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2003-10-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

Command Center

Alright, I don't write much, but this has got my blood up, and so here goes. First off, while I'm pretty right wing, I'm not a 'pro-lifer' and I'm an atheist. I'm all in favor of the right to die, always have been. If I was brain dead, I have made my choice, and it is written down and legally recorded. I don't want a machine breathing for me.

That is not life. Now, the Christians will tell you suicide of any sort is wrong in the eyes of God. That's as may be - if He exists He hasn't told me any different. But I'm not interested in living in a theocracy, as such, I'm happy in America, and not Saudi Arabia. I do not want Christian moralist telling me how to live. If God is opposed to suicide then He will hold the guilty to account in the next world, which is His right, and His business.

So I hope you will understand why I feel that the attempted murder of Terri Schiavo has enraged and sickened me, and I find myself standing against those who would see her die. This is not a Right-To-Die case, far from it, and the sick attempts of those who would make it one shames the cause of every terminally ill suffering American who is ready to end their pain.
First off, Terri Schiavo's case is not about 'turning off the machine.' Understand that. Her husband's lawyer, a man named George Felos, uses language that suggests that it is a simple matter, that Terri Schiavo is kept alive by only a machine, that once that device is turned off, nature will take it's course.

This is so incredibly sick and demented that I can only recoil in horror. Terri Schiavo is not 'kept alive' by machines. The device Felos wants removed is her feeding tube. Think about that, for a minute. Her feeding tube. Once that tube is removed, the same thing will happen to Terri Schiavo that would happen to you or I if we were denied food and water for days on end. Starvation. Not a word the would-be killers of Terri Schiavo and their accomplices in the media would have you hear, but it is true.
Ironic, that, isn't it? We are terribly moved by the images of starving Somalian and Ethiopian children - our nation provides huge amounts of food aid. Go and find yourself a picture of a weak, starved, skeletal Somalian. That, in the name of 'decency' and of 'dignity' is what George Felos would reduce Terri Schiavo to. There is no dignity in dying like an animal in a snare. If you starved your dog, you would be arrested for cruelty to animals and probably put in jail. PETA and the rest of the animal rights nutcases would probably lynch you. I'd supply the rope.

But, after all, Felos might tell you, we aren't actually taking Schiavo and locking her in a room, forcing her to starve to death, now are we? Of course not. She can't eat on her own, so it's different. My baby cousin cannot eat on her own, either. No child can. Now, I'm not bringing abortion into this. Not at all. But a baby can't feed itself, after all. It's dependent on it's 'guardians' (parents) to feed it. Just like Terri Schiavo, and what do you think would be the reaction of the vast majority of Americans at parents who deliberately starved their own child? How about a retarded child? Feel better now? Lynching is too good for such a monster - I'd set the bastard motherfuckers on fire after flaying them alive - would you do any different? Honestly?

GEORGE FELOS: WHAT IS THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE?

You sick, twisted, murdering piece of human shit. You and your inhuman client, both, are hereby invited to visit me - go ahead. I will lock you in a small room with no food or water, and we shall see with how much dignity and compassion and such you spend your final, miserable hours in. I will extend the same invitation to the criminal judges who allow this, to the Supreme Court, and, if I had my way, I would have the hospice workers who actually pulled her tube brought up on attempted murder charges. If they were following orders, then those were illegal orders. The Nazis also followed orders. I am dead serious. I want their names. I want their ASS. I want those who pulled her tube to ride the lightening in Florida. I want Jeb Bush to sign the death warrant. Should Mrs. Schiavo's family not feel comfortable pulling the switch, I hereby volunteer myself for that exalted position.

I hope there is a God. So when those monsters die, preferably painfully, they are Judged as they deserve, as the cold, premeditated would-be murderers they are.

If someone had strangled Terri Schiavo with a pillow, that's murder. They'd go to jail. If I shot her with a gun, that'd be murder. I'd got to jail. Hopefully I'd get to meet Old Sparky. Starvation, on the other hand, apparently isn't murder.

I'm so sick over this, my words cannot begin to explain. I want every Florida legislator who voted against giving Jeb Bush this authority charged with conspiracy to commit murder. I am dead serious. If I was a Florida DA, I'd be running all of these bastards in, one by one. And we'd see, in jail, how they liked it at dinner time, when they stayed in their cell and got to experience what they would so casually relegate a living, breathing, terribly hurt woman to. There is no fucking dignity in that! How can anyone ever see that there would be?

Jeb Bush, you did the right thing. You saved a life today, defended a person who had no other recourse - the true job of a compassionate government. If ever I was to meet you, for this alone I would salute you as an American hero.

There are other aspects of this case, aspects that, while not as damning and infuriating, make it so it should never have reached this stage. First, Terri Schiavo lives on her own. Second, she is actually somewhat responsive, or was, before her never-to-be-sufficiently-accursed husband took the money from her malpractice settlement and denied her the care she needed.

