Thad Lucken

where you been?

2011-03-07T02:11:00.002-05:00

whats up blog?
been awhile. almost a year and a half. the good part is that i am still clean and moving forward.
the bad part is that i aint a millionaire yet. except in my head..

since the last time i wrote anything Rick is governor and the people are starting to wake up, a little.
I have a shitload of facebook friends who get it and i have gotten a chance to see what people that i have known for the last twenty years or more really think like and its not a pretty scene.

its not their fault though that i havent had the guts and intelligence to move on. thats up to me.
thanks to my higher power for giving me a chance to live the rest of my life differently. cheers!

tomorrow is all about tomorrow and i have some projects starting up that should be fun.
thanks weekend. you were great.

gop hopefuls discussed..

2009-10-06T11:58:00.002-04:00

cox, i think he should be in jail or sumpin. whats up with the strawberry investigation mike?
"the party was an urban legend."
no. i dont think we should hand that to the presstitutes of mipravda.

bouchard. not really feeling it.

who is tom george? probably a nice guy. but other than hoeks and bishop, there isnt anyone in there i know. maybe he should yell something at the hairdo. get on beckman or something. no pulse.

now the real meat.

If Snyder ( the running dog capitalist pig exploiter baby starver racist white devil) can beat Hoekstra, then have at it. I think we need Hoeks on the hill. period. He's the only American we have left on our team we send up there and I get the feeling we are going to need all the help we can get with the RINOs and Stabmenows.

That brings us back to Snyder. who reps the good old people of the marxist utopia of ann harbor. He obviously lives out Washtenaw or on Barton pond, maybe in a mcmansion past the airport heading to sayleen. Maybe if we run him we can flush out the Reds to go really nuts and Andy Dillon can fight onto the ticket as a moderate communist cliff over driver.

What the migop needs to do RIGHT NOW is a CONTRACT WITH MICHIGAN.
go right at the spendees. go right at the parasites and name them. get them to own up to what they have done to MI. Promise a cabinet level position for entrepreneurship like IN and OH, make it known loud and clear that big labor and big industry cant run the show anymore and that we just cant afford to spend 100,000 bucks per desk. we need specific focussed radical change back into an American state. this isnt sweden, and if you can actually read, sweden isnt sweden anymore. Go to China, find out exactly what the tax burden is on small biz and the individual and Match It.
make the pols have the same insurance as the rest of the statenoids. Bring down the system and do it with a BULLHORN.
show how much you are paying AND how much opportunity cost you are giving up because our state gubmint is a wokfare system. Get dickish.
they already hate you, they will never like you, all the hot chicks are sluts, see it for what it is and accept it.
If we ever want to live free again it is going to take some shaking up of the food groups and Snyder is the only real choice. Maybe George as a veep new face.
Otherwise we should have to forget about it and let all the hausfraus pick another oprahdork for our supreme leader.

Coming up on 90 days and some happy days.

2009-08-12T21:41:00.004-04:00

Man am I glad to be clean and working on meaningful things instead of spinning my wheels!!
I got accepted back into my engineering program. I have three jobs going.
I havent had a stroke or a heart attack and I am not in the clink for violating.

All in all I think I am doing pretty damn good!

I am going to letter my truck and stop being a pussy about it. I have found an overflow contractor to give jobs I cant do to and I am working on getting a license, even though I dont think I need one in Michigan.

I was going to watch the Tigers game but they are getting swept right now and I just caint bear it.

The revolution continues and its nice to see Americans standing up to the communists.
Ha! Zombies really dont like it when you bite back....

the idea of a soul tour company has to take a break for a while.
I dont thunk God has it in his plans for me to drive humans around for a while.
So be it. His will not mine.

Check this out if you want to read about paint...

http://www.buildingcamelot.com/2008/05/06/7-low-or-zero-voc-interior-paints-you-might-actually-buy/

So much for all that..

2009-07-20T23:04:00.003-04:00

I dont want to drive people anymore.

Thank God that I was stopped and pointed into a new direction. It has made all the difference. Detroit should have more respect for itself but thats really not going to be my problem for awhile.
I didnt have a place to go before. I didnt fit in anywhere and it sucked. Now that I have joined Narcotics Anonymous I have a place to go where I dont have to kill myself or my values to stay there. It sucks that some of the people I know dont get that but today I'm no longer interested in climbing up on the cross for them.
I was going to do that for Detroit but they really dont need ME, they need God but they choose THE STATE instead.
And no one can stop them from destroying themselves except themselves.

If you can handle that, then you can handle the rest of this.

He hangs out mostly around Belle Isle. The effect is to select certain people to reveal himself to and to blind others. Anyone that sees him is effected. If they see him on a screen he will know it and if he doesnt feel like being seen, they dont see him. Its just that simple.
I dont know how I was selected to actually see him or get to talk to him, but I was and I still talk to him as much as I can.
The best part was when I lost my fear of him because he wasnt interested in hurting me. I was swimming at the beach on Belle Isle with my fins on and practically bumped into him just sitting there minding his own business.
He said that it was because I cared about a kid that was getting beat on by his mom's boyfriend up on the beach. There was a cop car ten feet away, but they didnt care to see what was going on. They are only here to catch murderers and rapists. There's enough crap going on all over the place so I cant be anything but grateful for them being there. They are human too and if I had their job, I wouldve been locked up for going off on some creep long ago.

The monster knew all about what was going in the mansion too. He told me that they killed her and that they were all covering it up out of loyalty to the mission of the party. She was a hooker anyway and it was her reward for choosing that job. If the wife had never found out about it things may have been different, but she did and now the dancer doesnt dance.

I asked what the river was like and he said it was great. The water is cold and crisp and the shallows get real warm and full of fish. Anytime he wants he hits the big lake and goes for a long swim. But he always come back to the river because he can sit on the bottom and have the current go over his head and through his gills without needing to swim. Plus he can watch the hockey game through the eyes of the spectators and players which is pretty damned exciting.
He says he cant reach the ballpark so he doesnt bother with baseball.

Tomorrow I'm going to ask him about the tall ships and the freighters.

detroit overkill begins

2009-02-24T01:31:00.002-05:00

so here it goes..

this summer i am going to do two bigs and breakout of my schlumps.

firsst i am going to start doing tours of detroit outta my mini van my brother gave me for being the only person to hep him on his acres by lansing. i have talked to detroit tours and they are not being dicks about it. all i really have to do is get past the man adn get a license from downtown.
i will be linking it to brad's store and facebooking the crap outta it.
but i think it would be sweet. time on the cabs is 24 bucks and hour for waiting so i figure i can rate three different tours like the Invader schooner i worked on in San Diego and grab up some crazy people that want to see the D thru my f ing eyes.
should be interesting. makes me miss my job out there back in 1984. i would get up at 9am get on my one speed cruiser, ride all the way downtown and get the 185ft heershof ready for the first cruise. have a big coffee and a bratwurst, take off the gangway and untie the lines then climb up half of the rigging to watch for anyone crossing the fairway as we pulled out.
I swear i had the best job. Too bad I'm from Michigan and missed all my homies so much.
Life is like that.

The next thing i want to do is open a mini soccer and futsal club up on mlk by the uofd dental school. that would be the shit. it has a massive parking lot next to it and i could just cut into the ashphalt with a bobcat and be done with it. it needs a tear out and a new roof but what doesnt?
Futsal is indoor soccer without boards, its like basketball, dodgeball and soccer all rolled into one. In brasil when they show highlights of superstars scoring when they were kids its always in a futsal game because no one wants to watch lil kids run all that way. If you have ever seen the ugly renaldo or ronaldinho play it it would blow your mind. Indoor with boards is cheating because you get to score on something other than a rebound off the keeper. Plus no one watches out for the sidelines which is just dumb and teaches bad habits. I have to ask for help from my mom's church but so does everyone else around here and i want to live in it until I can get it going. next winter I could be famist and have all the office leagues coming my way
who wouldnt want to play futsal?!!

reasons for doing this:
basketball is deadly and culturally corrosive. thats why are these kids are on lockdown and playing video games all day because if they let them play basketball it brings out all the stupid ass gansta idiocy. this could really work and i can feel it. I want it to be like a ninja academy.

detroit has few if any reasons for people to get together and join against the common foe. located next to a big freeway and nestled near the salvation army bldgs it isnt completely strange and scary for the burbians and theres really no where for any morons to hide should they decide to attack it.

plus its tough.

and the winter is the father of the spring...

2009-02-22T23:52:00.002-05:00

right now i am in that mode
its that michigan in february mode when it all gets really weird because i can see the sun but not feel it yet.'
the obamunism hasnt hit yet but i have many friends on facebook that are all over the place like none of this was predictable.
my latest has been all about the angle of recline and how the digging of the panama canal and our current "crisis" are analogous.
i love the f104 starfighter.

its been nice to hear that Iraq is getting its freedom on and that we havent abandoned them.
more later.

President Obama's Big Dig

2008-12-07T14:05:00.002-05:00

This week revealed where we (they) will be working this coming year as the command economy has finally shown its cards.
I have two main points to make about this:
If government can do this rightly, it will be a good thing.
If the basic morality of our populace can withstand the new temptation we might benefit.

If you use a bucket of water as your economic metaphor than this is building a bigger bucket and fixing some of the holes in it. Decaying infrastructure and misuse of the treasury is a tax or increase in cost. Fixing public stuff is easier than fixing people. A road cant take day off, a train cant quit. If the idea is to make everyone's life more efficient, then the plan is sound. I never believed in public poverty. As a matter of fact the liberation of Iraq is a public works project to decrease the inefficiency of a tyrant in the middle of our oil lanes where we could import cheaper supplies for our economy. Every other energy option is an increase in cost; nominal or aggregate.

As I have mentioned to others before, I consider Mr Obama's election to be more similar to Ike handing things to JFK than Ford bowing to Carter. You may rmember that Ike built the freeways, but seldom mentioned was that he built the Icbm arsenal with many times as much public investment. how many trillions were saved by not having to kowtow to the enemy in the UN or anywhere else because of the triad. I consider that to me Ike's greatest gift to us, even more important than Op Overlord.

Where we will have the most problem will be trying to keep this all honest. What they are proposing is that we hire all these workers that are from somewhere, have them work for the government, and then tax them and spend that money on all the aging baby-boomers. If we can import men to actually do the work and pay taxes we might end up with light rail, museums, shiny new colleges and some really bitching bike paths for all the old hippies to ride their bikes on.

I have gone over the history of all of this and it can work. Believe me I am the LAST person to believe in Keynes, but I also believe that the socialists want to manipulate us into abandoning the public wealth so they can take over the rescue. They may have done this already by destroying the moral fiber it takes to run everything OR they may be forced by the electoral system here in the States to make it work.

This device and the transparency it gives us might be the difference that makes it work out unless they can silence us and remove our oversight ability. The big dig is Boston is a great example to follow and its murkiness mightve been a result of its isolation and because so uncommon. Hopefully it will leave such a legacy of graft that we might be able to control the enemy within long enough to fix up the house a little.

We'll see. I think Obama might be about to disappoint a lot of people with his oversight plan.

This is me looking for bright spots and giving a brother the benefit of the doubt. We really dont need more negativity and I dont need to waste your time with hating something that hasnt even really been proposed yet.

racing ore boats etc

2008-10-20T22:21:00.002-04:00

when i get on the canadian side of belle isle i get to drag against ore boats for awhile on my ten speed. its the best.
the expansive waste of the ghetto provides an extra 20% to my work out because i have to be alert that much more lest i fall into some deathtrap. sure makes me feel better after spinning all the way out there and back.
ken cockrel the new mayor of detroit lives around the block from me in woodbridge now. i guess we're the same guy except for the outside. I hope he gets to bite into detroit and set up dave bing to go nuts on all the obama rubles soon to be on our way as we dig the hole deeper.

the bbc was in the shop filming for the motown 50th anniv. i had the peenewmonia. already got that through the system and its not even november in michigan..

my roomate just came back from his first trip abroad and the first time on an airoplane. he went to ireland and spent some time with his sister who is marrying the irish guy.
his cat is already welcoming him back by crapping like a caulk gun throughout the house.

I am considering executive action...

i love the four tops, i know that they sold zillions of records and that we are looking for rarer stuff that never sold that big, but i still grew up with that music in my head and am forever grateful for the hooks they let loose. they were the ink spots of my youth. i describe them as clicking. they were just a sweet mechanism and hearing them in my head feels great.
r.i.p. levi.

i want to tour spain now.

georgian analysis courtesy p2

2008-08-23T17:18:00.003-04:00

if youre going to use my stuff lemme know and give me money.

the detroit news gave me a photo acred that was smaller type than on my watch battery. not cool...

dig this:

After having read krauthammer and many others with a pretty good grasp at all this georgian get down, i have finally reached my thesis as to why vputin has gone down this road.

firstly though i have to clearly state that all equivalating between the US in Iraq and the Russian beyond that fact that they both have an army is bs. We work on two completely different levels for two completely diferent reasons which is why we are rich and russia is a shithole.

If you have ever served in the armed forces (me? 11h 9ID)you'll know that when one nations forces actually go to war and another gets to just watch, the watchers deteriorate immensely.

You have to watch the other guys get all the action, the cool new weapons and tactics, the great ideas you had for YEARS (ar 10 sniper rifles? snipers period..)and the general feeling of not eating each other alive but taking it out someone else. It all adds up to a completely different experience for the troop and a different army afterwards results.

