but to get our internet porn, you’ll have to pry the mouse from my cold dead fingers…
Really? Am I becoming a Romneyian? Our choices are a lunatic, a serial philanderer, an anti masturbation fanatic and some dude with great hair and nothing under it?
Holy shi’ite.
Can a client pay what he owes you in real property in lieu of cash?
For instance, your client owes you 10k, can he drive up and hand you the keys to his Benz, or the deed to some lakefront shack or something? Do you know where this falls in the model rules? I am assuming somewhere in 1.8. but I don’t see anything.
(Susan? She’s usually my go to person, but I don’t want to bug here since she is super busy.)
It appears you CAN for purposes of the MPRE, you just shouldn’t be doing it. (Thanks to Olga)
Yes, this will be multi-part, as he deserves a full recitation of just what a whiney little child he is. The other parts will deal with his dopey crusades, sloppy scholarship, petulant behavior, photographic skills (which other than the one picture, largely suck balls) and his vanity. (Just look at his Tom Cruise Top Gun picture he has on Facebook, and then look at more recent pictures of Chris Farley Michael Yon.)
I read Yon every day, usually around the same time I check out the rest of the lunatic fringe sites like Veterans Today and VoteVets. It provides levity for me, because there is nothing funnier than a drama queens rantings. But his latest beef with CJ is starting to piss me off, because others, like the redonkulously retarded jackass that runs the “Geert Wilders Sidebar”, are picking it up and running with it. Now, Yon will either ignore this totally (98% chance) or accuse me of being some sort of CJ lackey/acolyte. Well, I am neither, and in fact, I disagree quite regularly with CJ, not the least of which is over his stolen valor position which I find completely untenable. I *know* CJ, have met him a few times, and we occasionally have cordial emails, but I don’t have his phone number, haven’t stayed at his house, and if I ended up in prison, he wouldn’t be on my list of first 100 people to notify. In other words, I am cordial with him, but we aren’t engaging in public displays of affection a la the Marine a couple of weeks ago.
Nonetheless, I don’t think either CJ or Yon have any legally actionable argument against the either, and wish they would both grow up and just drop it. CJ, to his credit, has done just that. Yon, who is dependent on his crossbreed monkey/spider readers to donate to his (purportedly) nearly diminished checking account, has only tried to bring this thing up over and over and over. If I was CJ, I would probably take it as a badge of honor. My wrestling coach always told me to go after the big dogs and leave the little ones alone; you play up or down to the level of your competition. Because I have no true vested interest in blogging, since I am compensated by an employer, and not this blog (because you bastards never click anything) I can fight with this mental midget, and not worry too much about losing my edge. I neither have, nor particularly need, an edge.
Was going through the clips today and came across this Associated Press article:
A brass band played under a blazing sun as American veterans and Japanese dignitaries gathered Wednesday on the remote island of Iwo Jima to mark the 67th anniversary of one of World War II’s bloodiest and most symbolic battles.
“Our prayer today is that the souls who died here are resting in peace,” said retired Lt. Gen. Larry Snowden, 91, who was a company commander on Iwo Jima. Snowden is the senior surviving officer of the battle. His address at the ceremony was broadcast live to media via a military link-up.
Fighting began on Feb. 19, 1945 and Iwo Jima was declared secure on March 26. Virtually all the Japanese soldiers defending the strategically located crag were killed in the battle, which claimed 6,821 American and 21,570 Japanese lives.
For those who don’t have the time to read or watch Flags of our Fathers to honor the anniversary, this Technicolor movie, To the Shores of Iwo Jima is rather interesting to watch.
A few months back my wife and I attended a Medal Of Honor bridge dedication here in Indy, and she told me how much she loved a Iwo MOH recipient Woody Williams. We went and talked to him for a while, and he truly is a wonderful man, so I would be remiss were I not to include something about him.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Demolition Sergeant serving with the First Battalion, Twenty-First Marines, Third Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Island, 23 February 1945. Quick to volunteer his services when our tanks were maneuvering vainly to open a lane for the infantry through the network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines and black, volcanic sands, Corporal Williams daringly went forward alone to attempt the reduction of devastating machine-gun fire from the unyielding positions. Covered only by four riflemen, he fought desperately for four hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flame throwers, struggling back, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out one position after another. On one occasion he daringly mounted a pillbox to insert the nozzle of his flame thrower through the air vent, kill the occupants and silence the gun; on another he grimly charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon. His unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism in the face of ruthless enemy resistance were directly instrumental in neutralizing one of the most fanatically defended Japanese strong points encountered by his regiment and aided in enabling his company to reach its’ [sic] objective. Corporal Williams’ aggressive fighting spirit and valiant devotion to duty throughout this fiercely contested action sustain and enhance the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
Not sure how many folks track Tim, but I am one of his biggest fans. Well, sort of, to be honest I don’t really like his hugs, and he purposefully licks his straw because I have weird phobias about straws and people that drool on them. (Which is why I hate kids.) Anyway, other than the hugging and the straw thing, you’ll never meet a finer man. He and my wife were doing lunges at the black tie dinner and making asses of themselves. It was rather funny, but I hid because it was embrassing me. So anyway, in a total non-Brady way, I just love Tim Kennedy.
So, I was excited to see this morning he is finally getting his shot. Actually, he told me Saturday night, but he didn’t seem to know much about it. It’s (I guess) somewhat semi-official now.
Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has been looking forward to defending his title against Tim Kennedy for quite some time now. If all goes as planned, the two will square off this year.
