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Monday, October 29, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: Benny the Jet and Red Sox Win World Series, Save Babe Ruth Ball From the Beast
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Doug the Punter
Salutations Freedom Lovers,
I, Doug the Punter, have officially moved from my previous blog, Freedom Blog, USA, and arrived at Freedom, Glory, America. I am pretty excited about the merger as it will vastly increase mine and Ted's killing, er, I
mean, writing power. Anyway I don't have a lot to say right meow other than I will be recapping the Real World every week (I'm not really sure why) and writing intermittently about various things, usually related to the Boston sports world. Basically I'll be arguing back and forth with Ted a lot but don't worry it will be entertaining (disclaimer: it probably won't be), we'll keep it as inappropriate and as below-the-belt as possible. One note I am going to stay out of politics as much as possible; I'll let Ted make an ass of himself on his own. Tune in Monday for sure-to-be-entertaining recaps of the Washington and New England game from totally different but equally skewed perspectives.
I remain etc.,
Doug the Punter
For all my previous articles, of which there are many, please visit my archives.
For real news in a quick, digestible summaries please visit Newser.com. I write for the sports section.
I, Doug the Punter, have officially moved from my previous blog, Freedom Blog, USA, and arrived at Freedom, Glory, America. I am pretty excited about the merger as it will vastly increase mine and Ted's killing, er, I
mean, writing power. Anyway I don't have a lot to say right meow other than I will be recapping the Real World every week (I'm not really sure why) and writing intermittently about various things, usually related to the Boston sports world. Basically I'll be arguing back and forth with Ted a lot but don't worry it will be entertaining (disclaimer: it probably won't be), we'll keep it as inappropriate and as below-the-belt as possible. One note I am going to stay out of politics as much as possible; I'll let Ted make an ass of himself on his own. Tune in Monday for sure-to-be-entertaining recaps of the Washington and New England game from totally different but equally skewed perspectives.I remain etc.,
Doug the Punter
For all my previous articles, of which there are many, please visit my archives.
For real news in a quick, digestible summaries please visit Newser.com. I write for the sports section.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Brothers get wierd sometimes.
EJMcCrann (4:20:25 PM): poop
EJMcCrann (4:20:28 PM): speaking of poop
EJMcCrann (4:20:40 PM): when you go to my house find the poop peoples number on the thing
EJMcCrann (4:20:49 PM): i need to cancel service until dog is back
DTMcCrann (4:20:58 PM): k
DTMcCrann (4:21:08 PM): i might forget
DTMcCrann (4:21:12 PM): so don't get mad
DTMcCrann (4:21:20 PM): that's an obscure thing to remember
EJMcCrann (4:21:28 PM): POOP
EJMcCrann (4:20:28 PM): speaking of poop
EJMcCrann (4:20:40 PM): when you go to my house find the poop peoples number on the thing
EJMcCrann (4:20:49 PM): i need to cancel service until dog is back
DTMcCrann (4:20:58 PM): k
DTMcCrann (4:21:08 PM): i might forget
DTMcCrann (4:21:12 PM): so don't get mad
DTMcCrann (4:21:20 PM): that's an obscure thing to remember
EJMcCrann (4:21:28 PM): POOP
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Again, I ask you to spread the love
Tell your friends. I want more input and comments on this blog. I spend enough time talking to myself, I don't need to be blogging to myself as well. Big Ed, You out there?
Please read, take heed, and choose your news.
The Weekly Standard
The Greatest Story Never Told
Military progress in Iraq goes unnoticed by the press.
by Dean Barnett
10/23/2007 12:00:00 AM
MOST PEOPLE DON'T know about the website icasualties.org Icasualties.org is run by a bunch of lefties who have dedicated themselves to aggregating all the bad news out of Iraq over the past few years. Each day for the past thirty-four months, Icasualties.org has documented every Coalition military death as well as every violent civilian death in Iraq.
The people who run Icasualties.org obviously have little fondness for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among their many tendentious metrics is a tally of all the deaths since President Bush announced "Bring them on." Yet, in spite of a clear political agenda, Icaualties.org plays it straight--they just report the numbers. It's important to note that all the discussion regarding how David Petraeus classifies deaths has nothing to do with
Icasualties.org's figures. If six bodies are found in Baghdad, they get added to Icasualties.org's butcher's bill. David Petraeus doesn't get a vote.
