You have to love reading Supreme Court cases

Wow...Reading the oral arguments of Snyder v. Phelps and this is going to be some killer reading. For those who don't know about it, this is the case where the father of a young Marine killed in Iraq has taken the Phelps family all the way to SCOTUS for the unholy perversion they call a church.

Good old Father Fred Phelps has what is supposedly a church in Westboro, KS. I apologize to the people of Westboro that I mention his name in association with what I am sure is a wonderful town, just as I won't mention what faith his church is supposedly. Because they lay no claim to him and his church made of his family members due to the hate filled filth that these morons preach.

I personally having seen several interviews of old Fred think he is severely over-compensating and using his pulpit to try to convince his family that he isn't a pole-smoker. I can't help wondering if he doesn't travel all over for his protests just for the chance to visit highway rest areas and other places that he might find those of his persuasion...LMAO

Imagine that

It is so amazing to hear the news media today, and to listen to the veep as they are all celebrating the success in Iraq. It is so amazing that after all the pissing and moaning these past few years that it is a success. I remember leaving there 4 years ago, and coming home to have people tell me what a terrible waste it was and we shouldn't be there. According to those same candy-ass reporters then the only thing that could save the war was a miracle from God on high. All it really needed was for the politicians to shut the hell up and let General Petraeus kick ass like we needed too.

All these reporters and politicians did nothing but get in the damned way of the military. All they had to do was "Cry Havoc" and let slip the Dogs of War. We knew what the hell we were doing and we did the best damned job we could and that anyone could ask. Especially when you consider we had to deal with private contractors getting in the way and even treating us as if we were the enemy.

So for all the blood we shed and the men and women we lost; you're welcome there Mr, Prez. Now stay the hell out of the way in Afghanistan and let them do their job so they can get it done and get on home ASAP.

Three Cheers for Stan!!!

Well, da'Prez has fired General McChrystal in what is a shocking outcome. The only thing that disappoints me in all this is that McChrystal made public apologies in the media about these comments. In thinking about this and wondering though, I have one question that I would love to ask him. I know you are the consummate warrior General, and that you are one of the good guys. Did you fall on your sword General to show people that da'Prez's strategy is a mistake?

I salute you General, and if you did what I think you did I applaud you. 

Disappointed

I thought General McChrystal was one of the good guys and reading what he had to say in Rolling Stone showed me he was. The troops are the ones that matter, and I am sorry to see that he will most likely be replaced by someone who is more politically acceptable. You know what though, f*&^ them if they can't take a joke, General. I know the regs say that you are not supposed to say anything about da Prez, but in this case I can't blame you for saying what you did. I hope, but doubt, that he is smart enough to keep you on the job as doing otherwise would be a huge mistake. From a former soldier who has my old unit in your care, including my younger brother and close friends, thank you for the job you have done and for telling people the truth.

Screw Calderon and his country

After serving this country, I am pissed that the piss-ant presidente of Mexico comes here this week and wants to tell us that our laws are wrong. I could care less what the little sonofabitch says, because guess what we are a sovereign Nation and not the United Welfare States to take care of his citizens. After his statements, every illegal mexican ought to be rounded up and shipped right back across the border along with their anchor babies. Then cut off all the aid we give them and laugh as they try to figure out where all the money his people send home annually will come from now.

A relief for sure

It is nice to finally use this blog to talk about my lifestyle and my interests.

Nowadays, I am losing more and more of my impulse control and just saying and doing what I want more and more. I really don't think or care about consequences about most of the things I do, and I don't mean this to say that I am doing anything illegal or anything like that. I am just doing what makes me happy or trying my best to do so. Not that anything has really worked, but it has certainly passed the time.

Ever since last year, I got the news from my neurologist that I can't change, but I can do my best to fight it. It changed the way I look at things, and I just want to have fun in the meantime. Whatever ways I can and just hope that those who are close to me understand.

Wonderings and wanderings

Sometimes it is easier for me to write my thoughts down than to talk about them, and I sometimes wonder if I haven't just gone insane. I have never been a conventional person in any sense of the word, and that has included my relationships. My family has always thought there was something wrong with me because I was always interested in kinky things.