Why is this murder considered legal? My God, doesn't anyone remember that Terri Schiavo is human, is breathing, is ALIVE? The Nazis did this too. Those who were deemed 'incurable' were executed by the SS. At least they had a clean death, a bullet to the head. What, precisely, is the difference? Is it more humane to let a woman starve to death, to deny her food and water - a crime against Humanity if ever there was one - than to just shoot her? I'd prefer the bullet.

But let's not worry if we made the right decision. Let's just kill her. Who cares if her 'guardian' has betrayed her? Who cares if he has investigated ulterior motives? A court has ruled those shall remain secluded.

Should I ever wind up brain dead, not breathing, I want to die. If I have cancer, if I am in terrible pain, if I will never get better, I want to have the option to choose how I die. I would fight for those rights. I would. But I will never accept murder - and if someone I had trusted to watch over me tried to kill me - I would hope one of my family or friends would bring the son of a bitch to justice.

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2003-07-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Observation Deck

I've been verys busy with work and then out of town. I'm back, however, and I'm planning on making this a regular Blog. So, if you stumble across it, by all means, link if you wish. You can email me at Dave's Email and I'll respond.

So what brought me out of hiatus was This. After you've read it, and taken a blood pressure pill...
We need to stop screwing around, and root these worthless bastards out.

First, find Saddam.

Second, confiscate all weapons, from everyone. I know this seems like heresy, but we can give the people we vet guns. The people we vet.

Third, anyone who so much as chucks a rock gets lined up against the nearest wall.

Fourth, find the Ba'athist remnants and either put them right into their own dungeons or stand them up against the nearest wall.

And last, we need to tell Iran that if they don't seal their damned border in 24 hours we're going to turn them into ashes, then flatten something, say, that nuclear facilty they've been talking about, just to prove we mean buisness. No more screwing around here. US casualties have just today exceeded US dead in Gulf War I. We need to be lining the geurillas up against the wall.

Give 'em 48 hours to disarm and sign on to an amnesty program, that's all, that's IT, and then it's open season. The amnesty program should be called, in Arabic, "Deposit gun here and live to see next week."

This is just infuriating. No more screwing around. None. We need to take these people who attack us and just kill them. Bloodthirsty? Sure. But you know, it'll actually save lives in the long run. No, I'm not crazy. The last thing we need is a sort of popular mentality among Iraqis disgruntled about whatever their problems are that they can take potshots at Americans and get away with it. The hardcore crazies and militants will not stop fighting until they are shot (preferable) or shipped off to Guantanamo to rot. However, the angry type who would never have dared even look crooked at Saddam's military will remember that FUCKING with men with the guns is suicide, which should cut down on attacks.

Gunnery Room

Intiating Targeting Systems.
Target: Iraqi Die-Hards
Weapon Selection: U.S. Army Hammer, Mk. I
Firing...
IMPACT!

2003-05-08T22:38:00.000-07:00

Command Center

I've been doing some thinking about some leftist trusims and common threads in leftist sites like Alternet, YellowTimes, and, of course, the lunacy that is Indymedia. Their claims seem so self-contradictory and the leftist groups seem so hostile and reactionary.

I wanted to know why. So I read those sites every day. I read their articles, and, you know, I've finally understood what thought patterns make them operate.
First off - they're victims. Every group, by leftist dogma, that does not comprise the 'majority' which is white men and Jews, is a 'victim group,' requiring special treatment and sensitive handling. The list of these 'victim' groups is HUGE, obviously, to hit a few leftist favorites, blacks, illegal immigrants, disabled people, women (of any race), and, of course, Muslims, especially Muslim immigrants and Palestinians, most especially. Jews are bad, though, and my next essay is on why that is.

So to get credibility the leftist groups need to be victims. It's an absolute necessity, unfortunatly, it's also a totally ridiculous concept. Not that the Left has ever been afraid to make utterly insane statements, mind you, but they are trying to convince 'Middle America' that the Left is oppressed. As such, they are fond of citing any backlash for their supposed 'dissent' as a clear case of censorship and 'McCarthyism'.

Thus the Dixie Chicks (I am a Country fan and even like their music) are the victims of 'right-wing zealots,' neo-cons, huge, eeeevil corporations like Clearchannel (which is an abomination, but for other reasons) when their music is dropped from radio stations. Tim Robbins is a hero for getting disinvited to a private function for being an idiot. He's a victim of the 'right wing talk radio' and the 'Ashcroft Brigades'.