Since Icasualties.org is an ideological fellow traveler of mot mainstream media outlets, you'd figure the site's reporting would occasionally get noticed. In the past, Icasualties.org's numbers and mainstream media reports have sometimes marched in lockstep. Who can forget all the "grim milestones" that the media purportedly mourned during the past four years?
IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, the story in Iraq has changed dramatically. The numbers on Icasualties.org have reflected that change. The metric that most clearly animates the mainstream media and the American public is the count of American casualties. In the spring, with "the surge" just being rolled out, over 100 American soldiers a month died between April and June. Even though the surge was just beginning, it was about that time that Harry Reid asserted, "As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results." As an analysis of our military prospects, Reid's comments were risible. Of course, Reid didn't intend to provide a serious military analysis. Rather, he tried to cynically capitalize on American deaths for political gain.
Since Reid's ill-timed comment, the situation for American soldiers in Iraq has taken a sharp turn for the better. The accompanying graph clearly shows the trend, but the situation can perhaps be best summed up by looking at the numbers in May compared to the numbers so far from October. In May, 120 American soldiers died in combat, and six more died from non-hostile causes. With October three-fourths complete, 20 American soldiers have died in combat while eight others have died non-hostilities related deaths.
It would be one thing if this improvement transpired because American commanders, spooked by the relatively high death tolls in the spring, decided to focus their mission on force protection. But that hasn't been the case. American troops have been engaging the enemy more actively over the past several months than at any time during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and they've done so to spectacular effect.
The results of the surge, or "the escalation" as Harry Reid derisively called it, have been obvious in the Icasualties.org numbers. Before the surge, a bad month would claim the lives of roughly 3,000 Iraqi civilians and security force members. In February '07, the exact number was 3,014 Iraqi casualties. In March, the figure was 2,977. As the surge began to have its effects, that number dropped to 1674 in August. In September, with the surge taking full effect, the numbers showed a profound change--the Iraqi death toll plunged to 848.
Happily, September's figures don't appear to be an aberration. October has seen 502 Iraqi casualties so far. If the trend continues though the end of October, the final number should be around 650 for the entire month. That represents better than an 80 percent improvement from the war's nadir.
YOU'D THINK THIS would be a big story. After all, the mainstream media makes such a show of "supporting the troops" at every turn, you'd think it would rush to report the amazing story of our soldiers accomplishing what many observers declared "impossible" and "unwinnable" not so long ago.
It hasn't worked out that way. When General Ricardo Sanchez (ret.) addressed the situation in Iraq on October 11, he proclaimed that America was "living a nightmare with no end in sight." Naturally, the "nightmare" quote wound up in the first paragraph of the New York Times report on Sanchez's comments. What didn't find its way into the Times' report was any context of what's going on in Iraq. The "nightmare" assessment would have been a whole lot more fitting when Sanchez was helping run the show in Iraq in 2006 than it is today.
Some people are trying to explain to the American public what's happening in Iraq. Pete Hegseth is a 27 year-old Princeton grad who spent a year leading a combat platoon in Iraq and now heads Vets for Freedom, an organization that supports victory in Iraq. In yesterday's New York Post, Hegseth wrote an important op-ed piece that explains our counter-insurgency strategy in some depth.
"The term 'surge' is far too simplistic", Hegseth writes, "as it implies simply throwing more forces at the problem, when Petraeus' changes in tactics are even more important. The new counterinsurgency approach--namely, to take territory from al Qaeda, hold it, secure it and empower tribal sheiks to work together and rebuild their communities--finally provides an effective 'counteroffensive' to the chief tactics of al Qaeda militants and Shiite death squads."
And then there's the intrepid Michael Yon. Yon has spent more time on the frontlines than any other American reporters. He reported anecdotal evidence of a sea-change in Iraq that preceded the change in the hard numbers by several months.
The mainstream media's failure to report what's been happening in Iraq frustrates Yon perhaps more than anyone. He has risked his life to tell that story, and the American media has yawned, apparently preferring the anachronistic pronouncements of a former general who hasn't been in the theatre since the surge began. Earlier this week, Yon offered his dispatches free of charge to any paper willing to publish them. It will be interesting to see if he has any takers.
