Not on OT hat trick, MWN post

Inspiration turns ugly this weekend as I fined myself staring into a porcelin abyss and wondering: where did the "e" in front of internet-related software come from and has anyone ever taken an e-pee? Peace of mind rarely comes cheap at a time when I find myself awake at 1AM furiously engaged in the fight to find any valuable information to ape. The background of Explorer shows flash Ads that I never click on. The foreground is a pointless swath of scandalmongering. A real wanksta should have to try harder than this. Item! Make sure to check out the LJ when I get everything updated. Strange Keystone Tales should not be missed.

A teaser text trailer:
- Legends of the Hidden Temple
- Freaky back hair patch
- Infield double
- Lurch

Suspend the disdain for the inappropriateness of laughing at ones own jokes. I need some leeway in order to successfully transition into a "pride down" state of admittance that I have not read more than a ">few passing articles about the state of Iraq since I left it. Still intimately entwined with the land that America forgot, the capture of another http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1811808">TOP ZARQAWI AIDE drew me in out of pity. AlJazeera and I are both nonplussed at so much hullabaloo. Got news for the people not following at home:

Abu Musab al Zarqawi -> Al Qaida
Mohammed Hammad al Ubaydi -> Secret Islamic Army*

Says it in the article / maybe I'm hallucinating such that the observational skills have become a wee bit lacking after a return to chinese food, grinders, and (I went there) roast beef*

In post midnight inspiration, I threw the blog into the blogger search engine since I had been looking at postsecret and http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com">another blog that might cause OT to actually break from drinking. Search stopped at 200 upon realizing it was going nowhere. Tough as it is, the downtime on the blog is self imposed by the fact that all attendants are jez really busy. The mistake is considering that it is in indefinate stasis, but that it will not be cast off until such time as the assembled blokes are unable to achieve anything resembling comic wit in an organized fashion not involving dogs wearing hats or commentary stolen from this http://www.larouchepub.com/>guy because, well, the headlines are so bat s*** crazy.


(I don't think I got your links working MWN, OT sorry)

Eh? Fuck you if you don't like it!

I will be the first to post under my new boleishmotion of transmutation. Yeah, that is right, I'm typing but not in control of my fingers, or ... nerver mind. I notice alot of spelling imstakes, but I'm trying my best. Well I've been thinking of saying F@#% engineering and do something that will make me no money, but I will be happy as hell doing. I've been telling people for some time now that all I want from my degree is enough money to buy a house in the middle of no where and be a park ranger. So I decided fuck I will go right into Park Ranger, or 4-H director with a BS in Natural Resource Conservation with Recreation option degree. I know it sounds lazy and lackluster but dammit that is what I am. Oh and if anyone is wondering, I've been blue toothing it like dog fucker tonight, homemade wine has to pretty close to the scicily shit. (Sorry Haydt, I haven't said it in so long, and I needed to, so that it is not forgoten) Ok, I just looked up and realized I've only got a paragraph afer what felt like 5 hours, so I'm done.

PENIS PENIS PENIS

I'm Dissapointed in what has happened to the blog, so I now propose (becuase everyone is back) we should all just do what I've been doing all along, getting fucked up and letting everyone else see it.

Wassup

Well, made it to Sicily despite a miserable week of traveling misadventures. Upside is that itàs fucking awesome here. Palm trees, everything is still green, warm but not hot, and cheap ass wine and cheese (I saw wine today at a market for 1.5 euro, or a buck seventy five.). The trip via London was a nightmare though, with my tickets getting screwed up by my white trash travel agent (for the fifth or sixth time), and me missing my flight out of London becaue thye shut down the subway after some duche bag decided to throw himself onto the tracks. Anyways, then last night I spent ten horus waiting for a train to this side of Sicily, but my Italian is good enough after a few months of study to talk the segueway rocking cops into letting me sleep in the closed terminal. Score.
Well, I just got in around noonish today. My stuff is locked up in a hostel right now, and although the hostel bar is righteous and has an underground river in the basement you can drink next to, I donàt want to be there any longer than I have to (with four other dudes in the room). Im about to go check out an apartment, and if its decent Ill probably snag it- Ill make sure the woman whos renting it is cool with people coming by, in case anyone wants to.
Anyways, the trip was pretty freaking arduous, and I think Ive lost about five pounds just from that. Also, Im renaming England "Cash Island", due to it being so expensive.
Ill post some more interesting goings on later. Right now Ive got to got see this apartment Ill be in.
peace