In the last 8 years our US forces have made light year strides compared to the sovs and the chicoms: strykers not bradleys, uavs not stone throwing f-15's burning through money, jdams, you name it- we're a completely different army than even desert storm.

Pootie's goons has had to sit thru all of that with their thumbs up their asses.

Now the US is going to get a new president. One that was chained to the floor for 5 years and one that knows full well that the sov army is third world piece of crap only worth using against other sov states or sats. Not only that but jmac knows only too well that the sovs are sitting ducks. He got shot down dropping an old school dumb bomb, for God's sake!!

With political resolve, technological supremacy and a trained unstoppable army at their lower border, the sovs were bumming if suddenly the US takes out the mullahs in Teheran and then all the kids in the neighborhood (btw the Georgian pm and def min are morons that got thousands killed- paid for by soros, nother story completely..) are going to want to take a shot at the sovs as proxies.

So, on top of all the political yip yap, Putin ends up with a rejuvenated 58th Army blooded and ready for action; an armed services with whispers shooting through the ranks that it might soon mean something to be a soldier again.

Also, the chicoms and other neighbors find another strac fighting force in the area.

This is an artep with real bullets, its a reforger for sovs and it was handed to them by the Georgian idiots.

Our nation's founding document is the dec of independence which S.O. obviously read. Somehow the idiots in the state department fell asleep at the switch and obviously didnt think Putin would go for it, but thats because they think statically not in terms of evolution.

When we flew planes around the gulf of tonkin it forced the chicoms to completely re arrange their air defense systems and changed their country forever.

Beneath all the gore and hype, this is what Putin is doing, he's sharpening his sword and we let the Georgians step in as the wetstones.

Cf. mike savages site and read the brits take on the shape of the sov army and then think about what I have written. makes some sense, no?

tiger stadium demolition report and comments

2008-07-10T20:14:00.005-04:00

went down to the corner today as they just started to tear open the bleachers.

word is that they are going to keep the flag pole and reinstall the foul poles once all the infrastructure is down and removed.

if you look close at these photos you can see that old white and green facade like it was in the sixties.

when I got a look into the seats along the third base line all empty and about to disappear forever it hit me like a ton of bricks.

i blame who i blame but for now its just accepting it had to go. I wanted it torn down immediately after they stopped playing there and the diamond left for the taxpayers to run around on.

afscme do I care...

energy INTERdependence

2008-07-10T10:46:00.004-04:00

in another moment of remembering that words mean things, I have again come to notice that the modern use of speech is so dumbed down its scary.
instead of using the third alternative, the discussion of energy has devolved back to two choices somehow and it results in a cattle chute for the mind where both concepts send our money and choices to options that are both wrong.

the history of extracting petro is simply that the Americans that invented the stuff had a monopoly until foreign oil was available. They had it all set up to squeeze every penny out of the consumer with the government right next to them squeezing out theirs.

Now the USA government makes more per gallon than the American corporations, they that have since turned into global entities beholden to no one, government or nationality.

Foreign companies have likewise moved into a position where they can call the shots its not the time to turn our future exclusively to the domestic producers at all, its to get the US Govt out of the oil business so deeply, and to balance the foreign oil with domestic.

when the oil crunch happened in the 70's we import 24% of our oil, now its 70%.
(t.boone pickens, yesterday)

Our political class may be so inept that they are going to move us away from the bear but towards the lion.
The socialization of our elected representatives is resulting in a body that cares more about being accepted than saving its electors from costly stupidity.

They have lost touch so much that they cant look at a sentence and examine its wording, but think they have to immediately take a choice between one of the two sides and run with it.

Once a group has individually attained independence, they can then interdepend. Its a concept lost on most people. When the US has lower government parasitism on its gas buyer, with more domestic production that's price is kept low by foreign competition, many wonderful things can result. Americans especially the struggling poor will have lower costs of living. Even the central committee of the chinese communist party is cool enough to PAY subsidies to keep gas cheap for its comrades. We're supposed to be free but our gubmint taxes our gas use.
Two things, its wrong how we're going about controlling gas, its wrong that we cant speak and therefore cant think.

secret knowledge, NA, punk rock, technofest etc

2008-05-23T17:35:00.004-04:00

i know that i'm supposed to be putting everything in order right now and doing the first things first thing so i'll keep this shorter and to the pointer.

i went on the road with negative approach this last week and witnessed them play southpaw in brooklynnyc, club hell in providence RI and Natick at a wedding for Seth the leader of the analcunts (yes you read that right..).
I can say that it was a blast and quite an honor to get to hang out with one of the best bands in the world. they should change their names to the underplayed cards. it doesnt surprise me that they are like that as most of the good bands from MI get themselves f'd out of most of their winnings while Blink182 gets to be called punk. It never ceases to amaze me that bands like NA go out and find women to surround themselves with that just dont get it. I was given some great advice by my buddy Don that i should just act like its all a book and just read the book. But then I see bands that are ten times crappier getting over and it just kills me that these guys eat it over and over again.

to review: NA is a hardcore band from Detroit that play the same kind of stuff. If you dont know who they are think of it like this. Its a scotch tape store that only sells scotch tape. the only thing is that their scotch tape is better than anything else out there and they just dont pretend to do anything else. If you went to a burger place like Miller's on Michigan Ave in Dearborn and freak out because they dont put lettuce in their burgers then you'd probably not get NA.
So what. You can then go to other shows and shut your trap because no one really cares what you think about NA because you either get it or you dont.

That said, the New York show was a blast with the crowd really loving it.

read the book read the book.

next they played Providence RI which I had already associated as a waste of time seeing as how it was its hometown and the ride through connecticut was such a joy. Packed solid with punks from nyc to bos and seriously kicking. the stage was like " an aquarium hit with a hammer and all the water and fish coming out" as don put it.
They knew all the words and even knew the blitz version of never surrender that was in the encore.
I almost wanted to say fuck it and stay there. Only one person would talk about the fishing in this thing called the ocean that was right there. he was in front of the guitar player all night and was referred to a his front line. He worked a factory freezer named relentless that I have to check out. he thought i was looking for a job but I splained to him that that shit was all over and that I was a looker not a doer in that regard.
Providence, despite it, was the bestest homeytown punk rock scene since i went to london ontario in 1981. they had a rock and roll high school dance party after the band with drunk girls grinding to joy division and i was in heaven.
I'm such a sucker for all that..

Then we went to Natick Mass which is right next to the Celtics homecourt where the Pistons just demoralized their asses in the best game I have ever seen in basketball. If not the best its right up there and a total gem. Thats why I like basketball and people like it should try and stretch their 'minds' around some of that shit. The show was at a hall and it was a wedding reception. yes that's bizarre but the guy just got out of a coma, he was and is a great NA fan and he paid. BOS was all pissed about it but so what. Their football team cheats, they wouldve been another show after the band wanted to go home already and they are the home of the red sox which is another reason not to play there.

ok just kidding. i woulda loved to have been there when they played BOS I love the place and the farther north I get out of nyc the more like home it seems.
my health jsut doesnt do with all that stress no more and it wouldve been brutal on the way back.
i was neck down on the decision anyway. or uninvolved..

I took some pictures of the bride and groom and filmed the show for NA but they have all of it and thats that.

Upon returning I found out that it was 40 fucking degrees in Detroit still and I had to work the next day which was my 44th bday. I was just so exhausted and I think some chick gave me a cold on the road so I jsut went into work mode and tried to catch up with all the shit I had left off before stowing away.

I went and sprayed the ceiling of brad's new store's basement and got way way too tired for an old man with a heart condition BUT SO WHAT!!
alls I can tell you about that is that I am ten thousand times nicer to green thumbs than the guys I learned contracting from. I guess my asshole dad inured me to that jock wannabe cut down shit but I just cant get myself to do it even if the commies I work are slower than mollasses and work like old people fuck. this is getting obscene. I'm sorry but damn.

so after being too tired and too overextended and underfunded and all that crazy crap, my loving brother calls to see if I wanna go to the disco fest on the river this weekend. well, what I want to do is go back in time to when I could drink a twelve pack, wake board in water that still ahs ice floating in it and then chase models at the hecnofest which for some reasn they insist on having one week before it actually gets hot as hell here in Detroit. 25 bucks to stand around listening to dork ass euro slumming rich kids in drano ecstacy throb to some egoiste. riiiight.

but then they sneak in Egyptian Lover and I have to go..i no paying $25 of my favorite dollars to see an hour of it either. they seriously think that MOBY deserves an hour up there on the main stage when they have eL downstairs. I hope it rains freezing drops of misery on that little gollum twit while we kick it old school down in the concrete droll of late 70's architecture.

So there you have it. Matt passed and that sucked, really sucked, I went to the lEast coast and saw a real band, got home to a stack of dodats and now Its all about the playoffs and kicking back. I really hope you get to do stuff like this in your world. I complain alot about things because I witness how good they can be not what they just end up being but I know I have it so damned good and should be in jail for all the shit I get to pull. but then again I am a capitalist American and all these luddite sovs can eat a dick.

matt blake r.i.p. and no its not a deathblog

2008-05-12T14:31:00.003-04:00

I see now that I have only been using this space for mourning lately and i apologize.
its because may in michigan is so alive and jumping that when something happens like this it gives pause.
Matt Blake wasnt a friend of mine that I called when the wings score. He was more of a fellow soul riding through space on this ball of dirt that had a smile and a handshake and some kind words for me or anyone really. He was a propellor head and very ccs but i never threw him in with the slumming rich kids and 90's people et al. He was a punk and he tried.
I was there when he tried out for Easy Action when rocky got fired. He was a slow drummer that played blues speed and good for him. I cant stand heroin or coke people that think they are so above everyone else. first it was the rich kid hippies in A2 when I was little, then it was the hyenas crowd trying again and then it was meister and ko trying to front. read it here first. fuck all that shit.

I know that wasnt very erudite but I had to to mention it because thats the reason I never got into Bogue etc. Bogue has another meaning etc.

So Matt never left my radar screen even though he used to hang with people I wouldnt consider nontoxic. But he had his game going on and I called him back when I was selling mortgages and beat it into his head that he could do it and that he should get his lovely woman and stake out a piece of the D and build. Which he did, exceedingly.
He bit off way more than he could chew, but thats how we do around here. It probably comes from our distant relatives that bet it all on making it all the way over here and winning. Its like an echo to me from the past that people like Lu and Matt jump into these gigantic projects with a screw gun and a maglite and then the next thing you know they have these great big houses that are so cool.
THAT is the Matt I want to remember.

I say all this not even believing for a second that he is gone and that the next time I'm working the door at the Bohouse or some such place he wont come through the door one second before closing and get me to let him in for free (sorry joel but some people I never charge..)

I know I'm an ancient one now according to the scene and that I'm supposed to drive around telling all the kids about what usedtobe over there etc, but to me Mr.Blake was a fixture and part of the Detroit landscape. I'm heartbroken of his death from this world, but I believe in God and that He has a studio for Matt.

I was just in the hospital for heart related issues and it struck me that he was killed by them. It shocked me that I was so close to the edge and then to have a friend go over it made me feel spared and humbled. It just doesnt make any sense.
Here I am 6'2" and 240lbs (+, ok) and with a blocked coronary and this guy is what 5'10" and 160 lbs wet with his pockets full of pennies and HE gets it?!!

Underneath it all and throughout all the hipster bullshit, Matt Blake was a genuine cool cat and one of my brothers. I am pissed but accepting in God's judgement that he come home. His will not mine. Matt Blake rest in peace.

climbing beaumont..

2008-04-13T08:56:00.003-04:00

and most of all Jesus.

Blackford Oakes Rest in Peace

2008-03-02T14:00:00.003-05:00

Its been a few days since WFB flew home and I have had enough time to let it all sink in. My thoughts about the whole situation cover all kinds of places in my head but in a nutshell I can say that I am saddened but accepting of his passing as he did his job and needed relief.
If I was ever asked where my sense of the world and means of generating my own moral compass came from I would say that it was my Dad and WFB that really really changed me inside and at the same time left open questions that still bug to this day that they brought up. But that's the genius of these two; instead of just giving me answers or having me think about the answers for stupid questions, they dropped some thinking on me that doesnt burden most people these days but makes all the difference to me.

I was pissed at WFB before he died, and in the moment he was waning as a relevant pundit. He was wishy washy at best about the gwot and to me that threw him in with the dinasours of the 70's PBS era people that were getting pushed aside by the current generation of his children. Instead of jumping right in with his brain he used to use, he dilly dallied and played the middle a little too obviously for me and made it seem slightly that he was too above all this craziness and that he couldve down it better. Like Col. Hackworth he seemed stuck in his time. So be it and in a way, good for him. But eternal vigilance requires eternity and we will all fail that test here on earth.

What really hits me looking back is just how punk WFB really was and how people like him prove to me over and over that despite all the Graschi foretold inevitability of the left owning my soul because they own the culture factory, there is still hope for people like me and WFB that want to play in the marketplace of ideas and theater without first drinking the milk and eating the cookies (taking the blue pill for all you rookies). Sitting in my high rise apartment on sunday mornings with my dad, looking out the windows at the wreckage of the great city of Detroit as it twisted and contorted into its present shape of overweight blowhard socialists, idiot voters, killer rogue cops and poor bastards sticking around trying to save these morons from themselves, I would watch "Meeting of the Minds" with my Pops and realize that there was a place that we could carve out of the mindless dreck of the Obamas and THINK.
I was told by my Pops that if I ever wanted to talk to Einstein it was as easy as reading one his books. I could get a B. Oakes book and learn all about the Cuban Missile Crisis talking to WFB. I could be free.

