Saturday, November 20, 2004
An excellent idea
Over at Daily Pundit, a reader emailed a fantastic idea. Maybe we’d get some truthful reporting.
I think ALL reporters (especially ones with camera and tape recorders) should be required to check out ALL dead or wounded terrorists. The Marines should just motion for the embedded to come over and check them out first before the Marine does. That way the journalist can get first hand account of what a booby trapped terrorist really is and exactly what the Marines are up against day and night. Let the reporters sacrifice their lives for their newspapers, instead of their country......and save the lives of our marines at the same time .
Excellent idea. This should be a requisite of being embedded. You want the ratings? Start rolling bodies over. Let’s see how long it takes a reporter to drop his notebook and grab a rifle and plug anyone who is still breathing after a firefight.
Posted by JimK at 10:16 PM on November 20, 2004
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Categories: The Fourth Estate, War, U.S. Military, The Middle East
Some common sense
As I was bopping around online the last few days, I noticed a lot of people complaining about opening American fast food places in the Middle East. I even saw some people on Fark.com complaining about military bases having chain stores and restaurants in and around them.
People, do you not watch the South Park? They just covered this with Wal-Mart.
If you don’t like the megasuperultracorporations…
STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS. Stop shopping at Wal-Mart or Target or wherever. Stop eating at Chili’s, Applebee’s, Bennigan’s, TGI Friday’s, McDonalds, Burger King, Etc. IT’S YOUR MONEY. YOUR DECISION. YOU CREATE THESE COMPANIES BY SHOPPING THERE LOYALLY DAY IN AND DAY OUT. Stop blaming “the man” for your behavior.
If the people in the Middle Eastern countries that have American chain restaurants don’t like them, they will close due to a lack of business. See how that works?
Free will, folks. Look into it.
Posted by JimK at 07:13 PM on November 20, 2004
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Categories: The Stupidity Of Man, Things To Ponder
Don’t it make your brown eyes blue?
“It’s like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers.”
HEY FATTY: NOBODY GIVES A FUCK WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY. *I* have more influence over people than you do. No one ever cared about you unless you were hot and singing. Now you’re just fat, old and cranky. That makes you about as relevant as that tub of shit with whom you aligned yourself. You know, The Prince of Lies, the Kiss of Death, Mr. Political Kevorkian himself, Spongemike Sweatpants.
The two of you should get together and eat bon-bons until your poor little hearts just give up the ghost. You can commiserate about your joint uselessness to humanity.
Posted by JimK at 12:18 PM on November 20, 2004
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Categories: Entertainment, Celebridiots, Politics
Friday, November 19, 2004
MTV may just implode
Via Spitball Defense, it looks like MTV is mad at Eminem.
EMINEM was ordered to scale back plans to perform a cruel MICHAEL JACKSON parody at the MTV Europe Music Awards bash last night after a bust-up with organisers.
The controversial rapper was due to come on stage dressed as Jacko in a wig and false nose.
He wanted to recreate the singer’s cheesy Earth Song performance — at the Brits in 1996.
Em’s act included 40 children emerging from a Panzer tank as he sang his latest single Just Lose It and tore off his fake nose.
I like Spitball’s take on it.
It seems that MTV and their liberal buddies are too weak to handle criticism of one of their formerly valuable stars. Go figure. Pussies.
That’s very true. However, it must be KILLING them, because “Mosh” is so anti-Bush, and Em is the new darling of the left because of it. But they Must. Protect. Michael. Why, I don’t know, the guy is a despicable perve of the worst order and all washed up as a performer. They might as well be protecting Kip Winger.
This could cause some kind of resonance cascade and destroy all matter in the universe...love Em for being anti-Bush or hate him for being anti-Michael? Oh, the perils of being a celebrity whore outlet!
Posted by JimK at 11:45 PM on November 19, 2004
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Categories: Entertainment, Celebridiots, The Stupidity Of Man
The racially tolerant left
Radio Host Calls Condoleezza Rice ‘Aunt Jemima’
A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state.
John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday’s show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.
Rice has served as President Bush’s national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell as secretary of state.
Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an “Uncle Tom” - a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.
He said Thursday night that he was referring to remarks by singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte that the price of admittance for blacks to the Bush White House was subservience.
Two things:
First of all, Madison. What a surprise, a racist lefty in Madison, Wisconsin who pretends to be racially tolerant. Until someone crosses his little internal line, that is. I’m surprised he did not call her a house nigger.
Oh wait, HE DID. That’s the second thing, his reference to Harry Belafonte. Which just so happens to be the subject of my first official blog post at this URL two years ago.
What Belafonte said then:
“There’s an old saying, in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house,” Belafonte said. “You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.
“Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master,” the performer continued. “When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
My feelings then:
You know what the real crime is here? That Belafonte is bringing something other than skin color into being black. Clearly, Powell isn’t “black” enough for him, whatever the hell that means. And in an effort to, I imagine, shame Powell into behaving more “black,” he used what might be one of the nastiest insults you could say to a black man in recent history. The implication here is that a house nigger would sell out his people in order to gain favor with “the man.” Worse than that, it implies that Powel hasn’t goddamned well earned the right to be where he is today. Love him or hate him, but dammit, the man deserves his job, and calling him a “house slave” (no such term, BTW, it has always been “house nigger”) is abhorrent.
In my opinion, Belafonte should be shunned. I wouldn’t listen to a word this man had to say on anything, ever again. No matter what he says in public to try to weasel out of this one, you know how he feels in his heart. He sees black people in two categories; The field niggers who are banded together in opression under the man, and the house niggers, serving the man and doing his bidding.
Shame on you, Harry Belafonte. You make me sick. You are what’s wrong with race relations in this country…and the fucked up thing is you went after another black man. You just gave a green light to anyone who wants to categorize black people who work hard and get ahead as house niggers. Great job, jackass.
