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Just remember that we are fighting civilians over there so that we don’t have to spend money on schools and paved roads here, in the Homeland. (Ha-ha, what? Oh right, Barack Obama is the most violent Nobel Peace Prize recipient since Henry Kissinger.) Let’s toast the good life (state-sponsored global terrorism) with Franz Liszt’s Dance of the Dead:
Also: Rebecca Black is a suburban tween liar, and probably on the CIA payroll, too. Yesterday was war, today is war, tomorrow is war and war comes afterwords. [CNN]
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I guess you gotta expect a little of that, when you recruit, pay, train, equip, and deploy, you know, killers and whatnot.
And then count on them to be diplomats or whatever. Building nations. Hey! We're your friends! Holding M16s, M203s, M60s, with lots of bullets!
When you don't pay them well enought to afford drugs, they have to get their kicks somewhere else.
This may be part of the issue with an all volunteer army, some off the people that sign up are there because they are interested in killing other people.
Waiting on Track Palin's tweet before I make up my mind about Jeremy Morlock. Or video of them fucking.
Rebecca Black next needs to do a song explaining the months of the year, and then one with numbers.
no that bitch ain't going anywhere till she tells me what the fuck happens after sunday.
Just another manic Monday?
and then it's a BLACK hole until thursday…
But I'm not sure Sesame Street will call her back.
I'd like to hear her version of the Periodic Table Song.
I gotta ask, several things really, but I'll keep it to one for now, what's the problem here? Fergie has been stone cold spelling shit in every fucking song for maybe the last decade. Why is this just now a problem?
Barack Obama is the most violent Nobel Peace Prize recipient since Henry Kissinger.
I'm just glad Yasser Arafat didn't live to see that.
Or Henry Kissinger. Or Le Duc Tho.
Oh wait…the evil War Dwarf is still alive, tweeting Ghadafi. Fuck him anyway, goddamn war criminal.
Let's not forget Jimmy Carter, history's greatest monster.
After he was exposed to radiation at Three Mile Island, he devastated Tokyo.
"The plan was to kill people"
Well, that'd be war, amirite?
However, when the plan is just to indiscriminately murder people for no other reason than they're in the same country as the chaps you have a beef with, I believe that's called something else.
I'd like to see CNN's trenchant reporting on the Adult Entertainment industry: "the plan was to fuck people. In the butt, when necessary."
Also I made the mistake of clicking the Rebecca Black thing (who is this person?) while the Liszt was playing, and because it opened in a new page, the two pieces played simultaneously for a brief while. There was no appreciable difference to my ear.
It's called trained psychopaths killing for fun and freedom, also.
usa!!! Murka#1!!!
That's different from Soldiers, ya know.
No, the real purpose of war is negotiation. Killing more people isn't like scoring more baskets.
Perhaps he thought it was like Mary Kay, and he'd get a pink cadillac.
Ragnarök up in this morherfuckaaa!!I1!
I guess Morlock (and Eloi) won't be looking forward to any more weekends, weekends.
Well, above ground at least.
Mmmmm, Eloi. Tastes like chicken.
The Washington Huskies should change their name to the Washington Morlocks.
Pleasant dreams, everyone!
You know who else liked to listen to Totentanz?
Wesley Mouch?
Elizabeth Taylor?
Too soon!!
Don Rumsfeld.
Oingo Boingo?
Aha! Over your Cleopatra upfist bender? Man, I was a convert.
Hence, my above Queen of the Nile Portrayer, RIP, comment.
Daniel Stern?
Yehudi Menuhin?
Me. This almost makes an excuse for youtube.
Hans Gruber?
Richard Wagner?
Rebecca Black?
Konrad Adenauer?
Elizabeth Taylor. Too soon?
Almost any Renaissance man or woman. They looked at paintings and prints, too, often very gruesome by modern standards.
Justin Bieber?
OK, class . . . CLASS!
A US soldier was convicted of killing 3 Afghans and got 24 years in prison. If Donald Rumsfeld was tried for . . .
And that, class, is why the US never signed up to the International Criminal Court.
In God we trust, but don't let any foreigners try us for our crimes.
USA number fucking one.
I kept seeing Rebecca Black's name in the news feed, and now this. She looks older than I thought — but for a "suburban tween liar," she plays a pretty mean piano.
"The plan was to kill people"
Sounds the 2012 Republican platform.
TNDPIYAR
(They're Not Death Panels If You Are A Republican, for the unfamiliar.)
Sounds like every Republican platform.
Kissinger is the 1927 NY Yankees of Nobel Peace Prize body counts while Le Duc Tho set the standard for laser-like concentration on bringing death in the cause of revolution. Obama will need a particularly murderous second term to catch either of them.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and now Libya (Plus all those other places that are not "official"). He may not have to try very hard to pull that off.
