| 16 OCTOBER 2002 My wife has arrived in California finally. All of our furniture has arrived and seems to be mostly unbroken. The dingo damn near wagged himself out of his fur when she pulled up!! I really have nothing to say right now. I am sitting in class learning, of all things, Information Technology. If any of you think that I am knowledgeable with the internet you are wrong. I am using a site building software. I link up through YAHOO! Geocities. All of you can easily build a site with a little patience. There is really no learning curve for this one, but there are some limitations, too. It is an idiot system. All you have to do is click on the link above and create an account. It holds your hand through the rest of the process. I discovered all of the sticking points in the first month, and have not had a problem yet. I also have a smoke screen that makes it look like you are on www.adingoatemybaby.com. The site is still on geocities, but the top of the screen says you are at the dingo site. No big trick. If my diehard fans want their own site I can offer guidance. Hell, I will link to you as long as you are not an illegal site or porn site. Well, if you are a good porn site maybe. I wish I could find a way to block pop up ads. Yes, I know I am rehashing this topic, but it really annoys me. The only reason I ever look at them is to mentally note the company so I never use them or buy from them. If I get DSL I will be able to upload pictures faster, so I will have more pictures to set up the pages with. Let's face it, I really do not have many interesting things to post, except pictures. Very static stuff. If you have something to post, please send it. This section is probably the most interesting part, but that is subject to interpretation. Well, that is all for now, break time. 17 AUGUST 2002 As of this writing, www.adingoatemybaby.com, has 369 internal links, 5 external links, 21 pages, 53 pictures and one movie clip. Including this page and the additional links it will require 404 internal links (20 on this page, 2 on the THOUGHTS index, 2 on the SITE MAP, and one each on the other 11 THOUGHTS pages). I have recently built at least one other page for seasonal use (Christmas in July, if you missed it it will be back in July 2003). I uploaded 59 pictures today and have about 20 already there not being used. My next intention for the site, as if you care, is to build another page of pictures for the dingo, one for my wife and myself, and one for more places I have pictures of. I will eventually get a page on here of my niece, but there is two problems there. First, she is so cute I can not choose just 20 or 30 pictures, I want them all on there. Second of all, I want her folks to have some say in the layout, that is just common sense before putting a three year old on the internet!! After that I am going to try put together a family page for the family outside of B and myself (i.e., Momma and Don, SGT MAC and Sue, B's folk's, her cousin's, her friends in New York). Along with that will be a section of friends. As much as I like pictures though, they never change, and you need to keep throwing a lot up there and keep funny captions and stuff because once you see them... you've seen them!! They are not all that interesting after nine times! Hell, even I don't go back and look at my 'back pages' that often, that is why I call them my 'back pages'! I like this part of the site where I get to ramble with relative impunity!! You can read or not read, I will never know, and I never ask. If you do not read my crap I will not hold it against you!! But the fact remains that this is the meat and potatoes of my site even if I do not get all my thoughts on here. I am usually too busy to put the thoughts down, not able to get them into a coherent form, or have nothing that translates well to the written (typed) word. Speaking (typing?) of which, if anyone ever has anything to say, drop me a line!! I will gladly publish anything you have to say. I am going to edit it for length, but not for content. I may not think it is worthy, and I just won't publish it. Who knows, there are endless options. I will however tack my own comment to it, in it, or around it. If I agree completely I will just title it and print it (as in SGT MAC's case), but most people I will not agree with as much as I do with SGT MAC! Now, on to something I want to mention. The scandal with the Catholic Church. What the heck. I wanted to say 'What the hell.", but that seemed inappropriate in this case. I can understand that some friggin' sicko's get wrapped up in any organization. Heck, I am in the Navy, we have had guys rape 12 year old girls in Japan, and numerous other unspeakables. It is no one's fault when one of these guys do these horrible things except their own. The church or the Navy or any other group can not be held responsible for that. Unless, pay attention this is important, Unless any group tries to assist the criminal before, during or after the event. The Navy hung that sick bastard out to dry and (this next part is MY OPINION) would have hog-tied him and offered him to the family of the poor girl if it were allowed. Police, corporations, families, government groups, welfare societies, and every other group would find a sexually dangerous person and turn him in to the authorities, as well they should. The Catholic Church is still denying that they did anything wrong!! When we determine the role of some of these Cardinals we need to hold them 100% accountable for aiding a known criminal in the commission of a violent sexual crime against a minor. The law states that the person must willingly take actions that he knows will help the person commit a crime, and that they must have reason to assume that this action will result in the person committing a crime. DAMN. Guess what, the Catholic Cardinals told these guys to go to confession and set up some counseling for them, therefore CURING them of pedophilia. Let's break here for a quote: From Boot Camp