You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place...
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I gotta admit, my visceral reaction to reality TV is... "bleah!" And the Kid Nation one, based on the ads, looked to be a new low. Mary Hamm disagrees, and provides a useful example of why one should take care when ranting in the age of Google - especially if you haven't taken the time to do any exploring beyond the headline. Would that politicians (and their enablers) acted on that principle.
That's one reason why you haven't heard much in this space about Michael Vick, serial dog abuser and inhumane killer of beasts who themselves weren't sufficiently efficient killers. Oh, yeah, tell me about how hanging and drowning was "just business" - heh, once a week during whatever sentence you have someone should choke-hold you or hold your head underwater until you lose consciousness just so you have some idea... feh.
You're a weasel. You may be standing up and acknowledging your misdeeds, and giving all the proper "mea culpas" for television, etc - you're still a crapweasel a$$hat. The only way your apology is going to stick (not that I think you care what I think) is if you live a life of atonement. Legally, your debt may be discharged at the end of whatever your sentence is.
La-de-da.
You and your sick buddies can blather all you want. I just know you could make a *start* at atonement by taking whatever is left of your football money after you get your butt sued ad infinitum and funding some serious no-kill animal shelters. And I don't mean one-time donations, dude. Start a foundation. Make it your life's work.
Go back to playing football, live in a regular middle class home, drive a used car, eat rahmen - and spend the rest on the critters. *Then* I might do something besides spit at the mention of your name.
Just sayin'.
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With that off my chest - on to a lighter note. Adjutant Barb sent this out in email:
Why I worry about the future...On a completely different topic ...
Where exactly *is* America? http://youtube.com/watch?v=jEl31V_Cv4g
This prompted CAPT H to send:
1. Find map of Western Hemisphere.
2. Locate "Canada" (it's at the top).
3. "America" is right underneath "Canada".
To which I responded...
The challenge is to first get them to understand the concept of "map."
Then get them to understand the concept of "hemisphere."
Then get them to understand concept of "North, South, East, and West."
There's three steps missing before we can start the integrated portion, much less getting them to find the northern county of the United States called "Canada."
Brab - that was mean. My head almost exploded because even though it's only a digital simulacrum of that empty-headed blonde, her power to suck the life and intellect out of everything around her is so powerful my brain tried to escape the horror.
What's your take?
UPDATE! The young lady in question got into pageants... you can't make this up - to *improve* her communications skills. Really. Read about it here. What she should do... is shut up so everybody will forget about it, or she's really going to be the poster child for another round of re-engineering the schools, for better or worse.
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As proof no one reads anything around here, and just looks at the pictures - not *one* Canuckistanian commented on the props I gave them yesterday. [flounce!]
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CAPT H sent this link to some Brit soldiers who keep it in the family (and breed young, I might add).
CAPT H also sent us a link to a story about a very interesting soldier, Specialist Alison K. Which got us both busted, because FuzzyB was on this story days ago...
That's a link worth clicking, by the way. As is this next one (hey, they all are, but I know some of you people don't bother. After all the effort I go to [heads for fainting couch]
Chuck Simmins gives us a follow-up:
Here's the story after the story. Last week we were amazed by the story of the Iraqi man who saved US and locals by tackling a suicide bomber. Here is how the unit he saved honored him.
That's it for now. Gotta get the trash out. No, that doesn't mean you, Ry. -the Armorer
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Trash is out. While I was gone, Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee brings in some more fishwrap...
Not only is the Washington Post running a story debunked a week before it was written, it is featuring it on the homepage. Commenters are already shredding it, and linking to both my previous debunking and the one I recycled last night. Was Howard Kurtz completely asleep at the wheel here? What a trainwreck...
They should read us bloggers more - and get their news! 8 ^ D -the Armorer
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A military spouse you should know...
Next up, three things you probably didn't know about me. And the Denizens make an appearance, too. Yeah, it's an effort to raise a corporate entity's profile, but they're conducting themselves pretty well and have picked up some nice guest-bloggers. - FbL
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]]> *A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone"
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