Upfist for your screen name, which is excellent.
Gracias Señor.
We dont ned no soshulist skoolz r rodes. USA! USA!
So does this mean we don't get to torture it out of him?
I always wanted to learn how to play piano; bought a really nice one for my kids, just haven't found the time yet.
Also, Liszt was pretty deranged. Too, people who can play Liszt as well as the lady in the video above, well, they're pretty suspect as well.
Also, too, Kate Beaton always has something funny to say about the wacky hijinx of Liszt and his good buddy Chopin, of course.
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."
But I shot a man in Kunduz, just to watch him die…
We invented tape recorders too fucking late. Liszt playing the piano would've been as fantastic or more to hear as would be the voice of Lincoln, Washington, or a younger Walt Whitman, or anyone else of those times. The voices of slaves. The voices of women. The voices of children.
Shit now I'm sad.
Well, when your recruiting standards go into the gutter, you get get gutter kids.
Liszt had enormous fingers, hence could play things no one else could. Fooled around a lot, too. That's why he was called a Romantic!
Who the hell is Rebecca Black?
Does she have a nice rack?
I wasn't trying to rhyme, honestly.
she's 13, so let me be the first to say, too soon.
in which case I am eternally grateful that my own almost-13-year-old spurns eye makeup and still gets her shoes wet playing in the creek with the neighbor kids.
Neither is she.
I think all terrible news should come in this convenient tweet form. It'll make it easier for the public at large to ignore.
See if I knew that stupid twitlanguage, I could make a joke about #pearlharbor, @hitler declares war, retweet something, blah blah blah. but anyway I don't feel too bad about it, prolly cuz I am on painkillers at the moment.
The Parry Gripp version of that tune is shorter and has moar kute animalz.
♪♫ Something revealing
♪♫ Something congealing
♪♫ Something indictable
♪♫ A massacre tonight! ♫♪
♪♫ Something on auto
♪♫ Something in camo
♪♫ Something in .50 cal
♪♫ A massacre tonight! ♫♪
♪♫ Thanks to George Bush, and Condi Rice;
♪♫ Lowering our standards, this is the price. ♫♪
♪♫ Old regulations,
♪♫ New complications,
♪♫ Jurists in The Hague would be pissed! ♫♪
♪♫ Apologies tomorrow,
♪♫ Massacre tonight! ♫♪
(with apologies to Stephen Sondheim)
I regret that I have only one upfist to give this post.
And John Boehner sent a letter to the President asking what are our goals in Libya, how long will it last, costs, etc. Never occured to him to ask about Dubya's wars?
So wait — he killed three people for sport, and because he testifies against others he only gets 24 years, with eligibility for parole in seven? What the hell — he would be lucky to get life for that in any state of the union. In some states the best plea he'd get would be that they wouldn't forget the anaesthetic before injecting the poison. I'm not really sure how the army justifies institutionalizing that level of contempt for people we're supposed to be helping. What the fuck.
Oh, and then in seven years this psychopath gets turned loose on society. So if you want to see Alaska, do it before 2018.
I love the talking point from many conservatives about how much tougher military courts are. Yeah, if you're a alleged terrorist.
why do you hate the troops so bad?
It's okay — I'm wearing my flag pin.
Flag pin? check. Served country? check. Yellow fucking ribbon worn around man tackle? check.
You're now free to move about the country being a disingenuous bellicose fuckball with no semblance of care for humanity.
Seven years. Damn.
Oh sorry, I didn't have the window embiggened enough to see it. Carry on.
What is your license plate support status? In God We Trust? Support Our Troops? Nine Eleven? Jesus?
He's white. Juries prefer white people.
Don't forget the dead were brown, odds are they had it coming.
Also they're going to be harder to find in Alaska, so that should lower his kill rate substantially, after he's "paid his debt to society."
But, will he increase or decrease the average level of meth addled homicidal mania in Wasilla when he is released? I think it is a close question.
I think he should be paroled to Kandahar, and be made to register as the murdering psychopath that he is.
Three that we know about. It would not surprise me if there were a lot more. Probably others like him out there, indulging their worst impulses.
That's quaint. Remember we are talking about the lives of poor brownz here. Get your head on straight would you? You don't want the children getting funny notions.
ha ha, Riley's got control and the rest of the crew is obviously drunk and/or asleep.
don't sleep on your bellies!
Waggs, in one post you have
(1) demonstrated a substantial adoption of the revered Ken Layne method of relentlessly blackly-humorous cynicism;
(2) provided my new best excuse for the existence of youtube (the prior one being Tom Morello doing "The Ghost of Tom Joad" with Bruce Springsteen at the 2009 RRHOF);
(3) introduced me to yet another acid-voiced teeny songstress, for avoidance purposes.
As my Danish friends would say, "Pretty good".
Riley has the high water mark for the whole damned week for that separated-at-birth pairing of Loughner and Beck.
