Dave Rabbit

A great quote from Radio First Termer with Dave Rabbit, a 21 program underground/pirate radio show in Vietnam. First heard about it in the documentary Sir! No Sir!.

"Fighting for someone else's freedom is like fucking for someone else's virginity."

I think he credits the quote to the shithouse bandit.
Oh, how true. Mr. Rabbit. If you can find his shows listen because most it still applies to Iraq just replace the names of the countries. He was recently on Opie and Anthony and now works on Above Top Secret.

Happy Birthday...

...to Ameirca's orignial radical liberal. Without whom we would not have the US as we know it today.
Thomas Paine born January 29, 1737 in Thetford, England and being a general failure for most of his life he managed to publish the pamphlet that ingnited the fire of radical freedom. Common Sense and The American Crisis should be required reading for every American citizen so they might understand the idea of dynamic freedom that this country was founded upon. Where there are countries like China where there is no freedom American should be the antithesis, the place where there is unrestrained personal liberty. Unfortunately that great experiment has fizzled away and we are now in the leftover byproducts of the equation. The ingredients still remain all that lacks is their existence in great enough quantities to spur the reaction once again.

Huckabee

Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage.
I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of
marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man
and a child, a man and animal.

I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But
I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to
change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the
Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s
standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other
and how we treat the family.

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave, huh.

Brave enough only to consider attacking other nations out of xenophobia, and attacking people in our own country because they aren't exactly like us. These comments are not from a religious zealot in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or some bearded fanatic in a cave, it's from the front runner of the "Republican" party running for president of the United States. Leader of the supposedly free world. We in the US that are not WASPs because of something as uncontrollable as the color of our skin, or the freedom of our mind to push aside rantings of primitive desert nomads, as just that, the rantings of primitive desert nomads. These books should not be taken seriously or literally.

What would Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, or god forbid, Thomas Paine think about such comments? Jefferson didnt even like the idea of a federally maintained and regulated militia much less a federally sponsored religion.

Who supports a candidate that is promising nothing except theocracy of hate and exclusion? Selfish, lazy people. People who don't care about the major tenet of freedom for all, freedom not just for Christians, this country was founded on, and are too lazy to defend it. Prosteltizers, who want to use the machinery of government to mill a safe haven for their intolerant archaic ideas, much as the Wahabbists in Saudi Arabia. A country where women can't drive and are stoned to death for adultery. We are not far from slipping into that same trap with a southern Baptist minister running for president. They are lazy in the respect it is easier for them to live the dogma of their faith in a land run by it than it is to live it with the temptation of evil. The same reason for prohibition of alcohol and the same reason there is a prohibition of harmless drugs.

It's aggrevating to me that the only Christians I see running for office follow the Old Testament to the letter and ignore the New Testament. Even after the man who bears their religion's name said to ignore those old laws and follow only one law it is a new commandment as I have loved you love one another. Help your fellow man because just as I, Christ the savior am your brother, so is he just as much a man and a brother to you. At least that's the way I understood the sermon on the mount when I believed in those sorts of things. Maybe I'm wrong. If I were a Christian I would be yelling at the top of my lungs what about the teachings of Christ, where is the mercy and compassion.

Christians are asking for a good Christian man in the White House. They think that man is Huckabee. What about Bush? As Dave Savage said on Maher last night, "What is Bush a Wiccan priest?" You've shown us how incompetent you can be and how much you can screw things up trying to intertwine the magesteria. It's time for real people with modern beliefs and ideas to run this country. Grown ups who don't believe in ghosts, goblins, ghouls, trolls, and unicorns. It's our turn to clean up the mess you made governing with your antitquated beliefs and rituals.

Jerusalem

I wrote....ummm I mean I found a Bible that says the Holy Land of Jerusalem was promised by God to my family. I therefore now have a legitimate claim to land in the Holy Territory of Jerusalem.

The passge reads:

"...and this guy begat and so on and so forth. Daniel beget Marcus, Marcus beget Hunter and this land of promise shall hitherforth belong to those, whom I, God, demand are the descendants of Carl, Daniel, and Marcus Byrne."

So, you see because I wrote...I mean found a book of my religion, which I have just made up, I now have legitimate claim to anything this religious text says. Just as the Jews proclaim in their genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people.

A Few Things I've learned...

This is a short list of the things that have angered me since May:

First of all there are the usual: people who are slow, old, stupid, ignorant, and/or any combination of those things.

Closeted homosexual escapades of Republicans as they try to treat the LGBT community as second class citizens.

