Ironic

Please read below for the continued rant about this topic

Raed up your Ass!

Hello all get ready because I am pissed! This story I found today on the Drudge Report sent me through the roof! A Code Pink supporting Iraqi "puff" was detained at JFK airport and was forced to change his t-shirt which offended some passengers plus an flight attendant at the check-in booth for his flight. The t-shirt read in both arabic and english "We will not be silent". The flight attendant found it offensive and/or inflammatory reported it and had him detained and asked to remove the item of clothing. Full story here.
After going to this "oppressed" bloggers website. I read his side of the story. This America hating liberal is acting like he was first racially "profiled" and second his constitutional rights were being violated! Hey buddy it's ok for you guys to wear crap like this or filth like this. And I am supposed to be ok with it? Why because you went to Berkley or some other facist college in the U.S.? Where's my right to find you and your kind of people offensive! Where is that flight attendants right to find that shirt offensive and have you remove it before boarding "her" flight? ....Oh that's right people who love there country and are Pro-America don't have rights because we are all sheep huh?...Lambs of the facist regime huh? Mindless, uneducated, noncultured, poor white/black/asian/latino.(/purple/blue/pink/etc)trash that believe the "hype" that America is the best country to live in. Maybe I will attend your next "F(*& America" rally with this t-shirt on. Do you think I won't get harassed or asked to take it off? Why maybe it might offend some of your kind(kind meaning anti-Americans lets not turn this into a race thing).Where is my right to wear that lil gem?

I tell you what you explain to me how a religion that condones beheadings and the enslavement of Kafir women for "personal usage" isn't a violent religion and I won't purchase and wear with pride this t-shirt. Plus I will publicly apologize on my own blog to anyone who is offended by this rant today. "Where are you getting this Shamrock!?!" you all exclaim. "Here I'll provide some reading for you choose to read it or don't. But a little wisdom never hurt anyone.

Shamrock Out!


According to Muhammad’s sacralized biography by Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad himself sanctioned the massacre of the Qurayza, a vanquished Jewish tribe. He appointed an "arbiter" who soon rendered this concise verdict: the men were to be put to death, the women and children sold into slavery, the spoils to be divided among the Muslims. Muhammad ratified this judgment stating that it was a decree of God pronounced from above the Seven Heavens. Thus some 600 to 900 men from the Qurayza were lead on Muhammad’s order to the Market of Medina. Trenches were dug and the men were beheaded, and their decapitated corpses buried in the trenches while Muhammad watched in attendance. Women and children were sold into slavery, a number of them being distributed as gifts among Muhammad’s companions, and Muhammad chose one of the Qurayza women (Rayhana) for himself. The Qurayza’s property and other possessions (including weapons) were also divided up as additional "booty" among the Muslims, to support further jihad campaigns.

The classical Muslim jurist al-Mawardi (a Shafi’ite jurist, d. 1058) from Baghdad was a seminal, prolific scholar who lived during the so-called Islamic "Golden Age" of the Abbasid-Baghdadian Caliphate. He wrote the following, based on widely accepted interpretations of the Qur'an and Sunna (i.e., the recorded words and deeds of Muhammad), regarding infidel prisoners of jihad campaigns:

“As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, 'When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks' (Qur'an sura 47, verse 4)”....Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah." [The Laws of Islamic Governance, trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192. Emphasis added.]

Indeed such odious “rules” were iterated by all four classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence, across the vast Muslim empire.

For centuries, from the Iberian peninsula to the Indian subcontinent, jihad campaigns waged by Muslim armies against infidel Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Hindus, were punctuated by massacres, including mass throat slittings and beheadings. During the period of “enlightened” Muslim rule, the Christians of Iberian Toledo, who had first submitted to their Arab Muslim invaders in 711 or 712, revolted in 713. In the harsh Muslim reprisal that ensued, Toledo was pillaged, and all the Christian notables had their throats cut. On the Indian subcontinent, Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, who is revered as a paragon of Muslim tolerance by modern revisionist historians, recorded the following in his autobiographical “Baburnama,” about infidel prisoners of a jihad campaign:

"Those who were brought in alive [having surrendered] were ordered beheaded, after which a tower of skulls was erected in the camp." [The Baburnama -Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, translated and edited by Wheeler M. Thacktson, Oxford University Press,1996, p. 188. Emphasis added.]

