It’s going to be one of those days.
Today’s Earworm
It’s going to be one of those days.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 31, 2011
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Very Strange Bedfellows
Rupert Boneham, who has competed in the reality TV show “Survivor” several times, has filed papers indicating that he may run for governor in Indiana as a Libertarian. His website says that he’s not satisfied with the candidates that have already declared their intentions to run, and he wants to serve his community.
I wish Mr. Boneham luck. I’ve heard some interviews with him and he seems to be a hard-working, caring man who does indeed care about his community. Being just south of the state line with Hoosierland, we see a lot of their political commercials. I can’t wait to see what his campaign comes up with.
The posts from Tam, Frank W. James, Roberta X, and other Indiana bloggers may be interesting if this develops into a full blown campaign. Of course, having seen pictures of Mr. Boneham, I don’t think he’ll need a wookie suit. Usel no longer needs the weerding module.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 30, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/30/very-strange-bedfellows/
This is preferable to the Taliban?
I just read one of the most disgusting and disturbing things I’ve seen in a while. Big Peace has an article about the open and widespread practice in Afghanistan of men buying teenage boys for use as dancers and sexual partners. From what I surmise, this practice has been part of the culture in parts of Afghanistan, but it has exploded both in flagrancy and sheer number of boys being sold into sexual slavery since the fall of the Taliban.
We have our own issues with widespread abuse of children in our own culture, but at least we’re trying to clean it up and we curb stomp those who we catch debasing the most innocent of our people.
Before I go off on a rant here, this has nothing to do with Islam. The local Islamic scholars and preachers uniformly condemn the practice. This is also not a slam of all Afghani people. We wouldn’t know how bad this situation is without reporting by Afghani journalists and others. But something is rotten in Kabul, Kandahar, and the rest of that country and its culture(s).
Since we brought a massive amount of firepower to the side of the Northern Alliance in late 2001 and helped to push the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan, we have been regularly treated to stories of massive corruption in the Karzai government, funded of course by the American taxpayer, a huge upswing in the amount of opium grown in Afghanistan, Afghani police and army units that are more a mob of stoners than cohesive groups of armed men with a mission, and now this.
What exactly are we getting for all of the blood and money we’ve poured into Afghanistan for almost 10 years? From what I can see, not much. If the Karzai government isn’t capable of bring the warlords to heel and keeping horrific crimes like this from happening, why are we diddling with him and his family run enterprise in Kabul?
Are American interests protected by empowering men who use young boys as sexual puppets and status symbols? Are we giving the Taliban and other groups we oppose in the region an example to point at when asked why they fight us when we put and keep such men in power?
We need to send Kabul and the rest of the scum in Afghanistan a very clear message: Clean up your act or we walk away. No ‘slow drawdown’ to attenuate the pain, no ‘follow-on force’ to protect them from reality, no massive infusions of cash and guns to keep them parroting democratic platitudes while they overfill their retirement accounts. Clean up the corruption, the ineptitude, and the outright pederasty at the point of a bayonet if you have to, or we leave you to the Taliban. We will burn or blow up all of our bases, take home or destroy all of the equipment we brought with us, and crater the runways after the last C-5 goes wheels up. Piss us off, and we’ll salt the fields of opium and cannabis with ground up nuclear fuel rods while we’re at it. It would be better for us to sit on the sidelines for a couple of years while Karzai slides down into the cesspool of history than to continue to enable his corrupt, lazy, inept, disgusting regime.
We are making the same mistake we made in Vietnam and other 3rd world crapholes during the Cold War: Back any tin pot dictator with the blood of children on his hands so long as he keeps saying the right things to the reporters from the United States. We either need to back someone who won’t stand for the corruption of his country and the cultural and systemic sexual exploitation of its children, or we need to drop Afghanistan like a hot rock while promising to make a desert out of it and call it peace if we’re ever bothered again.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 30, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/30/this-is-preferable-to-the-taliban/
Overheard in the office
Boss: What happened?
DaddyBear: We had SSH sessions open to two servers, and we put the ‘reboot’ command into the wrong window. Box was down about 5 minutes, but it doesn’t look like it had any impact to the customers.
Co-Worker: It was me, I put in the reboot command.
Boss: Well, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time…. Give me your badges. You’re out of here.
Shocked silence
Boss: Gotcha!
That is not funny!
Posted by daddybear71 on August 30, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/30/overheard-in-the-office-2/
News Roundup
- From the “Bad Timing” Department – UAW-represented Ford employees are voting on whether to authorize a strike as part of their ‘negotiations’ with Ford on their new contract. The UAW wants to get back at least some of the pay and benefits that were conceeded to the company during the last recession, and they want the threat of a labor walkout as a tool at the bargaining table. Someone needs to show the ‘leadership’ of the UAW a trending chart on the U.S. economy and ask them if they really want to start taking money out of Ford’s pocket right now. Better a job where you think you might be getting hosed than no job at all, guys.
