A wheelchair bound grandfather on Martha’s Vineyard is being charged with assault after laying a beating on the sorry individual that his granddaughter told him was molesting her.  While I don’t condone vigilantism, there’s no way the prosecutor would want me on this jury.  Apparently he warned the alleged scumbag not to stand up or he’d Carlton Fisk him.  When said alleged scumbag stood up, he swung for the fences.  The alleged asshat was also arrested in relation to assaulting another child.

Hopefully the charges against Mr. Hebert will be dropped.  I also hope that the alleged despicable, child  molesting, Louisville Slugger indented forehead having waste of protoplasm spends the rest of of his short miserable life being routinely beaten by prison guards.

Yes, I’m not very forgiving when it comes to people who hurt children.  Why do you ask?

A Mexican woman has tattooed almost 100% of her body, implanted fangs in her mouth, and implanted “horns” on the top of her head.  I’m not against people doing with their bodies as they want, but this just doesn’t look good to me:

No offense, but if I see that coming down a dark street towards me, I’m going to either run like my ass was on fire or go all Owen Pitt on her.  Now y’all excuse me while I do some shopping for holy water, silver bullets, and oak stakes.

Most of you know what a berzerker is: a Viking warrior who gets into a frenzy during battle, fighting with no armor and light armament, with only his fury and the favor of Odin to protect him.

Apparently, while other aspects of Scandinavian culture have softened in the past millenium or so, the animals in Sweden continue this fine tradition.

Zoo wardens in eastern Sweden said 10 flamingoes were killed when an anteater got loose at a zoo and broke into their compound.

 Apparently the wayward anteater went into a defensive frenzy when it was startled by the reaction of the flamingos to it being in their enclosure.  This anteater, normally a plain and peaceful animal, went Bruce Lee on the more flamboyant and flashy flamingoes when he was provoked.  Whether the anteater had taken hallucinogenic drugs or just got high on adrenaline prior to this episode is not being reported.  

Could it be that the animals at the zoos in Sweden are the continuation of great Viking traditions?  Are we going to see bands of sea-going marmosets sacking British seaside towns?  Will a colony of badgers set themselves up in Ireland before being assimilated into the general population?  Will zebras be used as bodyguards for the crown heads of Europe? 

Of course, when attacked by roving bands of bears, the French will surrender and give up between 1/3 and 1/2 of their territory, but that’s to be expected.

Since I’ve been home from work I’ve done laundry and dishes, helped make dinner, played with BooBoo, put together the crockpot full of chili (with beans) for tomorrow’s dinner, and laid out clothes for Boo to wear tomorrow.

I’m not really a liberated man.  I’m actually quite the Neanderthal in many ways.  But Irish Woman works just as many hours as I do, and if I do everything in my power to make her happy and relaxed, then I will have an opportunity to be happy and relaxed.

I’ve watched the rioting and murders in Afghanistan over the weekend with a sense of finality.

We’ve spent our time, blood, and treasure in Dar Al Islam for the entire breadth of my life.  We’ve tried to broker peace deals between mostly democratic Israel and the countries around it, with most of them not being worth the paper they were printed on.  We’ve propped up more than a few dictators who took our money and used it to build militaries to fight us and support those who would strike us in our homes.  We’ve overthrown despotic, barbaric regimes in two countries in exchange for a decade of watching our sons and daughters come home in coffins.  We’ve tried to accomodate a backwards code of conduct that would make Attilla the Hun proud.  Now, supposedly because some fundamentalist Christian jerk-off in Florida decided to gain a little of the attention that mommy and daddy denied him by burning a Koran, innocent people who went to Afghanistan to provide support and help to the Afghani people have been murdered in the streets.

Why have we not only taken these attacks, but apologized for being a big target?  One word:  Tribute.

We are paying tribute in blood, treasure, and recognition to the Islamic world because we are afraid that they will shut off the oil.  Just as the Barbary Pirates demanded payment in exchange for passage in the Mediterranean, the denizens of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia are squeezing us for everything we’ll pay.  “Millions for defense, not a cent in tribute!” was the slogan of our country in 1800.  We need to rediscover our backbone and tell the barbarians of Dar Al Islam to get bent.

