgets and they can pretend that they haven’t “budgeted” a deficit if they don’t have one.
Now something that I hope is for real. I can’t really quote any parts out, if you’re into the details, check it out. It looks plausible, if you accept the premise that carbon can be used to make batteries.
These dudes think they have a totally new, cheap, very efficient battery.
I hope so, because the state of battery technology is not very good, we just can’t make them clean or very efficient. Those are clean to produce and supposedly efficient.
I’m not sure about how polluting they’d be to dispose (I don’t know if they’d have battery acid), but a battery that is not an ecological nightmare to produce and is efficient would be awesome.
I expect all Green Scientists to fight this tooth and nail, because green science is neither and that battery would be both.
Eh, maybe they could make ‘em with a hammer and sickle logo to get Global Warmmongers onboard.
Don’t forget, check out This Ain’t Hell to see who to vote for and then check out the cheerleaders. I suggest you look very closely at all the pictures at the second link and then vote for the two at the first link.
Post needs pics, hmmmm, perhaps something yellow and soft to make John Effin Kerry feel welcome.
It’s fucking Amore’!!!!!!!!
Another look at Italy? The hardest part about this story was weeding my way through Minitrue’s bullshit to get to what happened.
So I’ve been seeing people freaking out over Italy’s election. The funniest are all the people saying Berlusconi’s party and a comedian’s party are against “austerity”.
As I saw on some blog last week, what they’re calling “austerity” are current tax increases and a really sharp look at spending, no mention of cuts, just let’s look. That’s austerity the way Obama cut $2trillion off the deficit.
Wash Post (warning, yellow journalism/Minitrue link) are their usual even-handed selves.
Let’s meet the players!
Not in any order:
Berlusconi: billionaire playboy and perpetual criminal defendant who was all but counted out of Italian political life when a debt crisis forced his resignation in 2011, shocked the country Monday by shooting back into a position of influence. (nope, he surprised lefties who ignore reality V)
the comedian whose party won big, Beppo Grillo: What worries many of Italy’s more sober politicians and analysts is that the protest leader does not seem to be in favor of much. (Italy has no sober leaders and that’s exactly why he was elected, we’ll get there shortly V)
And now, our hero from the left-leaning party (read: To the left of the Green party): Pier Luigi Bersani, a mild-mannered former industry minister,
Love this quote, cuz it’s accurate and innacurate.
“The majority of Italians have clearly voted against the Brussels consensus. That is a damning indictment,” said Mats Persson from Open Europe.
Accurate cuz the majority of voters said that, but innacurate cuz of the low turnout. More on that.
Now, domestic and furrin Minitrue outlets keep saying Italy’s fucked because of this, but that story has a funny bit. The Euro went down when it happened but:
the yield spread of 10-year Italian bonds over German Bunds jumped 30 basis points to 290 in late trading.
That’s good, right? Higher yield means they earn more money, right?
I had a good link to the Financial Times but they have some copyright threat that says I can’t link or cut and paste unless I use their buttons. Pass. I think they were the ones who said Axelrod helped a leftist in the election (updated to make sense V), but since they’re assholes about links, here’s a link that talks about that.
(when I searched for that link I saw a Politico (pronounced Po-Lie-Ico) article that talked about him being ‘attacked’, how dare Italians get upset that Obama dispatched his peeps to get involved in their politics!?!?!?!?!?!?
But what none of those lying sacks of shit are fucking telling you is that that good old Beppo started the V-Day Protests.
For those not in the know, like me 20 minutes ago, the V is not vagina, victory or even vino, it’s Vaffanculo.
An aside, I’ve been using that word for a long time but I just thought about the “culo” (ass) part, now I have to ask an Italian if it means “up the ass” fucking.
Let’s hear from someone not violently opposed to anybody not a leftist sucker of Obama’s cock.
Apart from the having yet another election, discovering horsemeat in lasagne and preparing for a new Pope, one quarter of the voting population decided to show their political masters what a bloody nose looks by voting for a protest party set up by a comedian with a healthy disdain for all Politicians.
Yup. Most Italians didn’t even bother, it’s the lowest vote turnout since WWII.
Moar about Beppo Grillo
Started by the readers of his blog in despair at the endless corruption, power mongering and downright Mafia tactics that prevail, his movement is making only one demand. It will not form a coalition with any other party and actually does not want any power. Grillo himself has declared that the support for his movement,
Now first, look at his blog readers. I bet they click links and co…. ahhhh, nevermind.
But check that out, whodathunk Monty Brewster would win an election in Italy!!!!!!
Italy, you magnificent bastards! I read your books!