Recent jihad-inspired decapitations of infidels by Muslims have occurred across the globe- Christians in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Nigeria; Hindu priests and "unveiled" Hindu women in Kashmir; Wall Street Journal reporter, and Jew, Daniel Pearl. We should not be surprised that these contemporary paroxysms of jihad violence are accompanied by ritualized beheadings. Such gruesome acts are in fact sanctioned by core Islamic sacred texts, and classical Muslim jurisprudence. Empty claims that jihad decapitations are somehow "alien to true Islam," however well-intentioned, undermine serious efforts to reform and desacralize Islamic doctrine. This process will only begin with frank discussion, both between non-Muslims and Muslims, and within the Muslim community.

Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School.He is the author of "The Legacy of Jihad."

The Windy City and Assholes

Hey it's Monday "Yeah"! Anyways I don't know if anyone has been tracking or have heard anything about Chicago and it's new laws they passed or trying to pass but I have been listening long enough about it and I have a comment about this lil gem ready.... Here it goes. Ok the City of Chicago is passing some laws that seem weird to me here are some examples of these said laws. "No smoking in public places that children can be in" I'm assuming restaurants and the like. "No smoking in YOUR car if children are present". That's kinda a no brainier. "No eating duck and/or goose liver within the city limits". Now that one kinda made me chuckle but you know whatever. I mean what do you expect from a city that invented prohibition. I really don't think that fowl liver "Speakeasys" will start to "pop" up around the greater Chicago area but I'm just sayin'. And the peoples and MSMs reaction to this is that the local government is "parenting" it's citizens. AMERICA! HEY!..Listen you DO want the government to "parent" you! When a video game that comes out and it's the new "hotness" that's obviously full of violence and crime you don't take it from your kid and say "Damn I need to pay attention to what the hell my kids are buying/playing on this here idiot box". Oh no you blame the gamemaker and make the "Government" threaten gamemakers with fines and such then have the government make a rating system for such games. Which in turn gamemakers comply and then due to the rating system make even more violent adult games. Why because there rated "M" for mature. Or how about when children go on shooting spree killing a dozen kids then themselves. America blames the music they listened to and once again the video games that they played plus we blamed some comic books that were found at the houses. Then we ask for more bans and 18+ purchasing of explicit lyric music. And then our friend Michael Moore blames K-Mart for selling the bullets to the youngsters so they can kill other young people. That's right Michael the Columbine Trenchcoat Mafia walked up to the clerk at the outdoors section of K-mart and asked "Do you have any bullets that we can use for a High School shooting spree where planning?" And clerk answered "Why sure we've got a 2 for 1 sale going on for death and destruction". I got an idea how about we look into asking the parents how many times they asked there kids what the HELL there doing with this many guns or say "Hey your wearing really dark clothes and look scary are you ok?" and just get involved. Or here's another one ask the school why these two kids killed only the youngsters that were the "pricks" of school. I know that sounded harsh but it's the damn truth. The majority of the kids targeted where the ones that made these troubled youths life hell. And you don't think that school counselors/teachers know what the hell goes on in the halls and such. Of course they do but why bring in one of the popular rich kids and run the risk of pissing off there equally rich and "asshole" parents. "Fuck it" these counselors say "I get my summers off". America doesn't want to take responsibility for anything if it means that Americans have to look at themselves and say "Oh crap my bad ..I screwed up". We can't do that because it makes us feel weird inside and ...and ...makes us feel BAD! But take away my right to smoke and eat partially raw goose liver and it's "DAMN THE MAN!" "Whadda mean I can't smoke in my car with my six bastards in the car!....I mean I got the window cracked..Sheesh!" Look I don't give a monkeys uncle if you smoke it's not my thing but I got plenty of other things that can kill me as well so who am I to judge right. I dunno this rant kinda went "Dennis Leary" so with that I leave you with this wonderful little ditty from one of the best Irish poets and storytellers of our time. Enjoy your Monday people.