Commander to GILL, "YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN' ME!! NO ONE CAN BE THIS FUCKIN' STUPID AND REMEMBER TO KEEP BREATHING!!" The Cardinal's either are so retarded that they think we are going to buy the line of crap they are selling, "Oh, we told him to confess to someone that could not really do anything about it, so now he will never touch the ass of a five year old again...", or they are JUST PLAIN STUPID!" Even if they had reassigned these guys to Antarctica, 1,000 miles away from the next child, this might have at least shown good judgment on the Cardinal's part. But they sent them into suburbia Massachusetts and similar places. Even if there is a parish in the world where there are no children, there will be some in the community, or in the next assignment, or a neighboring community. So, although Cardinal Law (for example) knew that he assisted ex-Father Geoghan in gaining access to further sons and daughters, he states that he did not have reason to assume that Geoghan would assault another innocent, untainted child. Yeah jack-ass, the confession works real well doesn't it. It is too bad for society that states like Massachusetts do not require all persons that know of a sexual assault on a minor to report it. If His Eminence, the retarded Cardinal, was in a state that had laws that made sense you would be in jail. You would love to know how a Cardinal is treated in prison, huh Bernard? Must be worth a whole carton of smokes. So, what do we do about it now? Well, first we lose all inherent trust in benevolent societies like the church. Then what? Tell Massachusetts to write some common sense laws? (Ironic that you can allow your workers to molest children on a Sunday but you can't buy a beer on Sunday.) WHAT NEXT? Will the Catholic Church even admit it is wrong? Will the Pope recall these people to the Vatican for retirement, or will he recall them for a public trial and execution in Saint Peter's Square? What is the next step? Why will church officials come clean and give us all the info, what have they got to hide? Bernard Cardinal Law has committed a crime against his people. His people are a good, God fearing and God loving people that believe in the Holy Roman Church. His people believe when that Church says something it must be right. That Church has the power to cause political ethical rifts in all nations on Earth, including our own. That Church has the power to cause wars to be waged and wars to be halted. That Church has the trust of millions of people that are not even Catholic followers, and that Church has that trust because they are dependable. Even if the population at large does not believe in that Church's tenets and policies, we know that Church is consistent, we know they do what they believe in, we know they do not try to hurt people and we know that they do what they think is right to avoid people being hurt. Bernard Cardinal Law is an abomination of the beliefs of an entire society against an entity which by it's nature should be inherently peaceful. Bernard Cardinal Law has allowed and enabled the physical and mental torture of innocent youth. Bernard Cardinal Law has allowed these most innocent members of his society to be unthinkably assaulted, and in doing so has allowed another to violate the tenets of the Church. Worse still Bernard Cardinal Law has himself violated the tenets of his faith, the Holy Roman Church's ideology, and the trust of an entire society, the free people of the United States of America. Bernard Cardinal Law, on behalf of my society, I call upon you to drop the robes you hide behind, step forward to end the future pain and suffering of countless children. I call upon you to restore the trust of children in their elders, restore the trust of my society in your Church, restore a sense of decency to the people you and your brethren have violated. Bernard Cardinal Law step down from your office and denounce your actions as an example to those that walk beside you or may follow in your footsteps. To the people of this nation, understand that the Catholic Church is here to cause harm to your children, yourselves and your society until such time as they take actions to stop this senseless torture and hold criminals and their protectors accountable. 14 AUGUST 2002 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA!!!! Well, here is my day, sorry it is not more interesting. Woke up late. Bashed face on sliding glass door. Dropped an egg on the stove. It broke. In between the burner and the top. Skipped breakfast. Went to my 0800 class, at 0700. Reset my watch. Got a cup of coffee. Went back to class. With the books for yesterdays 0800 class. Same room, thank god. Went to my 1000 class (at 1000!!). Found out that we could hand in our projects after the break at 1100. Projects? Went to the county courthouse to file some paperwork. The woman that I waited in line 15 minutes to see told me to go wait in the short line. I did. Waited ten minutes for the second lady that looked over at the first lady and said, "she will be back from lunch in an hour." Talked to the Manager. Got personal service from him (which is either the first of two small victories of the day or the paperwork just entered a black hole for $188!). Stopped home, got correct books for afternoon. Had a spare 15 minutes so I ran to the base store for lunch. Locked my self out of the car. No keys. The spare is in the wallet. In the car. With both sets of house keys. The cell phone. Books for the 1300 class. My military ID. Go to 1300 class, at 1315. Uneventful, except that I had no books, no notes, no pen. All I had by this point was a bad attitude and a yellow racquet ball that I found near my (GOD-DAMNED) car. Go to base police. They give me a jimmy stick, which does not work due to a Saturn safety feature. The base police then have a cruiser stop and question me for suspicious activity. Having no ID, I was asked to have a seat on the curb (which, for the record, there was not one you stupid fatass). Thank