Or at least heading in that direction. I’m referring of course to our civilization. The answer to the question of “What caused the fall of Rome” has no real answer, however it had some dominant factors like population in decline, incompetent and corrupt political system, and economic crisis… we are fitting the bill fairly nicely. For me it is those factors plus the unbelievable shit that we as a population get into. For example, check out this disturbing motherfucking shit out:

I’m speechless and sick to my stomach.

Then there is shit like this:

What the fuck is wrong with these people…

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I’m a little more than half way through the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, and I’ve come to an interesting hypothesis.  The privatization of the US Armed Services is taking free market economics (i.e., laissez-faire) too far.  In general I’m actually in favor of more privatization, especially on the services side of government like the DMV, Lottery, Toll Roads, tax, schools, etc if the proper oversight, controls and requirements are in place.  But the military?  I’m not so sure about that.  Do we want a private army (or several) fully armed with free reign to kill that sits outside of both our military and civilian justice systems?  I recommend that you read this book, it is guaranteed to piss you off no matter where you lie on the political spectrum (full disclosure, it is a left leaning book, but well cited and written).  This book will give you an insider view on how corrupt and arrogant our current administration is, and how a few people have the power to mold and create policy to profit their buddies and themselves.

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In late December I called Huckabee a scary dude, now I’m leaning towards shocking and terrifying. Hungry Mother filled me in on Huckabee’s inflammatory comments regarding changing the constitution (click here for youtube clip). Here was what Huckabee had to say (click here for full article):

“[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards

Steve over at the Axis recently had these words to say about the matter:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with your Republican winner of the Iowa caucus, Mr. Osama Bin Laden. Ooops, did I say that? It appears that I got my fundamentalist extremists confused there for a minute. I believe that was actually Mike Huckabee who won in Iowa.

I couldn’t agree with Steve more, we talk about State run terrorism and Islamic Extremists, but look no further than our own backyard, Bush has always flirted with the Religious Right and our extremist Evangelical Christians for votes, cash, and sex (I’m just guessing about the sex), but Huckabee has drunk the Kool-Aid.

However. The crack Total Diatribe action propaganda news-team has uncovered that Huckabee is only pretending to be a Christian conservative, yeah sure he was a former Baptist Minister, but we have uncovered his true mentor and spiritual guide. Who could this be you ask? None other than that guy from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I know it is shocking, but as far as religious extremists go, one is no better than the other. Please see the obviously real, and not doctored in any way, visual evidence laid out below for proof. God (pun intended) have mercy on our souls if this guy is elected.

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A man was charged with disorderly conduct in Doylestown, PA when he put an obscenity (the big F-word) on the memo line of the check he used to pay a $5 parking fine.  Evidently the clerk who processed the fine was offended and the rest is history.  Let me get this out of the way before I rant… FUCK YOU DOYLESTOWN!  Ok, now come and arrest me assholes.  From the article (Click here to read full article):

Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct charge was filed because the comment was obscene, police Chief James Donnelly said.

“He was contrite enough to offer an apology, and I think that satisfies the people who were insulted by it,” he said.

So much for free speech… great now we have to worry if we offend somebody, which pretty much makes me fucked in all 50 states.  Sorry, screwed in all 50 states, is that better?  But at least they dropped the charges because they were “satisfied” with the apology.  So what would happen if they weren’t satisfied?  I wrote you a check Doylestown.

We should celebrate freedom of speech in this country, instead we devolve into politically correct bullshit.  On the extreme other side of the spectrum of the free speech debate is the Klu Klux Klan vs. the Missouri Department of Transportation.  In this case MODOT denied the KKK’s application to enter into the adopt-a-highway program, the KKK sued and eventually won when MODOT lost an appeal.  I agree with the KKK in this instance (even if they are ignorant douche-bags) based solely on our rights of free speech.  The best part about this story is, MODOT changed the name of the highway to “Rosa Parks Highway” in a bit of a “fuck you” to the KKK, good for you Missouri.  It turned out the KKK were dropped from the program after all, when they never showed up to clean up the highway, I guess you can’t teach assholes new tricks, or get lazy racist rednecks out of their trailers to pick up trash.

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GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made a controversial statement last night regarding the Pakistan/Bhutto assassination (please see full ABCNews.com article here):

…have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our border, and particularly to make sure, if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country.  We just need to be very very thorough in looking at every aspect of our own security internally

This small minded fear-mongering is one of the core problems in our great country.  Did we declare war on white trash or rednecks after the Oklahoma City bombing or the church burnings in the South?  Hell no.  Most of these GOP war and fear mongers prey on uncertainty and manipulate the media to paint this picture of risk and danger at every turn.  The ironic thing is, much of the risk was created by our clandestine activities around the globe and has manifested itself in blowback.  I’m more frightened of what our own politicians will do than Islamic Extremists.  I think I’m going to go outside and puke now.