My wife, bless her heart, has always put up with and has joined in my interests. Although, even she doesn't realize I don't think just  how far out and strange my mind works when it comes to love, the lifestyle and all the deep dark things inside my head and my heart.

I have often wondered if maybe I am wired wrong somewhere, because I love my wife but I am not made for monogamy. It doesn't mean I love her any less, but at the same time I need and want to have relationships with others. I know most people think polyamorous relationships are taboo, but I really don't.

I am not sure what it is about me, but I am not sure that I have ever reached the limits of what I might try or do in my lifestyle experimentation within reason. The farther I push my imagination, the more I come up with and the more I want to try and to do. I am not sure if that makes me crazy or normal, or if I have just lost my goddamned mind finally.

I guess the best answer is to have fun and play the hand you're dealt. And try not to get caught bluffing with a pair of deuces when the other guy has a full boat...lol

You gotta love the troops

I have gotta love what our troops come up with when they are bored and deployed. Having been there, when I saw the telephone video that Malibu Melcher and his buddies made in Afghanistan I was rolling with laughter. These guys do an awesome job that most people don't want to do that most don't want to begin with. In their off duty time there is only so much to do, so soldiers and all servicemembers get creative in what they do. Some blog, some write, and others get creative and I am just glad that his chain of command has been supportive since the video went viral.

For all of the troops deployed in Afghanistan including my younger brother, stay safe and God bless. Do what you can when you can to keep yourselves sane, and by all means let this cover all those deployed throughout the world.

God Bless the Atheists

Today is the National Day of Prayer and I find it hilarious that atheists are trying to have it stopped. I find it even funnier that some jackass judge in Wisconsin said that it is unconstitutional to have a National Day of Prayer. You know what though, I think they all need to get the sand out of their panties or take some midol for the cramping and shut the hell up.

It is not mandatory for them to pray, and even da Prez isn't going to send the FBI after them if they don't want to pray or to believe in God or some form of a God. So what the hell is their problem? No one is forcing their beliefs on you, and their is nothing in the Establishment Clause that forbids a National Day of Prayer.

It really pisses me off that these people have to try to force their beliefs on other people. It is time that all these bed-wetting cry-baby little crap-heads shut up and let other people alone. No one is forcing their beliefs upon them, and making them pray.

People need to get over it and let other people be. Quit trying to force your beliefs on others, because no one was trying to make you pray or believe in God.

Thank you though for all the extra publicity you helped give to the National Day of Prayer, and God Bless. Hey, so what do you say we do it again next year.

I am so tired of political correctness

It is time to say somethings that have needed to be said for a long time, and I just needed to get them off my chest. Since when is not alright to just say what you think? I served my time in the Army and I earned my right to Freedom of Speech. So now to get this said.

I am tired of all this crap about the Coalition for American Islamic Relations or whatever the hell their name is. These guys are a bunch of douchebags that are trying to make us feel bad about going after terrorists. Guess what? I served in Iraq and I am disabled because of these Muhammad following scumbags. I lost friends that were dear to me to these pieces of human filth, and my friends and family are still serving overseas at this moment against these POS's.

I have no problem with any religion; I have problem with those of any religion who use it as a justification to kill the innocent. I have more respect for the dumbass pirates off Somalia that have accidentally attacked the warships of ours and other flags than I do for any scumbag that thinks he is a man because he sets off a suicide bomb in a marketplace full of civilians.

I personally think all you wannabe jihadis are going to find out that the virgins are going to laugh at you like the pathetic little pussies you are. I only wish I could still continue to go after you because I miss it, and didn't send near enough to hell.

Wikileaks is a bunch of pussies

I can't help but laugh at wikileaks and their claim that if anything happened to them before April 5th it was because of the US government. The gun camera video they decoded doesn't show anything wrong on the part of the Apache crew. The two Iraqi journalists were in the company of armed men, and, yes, two of the men at least were armed with an AK-47 and an RPG. US ground units nearby were also being engaged by insurgents, why do you think the photographer would be shooting photos from behind cover of a wall around a corner?