god the fat donut eater on the other end of the walkie talkie remembered giving an "Arian looking kid" the jimmy stick. Use coat hangar for 30 minutes after trying to call a locksmith. Try calling locksmith again, sure, $52, unless it is after 5PM, then $82. Wait at gate. Ten minutes. Twenty. They said not more than thirty. Thirty. Fourty-five. 5PM, that dirty #$%&$% shows. The second good thing of the day, a public works guy sees me arguing with dickface from the locksmith (I was hostile by this point in the day, and ready to just break a damn window). Public Works guy gets me in my car in two minutes for free, will not even accept beer or bribe. Victory two. Get home, cook rice, egg in stove smoking. Replying to emails, etc, fire alarm goes off. Only the egg remnants. No big deal. Dog barks at pedestrian. I check dog. Another dog is outside and they want to play (with yellow ball I found), looks like mine, cool people, etc. Beeping of the smoke alarm, no big deal, "just breakfast," ha ha, we ignore it, keep talking, dogs playing. Dogs are done playing, walk in, billowing smoke. Rice gone. No shit, gone. The scorch marks lead me to believe there was a fire and it went out when it was out of rice. Teflon does come off pans. Entire pans can melt to stoves. Puppies do not like smoke. Air out house, every door open. Stove off, pan in yard. Pour glass of cheap wine. From a box. Nozzle on the box sticks. Wine everywhere. By the time I stopped it (by removing box from fridge and placing upright) I believe I lost a litre or two. Drinking heavily, and do not intend to accomplish anything important until next week. Except that project for the 1000 class, apparently. And no, I did not try the wine again, just opened the Highland Single Malt. Why the ^&#$ not? 10 AUGUST 2002 I am eating some roasted garlic sauce on Linguine, and thinking. I usually try to avoid thinking while I eat, as it confuses both attempts and generally gives me indigestion. Here are a few things that cross my mind. 1. I hate pop up advertising on the internet. If I want to advertise something, I will advertise it, or if my site allows it as a requirement for site use, fine. Many of you may see a little bar on the left every time you open this site, I do not like it, but I knew it would be there, and that is OK with me, I even have a very little bit of input to its content. Now, I am recently getting large gay pop up windows advertising coupons and air travel and dis-fucking-scover card. I do not know if they are from my server or from my ISP, but they are annoying. Please take a mental note to not use companies that do that. There is no way of blocking them. That is like internet Jehovah's Witnesses. (By the way, they are a screwed up group, too!! Almost as bad as American Catholicism these days!!) God I hate pop up ads!!! [17 AUGUST 2002 Found online the related link to a pop-up add article. I am one week ahead of my time. Are Pop-Up Advertisements on the Web Illegal?] Back to 10 AUGUST 2002: 2. Our society needs to stop claiming that war is good for the economy. ASSHOLES!! THINK A MINUTE!! The build up for war is! Look at what Hitler did in Germany. If he had died of a heart attack in 1938-39, he would still be regarded as one of the best leaders in the world until that point!! He said Hey, elect me and I will make the country rich. AND HE DID!! The whole world was in the Great Depression, and by 1938 Germany was the only country in the world that was economically stable, they were importing workers from other countries, because they had more jobs than people! At the same time the US had 24% unemployment! But then, THE WAR. Was that good for the German economy? HELL NO! They got the ever-lovin'-shizzat knocked out of their country. But not before they took their toll on a couple bazillion innocent folks in their own country (hmmm, Jews, Poles, Jews, Jews, brunettes, Jews, anyone that disagreed with them, JEWS, and a few million more Jews. Smart move Hitler, you went from Time's Man of the Year to the Jackass of Human History), and then decimated a dozen or so countries directly (Finland, Belgium, France, everything that ends with a '-slovia', tried at Mother Russia). Then there were the other countries supplying troops that were wounded economically (Britain being the principal that comes to mind). So, this war fuckered up most of Europe. Really, look at the pictures of dead sometime. Piles of bodies bigger than any house that has ever stood in my hometown (Templeton, MA). HOLY COW!! How is this good for the economy?? I will tell you: You keep you nose out of the fight for a few years, you sit across 3,000 miles of ocean and build millions of tanks, guns, bombs, aircraft and war materials, then you sell it to France and Britain and Germany (yes, we supplied them briefly in their early parts of war) and to any other country that wants to defend themselves. Then you send raw materials over-seas and collect notes on those. Then you sit at home and put every man in the military, every woman or non-militarized man in factories, and you let your economy roll. Damn, no wonder we think war is good for the economy. Our late entry into the war let us have a minimum of lives lost. I can not quote the numbers, but look at the totals by country of how many dead lay on a field of battle in Europe by 1945. Even after grievous losses at the beach-heads on D-Day the US numbers are dwarfed by even the smallest European country. Little white crosses and stones in perfect rows. So far that they seem to line up perfectly in every direction, like they are focused on you no matter where you are. And then we (until recently I was VERY guilty of this, too) sit around for the next 55 years and complain about how we had to pay to rebuild all of those countries. Hmmm. If we got up and into the fray a little bit earlier maybe millions would not have died and economies world wide would not have collapsed. Maybe Hitler would have been a foot note in history because at the slightest hint of