But this is bogus and that seems clear. Most DJs who pulled Dixie Chicks mucis did so at the request of a majority of phone calls\letters\email received by their listeners, who were angered at the Chicks' comments. Robbins and Susan Sarandon were out of step with the majority of Americans and presumably with the organization's directors. It wasn't Government thugs burning Dixie Chicks CDs, it was angry (ex)fans, who'd bought and paid for the CD's and therefore had the right to do with them as they pleased. The Chicks' CDs are available in every music store in the country, and no radio station that plays them is going to have it's FCC charter revoked. We all KNOW this. In fact, the only people whose dissent is being squashed...are...drumroll....These guys and that's it.

So why the agitating? Well, it all goes back to that persecuted minority complex. The Leftist groups ARE a minority, but, seeing as how they are totally convinced that everyone with any brain MUST agree with them, they refuse to admit they're a minority, or even to accept it to themselves. So they have the idea of a Silent Majority that agrees with them, all the time in every way, and the only reason the Leftist groups aren't in charge in our Democracy is the dissent squashing by what they want to believe is a small, evil, highly vocal and politically connected Right Wing, the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy of Hillary fame.

So here the Left can have it's cake and eat it, too. On one hand, they're the majority, the people support them, everyone who isn't a fanatic or a racist bigot cultural supremecist is with them. On the other hand, they're a persecuted minority group who needs special protection and is exempt from normal debate and logical rules of conduct. Which explains the Leftist debate tactics against people like Daniel Pipes or Ward Connerly - these dangerous speakers must be silenced TO PROTECT FREE (Leftist) SPEECH. The Left, we all know, doesn't debate - they scream, riot, chant, shout down speakers, disrupt events, and so on. It's because they can't admit they're a minority and must demand they're a victim. So it's not America rejecting them, only the right wing fringe. Knowing this, it makes the continual Leftist chatter about the 2000 election so much more understandable. Of COURSE the right wing couldn't legitimately elect their candidate - the truth is obvios - Gore won and was of course sabotaged by the VRWC, so that's why the Supreme Court had to give Bush the election. Of course, that's not reality, but to the deluded leftist support base, reality is an ugly thing best avoided. No one wants to hear their problems are their own damn fault and the Leftist groups both embrace and pander to that mentality.

2003-04-28T21:02:00.000-07:00

Command Center

It Is Time.

This is an essay on civilization versus the barbarians, a conflict throughout history. We are locked in a death struggle with the last of the barbarians.

Today someone asked me if I was concerned about the fact that we haven't been swimming in anthrax since we took out Hussein. I replied that it didn't matter. Not one bit. This isn't about whether or not Hussein had X amount of anthrax or whatever. We know he'd had those weapons in the past. We knew he'd keep pursuing them until he was removed. We knew the resolve of the UN was wavering. Saddam Hussein thought he could outlast the UN's will to inspect and enforce, and in this, he was right. He failed to grasp how the world changed. Then I showed them some examples of what the Butcher of Baghdad did to his own people, and said I thought this alone justified destroying his regime. I'll explore factors like this in my next two essays.

When I said all that, this person said, basically, that did that mean we were going to take out every half-ass dictator and brutal meglomaniac and insane dictator, surely I didn't want that. It might not be a bad idea, but again, another topic. More importantly, I responded, is not eradicating Al-Qaeda or whoever comes after them. It's clearing the swamps of the infestation that created them. In fact, it's past time.

And I say, it is time to drain those swamps. I'll put it like this. During the building of the Panama Canal, there was a huge malaria problem. Many of the Americans who worked there were sickened by this disease, transmitted through mosquitoes.
Now, obviously, this was before the drugs we use to treat malaria now, and malaria had devastated an earlier French attempt to build a canal in the same spot.
So how did the US Army defeat malaria?
They drained the swamps

They drained the swamps where the mosquitoes lived, and the mosquito population plummeted. So did the number of malaria cases. The problems went away. Not all disease, but the two biggest killers, yellow fever and malaria. The hospitals could better treat the rest of the diseases after the destruction of the mosquito swamps.

The despotic, brutal Middle East dictatorships and soldier-states are vicious swamps breeding a lethal kind of mosquito, and they will never get better on their own. As the religions and cultures become more fundamentalist, the standard of living will keep falling, America, Israel, and the West will keep taking the blame, and infrequent attempts to swat a few overly troublesome bugs will become more and more futile.
Al-Qaeda is a symptom, not a disease. Symptoms come and go in cycles, just like malaria, but in the end, it is either man or mosquito. If defending our civilization requires destroying the soldier states and imposing victor's peace and victor's justice, then so be it.

America did not ask for this conflict. It is forced upon us, by a certain sect of Islam that allows no other source of authority to exist, that demands that one religion rule the world, or the war will never end. The war will never end, until, like the fascists of last century, their culture has been purged of the infections plaguing it.

