Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Wednesday's Digressions

One of the images you get when you Google Abe Vigoda.




  • On a comment board somewhere dirtypants428 sez,"my first car was a plymouth reliant. I also like spaghetti ".



  • You go boy- you rawk!



  • The bread served in chow halls in Iraq was trucked frozen from bakeries in Kuwait- terrible unless you toasted it then- it was just awful.



  • But, you could upgrade it to bad with copious amounts of mayo, tomatoes, bacon and cheese. Oh, and black pepper.



  • BLTs- one of natures most perfect foods.



  • Once everyone on the whole base basically got sick at the same time. It was then put out it was some sort of stomach virus and guys were treated for dehydration as they fell out right and left and the aid station was overflowing with sick troops.



  • Ommm- Gods gonna get you Uncle Sam for lies like that.



  • As this article illustrates most victims families who watch the murderer die when executed report their pain not relieved by the death. Some people are surprised when they learn families report only partial relief, or none at the death of a family members murderer and that some are even adamantly opposed to the state killing them. I would have been more than shocked if in their heart of hearts people felt any lasting relief, healing, closure or whatever you want to call it at the condemned persons death. In my opinion it could only bring anguish in light of the peaceful, relatively painless almost benign way the prisoner dies at the hand of the state compared to what the victim suffered. They simply go to sleep. For some, there would be the sense that for the murderer it's all over and the family will suffer until their own deaths reliving their loved ones murder every day. For some, it's that there's one more death associated with the crime that solves nothing etc. I just think people haven't really searched their own feelings, have a good grasp of what really makes humans tick or count the cost in many other ways when they not only support the death penalty but, celebrate it during an execution.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Monday's Missives




  • You're a middle eastern zoo owner, what do you do when your original Zebras die (by starvation)? Why, you shave a couple of donkeys and paint them of course!



  • My dad loved Frankie Valley type falsetto high pitched singing.



  • I don't care anything about celebrities- I think it's a false waste of time and energy to assume we know anything about them and have favorites etc. but, it still bothers me to think of Heath Ledger and I'm not sure why although I have an idea. Watched The Dark Knight last night- very good, not great. Found it and Flags Of Our Fathers at a pawn shop like new for 2.50 each.



  • Left a patients home recently who was drowning in his own juices after a lifetime of smoking and his family was surprised. On the way home a woman who was texting while driving nearly hit me head on and a when I was just nearly home a steel gray (the same exact color as the rain/fog and pavement) minivan came out of the fog with its headlights off- I nearly turned into it, it just seemed to appear out of nowhere.



  • We are crazy.



  • All of that happened within about 11 minutes.



  • Stalin's grandson has sued a Russian newspaper for libel after an article about just a few of the atrocities he was responsible for and the defense of the paper was no slam dunk. There's a new nationalistic fervor brewing up around Stalin including replacing his name and image over sites where they had been removed after the fall.



  • This is bound to end well.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Recent News Missives For A Chilly Saturday



    None of them French



  • The "party crashers" should be billed for the millions of dollars I guarantee the investigation into their shenanigans and the policy changes that will be made as a result will cost.


  • Wonder how many secret service careers will be affected/ruined by these idiots?


  • President Obama attended a ceremony to honor an Air Force unit that operates F22 Raptors. His staff had an F22 replaced as a backdrop with an F15 due to the fact his administration opposed the F22 program.


  • Good grief- we're in trouble.


  • Can't turn on the tube or pull up a news browser without being assaulted by the Tiger Woods crash/wife assault/adultery, non story. Why? Who on earth cares?


  • Big news? Kinda sorta anyway- President Obama is sending 35,000 troops to Afghanistan. Bringing the total to a little over 100,000.


  • How many do some sources estimate would be required to subdue the insurgency? And I'm nearly certain I've read somewhere the new Army COIN manual itself calls for the same number but, I couldn't find the source.


  • 600,000


  • That war is lost and we might as well get used to that natural fact.


  • The world is cuckoo: recently Ireland was outraged their World Cup hopes were dashed by a French handball- it's a wonder they didn't go into a full on land war and might have if the French president hadn't apologised directly to the Irish PM.


  • Do not be surprised if the offending French soccer player is not killed before this is all over. Oh, and I do mean killed, as in literally by gunshot, car bomb etc.


  • Funny diplomatic exchange regarding a VIP box for the French President.


  • Headline: "Paris museum workers strike". Is there any operation those people can't/won't strike?
  • Mood: Curmudgeon-ie

Friday, December 4, 2009

Friday's Dispatch







  • I don't like qualifying statements or explaining how/why I say the the things I say. People shouldn't try to be the mind readers readers we all try to be and read so much into simple statements made by others. Anyway, people will believe what they want to believe.



  • Zac loves the water- anywhere and anytime. He points it out as we drive down the road and pass a lake or drive across a river,"Dad, look water!" He went to Mineral Wells State Park when he was 6 weeks old and played in the lake. Never ceases to impress: times like that always seem 100 years ago and like yesterday in the same breath.



  • I need to get the 4 wheeler running again.



  • A waitress friend once got scolded by a customer when she wrote "H2o" on her order pad. "Dangit, girl I don't want no H2o or whatever that is- water, I want plain water and ain't payin' for nothin' else!"



  • He wasn't kidding.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Music Video Extra Vaganza- O Rama



A really great one from one of my favorite bands Finger Eleven called One Thing. The lead singer has said in an interview it really doesn't have any specific meaning but, everyone I know who listens to them can tell you what it means to them.








One Thing"


Restless tonight


Cause I wasted the light


Between both these times


I drew a really thin line


It’s nothing I planned


And not that I can


But you should be mine


Across that line


[Chorus:]

If I traded it all


If I gave it all away for one thing


Just for one thing


If I sorted it out


If I knew all about this one thing


Wouldn’t that be something


I promise I might


Not walk on by


Maybe next time


But not this time


Even though I know


I don’t want to know


Yeah I guess I know


I just hate how it sounds


[Chorus x2]


Even though I know


I don’t want to know


Yeah I guess I know


I just hate how it sounds


Even though I know


I don’t want to know


Yeah I guess I know


I just hate how it sounds

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Z Man And His Old Ride


When he was about one.

International MRAP


I don't know if this would be a better truck for our troops but, man it's cool looking.