What NPR didnt say this morning was...
The News:
Marine Shooting in Iraq:
The fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed man in a Fallujah mosque by a U.S. Marine angered Sunni Muslims in Iraq on Tuesday and raised questions about the protection of enemy fighters once they are out of action.
International legal experts said the Marine may have acted in self-defense because of a danger that a wounded enemy may try to blow up a hidden weapon; a key issue was whether the injured man was a prisoner at the time. The shooting happened Saturday, one day after the Marine, who has not been identified, was wounded in the face and after another man in his unit was killed by the booby-trapped body of an insurgent.
However, the incident could cause major political problems for the government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his U.S. backers at a time when Iraqi authorities are seeking to contain a backlash among Sunnis to the invasion of the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Ok, I first got pissed about this Monday morning when I heard the story on NPR. Let me put on my JAG hat for a second. From the slanted one-sided story I have received in both the US and foreign media it would appear to be a strait forward case of war atrocity. But dear reader things are never that simple in real life and even less so in war.
If I remember the Articles of War correctly, when a unit is sweeping a designed area in an attack anything and everything is fair game, I do mean anything and everything. Now once an objective is secured you must under the Geneva Convention take prisoners and provide aid to the wounded. This rule held true from WW II until till today. That’s is why you here people yell “Clear” once they have completed their task in a mission in all the documentaries.
After the sweep of the objective it is up to the ranking officer to declare the objective secure.
I can remember vividly being trained this in beautiful Ft. Benning, GA, at the ripe old age of 17. I was told at that time; that in the process of sweeping an objective to be sure to put a few rounds into any dead or wounded enemy combatants. This was done for several reasons, a wounded soldier can kill you just as dead as a live one and the same holds true for one playing dead (not to mention the habit many of our enemies have of booby-trapping the dead, let alone suicide bombers). Another reason would be that often times limited medical support is available to forces engaged in combat, you want to use your resources on your troops first.
Well, with my training from way back when, I most likely would have shot all four of them, not just one, unless the objective was deemed secure. One thing to keep in mind is these are the kids who last year were in high school, and often when you see them on TV with blood on their uniform, its not theirs, its most likely some other mothers son who will be going home in a box or on a set of wheels. For those of you who have not held a friend while they died, it is a very life changing experience.
Those of you who know me know I am not for the war, and that I am by no means a pacifist, but one thing I have always been is 100% pro-soldier. I hate their boss for making them have to go through all this, in what in my opinion was not a good enough reason. But, hey this is still for the time being America, and I am allowed my views.
CARE worker believed executed
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker kidnapped after decades of helping Iraqis, is believed to have been murdered by her captors, a British government official said Tuesday, based on a video that showed a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
They killed an old lady, who fed their starving children? Ok, I bitch about the right wing fundamentalists in this country. God-Damn, this is how they look over there. Fuck’em, lets all buy fuel cell cars and heat our homes with solar and wind power. Let the fucks go back to living in tents and just killing each other.
PETA urges people to avoid eating fish
Animal-rights activists have launched a campaign arguing that fish – contrary to stereotype – are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat.
Ok, hello…is there anyone out there? Intelligent and Sensitive? They have never met my pet Carp “Roger” he is down right scary, and now that he is 3 feet long I have to keep him in the bath tub.
City’s airport listed among top 10 for ‘hanging out’ in
Fort Wayne’s welcome cookies, other perks score points with national travel columnist.If you’re going to be stuck in an airport over the holidays, Fort Wayne is the place to be.
So said USA Today last week, including Fort Wayne International Airport among “10 great places to hang out during a layover.” “This may be the country’s friendliest airport,” wrote travel columnist Harriet Baskas. “For the past five years, almost everyone arriving on a weekday flight between 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. has been greeted by a ‘hospitality host’ handing out sugar cookies. The welcome gifts don’t stop there: Moms get gifts on Mother’s Day, dads get gifts on Fathers Day and throughout the year, balloons, candy, pens and souvenirs are distributed.”
Ok, for starters there is no airport that is good to be stuck in for the holidays, least of all, one in Ft. Wayne Indiana. Trust me I know. But, the USO in O’Hare is one hell of a good place to eat if you’re stuck there in uniform.