You can replace “Belafonte” with “Sylvester” and “Powell” with “Rice” and pretty much get the gist of how I feel about this John Sylvester today. Nice. Condi Rice, who is probably twelve or nineteen times smarter than this jerk will ever be, is a house nigger according to him.
The tolerant left. Spreading hate and bile one hypocrisy at a time.
*Update*
More from Drumwaster.
Posted by JimK at 12:42 PM on November 19, 2004
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Categories: The Stupidity Of Man, Politics
I tried to resist…
You haven’t seen a blog entry in some time because I have Half-Life 2.
Opening screen
Your nemesis.
Posted by JimK at 05:17 AM on November 19, 2004
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Categories: Technobabble (Technology), Gaming
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Hillary in ‘08?
Not if the blogosphere can help it. Spread the word!
Posted by JimK at 12:38 AM on November 18, 2004
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Categories: Politics
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Before you judge, you should read
From Powerline, an email from a Marine in Fallujah. The moral? Be careful who you call a war criminal.
This is one story of many that people normally don’t hear, and one that everyone does.
This is one most don’t hear:
A young Marine and his cover man cautiously enter a room just recently filled with insurgents armed with Ak-47’s and RPG’s. There are three dead, another wailing in pain. The insurgent can be heard saying, “Mister, mister! Diktoor, diktoor(doctor)!” He is badly wounded, lying in a pool of his own blood. The Marine and his cover man slowly walk toward the injured man, scanning to make sure no enemies come from behind. In a split second, the pressure in the room greatly exceeds that of the outside, and the concussion seems to be felt before the blast is heard. Marines outside rush to the room, and look in horror as the dust gradually settles. The result is a room filled with the barely recognizable remains of the deceased, caused by an insurgent setting off several pounds of explosives.The Marines’ remains are gathered by teary eyed comrades, brothers in arms, and shipped home in a box. The families can only mourn over a casket and a picture of their loved one, a life cut short by someone who hid behind a white flag.
But no one hears these stories, except those who have lived to carry remains of a friend, and the families who loved the dead. No one hears this, so no one cares.
This is the story everyone hears:
A young Marine and his fire team cautiously enter a room just recently filled with insurgents armed with AK-47’s and RPG’s. There are three dead, another wailing in pain. The insugent can be heard saying, “Mister, mister! Diktoor, diktoor(doctor)!” He is badly wounded. Suddenly, he pulls from under his bloody clothes a grenade, without the pin. The explosion rocks the room, killing one Marine, wounding the others. The young Marine catches shrapnel in the face.
The next day, same Marine, same type of situation, a different story. The young Marine and his cover man enter a room with two wounded insurgents. One lies on the floor in puddle of blood, another against the wall. A reporter and his camera survey the wreckage inside, and in the background can be heard the voice of a Marine, “He’s moving, he’s moving!”
The pop of a rifle is heard, and the insurgent against the wall is now dead. Minutes, hours later, the scene is aired on national television, and the Marine is being held for commiting a war crime. Unlawful killing.
And now, another Marine has the possibility of being burned at the stake for protecting the life of his brethren. His family now wrings their hands in grief, tears streaming down their face. Brother, should I have been in your boots, i too would have done the same.
For those of you who don’t know, we Marines, Band of Brothers, Jarheads, Leathernecks, etc., do not fight because we think it is right, or think
it is wrong. We are here for the man to our left, and the man to our right. We choose to give our lives so that the man or woman next to us can go home and see their husbands, wives, children, friends and families.For those of you who sit on your couches in front of your television, and choose to condemn this man’s actions, I have but one thing to say to you. Get out of your recliner, lace up my boots, pick up a rifle, leave your family behind and join me. See what I’ve seen, walk where I have walked. To those of you who support us, my sincerest gratitude. You keep us alive.
I am a Marine currently doing his second tour in Iraq. These are my opinions and mine alone. They do not represent those of the Marine Corps or of the US military, or any other.
Posted by JimK at 10:12 PM on November 17, 2004
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Categories: The Fourth Estate, War, U.S. Military, The Middle East
I hate politicians
Among the million other places from which I think the government should get out,you can count my DVD player.
However, under the proposed language, viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commericals or promotional announcements “that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture,” like the previews on a DVD.
You know what? If they insist on tellig me how I am going to watch the movies that I pay for (and I have about 450 DVDs, so I pay for a lot)then I will simply stop paying for them.
I hope the MPAA realizes they are killing themselves. If the movie business wanted to work with geeks we could find a way to protect their property and allow us to watch things the way we want, but no...instead they push. And they’re surprised when we push back.
Posted by JimK at 09:55 PM on November 17, 2004
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Categories: Technobabble (Technology), The Stupidity Of Man
Can you imagine? The NYT being…biased?
CIA officials angrily insisted Wednesday that a memo from intelligence chief Porter Goss did not order his staff to “back Bush,” as a newspaper headline put it Wednesday.
According to an official in possession of the memo, Goss told his staff:
“I also intend to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road. We support the administration, and its policies in our work as agency employees. We do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies. We provide the intelligence as we see it—and let the facts alone speak to the policymaker.”
The New York Times reported on the memo Wednesday in a story with the headline, “Chief of CIA Tells His Staff To Back Bush.”
“It is false,” said one official, “quite baffling.” The official called the New York Times headline “dopey.”
Oh, that liberal media. Any journalistic reason why the New York fucking Times should be twisting the truth like this in headlines? Everyone knows that people rarely read past the headline and first couple of paragraphs. So they lead with the lie and bury the truth.
Posted by JimK at 09:49 PM on November 17, 2004
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Categories: The Fourth Estate, Politics
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