Later on in my life I was asked to follow the pack and go off to some college and reimmerse my soul into the procrustean pool of mediocrity called modern academe but instead I decided to join the infantry when only a complete loser would throw away all those keg parties and babes. I failed miserably at the peacetime Army and the shame of that debacle followed me for years because I kept comparing myself to others that had never even ventured to think about things the way I did. I surely messed up, and I know it. But I overextended myself and tried to cut the gordian knot of my life because I was striving for a reality that balanced the two sides of my life just like WFB was trying to do by being a conservative in a world of those that either werent or couldve possibly be bothered with actualities instead of panderings.

WFB showed me that I could never win with these people, but that I should keep trying nevertheless until I too fail at my desk. I'm not in this to share the stage with the darlings of the left, I'm here to show them just how empty they are and that there is an alternative to all that for the next generation. People, Things and Ideas were my choices and I chose Ideas. I chose them because of WFB and people like him, but he was that silver bullet through the forehead that made all the difference.

Naturally the leftist media brushed him aside and maybe it would be impossible to convey just how much of a difference he made in each one of their lives, just someone trying to explain punk rock or Shakespeare and how, once you get it, you can never be the same. WFB is in there to me. He's on that level and one of my saints.

Teller, Friedman, Ron and other geniuses that knock me out when they speak the truth to idiocy are still sending me thoughts that save me from falling under the spell of "hope", but WFB was my Gandolf. Rest peacefully Bill and fill our sails as we try to make it across.

Wimmerns in the Military etc

2008-01-13T22:12:00.000-05:00

check these out
http://www.fighterchicks.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=496

then hit home and see where they work...

My post today will be about wether or not women should be allowed to serve in the armed services. As you may know, I am a conservative and should be more likely than not to oppose such ideas. But I will say that the thrust of any argument I make will be that any room being made for gender neutrality at the cost of fighting strength is unconstitutional as our government is duty bound to protect us and not turn our military into a marxist gender battleground.Fighter pilots that just happen to be women are not and were never my concern, my concern was with ground troops sent through the wire. Support troops and any other remfs were off the table to begin with and my concern was with respecting the line dogs. Any person with a brain would know that equally equipped any unit comprised of just men would lay waste any unit that is coed.
Its just a plain fact and trying to blame Uncle Sam and the 11b for God's choice is treasonous.
I say this with a female relative currently in the sand box.

I think that any woman now serving would agree with me and it is not because I want to preserve a last bastion of testorone, its because I want to win the effing war and not gamble with soldiers lives just so I can feel some commie power over the man.

Now to the real point, If I was in the hole calling for CAS and found out later that it was from a split tail I would think it was dead sexy and wold want more of it. Besides, I get the feeling that there isnt going to be that many pilots in war pretty soon anyway..

Not only that but jessica beal was dorky as a pilot and so was meg ryan. they couldve used a newcomer instead.
There was a woman chopper pilot in GW1 that was a pow and I always wondered how she has been doing.

My prayers go with them on every mission.

JUST LET THE GUY GO AND GROW UP!!

2008-01-02T13:35:00.000-05:00

http://www.en.freefouad.com/

I just had to add to the FIRESTORM kicked up about this guy. Pray for him and go comment on his blog. bitte.

Happy New Year too!!

Merry Christmas letter to my readers.

2007-12-25T12:50:00.000-05:00

Theres usually more than one way to look at a single thing and while that can cuase some frustration it also gives hope.
this year if I look at my Christmas the way I used to, its kinda boring and pretty annoying. I have let things really get into my head lately and what with the no sun and limited monetary resources my mood has stayed manageable only with proactive steps.
I am not hopelessly addicted to doodads, but its close. Everytime I got my hands on large amounts of cash this year I made bad decisions and ended up in the red again. then once I got rolling again the holidays hit and my social obligations rolled over my momentum. but the good part is that I got to buy my nephew a truck and my family is safe and that's heavenly.
This next year its all about assets and denying others the ability to get me into doodad land with my time and efforts. I gave.
My next trick is to get over the shame and insecurity of my past attempts and get me a woman that can wife me. I dont need any girlfriends or slumming rich chicks or any of that, and I'm not going to about worry what some asshole says more than not finding some true love out there.
assets assets assets assets not liabilities not liabilites not liabilities. no doodads.

and i have to stop painting other people's wagons this year. its over.
God bless you and I hope youre having a great Christmas season.

GEN Petreaus MAN OF THE YEAR

2007-12-22T12:03:00.000-05:00

Best time of the year for a moment to remember the best of leadership and action.

With so much doubt and controversy it takes a special kind of person to line back up and move the chains. The Viet Nam War and the perceptions had of it created a fear that politicians could welsh on a war while getting their troops killed to keep things just "going", even after the elites had quit.
W surged, he didnt curl up and die or hide while everybody made a name for themselves perfecting their whine. He didnt let things just sit. He used Gen Petreaus.

A General that was once shot by one of his own troops (in training accidentally, he forgave the soldier.) emerged to carry this surge forward. Through a number generals in the pile to pick through, W set Gen Petreaus up where they were initially the target of skepticism because of an emphasis on not molesting the Iraqis while pacifying Iraq. This policy inferred to many that the US was considered by its own leadership to be inherently and regularly abusive, this coming too in the midst of numerous attacks on the intregrity and morality of the troops. The policy and Gen. Petreaus had to be carefully examined before many would agree that it was actually the best message.

It is actually a doctrine war and the right thinking was the right weapon against both the enemy in the field, but also the doubt and ridicule machine of the red press.

It amazes me that we have these kinds of leaders in our armed services that stuck around through 8 years of Clinton among other things.
Like Gen. MacArthur was to the Japanese and Filipinos, Gen. Petreaus may create a free Iraq that prospers beyond expectations again and rises above the rest of the poverty stricken arab world to show just how great being free can be for people.

Beyond the wars and religion, it matters that in the other world they have no choices like ours. They dont KNOW any better because they cant. But if they continously see a shining example of non-oppressive living, they may choose to chill out and the fanaticism will abate. Hopefully.

But Gen. Petreaus has gotten that to work in Anbar.

That's a fact. Wether the New York Times wants to write about it or not.

In the midst of it all, the guy pulls it off. For me that's a shoe-in for MotY.
Whatever, what do they kow about partying or anything else.

But even if Iraq does or does not succeed, the opportunities for freedom to expand must be created. Left to rot, our government would end up using the resources against us...
.
The other part is that its obvious that he has been shunned and distanced from the mainstream by the press. That is deplorable and its even so sad that most Americans have no idea just how amazing the results of their efforts really are.
Therefore to I say that Gen Petreaus had twice the burden of any other nominee and he's an fine demonstrator of RISE ABOVE.

My second choice was Rich Rodriguez, the new Michigan coach for football. I drove one of the coaches who was a former player the night before they were all let go. It was very stalinistic and grave.
But it was entirely necessary and with a clean break sets the bar higher and that shows leadership we have been oh so missing around A2.
R2 has declared that he just wants to take what he worked up to win in the lower league, all in a bunch, and use it on a top team.

I predict that with the retention of Jackson and the subsequent use of the wite kid that jumps over people in a flip, we might be about to see a rebirth of Tom Harmon style twenty-three skiddoo football. We may be about to see football like that that has never been played before at the big house. I say bring it on.
Michigan may become the new Iowa in the big ten or it might use a talent pool that comes from having a more desirable degree to break down opponents and the despised sweater vest.

For Christmas this year I bought my nephew a truck. He is a cadet wo I figured I would get him something with a stick so he would be the only kid that would know how to drive and therefore save his own skin. It was $500 up in Royal Oak.
Merry Christmas All and especially Gen Petreaus.

dont steal my stuff..

2007-12-05T19:51:00.001-05:00

i have noticed that people are going after my stuff lately. right away too and its creepy. at least go hide for a minute.

this week has been dark and cold and is the most ignored week of the year.
when it finally gets to being cold and over i can eventually get with it but have to start slow. having a bunch of money sure does make a difference now.
i keep remembering the stupid projects i want to do. like a fan that blows fabric up that inflates and makes a hot dancing balloon girl.
then theres the biodiesel and solar moped gang.
then i bought a goldwing and its taking all that time up.
i want to make a movie in hawaii and get a big check.
i started writing my football face mask book.
should talk to joel about a fotsal club at the bohouse.
need all the cables and wires for my mic.
want to get a big room for working on bikes in.

just heard that an animal went nuts in omaha. pray for strength.

Happy Thanksgiving!! And Go Lions!!

2007-11-22T05:08:00.000-05:00

My name means thanksgiving to God if you add Deus to it.
so I'm in the right frame of mind.

my American citizenship, lucked out on that big time!!

replacing Lloyd Carr, thanks for a great job and splitting when the time was right.

my big ass goldwing.

all the people that have loved me whether I deserved it or not.

the Iraqi people that have turned from violence and tyranny, great job and good luck.

my freedom fighter training that I learned from my parents and others.

the USARMY for not shooting m.

lotsa other stuff. i just thought i'd start with that..

Death of Player Two..

2007-11-22T05:02:00.000-05:00

I'm not a gaymer and there's just been too many p2's on the net so I am taking off the mask and using my own name now.
I am selling my bikes (two 750k's) because my brother talked me into a gs1000 (75!!) that I mysteriously found on clist for $280!!
i have found headers and carbs for it and I'm selling the fairing to get money for a corbin seat.
just think, in six months i might even get to ride the thing.

its costing you money not to do this

2007-10-22T04:26:00.000-04:00

i guess that is the most compelling argument to make to a businessman when youre trying to change his thinking .

they can stick to their pride and ego-the status quo-or make life easier on themselves by understanding what youre saying and implementing the plan.

i'm probably the worst example of this because i never take good advice so it won't surprise me if i'm ignored.

they elected jennifer didnt they..

today was a really nice day and my bike wouldnt start. bottom line is that i need to get it into a garage.

here's a shot of it before i put the ew bike tire on. i'm not going to do much to it and save up for a real bike. boy do i wish that gs1000e wouldve ran .

then again it is nice riding a trainer 750k.

i'm sorry but it really makes me laugh that people spend so much money making these things all perty. I'm thinking at least a gs1100.

too funny, breaking through fear barriers. makes you feel alive just like in airborne school. this year I got up an a wakeboard finally (hint: keep your hands down outside your ankles and go up like a dipsy board from the salmon boat)

and now I'm riding that bike. now all i need is a pilots license and a million bucks.

motorcycle rides and great ideas that are ignored.

2007-10-21T03:36:00.001-04:00

today i seriously owned my fears.
i got my 750 going and rode for hours with the beer pigs out to Saline and back. even with the honda antics it was absolutely fun as all get out.
I froze at first but don gave me his sweatshirt and a balaclava and from there on out it was sweet nightriding.
gotta get mirrors and a new front tire along with some other stuff, but so what I was hauling ass down 94 at 80 and on my own damned bike.
too funny..

now on to business:
I will be submitting my latest great idea this week and trying to get at least something for it.
in a nutshell I want Ford to do what recaro does in europe at soccer games by having real car seats installed in the stands at Ford Field and then the rest of America's stadia because yo know everybody has to copy the D.

If they would sneak in before the games and randomly install seats from next years models to be the crowd would love it and they could capitalize on so many levels for reaching out to their customers and associates.

doesnt Ford OWN the Lions?

doesnt Ford OWN Ford Field (The Ford)?

doesnt Ford spend millions of dollars to advertise and product place their stuff?

I want a triple black Cobra and a Focus for my mom to do all her church stuff in for the Cathedral. I'd even take a used one ..
I was thinking of a triple black Explorer but I dont want to push it.

In Europe where the lower seats are not so in demand the teams seat their coaches and injured players and other celebs in row upon row of Recaros.
Manchester United has a whole section of Audi seats and boy do they look comfortable.

If the seats are up high make them the seats out of a compact. Just one here or there that dont impede egress would be bad as hell. All the end seats way in the corner could be posh seats from 500's. You could find couples and have them sit in f150 chairs in a pair.

It would be a huge hit.

In my wildest I would want $50k for the first field and $50k for every stadium/arena that Ford placed in.

Who know's. The idea would make them millions in sales right off and start a trend that the industry would jump all over.
Maybe Mr. Mullaly and Mr. Farley are readers..

I will be sending them the word this week, somehow.
IF the customers are

james dean is dead..

2007-10-19T17:20:00.000-04:00

i got nuthin..

easy action tonite small's

update: show went well, coupla knuckleheads tollin but the bands were fun.

ea had some new stuff. got the feeling that not everyone was thrilled with the place.

check it out.

btw this is sandra and she is from providence therefore she is very happy the tribe choked YET AGAIN!!!

would really like to have an opening and blow up all the shots of the band before they get all huge. they told Tang! records to eat a dick and made the brilliant move of getting on epitaph with BigBusiness and the Melvins et al or so i've been informed by said horse's mouth.

search for identity and superceding assimilation

2007-08-15T18:39:00.000-04:00

taught from the earliest age that to be rich is to be a pissy brat that hates all that is good, the new immigrant has no gene telling he or she or it to join the team. now we get to lose our freedom so that they can be dealt with because the statists can't handle their jobs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1524872020070815?feedType=RSS&feedName=internetNews&rpc=22&sp=true

its not the internet you moron, just like its not the gun, its the user of the internet. that's like saying books cause wars. does the bible cause the troubles or the preachers? instead of blaming the mullahs and the special interest liberals/teacher unions. that's right, its a man with a gun and a criminology degree telling you that the internet is the problem.

how disgustingly typical of the government model.

thanks for all your hard work, genius.

what you should do, heidi..