My Five top domestic favorites would have to be, based on hot women, good bars, heat and availability of something to do during a long lay-overs:
San Juan
Miami
New Orleans
Dallas Ft. Worth
Cleveland
Ex-crematory operator to plead guilty
ATLANTA (AP) -- A former crematory operator accused of dumping 334 bodies and passing off cement dust as their ashes struck a plea deal that calls for up to 12 years in prison, The Associated Press learned Tuesday. Ray-Brent Marsh, who is to enter the plea Friday, had faced up to 8,000 years in a case that shocked the nation more than two years ago when investigators found rotting corpses stacked in sheds and scattered in woods outside his crematory in rural northwest Georgia.
Moral: never trust someone with two first names to bury or cremate a loved one.
Elwood soldier killed while defending others
ELWOOD — The commanding officers of a 22-year-old soldier killed in Iraq told his family that he saved the lives of several of his comrades as they were ambushed. White, 22, of Elwood, and his unit were on patrol in three military vehicles when they were ambushed by about 30 insurgents; his father said he was told. “Raymond was the only one firing, so all the fire was directed at Raymond,” White said. “Ray was killed instantly, but he was able to fight to the very end. The battalion commander said he saved all those soldiers’ lives.” White said five other soldiers were injured with minor wounds.
They sent off a boy and got back a hero, let’s not make his sacrifice one done in vain. Lets do it right, God Bless him and his family, and all the of those effected by this war.
Indiana Democratic Party chairman resigns
INDIANAPOLIS — The chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party resigned Monday, nearly two weeks after the party lost control of the governor’s office, the Indiana House and a southern Indiana congressional seat. “It was fun,” Tew said. “But I need to make money, and I can’t be state chairman and make money at the same time.”
With hard hitting dedication like that to the cause of the Democratic Party here in Indiana it’s hard to see why they lost the election. Funny the Republicans never let not making money get in the way of their political machine.
Chicago police plead 5th in alleged torture lawsuit
More than two dozen current and former Chicago police officials and homicide detectives have taken the Fifth Amendment when questioned in a civil lawsuit claiming that police used torture when interrogating suspects, attorneys said Tuesday.
No big deal you say? Well perhaps; until you fit a profile while you’re drunk out of your mind on Rush Street. This is how our civil liberties start to go folks, and when it gets to you, it just might be too late to do anything about it.
National support to rename I-469
A national organization announced Tuesday its support for a proposal to rename I-469 for a former president.
The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project has praised Congressman Mark Souder for his part in renaming the stretch of road after the nation’s 40th president. The original idea started with a New Haven councilman, who thought it would be a great way to memorialize Reagan.
If the proposal passes, drivers could start taking the Ronald Reagan Freeway by next spring.
Ok, first they want to change the name of I-69, because its to sexual, now they want to re-name I-469, what in thee fuck is going on here. We have a deficit, and troops in combat don’t have body armor and they want to name an Interstate after a President of was only here once and would shit if he knew how W and his crew were running things? Fuck you! don’t spent my tax money on new signs, give it to some free lunch program for kids whose dads and moms lost their jobs because it moved overseas.
Air Force head exits; Army chief confirmed
WASHINGTON – Air Force Secretary James Roche resigned Tuesday, and the Senate confirmed defense industry executive Francis J. Harvey as secretary of the Army, the service’s top civilian post.
and...
FDA chief counsel resigns
WASHINGTON – Daniel Troy, chief counsel for the Food and Drug Administration, resigned Tuesday with plans to return to the private sector.
Up-dates on the purge. Some more Bush house cleaning, they are not passing the litmus test, of whatever Steel/Steal Dick wants for his rich buddies he gets, and dont forget W’s pals from all the church tent revival meet’ens.
Today’s Bill:
SONNET 13
O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know
You had a father: let your son say so.
Today’s Poem:
I remember the cities I have never seen
exactly. Silver-veined Venice, Leningrad
with its toffee-twisted minarets. Paris. Soon
the Impressionists will be making sunshine out of shade.
Oh! and the uncoiling cobra alleys of Hyderabad.
To have loved one horizon is insularity;
it blindfolds vision, it narrows experience.
The spirit is willing, but the mind is dirty.