WHAT'S MOST FRUSTRATING about the press's reporting about Iraq is that you just know the next time something goes wrong, be it a car bomb slipping through or a mishap involving American soldiers, that story will get above-the-fold treatment in America's major dailies. The same old voices will begin shrieking "quagmire," and an American pop-singer will probably re-shape John Kerry's tired "Who will be the last to die for a mistake?" query into a lame rock song. (Wait, Bruce Springsteen has already done that.)
The cries of defeat and retreat will intensify.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with the media reporting the bad news out of Iraq. Indeed, it's their duty. But there is something profoundly wrong with the media reporting the bad news while disingenuously ignoring the progress we've made, progress that's only been made because of the sacrifices of 160,000 American soldiers.
Dean Barnett is a staff writer at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
icasualties.bmp
Hostile and non-hostile American deaths in Iraq. Source: Icasualties.org.
C Copyright 2007, News Corporation, Weekly Standard, All Rights Reserved.
The Greatest Story Never Told
Military progress in Iraq goes unnoticed by the press.
by Dean Barnett
10/23/2007 12:00:00 AM
MOST PEOPLE DON'T know about the website icasualties.org Icasualties.org is run by a bunch of lefties who have dedicated themselves to aggregating all the bad news out of Iraq over the past few years. Each day for the past thirty-four months, Icasualties.org has documented every Coalition military death as well as every violent civilian death in Iraq.
The people who run Icasualties.org obviously have little fondness for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among their many tendentious metrics is a tally of all the deaths since President Bush announced "Bring them on." Yet, in spite of a clear political agenda, Icaualties.org plays it straight--they just report the numbers. It's important to note that all the discussion regarding how David Petraeus classifies deaths has nothing to do with
Icasualties.org's figures. If six bodies are found in Baghdad, they get added to Icasualties.org's butcher's bill. David Petraeus doesn't get a vote.
Since Icasualties.org is an ideological fellow traveler of mot mainstream media outlets, you'd figure the site's reporting would occasionally get noticed. In the past, Icasualties.org's numbers and mainstream media reports have sometimes marched in lockstep. Who can forget all the "grim milestones" that the media purportedly mourned during the past four years?
IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, the story in Iraq has changed dramatically. The numbers on Icasualties.org have reflected that change. The metric that most clearly animates the mainstream media and the American public is the count of American casualties. In the spring, with "the surge" just being rolled out, over 100 American soldiers a month died between April and June. Even though the surge was just beginning, it was about that time that Harry Reid asserted, "As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results." As an analysis of our military prospects, Reid's comments were risible. Of course, Reid didn't intend to provide a serious military analysis. Rather, he tried to cynically capitalize on American deaths for political gain.
Since Reid's ill-timed comment, the situation for American soldiers in Iraq has taken a sharp turn for the better. The accompanying graph clearly shows the trend, but the situation can perhaps be best summed up by looking at the numbers in May compared to the numbers so far from October. In May, 120 American soldiers died in combat, and six more died from non-hostile causes. With October three-fourths complete, 20 American soldiers have died in combat while eight others have died non-hostilities related deaths.
It would be one thing if this improvement transpired because American commanders, spooked by the relatively high death tolls in the spring, decided to focus their mission on force protection. But that hasn't been the case. American troops have been engaging the enemy more actively over the past several months than at any time during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and they've done so to spectacular effect.
The results of the surge, or "the escalation" as Harry Reid derisively called it, have been obvious in the Icasualties.org numbers. Before the surge, a bad month would claim the lives of roughly 3,000 Iraqi civilians and security force members. In February '07, the exact number was 3,014 Iraqi casualties. In March, the figure was 2,977. As the surge began to have its effects, that number dropped to 1674 in August. In September, with the surge taking full effect, the numbers showed a profound change--the Iraqi death toll plunged to 848.
Happily, September's figures don't appear to be an aberration. October has seen 502 Iraqi casualties so far. If the trend continues though the end of October, the final number should be around 650 for the entire month. That represents better than an 80 percent improvement from the war's nadir.
YOU'D THINK THIS would be a big story. After all, the mainstream media makes such a show of "supporting the troops" at every turn, you'd think it would rush to report the amazing story of our soldiers accomplishing what many observers declared "impossible" and "unwinnable" not so long ago.
