Aloha Dump

I just now ate, in its entirety, an Arbys Bacon Beef 'n Cheddar sandwich. I emptied a packet of BBQ sauce and a packet of Horsey sauce onto the gooey cheese inside. I am having second thoughts about declining the take-home angioplasty kit as I am now phlegmy and coughing like the Playboy editors after reading the "I'm ready to show my tits for money now that my career is washed up. Have you seen Dana Plato around?" letter from Britney Spears. I expect a massive coronary within the hour. But damn, that thing was good. You're just one step away, Britney....

I get a lot of emails from my grandfather that deal with forwarded stories, most are the "Soup for the Soul" stuff and things I have to reply back to him that didn't really happen or that is an urban legend etc. But today I got something from him that was really cool, and unfortunately, you will never see on television. I thought it was an urban legend but it checked out- it is the sentencing of the shoe bomber- remember that asshat? He made a bomb in his show and was going to blow up an airplane in December of 2001. He got donkey punched by some passengers as he tried to light it. U.S. District Court Judge William Young did make the following statement during the sentencing of convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in Boston on January 30, 2003.The judge's remarks followed a belligerent and unapologetic statement by Reid accusing the United States of sponsoring the torture of Muslims in Arab countries, "I'm an enemy of your country," he told th...

As elusive as a competent employee at Pearl Harbor Personnel Detachment, finding a job proves to be just as difficult in this new place I've settled down in as a newly retired Sailor. In short, the Sacramento area sucks yak balls. Well, at least for finding a job as a Training Specialist. I've resorted to pulling out the electronics resumes, although I swore I would never pursue it since I didn't particularly enjoy it while I was in the Navy. But, when you are squeezing the toothpaste tube with vice grips, digging for loose change for gas money, and shopping at the 99 cent store out of necessity then you gotta do what you gotta do. I don't know how you damn civilians do it. It is amazing how much I relied and took for granted my military paycheck, no matter how meager it was at times, to arrive on the 1st and 15th of every month. Ahh, the good old days! I can honestly say that I have never prayed harder and longer in my life and to give credit where it's due- things...

It has been a while since my last post and so much has happened; I just wanted to provide a quick update to both my readers to assure them I am still alive. I retired from the Navy on July 20 (pictures coming soon), headed out to California to live and am waiting on both job interviews and for confirmation from my future landlord that I am not a psychopathic wierdo who will destroy her house during my rental. I must say that the one thing that has made me happy in the last few weeks of being in CA is the driving. First, I am able to actually drive for an hour and make some good time. Hawaii has the slowest, most inattentive drivers I have ever seen (cleverly disguised as Aloha Spirit) and it is such a thrill to drive with people who know how to merge into highway traffic, understand how to let people in, use thier blinkers to change lanes or turn, and use the lanes properly for the speed they are driving. Some things in paradise just aren't the worth the hassle. I am digging this r...

This piece was lifted from Mike Lief's blog who brought attention to an article by Victor Davis Hanson. Nary will you ever hear about this on any main stream media outlet. I am so speechless and distraught that I cannot even comment on the substance of the article right now. For all of the delusional people who think we can sit down and negotiate with these Islamic extremists, please punch yourself in the face. Greek mythology often encapsulated an entire culture's worst fears and depravities-and over centuries of story-telling became ever more complex and layered and bizarre. But what is strange about reading Michael Yon's graphic descriptions from Iraq is that al Qaeda (or its kindred) seems almost in a single generation to be outdoing a millennium of savagery present in Greek history and myth. You have to go to Thucydides's Mycalessus to find a parallel of wiping out even the animals of a small village. On Friday, Yon reported that al Qaeda served up a son for din...

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, top speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. - Oliver Sacks Neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain **Dedicated to my brother-in-law, Michael, who has been in the hospital for a month after a serious car accident, and who only recently opened his eyes for the first time. Maybe we should pipe in some 50 cent... if that isn't enough motivation to get out of that hospital then nothing is.

