Screaming at the TSA seems to be a recurring theme around here. It’s almost as if they look for ways to allow people to scream at them. More attention than I’d ever like, but maybe these stupid pricks have a self-loathing complex that would drive most shrinks to suicide. I don’t know.

A lady in Texas was forced to remove both her nipple rings in order to board her plane. One of the piercing required the use of pliers. Funny thing is she had a belly button ring as well, and they didn’t force the removal of that piercing. I guess the nipple rings are some sort of bizarre threat to planes, maybe a sort of living hand grenade or the like. Don’t you feel the magic bubble of aerial safety that TSA is providing us with? I know I do.

But…and this is important, the TSA wants you to know, the security agents are well trained in the area or piercing. Even those piercing which happen to be in ‘sensitive’ body areas.

So my fellow Americans, beware the TSA if you have extra holes in your body. And pack a pair of pliers on your next vacation if you do have any extra holes.

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A two front war is ‘straining’ the government? A two front war requires more U.S. soldiers in order to effectively combat the threat of terrorism? Really…quite extraordinary these late blooming revelations regarding war-fighting. I guess had our idiot President bothered to actually serve in the military he might have half a fucking clue into the inner trappings of fighting a war or two.
Seems to me that a few other people, useless tools called Generals, made some small mention of this nasty little fact before the war began. I wonder what ever happened to those generals…
Anyway, what I mean to say in all of this is that George is an idiot. And now after five years of war, four thousand troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded, and a national debt that will be chewing on the backs of mainstream America for decades…our fearless idiot has a choice to make; win the war in Afghanistan by moving troops from Iraq, or lose the war in Afghanistan by leaving troops in Iraq. Of course there is a catch here, a small one, but a catch nonetheless. See, we can’t lose the war in Afghanistan because that was the launch point for this whole debacle, and rightly so. If we lose in Afghanistan the terrorists win, and by your dear and fluffy fucking lord we just can’t have that happen. But if we lose in Iraq, a place we never should have been to begin with, then democracy loses and Lady Liberty might well squeeze out a tear or two.
So tell me George, what is to be done?

Funny, I normally call statements based on falsehood a fucking lie. I pretty damn certain that had another politician, say, someone running against you for the office of President, had made a statement as grossly and transparently false as yours then you’d have been at their throat instantly.
Do us all a favor Clinton, shut your trap and go the fuck away…you’re a lying, petty, small minded chickenshit politician and you don’t deserve the White House. Oh, and do us a favor, stop fucking the Democratic Party with your ‘misstatements’.
Out.

4000 thousand dead men and women of the U.S. military, and a financial burden of over three trillion dollars, all from having a war in Iraq.
Yet even with 4000 Americans dead, and countless more injured in the name of war profiteering corporations this war is far from over. It will be at least another year, at the minimum, before we as a nation will find any sort of resolution to this costly problem. In the worst case this war will continue for years more as our wretched politicians attempt one useless extraction plan after another.
The ending of this war is of secondary importance though, at least this morning. With all the humdrum of the presidential election, numerous environmental disasters occurring in the United States, a rapidly weakening economy, and healthcare woes, the war in Iraq, and in Afghanistan have been largely forgotten by the media. I cannot say whether or not the general American public has decided to forget about the war, but our news agencies have certainly forgot, as have many of our politicians. And that sad fact is entirely unacceptable people, a crime that cannot be allowed to continue.

Aside from that fantastically sorry speech regarding the war in Iraq (I mean really, what President, what international figure actually speaks like that…fuck), and the Cheney the Penguin disregarding in contempt the public opinion, the President and his staff have added another ‘fuck you’ to the list.
Remember that stink about the missing emails in the White House? Remember how those thieving dogs kicked and screamed about any sort of investigation into their disappearance? Well when Congress and two suing parties turned out to be a little more determined than the White House was counting on, something new managed to float to the service.
The hard drives which contained all those missing emails (or might have contained them, just to be clear, cause after all they were missing) have been destroyed. Not by the White House of course, that might incriminate them further. No, they were destroyed by an ‘off sight government agency’. Destroyed of course in the interest of security. Our security I’ve no doubt, plus destruction holds the added benefit that fucking nothing is recoverable.
Way to cover up your mistakes guys. You don’t look in the least bit guilty now. Congratulations.