The flesh wastes itself under crumb-sprinkled linens,
widening the Weltanschauung with magazines.
A world's outside the door, but how upsetting
to stand by your bags on a cold step as dawn
roses the brickwork and before you start regretting,
your taxi's coming with one beep of its horn,
sidling to the curb like a hearse -- so you get in.
Derek Walcott
Today’s Phrase:
Captain Sav-a-Hoe: A Captain Sav-a-hoe (save a whore) is a man who pays for everything to an unreasonable extent. As Jermar Givens put it, "If you're paying for all the kid's clothing, but they ain't even your kids--you're a captain."
Today’s Free-Drink Bar Trick:
BILL AND BEER BOTTLE TRICK
Here's another easy Trick to perform . Turn an empty bottle (preferably longneck beer bottle) upside down on top of any bill. The challenge is to get the bill out from underneath the bottle without knocking over the bottle. You cannot touch the bottle, and it must remain inverted at all times.
Here's how its done: Roll up the bill until it pushes off the bottle. Hint: The first thing people will think of is to pull the bill quickly out from underneath the bottle. This will work on slick surfaces, unless you make sure the bill gets a little wet where it meets the bottle. The last few drops of beer left in the bottle will prevent this from happening. Give it a try, it's very easy.
Today’s Word:
Vagynamite :Va·gyn·a·mite adj. A female having or displaying qualities that please the senses, especially those relating sexual arousal. n. One of several classes of volatile genital explosives. tr. v. va·gyn·a·mit·ed, va·gyn·a·mit·ing When or after a male is effectively sexed by a woman or women under the vagynamite classification.
Fresh, that hoe has a booty so tight, it's VAGYN-A-MITE!Make sure he does not sleep through his important business meeting, his secretary along with her blasting crew vagynamited all up in his grill before lunch.
(I love readers’ submissions, and this is the cleaned up version.)
Quote for the Day:
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXIIFrench poet (1821 - 1867)
(Since I recently got turned onto Baudelaire, I thought I would pick one of his quotes. If you every get a chance his erotica is something else.)
Remembering and Unblinking I remain:
JQP
Marine Shooting in Iraq:
The fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed man in a Fallujah mosque by a U.S. Marine angered Sunni Muslims in Iraq on Tuesday and raised questions about the protection of enemy fighters once they are out of action.
International legal experts said the Marine may have acted in self-defense because of a danger that a wounded enemy may try to blow up a hidden weapon; a key issue was whether the injured man was a prisoner at the time. The shooting happened Saturday, one day after the Marine, who has not been identified, was wounded in the face and after another man in his unit was killed by the booby-trapped body of an insurgent.
However, the incident could cause major political problems for the government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his U.S. backers at a time when Iraqi authorities are seeking to contain a backlash among Sunnis to the invasion of the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Ok, I first got pissed about this Monday morning when I heard the story on NPR. Let me put on my JAG hat for a second. From the slanted one-sided story I have received in both the US and foreign media it would appear to be a strait forward case of war atrocity. But dear reader things are never that simple in real life and even less so in war.
If I remember the Articles of War correctly, when a unit is sweeping a designed area in an attack anything and everything is fair game, I do mean anything and everything. Now once an objective is secured you must under the Geneva Convention take prisoners and provide aid to the wounded. This rule held true from WW II until till today. That’s is why you here people yell “Clear” once they have completed their task in a mission in all the documentaries.
After the sweep of the objective it is up to the ranking officer to declare the objective secure.
I can remember vividly being trained this in beautiful Ft. Benning, GA, at the ripe old age of 17. I was told at that time; that in the process of sweeping an objective to be sure to put a few rounds into any dead or wounded enemy combatants. This was done for several reasons, a wounded soldier can kill you just as dead as a live one and the same holds true for one playing dead (not to mention the habit many of our enemies have of booby-trapping the dead, let alone suicide bombers). Another reason would be that often times limited medical support is available to forces engaged in combat, you want to use your resources on your troops first.
Well, with my training from way back when, I most likely would have shot all four of them, not just one, unless the objective was deemed secure. One thing to keep in mind is these are the kids who last year were in high school, and often when you see them on TV with blood on their uniform, its not theirs, its most likely some other mothers son who will be going home in a box or on a set of wheels. For those of you who have not held a friend while they died, it is a very life changing experience.