aggression the US provided tanks, troops and money to beat him down like a Hussein. Sure, it may not have been that easy, but after butchering a few million in several countries we should have said, "Hmm. Maybe this won't go away." Sure, our economy would not have gone hog wild like it did, in fact it would not have helped us much at all, but look at how many economies it would have saved (read 'economies' as LIVES as well as money). Look at any other war in history and tell me what it did for the economy. Civil War? We are still recovering in parts of the south for that. And I do not mean Billy-Joe-Bob Jackass that thinks black people should still be slaves, I mean the actual monetary disparity between rich land owners and people fishing in sewer contaminated irrigation ditches because they can not afford to feed their family. Think of how brutal that war was, too. In Vietnam we had what, 55,000 battlefield deaths? Roughly. Even if it were four times that number, 220,000 men dead. That took years to total up. Civil War. One battle. One day. 250,000+ battlefield deaths. ALL AMERICANS. That is fifty times the population of Templeton when I lived there. Fifty times. Good for the economy, my ass. Pick another war? Vietnam? We created jobs. There were factories building stuff for our troops. And of course the draft, if that can be seen as increasing jobs. We created a huge number of products and destroyed them all in a napalm bath that we rinsed with our own blood. Not one single cent was made in that war, but how many billions of dollars were pissed away fighting it. Were we right in being there, blah blah, different argument. Fact is that it HURT our economy BADLY. It took the US until the mid 1980's to start up our economy again, and it has never reached it's pre-Vietnam Era levels. World War I? Sure, looked OK on this side of the ocean for a little bit, but Europe was in a state of ruin that was so complete the entire world economy was shaken up, leading, albeit indirectly, to the Great Depression!! THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY!! So, please, stop claiming that war is good for the economy. At the very least, wait until you or your brother or son or sister is on the frontline. When you see tracer fire headed at you, you tell me about the economy. Until then, I hold firm to the facts. WAR IS NOT GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY! 3. This spaghetti sauce is great!! 4. I wrote down a couple other topics, and lost the piece of paper, so these spiels better be enough to hold you until later 17 JULY 2002 OK folks, listen. Tiger Woods made a statement that it is OK to have golf courses that exclude women as members. Guess what, he is TIGER WOODS, not the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His opinion matters exactly as much as mine. So what if earlier in his career he complained about courses that did not allow blacks. Maybe now he sees big picture and doesn't go where he is not wanted. If he doesn't go there and endorse the "white only" clubs they will not make the millions other places do, and they will keep on being their own bigoted little clubs. Billy-Joe-Bob Hacklesworth in West Virginia probably doesn't allow black people in his house, and these clubs are no less private. Clubs that are on the PGA Tour, different story, they cease being private, secluded places, since they willingly embrace a fair organization like the PGA. The PGA does not support the other racist clubs and neither does any other respectable organization or individual. Let the bigots have their own little tree houses to act tough in and stay out of my free society. Now, back to the original issue, women in the clubs. Sorry, I do not think Tiger or the PGA needs to support NOW in their bid to grow peni. There is no difference between me and Tiger Woods. Sure he has more melanin, and probably does not have a bad back, but that is it. Me and the females in the spot-welded skivvies are a little different. I AM GENETICALLY DIFFERENT FROM WOMEN!!!!! Not just a color gene, not just a mental acuity or muscle mass gene, but a gigantic chunk is different in all males and all females!!! I HAVE A PENIS - YOU DO NOT!!! For centuries in all cultures men have complained about women and women about men. I can complain to a black Muslim from Turkey about the complexities of women and he will get it!! My wife can ponder the laziness and sloth of men with a Baptist Inuit woman and she will get it!! I do not mean to imply in any way that women are inferior, NO, in fact I hold strongly to the fact that women are far superior to men in 75% of all categories you can measure!! But I do not want to be in the National Organization of Women!! Hell, I have seen several women's rooms with a little lounge and a couch, I do not want membership to the women's room!! We have urinals, they never ask for one of those!! Get a grip people, embrace the differences. This is one barrier we can not deny. All you Christians, didn't the bible even state that we were made at different times? When I wake up with boobs and all of a sudden WANT to do the dishes then I will say there is no difference. Until then let us go bitch in private. And for the record, JESSE JACKSON IS A CHEATING LITTLE FUCK-STICK!! The fact that his little political faction, Rainbow Push, is in a titter about Tiger has no bearing on the situation. He is nothing but a successful televangelist that was screwing the little hootchies on the side too. OK, so I am not a fan of Politicians that cheat on their wives with Interns, but wasn't Jesse the saint Jackson criticizing him before Jackson's OWN love child was revealed? That dude can kiss my clowny ass, and if anyone out there has any respect for him then please, remove my site from your bookmark list and go be faithful to your family. By the way, go back to OCTOBER 12th and reread my comments, I do not feel like going off on ANTI-THEISTS anymore today, and the story is the same. Atheists OK, Anti-theists not OK. Jesse Jackson bad, Tiger Woods good. 07 JULY 2002 OK, I really have had nothing to say, unless it is on the GOLF portion of the site. But I do recommend that you take a look at this, it is a short film of 280 KB that is both disturbing and amusing.  