A Tale of Two Backpacks

There's a timid little guy that comes into my office a couple of times a week wearing a vacuum cleaner backpack. He empties the trash from my trash can and runs the vacuum around the office. He won't even knock if the door is closed and he works alongside the woman that scrubs the bathrooms.

The troops out on the floor also carry backpacks. They carry rucksacks full of targeting equipment to help them take out the international garbage. They are aggressive about it. They aren't timid about knocking when the door is closed either.

Do you know what happens in a life to determine which rucksack you carry? There's nothing dishonorable about cleaning up the trash but there's no lasting glory or accomplishment in it either.

To excel and self-actualize or to drift from unexceptional job to unexceptional job.
To be something exceptional or to be something plain.
To be someone that people notice or to be someone rarely notice.
To be... or not to be... that is the question.

Sorry for mixing the Dickens with the Shakespeare.

Tw*sted Sh*t

Ted my most excellent friend, there's strange things afoot at the Circle K.

• Scooter Libby is on trial for an alleged lie told during a two year investigation of a crime that never occurred.
  
• Two Border patrol agents are in jail for the shooting of an illegal alien drug smuggler but the bullet didn't come from either of their weapons.
  
• Tom Delay has been indicted for an act that wasn't a crime when he did it.
  
• The Senate is about to vote to continue the low troop levels that they were condemning as a failure 3 months ago.
  
• Diane Sawyer is treating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad like he's a rational, credible, responsible, advocate for world peace rather than a mostly mad religious fanatic.
  
• As he postures to surrender in Iraq, Barack Obama is evoking the memory of Abraham Lincoln (who never surrendered and even suppressed civil liberties in the Union states to make sure that he won the war and freed the slaves.)
  
• Almost everyone in Washington DC wants to let a flood of aliens into the country.
  
• Almost everyone in Washington DC refuses to fix Social Security.
  

The best thing I see out there is that the administration is forcing Iran into the limelight and the Iraqi Government into the lead. This will make it hard for the Libs to triangulate and hide. Iran is a threat and every rational player knows it. Iraqis are the solution and every rational player knows that too. And Mookie Al Sadr has fled and that isn't going to make things easier for Iran. His followers are left to the US Marines and that ain't gonna make things any easier on them.

Godspeed to all of the troops that are embarking on this most recent action. May your eyes be sharp and your wits be keen. There's tw*sted sh*t going on here in the states but over there at least you're allowed to kill the enemy. Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.

The Order of the Chicken

It takes courage to stand for what's right when the people around you are demanding that you crumble to peer pressure. Long has the chicken been a symbol of indecision, cowardice and weakness. Have some chicken!

Can I get a HooHah?

Chairman Al

I saw this photo the other day and couldn't help but see the striking resemblance between two socialist thugs absolutely dedicated to ruthlessly silencing the opposition. Chairman Al and Chairman Mao.

Meanwhile serious scientists have positively demonstrated a link between the sun, cosmic rays from outside the solar system and the formation of clouds from water vapor.

What does it mean to you? When the sun is in a strong phase, it heats the water on the surface but it also suppresses the formation of clouds that reflect heat back into space. The conditions that make it warmer limit the amount of cloud cover too. It causes an effect several times stronger than can be explained by the variations in the sun.

Will Chairman Al listen to the other science? Will he consider the possibility that he's been misled? Not a chance. He likes the celebrity too much.

Hypocrite Alert

The civil liberties advocates over at World Can't Wait dot Org didn't allow my post. Here's the way I see it. If my point of view was ignorant and inane, they'd post it. They wouldn't mind a dissenting opinion if it was ignorant and inarticulate. They'd poke fun at it and feel so smart for flaming me and my ideas. They'd congratulate themselves for their sophistication and reason.

On the other hand, one must ask why they wouldn't post it. Are they not certain of the superiority of their ideas? It seems to be a little shallow to be shouting for the impeachment of a President but to be unwilling to openly debate the issues. If President Bush is to be proved guilty of crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, then there should be a public examination of the conflicting evidence.

I'd like to know what makes a war against George Bush OK but a war against Saddam Hussein illegal and immoral.
I'd like to know what gives non-citizen that aims to destroy the Constitution the protections of the Constitution.
If war is not the answer then the question is not: "How do you answer escalating hostile ambition?"
If America is so evil, why do you still live here?
Why is George Bush wrong to go to war when Hillary Clinton and John Kerry authorized it.
Why did Sandy Burglar to steal and destroy archived national security documents before the 9/11 committee looked at them?
Why is Richard Armitage not prosecuted after admitting to the crime that Libby and Rove were hounded over for 2 years?
Why is liberty good enough for us but not good enough for Muslims?
Why should we care about Bosnia, Darfur, or Rwanda but not Afghanistan, Iraq, N. Korea or Iran?

If you can explain these thing satisfactorily to a reasonable man he'll join you in your call to impeach the President. But a reasonable man doesn't get rolled by his emotions. He doesn't live in the land of silly pacifist idealism. He knows that there are evil and aggressive forces in the world and he knows that they must be dealt with in firm terms.

I'll tell you why "worldcantwait.org" won't post my ideas. They are afraid of the bloodshed. They know their ideas will be sent back to them in virtual body bag. Have you ever seen how a liberal will shut up when they are getting their ass kicked in an argument? As their weakling ideas get their weakling asses kicked, they feel their identity and self-importance evaporating. It feels like being attacked and they don't like the violence. They cut and run just as they want to do in Iraq now.

This is a battle. My ideas are champions. My ideas are strong and fast. They are trained and they are fearless. They are ready for any opponent. And the "worldcantwait.org" cannot afford to have their ideas destroyed on the home turf.