Germany had not been in peace twenty years running until America intervened for once and all and ended German militarism, probably forever. The Thirty Years War was as brutal and horrible an example of theocratic violence and ethnic horrors as one might see today. Millions perished. Much of Germany was laid waste. The wars continued, through the campaigns of Prussia against Napoleon, to the horrendous, insane bloodletting of WWI. Then, after WWII, America grew tired of the interminable European war, and imposed Pax Americana on a warring, splintered, violent continent, continuously at war since 300 AD.

The wars stopped. The pogroms stopped. The Nazis are gone. Now another threat rises and this threat, for all that it cannot challenge America directly is just as horrible, just as lethal. They hate us, will never stop hating us, and will always seek to strike us. It would be foolish of us to resist using the awesome power we can bring to bear upon these last barbarians. Should they every have the upper hand, mercy will be nowhere to be found. History is replete with examples of empires that failed to fight the barbarians, and fell because of it. Decadence is punished with extinction. The Romans sought to bargain with the Germanic tribes. The Chinese disdained the 'primitive' mongols, and the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain nearly had 'peace in his time' - the peace of the Grave. Britain was saved because there were other nations, more powerful nations, who helped and fought alongside the UK when the barbarians came.

There is no one for us to turn to. There is no country America can rely on. We are locked in a war with an entire culture that works for our destruction. Right now, it is a race to see if America will gain the will to destroy our foes before those foes acquire the means.
America did not want to start this fight, but we can, will and should end it. Lest it end us.

2003-04-13T11:49:00.000-07:00

Comm Room
Incoming Satellite Signal - Resolving Transmission.
Source: CNN

Oh boy. This looks to me like the French have finally come to the realization of just how badly they've misjudged the US. They allowed Saddam to think he was playing it smart being defiant,now, France is trying desperatly to make Syria shut up before they piss Washington off too much.

Here is what I see as happening. France, and Germany, Russia, and the rest, including SoDamn Insane, didn't grasp how much the Bush Administration and September 11 had changed policy. It's sort of hard to blame them - in Europe such sharp reversals of Government are more unusual. No one in their right mind sees the Clinton Administration doing this sort of thing, 9/11 or no. Snactions, bombing, harsh words - but no invasion. Not with our 'allies' resisting and popular opinion split - with Democrats favoring appeasment.

The world has changed - and France has just figured this out. France has realized that the traditional Third-World sport of America-Baiting is no longer a safe occupation. The current American leadership has had it. The new paradigm has become, even to France, shockingly clear: Hostile regimes are going to be targeted. If we can start a revolution, great. If not, we'll invade. IT IS NO LONGER SAFE TO TAKE POT-SHOTS AT AMERICA. The Middle East Thug Battalion no longer has the USSR to play of against America, either.

France does not want our power expanded. They don't want us taking out more of France's friendly dictatorships - imagine de Villepin watching this Syrian maniac standing in front of the bull and waving a red flag. France has finally grasped what Saddam Hussein did on March 19: No More Games.

So France, while simultaineously warning America not to act against Syria is trying to get Syria to shut their mouth and play nicely - because France understands that if Syria does not, they WILL be next. And France, the UN, the Germans, whatever, cannot save any nation if the US decides to break out the big guns.

2003-04-11T17:03:00.000-07:00

Command Center

After a few days of combat in Baghdad, the reports have made clear that the entire world has made a serious misjudgement.

Baghdad was not 'Mogadishu's Revenge." Or maybe it was. During the Mogadishu firefight, for a total of 18 dead American heroes, perhaps a thousand Somalis were killed, but the focus was on the Americans, and for months, Baghdad has loomed as the redoubt of Saddam and his most fanatical maniacs, a sure nightmare for the American troops.

My God, what a mistake. If anything has become clear by the Iraqi campaign, especially the assualt on Saddam's capital, it is that the American armed forces are perhaps the scariest, most lethal force in history - and that, given the politcal will to prevail, it will not be Americans who are at a disadvantage in city fighting.

In Mogadishu, the troops were denied armored support, fixed-wing air cover, and were allowed to become trapped in a hostile city. Not this time. The lessons that we learned at high cost in Somalia have been utilized. 18 men did not die in vain.

I suppose, in twenty or thirty years, school children will learn about the "Battle of Baghdad." Massacre of Baghdad is more like it. The whole world awaiting an American bloodbath - left-wing doomsayers preparing to march when the hundreds of American body bags came back as well as more hawkish types preparing for the Second Battle of Stalingrad, are in shock.

The blood has been almost totally Iraqi. The manaics who have chosen to pit themselves against Earth's most incredible concentration of military might have been destroyed. 40,000 American troops roll as they please throughout the city, armored spearheads smashing any attempt at organized opposition, machine guns and snipers picking off stragglers, and A-10 warplanes blowing anything threatening to Kingdom Come with 30MM cannon and bombs accurate within a meter or two.