SHAMROCK OUT!

Airborne Day at the Museum Part 2

Above are the busts of Col Aaron Bank. The founder and Father of Special Forces. Next to him is Col Arthur D "Bull" Simons which he's was the mastermind behind many SOF missions to include the Son Tay Raid and Desert One in Iran in the late 70's



Below are some "Special" people that I found inside in the A/C because it was so damn hot even at 9:00AM. Work smarter not harder I always say. They had all job descriptions and equipment there for the public to view. I chose the most "sanitized" pictures for you to view but none the less impressive.


The Medic



Weapons




Scuba "Steve"



Below is the 1st FSSF or theDevil's Brigade. I took these pictures for our friends in the north. This WWII unit was a joint task force if you will of U.S. and Canadian troops. And in Anzio the Germans dubbed them "The Black Devils"








The museum used to have a great Global War on Terrorism section right off to the main museum display entrance. Well they have moved that out and put in a Vietnam War memorial/Airborne Special Ops timeline and major campaigns section. Below are some pictures of the entrance and some of the displays. The 173rd (my old stompin' ground) is also represented very well in this section












The 173rd ABN BDE or "The Herd".









Well that's it I have more but I'm not gonna post them. If I did you wouldn't have a reason to go to this amazing museum. If you have a chance or haven't been there in awhile go. Go and see it again. Everytime I go I see something new. Like the SF guy hiding in the bushes by the mock LZ in the Vietnam section of the main museum or talk to one of the old vets who give up there free time to work there. I took my parents there and I told one of the "old timers" it was there first time at the museum. Shoot he walked us around and told us millions more than I could ever BS my way through plus he had first hand knowledge of fighting in Italy with the 504 PIR in WWII. When I was at the museum for Airborne Day everyone was there WWII, Korea, Vietnam, all were represented. I ran into and spoke to a gentleman from the British Para Regiment that parachuted into the British objectives on D-Day! This guy was amazing! Flew all the way from England for vacation to the coast but planned it around this day. The stories he was telling quickly drew a crowd for new and old paratroopers. And you could see in this old mans eyes the joy he felt talking to the new generation of "Paratroopers". I also met a vet from Vietnam that was a "Red Hat". He said he was on MACV Advisory Team 162. I didn't find much on this on the web but he was an interesting fellow that talked a bit about there training and similarities it had with some of the stuff in the "Q". Well like I said I hope you enjoyed these pictures and sorry it took so long to get them up. Have a good weekend.


SHAMROCK OUT!

Airborne Day at the Museum Part 1

Well last Saturday I went to the Airborne & Special Operations Museum and celebrated Airborne Day. So like a good paratrooper I took a bunch of pictures for you guys. Below are just some of the pictures I have. Enjoy!



There was a lot of WWII equipment and "reenactors" on display on the front lawn of the museum. These guys were the only 82nd troopers having a good time. The modern troopers really looked pissed off about there Saturday being taken plus Boy Scouts climbing all over there HMMWV's




This WWII Harley is awesome! The old timer in the chair said he found it in a barn and restored it to its original glory. His oldest son there only rides it about 3-4 times a year. I have been kicking around the idea of modernizing this concept with a bobber rolling chassis. That would be sick huh!

The museum is building a new section of to the side of the main displays which is dedicated to the modern Special Forces missions and equipment. They opened this section up for the day. I was lucky enough to be allowed to take some pictures of some of the displays. Below are only three of maybe a handful in this new section that were partially done.


Robin Sage (I know.. I laughed too!)





The Infamous GMV


CAS





On an admin note I cannot post the rest of the pics so I'll be splitting up this post into hopefully two parts.

Urination and Michael Moore

So I was doing my daily ritual of gathering viable intel from the Drudge Report when I ran across this great story that the Washington Post is running this morning.