Those of you who know me know I am not for the war, and that I am by no means a pacifist, but one thing I have always been is 100% pro-soldier. I hate their boss for making them have to go through all this, in what in my opinion was not a good enough reason. But, hey this is still for the time being America, and I am allowed my views.
CARE worker believed executed
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker kidnapped after decades of helping Iraqis, is believed to have been murdered by her captors, a British government official said Tuesday, based on a video that showed a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
They killed an old lady, who fed their starving children? Ok, I bitch about the right wing fundamentalists in this country. God-Damn, this is how they look over there. Fuck’em, lets all buy fuel cell cars and heat our homes with solar and wind power. Let the fucks go back to living in tents and just killing each other.
PETA urges people to avoid eating fish
Animal-rights activists have launched a campaign arguing that fish – contrary to stereotype – are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat.
Ok, hello…is there anyone out there? Intelligent and Sensitive? They have never met my pet Carp “Roger” he is down right scary, and now that he is 3 feet long I have to keep him in the bath tub.
City’s airport listed among top 10 for ‘hanging out’ in
Fort Wayne’s welcome cookies, other perks score points with national travel columnist.If you’re going to be stuck in an airport over the holidays, Fort Wayne is the place to be.
So said USA Today last week, including Fort Wayne International Airport among “10 great places to hang out during a layover.” “This may be the country’s friendliest airport,” wrote travel columnist Harriet Baskas. “For the past five years, almost everyone arriving on a weekday flight between 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. has been greeted by a ‘hospitality host’ handing out sugar cookies. The welcome gifts don’t stop there: Moms get gifts on Mother’s Day, dads get gifts on Fathers Day and throughout the year, balloons, candy, pens and souvenirs are distributed.”
Ok, for starters there is no airport that is good to be stuck in for the holidays, least of all, one in Ft. Wayne Indiana. Trust me I know. But, the USO in O’Hare is one hell of a good place to eat if you’re stuck there in uniform.
My Five top domestic favorites would have to be, based on hot women, good bars, heat and availability of something to do during a long lay-overs:
San Juan
Miami
New Orleans
Dallas Ft. Worth
Cleveland
Ex-crematory operator to plead guilty
ATLANTA (AP) -- A former crematory operator accused of dumping 334 bodies and passing off cement dust as their ashes struck a plea deal that calls for up to 12 years in prison, The Associated Press learned Tuesday. Ray-Brent Marsh, who is to enter the plea Friday, had faced up to 8,000 years in a case that shocked the nation more than two years ago when investigators found rotting corpses stacked in sheds and scattered in woods outside his crematory in rural northwest Georgia.
Moral: never trust someone with two first names to bury or cremate a loved one.
Elwood soldier killed while defending others
ELWOOD — The commanding officers of a 22-year-old soldier killed in Iraq told his family that he saved the lives of several of his comrades as they were ambushed. White, 22, of Elwood, and his unit were on patrol in three military vehicles when they were ambushed by about 30 insurgents; his father said he was told. “Raymond was the only one firing, so all the fire was directed at Raymond,” White said. “Ray was killed instantly, but he was able to fight to the very end. The battalion commander said he saved all those soldiers’ lives.” White said five other soldiers were injured with minor wounds.
They sent off a boy and got back a hero, let’s not make his sacrifice one done in vain. Lets do it right, God Bless him and his family, and all the of those effected by this war.
Indiana Democratic Party chairman resigns
INDIANAPOLIS — The chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party resigned Monday, nearly two weeks after the party lost control of the governor’s office, the Indiana House and a southern Indiana congressional seat. “It was fun,” Tew said. “But I need to make money, and I can’t be state chairman and make money at the same time.”
With hard hitting dedication like that to the cause of the Democratic Party here in Indiana it’s hard to see why they lost the election. Funny the Republicans never let not making money get in the way of their political machine.
Chicago police plead 5th in alleged torture lawsuit
More than two dozen current and former Chicago police officials and homicide detectives have taken the Fifth Amendment when questioned in a civil lawsuit claiming that police used torture when interrogating suspects, attorneys said Tuesday.
