Just a Few Thoughts...

First, that car is the new Shelby. It will run you about 60k, but it sho looks sweet.

Now to the wonderful lunatic fanaticism that you came for...


I was in Iraq for around nine months last time. I saw a lot of things that I had never seen before. I got to wade in sewage (good times!), some people tried to blow me up (repeatedly), I got shot at (once or twice), and I got to know the guys in my company better than we ever wanted to know each other.

I came home a little wigged out, and I still have nightmares on occasion. To the day I die, the sound of a car horn will piss me off (ask any OIF vet). I'm a little twitchy when it comes to unexpected loud noises, but I'm getting better every day.

I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

I feel like I came home with a new attitude towards the truth, and a very low tolerance for BS. Don't get me wrong, I'm still full of it. I just don't think that my president or congressman should be full of it.

You see, the word politician has become synonymous with liar, or disappointment. In the meantime the word citizen has become synonymous with fool, or sheep. I put up with it, you put up with it, it is just the way it is...

In Iraq, most of the civilians were kind of resigned to the fact that they had no control over what was happening around them. They had no pride in their national heritage. They had no faith in their government (past or present). They were caught up in silly tribal conflicts, wrapped up in differences of faith, and bogged down in the details of everyday life.

In other words, they are just like us.

The difference is that we still have the ability to make things change-without the use of RPGs and IEDs. We can raise hell, get involved, blah, blah, blah...

Here's the thing, though: most of us have limited our involvement to occasionally posting a comment on a blog like this, or just agreeing with some jerk who isn't being brilliant so much as he is pointing out what should be obvious. The time has come to stop acting like sheep. It is one thing to actually recognize the appropriate time to act, another entirely to take the necessary action.

At this point, the necessary action is mostly about sending the right message to our illustrious leaders.

I would love to hear what all (three) of you think about it.