Man, that’s the fucking awesome story of the day..week…month….year….decade…century..The Fucking Millennia bitches!
Read the link at “Fuck You Day Protests”, it’s fucking beautiful.
I say we go the same route with eddiebear.
Think of the Fuck You Day Protests!
Unrelated to this post update!
I emailed John at This Ain’t Hell (but you can see DPUD from there) about the Iranian Salute Guys and he responded with a picture that names all the players, I updated that post and wanted to bump it but I don’t know how so you’ll have to scroll down or click a link.
I’m still taking the afternoon off, I just have two things to say.
First, originally I was going to take the afternoon off to watch The Australian Rules Baseball Championship.
I was totally looking forward to seeing how they ‘fix’ baseball, I love Australian Rules Football. It’s like a cross between football, rugby, soccer and kill the carrier.
So what rules do they use for Australian Rules Baseball? Certainly they don’t wear helmets but do they carry the bats around the bases? Do the bats have spikes? Can you tackle the runner or the third baseman? I figured at least you’re out if you get hit by the pitcher but get on base if he tries and misses.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered they use the same rules we do! And the batters wear helmets!!!! Sonomabatch. I’m so disappointed in them.
B) You all made fun of me for my boycotts. But first I got Stoaty Weasel to fix her blogroll, that was a win, and now my ultimate boycott is showing fruit!
Lemur King hasn’t posted since the 4th and he’s left one of the only people who like him in the spam bucket!
He’s rattled.
Now what do you think of my super-duper boycott now?
I’ve been ignoring the Funniest End of Civilization Ever lately. I mean, it’s impossible to not see it, but I haven’t been posting about.
So let’s get funny and let’s get endy.
Before we start I want to let you know I’m trying something that I hope doesn’t blow up the tubes. I’m putting this in Fail (for obvious reasons) and Win (for the awesome shotgun in the last link), sorry if this causes any problems.
First up, remember when writing a memo saying making foreign terrorists uncomfortable made John Yoo a criminal?
Well, that was the before, we’re in the now. Apparently writing a memo saying it’s okay to kill Americans (not hassle furrin terrorists but kill American citizens without a trial or anything) is perfectly okay.
What makes that funny (and endy), is that those two things together make sense to much of our country.
In lese majeste news, Jammie Wearing Fool notes the Wash Post is talking about M’Shell’s ass but buries the lede if you ask me. From the Wash Post link I ain’t linking those yellow journalistical assholes.
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” said Bob Grisham, a high school football coach who was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.”
Grisham, who was suspended Monday…
Noticing M’Shell’s huge ass is doubleplusungood and must be punished. Free speech? Only if you’re not talking about our Nannarchs.
Pre-Benito-Giuliani, NYC was “ungovernable”, then Giuliani showed you don’t need to govern, you just need to go after the bad guys. That was the before and we’re in the glorious now with Bloomberg trying to rule (not govern) and discovering it’s not that easy, so now they’re having flash gangs around the city destroying businesses and there’s nothing the poor cops can do.
Instead of making it easier for businesses to defend themselves, I look forward to NYC having a text message snooper. After all, the Founding Fathers never contemplated flash gangs when they wrote the first and 5th amendments.
You see, whenever a statist fucks up it’s not his fault, it’s the fault of Teh Peepul and they must be punished.
We’re selling stuff to Central American countries to fight the “Drug War!!!!“, it’s funny, Ronnie Raygun sold weapons to central Americans to free themselves from commie dictatorships and he can never be forgiven, Obama is selling advanced stuff (night vision goggles for instance) to corrupt countries who will immediately sell it to the drug lords and he’s our God President. I can’t get deluxe night vision goggles but Obama is providing them to the Medellin Cartel and he’s the Greatest President In The History Of Everything! Yay!
So as in Libya and Syria where Obama is fighting on both sides of the War on (Some) Terror, here he is fighting both sides of the Drug War!!!, it’s not funny and endy for nothing.
A little enditious levity (warning, unsafe, enemy link to the Gruaniad), the Norks have released a new “We’re Gonna Kill You All!!!!!” video, I guess they’re running out of food for the Army again.
So why is that funny? I mean, except for the whole, 2 year old temper tantrum aspect of everything the Norks do?
Important update, I changed the link as the first one was taken down, this one might go down too as there are multiple copyright violations, they stole We Are The World and video game footage.
It’s set to We Are The World (we are the children). Fucking hilarious. Apparently, the Norks are going to send missiles, that turn into anime space shuttles that attack some planet (not Earth), then fly around and attack Earth. Or something.