The world, the press, is in shock. In less than three weeks, an entire army has been effectively eradicated. Not conquered or even dispersed, but wiped from the face of the planet. The enemies who holed up in the cities, believing themselves to be secure in a heavily populated urban center are broken to a disorganized rabble outfitted with whatever equipment they can scrape up, existing only until they come into contact with an American column, then dying in futile charges or terrified retreats.

The shell-shocked people of Baghdad, terrified of the privations of a long seige or of the ability of America to flatten their city around their ears, are the world's first witnesses to a whole new era in combat. America has, in a few short days, erased the stigma of both Vietnam and Mogadishu. Every fanatic with an AK now knows that when the Juggernaut comes for him, there is no escape. America has proven it's ability to enter a city with few forces, find, destroy, and secure any enemy presence.

Saddam was betting that Baghdad would be the grave of the Americans, but it has not proven the case, and the implications are staggering. It is already known that America can win an open field battle against anyone. Now the world has seen what America can do in a city, and what awaits any power that challenges this nation. For make no mistake - the Battle of Baghdad is a turning point in the history of the modern world. Had the city truly been a graveyard for America, this campaign might have been the end of the military response to 9/11.

Now, that no longer seems the case. The evil regimes of the world must now face the specter of an America that will defend itself regardless of the toothless UN - and an America that can destroy them, no matter where they hide.

After all this, the specter of the 'guerilla fighter,' that vicious AK-47 toting irregular is banished forever. The Viet Cong and the Somali gunmen are no longer the bugbear they once were - America has come to the enemy's house. We have fought him in his home turf, where he has nothing to lose. And we have destroyed him, toatally, completely, and with minor losses. The world has changed. The first to know were the Fedayeen of Iraq, but this lesson will rock the world.

2003-03-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

Command Center

He's suckered them again.

President Bush has been called stupid, simplisme, retarded, and has even faced accusations of endangering American security from some people who support war.

And hence my anger with the current Administration's policy.

The President is, currently, apparently placing the national interests of the United States and its people in second place and I WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT!

As much as I respect The Emperor, indeed, I owe my inspiration to him, I have to disagree. President Bush has, in the last 24 hours, managed to set up the French for the biggest smackdown they've suffered since a little place called Dienbienphu.
One might wonder why Fearless Leader Bush, so insistent on disarming Iraq a few months back, has been playing pointless UN political games for the last week.

Forgive me, Mr. President.

We now know why. This is why.

The French dismissed the effort outright, sparking a trans-Atlantic shouting match.

"We cannot accept the British proposals insofar as they are part of a logic of war, a logic of automatic recourse to war," said French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said of France: "They rejected it before Iraq rejected it. If that isn't an unreasonable veto, what is?"

Some, including me, thought that the President's continual work with the Security Council was backpedaling, was pointless, even dangerous. The French would never give in - this is obvious. So why try?
Now it becomes clear. The President has been working hard to give the French all the rope they could want - and the trapdoor is opening. Oops. Bush's apparant irresolution has indeed emboldened the French and the Iraqis. The Iraqis are going to get blown up anyway - no one can expect real cooperation from THEM now, but the Frecnh were getting more insistent that NO second resolution would EVER be passed.
Well, they're going to get what they want - and they're going to wind up holding the bag. The French have ensured that not only will the UN collapse, but they will be the ones blamed. They've saved Tony Blair, our Loyal Ally and a great guy, by giving him a reason to commit British troops even without a resolution. They've ensured that they are going down in history as the people who could have prevented the Iraqi war by leaning on Saddam - and didn't do it.

Good.

2003-03-04T20:28:00.000-08:00

Command Center

It's time to exhibit some cultural supremacy. Yes, that's right. Supremacy. That is because America's culture is superior. We're superior to craven appeasers in Europe. We're superior to Africa, which exhibits a nice variety of hells to choose from, from Nigerian Sharia courts, busily killing rape victims, or anti-Western thugocracies like Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe is busy starving his own people by throwing White farmers off their land, giving it to people who are loyal to him and have no farming experience, or we could choose Somalia, where 'Government' means men with AK-47 rifles.

If you're a big proponent of cultural equivalency, you are about to get really offended. Before you protest, please review the 1st Amendment and notice you DON'T have a right to not be offended. Thank you.

I'll go into who I am for a minute, so you understand this is no anti-immigrant tirade. I'm second generation American on my mother's side. Her parents were from Sicily, and on my father's side, I'm truly an American melange. Part everything, with a family that has been here since before the Revolution (a distant ancestor was shot in that war - we still have the wheelchair). Let me tell you about my mother's father, my Grandpa Joe. He came here, with no college education and almost no high school. He spoke Italian, Sicilian, Greek, and, quickly after arriving, English. He and his wife worked hard their whole lives so that my mother and my uncle would be able to go to college. They did. My grandparents also wanted their children to be American. My grandfather was an American. In WW II, he guarded Italian POW's in the Army, loyal to his new country. He did not teach my mother Italian. He wanted her to speak the language of the country she lived in. He used English at home. His children married Americans, spoke English, and went farther in this country than he could have hoped.