2007-08-14T22:46:00.000-04:00

http://jewishworldreview.com/0807/terror_hunter.php3

a mother of three from montana. how many doctorates does she have?

how many times has she walked across an ivyed campus?

how many asses has she had to kiss to get her "position"?

why dont you know anything about her and her work?

because the newyawk times hasnt told you to look for her.

BadAss Marine

2007-08-14T22:07:00.001-04:00

but but but
but this...

Motorhead - Stay Clean

2007-08-14T03:35:00.001-04:00

real music for P2 while working..

what i suggest is that you cue the bass solo of this song and then scroll down and watch the al rappa footage i shot and see if it syncs up for you like it did for me.

OH, I LAUGHED!!! I LAUGHED A LOT!!!

iptv set to take over universe. will it youtube the world?

2007-08-13T23:43:00.000-04:00

how are they ever going to keep them down on the farm after this:
http://downloads.lightreading.com/wplib/emc/MeetingtheChallengeofManagingIPTVServices.pdf

its some light reading but well worth the intro. seems that selling voip mightve been a good idea after all. bundle it and send it my way. no mare tvs, just laptops. weeeee or is that wiiiiii?!

you may have to register to get this to play but in the end its an adobe pdf about having tv over your iphone or your pc. I'm all into it and think that it s going to revolutionize how things get made and everything.

gloriously revolutionary psychiatry for your psyche

2007-08-12T23:33:00.000-04:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/13/wasylum113.xml

give yourself a small break from reality and check in to the hotel Putin.

dont worry, theyre just like us...

hot dog buddy buddy

2007-08-12T17:42:00.001-04:00

they know whats up;)!!!
thats al on the woodbass

al rappa bill haley and the comets

2007-08-12T17:32:00.001-04:00

watch out for the shake!

Hot rods in the backyard.

2007-08-12T15:29:00.000-04:00

big coupe, love the hot wheels look. the next one snuck in from an old post but its stil great. this is a dropped continental that was just perfectly rat.

what a cadillac should look like. murder scene.

just had to include these in here. have a burger and plug your ears.

the comets, fathers of rock and/or roll!!

2007-08-12T15:15:00.000-04:00

is this the king!! blatantly surreal!
beauty Gretsch. just classic, thanks Japan.
more fullbody goodness.
Yes, I have seen it all. even the day the music died.

because its fun as hell, that's why!!?

if you know anythig about hamtramck it was named after Gen. mad anthony wayne's aid-de-camp, col. hamsandwich,who had a farm up around these parts. its also where the bill haley is from and while I was at a hotrod party in whiteyland I got word to head down and see his original bass player jam out with his band. Al Rappa is his name and he's a hoot. this is the same guy that used to stand on his bass and play "13 women and only one man in town" to the kids in Berlin after ww2. boy oh boy, the fun this guy as seen!! I will try to load a movie about it and even throw in one of another old coot ridin his indian past the Ypsi watertower. check it out cool cats.

the records must be preserved.

2007-08-12T15:02:00.000-04:00

the entrance to vinyl heaven. you like the funk? come on and do it.
the 45 i want to spin..

its a musical freeakout!!!
i have a friend,mr. brad, who owns the people records where I go to be cool. he has a sign painter that is just great, Weems. I am trying to helping them all and especially this sign painter. I like the nexus where working for money as a contractor affords one the chance to put out art. must be the functionalist coming through, or just the conflicted inner struggler, who knows/cares..

I want to mount the record so that it spins. I get paid to do fun stuff. sure beats working for arrogant jocks up in the burbs and their anorexic monster clients.

waaay up north in the mitten.

2007-08-12T14:38:00.000-04:00

first one is bro and other neffe.
God bless the America!!
this here is me smokin an Acid from the drewestate.com in Ortega's Nicaragua.
flat like a bored.
somebody found some air.
this is the view from my towel. there's a sea gull in there I snapped.

so there was this town on my map called manistee. they have many lesbians police officers there that watch very very closely to see if out of towners are wearing their belts. I wasnt and got a secret note in class from new york carpet world.

I have a map of michigan and guess which city just got scratched out...

aside from the kulturkamp, it was amazingly beautiful and if youre not a communist agitator I would highly recommend going up there. mostly it was hanging around in the house with my wannabe nephew and his amazing ego, then hiking down to the waveless water for some gorgeousness, going into town for supplies, socialist harassment , coffee from the hot teenager townie girls and hitting the secret cigar store men's lounge (mancave is a term reserved for immasculated democrat manginas) complete with a big screen for Bullitt watching and large fat boy chairs. that lady from surroundings was about the coolest woman in the world.

we even went on a trip down the river. there arent any fish in the river yet cuz theres no oxygen in the water right now, but it was just wonderful cruising a canoe down the river at night for a few hours with only a maglite to see the nocturnals with. racoons, deers, lotsa suckers on the bottom, a rock bass, cranes with a fox or wolverine after them, un skunk le pew. you know, the usual suspects...

what ever happened to the future?

2007-08-03T04:53:00.000-04:00

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/08/in_defense_of_drunken_astronau.html

kraut has it right. we should celebrate the perfect timing of a good belt. the limeys have a tot of rum for their swabs, at least could do is have some single barrel.

I want a prefab with an elevator in it that goes up to my gym bar deck on top.

imagine living up there and watching the earth rises and settings day after day knowing your a zillion miles away. kids in the future will look back at the way we live now like we look back at model t drivers that had to crank their frickin engines.
would fun to go to a club up there and get toasted trying to floatdance.

wow, here it comes again?!!

2007-08-02T04:17:00.000-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471324&in_page_id=1770

moscow calling
to the zombies of death,
quit holding out
and draw
another breath.

the ice age is doming
the sun's zoomin in
meltdown expected
(never knew this line)

i never felt so much alive...

i wonder if i have any secret russian blood can get into the actionski?

they just don't get it, do they...

2007-08-02T02:26:00.000-04:00

sreltone the queen speaketh.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html

maybe because we all have go all the way around you and your captain thang.
music was originally made in the world when it was like that, the world is different now and it can't wait until you get off it.
music is molecularly different now and everybody has their version of their copy of all the original shit he's from. now its just all niche and maybe better for it.
who listens to black flag and bad brains anymore.
anybody that is any good gives all their shit awayon youtube and downloads with shitty mixes and bad cameras/lighting .deal.
it actually makes P2 wanna go out that much more and see bands live because thats really the only difference than their record and vids.
in michiganeeze I seen Easy Action at Smell's in Hamtown last saturday.
It was grand and the night before I worked the door at the funkshow and met effing Sinbad.
Easy Action had some double beats and sounded like QOTSA to me that night but not really cuz all their other EA stuff was cool. I still cant stand that one get out my way song.
they were swingin though and Harold Broked that Sunn Head. 500 watts of pure power had to be switched to playing through the PA and making it sound like you have an ear infection and all fazey. Still a great show and you can tell their a few steps above all the others. I think Tony needs to have a glass though at some of the parts in their set where he could do slide bass. Funny how it all seems so swingin to me now.
Anyway, I pray for John Salter who is ailing hard and hope he pulls it out one more time.

muslims fall for liberal stupidity at UofM?Dbn

2007-07-31T16:44:00.000-04:00

http://www.nysun.com/article/59485

the student fees are taxes and anyone but a college administrator would know that.

this is unconstitutional, but the constitution was written by dead white guys so who cares.

the muslims that are behind this are being used and they dont have any idea

they will become the next victims of the detroit blob and cant see it because the truth isnt really that relevant on a campus these days.

secular gubmint is a protection, but how would someone from a dictatorship know what that means.

this is civil war on low.

how much more can one serve God than to get an education that will help them serve the people? all it would take is a fatwah fromt he local mosque telling student they dont have to interrupt their studies to pray but are serving God by getting A's and graduating.

this is why the islamic world has a total GNP less than Spain's.

They will see this as an insult to their religion when it is really someone trying to give them a heads up.

Proof that muslims have completely assimilated to Michigan politics.

Door to history, all but ignored..

2007-07-30T05:12:00.000-04:00

When I drive people around in Ann Arbor I always tell them about the door to the Gandy Dancer restaurant and what it means to me personally. If you ever get a chance to look at it take a minute and see if I can do my job and make it never the same again.
If anyone has ever explained any of the history of the UofM and Ann Arbor in general it might make sense to you that someone that has lived there off and on for so long might find something cool and interesting about that doorway.
It seems that UofM and the Big Ten were created nearby railroads and during the railroad expansion period and that if you werent hooked up back east ,and still wanted to go to college, you had to hit the rails.
Back then if you were jewish or poor or catholic you could forget about going to an Ivy League school and if you chose Michigan you wouldve arrived at the Depot for Ann Arbor which is now the restaurant. Before there was a bridge over the Huron there on Broadway, the river was wider and one had to ferry across it. Then the mills came in and started cutting lumber for all the folks moving west. They dammed the river and squeezed it down, built the power station on the other side of the bridge and started providing electricty for a little sleepy college town in the Midwest.
Locomotives coming into that valley filling the place full of clouds of coal dust mustve been a sight to behold and every September another crop of freshman would be on those trains wondering just what the next four years would hold in store for them.
Now the Big Ten is world famous for their gigantic football games and the rivalry between Ohio State and our Wolverines, but way back in the day the teams had their own train cars and once they pulled into the station they could get stuck on those cars for the night until morning when horses could be brought up to carriage their gear to Yost fieldhouse.
On homecoming days the students used to meet the train and walk all the way to fieldhouse covered in soot to show their spirit with teams that had travelled to six of the other Big Ten schools.

Other teams would get stuck at the Depot if they got in too late or if their coaches didnt have lodging in town for them. Back then they didnt pay coaches hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and budgets didnt include money for rooms at the Marriott in Ypsi, so there they sat. Or they could hang out in the Depot around the big fireplaces inside drinking cider and eating brown doughnuts.
When I drop off old timers from Wisco or Hawkeye country they clue me in that they dont go to the gandy now to for the food, they go there to remember what it was like to be 18 and on the road with the team getting ready to play the Maize and Blue.
That's right folks, every great Footballer in American History probably walked through that door in their prime. Knute Rockne, George Gip, Red Grange, Y.A.Tittle, Tom Harmon, You name 'em.
Unless they played down south or out west they came through that door back when after you "touched down", the opposing team punted the ball out of their endzone and you had to try and score your "extra points" from wherever they downed you. Kinda like a touchback is now.
Before there was Metro Airport and I-94 that Depot was IT and all that history came in and out of town through that door,that door that is now just a door on some restaurant under some bridge.

why the humanities? why history?

2007-07-30T05:02:00.000-04:00

what's more important, knowing how best to cut the trees down or which trees to cut?

Interrogating an interrogator Part 2

2007-07-30T00:59:00.000-04:00

Having reread some of what I started with I can say that I see that I'm all over the place and that my conceptual continuity is lacking. But I'm a blogger and I only hope that by experiencing this all right off the cuff I might be able to get some unique insights or other weird stuff out that I wouldnt be able to come up with if I was "putting a level on every shingle" like my dad did on a roof job once.

The most important thing that I want to get across to anyone reading this is that there are so many currents and tides involved in all of this that have an effect on what I am thinking and not the least of them is political correctness and my feelings about Prof Stern and Wayne State University in general.

I am not a leftist and I do not consider the humanities department of Wayne State as friendly territory at all. Deal with that.

I basically kept to myself about ninety percent of what I was thinking when I interviewed Prof Stern because it is my feeling that things wouldve been entirely different if I had come right out and involved him in the current debate.

As far as I am concerned, his war is over and it is up to us that were born after him to deal with what is presently at stake. That aint to put him to pasture, that's to let him know that he doesnt deserve anymore "sandwiches".

I would only add that his personal assistant was ambushed by my showing up to interview and I apologize for getting all heavy and political without warning. I couldve set things up differently but I'm a blogger and into talk radio (hint hint) and dont believe in pregamers or prepared anything. People these days that havent experienced real repression from highers wouldnt know if they were doing things others might consider similar to minders and it was just coincidence and actually funny to me that she sat with her eyes over his head at me so that when I was trying to look at him I could see her eyeballing me.

How effing ironic, huh?

Wait til she meets the real thing. then she'll what I'm talking about.
But it wasnt anything to make a big deal about, it was just that I had billions of brain cells popping and I'm a symbolist paranoid.

I attended and left the University because I had seen the world from a different paradigm while living in Cold War Germany and while myself serving in the U.S. Army Infantry. There wasnt anything there that I really wanted to learn about after awhile because to me the real world was out there and I was already in my late twenties when I tried to put their books on again. I then went into manufacturing engineering to try and get away from the limousine liberal hypocrisy of the the Michael Moores and Coleman Youngs, but even that turned into a joke after awhile. Prof. Stern was one of the only people I remembered from that whole time at WSU along with my latin Prof. Joel K. Itskowitz. I was a free schooler and not a bell hearer that wanted to study one subject deeply or try and string some subjects together and relate them.

Back then it was ancient civ up to the HRE.

When it turned into paying some hack to tell me the Gracchi reminded him of the Kennedy bros, I just got up and left. If I'm gonna get hazed for something, it better be for something that pays..