All support for Islamic countries and movements needs to end, military, political, or economic.  If the house of Al Saud or the princes of the Persian Gulf cannot fend for themselves, then they don’t deserve to be in power.  The denizens of Iraq and Afghanistan will never stop living on their knees, so we need to stop trying to force them to stand up.  We need to stop buying oil from the Persian Gulf, North Africa, and Central Asia, and make up the difference with increased energy efficiency, additional domestic energy production, and exploiting our trade relationships with friendly countries in our own hemisphere.  Nationals of Islamic countries that have supported our enemies need to be shown the door and sent home.  If a citizen of the United States provides aid and comfort  to one of these barbaric regimes in any way, they need to be prosecuted as agents of an unfriendly foreign power.

Contact with non-democratic regimes in the Islamic area of the world should be cut down to an absolute minimum.  Containment along the lines of the Truman Doctrine should be our goal.   Defense pacts with countries that express democracy as their goal and actually make progress towards modernization and liberalization should be made so that the refugees from the 12th century don’t destroy those who want to join civilization.  However, we should make it clear that we will not prop up every two-bit generalissimo who spouts the right platitudes while lining his own pockets and killing his people.  We should make it clear to Iran, Syria, and the rest of the Islamic world that any attack against us or our allies will be answered with immediate and overwhelming force.   We’re a peaceful people, but if you raise a hand to us, we will take off your arm.

I am sick and tired of watching those who want to help the Islamic world get kicked in the teeth just prior to being beheaded.  We need to isolate these barbarians from our civilization and wait for them to rot from the inside as we did with the Soviet Union.  No amount of our blood, toil, or treasure is going to reverse 1000 years of barbarism, and we should stop trying to fill the bottomless pit that is the Dar Al Islam.

One of my favorites, and I think it’s appropriate today.

The controlling theme for my day appears to be “You’ll get nothing and like it!”.  My secret to sanity is vacation on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  I’m at 1 day and a wake up, people!

Apparently putting an unbalanced, drugged up, spoiled alcoholic on stage with no script, no direction, and no purpose isn’t very entertaining.  Who knew?

The crowd that booed and heckled Charlie Sheen got exactly what they paid for:  a train wreck.

My guess is all of his other sold out shows are non-refundable.  He may be crazy, but he’s not stupid.  I’ll leave that label for the bluntskulls that traded paper with pictures of dead people on them for tickets to watch the slow meltdown of an American actor.

My one question in all of this is “Where is Martin Sheen?”  His son is in a tailspin, it’s hurting his grandchildren, and it’s dragging his “name” through the mud.  Why doesn’t he go dopeslap his spoiled little rich boy into rehab and stand over him with his foot on his neck until he sobers up and realizes what an ass he’s become?  I guess in the world of “entertainers”, having your son turn into a babbling maniac on camera and on stage is considered a good thing.

A Southwest Airlines flight from Phoenix to Sacramento made an emergency landing yesterday after the roof of the passenger cabin ripped open several feet.  The pilots were able to descend and land with only minor injuries to the cabin and crew, so good on them.  I’m betting that taking a 737 from 36,000 feet to 10,000 feet in a few seconds is a roller coaster no-one wants to ride.

Southwest has had some maintenance issues in the past couple of years, so I hope this incident is investigated thoroughly and all of the aircraft in their fleet get a thorough going over.

Southwest likes to mix up their safety speech a bit, and the part that occurs to me is where they talk about a cabin pressure problem:  “If the person next to you is a child, or is acting like a child”.   Count me as one of the people who would probably be acting like a child.  Events like this may give some passengers a reason to pay attention to the flight attendant other than her nice legs in those blue shorts.

Uncle has been talking about Firearms Rule #5 – Do not try to catch a gun.


I’m thinking that the rebels in Libya may have discovered Firearms Rule #6 – Do not shoot your automatic weapons into the sky when there are ground attack aircraft in the area looking for targets.

NATO said Saturday that it was investigating Libyan rebel reports that a coalition warplane had struck a rebel position that was firing into the air near the front line of the battle with Muammar al-Qaddafi’s forces.

Here’s a hint, Abdul:  fighter pilots don’t like heavy caliber tracer fire from the ground.  It makes them nervous, and their bomb release thumb just might twitch a bit.