30 MARCH 2002 Sorry I have not written to you all in so long, but the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS finished off the season with a nine game winning streak by winning the SUPER BOWL and I have been too drunk to type until now!! A few random thoughts: 1. The Roman Catholic church needs to put less effort into public relations and more effort into recruiting. 2. Israel and Palestine need to get together and form Israelistine. Declare freedom of religion and build a multi-cultural theme park with a mascot that doesn't wear robes. This would bolster the economy, and when the economy is doing well people tend to become more materialistic and less god-fearing (case in point: USA!). Once all the religions are right along side one another and people have more money there would be less violence - let's face it, a guy with a good job and satellite TV is less likely to off himself than the sand eating zealot. 3. There are no good coffee shops here in the Virginia Beach area. In fact there are not many good things here at all. The last coffee shop within ten miles of my house just closed. They had good coffee, too. Damn. 4. Why are hamsters cute and mice ugly? Doves and pigeons? Guinea pigs and rats? Children and midgets? 5. I recently started drinking Slim-Fast. It tastes pretty good with whole milk instead of skim. Also, you can mix in ice cream or chocolate sauce. It is not real filling, so sometimes I have two. At night I put a little Irish cream in it and a shot of whiskey to liven it up. It's a quality product, but it really doesn't help you lose weight! 6. Tin cans are not made of tin. Neither was Rin-Tin-Tin. Neither was The Tin Man (he couldn't be, he rusted). 7. No matter how hard you hit your head on something, no matter that you can't see through the blinding red pain, no matter who you think is or isn't around, it is inappropriate to yell, "SON-OF-A-FUCKING-COCK-WHORE!!" Don't ask why, just trust me on this one. 8. 8. "I forget what eight is for..." 9. What do you use when you get dental floss stuck between your teeth? 10. Ten. Bo Derek. Say no more. 12 JANUARY 2002 I haven't been here in a while. My keyboard at home is all sticky (no dirty thoughts! The culprit was a glass of wine.) and we got most of the wine off of it, but now some keys can not be pressed down and others remain down when pressed! I would have updated it at work, but I found out that we are not supposed to do that, even during our off hours. I am going to do a stream of consciousness type of thing here until I find a topic to rant about. I took a week of leave and went up north to some of my wife's family. They are good folk, and their dingo is pretty friendly. It is a little black thing that is pretty low key. She slept in the bed with me, and was a good substitute for my dingo while he was on vacation. He does not travel well, so he goes to see his friend Tasha at the dog sitter's place. He likes it there. If B and I ever die at the same time in an auto wreck, I think his dog sitter should adopt him. I went with my brother and B to the PATRIOTS game in Charlotte, North Cackalackie. We woke at 0115, and I loaded the car. We had the grill and the food, and some other stuff. We were prepared for anything but rain, but it was dry, cold and clear,... it wouldn't rain! 0215, Gilly and Girly get in the car to start the 8 hour trip, on the way to the car I notice a few stray drops of waterborne mist, but not rain,... it couldn't rain! By the time we were crossing the NC border there was a slight drizzle kind of hanging in the fog, but still, it was really like a thick dew forming on things, it wasn't falling yet,... it shouldn't rain! Pick up my brother (Brian) and collect our stuff as best as we can in the thickening 'dew', then we get on these little podunk roads and continue. Bri brought out the breakfast he prepped for us (which I really needed to feed my four shots of espresso and the large dark roast I had at 0230!) We were almost there, the sun was up (though hidden!), we had the Allman Brothers on the radio, and we were close enough to smell the steamed weenies at the stadium,... rain. It had slowly formed from nothing to mist to fog to thick dew to drizzle and there was a crucial point when we were almost there that we had to admit it. We were passing what may have been the last all purpose store before the parking lots, and we called it rain, so we bought cheap rain ponchos. May have been the smartest thing I have ever done. At 1000 we were in the parking lot and we were among the first there. We chose a spot in the far corner from everyone figuring we would be at risk being the visiting team. Well, the corner turned out to be a good idea, but not for protection from the fans. Protection from the rain. There was now 30 knots of wind driving the rain sideways with roughly the same force as a fire hose. B stayed safely in the Saturn, and Bri and I braved the elements. We were soaked before we could even get our ponchos on. We had a retreat into the car after pulling out the grill and the cooler. The second offensive about twenty minutes later found the two of us rigging a shelter out of a broken section of fence and a "road construction ahead" sign. Bri threw his poncho over the top and we crawled under to light the grill. Grill lit, the two brothers sitting miserable as hell on a cooler, we started to see the cars coming in to tailgate around us. They all had great set ups, and huge shelters, real pros. They had things we completely forgot: chairs, rain flies, beer and whiskey to take the chill off, chairs, etc. But the weird thing was, they were almost all PATRIOTS fans! No one from Carolina was showing their face! Our shish-kabobs went well, and the little grill started to throw some decent heat. The weather started to lighten up. The rain fell back to a drizzle then a fog then a mist again. Just in time for the game! We go in and have a seat (five rows from the top of the stadium.) It is a nice stadium, our seats had us literally in the clouds where there was still a decent mist, and we could not clearly see the other side of the stadium, but the view of the field was clear. 