So don't get the idea that I am disgusted by everything Tartar, oh, I'm sorry, "warrior". oh, forget it.. They make doctors and so theyre cool. I just grew up around trustfund pseudo-marxists in Ann Arbor and, been there-done that.

All that said and kind of along those same line, I have to also add that the inspiration for all of this was not just the Ritchie Boys alone but also a film often played on the Sundance Channel called "The Road to Guantanamo".

In this film which is about "English-Muslims"(cf. German-Americans, German Jews, hyphenation for any reason, etc..) that "get caught" in Taliban dominated Afghanistan and subsequently detained at Gitmo, the depiction of the interrogators in this film versus those in the "Ritchie Boys" couldnt have been more different.

In the Ritchie Boys the interrogators are shown as dispossessed Europeans that are mostly jewish and brilliant ,whereas the interrogators in the other film are shown as dishevelled sadists tormenting poor innocent minorities that are trying to reasonably explain themselves to what are basically racist white nazi lookalikes.

When I saw these two images right next to each other on the same tv, I asked myself what had changed?

The enemy couldnt be more similar in doctrine. The islamic fundamentalists we are fighting not only got much of their start with direct assistance from the Dritte Reich, (cf. baathists, muslim brotherhood, etc) but at this very moment take every chance to they can to announce that the Jews should all be incinerated. We would all be peaceful if the Jews were in the graves etc..

But then again, the big difference is that these are browner people led by other browner people that arent a modern european society but rather a group of backward monsters that commit honor killings and mass murder primitively and not with Messerschmitts etc.
I see past their color et al, and for the life of me can't understand why anyone would be more afraid of -or more concerned with- W than the Taliban and those within the military caste of Pakistan. Just as Kofi Annan just gave a speech in Africa about how so many on the continent still blame "colonialists" will giving a pass to African born and created despots.

When I was interviewing Prof Stern he described my fellow veterans that provide security services for honest money working with Blackwater as "mercenaries" ( they are called contractors for a reason, look up "Warrant Officer" please..) and did so while describing, for more detail ,how we had sent over so fewer numbers than in WW2 as if to say that there was something wrong with not sending more, and falling for fallacy that we had such a huge choice.

The point being that today, in this "today" we are currently living in, the common, basic understanding of our armed services is that they are inept and led by a moron while in the good old days it was, at least ,"better run".

Prof. Stern obviously grew up in the Weimar State. A time when things couldve been done if people had had the nerve and brains to see the writing on the wall and actually DO something about it instead of just cover their square and go with the flow. How many UN resolutions were there about WMD's even before 9-11? How many times did Boy Clinton wag his finger at the Madman? But other than lob dumb bombs at radar installations south of the "no fly zone", what did he actually do? Why do we have to hold back when Darfur (Dachau?) is going on not in a newsreel but on live satellite?!!

Why are we so mentally hobbled?

Understand that it really messes with me that Guy Stern had to grow up in a racist country and as a little kid get singled out and have his parents murdered by national socialists. My German last name comes from south of Berlin (Luckenwalde, Luckau). But I will not let it pass unnoticed or not mentioned at all in a piece that I have written that the people around him dont know a damned thing if they think this is all just about how mysterious and seemingly paradoxical it is that someone with his background should have chosen the paths his life has taken him. There is a huge other side to all of this that should be considered because it speaks directly to a side of the subject up to the minute.

This might not have all happened to him, had people done something different like they might need to be doing something different right this second. People hid in popular culture and didnt make hard choices back in the Weimar, they partied down in the cabarets of Berlin while the camps were being built. Who asks them anything?

Call me a neo-con, right-winger, whatever you want, the fact is I ask "unpleasant questions" about people's "fake nerve" when the "real nerve" is pulling guard in 120 heat, or building a school where girls get raped and beaten to death for going and trying to learn how to read. When the abccbsnbcpbsnyt blob can only tell lies about how we only do it to get off on death or because we're too stupid to get accepted to paper-merit factories where we could protect our "political viability", it actually does cheese me. As the kid said riding on the Stryker, "we don't want your love, we don't need your re-spect.."

So you know all that and I can get back to the interview...

As I left off, Prof. Stern was sneaking in the back-door of these United States and doing what he could to get into the fight. Having tried to enlist in Naval Intelligence he was denied as an alien, but only for the moment.
He was drafted and did not volunteer for his MOS.

The way it was explained to me, he was surveyed and the results were tabulated onto punch cards and orders were then spit out for Camp Ritchie. Only when he got there did he realize that he was going to be an interrogator. It turns out that most of those there were German speakers, teutophones ( I love the way that word sounds so I used it ;D) including a Sergeant Warfield who was an African American opera singer of all things, that had learned German for is art. He later ran into Mr Warfield back here in Detroit and found out that the guy had only been used as a rec center nco.
Yes, I am pleased that times have changed..

The basics of interrogation were explained and taught to these guys while the build up to the DDay invasion were taking place and this is where I have to step out again and give some more width to this because this is one of the parts that they didnt get to too good in the movie and the part that really, really blew me away. It taught me more than anything else about the times then, and how things really were.

I think of how things got done back when I was a kid. If you called someone's house it was from either yours, a friend's or from a payphone. If they werent there you simply then stated "he was not at home" and went to the next step. It was an innovation in my lifetime to have a simple machine with a tapedeck in it that would answer your phone for you. WOW!! No cellphones-that was for start trek, seriously. We just got along and didnt know the dif.

Now if you were to ask me how an intelligence service in WW2 wouldve worked I would say things like; Carrier Pigeons, Crown typewriters, morse code, blinky lights etc... Candles in the window wouldve been goingtoo far back for even then, but not that far. So when I got to discussing how and what they were looking for while talking to these prisoners-and what they had trained them for at Camp Ritchie, dawned on me that these guys were probably using what we would wrongly consider primitive processes and tactics to get actionable intel.
I thought that what they would be asking in places like the Battle of the Bulge would be "where's the tanks?!!" or " how many machine gun pits are there in the next ridge?!!" and stuff like that. What I didnt realize is that while these guys werent using laptops, they were actually on it but in a differnt way. They werent after info about the mud but were instead directly attached to the Air Force and what they got was more inportant than any pictures taken from Mosquitos or Lysanders. Remember that many people think it was the air war that broke hitler's back even if the groundwar was hell too. Look at the stats about which MOS had the highest mortality rates and foxholes dont look that bad afterall.

Prof. Stern said that what they were taught was that there are two ways to get to a prisoner. You either buddied up to them and helped them out so they could help you out, or you simply scared the shit out of them.
No, in the film it seemed like what they were doing was getting intel for the ground war from the linedogs they had just nabbed. But in actuality what they were looking for were guys that had just gotten back from leaves (nazis took leaves in the middle of WW2?!!!) and what they had seen while back home in the way of munitions plants and landmarks around them to aid in the navigation of bomber formations. The whole sov get-up and the messing with their heads was for a totally different purpose. Again I feel humbled by the geniuses they had back then that could think on their feet and see the big picture instead of just what was in their lane.

Wow.

It just never occured to me that that was what he was doing and that it was that deep. My understanding was that the Air Force (which was Army back then) had fast recon birds that they sent over to take pictures, and maybe some kind of radio traffic intercept or on top of all that maybe they used some informers or saboteurs like the Order of the White Rose that would escape and try to fill in the Allies about what was going on in hometowns. It never even crossed my mind that they would send soldiers home in between redeployments from the russian front to the western wall.

It was D-Day plus 3 when Prof Stern showed up in the shit-as it were-he said that he went right in to the action near St Mere Eglise and the hedgerows. By then Camp Ritchie was a boat ride and a million memories ago. By then he was also an E-8 and he was in it all the way to Central Germany.

This whole time he had no idea what had happened to his entire family. Ever since he and his Onkel back in StLouis had tricked the man into getting him out, there had been a curtain of darkness over anything relating to his folks back home.

I simply cant imagine how that must have been, and when he finally found out after finagling a messenger detail out of the limeys, and driving up there himself to what was left of his hometown. He found out that they had been murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto for being Jews, by the government. It is also amazing that he didnt become a self destructive drunk or worse after that and turn into another victim of national socialists. I just cant get my head around all that because if my family had been taken out by some punk in wdc like that and there was nothing I could ever do about it I just dont know what that wouldve done to me. War is hell..

Which just brings me back to me sitting there in his lectures back when I was at WSU and how he never mentioned it.

Why?

I guess that it was about pride, it was about not showing off, it was about not turning them into a set, it was about reality and not idealism and all that. It also makes me wonder how many more of them I have run across that have listened to something I have said and just said to themselves " yea, whatever kid. If you only knew, and I hope you never do..

It says something about the structure of the modern american (small "a" on purpose) university that they don't notice the slight.

After the defeat and during the reconstruction period like the one we're conducting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Prof Stern basically said that after being sent out to find any insurgency, there really wasnt any. And the way the times were back then they wouldve just hung you on the street corner or shot you dead and no one wouldve cried in bold in the NYT about it. But his attitude was mostly that it was all over, the werewolves were a myth and the Germans just turned to sweeping up and stacking bricks to get away from thinking about what had happened. He then told me about the mickey mouse officer crap that the remf brass was pulling and how he just bailed as soon as he could.
He went back to StLouis and tried to pull some strings and get hired as a writer but there was such a backlog of prospects and so many guys coming back just like him, that he just went back to being a waiter and got back into school.

Imagine that, Twenty something, you just won the damn war and after all that youre grabbing orders kissing ass for tips. Ha! Ain't life grand...

It does probably beat eating out of cans and standing around a bunch of "master race" robots trying to get them to tell you how to blow up their relatives working at some plant. And it mustve been nice to see all the dames and smell their perfume while they stuffed their faces instead of smelling cordite and burning you know what. But I wonder what it wouldve been like to just walk up to a Guy Stern after he got back to the world and ask him what he was thinking. I never asked him about what he thought about the homefront while he was over fighting. I take it that most of that was because his home was in Hildesheim and there wasnt much coming out of all that .

Prof Stern seemed to be the perfect example of the third cultured. He was a hybrid and still is. I guess most Americans have someone around them that is. In Ann Arbor I talk to lots of hindis that locals think are so strange being from India, but when they get home they are treated as "the American". What I mean is that Guy Stern is a German guy that we stole from them. They think that they got rid of him but he pulled it off in a big way. I know that when he heads back over there the Germans -the modern day cool ones, not the enemy- see him as either an American or as a pretty damned worldly individual. When I came back from living in Germany as a basebrat I felt like a frickin alien and couldnt believe how little my friends actually knew about the place. It also made me feel entirely blessed to have been somewhere long enough to then come home and see that maybe I didnt want to get a mullet, listen to Van Halen and "get a job" instead of going with it and keeping my head open despite the chatter.

There's something of that in Prof Stern that I picked up and believe kept him alive and kicking upstairs enough to survive all that mess but also to stay in the letters long enough to find a way to stop, as he put it, himself from self-mutilization like the nazis wouldve wanted as final revenge and continue studying German culture (otherwise know as HIS culture). Its part of the American Miracle that this guy pulled off what he did. Its like a thread in the flag to me- ok, maybe a vinyl molecule- that foreigners come here and through all the hyphenations and balkanizations, conflicts and resolutions, immigration rules and military security clearances, we can end up free and secure while there is still so much evil and terror in the world.

How the hell does that happen?!!

It happens because people come here and DO IT. They take the ball and run with it. Even after being hammered so hard it just boggles your mind and seems so beyond any understanding. Freedom and opportunity is a really big deal and I can't stand it when people talk shit about it like its just so trite and cliche'. I have my opinions about things that might be different than those of others and that 's just how it is, but Prof. Stern is a cool customer and in my world he shouldnt be a shadow. If people were to ask me what it is to be an American, I would say that its to be his neighbor.

Interrogating an interrogator...

2007-07-15T17:55:00.000-04:00

Let me just begin by thanking Wayne State University for hiring this guy way back when and for providing him an office in his retirement where I could find him.
I rode my bike over to the campus on a gorgeous Detroit afternoon and decided at the last second not to bring any recording materials than a cassette tape in hopes he would have a boombox or something to tape with it in his office.
In the spirit of the Ritchie Boys show I didnt want anything around that would clam him up and as you may know I cant STAND anything interrupting my interviews, but the guy is working and his PA was aroung the whole time but she didnt bug me in the least off my stuff.
I remember in the film one of the other IPW's saying that writing anything down would stop the flow of info so I just decided to listen instead of write.

It turns out that there were some very interesting gaps filled in that the movie left open, but as Prof Stern put it so perfectly, "what can you do with 92 minutes?".

Therefore I will do this in installments.

Tonite will be about the uptake, the time before he even got to Camp Ritchie as it is pretty interesting and will tell you so much more about how life was back in the day and where this all comes from.

