This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Pointless blather

  • The Near Perfect Sunday Post

    Via Don Surber. There is this.

    Osama bin Laden used to have sex with his first wife for days on end whenever he came back from waging Jihad.

    The former Al Qaeda leader would vanish into his bedroom with Najwa bin Laden upon his return and not come out until they had properly reacquainted themselves.

    Asked by an interviewer to name her favourite time when living with the terrorist, she replied: ‘The sleeping time’.

    One of his sons noted, in the same article:

    Osama bin Laden’s fourth eldest son Omar has written a book, Growing Up bin Laden, which is due to be published shortly.

    His publisher said in an interview with the New York Times Magazine that it was not a revenge memoir but said: ‘He just always wanted a normal life, and he couldn’t have one with his father’

    Can’t say I’m the tiniest saddened about Omar and his problems myself. I AM just a bit intrigued by “ have sex with his first wife for days on end whenever he came back from waging Jihad.”
    No point to be found here folks… except maybe Jihad ain’t all bad? Hadn’t really thought about this context.
    He skipped the  70 virgins for her….

  • Reality Bites

    This not really news to most. A Muslim says that we will be attacked.

    Osama bin Laden’s deputy warned Wednesday that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies. He was delivering a 28-minute videotaped eulogy to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

    The rest of the article is a sort of rant.

    Here’s the thing. If we are to face this threat where should we start? Mind you I have no inside info, but we do have a starting point.

    The survey found a strong correlation between the presence of severe violence-promoting literature and mosques featuring written, audio, and video materials that actually promoted such acts. By promotion of jihad, the study included literature encouraging worshipers to engage in terrorist activity, to provide financial support to jihadists, and to promote the establishment of a caliphate in the United States,

    This may well be the time when freedom of religion bites us on the ass. Folks I simply don’t know where to draw the line. The article linked above has merit, but still I dunno where the line really is. That Sharia law is creeping in our direction is a simple fact. If you need further citations I will try to provide.

    Okay… It’s hard also to divorce what this current regime here is doing, but I’ll stick to ‘what is’ rather than ‘what might be’. We have a real threat folks.

    Added: My opinion is NOT the opinion of the staff and management of TAH.

  • A Good Rant can be fun and maybe even healthy

    Fellow West Virginian and retired Army guy J. D. Pendry has a post up about The Snob Class and the rest of us.

    Can you even watch the news without pounding your head against the kitchen countertop? If so, you are a better man than me. It is difficult to maintain the mellowed-out docile personality that I have worked hard to develop 12 years post-Army. I want to yell not so nice words in the direction of the television and kick some furniture. Fortunately, my wife’s frowning on such behavior keeps me in check.

    As I said in a comment over there, I simply don’t watch TV news or the talking heads. I’m an ignorant old fart who reads his news (albeit on-line), and then checks the sources as best I can.

    I gave up when opinion replaced news, and bias tainted both. Might have been when Uncle Walter told me The War was lost while I was still fighting it?

    If it’s good not to hold things in and stew on them then J. D.’s post will improve the health of many. YMMV

    Added for clarity: You young folks may dismiss this…

  • Battleground; One of my favorite war movies

    “Battleground” is a story about the Battling Bastards of Bastogne in a fictional 3rd platoon of Item Company, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 101st. James Whitmore won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Kinne, the tobacco-chomping platoon sergeant enamored with drill and ceremony. It is on Netflix this weekend, so I watched it this morning for the first time in years. Here’s the ending;

  • Road Trip – Two Civil War Battle Sites

    Just rolled back in from a road trip. Think of this as a snapshot rather than a dissertation.

    Gettysburg and Antietam.

    If you don’t know about either there are many resources available on-line.

    I won’t bore you with MY pictures, again there are plenty available. Some are moving and horrible, but capture moments simply impossible before the camera was invented.

    What I CAN do is offer an impression or two based a first visit after a fair amount of reading and studying.

    Gettysburg: Standing on Little Round Top looking down into The Devil’s Den… Surprising! Pictures and maps do NOT make clear the proximity.

    Antietam: Looking down at Burnside’s Bridge from the position of the Confederates… Shocking.

    Overall that was the surprise for me at both. My minds eye was expecting some epic scale at both places to justify the number of casualties, but no!

    I’ll be reflecting on this trip for years.

  • Sorry for the silence today

    For some stupid reason, my power company decided that they needed to shut my power off today, so my access to the blog is somewhat limited. Anything that I’d write would be be as full of errors as some of the things I wrote yesterday from the passenger’s seat of my wife’s car as we zoomed to Walter Reed and back. You deserve better. So my silence this morning is probably better than a mistake-ridden, quickly-written post. However, the power is supposed to be back on at 1PM Eastern. So don’t abandon me. I’ll be back soon.

    But like, I’ve said, there are 11 others with posting privileges who should be just as able to entertain you.

  • Seems Appropriate to me?

    War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist & philosopher (1806 – 1873)

    Okay, maybe just a little bitter here that it is STILL true.

    People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
    George Orwell
    I’ll leave you with one more.
    Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    George Santayana

  • At it AGAIN!

    This story has been making the rounds on the interwebs.

    The controversial Westboro Baptist Church is planning to protest President Obama‘s visit to Joplin, Missouri Sunday. On its website, the church writes, “Thank God for 125 dead in Joplin.” Church members claim Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has attacked them by promoting laws banning them from protesting at soldiers’ funerals.

    I don’t hate hippies (was one for a time), I don’t hate Code Pink  or their ilk ( I kinda like clowns too), but this bunch really has a lot in common with radical Islam. That’s really not  a logical leap. The things they they do in the name of religion are appalling.  And suspect.