Today's rant:
Ok, so this is what I'm wasting my time on, rather than looking for a job. A couple of things today are eating away at me, so rather than be a ranting lunatic, I can look like a concerned citizen and document things here for the world to see.
Today's first item is the "MOAB". The army has decided to name it "Massive Ordinance Air Burst". We now find out that the acronym was chosen to fit those letters, and they really refer to it as the "Mother Of All Bombs". For those of you who watch CNN, it's a 21,000 pound bomb that's dropped from a C-130 cargo plane and it explodes and leaves a nice mushroom cloud. It's much larger (6,000 additional pounds) than the "daisy cutter" that was so popular in Afghanistan. It also uses a more powerful explosive. I find that once again the Americans have shown that we can develop nasty weapons that we hope we don't have to use (once we've used several of them on Iraq). I understand that the city of Moab, Utah is upset with the choice of the name. My reply is "screw them." Aside from some good snow skiing, some copper, and a lot of people who sing (excluding the Osmonds), we never got a damn thing from Utah. As a matter of fact, Utah has given us people that bug us on Saturday mornings, and the Osmonds. For those reasons alone, I think we should bomb Utah. We need to test that damn weapon some more anyway. We don't want to fly them half-way around the world and find out they don't kill people. Oh, I just thought of a decent website in Utah. Ok, you can keep that place. But please, at least bomb Idaho. We can get potatoes from somewhere else, but you'll raise the average IQ of the country considerably.
Today's second item is from the Opinion Journal from the Wall Street Journal. If you don't read it, you're missing the news. If you watch CNN for all of your news, I'll try to use smaller words. FOX News is the best TV news you can watch. Anyway, apparently yesterday Representative Jim Moran (or is that Moron?) from Virginia decided to opine on the Iraq situation by blaming the Jewish Community's "strong support" for the war with Iraq. He even so much as asked "them" to change the direction for the rest of the country, as if directing someone to pick up the phone and call the President. Aside from how stupid his comments were, (and yes, they were stupid) I think that anyone who is an elected representative from this country should be standing firm with the President, and not trying to change our Country's mission. These knuckleheads voted to do something about the Iraq situation, and now that it looks like we're going to do it, they're changing their tune. Grow a pair, you knuckleheads! Anyway, Pat Buchanan joined in with his two cents and said that "a cabal of polemicists and public officials" are "colluding with Israel" "ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests." Just to prove how stupid the nit-wits are, their views are echoed by Edward Said, who is an Arab who resorts to using terms like the "Zionist lobby" in his arguments. He is apparently Egyptian or Palestinian, both good friends on this Country, as long as the checks clear. Whenever you hear the term "Zionist lobby", you know that the person you're talking to is an anti-Semite and full of hate. Since they have their axe to grind, so do I. I have seen too many little kids killed at discos to have ANY sympathy for the Palestinians (as a group - there are probably a few who don't deserve a painful death) or the Egyptians (just the ones who give money to Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.). I think that the U.S. has been playing with kid gloves long enough. It's time for the after-school fight of our lives. History, it is said, is written by the victors. In this conflict, I am certainly on the winning side.
My last rant (it's getting late) is about the countries which oppose war with Iraq. It's funny that they will be in favor of war as long as they don't think it's likely, but when we get troops on their border, they suddenly want to use peaceful means to resolve it. France voted in favor of Resolution 1441, which said this is the LAST CHANCE. Immediate compliance was the ONLY way to avoid immediate SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES. What did the French think that meant? Not being invited over for dinner? Now that they're set in their decision to veto any further resolutions authorizing force, we find out their motives. They stand to lose billions of dollars in loans, and we now find out that the French, our "allies", have been brokering weapons and parts (for weapons) shipments to Iraq from China, our long-time "friends". So, they are part of the problem. They never like us anyway. It's not like we saved their asses in TWO World Wars, or helped them in Vietnam. The fact that they don't speak German there is enough reason for them to go along with us on our quest to make the world a better place. I advocate a complete and total boycott (and if I could, embargo) against all French products, including cheeses, wines, immigrants, truffles (I will miss truffles), and anything else from France. I won't eat French Fries (I like the name "Freedom Fries" better anyway), French Toast (it needs a new name anyway), or escargot. You shouldn't eat snails anyway. They're nasty. Since Belgium has decided to get involved, no more Belgian Waffles, or Duvel (I will really miss Duvel - that's some good beer). Germany doesn't give us anything useful aside from beer and cars built by Nazis, and I can live without those. So, I'm saying good-bye to those countries' products. The Chinese piss me off all the time, but you can't buy anything in this country that isn't made there anyway, so I can't boycott them. If we boycotted Chinese products, Wal-Mart would be out of business. So, we should just do what we do best - show them MTV and PlayboyTV, and let the social chaos that follows cause their collapse.
If you have ideas, comments, or criticisms, please let me know.