So you don't like Cops, huh ?

I have a Hulu.com account.
One of the shows that I watch there is COPS.
I also have a Live Leak account and a Break.com account, and I also keep up with the police vids posted on those sites as well.
One thing I see from commenters (more so on hulu and Break than LL), is the rampant LEO bashing (LEO = Law Enforcement Officer(s)).
Now I make no secret of the fact that I work with cops as a dispatcher, nor do I also make a secret of the fact that I am an ardent fan and supporter of Law enforcement.
These folks do a tough, thankless job.
They risk their lives everyday for no other reason than they honestly want to make OUR lives safer.

I understand that there are some cops who really shouldn't be in law enforcement, period. These would be the proverbial "rotten apples".
But what upsets me is the fact that some shitheads can't see past their own stupidity and make blanket statements to the tune of "all cops are scum".

Now there was a time, when I was 15 and thought I knew everything, that I shared that sentiment.
Then one day a thought occurred to me, how can I say that and not feel like a hypocrite when I need them because someone broke into my car, stole something from me or any other conceivable reason to need a cop ?

Fact is, I can't.
Nor can anyone else.


23 years later I'm now 38, go to the the above mentioned sites and see the tripe those halfwit fools post.
And I get righteously pissed off.
Not only do these fools make patently erroneous generalizations, they have the utter temerity to also ignore their own noise and demand help from the very people they look down on.
Yes, that's right... I said DEMAND.
The Irony here is that I would bet, safely, that a good number of these people are also ones who have had reason to be on the business end of a pair of handcuffs (if their poorly spelled posts and vehemence are any indication).

As I said before, I openly admit that there are some that really do much to give law enforcement a black eye, but the facts are, these cops are a really small minority.
Most cops are straight forward, honest men and women who have a genuine desire to provide a service and to help their communities and truly care about keeping people safe.

Another thing that should be brought up is the fact that........well....... COPS DO NOT MAKE THE DAMNED LAWS!.
Cops are tasked to do one thing and one thing only, they enforce the laws.
Period.

So if you don't like the laws that you broke, talk to the people in office who passed the bills that became law.


And if you can't be bothered to do that, then STFU, don't call for help from the people you hate and deal with your own problems...... also be prepared to deal with any consequences that might come with your "solution".

18 WAYS TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iran or Chinese and North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about - sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA activists do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make "The Passion of the Christ" for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

17. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

18. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.

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A sense of self

A number of current affairs has me thinking about Americas current state of being.
The two most recent issues are the failed "immigrant amnesty" bill and the conviction of two Border Patrol agents for the shooting of a drug smuggler.

Let me begin with the amnesty bill.
I am -highly- relieved that this bill has, thus far, died. It's bad enough that the illegals that are here are being given the chance to draw out of social security (something they don't pay into by the way, just like the members of the Senate and House of Reps.) but now they tried to pass a bill that would legalize what is otherwise an illegal action. But what do you expect of a corrupt government that seems to care more about everyone else more than it cares about it's own citizens ?!

Next I'd like to touch on the very recent conviction of the two Border Patrol Agents.
While I will grant you they engaged in a couple of very very stupid actions in an attempt to cover up what had happened, I have to point out that had they not had their hands tied (figuratively) and been allowed to actually do what they were paid for, this entire situation would be academic.
The long and short of it is this, the two agents in question tried to stop a drug smuggler (muling 800 lbs. of pot) from crossing the border.
Subsequently, the smuggler got shot (in the butt no less, heh heh heh), when he refused to halt.
Now, here is where the stupidity comes in: it is my understanding that the job these agents are responsible for is -stopping- illegal crossings -and- to help put a halt to drug smuggling attempts, yet, they were allegedly "under orders" to -not- stop anyone crossing the border.
On top of that, the two agents were sentenced to 11 and 12 years, respectively, in a federal pen. All this after the smuggler testified against the agents after having his medical bills and other expenses covered, all because these guys were doing their DAMNED JOBS!