Since the inception of our nation, prior even to the birth of this nation, our military has used civilian contractors. For the most part the use of independent, profit driven civilian companies to supply the essential needs of an army has been both fruitless and expensive. That dismally depressing tradition has continued for over two centuries now, with the same success rate. Even more depressing is the fact that the use of contractors by our government has increased in recent years, with disastrous effect.
When I first joined the service in April of 1997 I was in the logistics field with the Air Force. During my four years in the Air Force I saw the very beginnings of a drastic and quite unnecessary change. My chosen (not preferred mind you) career field was slowly being phased out; the absolutely indispensable services provided now were to be awarded to civilians. The logistics world wasn’t the only one affected by this change, certain aspects of military recreation were also being gutted and handed over to civilian companies.
I argued against this change from the very beginning. At least what I saw as the beginning, I’m fairly certain that the arrangement had been years in progress by the time I was privy to such information. Regardless, I argued against it to absolutely no effect what so ever. I found that the military, whichever branch you like, doesn’t listen to the people on the ground, especially when it came to national awarded contracts.
The effects of this transfer were relatively minor at first, serving as little more than a small inconvenience to all of us military types. We soon found that the section responsible for the issuance of personal gear was no longer in the hands of our fellow airmen. All that really meant was that no more freebies were to be forthcoming. Some of you out there may think of that as a good thing being that the military could now more easily keep track of equipment and would be able to save the tax payers a little money. Perhaps so, but one of the very old benefits of military service was (and sometimes still is) the theory of ‘you scratch my back’. In other words people were willing to help people out in exchange for services offered and so forth. With the Personal Equipment section now in civilian hands we were all a little more screwed in a secluded world that already had more than its fair share of screwjobs for those of who lived there 24 hours a day. Not too mention the fact that no money was saved to our nation; the civilians simply got all the free shit that military members once were gifted. And I must tell you, those overpriced pricks did not deserve that particular benefit. Additionally, a great deal more money was spent employing a handful of civilian employees. Civilian contractors get a salary far and above what members of the military receive. Think about that the next time you are deciding who to vote for.
Now with two wars occurring in relatively the same section of the world our nation, for the first time in our history, has more civilians in a war zone than we do military members. I might be wrong, but I find issue with that. Your average military member at the pay grade of E-4 makes roughly forty thousand a year; that amount is increased when the service member is deployed to a war zone. Your average contractor on the other hand is given a minimum salary of one hundred thousand. So, your lowest paid military contractor serving in theatre makes more than double what a soldier makes. Anyone else see a problem here?
Now, as if the salary alone weren’t enough to make you stomach turn, consider the following:
1. As far back as 1783 our government saw the pitfalls of contractors; poor quality, poor service, and the innate desire of contractors to look after their profit margin first and foremost.
2. Contractors in theatre are not bound by any contract. In other words they can pack up and leave whenever the hell they want too. Every one of military members serving in theatre is held subject to long deployments and don’t go home until the military lets them. A civilian on the other hand can leave when ever and for whatever reason they like, with no penalties of any sort.
3. Our contractors in theatre at the moment are immune to any law, including our own law.
4. Contractor services are at best, poor quality. At worst they are responsible for injury and or death or U.S. military personnel and Iraqi’s, or Afghani’s as the case may be. And they are not held responsible for these damages.
So, four rather disturbing reasons argue against the use of contractors for almost any purpose. Yet our government forces them upon our military, as it has done for over two hundred years. And worse, they show no signs of ceasing this expensive habit in the foreseeable future.
The point of this little diatribe is thus: contractors’ providing services to our military is not a new thing. In some cases the use of a contractor can be of benefit to the military and to local economies. But most of the time contractors are nothing more than a blight to both military and our nation. The reason for the continued use of such a morally misguided, profit driven system is rooted in money gifted to politicians. Defense contractors donate massive sums of money to our politicians each and every year, to both the Democratic and Republican parties. These contributions keep these pathetically inept and thoroughly corrupt politicians in power so that they may ensure beyond doubt, that corporations may become successful war profiteers.

I’m with Obama on this one, firmly and unequivocally. The recent spate of attention Obama has received on account of another person is nothing but pure, Grade A bullshit. We have a nasty little habit here in America of pinning blame on a person for the sins of another person. It has always irritated me and it is just as irritating now.

I’ve railed against Obama before, this some of you will know. But my rants against this candidate weren’t for the professed views and statements of another person. My ire with Obama lies solely in his personal actions, or inactions. The statements of his minister are of zero concern to me, as they should be to most of America.

