In case you haven’t heard Henry Rollins has a show on the Independent Film Channel. I like Henry even though I don’t always agree with him. His like of Rob Zombie, both for his music and films is a complete mystery to me but is more than made up for by his dislike of the chimp in chief. But that’s beside the point. The show is a mix of Rollins’ rants, interviews, and a musical guest. I just saw last weeks episode (#3) and it is classic Rollins. The opening segment is called Teeing Off and Rollins goes off on all the ads for loan companies and how Americans keep living beyond their means. After an interview with director Werner Herzog came a segment titled “A Letter from Henry”. In this segment he narrates a letter to famed skinny, blond, psycho, fascist, bitch Anne Coulter. He really rips in to her, and the the phrase “JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!” came up a couple of times. Coulter really is a crazy, vile excuse for a human being and she long ago slipped off the deep end. It was nice to see someone publicly upbraid her. Rollins also had a great sarcastic piece on parenting along with a musical segment from Frank Black. If you don’t get IFC or missed the show I checked and it is available via bit-torrent. Just look for episode 3 of the Henry Rollins show. If you need help finding it just send me an e-mail. I highly recommend seeing this if you feel the same as I do about the psycho-fascist.

So the shrub administration initially decides to send over an inadequate number of troops to invade Iraq. Then they neglected to supply most of the troops with adequate body armor, and with unarmored humvees. As a result for the last three years they have been killed and seriously wounded at a steady pace by road-side bombs and rocket propelled grenades because they don’t have enough protection. Since this became known early on, families and friends of soldiers have been raising money to buy and ship body armor to the soldiers. Now the US Army in it’s infinite wisdom has declared that soldiers won’t be allowed to use their privately bought body armor any more. From a piece I just spotted on Newsvine.com

“We’re very concerned that people are spending their hard-earned money on something that doesn’t provide the level of protection that the Army requires people to wear. So they’re, frankly, wasting their money on substandard stuff,” said Col. Thomas Spoehr, director of materiel for the Army.

Well Duh! If the fucking army was properly equipping troops in the first place this wouldn’t even be an issue. Why has Don Rumsfeld not been fired yet? If any regular working class person did such a poor job as this asshole they would have been canned years ago. This is ridiculous. Republicans make a lot of noise about supporting the troops but when push comes to shove they spend the money to enrich their buddies in Houston and Alaska and Wyoming instead of equipping the troops for the job that the bozo in chief has ordered them to do. Republicans are hypocrites and liars and they should all be booted out of office.

We all know about money Haliburton has been swindling from American taxpayers through all their no-bid contracts to do stuff that the military has traditionally done themselves. Well it looks like AT&T is ripping off American soldiers in Iraq directly now. AT&T has an exclusive contract to install pay-phones for the use of troops in Iraq. AT&T is charging $0.21/minute to call home when their wholesale price is less than $0.01/minute. On top of that, soldiers can’t even buy cheaper calling cards and use them because AT&T is blocking access to other carriers 800 numbers so soldiers can’t use the other cards. Why are we letting huge corporations get away with this shit. The mass media won’t report on it, congress won’t investigate it, most people don’t even know about it. Could it have anything to do with the millions of dollars that huge corporations give to politicians in campaign contributions? How about the millions they spend on advertising on mass media? As usual it all comes down to the almighty dollar. The old saying is that you have spend money to make money, and you have spend big money to make big money. Well the biggest corporations have the most money to spend and they get to make the big bucks.

This headline

is all the information I need to know that this deal must be stopped. The same people who told us that the weapons in Iraq were a slam dunk, are now endorsing this port management deal. This is not about racism, after all I am of Arab descent. This is about the fact that probably the most corrupt regime in the history of the United States wants to do a deal to give control of major US ports to a company that is controlled by a corrupt regime that helped funnel money to finance the biggest attack ever on US territory. Clearly the actions of the Bush administration have proved them to be incompetent and untrustworthy. If they say this is a good deal, it almost certainly is not.

My boss just forwarded this joke to me:

A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The
robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, “What’s
your IQ?” The man replies “150” and the robot proceeds to make conversation
about global warming factors, quantum physics, spirituality, environmental
interconnectedness, string theory, nanotechnology, and sexual proclivities.

The customer is very impressed and thinks, “This is really cool.” He
decides to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes
back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the perfectly
prepared drink and asks him, “What’s your IQ?” The man responds, “About a
100.” Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football,
NASCAR, baseball, supermodels, favorite fast foods, guns, and women’s
breasts.

Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one
more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him and asks, “What’s
your IQ?” The man replies, “Er, 50, I think.” And the robot says… real
slowly, “So…………… ya gonna vote for Bush again?”