Maybe the whole month. My retinas are still crizzled.
Crizzled?
Riley, when you mention state-sponsored global terrorism, you don't mean the peace-loving, freedoms and democracy spreading, shining city on the hill…the good old U.S of A. do you? Do you?
Because if you do, it can't be said enough.
A friend of mine said that a terrorist is someone who doesn't have the good fortune to own a carrier battle group.
So we're the terrorist and they're the freedom fighters? That's not what our liberal media is telling me.
A terrorist is someone who kills our people without wearing the official uniform.
Of course it's state-sponsored. Do you have any idea just how fucking hard it is to get corporate sponsors in this economic environment? Huh, yeah, very! Maybe once things pick up, uncertainty lessens and — What? Oh…
Heh…I just visualized F-18s with Viagra and Tide stickers on them.
Man, can you even imagine what BigPharm would pay to put a boner pill ad on an actual F-18? We could pay off the national debt right there.
No kidding eh? Fucking someone? Viagra and the US Navy – an unbeatable team!
So,, this is the long awaited sequel to Sarah Palin's Alaska ….
Blam!
Let me guess, they told him to talk or his ass would be grass, right?
"The plan was to kill people."
MISSON ACCOMPLISHED.
Who is IOZ:
I guess we should be comforted that the plan did not involve rape and torture.
That comes with the Happy Meal, you don't have to state them outright, the inference is assumed.
I love it when a plan comes together.
That makes Boehner Colonel Decker, right?
Although I can totally see Biden yelling "I AIN'T GETTIN' ON NO PLANE!" and howlin' mad Emanuel dosing him with laced milk.
You know who else had a plan to kill people in a foreign land.
Russel Brand?
You're right about that, do we have to think he's talented just because he has an accent? His comedy is lukewarm at best, and all his funny stories are from when he was on las drogas.
Hernando Cortez?
Fuck, who didn't?
Teddy Roosevelt?
Every empire the world over since the dawn of man?
Moses?
That one dude. You know, that guy who was breathing…
Elizabeth Taylor?
Squeaky Fromme?
another potential "ideal man" archetype for the world's next Ayn Rand.
Rebecca Black cover. better than the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi00ykRg_5c
7 years with good behavior…
and yet…and motherfucking yet, Manning is held in solitary confinement without even having a trial.
But apparently for some people, this all adds up to fun fun fun fun!
Is this why they say we hate America when we ask to end the war(s) and bring the troops home?
Why do you hate our business model?
Dammit I thought the plan was to kilt people. Now what am I gonna do with all this plaid?
I just don't think the army should have been hiring Morlocks in the first place.
Do you see what hashish does now people? Turns you into a Liszt loving psychopathic piano virtuoso
Has always worked for me…well, except for the piano playing part.
Well the teatard comments in said article are blaming the hashish. What they don't understand is that hashish usage by these psychopathic murderers probably saved many lives; without it they'd have killed many more.
I wonder why he pled guilty. I'm pretty sure every one of these murderous d-bags who has actually brazened it out by going to trial has either been acquitted or gotten a lighter sentence than 24 years.
When they get through with him, Manning will likely get the death penalty while these others get 8 years a murder with time off for good behavior.
"The plan was to kill people"
We are liberators! Liberators hand out MRE's and vibrators.
Soldiers KILLING people was never part of the plan. This must be that new Plain Doctrine.
None of those conservamoms and dads who boast about their superior morals never teach their kids "when you're a soldier overseas, don't murder the civilians! Don't rape the women!" I knew there was a lot of raping, robbing, murdering in Viet Nam and I always assumed it was the same in Iraq and Afghanistan. Probably in Libya before you know it, too.
And in every other war in the history of man. That is the reason for war, legalized rape and murder.
Attempting to apply humane rules to the most inhumane practice known to man is the height of folly AND hypocrisy. As usual, the grunts pay the piper while the actual perpetrators of these crimes, Bush, Cheney, et. al., not only go unpunished but are celebrated during the remainder of their days. Fuck me running!
♪♫WAR – Huh – Good God ya'll…what are we really fighting for – absolutely nothing♪♫
"Just remember that we are fighting civilians over there so that we don’t have to spend money on schools and paved roads here, in the Homeland" is all too true. Republitards leaned their less during the 1960's when they almost lost control of the whole thing. Prosperity, and especially low cost higher edumaction, leads people to start thinking for themselves. Once that happens, boom! Free love, drugs, end the war(s) movements. Never again will they allow this to happen. Over-nourished ignorant serfs are much easier to manage.
This guy got 24 years in prison?
I'm not sure I'm convinced that joyfully murdering afghan civilians and cutting off their body parts as trophies is only 24x more evil than, say, getting into Sarah Palin's yahoo account.
But then what do I know about "justice".
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