71,907 was the official attendance by ticket sales, but there were about 8,000 folks actually there. At least 75% of those were PATRIOT fans. But we kept our seats in nose bleed territory and cheered our team to the 38-6 victory. It is the PATRIOTS 6th straight victory that sends them to the playoffs, and the Panthers 15th straight loss that sends them into the record books as the first team to do that. The ride home was uneventful. I got to see the cutest girl in the whole world on the way home (Bri's daughter Logan!) and then we went back to the house and went to bed 23 hours after we got up. Overall, GREAT DAY! Now, to back up... Christmas was good. Me and B did the quiet stay at home thing, the went on the trip just before the new year. Lots of good gifts from all sorts of family and friends, and I rather enjoyed it. The old year was closed with dinner at an Italian eatery. They had no pasta, which was odd. They were slow which was not good, but I had lamb, and it was great. But I had a great time just hanging out with the other two couples there, and we were back at their place just in time to see Dick Clark's ball drop. (That doesn't sound quite right!!!) My ship is in the dry dock, so I have been quite busy. The dingo is cute as ever, at this exact moment he is in a tiny sliver of sunlight that is on the floor, looking at a piece of half chewed rawhide like he expects it to do something. I have no real new years resolutions. I would like to win the lottery. I will not wish for world peace, that would put me and my brother out of work. Time to end this session, as I have nothing left to say. 29 NOVEMBER 2001 A DINGO ATE MY BABY. A BABY ATE MY DINGO. A DINGO ATE MY DINGO. OLD MacDONALD HAD A DOG, DINGO WAS HIS NAME-O. BURN BABY BURN, DINGO INFERNO! DINGO DINGO MAN, I WANNA BE YOUR DINGO MAN. 22 NOVEMBER 2001 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! Let me tell you what I am thankful for. I am thankful for the right to defend the United States of America. Of all the rights I have this is my favorite, because it is the foundation of the others. I have the right to speak freely any thought that my mind desires. I can ridicule my government and not be flogged, jailed or hanged. I can drive my car anywhere I want with no questions asked. I can practice any number of religions, or none at all, or even create my own, and not worry about persecution. I can leave the country! Just because I want to! They will still let me come back! I have the right to hear news from around the country, or around the world, CNN, NPR, any news agency left wing or hard right! All these freedoms and many more, more than anywhere else on earth. I gladly defend these because I would not even exist in this world if my parents and grandparents did not have these rights. I would never have met, fallen in love with, or married my wife. I shudder to think what life is like and how mine would change without these freedoms. I am proud to be able to defend these freedoms both for myself and for the people of America and hopefully promote the same freedoms for all people in the world. I am proud that I can look at people that slander the military and our country and feel pity for them at the same time I laugh at them. Those poor potato-heads do not even get it. If I do my job well, as others have before me and will after me, then those poor potato-heads will never know how hosed up they are. ALSO: I am thankful for my awesome puppy. I am thankful for my wife, and all associated amenities (great cooking, etc.) I am thankful for the great family I have, especially my niece (Hi Logan!) I am thankful the great crew on my ship has not killed me yet! Lastly, I am thankful I never have to see my old boss again. Ever. 18 NOVEMBER 2001 Okay. I am once again back on my high horse. I am having a hard time understanding something. Why is it that we allow people with handicapped plates to be shitty drivers? The little handicapped symbol is nothing more than a parking pass for the really good spots. The fact that that person has one leg, or is simply the driver for a wheelchair ridden person does not give them the right to cut me off in traffic! I will willingly give the finger to anyone that cuts me off, club foot or not!! If you are so handicapped that you can not use your blinkers then you should get the free bus pass not the god damned license!! It only makes me have less respect for your cause that you drive like idiots!! You want to be treated the same? LEARN HOW TO DRIVE!!!! People of America wake up, smell the coffee and unite against people that can not drive - healthy or handicapped! Let's get these people off the roads! Issue two: Did you know that you can pickle almost anything? My brother emailed me a pickled egg recipe some time ago, and we just tried it recently. Very good, although we did not make it as spicy as he does!! Well, after a few batches we ran out of eggs, so I threw in a few MILKBONES. My dog is not too fond of them, but I think they are pretty good. They give you EVIL gas! As I speak my wife is making a gallon jar of pickled eggs. They will be ready in a few weeks, but they keep indefinitely as long as they are in the vinegar. The are an ideal food for long term storage. Imagine a 1950's era bomb shelter with all canned food, then you pull out something as tasty as picked eggs!! It would be great! (Until the next day when everyone started having gas in the recirculating air facility, eeuugh!) 