The Book of Yuke, Chapter six Verse Seven

“To bare your chest is a sin against the State. So sayeth the Load.”At first I suspected this to be some Islamic pleasing policy, but apparently it’s more to prevent the UKrs (pronounced “yoo kers”) from having white trash walking around shirtless in the city. Still, if your country makes a law against not wearing shirts in public, you...might be a subject.

If your country calls bare chests “anti-social”, you….might be a subject.

If your country puts a CCTV camera in a toilet stall, you might be a subject.

If your country tries to outlaw kitchen knives, you might be a subject.

If your country uses “anti-social” in context to “anti-socialist”, you might be a subject.

I'll take "The Rapist" for $500

In an unscheduled event, Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings made several statements questioning the composition of both the long running TV series and its host. Later he retracted his inaccuracies by stating, "We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot."

Rumor has it that the BBC is requesting the "intellectual rights" of Mr. Jennings statements in order to justify their humourless ramblings, "truthiness" and out right lies.

Silent, Swift.....Wet

"StreetWars" has already taken place in New York, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vienna, and on their website, tournament organisers describe it as: "A three week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament."

I give it a month, maybe before the UK police State declares this “anti-social behavior” and outlaws it. I can see some strong competition and the obvious violence factor of assassination, but its water guns. If you don’t want to play, you don’t have to, but let other people have their fun.

Maybe they should do like the paintball industry and call them “water-markers” or perhaps issue a non-firearm type device. If I was playing, however, you could expect to find a crazy person in cammies outside your office building with a fire hose and a an evil grin.

Zionist Pepsi is Green

Apparently Iran has been buying Zionist products willingly up until now. Though, that is about to change thanks to capitalist transmography. Yes, with our matter changing power house, every dime and Islamic soul they can get their hands on can be refined into “Great Western Devil Brand” laser guided bombs and the top seller “.50 Caliber Brain Surgery” sniper round. Most Iranian reactions seem to have varied from “meh.” to "I think I'll just keep on trying to feed my family"(par.).

Thanks to www.bareknucklepolitics.com

Uh, we seemed too have, uh, misinformed you...

From the company that brought you “Objective Journalism” the BBC admits to a small discrepancy. I would have expected a much less clear explanation, but I can live with a half-confession like that. Today.

Urban Renewal Tour 2006!

I have it! Israel, after 5 (ish) mostly successful wars, and 3(ish) victorious retreats, can not only crush violent Islam (or all) in Lebanon, but capitalize as well.

Lebanon represents a major warm water port and an intersection of international trade, tourism and culture on the Med. Consequently, a Syrian influenced Islamic gov’t hasn’t done to much for improving their economic growth rate nor the quality of life in Lebanon. However, with a brand new parking lot being paved as we speak in SE Lebanon comes opportunity, manpower and enough foreign interests to turn Lebanon into a major power in the Eastern Med. Maybe some resorts, new ports and replanting trees. You can’t have a tree on your flag, unless you have trees to begin with.

Because Capitalism, Rawks!

The Bill and Melinda gates Foundation has just dropped a load of cash supporting the research of an AIDS vaccine. Here a few sample quotes:

"But the $287 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also comes with the requirement that researchers share data and collaborate in a way that's rare in science. Vaccine candidates that don't pass muster will be quickly abandoned. Those that show promise will get fast-track treatment."

"The goal is to pool some of the world's brightest minds to break through the daunting technical obstacles that have stymied two decades of work on a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

"Of the 50-some possible HIV vaccines that have been tested in humans, only two have progressed to large-scale trials. One didn't work. Trials on the second started last year, coordinated through Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
"HIV is an incredibly flexible and changeable virus," Hellmann said. "We have to be smarter and more efficient."


Huh, this sounds strangely like competent decision making, there is no way it came from Seattle, there’s not nearly enough politics and special interest groups involved.



Try this in Canada or France and see how long it takes.

Yes, I realize the irony of the Commy in the picture.

