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Category: Geezer Alert!

  • Is THIS Joke Funny?

    Okay, so it really ain’t a joke?
    Ron Paul: Iran wants to disrupt world oil supply because we are provoking them

    There is a video at the link, but here’s a transcript:

    How would I deal with the threat or the so-called threat of the Iranians, that they are going to disrupt the oil supply?

    Well I’d be provoking them a lot less because they’re reacting to the provoking of the West saying “we’re gonna put on sanctions”. We have them surrounded with nuclear weapons and we’re claiming that they’re gonna build a nuclear weapon and there’s no evidence for this.

    So we’re just looking for trouble. We’re building the war propaganda against Iran just as we did against Iraq.

    And it’s the march on. You know it’s Libya and it’s in Egypt and now we’re involved in Syria, now we’re sending troops into Africa. And also, of course we’re still in Iraq, we’re into Pakistan and we’ve been in Afghanistan for a long time.

    And people want to go to war against Iran. And I think they’re reacting to the provocations of so many other people saying that “we’re liable to bomb you because you are building a nuclear weapon.” But our CIA doesn’t confirm that nor does the UN confirm that.

    So they’re acting actually in a rational manner because they’re saying “they’re gonna attack us and start bombing us”. They have to say “well, we don’t have any nuclear weapons, we can’t really defend ourselves. So we might sink a boat, sink a ship out there in the Persian Gulf”, hoping that we might back off.

    I just think we’re treating the whole thing wrong. …

  • NOT Just Another Day.

    Commenter Doc Bailey and I have been swapping emails about this and that. I was rather surprised to learn that we have some things in common even though shifted 40 years in time.

    But he mentioned a coupla things I couldn’t directly relate to so I asked him to expand on them.

    Here is the first, in his words. Thanks Doc.

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    Here is my account of 25 June 2007, and the events that happened to me that day. I have to put it out there because people have to know. please understand these events are painful for me to recount.

    It was a normal day like any other. We were all excited to be getting back, but i was exuasted having pulled a 6 hour gaurd shift right before getting off. We all sat around and joked. I could hear people laughing about the game “company of heroes” that Craig and WillieBo had played. They’d gone for 5 hours only to get their asses kickedby the germans. I was fretting over Jubi. I was a little upset, because he was supposed to have been evaced the night before for (what i would find out later) a slipped disk. I had given him morphine right before i thought he was going to go, he didn’t and i was bracing for the ass reeming i was going to get. I had spent all night fretting about a patient, and in the end i was pretty damm tired, everyone else on the otherhand were lively in a way only the loose cannons can be.
    Like always we had details to do, and things that needed to get done. Clean the pisser, sweep and mop, make the “gym” look pretty, Mop the mats, sweep the sleeping bay, and of course pick up cigarette buts. we did these, with the usual amount of bitching complaining and griping. It came time to load up and off we went.

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  • I’ll admit it. I Thought Ron Paul Was Crazier Than Me!

    I try to always offer a sort of balance til now. WAPO again, and this time a genuine OPED piece.

    Five myths about Ron Paul

    Sorry folks, you will have to read the whole thing, but I’ll give you this bit:

    Unlike his fellow, er, top-tier candidates Gingrich and Romney, Paul served his country in uniform, as an Air Force captain. However, his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his insistence that military spending can be cut without endangering U.S. lives, have led some to conclude that his foreign policy non-interventionism equals unilateral disarmament.

    Oddly,  I have read much of what Ron Paul has actually said. If I had to position this piece I’d  suggest that some folks are raising him up to be a spoiler.

    Back to singing Kumbaya…

  • War Games!!

    As Jonn noted below Iran is playing games in the straits.

    But there IS more gaming going on it seems.

    No, not MY paranoid fantasies but in the Puzzle Palace.
    Doomsday war games: Pentagon’s 3 nightmare scenarios

    The collapse of Pakistan, A militant China, and the collapse of North Korea.

    I wonder  if they’ve war gamed the scenario that it seems the Iranis are preparing for?

    When I see shit like this I dunno whether to buy more ammo or start looking for unicorns.

    I’ll be the old guy singing Kumbaya.

  • O Canada

    Coupla news stories from up north made me smile.

    Show your face!

    In a move likely to increase tension with Canada’s Muslim minority, the government said on Monday it would bar all women wearing face coverings from taking part in citizenship ceremonies.

    Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said he had received complaints from citizenship judges and parliamentarians about veiled women taking the oath to formally become Canadian.

    “Requiring that all candidates show their faces while reciting the oath allows judges and everyone present to share in the ceremony,” Kenney said in a speech in Montreal.

    “The citizenship oath is a quintessentially public act. It is a public declaration that you are joining the Canadian family and it must be taken freely and openly.”

    Phooey on Kyoto!

    Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.

    (…)

    “To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada,” Kent said.

    Something from all those oil sands must be leaking into the drinking water? Maybe we need to distill it and…

  • Oh Well… WAPO Opines

    I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, are being resurrected to make some point?

    Damn those Americans

    These paragraphs stopped me from reading further:

    So the troops are going home this month, leaving a question mark over what had been one of the chief goals of the war — to nurture a strategic ally in the heart of the Middle East.

    They leave behind a legacy that will forever be tainted in the minds of many Iraqis by the casualties inflicted by the American military on civilians. It’s the raw nerve that jangles, a sensitivity that grates on both sides even as the troops stream out of the country.

    The Dance begins.

    It is rather obvious that we are seeing an attempt to paint those who served in Iraq with the same brush that us ‘Nam vets were painted with? Seems a bit late to the table, mind you, but we will see.

    YMMV

  • Paranoid? Yeah But… Food for Thought?

    I WILL NOT vouch for the veracity of this story. When “Oath Keepers” are involved alarms go off.

    I’m posting about it as a heads-up. It IS a way to track citizens, and so of some note.
    Federal agents raid Mormon food storage facility, demand list of customers storing emergency food

    Oath Keepers, an association of active servicemen devoted to upholding their oath of guarding the republic and protecting individual liberty, has reported that federal agents recently paid a visit to a Latter Day Saints food storage cannery in Tennessee. Though they had no reason to be there, these agents allegedly interrogated the facility’s manager and demanded to see a list of customers that had purchased, and were storing, food there.

    YMMV

  • Have YOU Ever Met Someone Famous?

    Not talking about TSO or Jonn. Although our proximity to those two got me ruminating .

    I’ve worked in the recording biz, and for NASA. As far military types go my list is also extensive, but not on point.

    Our readership MUST have stories?