So lets see if you have two journalists accompanying insurgents in the vicinity of an engagement with friendly forces what conclusion might be drawn from the shoulder straps seen so clearly in the video? Sorry for the reporters but it sucks for them, and as a soldier I figure they got what they deserved. If you are going to publicize or promote terrorists then tough SH** if you get blown away. It just means one less video or whatever for Al-Jazeera. Everything else that happened sucked they still did the right thing though. The van that pulled up was giving aid and comfort to the enemy and that is all there is to it.

Does what happened to the two kids suck? Yes it does, does what happened to the reporters suck? NO, they knew the risks or should have and if that makes me cruel and heartless then yes I am...lol...I have more sympathy for the helicopter crew, because they are the ones who have lived with what happened that day.

Fear and Darkness

I used to love the darkness
It was the time I hunted my
Prey. The enemy lurked and
They waited for me and my
Fellow soldiers but we won.

Now it is a time I dread, I
Close my eyes but sleep
Does not come to me. It
Takes the help of pills to
Happen and not always.

When it does come to me,
The nights of old come back.
The realism wakes me in a
Sweat or worse in an attack
On my wife, who I love dear.

Nightmares that are so real
And so vivid that I can attack
The one I love in my sleep. I
Fear for what might happen
Someday. I pray it doesn't.

Something to get out

There are some people that I used to think of as family, and they are severely disappointing me right now. I have spent years with them and consider them my brothers, and as they prepare to go in harms way they are trying to break an oath they made. They swore to a creed and to live by certain values. I will be the first to admit that I am a hypocrite and did not live those values personally. I never broke them professionally, and I loathe and detest those that do. I entrusted you with my family and friends that I love like brothers, and would replace you in a minute to ensure their safety. I shed my blood, I was privileged to serve with true heroes and you pitiful, disgraceful fucks want to stay home and collect a paycheck and wear that same uniform. Remember these words and what you swore to do:

I am an American Soldier.

I am a Warrior and a member of a team.

I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values.

I will always place the mission first.

I will never accept defeat.

I will never quit.

I will never leave a fallen comrade.

I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills.

I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.

I am an expert and I am a professional.

I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.

I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

I am an American Soldier.

Past mistakes and new regrets

I used to think that I could never make any more horrendous mistakes or pay any price worse than that which I already have. The dream that I once lived for is now a nightmare that haunts me, because my mind won't let go of it. Even though I made the choice to give it up in several ways while I was in Iraq. For all that I thrived on my time there, and being who I was; I gave into my fears in two ways one scarier than the other. The first was that I never took the chance and went to you as every part of me said I should out of fear of what would happen when you saw me arrive on your door step. Would it be joy or revulsion? I never had the courage to take that chance. My cowardice to do so meant I got to leave Iraq a little earlier than I otherwise would have. It was something I never expected to do at that time to quote from a character you introduced me too "my greatest fear was to die old and in bed." After I came home, I read of a friend's death and I still wonder if I had been there could I have prevented it or would it have been me? Since then I lost someone else that was there with me, and I will wonder why the rest of my days. I miss you my friend you were like a brother to me.

I came home but paid my own price. The headaches and everything else are maddening in their own right but I could care less right now. I have lost touch with my best friend in the world, and done untold damage. I would rather have stayed and not come home, as everything sinks in now.

I wish I could give up on myself but I would screw that up...lol...I am too stupid or stubborn and right now I need a fight. I need the pain that comes from battle or the fight, and to release the demons.

I wish I could get out the rest of the words right now, but my head is not cooperating. As much as I want pain, the kind I have right now is the kind only medicine fixes.

These days

I have prepared for war since
Since I was a boy. I joined the
Army at 17 and since then it was
What defined who I am and has
Helped to make who I am today.

Instead of rifles and bombs; my
Battles are now fought with texts
And in a classroom. It is a whole new
Battlefield, and scarier than those
That I have faced in the past.