Not to say we don't still eat home-cooked lasagna, not to say we don't celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph.

My grandfather came here for a better life, and he got it. When he got here in the late 1920's, millions came to this country seeking a better life. A lot has changed since then, but there are still millions of immigrants who come here looking for a better life.

So what's the problem?
The big issue here isn't illegal immigration. Mind you, I'm an opponent of that. My ancestors came legally, so I think we should have the Border Patrol and INS send illegals back immediatly.

The big issue here is the refusal of many recent immigrants to assimilate. And the refusal of America to insist that they do so. I say that, if you don't want to stay in your own country, and you come to this country, you should be willing to become full citizens, to renounce other loyalties. You should learn our language, and your children should speak it.
This isn't happening. This nation is dealing with immigrant enclaves that refuse to become truly American and demand that everything be printed in their language. Their children are educated not in the language of this nation, but of another. The language of the United States of America is English. If you don't want to accept that, fine, don't come here.

Despite the Chomskyite insistence that America is the Root of All Evil, this is the greatest nation in the world. America is the most successful country in Human history, and we aren't rich because we loot other nations, or because we conquer other countries. Our strength is internal. WE are the final refuge of millions of people whose own homes were so disfunctional they crossed oceans packed in like sardines to make a go at it here, and they succeeded. This nation has saved Europe three times in the last century. This nation produced Woodrow Wilson, who tried his damnedest to repair the damage Europe inflicted on itself after WWI. The Europeans ignored him, rejected his attempts to create a lasting peace, and imposed a brutal treaty on a Germany that had stopped fighting under the impression that Wilson's just proposals would be the basis of peace.

Everyone knows what happened next.

This nation keeps millions alive in distant parts of the world, not because those nations are 'vital to our security' but because America is massively generous. It is time to reject those people who want to tell us that America's culture is evil, or is equivalent to the nightmares in other parts of the world. It is time to reject those who want to compare an American aviator with a Palestinian suicide bomber. It's time to stop allowing our children to be taught that the only bad culture in the world is the on George Washington faced the British muskets to create. It's time for the REAL Americans, of every race and background to stand up and to say,

'This is the greatest nation in the world. This country is 3 times the savior of freedom. This country provides opportunity to people from every place on Earth. This country is a great and wonderful thing, and it should be defended against the jackals and barbarians who wish only to destroy what they cannot ever have in their closed, tyrannical, nightmarish governments. This country needs to ensure that the children in it's educational system are taught this, and that the world understands - America is proud of who and what we are, and we will remain so.

2003-03-04T17:35:00.000-08:00

Comm Room
I was listening to my radio systems over in the Rec Deck, and I just heard a song by a man named Darryl Worley, who's a country singer. Yes, I listen to country music, and I'm proud of it. The song is called "Have You Forgotten?"

I hear people saying we don't need this war
I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
Now they say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
Well after 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

Now I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fightin' for

Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Some went down like heros in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
And all the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten?

This song needs to played on every radio station in America. This song needs to be played, loud and proud, at the next Appeasement Protest. Next time I hear about a protest near by, I'll go outside of my safe, cozy War Machine and I will put this on a repeating loob on the largest Boom Box I can find, and I will walk around handing out the lyrics. I'm going to do that to as many 'peace' protestors I can find. I'm going to make them listen. We should put this song on every piece of paper we drop on Iraq. We should put this song on every Voice of America radio station in the world, especially in the Middle East.

2003-02-25T11:47:00.000-08:00

Main Turret\Gunnery
Stupidity Alert! Dr. Mahathir Mohammed, now Asia's longest serving leader, and the leader of a 'non-radical' Muslim nation (Malaysia) has a few things to say at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Terrorism is, to him, a response to

a revival of the old European trait of wanting to dominate the world.

Right, that's it. Europe wants to dominate the world. You'll notice how the US has annnexed Afghanistan and..Wait, that didn't happen? Sorry.

Looks like it's time to take this terrorist-apoligizing, monster supporting, half-witted jackoff out!

Initiate Gunnery Sequence
Target: Dr. Mahathir Mohammed\Location: Malaysia
Preparing Anti-Terrorist Missile Battery
Firing.
Impact.

Let's see what other pearls of shit this manaic comes up with.

"It is not religious differences which angered the attackers of the World Trade Center. It is simply sympathy and anger over the expropriation of Palestinian land, over the injustice and the oppression of the Palestinians, and Muslims everywhere."