It hasn't worked out that way. When General Ricardo Sanchez (ret.) addressed the situation in Iraq on October 11, he proclaimed that America was "living a nightmare with no end in sight." Naturally, the "nightmare" quote wound up in the first paragraph of the New York Times report on Sanchez's comments. What didn't find its way into the Times' report was any context of what's going on in Iraq. The "nightmare" assessment would have been a whole lot more fitting when Sanchez was helping run the show in Iraq in 2006 than it is today.
Some people are trying to explain to the American public what's happening in Iraq. Pete Hegseth is a 27 year-old Princeton grad who spent a year leading a combat platoon in Iraq and now heads Vets for Freedom, an organization that supports victory in Iraq. In yesterday's New York Post, Hegseth wrote an important op-ed piece that explains our counter-insurgency strategy in some depth.
"The term 'surge' is far too simplistic", Hegseth writes, "as it implies simply throwing more forces at the problem, when Petraeus' changes in tactics are even more important. The new counterinsurgency approach--namely, to take territory from al Qaeda, hold it, secure it and empower tribal sheiks to work together and rebuild their communities--finally provides an effective 'counteroffensive' to the chief tactics of al Qaeda militants and Shiite death squads."
And then there's the intrepid Michael Yon. Yon has spent more time on the frontlines than any other American reporters. He reported anecdotal evidence of a sea-change in Iraq that preceded the change in the hard numbers by several months.
The mainstream media's failure to report what's been happening in Iraq frustrates Yon perhaps more than anyone. He has risked his life to tell that story, and the American media has yawned, apparently preferring the anachronistic pronouncements of a former general who hasn't been in the theatre since the surge began. Earlier this week, Yon offered his dispatches free of charge to any paper willing to publish them. It will be interesting to see if he has any takers.
WHAT'S MOST FRUSTRATING about the press's reporting about Iraq is that you just know the next time something goes wrong, be it a car bomb slipping through or a mishap involving American soldiers, that story will get above-the-fold treatment in America's major dailies. The same old voices will begin shrieking "quagmire," and an American pop-singer will probably re-shape John Kerry's tired "Who will be the last to die for a mistake?" query into a lame rock song. (Wait, Bruce Springsteen has already done that.)
The cries of defeat and retreat will intensify.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with the media reporting the bad news out of Iraq. Indeed, it's their duty. But there is something profoundly wrong with the media reporting the bad news while disingenuously ignoring the progress we've made, progress that's only been made because of the sacrifices of 160,000 American soldiers.
Dean Barnett is a staff writer at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
icasualties.bmp
Hostile and non-hostile American deaths in Iraq. Source: Icasualties.org.
C Copyright 2007, News Corporation, Weekly Standard, All Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen
Please don't hesitate to tell your friends and enemies about FreGloMerica. I would like to get more people involved in FGA. Please just make sure that everyone knows what they are getting into. Humor. I don't need a bunch of whining crybabies getting offended. Unfortunately, as Opie or Anthony said this morning, in modern day America people have begun to believe that they have the right not to be offended. That's just silly. There is nothing that would ever lead me to think that anyone has a protected right not to be offended. So shove it.
Also, I am going to start posting somewhat relevant articles that I come across. So when you see a post that is credited to someone other than myself, they are one hundred percent real articles. I cannot speak to the sources, but they are going to be from real journalists. Ya know, the kind that have ethics and don't ignore things just because they don't bring good ratings. For instance, authors that write about the successes and progress in Iraq and the War on Terror, instead of just filling idiots heads with sensationalist bullshit. I will do my best to stay on track. Freedom, Glory, America.
Don't worry kids, I'm still a large, angry American male in his mid-twenties. I'm still upset. I'll still be ranting.
Also, I am going to start posting somewhat relevant articles that I come across. So when you see a post that is credited to someone other than myself, they are one hundred percent real articles. I cannot speak to the sources, but they are going to be from real journalists. Ya know, the kind that have ethics and don't ignore things just because they don't bring good ratings. For instance, authors that write about the successes and progress in Iraq and the War on Terror, instead of just filling idiots heads with sensationalist bullshit. I will do my best to stay on track. Freedom, Glory, America.
Don't worry kids, I'm still a large, angry American male in his mid-twenties. I'm still upset. I'll still be ranting.
