Rolling Stone has another exclusive story about the war in Afghanistan, about a "Kill Team" platoon of soldiers executing Afghanis with impunity....
The stench of corruption of this country infects everyone in it. Although the story makes it clear there are psychopaths in the Army, the nature of our mission in this awful cesspit of medieval peasants pollutes our military......
Get. Out. Now.........let's save a few hundred billion....
Below are the opening paragraphs of the quite long but very good article...note there are also some "snuff" videos......
Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji.
Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions. For weeks, they had weighed the ethics of bagging "savages" and debated the probability of getting caught. Some of them agonized over the idea; others were gung-ho from the start. But not long after the New Year, as winter descended on the arid plains of Kandahar Province, they agreed to stop talking and actually pull the trigger.
Bravo Company had been stationed in the area since summer, struggling, with little success, to root out the Taliban and establish an American presence in one of the most violent and lawless regions of the country. On the morning of January 15th, the company's 3rd Platoon – part of the 5th Stryker Brigade, based out of Tacoma, Washington – left the mini-metropolis of tents and trailers at Forward Operating Base Ramrod in a convoy of armored Stryker troop carriers. The massive, eight-wheeled trucks surged across wide, vacant stretches of desert, until they came to La Mohammad Kalay, an isolated farming village tucked away behind a few poppy fields.
Did you see "The Kings Speech?" They're coming out with an American version soon with "W" and Mike Tyson as the speech therapist - here's the 1 minute trailer......very funny indeed......
I've not really kept up with the NFL lock-out, and now it seems there will be an NBA strike as well. What are the issues? Who are the good guys? Is this, as the British say, "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable" [foxhunting!]? Once you realise almost every team is owned by a billionaire this article makes perfect sense.
Frankly I had no idea about this poisonous dispute, which was why this is interesting in presenting the issues, the players and what is really at stake.....good stuff....
THERE IS A STRONG chance that by midsummer, theN.B.A. will have joined the N.F.L. in locking out its players, and for this we can credit two men above all others, the commissioners David Stern and Roger Goodell. Stern’s N.B.A., which just had one of its least successful franchises (the Warriors) sell for a record $450 million, wants player salaries slashed by 38 percent. Goodell’s N.F.L., which has never been more profitable, wants 18 percent. Ponder for a moment that both commissioners are peddling what is essentially an upward redistribution of wealth into the hands of guys like Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban. It’s going to take some real salesmanship to get the public to go for that. So who’s better equipped to do it?
Bill Maher on a wonderful tangent - he presents the perfect Republican candidate for 2012, the direct opposite of Obama. A fat white guy.....
Very funny - 3 minutes......
So "24" is over, and we really miss the growling of Kiefer Sutherland....well he's back in a web series called "The Confession".....
It’s not a big leap from Jack Bauer, the government agent Mr. Sutherland played for eight seasons on “24,” to the unnamed hit man he plays in the 10 episodes (about 60 minutes total) of “The Confession,” a Web serial making its debut Monday on hulu.com. (The first three episodes are scheduled to go up at 5 a.m. Eastern time.)
“The Confession” is a high-profile example of a particular category of Web series: those made by television and film veterans who, looking to the future, are trying to get a toehold in the world of small screens and 5-to-10-minute narrative blocks. It’s written and directed by Brad Mirman, a Hollywood screenwriter (“The Good Shepherd,” “Truth or Consequences, N.M.”), and Mr. Sutherland’s co-star is another well-known actor, John Hurt.
Link to episode one.....
A young teenager takes a nude picture of herself and sends it to her boyfriend....it's called sexting....and bad stuff happens....
A fascinating story of how this girls life is badly affected by this stupid action, and how the police and parents go berserk over teenage nonsense, overreact and start flinging sex offender charges around....
Truly a story of our times.....overreact to everything.....
LACEY, Wash. — One day last winter Margarite posed naked before her bathroom mirror, held up her cellphone and took a picture. Then she sent the full-length frontal photo to Isaiah, her new boyfriend.
Both were in eighth grade.
They broke up soon after. A few weeks later, Isaiah forwarded the photo to another eighth-grade girl, once a friend of Margarite’s. Around 11 o’clock at night, that girl slapped a text message on it.
“Ho Alert!” she typed. “If you think this girl is a whore, then text this to all your friends.” Then she clicked open the long list of contacts on her phone and pressed “send.”
In less than 24 hours, the effect was as if Margarite, 14, had sauntered naked down the hallways of the four middle schools in this racially and economically diverse suburb of the state capital, Olympia. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of students had received her photo and forwarded it.
In short order, students would be handcuffed and humiliated, parents mortified and lessons learned at a harsh cost. Only then would the community try to turn the fiasco into an opportunity to educate.
Todays redneck jokes
Top Ten Country Western Songs. OK, everybody, sing along!!!!!!!
10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine
9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I Woke Up With A Few
8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me
7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'
6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win
5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She's Lookin' Better with Every Beer1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day Long
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