This is still my favorite, inscrutable Nork oddity, but that vid is darn inscrutably weird.
Seriously, what the hell is that all about?
A little pre-revolution hilarity.
Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation.
Remember Al Gore saying our cars couldn’t be sold in China cuz of their super-duper pollution laws? What made that funniest for me is not the idea that he was praising a commie hell-hole, it was the Asian Brown Cloud, a big, brown cloud of pollution that hovers over eastern Asia. Mostly from our fine, clean Chinese bankers.
So now Japan is getting a little taste of that clean, clean Chinese air and they ain’t liking it.
News programs have broadcast maps showing a swirl of pollution gathering strength across China and then spreading out over the ocean toward Japan.
Poor bastards, they live on a earthquakiful island, they get nuked by us, then by themselves (Fukushima) and now they’re getting all polluted on by their fine, mainland neighbors. I’d get new gods if I was them. Eh, could be worse, they could be Jews I guess. At least the Japanese did not have to wander the world for 2,000 years only to finally get their country back but now it’s in the middle of the people who hate them even more than the Europeans who tried to kill them all. So they have that going for them.
A little pants-wetting hilarity from our fine, leftist betters (unsafe, TPM link). Talking Points Memo is all afraid of survivalists in Idaho whose major goal is to get the rest of America to leave them the fuck alone.
They got ‘permission’ from the ATF to make their own guns and TPM wets their pants, hides under the bed and calls mommy.
You know, cuz buying guns is so much harder than making them.
Why do I love America? Because we’re the right kind of fucking crazy.
Yesterday Say Uncle linked a post with the picture of the day.
It’s a mag-fed, pump-action shotgun (not Moe Szyslak’s double barreled pump alas) so today Caleb (he of the pic of the day) has another post where he tells you can get the stuff to make it yourself, it’s the cheapest Mossberg (good gun) with the mags (5 round stick and 10 round drum).
That is my favorite type of some.
Awe.
Have fun folks and don’t forget, what you think is funny is probably gonna KILL US ALL!!!!!!!
So we have two things going.
Point 1: Spain is “thinking” about raiding their serfs’ retirement funds.
Spain has been having trouble finding buyers for its increasingly risky government bonds. It thought it had found the perfect solution to this problem: tapping its own Social Security Reserve Fund as a buyer of last resort
Point B: Egypt is exporting the Muslim civil war in much the same was as Saudi Arabia. I read on some blog about how they’re in the UAE and now they’re getting busy in Kuwait.
Let’s kill two birds with one stone and let the Muslims fight out their civil war in Spain!
The Oil Ticks have the money the Spaniards aren’t going to get from Germany and the Spaniards have a province that crying out to be reclaimed by Muslims. And since it’s now a bad thing to be Christian in EUnuchstan, they won’t mind changing religions. I mean, if you don’t believe in it in the first place, why not just not believe in a different religion?
That’s just win/win IMO.
Think outside the box folks, we need creative solutions to today’s problems.
In honor of Veteran’s Day, let’s do a war movie post.
What are the best war movies? Glad you asked, I’ve loved war movies for a long time. WWOR used to show war movies all Saturday morning to early afternoon. WPIX showed Creature Feature at the same time, so I used to go back and forth.
These are the most powerful ones, some that are very good didn’t make the cut, like ‘Run Silent, Run Deep‘, ‘Sergeant York‘ and of course, “In Harm’s Way” and a bunch of other Duke movies.
In no particular order (except the last one, which is the best one.):
Pork Chop Hill, it’s one of the most realistic war movies ever. No, not “Saving Private Ryan” realistic, but one that I would say shows best what happens in war, and especially what happens when the US lets the UN get involved.
If you read the reviews of that, it’s supposed to be anti-war, I think it’s a masterpiece. You have a first lieutenant who’s told to take and hold a hill with his company during the “peace” talks. For some stupid UN reason, they don’t reinforce them and even take back the reinforcements they do get. The lieutenant follows orders and keeps his men under control in impossible circumstances while the negotiators deal with commies who are arrogant, smug and superior.
The only way to negotiate with commies is to shoot them in the head. The only good commie is a dead commie. This movie makes that clear.
Wake Island, it was filmed as the battle was going on. They had to delay finishing it until the battle was over. It’s about Marines and construction civilians being all badass. I have to admit, I really like the propaganda movies from during the war. I understand they were recruiting films, but they were powerful.
Speaking of propaganda/recruiting movies, They Were Expendable is a great movie. It was about when we were getting our asses kicked, Japan was running wild throughout the Pacific and we were worried about being invaded. It’s about the debacle that was the Philippines at the beginning of the war, they show the agony of defeat, doing your duty and victory in defeat. A common theme in all good war movies.