A self-described peace activist responsible for the diversion of a London-to-Washington flight Wednesday acted bizarrely for hours, made references to al Qaeda and hijack training flights, and was restrained by two passengers after she urinated in the aisle.
Catherine C. Mayo, 59, a Vermont woman who also lives part time in Pakistan, was charged yesterday in federal court with interfering with a flight crew.
United Flight 923 was forced to make an emergency landing at Boston's Logan International Airport under escort by two military jets.
"She's got some very serious mental health problems," said Page Kelley, Mrs. Mayo's attorney, who described her client as "just barely lucid."
According to an affidavit and passenger accounts, Mrs. Mayo began pacing the plane from the front to aft lavatory and asked a flight attendant, "Is this a training flight for United Flight 93?" -- the flight hijacked on September 11, 2001, that crashed into a Pennsylvania farm field.
Mrs. Mayo demanded to speak with an air marshal, saying the contents of her bag would be of interest. Her bag contained a screwdriver, body lotion, several cigarette lighters and a bottle of water. The affidavit did not say how she smuggled the items on board, despite being screened twice at London's Heathrow Airport.
When confronted by the captain, Mrs. Mayo made a reference to bomb assembly, saying, "There are six steps to building some unspecified thing."
"She made reference to being with people associated with two words," the affidavit said. "She stated that she could not say what the two words were because the last time that she had said the two words she had been kicked off a flight in the United Arab Emirates."
The captain ordered her restrained, and the passengers and a flight attendant tackled her and placed her hands in plastic cuffs.
Officials in the United Kingdom and the U.S. are on heightened alert after dozens of British citizens were arrested last week, accused of plotting to smuggle liquid explosives aboard trans-Atlantic flights.
Mrs. Mayo told passengers she was an undercover reporter testing security to see whether she could sneak restricted items on board.
As a columnist for the Daily Times of Pakistan, Mrs. Mayo criticized President Bush -- calling him "a president not elected by the people"-- and the war in Iraq. "The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism they cannot mention peace," she wrote.
Passengers initially assumed the men who restrained Mrs. Mayo were federal air marshals but yesterday said they were passengers recruited by flight attendants who provided them with handcuffs.
"They were asked to be on the alert in case we need you," said Joan Bartko, a passenger who was traveling with her family.
Mrs. Mayo "took down her slacks and started taking down her underwear, and that's when they got her. They were just passengers on the plane who immediately helped," Mrs. Bartko said.

Who the hell urinates in the middle of a airplane aisle? No really ask yourselves that question. What would posssess you to drop your drawers and "piss for peace"? Does this work? Would people see this and suddenly go" You know this war is wrong!" And then start pissing with you? And I didn't know George W was silencing folk music?! I am shocked at this! We need to get Joan Baez on the horn to confirm this. People I tell you one thing if I was on this flight and a flight attendant asked me to help "restrain" this woman ..Oh Man! I would take out said activist with an Armbar flexcuffed the crazy *&^%$ and then just for good measure pissed on her back in the shape of a shamrock. YEAH GO U.S.A.!


Another little gem I ran across was this fine story being posted by Al Reuters.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents.

"The Code of Silence" was posted on the Internet by the Rashedeen Army, thought to be a relatively small Sunni group which has produced videos in the past of attacks it claims to have carried out.

At almost an hour in length, it is the longest and most professionally made of recent postings by mainly Sunni militant and insurgent groups fighting the U.S.-backed government.

The U.S. military said earlier this week that recent intelligence indicated al Qaeda in Iraq was refining its strategy by producing propaganda and adding a political base to its violent campaign of suicide bombings.

Lifting scenes from Michael Moore's anti-war film "Fahrenheit 9/11", Rashedeen's narrator taunts President Bush in softly spoken English over graphic images of Humvees being blown up by roadside bombs, and purportedly dead U.S. troops.

It was not possible to verify when the documentary was made or the authenticity of any of the images portrayed by Rashedeen, whose name means Army of the Rightly Guided.

At one point, the documentary cuts to a scene from Moore's 2004 award-winning film where he lobbies on the steps of the U.S. Congress in Washington.

