Gotta Get Me Some O'them Stickers

Apparently, thanks to the Department of Homeland (in)Security's recent "ZOMG! Terrorists!" documents, which were released to law-enforcement agencies all over the United States, it's now cool to pull over a guy whose truck sports a Gadsden-flag bumper sticker, tell him that his choice of vehicle decoration is an extremist kind of thing, and hold him while you look into his background.

Gee...the last time I checked, the "Don't tread on me" flag was a symbol of America, much like Old Glory in her various incarnations. The last time I checked, terrorists don't exactly embrace the symbols of the nations they're trying to destroy...I mean, come on - when was the last time you saw Muhammad McBomberson wearing an American-flag tee shirt underneath his bomb vest?

I was also under the impression that all Americans still had our First-amendment rights to freedom of speech and of expression (among the other rights outlined in that particular Amendment).

Yeah...I'll be buying these bumper stickers by the case, just to prove a point.

He Does Not Speak for Me

[Obviously, I'm not the first blogger to be ever-so-slightly upset over this. LawDog and Breda both wrote very eloquent posts in response to the lightbringer's insanity.]

Protesting in Dallas

A bunch of poo flingers in Dallas recently assembled downtown to protest Israel's response to repeated rocket attacks and other terrorist acts coming from Gaza.

Let's see. After reading the article, I'm still firmly convinced that anybody who protests in favor of a group of urine-swilling killers who broke a peace treaty in order to continue lunging at their sworn enemy needs to go to Gaza and make a stand there. Then, when one of Israel's bombs eradicates the moron in question, the world will be a slightly-better place.

P.S. Comparing Israel's military response to the Holocaust? Dirty pool, savages. Dirty pool. Well, I guess I can't expect anything more from a group of stinking, filthy animals who make my dog's habit of snacking from the litter box seem sophisticated, now can I?

Israel and Hamas

Yahoo! News tells me that Israeli's launched a large-scale (for them, anyway) retaliation against Hamas. Israel's countering the rocket attacks that have been coming out of Gaza: a section of land that Israel unwisely gave to the terrorists a few years ago in the hope that this would appease the scumbags. More recently, Hamas started yet another round of bullshit in defiance of a peace treaty that both sides had agreed to uphold. They started this crap, and now they're whining because they got their asses kicked. Apparently, it was okay for them to spend weeks launching rockets into Israel, but it's not okay for Israel to a) warn them to stop, then b) take action.

Israel's been warning them for days that this was coming. Any of the boo-hooing over dead civilians is crap, because they knew that Israel was coming. The civilians had a few DAYS to get out of the way, but chose to ignore the warnings. They were sending their children off to school, as if this were just an ordinary day. If they're that stupid, then they deserve what they get. If Israel announced that they were sending somebody to kick ass in MY neighborhood because terrorists were using this area to launch an offensive against them...I'd grab my stuff and leave immediately.

I know that many Muslims do not believe the "let's go murder all unbelievers!" garbage that the Islamofascists embrace. I know that a good number of Islamic leaders do not teach that crap. But those who do teach this, and those who perpetuate the terrorism, believe with all their rotten hearts that they're heading to eternal rewards for murdering as many unbelievers as possible. They believe that 72 virgins await them in their heaven. They believe that their god will reward them, for eternity, for killing men, women, and children.

When you're dealing with a group of nutjobs who are not afraid of death - who, in fact, welcome death because they're convinced that eternal rewards await them for yanking the rip cord on the bomb vest - you can't negotiate or reason. You take a few cents' worth of ammo and send them to meet God. That's all you can do in the face of such murderous insanity. This is how you preserve innocent life: by taking out those who would destroy it.

And yes. I am a big, fat warmonger. I am 100 percent in favor of killing terrorists. Personally, I wish that they'd all go to one area and shove out all the civilians who disagree with them. Then somebody could drop a nuke on that region and be done with the problem. Unfortunately, anti-terrorist measures aren't that simple. Too bad, really, because nuking them all in one spot would be simple...and oh, so cool.

Don't Blame Us

In a year or two, if that long, people will want to blame somebody for the downfall of this nation. There will be epic problems, all over the country, and we will want our scapegoat.