“I’m excited about the fight with Kennedy,” said Rockhold, in a recent interview with MMAWeekly.com (thanks to MMAMania.com for transcribing). “I think he’s highly underrated, very tough dude, he poses a lot of challenges. I’ll be ready.”Kennedy has not fought since July of last year, when he defeated Robbie Lawler. Injuries have kept the U.S. Army veteran on the sidelines for several months.
“It looks like it’s finally going to happen,” Rockhold said. “I’ve been waiting for that one for a long time, and I’m excited. I’m getting on my wrestling. Wrestling’s a key for this fight, I gotta control the wrestling.”
Beefcake pictures for the ladies after the jump.
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Generally speaking, any bandwagon that P. Diddy is on, I want to be as far away as I can. My actual total take on it is best summed up by the Action Figure Therapy video down at the bottom of this post, but I did want to add some reasoning in here.
I’m fine with movements in general. Although not always the case, most of them do educate (or at least get people talking.) This Kony one is no different. Now, it is not an issue with which I am unfamiliar. Little known TSO fact #453, I have my degree in SubSaharan African Politics. I also specialized in law school in both international law, and specifically on the use of “mercenaries.” (When I was a kid I wanted to fight for Jonas Savimbi in Angola.) So again, I do rather know the subject. It should be noted as well that one of my cobloggers wifes is a published expert on child soldiering. Which is just a wretched thing for the 2 of you that didn’t know that already. It is also astonishingly prevalent, and strides must be made to fix it, or the recurring vicious cycle will never end.
That said, this whole Kony movement thing is firing off at like 120 degrees off azimuth.
This Foreign Policy article by Joshua Keating should be mandatory readying before you send your $30 off to Invisible Children.
It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left a path of abductions and mass murder in their wake for over 20 years. But let’s get two things straight: 1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn’t been for 6 years; 2) the LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality.
First, the facts. Following a successful campaign by the Ugandan military and failed peace talks in 2006, the LRA was pushed out of Uganda and has been operating in extremely remote areas of the DRC, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic — where Kony himself is believed to be now. The Ugandan military has been pursuing the LRA since then but had little success (and several big screw-ups). In October last year, President Obama authorized the deployment of 100 U.S. Army advisors to help the Ugandan military track down Kony, with no results disclosed to date.
Additionally, the LRA (thankfully!) does not have 30,000 mindless child soldiers. This grim figure, cited by Invisible Children in the film (and by others) refers to the total number of kids abducted by the LRA over nearly 30 years. Eerily, it is also the same number estimated for the total killed in the more than 20 years of conflict in Northern Uganda.
NOW, I am not saying that no one should jump on this bandwagon either, just that folks should educate themselves. The list of celebrities pushing this on twitter doesn’t exactly scream “foreign policy experts”. (As an aside, why hasn’t Mark Wahlberg just hunted this dude down yet? What the hell is he waiting on?) So look at this piece defending the Invisible Children effort from WaPo:
It is probably true (thank goodness) that Kony’s greatest crimes are in the past. He is no longer active in Uganda, where even his northern tribal allies turned against him. Attacks in eastern Congo and southern CAR are mainly raids for supplies instead of mass atrocities. But this is precisely because the LRA is under constant pressure. When Kony attempts to gather his forces – as he did in September in CAR – his Ugandan army pursuers are quickly on top of him. Obama has deployed more than 80 special operations forces in the region to help coordinate these operations.
Even a diminished Kony is dangerous. And the evil of the man himself can scarcely be exaggerated. In Uganda, I’ve met former LRA child soldiers who were forced to kill their own parents and neighbors in order to sever their ties to community and sympathy. I met a young man who looked at Kony without permission and had his eye removed in punishment. In January, I met two girls in the DRC who had recently escaped from LRA captivity. They had been used as sex slaves and pack animals – punished, when they tried to escape, by having melted plastic poured on their shoulders. All Kony’s victims – past and present – deserve to see justice done.
I wouldn’t say I am ambivalent on getting Kony, he should be ventillated, but this whole movement to get him would make me more comfortable if the Invisible Children people hadn’t been so loose with the facts, and laid off pictures of his kid, which not only didn’t tug my heartstrings (I have none) but also made me wonder why we are exploiting little kids to stop the exploitation of little kids.
Anyway, this is how I really feel: (LANGUAGE WARNING)
Getting some great reviews so far:
I would never have guessed from his previous work and ramblings that Matt is an amateur anthropologist, and perhaps he should stick with it as works like this make for a fascinating read. The entire work, beginning to end, is the result of years of studying sasquatches in the wild. I won’t use this space to argue for or against their existence, rest assured Matt is quite certain of that. Rather than provide a typical study of footprints or another boring analysis of the Patterson footage, Matt chose the interesting topic of sasquatch sex. Page after page reveals fascinating details, along with dozens of illustrations hand-drawn by Matt of the reproductive anatomy. Though some of the descriptions perhaps reveal a bit too much (Matt describes the organ of the male as “surprisingly painful, yet satisfying”), I could not put it down. I was sucked in. Everything from the elaborate ritual oral behaviors to primitive birth control methods (again, perhaps a bit too revealing, Matt described one birth control method as “slightly less painful than the intercourse itself, with migrane headaches persisting several hours after douching”) was just incredibly insightful. I can’t shake the feeling that Matt holds a deep, personal connection to these creatures. He talks about the male he studied in a manner more like a teenager describing their first crush, but perhaps that is how he managed to get so close to so controversial a beast. Opening ones self up to such legends seems to have paid off tenfold. I look forward to any followup.
It’s sort of a “coming of age” drama with interspecies buggary thrown in for good measure. You guys should go read and review this excellent tome.
Note, until this douche figures out where the traffic is coming from, I’m not going to hat tip it.
It’s PashtunWall-E, get it?
Thanks to my wife’s awesome photoshop skills.