"After all, there are honest and influential guys in America and if Mr Moore can talk to you like that, so can I," the Rashedeen narrator says. In addition to numerous bomb and rocket attacks, the documentary also shows two militants painstakingly drilling a hole into an old artillery shell, turning it into a homemade bomb and then burying it to create a deadly trap.

"In the good old days of the invasion, this used to be a one-man show. Not any more. Your boys have become smart. They started to ambush us. Today it takes a big unit.

"That's good. It means your boys are on the run all day long, seven days a week. And it is really devastating for them, especially if they are on their third tour and don't have our secret weapon -- patience."

I really have nothing to say but "Thanks Mike!" As far as the Rashedeen Army goes I have this to say " You havn't met me yet Haji!" Patience my "enlightened holy warrior" you will ...oh yes.... you will. MWUUUAHHHHAHAHA!

SHAMROCK OUT!

Shamrock and Internet Dating

Come on let's face the facts the internet is mainly used for three things. 1. Porn 2. Internet dating (myspace included) 3. Blogging(which I think is becoming very popular outlet). I only say these things because I'm guilty of alot of these crimes. I routinely "procure" music, movies, and programs at a steady clip. I on occasion view pornographic material on the net....what!...? But, BUT I refuse to have anything to do with Myspace! Plus I don't need internet dating services I got me a nice lil momma at the ShamrockCave. "What's your point Shamrock?" You ask? Well yesterday the Shamrock Princess calls me up from her work and asks me if I would like to go out for a steak. "Of course!" was my reply. But there was more to the free meal that I was to enjoy. Friends from work would be coming. Normally I don't mind company at dinner I usually enjoy it. But for some reason Princess was acting weird. We were gonna "meet up with" two other girls from work so that the four of us could check out the other girls "Myspace date". Needless to say I thought this was sad...so very sad. But I was hungry and what could go wrong huh? So on we went to the steakhouse. When we got there I was introduced to both ladies. The first had the energy of a retired cheerleader in fact I think she was an ex-cheerleader. Very bubblely and personable. Instantly annoying. We will call her "C". The other lady was a very sweet young lass with a great heart and personality. Now pay attention cuz I'm showing you all something. What I basically said was the young lady is " Rubenesque". Please do not think I am being mean or cruel this girl is really a sweetheart. SO fast forward to the "Date". Well the three of us split from her and walk towards the building and I start in on my rant about how myspace is filled with child molesters and social deviants when we see him. Now the first thing outta my mouth is "See he looks like a child molester". People this guy really did look like a troubled soul. He was still in uniform which chaps my ass plus he had the telltale "red nose" and bloodshot eyes of a hard drinker plus the added look of the slighly hunched over shoulders which screams to me self confidence issues with a hint of depression. Now up until this point I'm just here for the food and Princess. Well the sweetheart is still waiting in her car. She finally walks in and from what she said she saw him and immediately made the same decision that "We" had come up with. So she said "Hello" he blankly looked at her and said nothing so she walked in. We all sit down and the ladies start into the dissection of this man which I really wasn't paying attention too. But what I did hear was that this guy told her via Myspace that he wanted to get deployed overseas and I quote" To kill some of those MFers". Plus he was up to his eyeballs in debt and was basically looking for that special someone to help him out of that mess and take long walks on the beach. My advice to her was to get the FUCK OFF Myspace and do....do....do...? I dunno..something else! Look I know that alot of people are on Myspace. And they use that power for good and I'm glad but I hear way to much evil shit about that place due to the fact that Shamrock Princess's lil sis is on there and is only 16 and she get some really ruthless and graphic things sent or written/posted to her. So in closing thank you AL Gore for inventing the internet because without it I would have almost no life whatsoever!





P.S. I love You Tube

Antiwar Protesters Owned By Electricity!

Sorry about not having a new post in a while. Shamrock embraced the Irish curse and the spirits flowed like a river Sunday so.....My head hurts! With that I give you this. Enjoy!