No big deal you say? Well perhaps; until you fit a profile while you’re drunk out of your mind on Rush Street. This is how our civil liberties start to go folks, and when it gets to you, it just might be too late to do anything about it.
National support to rename I-469
A national organization announced Tuesday its support for a proposal to rename I-469 for a former president.
The Ronald Reagan Legacy Project has praised Congressman Mark Souder for his part in renaming the stretch of road after the nation’s 40th president. The original idea started with a New Haven councilman, who thought it would be a great way to memorialize Reagan.
If the proposal passes, drivers could start taking the Ronald Reagan Freeway by next spring.
Ok, first they want to change the name of I-69, because its to sexual, now they want to re-name I-469, what in thee fuck is going on here. We have a deficit, and troops in combat don’t have body armor and they want to name an Interstate after a President of was only here once and would shit if he knew how W and his crew were running things? Fuck you! don’t spent my tax money on new signs, give it to some free lunch program for kids whose dads and moms lost their jobs because it moved overseas.
Air Force head exits; Army chief confirmed
WASHINGTON – Air Force Secretary James Roche resigned Tuesday, and the Senate confirmed defense industry executive Francis J. Harvey as secretary of the Army, the service’s top civilian post.
and...
FDA chief counsel resigns
WASHINGTON – Daniel Troy, chief counsel for the Food and Drug Administration, resigned Tuesday with plans to return to the private sector.
Up-dates on the purge. Some more Bush house cleaning, they are not passing the litmus test, of whatever Steel/Steal Dick wants for his rich buddies he gets, and dont forget W’s pals from all the church tent revival meet’ens.
Today’s Bill:
SONNET 13
O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease,
When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know
You had a father: let your son say so.
Today’s Poem:
I remember the cities I have never seen
exactly. Silver-veined Venice, Leningrad
with its toffee-twisted minarets. Paris. Soon
the Impressionists will be making sunshine out of shade.
Oh! and the uncoiling cobra alleys of Hyderabad.
To have loved one horizon is insularity;
it blindfolds vision, it narrows experience.
The spirit is willing, but the mind is dirty.
The flesh wastes itself under crumb-sprinkled linens,
widening the Weltanschauung with magazines.
A world's outside the door, but how upsetting
to stand by your bags on a cold step as dawn
roses the brickwork and before you start regretting,
your taxi's coming with one beep of its horn,
sidling to the curb like a hearse -- so you get in.
Derek Walcott
Today’s Phrase:
Captain Sav-a-Hoe: A Captain Sav-a-hoe (save a whore) is a man who pays for everything to an unreasonable extent. As Jermar Givens put it, "If you're paying for all the kid's clothing, but they ain't even your kids--you're a captain."
Today’s Free-Drink Bar Trick:
BILL AND BEER BOTTLE TRICK
Here's another easy Trick to perform . Turn an empty bottle (preferably longneck beer bottle) upside down on top of any bill. The challenge is to get the bill out from underneath the bottle without knocking over the bottle. You cannot touch the bottle, and it must remain inverted at all times.
Here's how its done: Roll up the bill until it pushes off the bottle. Hint: The first thing people will think of is to pull the bill quickly out from underneath the bottle. This will work on slick surfaces, unless you make sure the bill gets a little wet where it meets the bottle. The last few drops of beer left in the bottle will prevent this from happening. Give it a try, it's very easy.
Today’s Word:
Vagynamite :Va·gyn·a·mite adj. A female having or displaying qualities that please the senses, especially those relating sexual arousal. n. One of several classes of volatile genital explosives. tr. v. va·gyn·a·mit·ed, va·gyn·a·mit·ing When or after a male is effectively sexed by a woman or women under the vagynamite classification.
Fresh, that hoe has a booty so tight, it's VAGYN-A-MITE!Make sure he does not sleep through his important business meeting, his secretary along with her blasting crew vagynamited all up in his grill before lunch.
(I love readers’ submissions, and this is the cleaned up version.)
Quote for the Day:
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXIIFrench poet (1821 - 1867)
(Since I recently got turned onto Baudelaire, I thought I would pick one of his quotes. If you every get a chance his erotica is something else.)
Remembering and Unblinking I remain:
JQP
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