I could always rely on strength,
Bravado, and sheer strength of
Will before. Now it is not enough.
The scars of battle now take
Their toll and what do I do?

I survived an enemy that
Intended to kill me and my
Friends. Now, I can't learn
How to work a fu*%^$#
Calculator. What happened?

I felt fear before battle, but
Never like this. A classroom
Winning over me? What part
Of me did I lose and will it
Ever be like it was for me, again?

Stupid criminal tricks

Ok, now I have not gone to law school, but I am taking Constitutional law for college. Therefore, I follow new Supreme Court decisions in the news. Now, today they ruled that if the police question a suspect the part of the miranda warning about lawyer being present expires after 14 days. Now, as a reasonable human being with a tiny bit of common sense this decision is one that makes sense and in the case before the Court made extreme sense.

When you have a scumbag that was questioned with his attorney present, and then released it would seem he should have his lawyer present when questioned again, right? Ok, well, the said scumbag is questioned about the said crime 2 and a half years later, while in prison on another charge. Now, this individual obviously has some familiarity with the legal system and his rights to legal counsel. There are still bonehead judges that were willing to let this guy go, saying that even though time had passed it didn't make his original right to a request for a lawyer any less valid. When it has been almost three years and you are in prison for another crime, the confession and conviction should stand based on the facts of stupidity alone...lol

Hypocritical thinking?

I keep thinking and finding myself wondering about something. I was a soldier from the time was a boy, because when I first donned my uniform I was just a kid. I grew up quickly afterward, but I was when I first put on my soldier suit. It became part of me and has defined me forever within myself and those who know me.

Today, I say good-bye to someone I love as he returns again to another tour. For our family this makes 3 tours in the war on terror, and one of us disabled.

People ask me was it worth it, and would you do it again? I reply without a second thought that yes it was and no matter what some would have people believe that it was the right thing. It was easy to put myself in harms way, but as I watch family and friends depart I wonder at the cost.

I know what I go through each day, and I know that I can consider myself one of the lucky ones vs. the alternatives. I wish I could protect them all from that, and just hope they all come home safe.

Soon you will leave me but
Only for a year. I hope and
Pray that is true, and you'll
Just spend a boring year in
A shithole FOB and whine.

I say this and laugh, because
I would have made fun of you
For that years ago. I know now
That excitement and action
Are not the answer for all.

I know that we are different
And the jobs we do are as well
You have good soldiers with you
But they are not Tommy, Ro
SFC Mann or SSG Sharpe.

Keep your head down
and your powder dry
IED's are not as much as
I have joked. Take care of
your fellow troopers.

I know that their wive's
Parents and loved ones have
put them in good hands. So
Take care of them and all
Of you come home to us safe.

"Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle;
be our protection"

I know you are all in good hands, take care of each other.

Thinking

I hunted my prey by night,
And the good ones waited
Ready. I laughed back then
It was a game to see which
Of us was really the best.

The ones we caught when
They let their guard down,
I made fun of as losers. I
Would see some of them
One more time, usually.

Later, I would learn that
The joke was on me. I would
Get home, and learn the game
Had a price. I paid in full, and now
I watch as more get ready to go.

You are my brother and my brothers,
I love everyone of you and
Wish that I could replace you.
Some of you know what I mean
And will guard the rest.

I wish that I had the courage,
To read this before you all.
I don't want heroes or medals
from you all. I just want you
To come home to us safe.

Eco-terrorists

I was glee-fully happy to read today that those wonderful morons at Sea Shepherd had a problem with their newest toy. The whole story is here, and please do not think that I condone whaling. I condone the actions of these morons even less though. After seeing my children watch an episode of their show Whale Wars on Animal Planet; it greatly disturbed me that the Animal Planet put this on because all it does is shows children that if you don't agree with something then vandalism and endangering the lives of others is fine.

I find it highly amusing that there new toy is sinking, and I only hope that it begins to sink faster. I wonder, also, if anyone has noticed that they are using laser weapons that can cause blindness in their attacks?