Sup, Nigs

Well, I'll be out of this rat trap of a nation within fifteen hours or so, and not a moment too soon. Sheesh- I'm reading this article about Michael Schiavo, and the looney toons who were sending him deranged threat letters during the whole media debacle over his wife. Just disgusting. Well, that's the new face of America- we're about to go very 1618 around here.
In anycase, I've started a new blog on blogger.com called "Unemployed in Sicily." It'll detail my travels and the progress of my book. Feel free to check it out whenever, book mark the sucker, etc. I'll try to update it every day or so, trying to keep it fresh.And the MWN is back! Even more good news- I think that's everyone now, at least from the crew at least. Word.
Zach

3 years ago

today in my public speaking class, my group and I were looking for "great american speeches" to review for a class project and I came across one that made me giggle...

just think 3 years ago, some of you were were in Kuwait having seer-suckers dropped on your front door, others were in a huge convoy heading north stopping in land-fills, one was in england deciding where to drop some MOABs, and I was on my way over...

these memories came up b/c I found a speech that really doesn't fit the "great speeches" category but more of "great comedy"... http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wariniraq/gwbushiraq5103.htm
and remember, mission was accomplished, and we really weren't in a war, it is civil-military operations...

My A#@ !!!!!!!

The War is Victorious Again!

So, after almost forty years in existance, but only four/five years into the War on Terror, the Basque seperatist group ETA declares a permanent cease-fire. Coincidence? I think not.

Just posted this to my livejournal....

In the military my job was to look at a report like this one and determine the intelligence value of it. This is from CNN, happened yesterday:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- About 100 insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machine guns stormed a police station in Diyala province Tuesday, killing at least 15 officers and freeing about 30 detainees.
Insurgents also seized police weapons and radios and destroyed at least 20 cars, including a number of police vehicles.
An official from the Diyala Joint Coordination Center said 18 police and one insurgent were killed. Nine people were wounded, including seven police officers. Two of the 18 dead were described as high-ranking police officers.
The U.S. military said 15 police and 11 insurgents died, and four police and two insurgents were wounded.
The incident took place in the town of Muqdadiya, 65 miles north of Baghdad and about 25 miles north of Baquba, the capital of a province that has endured much insurgent violence.
Elements of the U.S. military's 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 205th Iraqi Army responded to the attack with support from helicopters, said Maj. Tim Keefe, spokesman for the U.S. military.
One U.S. soldier was wounded when insurgents fired on them as they arrived.
Insurgent munitions have been recovered, Keefe said.

So, what does this really mean? I'd say that it shows insurgents have the capability to coordinate successful company-sized assaults against Iraqi government infrastructure in and around the city in question. What is interesting about this is, that when I was there they had never cooridinated anything about a platoon sized element, and even that was rare. What this indicates is that command-and-control of these groups is likely increasing (I assume that these guys were Sunnis, the Shia under al Sadr obviously coordinating many more fighters than this, but that's apples and oranges.) That is very significant, as the difference between supplying/commanding twenty men and supplying/commanding 100 is exponentially more difficult/expensive/time consuming. Or in other words all the Presidents statements on progress are just that: words.
Now, to mitigate that statement, this is just a snap-shot, like all the reporting on this war is, due to the Pentagons control of the media over there. It's possible that there are regular 100 man assaults against Iraqi government positions in that town, and we just never hear about it. Also, I'll say that the number of insurgent wounded does indicate that the Iraqi police fought back, instead of surrendering like usual and being executed shortly thereafter. Of course, the reporting on this doesn't say if the US air support that came on-scene caused most of the casualties or not- I don't have enough information from this article to say yea or nay, but I suspect that the former is the case.
And of course given the Pentagons density on these matters, I'll likely never have enough information- and neither will you! : (