Please tell me your kidding
It was recently brought to my attention that some of you pinko, commie, left-wing nutjobs have begun to blame someone for the fires in California. Wait for it.....wait for it....Bush!!!! Burning Bush!(again, too easy)
Come on people. I get it, you think that you are smarter than GWB. Is that why you were elected President. Or is that why you spend your days serving coffee to pricks that order "venti double whipped low-fat soy mocha lattes" every morning at seven-fifty a sip? And then have the balls to change your job title from "Moronic High School senior that serves me coffee" to "Barista." Ohhhhhh. You're a Barista! That makes all the difference in the world. Why don't you marry my daughter because lord knows I love me a good French Roast. Yeah, please be part of my family. We can all smoke shitty weed and drink coffee and listen to Norah "the wino" Jones. Then we can talk about our feelings and cut ourselves. It's not my fault that your dad didn't hug you and your mom is bitter that you made her fat. Take the nail polish off and go back to the Community Theatre where someone gives a shit that you think you're smarter than the leader of the most powerful nation in the history of Man.
Ok, so his Dad may have gotten him in to Yale. But guess what? He graduated! And they didn't hand out grades for cash back then. Because the didn't have rich bleeding heart liberals crying to their Daddy because Dr. Smith didn't like their sixth-grade book report on the socio-economic effects of the 6th Harry Potter book. Kiss my ass you morons. By the way, I want a LARGE BLACK COFFEE, not an Venti Drip. Venti Drip sounds like something that my grandfather may have contracted in Italy during the Second Great War, god rest is Irish soul. Yes, my grandfather served his country and loved it, but would punch you in the face if you told him that black coffee was now a Venti Drip. Miss you Pops.
Come on people. I get it, you think that you are smarter than GWB. Is that why you were elected President. Or is that why you spend your days serving coffee to pricks that order "venti double whipped low-fat soy mocha lattes" every morning at seven-fifty a sip? And then have the balls to change your job title from "Moronic High School senior that serves me coffee" to "Barista." Ohhhhhh. You're a Barista! That makes all the difference in the world. Why don't you marry my daughter because lord knows I love me a good French Roast. Yeah, please be part of my family. We can all smoke shitty weed and drink coffee and listen to Norah "the wino" Jones. Then we can talk about our feelings and cut ourselves. It's not my fault that your dad didn't hug you and your mom is bitter that you made her fat. Take the nail polish off and go back to the Community Theatre where someone gives a shit that you think you're smarter than the leader of the most powerful nation in the history of Man.
Ok, so his Dad may have gotten him in to Yale. But guess what? He graduated! And they didn't hand out grades for cash back then. Because the didn't have rich bleeding heart liberals crying to their Daddy because Dr. Smith didn't like their sixth-grade book report on the socio-economic effects of the 6th Harry Potter book. Kiss my ass you morons. By the way, I want a LARGE BLACK COFFEE, not an Venti Drip. Venti Drip sounds like something that my grandfather may have contracted in Italy during the Second Great War, god rest is Irish soul. Yes, my grandfather served his country and loved it, but would punch you in the face if you told him that black coffee was now a Venti Drip. Miss you Pops.
Silly Hillary and her dental surgery.
Hillary thinks bill is romantic for buying her a gift that reminded him of teeth
By the by, when you open this article try not laugh when you read the title that the actual author came up with.
By the by, when you open this article try not laugh when you read the title that the actual author came up with.
Attention Liberals!
You will not be able to vote for Bill Clinton next year! I know that many of you get sexually excited when you see the name Clinton on the ballot, but please remember that your voting for Hillary "I eat babies for breakfast because I hate freedom and have absolutely no idea how to run a country" Rodham Clinton. I repeat, you're not voting for Bill. I sort of understand where you are coming from. We all did very well during those eight years. But let us not forget the effect of previous administrations economic and foreign policies.(shut up Dougthepunter) I'm not saying that Clinton was bad, I'm just saying that a mans ability to bang fat ugly horse-face women does not qualify him for the presidency. On top of that, pun intended, Hillary did not "stand by her husband in the face of adversity," she lets her husband bang fat chicks because she she can't stop him and she hooked up with Billy Jean King in college. (oops, true story) Either way, Bill knew what he was doing. He had experience. (too easy) But leadership qualities and charisma are not STD's, Hillary doesn't have them. Just because Bill is living in the White House does not mean he will be running the country. Why would he want to? Look what he did last time! If he doesn't have any responsibilities at all, the he'll be knee-deep in fried Bologna sandwiches and large women in no time. Anyway, I figured that I would let you all know that because judging by the recent poles, you morons have no idea what the hell your talking about. Not to mention having no interest in protecting America's borders, economy, foreign policy, taxes, GDP, freedom, or free trips to the salad bar. (Thanks Draws) Just do me a favor, take all of your wishful thinking and aspirations about have a woman president to California and start roasting marshmallows you dirty, stinking hippies. I don't care about what gender the President is, man or woman, just not Hillary. Please not Hillary.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Don't Fly to Boston, Ever.