Also check out these polesmokers webpage out! There called Pittsburgh Organized Group. Enough said....What the hell is my hometown coming to?

Calmer than you are Dude!

I know that the MSM has barely covered this for the past week but I would like to throw my "gamecock" in the ring on this topic. The MSM reported this for about half a day then "poof"...... Why? I mean the MSM salivate like a bloodhound at the slightest scent of a cover-up. So why no full court press on the morals and beliefs of Reuters? Maybe there was more important breaking news like our friend Mel. I didn't know that "Jews" could drive you to drink then drive! I always thought it was the "little people" and there pot"o"gold. First Jesus now this! I'm gonna have to watch out for those "people". Back to the topic: "Why didn't they report this issue Shamrock?" you ask. Well that my friends that is a very good question and I have the answer. It makes them(media) look bad. Plain and simple. The MSM uses Reuters reports and pictures on a regular basis. If media groups publicly "shame"them said media groups could lose a news source. Look it breaks down like this. One media source covered for another "brother" and squashed the story. We all have a secret story about one of our friends right? He or she wouldn't want the world to know that they not only drank way to much and vomited BUT that they also lost bowel control and you got tasked to "clean up" the mess. People I'm not trying to justify the MSM's actions. I'm just trying to put it in terms we all can understand. It's a process and if all of us support each other we will eventually learn to understand them better.


I stumbled onto this kick-ass website and I demand that you guys check it out. It's called HotAir and it has this internet news show called "Vent" with the very attractive and conservative Michelle Malkin. What a great site man! Funny as hell reporting on Michelles part. Well my good friend JakeCommando is once again back in the blogshere. He's posted a very funny story about how sarcasm can bring people closer. I suggest you check it out as well. One more thing guys. This being "humpday" I want to share some humor with you so I decided to post up a video of my favorite comedian Dane Cook. Enjoy this people but be warned he swears a bit on this plus it's like 23 minutes long but I'm telling you it's worth it

SHAMROCK OUT!

Mancow and the MTV blaxploitation era

I don't know if you guys know who this dude is bit I freakin' love him. Mancow Muller is the best(In my opinion) ranter out there today. He routinely appears on Fox and Friends which I of course love. This guy goes off on everything from filthy Liberals to one of his favorite Nevada hangouts the Moonlight BunnyRanch. I'm not saying he's a role model I'm just saying I enjoy his point of view. If you have the means or the time check him out. If FOX NEWS puts him on the air with &*%#ing Doocy then you know he's good.


This article was the Drudge Report today and I gotta say I totally agree with this guys opinion on the world outlook on Black America. And what MTV has done to create a negative moronic "I sell rock and that be koo" genre that we now see invading suburban America.
Last week, MTV celebrated its 25th anniversary, marking a quarter of a century after having conceived of the first actually new thing in popular television entertainment since "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train."
The music video became a big deal through MTV and not only updated the old "soundies" once shown in movie theaters to feature singers and instrumentalists. It also revolutionized the making of films by acclimating its audience to the extremely fast crosscutting that had been pioneered in television commercials, where the faster the message arrived, the better. In the process, the MTV audience learned to see much more quickly and recognize what sometimes quite surreal montages were saying or what they were alluding to - no small accomplishment.

Of course, that is not the whole story of MTV, which also came to project the most dehumanizing images of black people since the dawn of minstrelsy in the 19th century. Pimps, whores, potheads, dope dealers, gangbangers, the crudest materialism and anarchic gang violence were broadcast around the world as "real" black culture.

At first, far too many black people were taken in by the cult of celebrity and the wealth that came to these gold- toothed knuckleheads and mindless hussies to realize what was happening. The lowest possible common denominator was seen as the norm. The illiteracy and rule-of-thumb stupidity was interpreted as a "cultural" rejection of white middle-class norms.

It was as if these dregs had the same heroic position in our time as the largely uneducated Southern black poor of the civil rights movement. Those Southern black people, like the marvelous Fannie Lou Hamer, proved to this nation and to the world that they not only deserved their constitutional rights, but had something both noble and soulful to add to our American understanding of the richness of the human spirit. We are a much greater nation because of the success of the civil rights movement. As they emerged from beneath the bloody rock of segregation, those Southern black people brought to our national identity a compassion and a bravery of immeasurable value.