- From the “Going to Hell on a Scholarship” Department – Thieves have broken into a Catholic church in California several times, stealing security cameras, and a large amount of copper wire. Someone needs to tell these guys that copper is an excellent conductor of lightning.
- From the “Soon to be an Un-Person” Department – A video of a Chinese general discussing espionage cases that were covered up and called such things as “corruption” has surfaced on YouTube. In other news, there is an open slot for promotion to general in the Chinese military after the former holder of the rank had a 9mm aneurism.
- From the “Nothing for me Today, Thanks” Department – A man in Pennsylvania has been arrested for a second time for stuffing a rack of ribs down his pants. Dude, I told you to put the meat in the crock pot, not the…. aw, never mind.
- From the “Dead Man Walking” Department – A man in Australia accidentally threw away his wife’s jewelry when he hid it in trash bags to keep it from being stolen. Irish Woman isn’t really a jewelry kind of girl, but she does like things that twinkle a bit. That being said, if I were to ever throw away $50k worth of gold, she’d cut my heart out with a spoon.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 30, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/30/news-roundup-93/
Quote of the Day
Any right not exercised is a right lost. If you do not speak out and address an injustice, you have abridged your freedom of speech. If you fail to meet your friends for any reason except you don’t want to, you have abridged your freedom of assembly. Let us say you refuse to file a complaint against a police officer who mistreats you because of fear of reprisal, you have given up your right against unreasonable search and seizure.
This extremely well thought out position on why we should make use of all of our rights was brought to you by Sean D. Sorrentino’s father. Mr. Sorrentino is apparently becoming more active in the Second Amendment rights movement, and explains his decision to open carry his sidearm.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 29, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/29/quote-of-the-day-51/
News Roundup
- From the “Mace is a Condiment” Department – A study has shown that for people suffering from nasal inflammation the use of nasal sprays that include the active ingredient of hot peppers could bring relief. I expect that police unions will come out against this. Who wants to have a product on the market that Mookie can use to do the iocane powder routine against Officer Friendly’s pepper spray?
- From the “Jewelry for Cancer?” Department – A first grader in Texas has been suspended because he wears his hair long and is wearing a diamond earring in violation of his school’s dress code. His mother claims he’s growing his hair out for Locks of Love, a charity that provides real hair to make hair pieces for cancer patients. I’d probably buy that and condemn the school if it weren’t for the diamond earring. Take the shiny tackle out of the boy’s ear and we’ll talk about feeling empathy for him. Ask me sometime about my experience with dress codes, a diamond earring, and a small scar I have on my earlobe. It’s a riot if you like Clint Eastwood movies.
- From the “This is my Shocked Face” Department – A former TSA agent has admitted in federal court that she used her position to assist a drug smuggler in evading airport security. Shocked, yes shocked, I am that another TSA agent has been caught breaking the law. Why, everyone knows that the government spent massive amounts of time and money to properly organize the TSA and does a thorough screening and monitoring job of its employees. How could something like this happen again and again and again?
- From the “Apples to Oranges” Department – Former Vice-President Al Gore recently made comments comparing the global warming debate to the American civil rights movement. Yeah, because police in the American Southeast are using firehoses to keep Prius owners down. Oh, and the federal government is sending the 101st Airborne Division to make sure that climate scientists aren’t forced to publish their raw data. Mr. Gore, do us all a favor: Go home, drink a bottle or two of wine, and spend the evening polishing your Nobel Peace Prize while cruising the Internet you claim to have invented.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 29, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/29/news-roundup-94/
Thought for the Day
The two highest compliments I can give someone are “That’s OK, I know you’d do it for me.” and “I’d trust you to walk behind me with a loaded gun in your hand.”.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 29, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/29/thought-for-the-day-74/
Missed a good party
Brigid over at Home on the Range has a good write-up of today’s Indy Blogmeet. Looks like I missed an opportunity to have dinner with a lot of the great people from the blogosphere that I’ve met over the past couple of years. I would pay good money to sit in a room and listen to Og, OldNFO, and BRM swap stories. I definitely need to head up to Indy one of these days. And I definitely need to get one of those Secret Squirrel velcro patches!
Congratulations to Tam on the sixth anniversary of View From the Porch! It’s great that her blogiversary coincided with a blogmeet. Tam’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever met at a shooting range, and I wish her luck as she continues to dish out the USDA recommended dose of snark.
Posted by daddybear71 on August 29, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/08/29/missed-a-good-party/
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Posted by daddybear71 on August 28, 2011
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