Guy Stern was a German kid from Hildesheim. I say that because one of the main missions and biggest statements I want to make in all of this is that if you dont know what I mean by German kid, you'll never really understand Guy Stern-or most of the interrogators that went the last mile for you.
I hope you remember throughout all of this what I'm trying to get at.
Guy Stern was a German kid from Hildesheim that grew up during the time that most American associate with wheelbarrows full of Reichsmarks and loaves of bread made with woodchips. It should really strike deep into your brain that these people were not only broke but also humiliated as a people. While we in the states were just getting the New Deal going, the germans were just trying to stay alive. As the oldest son of parents that knew they had to do something for their kids' future, they cooked up a plan to get Guy to St.Louis and relief.
I never asked if he had experienced any overt antisemitic racism at this point or at all as he made it seem as if it was all about just trying to survive.
He jokingly asked that I not turn him in to the ICE for what he told me next but it jsut so happens that his uncle here in the states faked income in his bank account with donations and loans from other union members to prove he had the means to support. As he is now in his 80's I think we can let him slide, but as I will keep re-emphasizing throughout this, it never ceases to amaze me and put a smile onmy face just how resourceful and synergistic people were back then.
After getting the chance to come to America and after leaving his family behind in his old Heimat, he started to work his way up the ladder and got into school. Meanwhile in Germany a curtain of darkness descended and he wasnt to get word about just how bad it got until the Allies had made it across Germany.
When I asked Prof Stern if he had been drafted, he mentioned that he had tried to enlist in Naval Intelligence (yes, its true, he tried to join the squids..for shame!) but was rejected as a foreigner. My thoughts about that are that it revealed that he was thinking about getting involved early. He didnt mention if it was deliberately to counter U-boots, it seemed that it was just chance that the Navy had decided to put a poster up that had a list of req's and couldve just as easily been a Marines Intel want ad or the Army etc.
I also want to mention here that the current culture of the Armed Services is very individual and all volunteer when it comes to choosing to serve freedom.
Back then you were just as likely to be drafted and never have a hand in deciding anything and that shouldnt be overlooked. As he explained, it all came down to punchcards that went into some Eniac which then printed out orders and, that was it. So the inner struggle one goes through to enlist was different.
Nowadays its completely different and one would have to specifically concur with the idea of going MI. In the olden days you were just drafted and if you were lucky enough to have a special skill that kept you out of the grunts then God bless ya.
My impression was that he wanted to serve and that once he found out what was going on, didnt mind one bit. I never asked him if he ever thought that they were setting him up for a suicide mission or anything and I didnt because I never picked up any hints that he had any negative feelings about his unit or his training in the sense that he was deemed expendable or treated negatively.
Maybe that was an indication of how tough people were then, how the wartime Army dispenses with all that hazing or denigration in training or maybe that in the doctrine they actually made it clear that these guys were a little more valuable than sappers etc. He did mention that he was promoted to E-6 during basic or shortly thereafter!!! This when he was what, 18?!
Just so you know, a normal progression through the ranks for a basic enlistee is 6 months to 1 year to Private anything (E-2), 1 year after that for Private First Class (E-3) and then at least two years more for Specialist Four or Corporal (E-4). A high ranking youngster ( he was an 19 year old E-6)is either a dead giveaway for a college boy that got in the wrong line at the recruiting station or somebody that someone up there really has a liking for. In wartime all bets are off, but you get the gist.
They were setting him up for something important and if I could go back in time and show his folks how great he was doing back at that moment , while he was busting his hump and they were getting worked over by the National Socialists, I'm sure they wouldve been extremely proud.
Can you imagine trying to keep it together training for an MI job, while not even knowing what was going on with your whole family, thousands of miles away and falling under Hitler's bullshit? Cojones grandes...
So there wasnt a volunteering moment in all of this in the very beginning but rather a different intake process that while not completely different than today's, different enough to show some insight into how things were back then.

An immigrant teenager that snuck in to save his life by working the system with a genius loving Onkel; that then got straight to work as a college student and waiter in St.Louis; who tried to help the swabs but was told to take a hike; who got yanked into the Trees and then finally won the brainiac lottery because he spoke Enemy. Go figure...

This is how we won the war folks, little stories like this.

To compare my own experience as an enlistee I can see that he was ahead of the curve. When I raised my hand Pres. Reagan had just been elected and the U.S. Army was pretty much flat on its ass. The kids I went to High School with were incredulous that I would want to go Olive Drab instead of Blue and Maize and besides two of my best friends Mac and Sean, the only other guys to join up out of my class was one kid that already had a slot at West Point. My friends' parents never forgave me for giving them the stupid idea and one even talked their kid into getting a hardship discharge because she missed her purse holder.
I wonder what Prof. Stern's buddies wouldve said back then if he'd have mentioned that he wanted to step to the sound of the guns. It was already after Pearl Harbor so he was probably not the first in line and it was probably like the day after 911 at the recruiter's office, but I could tell by talking to him that something was going on in his head that wasnt in everybody else's. He's a really nice guy and I bet he made friends easily to help deal with the fear,but it mustve been really lonely and horrible in the horror sense back then, before anyone knew that we were going to actually win in the end.
When I was a kid growing up I used to picture all these people in their twenties like the movie stars that played'em in the movies, but now that I'm getting up there they seem like such little kids. Kids that should've been starting bands and delivering pizzas or hitting fastballs. And then to think that all that happened to millions of them, and that 750,000 didnt come back.

Thanks.

Let me think some more about this and I'll pick it back up from when he leaves the States.

interview prep for prof.guy stern.

2007-07-12T14:41:00.000-04:00

For some reason I thought it'd be more difficult or involved to get this started but here goes..

This is what the good prof thought of my interview request:

Dear Thad,Thank you for your detailed and personal answer to my email. I should very much indeed like to meet with you on campus. My next appearance there is in fact tomorrow Friday the 13th, and I will arrive on campus about 9:30am and will be there at least til 12:30pm. That will probably give you too little lead time. I will let you know alternative dates after my campus appearance tomorrow if necessary. I will try to answer your searching questions as best I can when we meet, but one of the questions quite frequently and I can at least indicate where my answer lies.What has induced me to become a professor of German culture and literature, even after the horror of the Nazi period. It really was based on conversations I had with my professors at Columbia who dissuaded me from studying comp lit after my MA in German Studies. They said, of course falsely, I had some talent for Germanistics. I then thought if they were right, it would be a type of self amputation, if I would let that talent whither. Wasn't I then doing the work of the Nazis who wanted to alienate me from my cultural heritage and my personal talents. So I did go into the field. There are many more weighty questions in your letter. I can probably give you satisfactory answers.I am pleased and delighted that you retained so much of my course; our conversation will probably rekindle your memory even further. If tomorrow does not produce a meeting, I shall suggest alternatives the week after. Cordially yours, Guy Stern

My theory is that the combination of my poor work ethic, by dad's catholic upbringing and its guilt tripping insistence of symbolic perfection, coupled with all the ridicule from moving around and reestablishing myself in the pecking orders I was thrown into by my nomad Mom ( which a cant thank her enough for doing..), have honed my inner voice to such a razor of self destructive shame generation that I might not even go. But this one is personal. Its like my showdown with the devil that I know is there and is echoed through Guy and is the presence of Hitler.
Its not a comic book to me, it never was, nor was it a fascination after I started to put two and two together as a kid when I found out that Detroit was the Arsenal of Democracy.

But that was all material. Trucks, Tanks, Planes.

This is intellectual. This is human.

The other stuff would be, as Clive Bell wouldve put it, without significant form.

Who the hell were, are, these people?!! What did they think? How did they take the step to the guns?

2007-07-09T23:37:00.000-04:00

for some reason bspot wont let me title this. Its a letter requesting an interview of Prof. Stern by myself and some idea about what I would ask him...

Prof S.,
As a complete and utter foil to the darkness of those times they had to find a Guy Stern to have playing fussball in the barracks in a movie about where they used to teach kids how to soldier. There's so many questions to ask about all that that didnt get to make it into the film. I want to do another interview just for my records and so that I can put it down for history.
History that changes every day and changes its self too.
What really gets to me and I think would make a big difference to people that care to know about that time are two questions.

I ask these knowing that for many people that lived through those times, or any other involving bloodshed, that when its over the biggest questions that everyone was wondering about are usually answered with "who cares?". I heard that somewhere that after WW2 that was the feeling and memories werent so much faded but put into a perspective that maybe out of respect for the fallen coupled with the fatigue after such a struggle, out them aside.

That's where I have to barge in and risk looking the pushy novice to the old timers and try and get them to, if not justify or explain their thinking about that time, but at least try nd get them to lay it all out. With you at least for shits and giggles because I know you would probably undestand and not blow me off for either personal reasons or out of disdain.

A bit of a sidenote: my stepfather who is a lifelong Detroiter and African-American fought with the 10th (Mountain) in the Pusan Perimeter and then all through the Korean War. As I have grown up and after I served myself in the Infantry I have not so much learned how to ask but more how to put his point of view and experiences in perspective and gained even more of an insight into what all that was about.
Having grown up as a poor kid in the black bottom of Detroit and then enlisting to get out of working in a plant in Hamtramck just to be sent thousands of miles serve in a unit that was denigrated as having run under fire while fighting before Gen.MacArthur
pulled of Inchon and saved his bacon, I can see how me mightve been reluctant to "open up," as they say.

I have two friends that have father's from the Detroit area that were Jewish kids around the times of WW2. One was Art Silverman who was a submariner and ended up as the commander of Customs here in Detroit. When we were in high school, his son and I used to drive a VW bug over to the Canadian side and fill it with Canadian beer cases and then drive all the way back to the burbs and sell it to the rich kids in Birmingham so we could drink for free. I had lived overseas so borders didnt scare me and his dad ran the place so how could we lose? The other kid's dad is Eugene Shuster who was somehow involved with art that was either stolen during the war and then sold to him or he intercepted it while over there somehow, but it was never quite revealed to me why Interpol was after him.
Mr Shuster is about the smartest and more annoying person I've ever worked for and I drove a truck full of art to Boston with his son to do a big auction to sell off the art from a gallery he was closing. It was the original gallery that displayed and sold Erte' bronzes.
The two of them started my interest in what it was like and how people thought about the War; being Jewish-American; whether they felt any loyalty personally to the Jews of Europe; what it was like to get drafted instead of pick their branch or MOS. Basically just how it all went down for them and how they felt about it then.

My questions, and I dont even know if I have decided how to word them correctly yet. are:

Judging from your reaction of such personal sadness upon returning to the ruined Hildesheim that was shown in the film, do you see yourself as a German kid?

I ask this because so many Americans I know and I include myself have always wondered why Jews that just survived the war, let alone had a heroic hand in winning it (my words.) would have anything to do with Germany anything after not just being shot at as an American soldier but as part of a people that had been so unjustly singled out and destroyed? Let alone then becoming an esteemed academic of its culture for the rest of their lives?!!

I can think of a few reasons on my own but I dont think they are complete. One would be that you dont think of the period when the NSDAP controlled Germany as the true face of Germany and have spent your life proving that by bringing to life the other Germany that you as a kid identified with and that your defy the legacy of the fascists that is to subtley seperate the Jewish from the German.
It might not even be that big of a deal to you and you were just going with the flow and you liked the stuff despite all the times and german literature was the lense that you grew up looking at the world through so you went with it and the pay was good and there were all those hot chicks etc., which is completely acceptable;)!

What was it about growing up in D-land as a kid that made you still want to be associated with a place that was so cruel, other than that it was just HOME and that's how it is for Jewish people all over? I dont know if I could handle something like all that and its either a testament to the magnanimity of you or people of those times or a statement about the triumph of the human spirit over people messing with you.

Having lived on an Army base overseas and then finding out years later that basebrats are all over the internet getting in contact with each about their unique childhoods I learned that they are called "third cultured" because they arent really American at home in the states but always feel a little strange until they meet up with other brats.
What does that make you? "Fourth cultured"?

How did that all work in your head?!!

My next question is just as messed up, but it interested me too. In Christian teaching it is said that one hand shouldnt watch the other when your doing God's work. For all I know it probably says it on page two of the Talmud too but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
When I sat in your class learning about Schiller and the Counter Reformation with all its Baroque (thought I'd forgotten, didnt ya?) it never occured to me to ever ask: "Hey Doc, were you ever, like, in D-Day or anything?" or maybe "So why did you risk your ass when you couldve just sat it out over here with the beer?"
Had I known that you were an IPW and worked MI from the beach to Berlin I wouldve
stopped everything to find out more about all of that.

Dont you think you couldve worked it in just a little?

I had an engineering instructor that fought through Italy with Gen. Mark Clark and without getting too high on his horse used his experiences to motivate us with words about how he got through it and what it meant to him to have made the move to get involved. I guess what Im saying is that the other side of the coin in that argument is that people are so disconnected from history and the inundation of media cheapens and disintegrates the things that happened before that were so real and not fake crap and hype. I think its sad that we get all hung up in this life with meaningless stuff that we forget to remember the times when we wouldve died for all that meaningless stuff instead the true horror of reality that is war. I guess that's what being a human is all about and even people that do great stuff have to move on and deal somehow. I wish there was some kind of way to leave some breadcrumbs to the past at the same time though.

I could include some Santayana stuff about repeating mistakes etc., but to me it just sucks that so much of the "person-to-person", "make history real" opportunites for people today are ignored or not even considered. That's what I'm talking about, not just "So, got any War Stories?"

This is all just to intensify my expression of gratitude and astonishment at your and your generation's lives. That's not to say that the kids over there right now fighting and winning freedom for a people that not too many peope even care about arent doing the same damned thing American grunts and MI havent done before. Some gave all and all gave some and I'd like to hear or read what you have to say about all this so that I can get it into as many heads as I can. When you gonna be around the office? I can cruise by anytime in the afternoon as my shift starts at 6PM.

