Bigmack
Bigmack's JournalAt what point does a religion...
become so disconnected from its members that it no longer functions?
I have read that 98% of US Catholic women use birth control.... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-most-catholic-women-us-use-birth-cont-idUSTRE73D4SZ20110414
... and that American Catholic women have a higher abortion rate than protestant women......
http://factcheck.org/2007/12/abortions-comparing-catholic-and-protestant-women/
Abortion and birth control are two biggies in the church.
So..... WTF?
Like Carlin...."I was born an Irish Catholic... now I'm an American."
The ROE didn't include...
... the phrase "shoot first and ask questions later."
The ROE didn't include shooting granny in bed.
The ROE didn't include taking 5 men out and executing them... not in the heat of a firefight, but executing them.
The ROE didn't include shooting into rooms containing women and children... shooting that was not random, but well-aimed and center of body-mass shots.
Wuterich was a Staff NCO...in charge of seeing that the Marines under him followed the ROE, the UCMJ, the Geneva Conventions, and any other orders from his superiors.
He failed miserably. He failed to control his Marines, and in fact led them to commit war crimes.
In my war, we took innocent lives... by accident. Regrettable, and I feel them today. But we had NCOs who controlled the situation and made sure we followed orders.
This man is a disgrace to the Corps. He violated the prime code of honor of the Marine Corps... (From the Marine Corps Code of Honor) ... "And, above all, honor mandates that a Marine never sully the reputation of his Corps."
Clean out your headgear!
I was MOS 0331, and I was in the shit enough to know when somebody is talking thru their ass.
Sugar should be a controlled substance....!
I've fought my weight my whole life. Always in good shape, but way too heavy. Very active... hiking and doing lots of physical type work.
My doc has always been after me to lose weight, of course. "Diet and exercise"....
Shit, I was watching what I ate.. diet pop and the whole thing.
I was in to see him in June, and he changed the script... he said that sugar should be a controlled substance... that it's addictive for most people.
He said to cut out sugar and white carbs and anything that tells your body it is sweet. He said that you'll have withdrawal symptoms for a couple of weeks, but then you'll be better.
I did it.
Cut all sugar out.... except honey in my coffee and one glass of wine about 5 nights a week.
The doc was right... withdrawal pains and amazing cravings. I stuck it out and after about two weeks I felt no cravings.
Since June of 2011, I have lost 35 lbs.
It's not a diet... I eat a LOT! Instead of a bagel, I have a whole wheat wrap. Instead of chips and salsa, I have cauliflower and salsa or apples and salsa. Big breakfast of fake egg omelet with lots of onion and real bacon bits on a wrap. Lunch is cottage cheese and fruit... lots of it... and some nuts. Dinner... lots of anything that isn't white (whole wheat is OK) and fruit for desert.
I don't suffer at all.
It does piss me off that sugar is in everything! You have to watch carefully. Yoghurt, for instance, has 25-30 grams of sugar... I think companies could sell horse shit in little containers if they put enough sugar in it.
I think that sugar made my body hungry and demanded more food. I don't feel those cravings anymore.
I'm not even worried about regaining the weight... I'm not on a diet.
I'm not defending them... but....
.. the people of this country have no fucking idea what war is really about.
Pissing on their dead...? You think that's the worst..?
You think their moms taught them to do that..?
Nope...WE did.
WE are the ones who have made a society so involved in war/death/revenge that pissing on the dead is nothing! We have killed hundreds of thousands... actually, millions... of innocents in our march to Empire. Hell, we killed innocents today!
We have to stop being an Empire. We have to stop putting our people in these situations. We have to stop making so many veterans.
Libraries... who needs them? ...
In our area in semi-rural Washington State, we had a library levy last year. The letters to the editor of the local paper were absolutely amazing. All the usual rightwingnut bloviation about inefficient government, rising taxes, and spending those fucking "hard earned tax dollars" (do the rightwingnuts imagine that only they work hard for their money). Several complained that nobody uses libraries anymore.
Intent on pissing away some of my valuable time, I responded.
It seems that Americans paid taxes in 2009 at a lesser rate than at any time since the Truman administration, so all that "high tax" stuff is just bullshit.
More people used our library system last year than at any time in history.... 12% more.
In addition, the levy would amount to $24 ..... per year per household.
I wrote all that... several times. Each time, my written comment was the last one on the thread.
A couple of days later, another LTTE would appear, screaming about the high taxes, big government, and the wise use of those "hard-earned tax dollars".
I responded again.... and again, my comments were the last one on the thread.
Those people do NOT listen to anybody... any fact... any reason. They just operate from their guts... especially the very last part of their guts.
Another possible explanation...
Once a soldier starts handling that shit, it becomes a tool... like a rifle... and it loses it's scary reputation. It's benign until you put a detonator in it. Burn it, shoot it, hammer it.... nothing.
This dumbshit could have thought (?)(!) it would be neat to have some around for stuff like fireworks, or something on the farm.
I wish I had 1/10th of the C-4 I blew simply so I didn't have to carry it anymore.
Before 9-11, I had a permit to buy and permit to use explosives, and it was wonderful for stumping, digging, ditching, rock-cracking.... etc.
Modern plastic explosives are very useful... and I have to admit... fun.
So maybe ... just maybe... there is no dark motives behind this.. just amazing stupidity.
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