The Unionization of a Race

A simple equation.
Manpower + lawfull employment + opportunity = functional workforce

This apparently doesn’t apply to a society of victims. So, we have the NAACP, sometimes called the Victims Union; who seems to think that massive social welfare is in their best interest. Oddly enough, this culture of victims seems to promote the individual so extremely that the most recent generation dresses like outlaw cavaliers and yet, still votes in favor of collectivization. Is this a serious contrast in goals or a lack of information? Here’s another equation:
Unionized Manpower + social welfare + social opportunity = absent workforce

Now you may say, “Hey, you’re referring to African Americans in terms of Labourer, that’s racist!” And I say “I’m referring to Potential Manpower and socialization. If I wanted to talk about manual labour force I would have quoted this:
“Blacks participate in the labor
force at a lower rate than non-
Hispanic Whites.
Among the 216.8 million members
of the civilian population aged 16
and over in 2002, 25.4 million
(12 percent) were Black and
155.1 million (72 percent) were
non-Hispanic White. Non-Hispanic
White men had a higher civilian
labor force participation rate than
Black men (73 percent compared
with 68 percent), and for both
groups, men had higher rates than
women.9 However, the rate for Black women (62 percent) was higher
than that for non-Hispanic White
women (60 percent, see Figure 7).” (Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-541.pdf)

So this is where I sum it up. Either the NAACP doesn’t represent the vast majority of AA or they are so lost that somebody chromed their Hammer and Sickle and said it was just as good, but looked better with a $300 shoes.

Today in History

1941 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.

Is it me, or does this sound strangely familiar? Yeah, I know we haven’t “combined” them, yet, but it’s on the wind.

1949 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.

1983 - The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. Lebanon invasion , 1982.

Oh, the times, they be a’changin. Another “insert number of days here” war? Maybe another Arab-Israeli war? I would prefer another crusade, myself. Maybe “The Arab-Everyone War.”

A Letter to the Editor

Dear Ms. Cox,

Your article “The YouTube War” addressing the private media videos posted from Iraq, is, without a doubt one of the most foul pieces of extreme-left babble I have read in the last week. The comments on “gallows” humour recorded by soldiers, the generational influence of “Nintendo and Arnold Schwarzenegger” and “coherent explanations for why bombs are going off” compared with the present Bush Administration’s own publicity videos has crossed a line of rational thought and into the realm of popular fiction.

When a Soldier/Marine/Sailor writes home to mom and dad they tell happy stories about why we fight and how much they miss them. When they make a video of combat actions and throw some music in for effect they are having fun and creating a name for themselves in their own minds and the minds of their friends where you and the media who cover this war have robbed them of honor and the heroic image so many desire. Your constant negative reporting and demonization of our fighting men and women serve to undermine the effort to win and our show of support in this conflict. Find something productive to criticize, like why poor workin’ folk like me have to pay taxes, while non-citizens can happily trot through life on my wallet.

Your friendly neighbourhood Corpsman,
Titus P.

My Town

As the profile bar suggests, I live in Bremerton, WA. Bremerton is a Navy town, surrounded by thick forests, high mountains and the numerous inlets from Puget Sound. Most people are lower-middle class to midline middle class (25k-45k a year) and the vast amount of our focus lies on Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Naval Base Kitsap, which dominate the Southern reaches of central Bremerton.

People work hard, life is slower than big cities, the scenery is magnificent and last year four people were murdered within three blocks of my apartment…There were five robberies, six rapes and thirty-six assaults within those same three blocks in 2005. There are 16 sex offenders registered within five miles of me of which, six are class III offenders. Needless to say I carry a gun

Our crime rate has been rated as the highest per-capita in the state with such local descriptions as “A city of renters. A city with heavy drug use. A city with nighttime drunkards who like to brawl. A city with an understaffed police force. A city whose local jail has a "revolving door." A city whose landlords allegedly ignore their renters’ criminal activity.” From the Kitsap Sun.
My neighborhood is evidently on the crappier end of town, but this summer we have had no murders. Either because they all killed each other or because more people have been calling the police, more pay attention to their neighborhood and land lords are held to a higher standard. My landlord has added some appropriate landscaping, gravel over the mud edge of our driveway and replaced our roof. He screens the tenants and pays attention to what goes on. Bums no longer sleep behind our place, the hookers (nasty ones!) no longer visit the side of our apartment to ply their trade and I haven’t heard one gunshot this summer.

Bremerton is trying. The community and local government work hard and understand that filling the prisons will not fix our problem. The mayor said himself “We cannot police our way out of this.”
Programs aimed at helping youth stay in school, raising their goals in life and helping the underprivileged to establish an economic grip and strong work ethic have been implemented well. Neighborhood Watch programs have become more frequent and the community has been encouraged to get involved. The latest trend has seen upscale apartments being built and a beautification effort around parts of the city. Property taxes have gone up, which has moved out the failing businesses of some areas in downtown Bremerton and are being replaced with public structures and more prosperous endeavors.