His minister has strong views and is entitled to those views, under our Constitution. Obama is, and was just as entitled to attend that church and hear those same views. Does that imply guilt by association? I don’t believe it does. It quite obviously cannot imply any guilt where Obama is concerned; if he believed the strong statements professed by his former minister then I sincerely doubt Obama would ever have run for public office at all, let along the highest office in the land.

In his speech regarding this very issue I believe Obama handled race issues better than perhaps anyone in this nation’s short and bloody history. He voiced fears and concerns from all sides of the racial spectrum. He demonstrated a clear cut ability to identify problems not just on one side of the fence, but to find and acknowledge issues related to all people. This is not the voice of man who believes in the words of his pastor. This is the voice of man who is thoroughly tired of having to deal with race in America. And it isn’t because he is a black man; it is because he, like me, knows full well that in order to march into the future this nation is in desperate need of overcoming centuries worth of racial inequalities.

And to those of who would condemn him for not ‘disowning’ his former pastor: Fuck off.

His pastor might have been hasty in the choice of words, but from what I’ve heard, his pastor was dead right in his condemnation of American policy in several categories. If this makes me a disloyal, angry American then so be it. I’ll not hold my tongue when it comes to the sacred ground that is my fucking country. Simply because the vast majority of the public and most certainly our government prefers to skirt the important issues, pretending they aren’t there, doesn’t mean they aren’t there and doesn’t mean that we as a nation should allow these grievances to go unanswered.

Grow up America. The time for racial inequality to end has long since passed. We simply refuse to acknowledge it. The time of ignoring our many social problems has long passed us. The time of the self-serving, isolated individual is over, America, and you would do well to make your fucking peace with that, because the world will move on and you will be left behind. And so will America if we don’t remove our heads from our asses.

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Seriously, they were fucking cartoons!

To all of you intolerant and militant Islamic types out there: LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP! No one in the west really gives a shit how you practice your religion. Really, we don’t. We like to say we do, screaming and yelling from time to time over inhumane treatment of people you run into, the second-rate treatment of women (at best, normally you real hardliners treat them as less than human), and a few other things people like to complain about.

But really, when it comes to matching angry words with persistent, believable action, the west doesn’t normally come through. So relax, we really don’t care what you pricks do.

And just a note here, the cartoons you are so furious over depicted Islamic types being violent, intolerant assholes. Yeah, not nice given the fact that those of you who are busy trying to bring buildings down are the minority in the Islamic world. But, and maybe this is just me, the appropriate response to those cartoons is not a fucking threat of violence. Way to prove the point.

Assholes. Lighten up or shut up.

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P.S.

The Pope is an asshole too…just as intolerant as you are.  You can both fuck off.

Almost as if the French heard me seconds after my request reached the world at large, an answer has been gifted me.

Earlier I said the French were considering boycotting the Olympics due to Chinese involvement in Tibet. I was incorrect, partially.

The French are considering boycotting the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics should the Chinese continue on with their chosen path in Tibet. Seems the French are great lovers of international sports, just like our own woefully inadequate President and are unwilling to miss one moment of the heart pounding excitement the Olympics promise to deliver. Thank you France, I cannot tell you how happy I am with the swift response.

I hate it when someone I like to pick on without mercy does something which makes it difficult for me to tear them apart. Depressingly enough, the French are making my life a little blander these days, and I swear to Tom, they are doing it on purpose. Bastards.

First the French tore down an illegal statue several years back, on the premise that it was raised without government permission and that it was ugly. I can’t help but admire that attitude…no matter how much it hurts. Second those world class marathoners have managed to produce a $7,000.00 car that runs on air. Just what exactly do you say to that? Especially if you hate the price gauging fucksticks at the pump, which sadly, are multiplying at a horrific rate these days.

Then, today I read about something else the fucking French are doing. And damn it all but I can’t help but to yet again find myself impressed with the French. And to those of you know me; you are well aware that my admitting to such a grievous sin comes with considerable physical pain. This morning the French Foreign Minister announced the French are considering boycotting the Olympics due to Chinese involvement in Tibet. Furthermore they are urging the entirety of the European Union to adopt the same policy should China continue acting in the barbaric manner they are so adept at. Funny thing here, people, the Chinese word for foreigner was ‘barbarian’, clear up until the 19TH Century; now this ancient civilization has fallen (again, they were never very humane with those they considered to be lesser in stature than they) to new depths of barbarity and ravaging greed.

Anyway, I am tired of the French doing things that nearly necessitate my esteem and high regard for a group I so love to verbally abuse. So, to the French…if you could cease these high-minded, morally delightful actions I would truly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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