I'm still not sure who sucks larger amounts of ass. JetBlue(majority owned by the Antichrist) or MassTransit(the group of assholes that let a drunken leprechaun map out the roads, public transit, and taxi cabs of Boston). My advice, fly to Providence and drive, it's faster. So here are my issues and requests:
Jetblue - Please stop be such dirty, whorish liars. Just stop lying, please. You should get a 3 by 5 note card and write on it, "Stop Lying and Don't Steal Anything." Then keep that notecard in your pocket so that when you are lying to your customers and brazenly stealing profits--by cutting seats, overbooking, and underscheduling pilots-- you'll feel that card and take it out and read it. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll stop actively screwing your customers. Last night I was on Flight 1260, departing at 8:50PM out of Dulles heading to Boston. LIES! Those monkeys delayed us for 2 hours, claiming weather issues, yet Logan airport had no issues on their hotline or website. Then, this is the good part. the Jetblue guy(angel of death) gets on the mic and says, "ladies and gentlemans, we are sorry to inform you that Logan Airport is currently closed to incoming traffic. The flight is not canceled, and we will keep you informed as to any changes. If you would like to change your flight to tomorrow, you can do so at no charge." Now I'm thinking that sounds like the smart idea. They have been stringing us along for two hours already, the airport is closed, even if I do get there, it'll be 1 or 2 in the morning before I do. So, I switch the flight.
Fast forward TEN SECONDS.
CHEERING!!! APPLAUSE!!! PEOPLE HUGGING AND KISSING!!!
Holy crap they are boarding the plane. I call Logan Airport, no delays, never closed the airport. ARE YOU SURE?!?!?!?! Yes sir, if the airport was closed I think we'd know about it, sir. We are the airport, sir. Sir. Sir.
Those dirty, rotten, cock-sucking, rat bastards tricked me. Tricked us all. What happened is the crew was late or wasn't there or was smoking rocks in the bathroom. They used loose moral standing and an unwillingness to accept responsibility to justify lying about, AN AIRPORT BEING SHUT DOWN.
I'm le tired so I am going to have a nap. Then Maggie is cooking me breakfast, so I'll get to Bostons MassTransit later. You stupid sonofabitch, MassTransit. HA!
Jetblue - Please stop be such dirty, whorish liars. Just stop lying, please. You should get a 3 by 5 note card and write on it, "Stop Lying and Don't Steal Anything." Then keep that notecard in your pocket so that when you are lying to your customers and brazenly stealing profits--by cutting seats, overbooking, and underscheduling pilots-- you'll feel that card and take it out and read it. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll stop actively screwing your customers. Last night I was on Flight 1260, departing at 8:50PM out of Dulles heading to Boston. LIES! Those monkeys delayed us for 2 hours, claiming weather issues, yet Logan airport had no issues on their hotline or website. Then, this is the good part. the Jetblue guy(angel of death) gets on the mic and says, "ladies and gentlemans, we are sorry to inform you that Logan Airport is currently closed to incoming traffic. The flight is not canceled, and we will keep you informed as to any changes. If you would like to change your flight to tomorrow, you can do so at no charge." Now I'm thinking that sounds like the smart idea. They have been stringing us along for two hours already, the airport is closed, even if I do get there, it'll be 1 or 2 in the morning before I do. So, I switch the flight.
Fast forward TEN SECONDS.
CHEERING!!! APPLAUSE!!! PEOPLE HUGGING AND KISSING!!!
