Tuesday, November 16, 2004
HammerBlog
Well, those tickturds did it. They murdered that CARE woman. I've been preaching it for a LONG time, and now I'm yet again vindicated. It doesn't MATTER if you support Bush, the Republicans, or hate them with the screaming passion I see in some AOL message boards. If you are SO bloody stupid that you're going to extend the hand of peace to these Arab fanatics, you're going to get a bloody stump back. I said it before, here it is again: NOT ALL ARABS are like this. Not even all Muslim Arabs. But, to the Muslim mind, the Crusades were World War I, and they're ready for THEIR WWII. At least in spirit they are. The ONLY difference between an old crank like me and many of you is that you'll make a fun sex toy before they hack off your head.
Or, if you're male, you'll just lose your head. Maybe. I've heard some stories, but have no substantiation for them. Incidentally, the black Muslims in the U.S., while not always toting the line taught in the middle east, are no friends of yours either. Maybe you didn't hear it from me first, but believe it. I once stumbled across some Black Muslim literature that was never intended to be seen by a white boy. It's scarier than John Birch Society or Ku Klux Klan propaganda; it's also far superior to those organizations in spelling and presentation.
I posted this on an AOL message board today:
There are active blogs going on from troops over there, from troops freshly back. Look around the net. It didn't work super-well in VietNam, either, but it DID work once in a while, offering a cash price to the Vietnamese civilians to turn in their VC neighbors. Bush is having to rebuild an intelligence apparatus that Clinton nearly flushed down the toilet. They're working their butts off to get agents in place, better intel to the troops. Some American troops trained with Spetsnatz troops, the Russian Special Forces, after Afghanistan, so we didn't just walk in blind and igorant. And, right there making it happen, are some absolutely amazing American troops. They've got good technology and know how to use it, they're intelligent and unbelievably brave. That's why, if you need a GOOD understanding of what's up over there, their blogs are the best. This won't be another VietNam. Our troops are better trained, better armed (and SHOULD have better body armor, if congress will quit stickin' it to them), and if people will be honest, the body counts don't begin to compare to that war. We need to forget who we might offend; if it's the Sunnis that are stirring up the trouble, then pound hell out of them till they say "enough". If it's insurgents, round up every non-citizen, ID them the best you can, and throw 'em out if you can't prove they're combatants. Maybe inject them with that pellet like we do our pets, make them easier to track if they come back in. After all these idiotic beheadings they do, I'm tempted to say let's retaliate by hanging them up like chickens, and running them down a production line to a chainsaw. But, we're Americans. We don't do that. Sure would make a statement though, huh? Maybe put a sow's ear in every mouth when we put 'em out for somebody to claim and bury?
The major news services have been popping their cookies for a while showing flaws in the security systems at our airports and harbors. We need to remember that, even if they're screwing up, those people are in there WORKING to make you have an ok day. And, hard as it seems for the newsdogs, politicians, and the American people to do, we need to widen our focus and deal with a great many issues at once here. I'm afraid, if you didn't notice the fragility of our electrical infrastructure last winter, you're going to get a bitter, nasty taste of how old and outdated much of it is this year. Besides the push for alternative power sources, we could probably enhance the efficiency of what we have with new technology applied to it.
In-country, decent paying jobs are essential. While Kerry was promising to put a stop to that, I wondered just when he was going to bring the subject up to his wife, see if she'd lead the charge in bringing some work back here.
I put $20 worth of gasoline in my Dad's pickup the other day. Didn't even bring it up to half full.
He is not driving one of those giant, house-towing monsters with dual rear wheels, etc. Just a little V-6 engine. His mileage sucks. I get better on my 1984 Firebird Formula, because I have a standard shift, and that thing was geared to FLY. I can put it in 5th gear at 70 miles an hour and the engine is barely working. It WANTS to be doing 120, and I want to as well, but we have to be adults sometimes. Since most Americans are nearly as nuts behind the wheel as me, we don't NEED some alternative fuel that enables us to blaze through the neighborhood at 30 mph, get to the grocery store and back before we dig out the electrical plug, solar cells and whatever oddball converters we need to replenish. We need touch-and-go fuel systems. So let's TRULY improve the fossil-fuel burning monsters of now while we work on their future replacements. Surely, in all the patents bought up, stolen, whatever by the major car manufacturers, there are alternatives to making a car go 190 miles per gallon. We'll never see those. The oil industry would freak. I'd settle for 85mpg, 150 mph top end. Wouldn't you?
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