Tuesday, March 11, 2003

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Don't get any on the trainers! I guess someone clued Puma in to that whole "sex sells" thing that all the kids seem to be talking about. I'm just happy that my dream of fashion conscious porn has finally come true! I demand a rock-off between Charlie Daniels & Shaaban Abdel Rahim Ok, check this out: we'll hold a "Battle of the Bands" style rock-off, either in a local VFW hall or high school gym, between the champion of liberty and the unborn, aka. Charlie Daniels, and that outlaw poet of the Arab streets, Shaaban Abdel Rahim. Winner gets all the freedom fries they can eat. Habeas corpus? Never heard of him A federal appeals court just upheld a lower court's ruling that the detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base are not entitled to constitutional protections since they exist outside of the "sovereign territory" of the US. Well isn't that convenient! I'll bet they never even thought of this little loop hole when they constructed the vaguely punk rock-sounding Camp X-Ray. Funny though, aren't concerns over US sovereignty and "politically motivated prosecutions" the reason why the US withdrew from the treaty which established the International Criminal Court? What's good for the goose... - M.C. No Shame 4:21:10 PM    comment []

FREEDOM FRY WATCH (a Monster Limosculsive) Freedom Fry mania grips D.C.! Are our nation’s legislators that bored?! How about spending that valuable time on a national health care bill? And what’s next, a constitutional amendment to cleanse the land of all references to France?! Fruit loops! - M.C. No Shame 2:36:19 PM    comment []

The Devil went up Charlie Daniels' Ass More evidence in my "Coalition of the Country/Western Musicians" theory: This insane, wild post from Charlie Daniels, the man who perpetrated "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" on an unsuspecting nation. Here Charlie lashes out at those Hollywood "mugwumps" who dare oppose the coming war with Iraq. Charlie also got a woman fired from her job because she sent his web site an email condemning the war on Iraq. That's right: She was FIRED because she sent an email FROM HOME. More on that later. In the mean time, if you happen to run into Charlie Daniels, please tell him I'm way pissed at him for having to listen to his stupid song every time I go to a bar. Now THIS is music! I quote: "A flying sheep's head hit a Norway concert goer and fractured his skull. The accident happened at a Bergen gig by [black] metal band Mayhem. . . Mayhem member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said the incident was unfortunate. 'The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be an idea for another show,' he said." I'll take Blasphemer and his flying sheep heads over Charlie Daniels and his snitch-tastic jingoism any day. -Consider Arms, who never went down to Georgia 11:27:13 AM    comment []

The Business of Iraq is (American) Business I feel ill. Here's a story about US firms planning to reap huge profits from the post-war "reconstruction" of Iraq. Corporations named include Bechtel, Fluor, the Louis Berger Group, and (surprise!) Halliburton, which has been awarded control of the Iraqi oil fields. Smedley Butler, your country needs you Meanwhile, the people who will be guarding Halliburton's oil fields (i.e. the American military) are less sanguine about the prospect of a long-term occupation of Iraq. Among other prospects: The army says that if the occupation force is between 45,000 and 60,000 troops, that will bring an end to peackeeping in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Incidentally, the army is also thinking there might be up to 200,000 troops needed for the occupation, so do the math. Seek and Ye Shall Not Find Remember when the administration announced last December that they were no longer going to publish the monthly report on mass layoffs (there more than 17,000 such mass layoffs in 2002)? Well, they're at it again; now they are no longer producing the annual Budget Information for States report, is the chief source by which states learn how much money they get under individual federal programs. The reason? To cut the costs of "paper and producing another volume." Surely it's not to conceal massive cuts in state aid! Another career diplomat resigns in protest over Bush's dumbass war Maybe this dude needs to listen to a few Darryl Worley records. -Consider Arms 10:43:04 AM    comment []

Sgt. Barry Sadler Comes Alive It's the Iron Law of Pop Music During Wartime: pop singers oppose the war, country singers support it. While your stinking hippie parents were grooving on "Eve of Destruction" and "Run Through the Jungle," somebody else's parents were rocking out to "Okie From Muskogee" and the immortal "Ballad of the Green Berets." I actually have a record made in 1970 that consists entirely of pro-war country songs. Although very few pop singers have yet opposed the war in song (preferring the media of guitar straps and t-shirts), we already have two entrants in the Pro-War Country Song: last year's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" by Toby Keith and the current hit "Have You Forgotten" by Darryl Worley. The premise of this latter song is sinister: the idea is that anyone who opposes war with Iraq has "forgotten" September 11, as if one had anything to do with the other. For your enlightenment, I quote: "I hear people saying we don't need this war/ I say there's some things worth fighting for/ Some say this country's just out looking for a fight/ After 9/11, man, I'd have to say that's right/ Have you forgotten all the people killed?/ Some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field/ Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?/ All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on/ Don't you tell me not to worry about bin Laden." All over the Freedom Fry States, people are eating this up with a spoon (it's even on the country radio station here in the bastion of commie liberal fag atheism where I live). Here's a question for Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits: Are you going to boycott Darryl Worley because he's not devoting his career to "pure entertainment value"? Mmmm, thought not. -Consider Arms, peeved that "killed" doesn't really rhyme with "field" 9:31:34 AM    comment []

AC/DC is in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame and all is well with the world. Well, maybe that's an overstatement. You decide from what the AP (http://www.ap.org) says is news today: The Big News: Iraq continues its two-pronged strategy of destroying Al Samoud 2 missiles and making elaborate, silly threats. Today's highlight: Government newspaper Al Jumhuriya saying "The tyrants of the evil American administration. . . will meet their black fate at the high gates of Baghdad." They're probably not going to come through the front gates, dude. The Roundup: Russian leader Vladimir Putin has given the KGB's successor agency, the FSB, control over border guards and government communications, making it roughly as powerful as the old secret police. This would seem more ominous if I didn't once have a bank with the initials FSB. . . Talks to reunify Cyprus have collapsed, although what's more surprising is that Cyprus will soon join the EU. To misquote Ned Flanders, the EU is apparently easier to get into than Arizona State. . . Pakistan will abstain from voting on the second UN Security Council resolution concerning Iraq. . . The first seven indictments have been handed down by a UN war crimes tribunal tasked with prosecuting the worst of Sierra Leone's thugs. -Consider Arms 9:14:55 AM    comment []

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