Holy crap they are boarding the plane. I call Logan Airport, no delays, never closed the airport. ARE YOU SURE?!?!?!?! Yes sir, if the airport was closed I think we'd know about it, sir. We are the airport, sir. Sir. Sir.
Those dirty, rotten, cock-sucking, rat bastards tricked me. Tricked us all. What happened is the crew was late or wasn't there or was smoking rocks in the bathroom. They used loose moral standing and an unwillingness to accept responsibility to justify lying about, AN AIRPORT BEING SHUT DOWN.
I'm le tired so I am going to have a nap. Then Maggie is cooking me breakfast, so I'll get to Bostons MassTransit later. You stupid sonofabitch, MassTransit. HA!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Robots taking over the world? Someone call Arnold!!!
Wired - Danger RoomRobot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
By Noah Shachtman
EmailOctober 18, 2007 11:00:00
AMCategories: Ammo andMunitions, Drones, Guns 35mmfiring
We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advancedmilitary weapons are essentially robotic -- picking targets outautomatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pullthe trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machinesstart firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National DefenceForce "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannonmalfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others duringa shooting exercise on Friday." SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope saysthe cause of the malfunction is not yet known... Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, tookplace at the SA Army's Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in the NorthernCape, as part of an annual force preparation endeavour. Mangope told The Star that it “is assumed that there was a mechanicalproblem, which led to the accident. The gun, which was fully loaded, did notfire as it normally should have," he said. "It appears as though the gun,which is computerised, jammed before there was some sort of explosion, andthen it opened fire uncontrollably, killing and injuring the soldiers." Other reports have suggested a computer error might have been to blame.Defence pundit Helmoed-Römer Heitman told the Weekend Argus that if “thecause lay in computer error, the reason for the tragedy might never befound."The anti-aircraft weapon, an Oerlikon GDF-005, is designed to use passiveand active radar, as well as laser target designators range finders, to lockon to "high-speed, low-flying aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerialvehicles (UAV) and cruise missiles." In "automatic mode," the weapon feedstargeting data from the fire control unit straight to the pair of 35mm guns,and reloads on its own when its emptied its magazine. Electronics engineer and defence company CEO Richard Young says he can'tbelieve the incident was purely a mechanical fault. He says his company,C2I2, in the mid 1990s, was involved in two air defence artillery upgradeprogrammes, dubbed Projects Catchy and Dart. During the shooting trials at Armscor's Alkantpan shooting range, “Ipersonally saw a gun go out of control several times,” Young says. “Theymade a temporary rig consisting of two steel poles on each side of theweapon, with a rope in between to keep the weapon from swinging. The weaponeventually knocked the pol[e]s down.”According to The Star, "a female artillery officer risked her life... in adesperate bid " to save members of her battery from the gun." But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildlyswinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 anti-aircrafttwin-barrelled gun. It sprayed hundreds of high-explosive 0,5kg 35mm cannonshells around the five-gun firing position. By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loadermagazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.
By Noah Shachtman
EmailOctober 18, 2007 11:00:00
AMCategories: Ammo andMunitions, Drones, Guns 35mmfiring
We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advancedmilitary weapons are essentially robotic -- picking targets outautomatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pullthe trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machinesstart firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National DefenceForce "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannonmalfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others duringa shooting exercise on Friday." SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope saysthe cause of the malfunction is not yet known... Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, tookplace at the SA Army's Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in the NorthernCape, as part of an annual force preparation endeavour. Mangope told The Star that it “is assumed that there was a mechanicalproblem, which led to the accident. The gun, which was fully loaded, did notfire as it normally should have," he said. "It appears as though the gun,which is computerised, jammed before there was some sort of explosion, andthen it opened fire uncontrollably, killing and injuring the soldiers." Other reports have suggested a computer error might have been to blame.Defence pundit Helmoed-Römer Heitman told the Weekend Argus that if “thecause lay in computer error, the reason for the tragedy might never befound."The anti-aircraft weapon, an Oerlikon GDF-005, is designed to use passiveand active radar, as well as laser target designators range finders, to lockon to "high-speed, low-flying aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerialvehicles (UAV) and cruise missiles." In "automatic mode," the weapon feedstargeting data from the fire control unit straight to the pair of 35mm guns,and reloads on its own when its emptied its magazine. Electronics engineer and defence company CEO Richard Young says he can'tbelieve the incident was purely a mechanical fault. He says his company,C2I2, in the mid 1990s, was involved in two air defence artillery upgradeprogrammes, dubbed Projects Catchy and Dart. During the shooting trials at Armscor's Alkantpan shooting range, “Ipersonally saw a gun go out of control several times,” Young says. “Theymade a temporary rig consisting of two steel poles on each side of theweapon, with a rope in between to keep the weapon from swinging. The weaponeventually knocked the pol[e]s down.”According to The Star, "a female artillery officer risked her life... in adesperate bid " to save members of her battery from the gun." But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildlyswinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 anti-aircrafttwin-barrelled gun. It sprayed hundreds of high-explosive 0,5kg 35mm cannonshells around the five-gun firing position. By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loadermagazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.