I read this piece in The Atlantic and have wanted to blog it for a few weeks. It is entitled Untruth and Consequences by Carl M. Cannon. The first line is an eye grabber: "From Washington to FDR to Nixon, presidents have always lied. Here’s what makes George Bush different." With all the rhetoric about WMD’s, quagmires, 9/11 conspiracies, Guantanamo, etc. floating around, this article was just begging to be read. The article starts out with lies told by FDR’s aids about his health. He was in poor shape but with Allies getting ready to kick some ass in Europe and the Navy bouncing around in the Pacific it seemed prudent to lie to America about how many hours the President actually worked- at most 4 hours and day, sometimes as little as 1. Roosevelt’s cardiologist described FDR’s condition as "god-awful"- hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, cardiac failure, and acute bronchitis all on the chart. But it would have been disastrous for the war effort to reveal the ...

Email is the lifeblood of my organization and contributes to both its success and its detriment. The basic command of the Engish language is something I take for granted especially after having this blog for so long and really having to pay attention to how I write. Posting on other blogs is also a challenge because I don't want to come off as an illiterate ass. Here is a recent email from someone at my command. She is civilian, local, and, unfortunately, contributes to the negative stereotype that locals are stupid. Hello all, I have officially move office. I now in room 109 Supply Office. I can be reach at xxx-xxxx temporarily until my number is move. Thanks. Vr, I. (name and number changed to protect the innocent)

From Times Online: President Bush today fuelled anger over his decision to spare Lewis “Scooter” Libby from jail by hinting that he could yet issue a full pardon for the ex-White House aide. Who's angry? Mostly the Democrats. Because it is Bush. How many people has Bush pardoned during his presidency as compared to his predecessor? He set a 50-year record low for pardons in Texas, granting only 19, including six convicts who proved their innocence. As president, he's granted just 113 in just over six years — the stingiest record among the 11 presidents since the end of World War II. If you will recall, Clinton pardoned 117 people on his LAST day as President. Here is the list of all 400 people who Clinton pardoned, under far more nefarious circumstances than Libby might get, just to put things in perspective. I wonder if we can look forward to more of these schenanigans if Hillary survives the polls.

Michael Yon is a 41 year old ex Green Beret who travels with the troops in Iraq. His stories lend incredible insight into the war on terror and the enemies true face- the face that you will not see on main stream media outlets or hear about from terrorist apologists. I have bookmarked Yon's site and read it everyday. The following piece is his latest dispatch as he rode with the 5th division to an abandoned Iraqi village. It is very disturbing and Yon's narrative will put a knot in your stomach. He tells of a village that was brutalized by al-Qaeda. This is the true face of our enemy- the enemy of freedom, the enemy of life. Bless the Beasts and the Children

Retarded Judge, Roy pearson, loses $54M dry cleaning lawsuit . At the very least, this jackass should be disbarred- a good horseshipping couldn't hurt either. I sent a letter to the D.A. of D.C. explaining this very position. Perhaps they will see things my way. Also, a dumbass in Alaska, Joe Frederick, thought it would be cute to display a 'Bong Hits for Jesus' sign. He claims he wasn't promoting drugs and that he was just exercising his right of free speech and to get some attention as the Winter Olympic torch passed by his school. (This happened in January of 2002) School officials suspended the asshat but only after the court ruling barely passed by a 5-4 margin. I wonder how much flack he would have gotten had it been a 'Bong Hits for Muhammed' sign. Of course the ACLU jumped on Frederick's plight because after all, they don't hate religion- only Christianity. More distressing is that the issue revolved around promoting pot and little to do with ...

Carter blasts US policy on Palestinians Can't this guy just die? Why is it that every loser and 'has been' with a initiative towards mediocrity sign up with the lowest common denominators of the human race? The sad part is that Carter has followers and they love his alignment with the terrorists and his attacks on the big bad U.S. of A.