No, wrong, that isn't it. They hate us because we are Democracy, and liberal (not leftist) democracy is the enemy of authoritarian religons the world over, which today means it is a religous war, and will remain one. Unless I missed the article about Southern Baptists blowing up the White House. I'm not even going to get into the '47 partition situation. While I understand that uneducated Palestinians might not know the truth, this guy is some sort of doctor, so he really out to know better.
But wait, there's more we can learn from Mr. Mahathir!
He seems to see hipocrisy in the world condeming terrorists, but not...drumroll please...

the more terrifying acts of the Israelis

Right, much more terrifying. I'm so scared right now, that some insane Israeli Zionist, protesting against my consumption of non-kosher hot dogs is going to set off a nuclear bomb in DC. I'm not a religous guy, but I've been to a synagogue service or two and I can't recall any incitement to go kill people. Mostly prayers for the victims of Palestinian terror, as I recall.
Fuckhead. Why does anyone with an education believe this crap? Note to Dr. Mahathir - if the Palestinians would like to stop being shot at, perhaps they could stop blowing up buses, bat mitzvahs, Passover seders, and, oh yeah, quit shooting 3 year ol dchildren cowering under their mother.
Just in case Mr. Mahathir is right, I'll be real careful to keep an eye on any Zionist Terrorist cells I happen to see on my next acid trip.

Even more fun is his insane talk about how we 'Western Military Leaders' 'push a button then go home and eat a hearty meal' while..." they would make more sorties, to carpet-bomb more children, women and old people, or they would press more buttons to send missiles to tear off more heads and limbs,"

And what is he smoking? We're about to send our troops into another nation to liberate it. Hey, if we really wanted Saddam dead, we wouldn't need to do that. I'd guess he'd have about 30 seconds of warning before the Minuteman III ICBM arrived. We aren't going to start off by nuking Iraq because we are trying to SAVE the people of that country, as we have SAVED MILLIONS of others, from their own stupidity (WWI) Fascism (WWII) or Communism (Cold War, Korean war, Vietnam war). America doesn't want a Goddamned empire - if we did, you, and the rest of the Non-Aligned Movement, and Western Europe would be American Territory. It's not, fuckhead, for a reason. We want the world to leave us alone and act civilized, but when they don't we WILL get involved, and if you make us angry enough to come after you, you had better be ready to die. So shut up, Dr. Mahathir, and go away. Come back when you are once again on speaking terms with reality.

2003-02-24T14:47:00.000-08:00

Observation Room Gestapo Alert:
This just observed. It seems that our totally racist and civil liberty deprived society has claimed a victim. A man, who just happens to be black, was driving with his wife in his car, which is a nice Jaguar. A fine machine. He's pulled over by the police, told he 'fits the profile' of a 'gun criminal' and is subject to personal search, as is his wife. As is their car. Profiling and racism, it seems. Before you wonder if maybe the Race-Baiter Battalion, under the leadership of Gen. Sharpton and Colonel Jackson, has a point after all, I'm going to tell you where this happened.

Not in some stereotypical Southern Alabama town.

Not in some crime ridden Northern Ghetto.

It happened in England

What's more, it's all legal. It's called a Section 60 -

"'Where a police officer of or above the rank of superintendent reasonably believes that: (a) incidents involving serious violence may take place in any locality in his area and (b) it is expedient to do so to prevent their occurrence, he may give an authorisation that the powers to stop and search persons and vehicles conferred by this section shall be exercisable at any place within that locality for a period not exceeding24 hours.'

The Act empowers a police officer in a section 60 zone 'in the exercise of those powers, [to] stop any person or vehicle and make any search he thinks fit whether or not he has any grounds for suspecting that the person or vehicle is carrying weapons or articles of that kind'.

This Tyranny is the result of a people who have been lulled into thinking that all the power and responsibility should go to the Government, and for whom the option of fighting back is not viable. Such would never be tolerated in America, because in America the Government serves the people. It says so in the Constitution, and, as Kim du Toit has offen written about, if the Government forgets the people are equipped to remind them.
In Britain, that is not the case. The people have NO RIGHTS. They have priveleges granted or taken by their Government. A law from the 70's, designed to combat Soccer Hooligans is used for mass detentions and searches of free people.

And yet...the left wing media would rather call President Bush a racist for daring to oppose affirmative action. To rail about how the US is Most Racist Nation. I don't think so - this wouldn't stand for a minute in a US court. Section 60'd be thrown out so fast your head would spin.

End Gestapo Alert

2003-02-24T14:29:00.000-08:00

Main Turret\Gunnery:
Condition Yellow. Prohibited weapons have been detected in Iraq\Target Prime. These weapons are the Al-Samoud 2, a missile with an engine radius of 760 millimeters and a range of over 150 kilometers. Such weaponry is prohibited, for a large reason because that range keeps the missile from hitting Israel.