So I have three words for you:

WHAT
THE
FUCK!

How low have we sunk in our state of affairs when someone can commit TWO crimes and not only be given a free pass for them, but can also be PAID, after a fashion, for doing so ?! AND this scumbag isn't an American citizen!


While I have no argument about people coming to America, I do believe that they should do it the right way, and crossing the border illegally isn't it.
Do I despise or begrudge these people the chance at a better life ? no , and to be honest, what they would get here IS a better life when compared to what mexico has, or in this case what it doesn't have, to offer and they should feel welcome to obtain it here. But again, they have to do it the right and legal way.
Now I know many of you would argue that the process of obtaining legal american citizenship is both expensive and ridiculously prolonged, and I would agree. But let me point a few things out.
1) as for the "cost" perhaps you should be made aware of the fact that, on a regular basis, these immigrants pay a few thousand to smugglers and "border guides" to help get the immigrants across the border. So, having pointed this out,why should they not just use the money to go the proper route ?
2) Yes, the experience and trail to legal citizenship is long and difficult, but name something worthwhile that isn't.


Teddy Roosevelt, in one of his final speechs prior to his death said it best:
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American.

"If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."*

He is right.

If you want to come to this country, it behooves you to do everything possible to truely become part of this country.

So, before you level all sorts of obtuse and erroneous accusations and insults at me, stop and think for a moment; why should we change our country to suit other countries ?
Why should we be forced to accept a criminal act because illegal invaders feel entitled to that which they have not earned ?

The plain and painful answer is...... We shouldn't
This is OUR country, these are OUR laws, and any who would come here and be part of America has NO choice but to accept these things and do whatever possible to assimilate.

We have lost our national sense of self.



*the rest of this speech and others can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

Also, if you honestly think these immigrants have the best interests of EVERYONE in the US at heart, perhaps you should check this URL out as well: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/hispanic.asp

Here's a link for more on the plight of the Border Patrol agents: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244441,00.html

Despair and Hope: The short and long wars against radical Islam

In the short-term, the ongoing war with Islamic fascists from Afghanistan to Iraq, and in peripheral areas from Canada and Manhattan to Madrid, Bali, and London, seems surreal.

Not to mention frustrating: almost every day the press highlights another furious outburst from some entertainers or intellectuals who are just enough on the fringes of American popular culture to warrant momentary coverage of their lunacy. Neil Young is worried about the reception of his new album? He hypes George Bush’s malignancies. The Dixie Chicks and Madonna are bothered about being pegged abroad as part of George Bush’s empire? Presto, they call Iraq the real problem. The dropout Sean Penn can’t quite shake his off-screen image of Jeff Spicoli? He seeks acceptance from the Western Left as a serious critic of U.S Middle-Eastern policy.

The largest American aid program since the Marshall Plan has become the receptacle for all the conflicting personal frustrations, unhappiness, and thwarted idealism of Western elites, a sort of scapegoat or totem through which the ennui and angst of contemporary sensitive man can be momentarily excised.

The terrorists in Iraq know this and thus trust that our press corps will harp on the last minutes, rather than the last four years, of the wretched life of the mass-murdering al Zarqawi — did he receive proper medical attention? Was he roughed up by us? Did he die immediately or suffer?

Indeed, the more our own troops are tortured and exploded, the more our own media will rush to judgment on Haditha to assure the world, before an inquiry has even finished, that the U.S. Marine Corps murdered innocents. The more non-uniformed Islamists behead civilians and torture innocents, the more international “rights” organizations will accuse the United States of humanitarian violations in Guantanamo Bay — at least up until the point of calling for the return of such killers to their native countries.

In such an asymmetrical war of perceptions, the gruesome death of a single American does more harm to our cause than does the image of a martyred Zarqawi in sensual Paradise with his virgins. For Westerners, death ruins the precious good life; for the topsy-turvy Islamists, death salvages the bad life.