The down side.
There are no millionaires in Bremerton. No one will ever start a successful business in Bremerton. Bremerton causes insanity. Land is too expensive for most businesses to start fresh, and ancient city ordinances prevent major retailers from building in many areas. Most people have little work ethic and I can walk two blocks up next to Olympic college and buy a light bulb filled with Crystal. There are a large number of people with mental handicaps and severe addictions everywhere you go. Some are wards of the state, deinstitutionalized and dropped into our laps, while others are self induced drug users and the elderly senile, forgotten by their families. The Navy floods the town with low-mid range income people, out for a night on the town and fuels the industry and night life, but never with positive results. Our greatest cultural gifts seem to be overweight, single mothers leading packs of multi-ethnic children to the bus every morning and a surplus of Asian fast food. Mmmm…lumpia.

The up side.
NASCAR may be coming to town! If this happens I will immediately get involved with organized crime. Or maybe politics. Or maybe both. A 1,000 yd rifle range coming soon!!! Community festivals. There are a TON of community festivals involving a thousand types of food and drink. From Allen Days and Blackberry Fest to Viking Fest and Whaling Days, we know how to throw a party! Hoards of small bands, but the bars that usually have the best come and go so quickly that venues change every year. Motorcycles, there are more bikers here then any place I have been too. Great outdoor activities and athletic fun, local sports and reasonably priced family activities. Although, with rising fuel prices and none of this actually taking place “in” Bremerton, we are still limited by our own wallets, especially me. So read this blog so I can get sponsors and pay for my addiction! The good kind, that is; adrenaline, on the rocks, with a twist.

Syriana: A Review

Description:
Based on the book "See No Evil:The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" written by Robert Baer; Syriana takes artistic liberties above and beyond the call of duty as director and screen writer Stephen Gaghan brings the glorious cause of the oppressed proletariat to the big screen and to the ever absorbent eyes of our nation

My take:
Syriana is a political thriller with all the usual plot twist of a $6.99 novel you might find on a shelf at your local convenience store. Complete with big name actors, far off lands and video ops for the Mitsubishi Endeavor, Syriana brings action and intrigue to the big screen with a multi-million dollar budget targeting the progressive thinking man.

Actors:
Starring: George Clooney as the disillusioned CIA agent. Matt Damon as the mostly innocent, upper-middle class white guy; and Jeffrey Wright as the "workin' fo' the man" boy-scout lawyer. The rest of the cast is going to sit this one out, except Amanda Peet known mostly for her sub-par performance in The Whole Nine/Ten Yards and Saving Silverman and her follow-up as the progressive minded "hippie-chick"/mom of this movie. Upside, very few lines, down side, a topless shot would have saved her career.

The Setting, a 4 way plot:
Syriana sets up with a four way split between George Clooney on a secret mission in Beirut, Matt Damon climbing the ol' corperate ladder for a major advisory firm, Jeffrey Wright as a lawyer investigating big oil and a mixed cast of actors playing the jobless Arabs seeking a better life and support for their families.

The conspiracy:
Well, this is easy, the CIA plays the old "weapons for cash" game, Matt Damon slides into a Saudi princess pocket after the death of his son, the lawyer discovers a "vast gov't conspiracy" with all the usual oil connections, and a gang disillusioned Arab youths joining the terrorist organization to support their families.

The Betrayal:
Oh, yeah, didn't see this coming. The CIA betrays their man after a botched mission, Matt Damon schemes with the Prince to take control from his brother, the lawyer is asked to overlook the gov't conspiracy for money and the Arab youths are taken to a paradise like farm, complete with simple manual labour and taught the Koran with smiles and laughter.

The Predictability:
Come on George, do something! That's right, he threatens The Man and returns to Beirut to undermine the inevitable. I really like George Clooney as an actor, and really, his acting was pretty decent in this movie, but for the love of all that is good, don't ever open your mouth off of a movie set again! It must be the coke.
Matt Damon, was somewhat unpredictable as his character continues on a straight path complete with two wild outbursts of intelligent thought. The rest was dramatic poses and mug shots.
The Lawyer, as though straight out of Sparta...Georgia, that is, plays The Man and sells him out to the bigger, fatter cat.
Finally, Arabs, plus explosives originally sold by the CIA, plus some dramatic filming, equals a liquid version of those same Arabs all over the inside of a sinking oil tanker. Red Revolution!!!! Hahahah! Fools. Your death god sips your blood from the skulls of those who came before you.