Prosit!
P2

Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:25:18 -0400From: ad5422@gmail.comTo: luckent47@hotmail.comSubject: Re: a note to prof guy sternDear Thad Lucken,Communications like yours throw a rosy ray upon the fifty years of teaching that I put behind me when I retired about 3 1/2 years ago. Thank you so much for your kind words. The Riticie Boys, the chronicle of the three most exciting years in my life, seemed to accompany me (or vice versa these last two years.) The film is being shown at numerous Film Festivals and even had performances at the Amerika Haus in Munich and at the Israeli Film Festival in Jerusalem where it won first prize as a documentary. It missed by a whisker to get into the final round for an Oscar about two years ago. Several of us still rambunctious octogenarians are frequently invited to be commentators during showings. Your write with so much enthusiasm of your encounters with some of the leaders of battles of World War II. I have also found such encounters, for example during Veterans reunions, very rewarding. I am almost beginning to believe that we were, in the words of Tom Brokaw, a special generation. Again it was such a pleasure to hear from you. As it happens, my colleagues and the administration at WSU allowed me to keep my office; I frequently am sitting at my old spot should you be in Detroit, please look me up. Cordially yours, Guy Stern
On 7/1/07, thad lucken <luckent47@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Prof Stern,Es freut mich an sich kennen zu lernen. I had you for a german studies class back in 1991 and enjoyed your class immensely even though you gave me a B- ( I know, I earned it..;)), but I was watching my tube the other night and I watched " the Ritcie Boys" all the way through with this strange feeling that there was something about your face that was very strange. Then in the end of the show they mentioned that you were from WSU and it hit me!! I earned some credits off you!! Had I know that you were involved in the liberation of Europe in such an important role I wouldve taken the hit on one of my grades to stop my speech and pay my respects to you as one of Michigan's greatest citizens and one of the most important people I had ever met. Thank you very much for doing that tv show and for taking the time to finally get the word out about what you and your unit did. You couldve hid in the states and sat the war out but you didn't. That shouldn't go unrecognized. I have a friend that is the nephew of the late Col. Matt Urban of Holland Michigan that earned the CMOH fighting with the Ninth Infantry (2bn/60InfReg) and I got to go fishing with Col. Urban and spend some time with him before he passed. He was seriously wounded but went awol from an english hospital then hitchhiked back across the channel to return to his unit where he then earned his Medal of Honor. I thought that he was the only person that I was ever going to meet from that generation on a personal level. It was because of a conversation that I had with the Colonel that I myself enlisted in the Infantry and served interestingly enough in the 9ID . After I was discharged I went to WSU and your class. I lived in Heidelberg from 1976-79 when my parents both worked at hqusareur and have been a student of German culture (not just WW2) ever since, even if only as a hobby.You added greatly to my understanding of German culture and kept me interested in it enough so that I kept it up to this day. When I finally went to visit some friends down in StLouis that were basebrats with me in Hberg I told them that one of my GermanStudiesProfs in college had worked as a waiter in a tux across the street from his college and went to school as the best dressed student in his class. Little did I know about the rest of the story... Thanks again and enjoy your retirement!! Thad Lucken

Prof Guy Stern : Ritchie Boy and someone you should know..

2007-07-01T02:39:00.000-04:00

So there I was watching the tube the other day and on the military channel there came a show called "the Ritchie Boys" which was all about german and french nationals that rallied to the stars and stripes to fight nazis in Germany.
There was one of the agents that couldve just hid in the states but instead chose to fight for freedom.
I watched the show and something about this agent that ended up an intelligence interrogator that play acted being a russian liason officer that was going to take germans east if they didnt help the american that was really his partner in the ruse.
This guy helped free me and thousands of others and it turns out that he was once one of my German Studies professors at Wayne State !!!!
I KNEW there was something about his face...
I have gone fishing with Col. Matt Urban ("the Ghost") from Holland, Michigan who earned more medals than Audie Murphy in total-though SgtMurphy didnt have to wait until Jimmy Carter was president to get his.
Up until then I thought that Col Urban (earned his bird at 26!!-2bn/60th 9ID) was going to be the greatest Michigander that I had ever met. He still is but Prof Stern is pretty close.
This guy (ha!) never ever mentioned anything about his "involvement" and probably doesnt want anyone to know for some reason. (Probably because in the leftist climate of wayne state, sadly, no one would care..)
I recommend that if you ever get a chance to see the show on the Military Channel go out of your way to see it.
It just goes to show that one never knows just how close to greatness one can get just going about one's business.

crimestoppers and chinese bs crackdown

2007-06-25T14:16:00.000-04:00

so i was sitting in cab last rocktober decompressing after a long night and i noticed one kid it another on the street. I usually wouldnt care about something like a fratboy fight, but the tale of the tape was such that i had to intervene on behalf of the hittee.
the perp then went back into the pizza house and acted like it was all a big laugh.
when I told him that he needed to stick around he went rabbit and i had to chase him down a few blocks but I got him to run into a box canyon (construction site) and he ended up in the dogpound.

now he's fighting the case and i'm going to testify against him for the kid that got his face ripped open for standing near a pizza joint.
my guess is that the def was either roid raging of very very vain, probably both.

then there's this:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070625034359.p7nae5re&show_article=1

it seems that the chicoms dont like all this youtube checking up on their goons so they are going after the posters with help from somewhere. can you say g-o-o-g-l-e..
on one hand I can see how they would help the enemy. on the other they might have their tongues tied knowing that in the end they are undermining the cent comms grip and playing the game chinese style with smoke and mirrors and lotsa lying smiles.
with all that money at stake and freedom (what's that?) a tertiary issue to the pinkos from irvine, it wouldnt surprise me if they were doing whatever they could to help the slave army against the peasants, but its a good question.

Free china, with 8 gals or more..

this is opening a mile from my house..

2007-06-21T00:01:00.000-04:00

http://switchboard.real.com/player/email.html?PV=6.0.12&&title=Detroit%20Riverfront%20Conservancy%20%2D%20Vision&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.detroitriverfront.org%2Fimg%5Fcontent%2FDRC%2Fvideo%2FDetroit%2520River%2520Front2.wmv

you might need a realplayer to watch it.
they are going to finish the last bit soon enough and make it a course from the joe to belle isle and back.
i'm pretty stoked and will be hitting it on my bike this weekend.

this is how far we have progressed in America 2007

2007-06-19T15:31:00.000-04:00

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/061807/met_178250725.shtml

village greeen probably knows that if they didnt fire him they would get a letter from the aquanetta chick suing them for letting him have a gun.

A GUN!!!!!!!!!! A GUN!!!!!!!!!

jeff said that you get the gubmint you deserve and i disagreed (past tense?) because i thought about all the poor saps that get caught in dipshit societies (russia, china) and slaughtered.
but take a good look at this and think of all the assholes cashing in on the American Market that think this is perfectly fine and that he should only have been allowed a butterknife and some pee in a cup to throw at the guy that just put more ventilation into his" girlfriend".

when no one steps up to help this guy they will just think thats the S.O.P. and thats that.

p.s.
for all you gun nuts and competents:

he was using a shotgun,
that was a great safety choice.

While it wasnt mentioned wether he had shells loaded in or not, it can be assumed that he wouldve mentioned slugs or sabots. so...

if he did in fact have bird or any shell with pellets that that wouldnt travel through drywall, he should be commended for his safest weapon choice.
He mightve considered beforehand that if he were to have to defend himself and engage targets indoors, his weapon wouldnt be recklessly endangering neighboring units and neighbors, or anyone behind dry-wall (which would stop the pellets but not a bullet like her "boyfriend" was wielding).

they have huge ceremonies for kids saved by their dog (which is still cool.) but when it gets close to allowing people the freedom God created them with, they get all freaky deaky.
There should be a monument in every town dedicated to neighbors that responded for others with their boomsticks.
Socialism is actually sickening...

today's adventure in d town..

2007-06-17T22:14:00.001-04:00

this is where tiger woods created a golf oasis at the end of belle isle opposite the scott fountain.
its a great training area and with its little 3parcourse well worth hitting around on all day before trying to really golf.

http://www.thefirstteemichigan.org/club/scripts/section/section.asp?NS=MC

but getting out there was hilarious. the road you ahve to take goes all around the back of the island where all the thugs is perpetrating and spontaneously creating roadblocks like checkpoints (that I navigated with one hand in my cd case if you know what I mean. .)
the only pork around there that on the fire, and it sucked being stuck in that kind of shit on a nice day.

but after all that mess I had the whole range almost to myself with only one guy that was a chatty cathy and would blab a little but not annoyingly.
about halfway through my bucket there were three huge girls yapping away and I walked over and gotta to shut their traps.

after all that I went over while the sun was going down at 830pm and hit outta sandtrap til some guy gave me a ballgrabber tube and took off.

My breakthrough moment was on the tee when I figgered out that I needed to eliminate alot of my backswing and keep my brooming under control, then it stays straight.
I got my wedgie out and hit up pretty well but want to get three buckets next time and do woods then irons then hitting up.

that and all the benchpressing should make me worth playing with this summer..

My letter to Google in Ann Arbor.

2007-06-16T17:39:00.000-04:00

First, open a new window and play this, remember to reopen back here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QpI3wVvek&mode=related&search=

I talk to many recent grads from UofM and one in particular worked for Microsoft after leaving a2.
We got to talking about setting up hardware in taxis to exploit the coming free wireless in the city. He went back off to Wa and emailed me a while back but nothing else.
My idea was to jump on the trend in hiphop tuner cars with all the little screens. For safety's sake I invented the ceiling screen so youre not exposed to liability for a piece of plastic where there used to be a pad...
Now Big Google is holding down Liberty and Division in some stronghold of die ubergeeken. They should jump right in where ms wasnt anyway and set us up in our crown vics with search screens for all the local biznass a have them pay for it while gookle grabs their cut for setting it all up in the ethernet.
the money chain is so obvious that its sick; they come to the hotel with all their money, they ride into town with it and will be more likely to spend it where they know whats going down.
after you take a minute to quit hating and get to speed we need to go a step further and have live webcasts available of the inside of the clubs.
Parking and entering instructions based on congestion avoidance could be displayed.
male to female ratios?!!!!!!
ok ok, but you asked for genius.

it could also help bring on the soft screen revolution where pcs screens arent hard but are part of the fabric. you see round objects on a flat screen, earthling. why?
imagine a program that knows its own shape and advertise along with the signifigance of the form it's on etc.

so its all about the ineffeciency of the cab, travellers,local biz status quo. by installing wireless interfaces for the customers in my taxi the money now wasted by the local businesses could be recouped.
the questions the fares have are leads worth money, the time they sit staring out the window wondering where the hail to go to in this town ( a library with a bar in it..) could be the sutter mill.

where is the edison spirit? why was everyone so weird to me about my cab idea...

How to have fun in Michigan...

2007-06-12T23:45:00.000-04:00

had a range day with the other sister's kid. My nephew can hit them thar targets and he definitely inherited the leatherstocking gene.

he says he bought this one to cure his flinch. now he really flinches.

he thinks this one saw stalingrad (massengrab ;O) I bet it was in some shitski nevertheless. Fires BAR size commie bullets made of steel. the lands are hit but it laid one off hand right into that tv on the second shot at at least 250M.

nuthin' like burning some powder up in the sticks of freedomland. especially cheap ass commie ammo. Some Schneewitchen probably nailed nazis with it.

Our statue that shouldve been built ages ago!!

2007-06-12T14:45:00.000-04:00

http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20070611-114232-2212r_page2.htm

I think this is just amazingly cool. Of course you'll not see a fucking word about it in the idiot press, which is not biased at all..

I want a tshirt of it so I can piss them ALLL off!

gotta pay bills, more later-P2

i have fallen in love again..

2007-05-31T18:29:00.000-04:00

with this beauty...

I can hear Roxy Music playing "Street Life" somewhere.

If cars could talk.

Sgt "Bip" Ford and remembering the fallen..

2007-05-29T16:47:00.000-04:00

I remembered a friend yesterday.
We had a beer together back behind the house at the bbq yesterday.
In the midst of all my hipster friends that hate Bush, think its all America's fault and havent lifted a finger for anyone but themselves, we had a moment.
His name was Bip Ford and he went to basic and AIT with me and then got sent to defend Berlin against the largest most potent tyranny the world has ever seen.
The cowards murdered him with a bomb while he was dancing at a Berlin disco.
We were never sent into harm's way, we never got to wear the C.I.B., never did any of that stuff.
We served in the beginning of the Reagan Army that was just getting out from under Carter's idiocy. It was the best that we could do, but it never seemed like it was enough compared to the Vietnam soldiers or the current gulf liberators.
Bip gave enough, though. I remember you Sgt. Ford.
All the Way!!!

GOING TO THE GAME!!

2007-05-18T15:30:00.000-04:00

This is the Stasi Headquarters, no, its the local courthouse, but it sure does remind me of the road to Alexanderplatz where I saw the Stasi HQ back in 95 before they tore it down.

Its just a stones throw to the game from my house so we're hoofing it to see the Tigers beat up on the Cardinals, who they end up Sweeping 3-0 over the weekend series.

Too bad they couldnt pull this off last winter in the World Series..

I did get to see my man Nate Robertson pitch a great game,he usually gets hammered. After jumping out to an early lead, the enemy started to come on late. In truly demoralizing fashion, Jonesy came in and got them off the field before they could do any damage.

My nephews came down came down with my brother for my birthday game.

Standing Room Only tickets for a sold out game were only 15 bucks.

I paid more for beer than for the seat, as it should be!!

