Crap Throwing Monkey

Don't let it keep you up. He's used to being corrected.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank the millions of Russians that died bleeding the Wehrmacht white in 1941-43 in order to make the invasion of France possible...

You need to read more. That's not even remotely a true statement.

Actually, it's both, derived from Arab nationalism through the Afghan mujahaddin and Pakistani Islamic politics to the terrorist groups we see today. Hell, Joe, you should know better than that. Virtually every major religion has been indistinguishable from geopolitics at some point in history. Christianity, Islam, Judaism...even Buddhism. "Not political, but religious" is by FAR the exception rather than the rule; usually they go hand in hand.

Because JSP's nuts.

Key difference. Of course, now every Army grunt is part of the "Special" forces and gets to wear the beret. And now, every member of Jessica Lynch's unit - who didn't even maintain their weapons in a ready state - earn a combat action badge. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense: "Your weapons jammed in combat because you didn't keep them clean...here's some medals for you..."

So let me get this straight...if you're a REMF who ducks when some stray bullets come his way, you get the new CAB. But if you're a REMF who forgets to duck, you get a Purple Heart? Though I do consider this to be one of those "I've never been in the Army so I shouldn't judge" issues...the Army of the past half-decade or so seems to me to have become progressively weirder and even pussified. It all started with Shinseki's BS decision to give everyone the Special Forces beret because "We're all special in the Army". That, the "Army of One" campaign ("Army of One"? Warfare's about teamwork, you dolts), and now "We all deserve medals because we're all heroes." At least, as far as I can tell, the guys at the pointy end of the stick still laugh at all this Mickey Mouse BS.

My mother used to work in a plastic surgeon's office. They used to get about three people a month who came in to have reconstructive surgery (usually, to their noses) after being attacked by - and I am not making this up - Lhasa Apsos. Seems the pure-bred ones, having been bred to be guard dogs by whoever needed stuff guarded in the Himalayas way-back-when ( ), are very twitchy and downright vicious...but since they're about the size of your average cat, people pick them up and say "Awwww...lookit the wittle puppy...", and...CHOMP! Nose is gone. Personally, having been around lots of dogs; the only two breeds I don't like are rotweillers (for the story I related in a previous post), and Lhasas. I've actually been attacked by every single pure-bred Lhasa (four) I've ever seen...fortunately, since they're the size of a soccer ball, they don't do a hell of a lot of damage and are easy to defend against. But if they were the size of pit bulls, we'd be hearing calls to ban them as well...

Don't forget benefits...what do you think the health care costs are in India?

The breed's naturally aggressive...but don't forget to mention that a lack of proper training and ownership can exacerbate that greatly. I used to know a guy that trained Shepherds for police work...those dogs were aggressive as hell, but he took proper precautions with them and trained them properly, and when he was done they were relatively (i.e. if you didn't do anything breathtakingly stupid like attack its owner) safe to be around. Conversely, back in college I knew a girl who had her lower leg ripped off by two attack-trained rotweillers that some yahoo off-campus kept as pets and trained as attack dogs...they got loose on-campus because he didn't take any precautions or train them with any sense of discipline (ultimately, the police had to shoot the dogs before anyone else got hurt. The consensus was that they should have tried to save the dogs and shot the dumbass owner). But then...I also once knew a guy who kept a rotweiller, trained it with discipline, basically turned it into a decent pet. For the first two years I knew him, the dog was always happy to see me, friendly, and wanting to be petted. Then suddenly for no apparrent reason one day, as I was leaving, the dog decided he was going to take a hunk out of my backside. Though I'd like to think that's a rare case of an otherwise well-handled and -raised dog having a bad day, those breeds really ARE aggressive.

Don't sentence him to prison, sentence him to aging naturally without any cosmetic assistance. In three months - six, tops - he'll be such a repulsive ghoul that no little boy would go anywhere near him. Problem solved...

Thanks for injecting some absurdity into the retard roller coaster here. I think. You ARE kidding, right?

Everyone cites you.

You're just f'in weird, man.

I assume from your trite remarks that you don't have the first clue about anything even remotely concerned with fighting a war...

And I suppose you can give a cogent explanation for that? Unbelievable that we live in a country where people who don't know the economy from the stock market are still allowed a say in how the economy's run.

You'll cite whatever proves your point. Just like everyone else does. The difference between you and everyone else, though, is that you pretend you're above that. You're not. You're a chickenshit just like the rest of them.

Probably for the same reason you cite FoxSnooze when it suits you...

No, prosecution did a horrible job, in choosing an easily impeachable plaintiff and then compounding it by introducing irrelevent and ultimately prejudicial evidence that gives the defense excellent grounds for appeal. Even if the jury comes back with a guilty verdict - which they shouldn't, as the prosecution didn't prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, as they themselves admitted by introducing testimony concerning assumed prior bad acts that the judge never should have allowed in the first place - the appellate court will almost certainly toss the case on the grounds of reversible error. And if money talks, how come Jackson's defense team was so inept as to allow the BS testimony the prosecution admitted? I know public defenders who do a better job than Jacko's team of monkeys has managed. This case has been horribly mismanaged by all parties from the start...

Way to not even read so much as the headlines.

Winslow took a bigger beating from his motorcycle than the press in the last couple of weeks. Daddy Winslow would do well to remember that...

That's a pretty damned broad conclusion to reach from one number from one study that you yourself admit should be taken with a grain of salt. But then again...maybe you're right, and the issue really is that simple...

The stock market isn't the economy.

Of course, the prosecution did make a decent case for the alcohol charges, and a fair one for extortion. The molestation, though...like I've been saying for weeks now, the prosecution blew that the moment they attacked his character; it was a de facto admission that they couldn't make their case, and handed the defense immediate and very effective grounds for appeal if by some chance the jury returned a guilty verdict. My sister's a defense attorney; she's been laughing her ass off at the ineptitude of the prosecution. They're making OJ's prosecutors look competent...

I think he's making you post stupid drunken crap all over the board at 11pm on a Friday night...