12 OCTOBER 2001 There is a recent controversy concerning the mention of GOD in the pledge of allegiance. Some school districts will not allow the pledge of allegiance to be uttered as part of a classroom evolution, because it mentions under GOD. The pledge of allegiance is not to god, and certainly does not mention any specific god. It is a pledge of allegiance to a flag and a country that serves a higher purpose. With simply a reference to our religious freedom, one of the founding principles of our great nation. We are also a nation under arms, as we have that freedom. We are a nation under free speech. We are a nation that is peace loving, but able to defend itself. We are a nation that holds something in the basic and ideal rights of humanity sacred above all else. That is what 'Under god' means to me. I am an atheist. I do not believe in any god. I sometimes wish I did, and I am sometimes glad that I don't. I am never offended that any person holds something higher than themselves. My god is the freedom that I was born with, whether granted by Allah, reaffirmed by Jesus' sacrifice, or heralded by the incarnations of periodic splendor of other religions. Human freedom I view as happenstance that was not granted or invented by any man, simply a product of nature. As such I respect that freedom and the circumstances which brought it to be. Under god is a tribute to the fact that all Americans are thankful for the freedom they enjoy and are willing to defend it when the time comes. Under god is symbolic that there is something bigger than any one individual. We, the people, are a UNITED group of individuals both enjoying this higher freedom, and defending it constantly. This is under god. God is a name that is generic in nature to denote that which people hold higher than themselves. God is not always the center of a set of religious beliefs, god is the idea that there is something higher. I urge all Americans to say the pledge of allegiance, and to be proud of that freedom we hold. Now more than ever is the time to teach our children some ideals that they can use and be proud of as they grow into adult members of the strongest nation on earth. Now is the time to teach people that our freedom must not be idly enjoyed while other people defend it, defense of our freedom is the largest responsibility of maintaining our freedom. 07 OCTOBER 2001 This is now www.adingoatemybaby.com and we the people are bombing the shiite out of the Afghani pud monkeys. The King of the Pud Monkeys best be prepared to end the life of every man, woman and child that shares his ideals. If I really wanted to get a message out to people the last thing I would do is piss off the USA and then try to make them see that I was right. That poor cave dweller is going to wake up with a goat's head in his bed. Just remember, if you really want to defeat the King of the Pud Monkeys, we need to stimulate the economy. NO! I do not mean buying $200 worth of stock or spending your tax refund! I mean REALLY stimulate the economy, write to your senators and congressional representatives and tell them that we need to step up production of Tomahawk missiles and Apache helicopters and smart bombs and even stupid bombs. Anything that can aid in long to medium range attacks that will keep American ground forces out of the spotlight! You might think this sounds stupid, but I want my niece to grow up and think this is a one time freak event that she reads about in history class, not a monthly occurrence that looms over her. If we send in ground troops then there will be a million nieces and nephews out there without fathers or uncles or aunts, and if we fight this in a long drawn out battle and we never have a victory that makes the other side shudder then we will create a generation with more casualties than Vietnam and a lingering fear that will be much more palpable than the fear created by the forty year cold war!! There is a bright side to everything, the last time I heard of Chandra Leavy or man eating sharks was on September 10, 2001. 29 SEPTEMBER 2001 I keep seeing fish on the back of cars that look as if a first grader drew them, and some have legs, some others are eating smaller ones that have legs. First, bad for resale value. Second, JUST PLAIN SILLY!! Third, for all of you god fearing creationists out there: COULD GOD HAVE CREATED EVOLUTION?!!?! Why can't both be true? So what if the world was created in seven days, maybe seven days back then was two billion years today! After all, in the beginning there was no heaven or earth, so how could there even be any days? For Pete's sake, GET A GRIP! 22 SEPTEMBER 2001 I apologize for not updating this page for the past few weeks, as I promised you, my loyal fans, that I would do. I am, as many of you know, in the United States Navy. I am very proud of that and I am a little pissed off right now. I have spent the last eleven days onboard my ship floating in places that are not my home. I am going to boil this down to a basic level. I am not terrified by terrorists, I AM PISSED OFF!! They make people in my country nervous, mothers will not fly to see their children and grandchildren, husbands are carted off to a war so that they lose time with their wife, fathers are quitting their jobs and trying to find safer places to work. What they are doing is taking away the basic tenets of our society and our quest for happiness. They are not trying to impose their morals, they are just making us scared to live with our own freedom. Our freedom to live as we choose, work as we choose and love as we choose. Quite frankly, I did not know anyone on the four planes or in any of the bombed buildings. I know that I used to work in the shadow of the Twin Towers, and I would walk by them my head craned up to look at them, and I did it everyday as I walked by, I was a tourist everyday, because of their grandeur. There were bronze statues of people I do not know sitting on park benches in the concrete parks around the feet of the towers. There is a small black or dark brown church a few blocks away, I think it is called the Trinity Church, it has a graveyard beside it that has stones from hundreds of years ago, long