Our rules of engagement are aimed at winning “hearts and minds.” That precludes the age-old formula for such postwar rebuilding: reconstruct only after the enemy has been humiliated and defeated. A Curtis LeMay would have advised leveling Fallujah in April to save the war; we shrug that doing so would surely lose it. Somewhere the ghost of a Thucydides or Hobbes or Churchill might adjudicate our debate in ways that we might not like.

All this the enemy knows and manipulates to its advantage.

The terrorists also understand that their overtly fascistic ideology — intolerance for other religions, execution of the apostate, subjugation of women, killing of gays, and theocracy — will never earn the proper Western revulsion once reserved for a similar reactionary Nazism, since it butts up against the pillar of multicultural tolerance; no non-Western people can be any worse than the present-day West.

Al Qaeda and its followers can’t manufacture a machine gun or design an RPG. No problem — they realize there are enough petroleum-generated dollars floating around in the region, and enough eager arms merchants, to get what they need.

Politically, the Islamists accept that the world detests them — perhaps even the Chinese and Russians. But they also have discovered that much of the world finds them useful. For the Arab Street, macabre resistance to the West offers a vicarious sense of pride, especially if it is cost-free and does not completely forfeit access to Europe or the United States. Aspiring hegemons like the Chinese, or those in decline like the Europeans and Russians, enjoy it when America bloodies its nose, if for no other reason than envy and spite — and the hope that in the future they are given more consultation, befitting their prior status.

Oil is their best ally, or so the Islamists trust. The Iranians, even if shackled, boast that, Samson-like, they can pull down our entire petroleum temple upon all of us anytime they wish. The terrorists know that billions will always filter down from autocracies as bribe money into their coffers. And no gas-hungry American wants his Labor Day Winnebago parked dry on his pad because some nut let off a bomb in the Middle East.

But in the longer-term war, the Islamists have real problems. Their acquisition of weapons is always parasitical and can’t quite keep up with constant Western innovation, whether in the form of drones that take out terrorists sitting in front of their TVs, or anti-ballistic missile systems that might nullify Ahmadinejad’s nuclear blackmail.

The Islamists are also in a dilemma about escalation. They have a deep-seated suspicion that another 9/11 might unleash an unpredictable Western response that would pollute the favorable Middle East waters in which they swim. Behead a Canadian prime minister; blow up the Eiffel Tower or the Vatican; take out the Empire State Building — and Western bombs may be dropped first, beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, and questions asked later. So for now, jihadists accept that their best strategy is not to upset too much the multifarious forces that conspire to restrain Western power.

Even more depressing for the Islamists is that their enemy is not the American or European West per se, but a far more insidious Westernism, something that has infected diverse peoples from South Korea and China to Central America and enclaves in the Middle East like Beirut and Dubai. Westernization — whether we define that as a C-SPAN televised gripe session on Palestinian rights at a Western university or navigating through 7,000 tunes on an iPod or flipping on the CD, air conditioning, and power seats in a Honda Accord or watching assorted bare navels on MTV — is insidiously seductive and ultimately subversive to the patriarchal world of the eighth century.

How do you arrange a marriage, insist on a beheading for adultery, conduct a proper honor killing of your daughter, or calmly call Jews “pigs and apes” when the wider Westernizing world broadcast into your living room, car, and workplace thinks you are some groveling zombie? Can an Airbus or Compaq be constructed according to the principles of Sharia? How can you demand amoxicillin as your birthright, but hate the system of free thinking and rationalism that created it? Does the Islamist despise equally Chinese internet pornography; does he issue fatwas against South Korean video games; does he ostracize Latin American evangelical Protestants, or burn down Bollywood? In the short-term maybe; in the long-term it is not so easy.

The Middle Easterner is also starting to realize that his once romantic jihadist has turned even approving bystanders into international pariahs. You doubt that? Try getting on an international flight with a Saudi or Egyptian and watch the passengers’ reaction; or wear a veil in Paris or Rome, and see how many smiles you receive. That radical change in attitudes toward radical Islam and its appeasers, the jihadist — and those in the Middle East who tolerated him — begot. How they finally wore down the Western therapeutic mind from Amsterdam to Copenhagen, I don’t know, but somehow they have nearly accomplished that once impossible feat.