Archives Note: During the First Gulf War, Iraq fired several dozen Scud missiles at Israel, killing 2 and wounding many, despite the fact that no Israeli troops were involved in Desert Storm. End Note.
Iraq even has recently said it is 'ready for relations with all nations of the world, except Israel' and a high level Iraqi refused to answer an Israeli reporter's question.

Chief Mushroom Blix has told the Iraqis to destroy their missile
but the Iraqis will only say they are 'studying' the situation. Kofi Annan says 'why wouldn't they destroy the missiles?' but one would hope he can figure it out.
Iraq is looking for a way to strike out and hurt it's old foe Israel - that's the only reason the need Al-Samoud 2. If Iraq still has WMD, and evidence from the Commo Room makes that seem likely, then we have a nation with a record of using chemical munitions, working hard on missiles that can deliver that munition to said nation's target in the LAST war, and is refusing and stonewalling when asked to destroy them.

Initiate Gunnery Sequence
Target: Iraqi Missile Program
Firing Reality Cannon
Impact.

What in the HELL does it take to get Hans Blix to admit defeat? He tried his best, he lost, he should go home and write his memoirs. The Iraqis are holding out on this for one of two reasons! One, they are so encouraged by the Useful Idiots Brigade (and the Marxist\Leninist\Stalinist\Maoist backers of said Brigades) that they don't think the US will really be allowed to hurt them - in which case they're going to need a hell of a lot more than a few crude rockets to save their ass - or they are willing to risk war to be able to send a nice surprise Israel's way. For all we've heard of the Arrow Missile Defense system, it is untried in combat, and if Iraq uses it's chemical weapons, it wouldn't need many hits.

I think it's the latter reason - they hate Israel and are willing to risk a showdown with the UN over being able to take a crack at Israel, maybe even trying to get some revenge if we invade.
Either Iraq destroys Al-Samoud by Saturday like Blix told them, or else the US should do the world a favor and destroy the missiles, and any other Iraqi military hardware. We should strap Hussein on the last Al-Samoud, target it on Riyadh, and do a test firing.

2003-02-24T14:01:00.000-08:00

Comm Room:
I have just received a message from Loyal Citizen Victor, a fellow solider in the War on Stupidity. It seems that Iraq, designated Target Prime, possesses a weapon in contravention of UN standards known as the Al-Samoud 2.
Chief Mushroom (they keep him in the dark and feed him bullshit) Hans Blix has taken a firm stand. He's ordered the missiles destroyed.
Now Target Prime is stalling and they are playing a lethal game.
Activating Targeting Mode...

2003-02-24T01:49:00.000-08:00

From the Command Center:
This Tank can be run with only one person aboard, but I'm going to be pretty busy to do that. Depending on which part of this vehicle I'm in, and what function I'm performing, I'll be posting things under different 'sectors' (as soon as I fully figure out the control panel, that is).
The different parts of the tank that I'll be posting from are:

Observation Deck: Where I survey the world as seen from the deck of a 350 ton war machine, as I keep watch for enemies, allies, or anything of interest. Expect news updates and interesting links under one of these posts.

Command Center: If this was a Starship this would be the bridge. It's where I go when I'm on duty, and I wish to make clear the position of myself and my War Machine on a given issue, or to give direction to the computer that maintains the BlogHammer. This post is usually a position statement or a reaction to an event.

Targeting\Gunnery: When the BlogHammer is in range of an enemy, and the decision has been made to fire, we warm up the cannons. As this IS a 23rd Century Battle Tank (even if I'm not too sure what all the buttons do) there is a lot of firepower available, and, if necessary, the BlogHammer will cut loose on anyone or anything that threatens. Expect rants and Fisking here, mostly.

Communications Room: This is where I will maintain communications to the world outside the BlogHammer. Since I haven't figured out how to open the door yet, this is my only contact with reality outside, maintained through email.

Rec Deck: This is where I go when I'm off duty, to have a cold one or read up on other soldiers in the War on Stupidity, or maybe to watch a good movie. Say, Reservoir Dogs. These posts will be reviews of books or games, or my muddled musings on the day just past.

2003-02-22T16:01:00.000-08:00

Welcome Aboard! Danger Dave here, and this is the BlogHammer, the most powerful Battle Tank of the 24th Century, accidentally timeshifted back to the 21st. Along with being the most powerful weapons system to ever exist in human history, this highly powerful and very capable Battle Tank is my personal soapbox to rage against what I feel are the problems of the world, and the people who cause them. If you are easily offended, believe in political correctness, or actually bought into Hillary Clinton's (Socialist - New York) claim about a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, this is not the blog for you. Go to Alternet.