Category Archives: Culture

the best reason for gun control

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People like me.

I’m not saying I’d ever go out and buy a gun. I wouldn’t. I’m too cheap, for one thing.

But I’d sure as hell use one, if one were just lying around.

People and things I’d use a gun on, if one were just lying around:

  1. The person in the apartment building behind mine who has used his gas leaf blower every morning for the past week, beginning at 7 a.m.
  2. shithawks, any and all, particularly between the hours of 4am-7am.
  3. ravens, when they get on my nerves after a night when I’ve been unable to sleep because of #1 and #2
  4. Cheney, just on general principles. I mean, he hasn’t invaded Canada yet, but a gram of prevention is better than a kilo of cure, eh?
  5. the person or creature who invented beeping alarms for trucks backing up or doors opening or closing. And the person who made them mandatory. I’d shoot them in the legs, then the arms, then I’d stand there and watch them bleed out. It takes quite a long time, you know.

No reason I know that.

CHARO!!!!! BOLERO!!!!!

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Yep, it’s an excerpt. You gotta pay more for the happy finish.

the only funny story about the War on Lebanon

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No, really. I don’t care WHICH side you’re on, this is hilarious! I can just see all the soldiers of other armies, trying to convince the higher-ups that it should be mandatory for all female personnel, for defensive purposes. But seriously, what are they putting IN those things? Kwik-Kast?

Be all you can be...double D!

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli woman’s breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a Hizbollah rocket attack during Israel‘s war with the Lebanese group, a hospital spokesman said on Tuesday.

Doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants, just inches from the 24-year-old’s heart.

“She was saved from death,” said a spokesman for Nahariya Hospital in northern Israel. The woman has been released from hospital.

Funbags, not sandbags!

Lebanon by Latuff

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Another good cartoon from Latuff. Stolen from Cold Desert.

Lebanon will survive

welcome back, don’t unpack

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your bivouac’s back in Iraq.US soldiers are screwed

Fark passes on the bad news from Reuters that 300 American soldiers who just last week returned to the US from a year’s tour of duty in Iraq, will be shipped back over to compensate for the short supply of recruits. Nobody wants to wear the red jersey.

About 300 U.S. soldiers who just weeks ago returned home to Alaska after a year in Iraq are being ordered back to try to help bolster security in Baghdad, the U.S. Army said on Monday.

The soldiers are part of the 3,900-strong 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fort Wainwright in Alaska. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on July 27 ordered the unit to remain in Iraq for up to four months past its scheduled departure.

The order provoked anger and disappointment yay?among some of the soldiers’ families in Alaska. It also made clear that any significant reduction in the 135,000-strong U.S. force in Iraq was unlikely in the immediate future.

The brigade was so far along in the process of flowing out of Iraq after its yearlong tour that 380 soldiers had returned home to Alaska and 300 had arrived in Kuwait en route home, the Army said…

Pentagon policy is for Army units to serve 12-month tours in Iraq and Marine Corps units to serve seven-month tours. Army soldiers kept longer than one year in Iraq get an extra $1,000 in pay per month, the Army said…

After some troops and families complained earlier in the war about lack of predictability in the length of tours in Iraq, the Pentagon instituted the rules on deployment duration. This was intended to reduce emotional stress for troops serving in a hostile and unpredictable environment…

The Army said the brigade has not received any assurances it will not be extended even further, but said Rumsfeld would have to approve any such move.

US Soldiers in Iraq