So there is no guarantee that the multiculturalism, utopianism, cultural relativism, and moral equivalence that infect Western capitals today will necessarily always predominate, being as they are a fashionable relish in times of calm and plenty. The more the Islamist insults his benefactors, the more he gradually tries their patience.

A Cindy Sheehan or Noam Chomsky still resonates with a minority of the public because he can; thanks to Western capitalism and freedom, both jet at will around the globe, live comfortably, and count on the tolerance of the Western bourgeoisie society that they so roundly condemn. But should the Islamist endanger that comfortable embryo — as they almost did on 9/11 — then folks like these would be as quickly forgotten as were Neville Chamberlain and Charles Lindbergh by 1941.

As for Iraq, while the post-Saddam reconstruction may not have started out as the new ground zero in the war against Islamist terrorism, it has surely devolved into that, as the Islamists themselves concede. In the short term, because they understand that the juggernaut of Western capitalism, freedom, and choice will spell their death knell, the jihadists have imported and adopted as their own every conventional Western munition, repackaged every Western self-critique, manipulated every Western media outlet, and tried to boomerang every Western liberal virtue and humanitarian protocol back at its creators. And, if the polls on Iraq are any indication, such a strategy has worked, for a time, brilliantly.

But these are ultimately not acts of confidence, but of desperation. As an al Zarqawi knew, the world is evolving; if for the present we can keep our heads, then for eternity the Islamists will eventually lose theirs.

— Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author, most recently, of A War Like No Other. How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.

And so it begins

This will be a blog that will either have you laughing uproariously or so angry as to be ready to chew my head off.


So in the vein of both I'll start off with this:



An Inconvenient Truth (for Al Gore)

TRUE and documented You can go to http://www.snopes.com/ and type in the search box 'Texas White House' to confirm.



COMPARISON

HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (plus eight bathrooms) is heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guesthouse, all heated by gas. In one month, this home consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is in the South. If you are up on current events, you probably know the identity of the owner.

HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house covers 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms), and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000-gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1
(The 20-room mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the home of the renowned environmentalist and filmmaker, Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2
(Model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.



Note On The Preceding From Gary:



While Gore wins an Oscar for his eco-documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" and testifies before Congress on environmental concerns, Bush is either ignored or depicted as being uncaring on the topic. It's not about the "truth" or what's newsworthy, it's about politics and manipulating what we "believe" to be the truth -period -and it extends far beyond this example in a largely successful attempt to damage every facet of this presidency.




Just an Observation

I am a big fan of Tats and piercings, but I have recently noticed something rather disturbing.

Is it just me or does a clitoral ring look like the grip of a zipper ?

Perhaps it's just my deranged view fo the world but everytime I see one I just want to reach up and zip it shut heh heh heh

I will say this, however, it DOES make for some interesting eyecandy, as well as a damned good marker for the clueless males amoung us who have no idea where to apply a tongue lashing >=-) [get it ? tongue lashing ? LMSFAO!] ( I, however, am NOT one of those poor clueless bastards heh heh heh)

Now.. on to the Prince Albert piercing..........

WHAT......

THE.....

FUCK!


Guys it's a simple rule....... DO NOT ABUSE THE WEDDING TACKLE!

Unless you have aspirations of being a freaking PULL TOY, leave your boys alone.

Any guy who does this should turn in his Man Card and renounce all claims to manhood.

FFS! the majority of hetero men bitch about women metaphorically leading them around by the cock, don't making it fucking LITERAL!

Yes yes I know, what I've just stated is something of a double standard, but fellas, in all reality, a nude woman is much more pleasant to look at than a nude man (naked men just look funny as hell) and adding a leash attachment to your joint doesn't help matters, besides, do you really want to have to explain it at the airport metal detector ? heh heh heh




The Gryph has spoken.