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Bush = asshole.  I suppose more accurately, the Bush Administration = assholes.  Because I don’t think Bush is actually in control of his own administration (i.e., maybe he’s not the decidererererer after all).  As reported last week on CNN, the Bush Administration has been ramping up the rhetoric and hate speech vis-a-vis Iran, even with the knowledge that the Iranian nuke program was scrapped 4 years ago.  An excerpt from the article:

In October, the president told reporters, “If you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” The apparent gap between what U.S. intelligence officials knew in August and Bush’s later warnings drew sharp criticism from Sen. Joseph Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Democratic presidential candidate, who called Bush’s explanation unbelievable.

“I refuse to believe that,” Biden said Tuesday. “If that’s true, he has the most incompetent staff in modern American history, and he’s one of the most incompetent presidents in modern American history.”

He’s not incompetent, he’s a corrupt son of a bitch.  I would rather have the last guy, you know, the one who couldn’t keep his dick in his pants, than the slap in the face corruption of this guy.  And to think they wanted to impeach party-boy for fucking what’s her face?  Here’s the thing, this is pretty-much ”in your face” corruption, how bad is the stuff we don’t know about?

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I’ll be honest, Hillary Clinton scares me a little, sometimes when she lowers her icy cold gaze in my direction (even if it’s just a picture on the Internet or on TV), I squirt a little pee in my pants.  It seems (to me) like she’s an angry angry broad who’s working extra hard not to be an angry angry broad.  This is understandable, she is married to Bill “hey baby!” Clinton.

Now on to the issues.  Check out the issues section on her campaign site here.  At first glance, there is some reasonable stuff there.  However, where’s the beef?  Most of this is rhetoric with little substance or solutions, and all I hear is the ‘ka-ching, ka-ching” of my tax rate increasing to pay for this stuff.

Look at this picture… shivers are running up my spine now, and I may have to change my spider-man underoos.

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I’ve been nursing a robo-stomach-virus for almost a week now.  I will spare you the gory details, yeah right, I was pissing out of my ass for 4 straight days people!  I finally mustered the strength to stop feeling sorry for myself and get my (bruised) ass back to work.  About that time, the ass-pissing turned into an unbelievable string of ass-gas (there must be some research describing how the absence of stuff in the digestive track will be replaced with a shit-load of gas). 

Now I’m back at work.  Don’t you just hate it when somebody walks into your office 30 seconds after you rip a disgusting fart that steams up the windows?  You pretend there is no smell, your visitor pretends there is no smell, but it’s still fucking there, burning your nostrils.

Move along people, nothing to see here.

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I’ve thought more and more about the state of education in this country (no pun intended) lately as my children creep toward school age.  And my thoughts often migrate to a particular event several years ago.  My wife and I were on a house-hunting trip in North Georgia as we were offered jobs in the northern Atlanta suburbs.  While we were at a restaurant having breakfast one morning we were sitting beside a father with his two teen-age sons.  Not that we were eavesdropping (we were) but here is how the conversation went down:

Son #1:  I can make a lot of money driving a truck.

Son #2:  How much?

Father:  grunt

Son #1: I can make 100 bucks a day, and if I work 10 days that will be…. (counting on fingers, 1, 2, 3, …) I dunno, a lot of money!

Father:  grunt

Me to my wife:  Our kids will go to the same school as those idiots

My wife:  Shit

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As a parent of young children, I have been exposed to a number of children’s shows lately, most of which suck… they suck very much.  The worst of the bunch however is The Wiggles.  This show comes to us from Australia.  Now my frame of reference for all things Aussie comes from bad movies in the 80’s (I’m looking at you Paul Hogan) and my years of playing rugby (which typically revolves around a very physical sport, a lot of beer, and the nonsense that comes with those two things).  None of these Australian influences have prepared me for the creepiness of The Wiggles.  The first time I saw my daughter watching the show, I thought I was looking at 4 pederasts singing sugary songs behind evil fake smiles.  Look at this picture, there is a lot of pain and anger behind those fake smiles:

 If I see The Wiggles on TV, I either distract my kids and change the channel or knock-them out with some form of ether or shot to the neck like they used to do to B.A. Baracus on the A-Team to get him on planes (”crazy fool!”).

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