More Little Tidbits!!

I don't know what the deal is with the winter DCU tan boots, but the tread on them holds like 5 times the mud as the summers. Does anyone know what kind of nonsense this is? I mean, honestly, during the summer you aren't likely to get into mud much at all, yet the treads on these winter boots just get caked with mud and you drag it all over the freaking place. BAH, IRRITATING!

The military needs more acronyms. While on VCC the BC let my 1sg know that an E6 shouldn't be in charge, I should be a CC or ACC on a convoy in a 915. If you don't understand that, well, hell, even I don't fully understand what I just said. No one does more acronyms than the military, no one. It's really amazing trying to keep up. I catch myself trying to figure out the difference between MCT and TMC and CMT, wait, that's Country Music Television, and I hate that even more than acronyms.

This just in: I haven't drank from an actual 'glass' in months. I normally drink juice and milk from those cartons where you push the straw thru the top. Sometimes I will have an occasional soda. Just so belly knows, she'll have to train me remedially to drink from a glass, I think I've totally forgotten.

I wrestled a camel for $20 the other day, and no, it wasn't a sexual thing.

So, we had an intel report telling us to "Be on the lookout for bombs on bicycles and dogs..." DOGS?? Who is strapping bombs to dogs? Oh the insanity of it all. Although, I can't think of a better thing to do to any dog under 5 pounds. Except Jack Russel terriers, they don't deserve to be blown up. Poodles especially though, they should be strapped with bombs and blown to bits. Sorry, that's just the truth. Make the fur really fly. BEST IN SHOW!!

There isn't any decent bread in the entire middle east, not in any of our dining facilities or 'sanctioned' eateries. The only place you can get decent bread is from the Iraqis themselves, and it lasts about a day and then it's pretty dried out too. I swear I'm going to Subway when I get back, ordering a sandwich, and if they give me dried out bread someone I'm jumping the counter and smashing heads. I'll probably just ask for the freshest bread they have when they ask me what kind I want.

100 MPH Military green tape: 7723 uses and counting!!

I miss escorting local national workers around the base, I really miss the people, I'm no longer really learning any arabic because I don't have any ability to practice it.

Oh, I see Saddam Hussein is on a hunger strike. Excellent, I'll tell you what, you just continue that hunger strike and die on your own, so we can save a ton of money and idiotic media attention on your trial. Please, feel free to finish yourself off.

Oh, I was lying about wrestling a camel, that never happened. Honestly, it didn't.

Current Lyrical Ramblings

Instrumental, Cantina Band - Star Wars Soundtrack, John Williams

An Open Letter To The Media

There is really no eloquent way to put this, other than to state my feelings about the media as follows: GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!! You are the ultimate definition of a sell out. You go for only the sensationalized attention grabbing bullshit 'news', and do your research poorly at that.

Why is it that there are a thousand good stories for every bad story that goes on over here in Iraq, yet you ignore anything positive about what is happening and focus solely on the negative. Not only that, but you leave out anything that can help explain HOW or WHY something happened, so as to make the actions of the military seem as evil as possible.

"Innocent Civilians Killed Today When The Military Fired Upon Their Vehicle"... without mentioning the vehicle drove up on a security checkpoint at 65 mph without slowing down, forcing the actions of the service members. Not only does it make the military look aggressively abusive, it paints the Iraqi people as incompetent morons, which is simply NOT true.

If nothing else, I'm glad I'm here just to get a first hand impression of what is really happening. Things are a lot better than you media types would have the general public believe. Yellow journalism has been around for a couple hundred years now, but with the current level of media coverage hammering away 24/7, with everything from O.J. to Katrina right in your face, up front and personal, it makes me wonder if it's now become a fatal disease killing off anything remotely resembling integrity or impartiality in the news media.

The world isn't all bad, hell, I'd say it's way more good than bad, but you'd never know it from watching The Nightly News. It's disappointing, and until the news in general quits emulating "Hollywood Insider Tonite Edition", it's not likely to change. That's pretty sad.

Current Lyrical Ramblings

Peace is what they tell me
Love am I unholy
Lies are what they tell me
Despise you that control me

Torn - Creed