People who blame Clinton for anything that has happened after January 19th 2000. 9-11, the failed ventures in a Afghanistan and Iraq, the spiraling deficit, the busted economy, the bungling of the cleanup in NOLA after Katrina, and the squashing of civil liberties all happened on George W. Bush's watch. He's been in office for seven years. Get over it. Just because you say it's Clinton's fault, doesnt make it so. On the Clinton note, Bush is a far worse president than Bill Clinton could have ever thought about being. Anytime I bring up one of the thousand things that this administration has done to destroy our country the only retort I get is something to the effect of "Well, Clinton killed Vince Foster." First of all, no he didnt. Secondly if the only defense you have for your great and glorious leader is a dreamed up right wing conspiracy theory about how the president killed a guy, you might as well say he was the gunman on the grassy knoll because it would make just as much sense and you would sound just as sane.

Fucking Columbus Day. What the fuck for? All the Italians were out in full regalia. Guess what morons, Italy didn't fund his trip, Spain did. He was only Italian by birth. And he didn't "discover" anything. In case you didnt get it in your history class, here's a little secret for you: THERE WERE PEOPLE ALREADY HERE!!! Hello McFly! You cant discover something that's already been found. I'm sorry I forgot the major tenet of revisionist history, those people that were already there don't count because they were tannish brown.

Republicans have battered wife or Stockholm syndrome, I can't decide which it is.

There are still people with Bush/Cheney 04 stickers on their car and they display them proudly. It's a badge of honor for them. What honor? Who are these people? What the fuck are they proud of? What? Give me one goddamn thing these guys have done in 7 years of rule that has been good for America as a whole. Not the oligarchy. These people should be run off the road at every available opportunity. These people are dragging our collective IQ down and ruining our country. It's time to get rid of the caveman knuckle dragging, FAUX News watching shitheads who want to sell our civil liberties so they can live out their dream of all the tan people in the US being terrorized by law enforcement agencies in the name of Christ.

Fred Thompson is a MORON. The people with the Bush/Cheney bumper stickers are the people that are supporting this guy. Need I say more. Jesus Christ on a Crutch!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

Democrats=Collapsocrats but they are all we've got.

If I ever run into Rush Limbaugh at any point in the rest of my life, I'm going to punch him in the face. I was so angry when I heard his recent comment about "phony soldiers," such as myself, that I was pacing in my living room. Punching him was in between ripping his heart out with my bare hands and doing nothing at all. I find it's a good compromise.

Getting punched repeatedly in the face hurts. No, I'm not getting into bar fights its part of my military martial arts qualification.

Remember this is just the short list, I'm sure there are more things to come that I wont remember until I try to go to sleep.

Letter to Sen. Bayh

Senator Bayh,
In accordance with the follwing sense of the Senate, for which you voted, concerning subsection 2, I would wish for you to vote to condemn Rush Limbaugh for his disparaging remarks about soldiers currently serving and having served in Iraq. I am an officer in the United States Army about to go on my second 15 month tour, who disagrees with this war, and I feel Limbaugh attacked my honor and integrity.

(b) Sense of Senate.–It is the sense of the Senate–
(1) to reaffirm its support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, including General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq;
(2) to strongly condemn any effort to attack the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces; and
(3) to specifically repudiate the unwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist group Moveon.org.

Sincerely,
Marcus D. Byrne

Good to Be Back

I dont even know if anyone reads these things anymore. I havent posted since May but I would like to give an update.
My wife and I got back from Iraq March 2006. Left Germany for our new duty station in Virginia at the end of May. Have been going to a course here and we move to our next duty station in Texas come the end of November. Where my wife will be deployinging December and I might be deploying in March.
I havent posted much because this course keeps us pretty busy and between that and the child there is very little time left in the day.

Well, at least someone gets it.

Sir, you might want to share that field manual with Attorney Generalissimo and VP thatseem to thinks it's OK and it works, and are it's biggest advocates.

I was concerned by the results of a recently released survey conducted last
fall in Irasq that revealed an apparent unwillingness on the part of some US
personnel to report illegal actions taken by fellow members of their units.
The
study also indicated that a small percentage of those surveyed may have
mistreated noncombatants. This survey should spur reflection on our conduct
in
combat. …Some may argue that we would be more effective if we sanctioned
torture
or other expedient methods to obtain information from the enemy.
They would be
wrong. Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal,
history shows that
they also are frequently neither useful nor necessary.