reallyoldman

The lessons of Source Code:

1. Soldiers are smarter and more moral than intellectuals.
2. Even though you are more loyal to the the military-corporate-industrial complex than you are to your family, you can still be noble in the end.
3. Soldier-to-soldier is the human bond that guarantees truth and justice.
4. If you are a woman in the military, you are fucked, but that's okay if you just take it without complaint because you are smarter and more moral than those who crap on you.
5. If you are a soldier, even with the bottom half of you blown off and wires running from your shaved pink scalp, you will still look good and get the girls.

On this Memorial Day Weekend, as we honor our war dead, and eat charred flesh in backyards across America, we give little thought to our sons and daughters living in fortified bases and/or under tarps overseas. On this weekend, let us say to our commander in chief, in the manner of the Hollywood warriors of yore:

Smoke em if you got em.

Shouldn't wartime president's smoke cigarettes? Isn't it the least they can do to take some health risk in solidarity with those they are afraid to bring home and out of harm's way?


Scene: Obama is in the middle of a speech. He stops and walks over to Joe Biden or maybe just a low-level staffer, possibly even an intern, and taps him lightly on the chest with the back of his hand. The President of the United States stands there with his head down until he is handed a cigarette. Back at the podium, he lights it, exhales and says, with renewed vigor: "Look, people. Here's what we're going to do," and then he goes on with his prepared speech, casually pointing his cigarette hand at the audience to emphasize certain points.

My little boy Sammy
Shot down in Pakistani

Who sewed the button his coat?
Mammy!

Who made his eggs and hammy?
Mammy!

Way down in Pakistani.
Sammy

I'm breathing heavy. I'm sweating. Someone's got to break me out of here.

One more clean cup and I can apply again for parole. I have to be careful what I say on this blog until then.

Our friends at the Brand brand Family of Brands walk you through some FFFFox talking points. You decide!

The prison hospital really messed me up. And they keep kicking me off the computers at the library.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
—George Orwell

Verna: I thought you said you didn't care about Leo no more.

Tom: I said we're through. That's not the same thing.