before the country even existed. I know that I stopped to get a pretzel every day from little cart vendors, then hot dogs down in Battery Park, and sometimes a cup-a-Joe at the newspaper stand. The bronze statues I knew. They were real people to me. They symbolized the city I loved. They were the symbols that tourists sat next to and had their pictures taken. You could see the smooth spots where they had been worn shiny by contact with people from California, Massachusetts, Japan, Chile, Russia and Britain, by Jews and Catholics, Buddhists and atheists, Muslims and Protestants. That church was built by people seeking political and religious freedom 400 years ago, and was covered in dust by people seeking to destroy political and religious freedom 11 days ago. Those hotdog and pretzel carts were probably destroyed by the blast, along with the poor immigrants that were here legally and trying to do what my family did in the fifties, make a better life, being free. The newspaper stands were most likely destroyed, but will be quickly rebuilt just to report the news of the atrocities and their similarities to another more distant event. I do not, as so many do, qualify this attack as being similar to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese started a war because they were a proud nation and had a dim view that we would roll over, but they held their heads up, painted a national symbol on their aircraft and sewed Japanese flags on their uniforms. These little fags from the Middle East are not men, they are too wimpy to even own up to what they do. They do not realize what they have done. They have united a strong nation that had grown apart in prosperity; they have given us a common goal and strengthened our economy by pissing us off. I have no further desire than to go to the middle east and BOMB THE LIVIN' SHIZZAT out of Osama Bin Laden and the rest of those stupid pukes. Sure there are innocent Muslims over there that are only guilty of not turning in OBL, but that is harboring a criminal in my book, and that is crime in and of itself. The only Muslims I feel bad for are the peace-loving Muslims that live by the Que'ran, the folk that are just trying to live and are as appalled by these attacks as I am. Along those lines I urge everyone that reads this to remember the only thing I find similar to the Pearl Harbor attacks: There are Muslims in our country now, DO NOT PERSECUTE THEM like we did to the Japanese in the Forties!! They are here to live a good life, just like me. If one or two of them is a bad guy, so be it, Timothy McVeigh was a young lower middle class white male of Irish American descent, does that make me evil? How about JFK? How about the thousands of Irish American rescue teams of fireman and police that are helping!! Do not sink to their level!! OBL and his cronies perceive Americans as evil is trying to defeat us, we can not do that to people unless they show us due cause, especially if they live here in our home. Go forth and make the world a better place. 07 SEPTEMBER 2001 OK, this whole deal with Gary Condit and Chandra Leavy... does anyone really care? I mean, of course her family does, and on some level I do not wish harm on anyone, but there are like a bazillion missing people in this country! She was involved in something that was not very wise, she was dating a man in politics that would not let her take ID or anything out with her! Let's face it, THAT IS STUPID!! I can not believe she could be smart enough to be a Washington DC intern and be that dumb! Now, he is a scumbag too, he cheats on his wife. But what it really boils down to is this: He lied to police on a matter of a missing person. If I was cheating on my wife and someone called me on it, I would not want to admit it either, but he is a public official, he has lied to his constituents - if they are dumb enough to reelect him so be it! This is not national news, this is stupid!! MAYBE SHE WAS EATEN BY SHARKS!! Side note: Does anyone in Puerto Rico realize that the US government OWNS Vieques? If I owned 40 acres of land and legally hunted on it I would not give two shits if the neighbors did not like the sound of my shotguns. And I think if the neighbors knew I was hunting and violated my no trespassing signs then got shot accidentally THEY ARE F*@#ING STUPID!!! Do they even pay taxes? NO!! Let them pay into the system that allows them to come into MY country and live off of my tax dollars via welfare, then maybe, just maybe, they would have a right to bitch, but until then the stupid folk of Puerto Rico can thank the US for the honor of living on our wealth! How would those stupid jack-asses feel if we stopped bombing the area and sold it to CUBA!! If you think the military is wrong for bombing Vieques then you are a complete retard. 01 SEPTEMBER 2001 I have very little to say. Rambling, mostly. There have been a lot of shark attacks lately. I don't care. They are sharks. They eat things. They do almost nothing else. If I were a predator people would probably look pretty good. People are fat, soft, meaty enough, well fed, slow, easy to catch, defenseless, noisy, uncamoflauged. Hell, if I were a shark, I think I would eat people. Interesting argument: who is a better actor, Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood? I really like both, but I can not say either is better. My personal favorite movie of all time is Mad Max: Road Warrior. That was a well written, well acted movie. A great action movie that did not waste time on words. People died in cool ways, but nothing too unrealistic. But then again, Clint has some better lines (Pale Rider - "You shouldn't play with matches.") Clint is just tough. His biggest drawback is the lack of other significant roles. OK, he has made a few other movies - Bridges, that movie he was a thief, etc. But usually he is just a bad ass warrior in one setting or another. I don't know, just food for thought. I have nothing else to say. |
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