So Proudly We Hail, about a group of nurses in the Philippines set at the same time as They Were Expendable. That’s one fucking powerful movie. After watching that movie you’re going to want to go out and kill some Japs, the damn slanty-eyed, sneaky little yellow devils.
Stand By For Action, a “based on a true story” movie propaganda about an obsolete destroyer that is pressed into action and takes on a battleship, cruisers and destroyers to save the rest of a fleet.
Action In The North Atlantic, about merchant seaman going to Russia in Liberty Ships. Another propaganda/recruiting movie, showing the courage and determination of the merchant marine.
Sahara, with Bogie, not the later ones (I haven’t seen the one with Jim Belushi, I can’t take him seriously as a her0), about a tank in North Africa during a retreat. Great movie. The characters are stereo-types, but true ones. The faithful and brave Sudanese (British subjects at the time), the Frenchie who just wants to kill Nazis, the captured Italian who doesn’t want to fight (My uncle fought in North Africa with the Italians, they fought as little as possible and surrendered to the first Americans they found, then threw a party. True story, at least, that’s how he described it, my relatives in Italy all felt bad about Mussolini, their attitude is that never did a greater ruler have a worse people), the cultured Brit, the cockney Brit, the American from the mean streets, the cowboy and the evil Nazi. Great movie.
Battleground, about the 101st in Bastogne. Great fucking movie.
Not a movie, but Band of Brothers is also great. One of the only post-1970 war movies that doesn’t exude hatred of the military. (Saving Private Ryan, while with gruesomely realistic filmed battles, is not a good war movie. When the sergeant says, “Maybe saving Private Ryan is the one thing we can be proud of” (or something similar) I always want to punch him in the fucking mouth. No you stupid asshole, ending the Nazis is the greatest fucking thing you ever did.)
Bataan, again a propaganda/recruiting film about the Philippines. The one thing about good movies set in that time is that they show scratch units made up of men from all branches. There’s the flyer, the navy types, the REMFs, the kid and one combat soldier who holds them together to slow the Japanese down so we can retreat and save as much as possible. Powerful as they die one by one.
The Purple Heart, about flyers captured after Doolittle’s Raid, tortured and put on trial by the Japanese. Wow.
Black Hawk Down, another cautionary tale about going to war with the fucking UN involved. Bastids. I can’t watch it again as I get fucking furious every dam time as I see the Pakistanis retreat, leaving our soldiers to run by themselves at the end. Motherfucking sonomabatching UN assholes.
Beach Red, it follows the actions and thoughts of our Marines, and also Japanese soldiers, as we invade an island in the Pacific. Very powerful. One of the more powerful moments is when we watch a hiding Japanese soldier looking at the pic of his wife and child and remembering their life and then, when the Americans go by, he runs out to bayonet one Marind in the back before he’s killed. Holy fucking shit.
Before we get to the best war movie, allow me to say, “Fuck you” to our fine media betters.
A few years ago AMC showed The Blue Max on Veteran’s day. Yes, on the 11th hour of the 11th day they showed a fucking movie about German fucking flyers in WWI. For those who don’t know, the holiday began as a commemoration of the end of WWI. So AMC showed a movie about the fucking enemy on that day. The stupid fuckers. Today Encore is showing war movies all day and lest you think our military is a good, they’re ending it with a crockumentary about how our military tortured people at Abu Ghraib. Fuck you assholes. Seriously, I would say only eddiebear could eloquently enough state how I feel about how you should be fucked by a jihadi’s rusty knife.
And now, the best war movie ever, To Hell and Back, about and starring Audie Murphy. He had all manner of emotional problems later in his life, I would have to believe that making that movie harmed him a lot as he relived the deaths of so many of his buddies. Powerful movie.
I voted this morning. There were no armed guards. There was no sound of mortar fire off in the distance.
I voted this morning. No one tried to stop me because I’m a woman. No one tried to kill me because I’m queer.
I voted this morning. I drove myself to the polling place in a car that I own. I walked in unaccompanied by a male family member.
I voted this morning. I was allowed inside though my face was uncovered and my hands were bare. I was allowed to take my own ballot and mark my own choices.
I voted this morning. Then I walked out, got in my car and gave thanks to God that I am blessed beyond the telling of it to live in a country where I am free to do just that.
In all of the partisan wrangling of an election year, I think it’s important to note when the good guys score a win against an Islamist terror group, so I’ll give credit where credit is due and say that Barack Obama did a great job here.
I would also like to hereby take this opportunity to denounce myself.