Unfortunately, the crabbed thug culture that was popularized through MTV brought nothing big with it other than some paychecks.

Twenty-five years later, Christina Norman is the president of the network - and a black woman with a new problem on her hands. Part of that problem is Lisa Fager, a black woman who is president and co-founder of Industry Ears (industryears.com). Fager is disturbed by an MTV "satire" called "Where My Dogs At?" which has a cartoon figure strongly resembling Snoop Dogg who enters a pet store with two black women walking on all fours with leashes around their necks. At the end of the "parody," they defecate on the floor.

Fager's problem is that the spot was shown at 12:30 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon and will, no doubt, perpetuate among younger viewers the misogynist and dehumanizing images we have become accustomed to in too many rap videos.

That's the way big money goes. We can be sure that Christina Norman will have a simplemindedly liberal justification for the material, but I doubt that Lisa Fager will want to hear it. Nor will the millions of black women who oppose this kind of material and are beginning to rise into the sorts of positions that will make them an influential special-interest group. I don't know how long it will take, but change is on the way.

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Disillusionment

Well hello all I'm Baaacckkk! Wow it's great to be home. I guess a lot has happened since I have been gone. Where to begin.......Ok here we go. Grab ahold of something this is gonna get windy.

First of all I finished what I think was one of the best courses in the world. The wealth of knowledge that you learn about yourself is absolutely priceless. Don't get me wrong here we didn't go camping hold hands beat a deer hide drum and share feelings. We were put into extreme circumstances and forced to deal with them or...Quit. And quitting at that school equals your death in real life. Hence the many life lessons that I took from this outstanding course!


I recently finished the book "Hunting al Qaeda" written by Anonymous. I think it was a good read. BUT I also think there was a lot of "bitching" in this book. I suggest this book to everyone. Only because it's one groups opinion about the War on Terrorism. At times it leans heavy on the supposed micromanagment issues in the SF command group. And the invisible walls put up between the active duty soldiers and the national guard "summer help" Although written anonymously it doesn't take a detective to figure out the author. Plus there are pictures of the team in the book as well. Regardless of the black bar across his eyes one of my SFMS instructors was/is in this group/book. The latest book that I'm reading is Roughneck Nine-One. And I gotta tell ya this is a great read so far. More to come on that title when I'm done with it.


People I'm frustrated. I can't shake this feeling either. The current situation in the Pipeline is horrible. I'm speechless about how to explain this. I once voiced my opinion about the "Lazy Monster" on the net at another site and within 24 hrs I was tracked down by my IP address called into "the office" and utterly destroyed. I was threatened to be "kicked" out of the Q. Told that I have no character or loyalty to the group etc, etc, etc,.This happened to me about 4 months ago. I never forgot that attack. 2 months ago I was told where I was going when I finished the Q which was my first choice. I was pleased as punch because I have family very close to that place. This week that dream was shattered. We were calmly told that all of our assignments had been cancelled and we will not get one. The floor was opened to comments and I told "him" about family being near and the like. Response " Sorry everything subject to change" Plus we just found out that although we are very close to being done some of us (me included) will not be "graduated until March of 2007" What will we be doing until then you ask? Another 2weeks of language then details for 8 weeks then hopefully 4 months of language which rolls us into Christmas break then details until March. After that............? Please note that I am not blaming anyone or any group for this situation. This place is a Monster and its no doubt very hard to control and track. But I don't like hearing good soldiers talk about getting out of the Army as soon as they can or base there opinion of group/team life on this place. "It has to be better than this guys" I say to them. "It will be totally different at group" I would say with a smile and a hearty clap on the back. But after this week I'm beginning to wonder. Is it better out there? Will I ever get out of here? I hope no one takes offense to this I am grateful for all that I have been given from this course. Just sometimes........Whew man...WTF!