Human Resource or Ridiculous Goddamn Retard?
Proof that Human Resource Departments hate freedom, or at least have a strong disdain for everything that makes America great:
I'm a head hunter, a recruiter, and executive staffing agent. Basically, I'm a fucking job gangster. I spend my entire day on the phone, having coffee, or eating lunch. All in the hopes of getting myself introduced to the best top-producing, account reconciling, GL trial balance doing, Financial statement preparing badasses that I can. The reason I do this is because, well, IT'S MY FREAKING JOB! It's not a prison sentence, I am not held against my will, I am here because I love money. So, when your title is HR Dong, Human Resource Coordinator, Dickcissle, or something of the likes, then I am assuming, if you are a competent person, you would do your goddamn job as well. When it comes to the point where you realize that you cannot bring in the talent you need, essentially that you cannot manage the resources (humans) that your firm needs, you bring in the big dogs. Headhunters. You pay fees. You invest time and capital. All you have to do from this point on is:
1 Call the recruiter tell him what you need, what you'll pay that person and when you need them.
2 Wait for an email from recruiter.
3 Decide if you like the candidate.
4 Schedule an interview with the Hiring Manager.
5 Ask the Manager what they thought of the candidate.
6 Tell the recruiter what they thought.
7 Cross the candidate off the list or make a fucking offer.
Now we come to the point. If you, as an HR "professional," cannot get the proper feedback to the recruiter within 24 hours of the interview, you hate freedom. You hate freedom because you've realized that the only control you have left is that last piece of feedback, and you hold it like me on the last jelly donut.
Stick to sexual harrassment issues.
Ya bunch of fairies.
I'm a head hunter, a recruiter, and executive staffing agent. Basically, I'm a fucking job gangster. I spend my entire day on the phone, having coffee, or eating lunch. All in the hopes of getting myself introduced to the best top-producing, account reconciling, GL trial balance doing, Financial statement preparing badasses that I can. The reason I do this is because, well, IT'S MY FREAKING JOB! It's not a prison sentence, I am not held against my will, I am here because I love money. So, when your title is HR Dong, Human Resource Coordinator, Dickcissle, or something of the likes, then I am assuming, if you are a competent person, you would do your goddamn job as well. When it comes to the point where you realize that you cannot bring in the talent you need, essentially that you cannot manage the resources (humans) that your firm needs, you bring in the big dogs. Headhunters. You pay fees. You invest time and capital. All you have to do from this point on is:
1 Call the recruiter tell him what you need, what you'll pay that person and when you need them.
2 Wait for an email from recruiter.
3 Decide if you like the candidate.
4 Schedule an interview with the Hiring Manager.
5 Ask the Manager what they thought of the candidate.
6 Tell the recruiter what they thought.
7 Cross the candidate off the list or make a fucking offer.
Now we come to the point. If you, as an HR "professional," cannot get the proper feedback to the recruiter within 24 hours of the interview, you hate freedom. You hate freedom because you've realized that the only control you have left is that last piece of feedback, and you hold it like me on the last jelly donut.
Stick to sexual harrassment issues.
Ya bunch of fairies.
Opening Day
It's opening day here at Freglomerica and I must admit there is no buzz what-so-ever. I haven't told anyone about the blog and there is a solid chance you are the only asshole reading it. My main focus here is summed up in the title: Freedom, Glory and America. It'll be me ranting and raving in all my fat, angry, drunken, judgemental glory. Go Sox.
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