The Wild Bias: CIA=bad. Okay, that seems reasonable. Matt Damon plus a laser guided 500lb bomb, pretty good, but he lives. Oh well, I guess it sells the idea of progressive conversion. George, sorry, you realize the situation too late and join a Saudi Prince a a red stain on the asphalt. The Lawyer sticks it to the man and decides to go home and take care of his alcoholic father, as Bill Cosby probably would have said "what about the previous decades you let him slip into that hole?"
And the meat and, well, more meat of the story, the glorious sacrifice of the young Arabs, complete with a slow-motion, wind billowing their shirts, final ride scene, go from a heavenly farm of simple pleasures and toil to grand martyrdom against a non-inocent bystander target. Yeah, anybody who has ever seen a suicide bomber blast himself into ground meat can tell you that there is no last ride, flash of heavenly light and dramatic music; in its place is usually the dismayed cries of women and children as their limbs are torn from them or the yells of the man you were just talking to thirty minutes earlier as he screams for his mother and how he can't feel his legs.

Now I'm just pissed.

Sources:
Thanks to Rotten Tomatoes for all the names I forget and a horrible description of the movie. Your reviews were horrible and the reviewing sources made my beer go flat just being that close to the screen. You suck.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/syriana/

And of course, the movie itself.
Syriana, written and directed by Stephen "The Man who effed up The Alamo" Gaghan. You sir, may go to hell.

Torque the Ferret's review:......rawr, eek, eek! (translation: I found it depressing as the potential for the struggle of man both against himself and the swirling forces around him were ignored and replaced by pseudo-intillectual political spin and character cannonization.) Bad ferret! No!

New from CATO

The CATO Institutes' new Interactive Map of Botched Police Raids.

Also, a killer Essay I recommend. "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America"
Which can also be downloaded from their blog.

I have disagreed with a number of issues they have addressed, but I can dig this.

It’s more of a lifestyle than a one time event.

You know it’s bad when your local paper has a blogged section labeled “KC Crime Scene”.

Several weeks worth of routine brutality, horrific slaughter and stories from the blackest reaches of the human soul. To top it all off, the author posts a link to Project Cease Fire, which claims that: “The target population of the educational aspect of Project Ceasefire is aimed at convicted felons.”

Yes, if I plan on being a repeat offender, educating me will definitely reduce my desire to acquire an illegal firearm and knock-off a 7-11. It’s good to educate kids on firearm safety and handling, but I believe this is the first step to prohibition, especially since the use the word "educate" in response to firearm related crime.

“State and federal authorities estimate that about 12,000 persons are currently under some form of release supervision (probation or parole) and that the total number of convicted felons in the metropolitan area may be as high as 30,000! In 2001, the research indicated that Project Ceasefire had reached over 92% of the targeted audience, felons. However, more significantly, research revealed that while the number of crimes committed with firearms had increased, the number of crimes relating to felons in possession of firearms in the target areas in Kansas City had significantly decreased.”

Whoh, hold the phone. Thirty-K convicted felons in Metro KC?
Talk about small success. I could lower the gun violence pretty significantly and provide for public service all at the same time with my “Right to Life” program. It’s easy, if you commit a crime, which in some way potentially violates another’s right to life; you get to enjoy the rest of your life with a shovel in hand digging ditches and laying gravel. Sounds bad? Guess you shouldn’t have screwed up.

At least this is coming in soon.

“Kansas' concealed-weapons law goes into effect July 1, but it will be a while longer before residents can get permits to carry their hidden firearms.”

This guy makes me hurt

Because I laugh/cringe/want to be like him that hard!

While I am no master of reason, I do enjoy a good argument. And by good I mean well written or involving hand to hand combat.

Some have accused me of being a violent, harsh or disdainful in my criticism of others and their misguided philosophies, but that’s because I am not quite up to the level of reason exercised on this blog, yet. Read it!

A quick quote from the comments section:
"That’s where the real issue is, since honest, rational examination is the only place true belief can come from