You will not, however, be able to blame me - or the rest of Texas. We're a red state, and voted accordingly yesterday. Don't point any fingers at us when things go terribly, horribly wrong.

Don't blame us when higher taxes make everyday life even harder for employed Americanas.

Don't blame us when the welfare state flourishes at the expense of our labor.

Don't blame us when anti-Constitutional legislation squeezes our rights between its fist like grapes.

Don't blame us when the terrorists go crazy all over the place, possibly even on American soil.

Don't blame us when we're all back in the voting booth four years from now, scratching our butts and wondering what went wrong in the most prosperous, free nation on God's green earth.

It will not be our fault.

P.S. I really hope that I'm wrong about all this. I'd much prefer to see things not go downhill. I was, after all, wrong about young-voter turnouts. Maybe I can go 0-2 on this one. That would be sweet.

But I'm afraid that I'm right.

Memorial Day

Have a safe Memorial Day if you possibly can. While my family and I cooked out today, we remembered why we have the freedom to put bacon strips on our baked beans.

That is all.

Singing and Dancing for the West

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the dictator of Iran - oops...I mean the president - squirmed his way out of some very difficult questions at Columbia University earlier today. (Side note: the video might not be up for a while - just be patient and keep checking in.)

In particular, I was interested in hearing what Mr. Death-to-Israel would have to say about the Holocaust. In the past, when this turd has been in front of his cowering subjects, he said that this horrifying tragedy was a myth. Yep - it never actually happened as far as this terrorist-loving, civilian-killing scumbag is concerned. Six million Jews didn't die in the 1940s at all. Nope. It's all a sham.

But today, the Iranian idiot did not have any straightforward answer to the question. He talked out of his butt for a while about science and research from alternative points of view. Err...okay, dude. Just come right out and say it again - that the Holocaust didn't exist. Grow a pair and tell us what you really think. Because if you don't have the guts to do even that much...wait. Nevermind. This guy has fecal matter for brains. He thinks that he's going to appease the West with his little song and dance, but most of us know political flip-flopping and Ye Olde Brushoff when we see it. And we saw it, live, on CNN today.

Forget you, buddy. Oh, and please keep trying to build those nuclear weapons that you claim aren't in the works (yeah, right). Israel is going to fly over and bomb your production facilities into dust, buddy. And when that happens...well...I'll deny that it ever happened.

I Love Our Troops

I was in the Army, briefly, in early 2001. I blew out my left knee on yet another run. My medical discharge came through in late August. Three weeks after I flew home to be with my family again, terrorists attacked us on our own soil.

Six years have passed since I came home. I'm a senior in college. I'm majoring in English. I knit while I watch satellite TV. And I'm also a freelance writer. When I'm not working or studying, I'm hanging out with my family or playing with the cats. Most days, I spend at least half an hour playing poker online. And I insist on eating takeout pizza at least once every other week.

I'm proud of what I did - or tried to do, at least - but the other warriors out there are far greater than I am, or was. The troops past and present have given up a heck of a lot more than I ever did.

I never strayed too far from Dr Pepper or McDonald's when I was in the Army. Save for the Field Training Exercise at the end of Basic, I never had to pick sand out of my butt crack. When I got bored, I visited the library, or watched TV, or called home.

I never had to take a dump in a port-a-potty in 130-plus-degree heat. I never had to eat MREs for more than four or five days straight. And I always got mail in a rapid fashion (rapid for the military, anyway).

The troops are volunteers, yes. Nobody forced any of our current military personnel to enlist. But that doesn't change the fact that these men and women give up years of their lives to protect you and me.

They do without the things that they're fighting for us to keep. If it weren't for our troops going to the Middle East and kicking the snot out of the terrorists - breaking up the cells, finding the leaders and kicking insurgent butt - then there would be more attacks on our soil. We wouldn't be able to watch our twenty zillion cable channels in peace because we'd be too busy worrying about the next bomb...the next airplane crash...the next biological attack.

If it weren't for our troops, more of us would be wounded or dead. The terrorists aren't going to stop just because we ask them not to keep killing innocent people. They're going to stop because the United States has sent our biggest, baddest boot to their turf to put up their collective butts.

Our troops deserve the very best that we can give them - because they're putting up with the very worst for us.