Its great to be free! God Bless America and the American League.

so where do I cop this stuff? zzzzzzzzzzzz..

2007-05-17T01:13:00.000-04:00

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htinf/articles/20070104.aspx

take a pill, take a nap for an hour, kill for awhile, take a pill, take a nap for awhile, kill some more jihadi assholes, take a pill...

man, these kids and all the new stuff they get to play with! sheesh

So, like I was askin'... Is Russia having a party or what?

2007-05-16T23:27:00.000-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2081438,00.html

the cyberbear is o the prowl, wooooeeee!

theyre going after Estonia to prove that they shouldnt be messed with. Do you hear that Livonia!!
Oh, wait, you already got dissappeared.

I may never dawn on the Russkis that half of us think they are sonsabitches.

this is what you get for six million large..

2007-05-16T14:21:00.000-04:00

http://img64.exs.cx/img64/4066/72-Michelle_Ryan-Jan.jpg

first she's bwitish, then she's not blond, and she's slow in the forty...

pretty expensive too, call deniro and see if he's off le probation.

living in ancient times circa 2007

2007-05-15T17:33:00.000-04:00

today got my horns up...

went to pay a bill and was told I couldnt use my debit card over the phone. in 2007..

what the hail is up with that?!!

then it started raining so I couldnt move my bike. tick tick

then my email crap wont send a movie.

and on top of all that my camera didnt keep any of the pictures I took yesterday.

I am just a caveman, your computers, they scare me...

anyhoo, this is a snap of negative approach guitarist harold (space diaper) richardson's strat.

can you find the modification?!!

yes, thats right, he stuck a les paul pick up in there to get the true sound of N.A.

betcha didnt catch that shit did ya?

P2, on point.

how I spent my winter in 2007

2007-05-13T23:40:00.000-04:00

GET OUT OF THE DAMNED WAY IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!

not one to whine about the weather, I did the next best thing and got in the explorerer with my brother walt and drove out to Colorado for the skilaufen, jah.

We drove straight thru the blizzards and bald eagles out to Keystone where the Desautels brothers (minus Gene the blacksheep, baaaah.) and commenced to get mountain sickness due to my advancing age and decrepititude. Man, was I hit, but it still didnt stop me from getting up to 12,600 with all the other snowspazz's.

Note to self: never get off the freeway in the mountains!!

how do remember them? should we? the great patriotic war.

2007-05-10T09:41:00.000-04:00

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5642323
in case you havent been properly informed by your media, the Russians are commemorating their win over who got to enslave Europe and they are mad at everybody because they dont want to sing along.
I can understand the Russian dog-face being pissed that they dont get their props after they died the most and that they were screwed anyway and still "won" with their lives and fascism destroyed as a threat to their national homeland.
Its just that in our eyes, they pointed their wealpons in the wrong direction and according to our culture they shouldve taken down their leaders and allowed the countries near them that werent involved in the nazi plan to be free and self determining about their form of government.

The fact that Russians arent mentioning any of this is glaring and the real question ortopic that should be addressed so that those that were protecting their homeland from not just the fascists but also from tyranny within it could have their sacrifices rolled into the fabric of Russia's history as it finally moves to freedom. But instead it has subverted by another Russian with an inferiority complex trying to salvage an unreality.

two more Russian tidbits:
they have returned the "hammer and sickle" to one of their flags.
they are second only to saudi arabia in oil deliveries.

India and China use their cheap labor to modernize Asian Continent with Russian Oil. But Russia can't compete industrially because all they can build is warfare and prisons.
Who will cash in on a billion Chinese that want to be Eminem?

lets go kick it in iraq!!

2007-04-23T23:48:00.000-04:00

check this out
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i dont know how to put a picture in so I'm going to play the soccer-P2

commies hate on roxy..what else is evil that i like?!!

2007-04-15T04:25:00.000-04:00

never hear his stuff at the people's temple..
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2449976.ece

well i think, well i think, well i think liberals should all hang themselves.

not to happy about the bees dying from cellphones. wtf over?

watching mainz against schalke right now, saw the Stooges this weekend the ig was great. couldnt [play the raw power stuff but it was still touchin to see him play to the homecrowd again]

pray for Lou and for peace.)P2

schalke loses and everybody else too..

2007-04-03T00:08:00.000-04:00

today sucked and it was beautiful out so it sucked even more...
the tigers opened up at home with a loss folding up like a lawnchair in extras but i think they might play some more games this year so I'm looking forward to that.
I got into an argument with a friend the other day and I'm still pissed. I think he did me a favor because I'm so sick and tired of all these people and their stupid ass put downs and condescension. I guess these days that if you dont immediately put someone in their place they take it as a sign of weakness and an invitation to be an asshole. not no more said the P2.
you can only control yourself and waiting for others to get it will cost you your future.
i need to remember that more.

ohio state lost and I was actually rooting for them.

the idiots in dc are running us off a cliff but no one cares because they want to think W is nixon and that AQ is the NVA.
surrrrprise!!!!!

the english are pissed (pun!) that muslims are taking over a church in the hinterlands. they werent pissed at all when the communists stole their country, but the communists were at least the same colour, right? they hate their men, they all want to be poodle posh and when some guy climbs out of pakistan and after looking around, realises that he doesnt want to be a gayboy diver and they freak out. I think the muzzies should at least have to give man lessons to the blairyfairys.
note to britain, it was over loooong ago. Maggie was your last chance.
but your "wife" looks great so what diff does it make.

I like oliver kahn of bayernmunchen. not only does he know how to play the game, he also knows how to throw punks around that land on him. nice to see a real keeper.

i have some money, I have some health, I have a car. whats to bitch about?

make a list, its easier...

W is on to us..

2007-03-28T22:49:00.000-04:00

expecting sov cyber attack anytime now..

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O5D1KG2&show_article=1

i'm a niche.

the truth is a niche.

niche...

spring post

2007-03-26T07:53:00.000-04:00

its days away now. opening day 2007!!
supposed to be 75 and rainy today.

perfect.

this week will be interesting as the British will be responding to the animals for stealing their sailors. I wonder which one they will do: the mayaguez? the pueblo? there has to be someone making hte decision right now about what they will do about all this. I think something is about to go boom.

I have nothing to report in the entertainment sector except that harold (harrock) is now a superrock star and he plays in any 80's hardcore band you need. right now he is in easy action, NA, the meatmen and something he does with this tall chick from toronto but they only record in bathroom?
he has to learn the tesco show from scratch. such the harold.

I have been lookin at bikes again. I want to make a cafe honda 750 and make my back ache.

good luck and wish me some too.

i wrote a letter to saul..

2007-03-15T09:47:00.000-04:00

michigan has a republican party, really!!

you wouldnt know it because it is controlled by hermits and preps from bham that stuff the party up their asses and play a game that I call "losing".
there has been a revolution going on in the blogosphere for years now but the gop.gop cant figure out how to get out of the milliken years. I'm pissed and they deserve it. they need a fanzine, they need to get back to real and attack the libs right where they are the most vulnerable, socially.
not by having some rich bitch party with box chardonnay and white pants but by getting down in the trenches and showing people what they need to do a-z.
no expectations, no overbearing dorks from the back pages of hour magazine but michigan republicans that know how to live and dont need a canadian from harvard to ruin their state while the drunk driving prosecutors yap about teaching kids chinese!!!

sheesh!

how about a post outlining just why pfizer REALLY left michigan ( they arent stupid and know that jenny is lifting the ban on lawsuits. how many actual years have the drugs "bigpharma' has innovated added to lives of the ingrate fat ass micheal moores of this state? wheres the gratitude, wheres the voice of reality and proportion with a sense of history and not just drive by idiocy of the socialist idiotrix that slipped over the border?!!

go right at the volvograd that is detroit and publicize how the citay pimps the poor and lets them live like sadr city just to line the pockets of the unions.
show a-z how they are killing the poor and enslaving another generation of ghetto kids while the thug in chief goes truckin'.

lay it right out there, its not a black and white thing, its a sin thing.

this state used to invent things and bring things to the world that helped people get along easier and smarter. now nothing it touches improves a damn thing.
what, we have viagra to cheer about?

show the irish economy and how it takes $1.46 to make a dollar in michigan while the microsofts get to keep their whole buck just because a lawyer can safely file some papers in their country without some hack communist stealing it. michigan republicans are straight up poodles sissies, theyre more metro than edwards and they think that they were gonna win with Amway?!!
Are you kidding me!!!!

The emperor is naked and he knows it, he wont blog with a comments section.

work and the social aspect..

2007-03-14T15:36:00.000-04:00

I am not sure if this is covered in economics or where but it has been coming up big time in my affairs lately.
and at the end if you think that it can all be explained with some tried and true truism that no one really believes or actually does anything on, youre an idiot and you deserve a slap in the head.

first off I want to continue on the theme that I started earlier about what to do. I dont do this to judge people or tell them what they should all do, its more a matter of getting myself to do it and not feel like I have fallen off the face of the earth. I know that most people would react to that statement by saying "man up" etc but theyre full of shit if they cant see what I mean.

In most of the relationships I have had the 800 pound gorilla in the room has been that I lay myself out for other's and then dont get anything back in the way of support when I need it. Sure, if you want to get high or wasted or stand in front of a blaring Marshall I'm right there for ya, but if you want to start a group of mutually supportive business minded conservatives: forget it..

I had this awesome apt over by the college, I owed some rent but was fixing the place up day after day with no help. Then I got a "girlfriend" that was "afraid" of drywall dust, or anything functional from the aspect of actually saving money and moving towards buying an asset so our money could work for us. Instead, like the idiot I WAS, I moved out of my apt and into a three bedroom condo that cost $1500 a month. If I so much as raised a single query about the ineffectiveness of such a move, I was manipulated and guilt tripped for days. I guess I just dont put my feet where my mouth is, but my whole life its been like this with the extortion for stupidities sake shit.
Next, I want to get out of the rut of spending all my off time worrying about what the latest person that couldnt give a shit about what I actually think is out there doing, while my shit flaps.
So I asked for some help staying focussed and motivated, I guess I asked the wrong way...
Then I heard Savage (who owns foour houses and a boat..) tell someone that he "didnt know what to tell them" when it came to stopping the leftists.
That froze me because it was amazing that we have been so immasculated and nullified by this mob of slobs. The conservative's conflicted nature of wanting to fit in while also fixing the future stops us in our tracks. It reminds me of when I was a punk rocker in a school of preps and burnouts...
It took individual effort to get to the shows, find the bands, start the fanzines, put on our own parties with our own stuff etc and now I'm a blogger doing the same damned thing.
Of course everyone thinks that punk rock was a marxist movement now because all the preps have abandoned us just like michelle malkin threw ann coulter under the bus.
twit.

It takes gumption and morale to step out and do the right thing like start a business, start a blog, put a personal up on the web, pay off all your debts etc and the leftists and corporate slobs are all over that shit. Look at how many franchises there are out there that back all their owners with stuff that would cost them thousands extra to go find. But what do we do with our movement?
We get a triangulating mouth like savage to finally get to deadly silence when faced with the question.

Number one thing to do:
Ask the question "how is your morale, do you need a boost to get something started?"
It might be the smallest thing but it only seems that way because a conservative or capitalist has probably been peeling back layers of bs all day and now that they are ready to move they can balk. It happens, believe me.

Next thing to ask:
"Can you lay out the vision?" because what this does is lets the conservative have someone other than the mouse in his pocket hear what has been rolling around in their head and hearing it out loud starts the ball rolling.

Next thing to ask:
"Do you want me to check on wether or not youve done it?"
This is very important as it is a check from an ally not an enemy, it also shows that the person is willing to live be an inferred code of conduct and isnt wasting other people's time and values the synergy being offered.

Now to "work": For awhile now I have been either/or about work when I knew all along it was an "it depends". That conflict arose from my catholic father that believed that everything was a penance and that because the catholics were his first friends so they were above ANY question. I think he probably ruined work for me as I hate the shit and think its a joke. Not really, but I have a reaction to the subject that is disproportionate because deep down thats where the anti synergy gene first revealed itself. Instead of being cool and listening he was a dick that boiled it all down to "youre lazy".
All the while ignoring the code of conduct and going broke with two college degrees.
Well Charlotte, its not all 'work' and the code is what matters more than how much you can carry.
My mind is my strongest muscle and backed by my blood given right to thrive in a free market I should be able to spend my way to profit if I can get the right crew together and make payroll. Its that simple, but if the original code is perverted you can forget about it.
So many people I know and love play the manipulation game of "work". They plug along hating their job but when they get off they just rot instead of get that time to work for them. And watch out if you mention that glaring and obvious fact to them.
I'm not saying that I think people should be ON all the time, I'm saying that if youre really friends you should have an "it depends" setting so that you can synergize instead of rot.
No one can make it on their own without turning into a freak. Taking the time to break down the system into parts and have someone that is getting the work and someone that does it is the way things happen. In that way, I dont care about the work. Its not my problem. I want to find the vision and provide the plan and have other people that would otherwise be idle starting off.
I guess I'm just trippin'.

So next time you want to talk about work ,and I tell you to shut up, this is why.
It depends on what you mean by work, dork.

Now that its not ten degrees outside I m going to park my cab and set up some units. Then I'll worry about opinions. If my blog is my only friend that gives a shit about actually doing something then so be it.

i feel like i'm from another planet..

2007-03-13T16:25:00.000-04:00

read this whole thing from Mike Yon
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/ernie-is-dead.htm#comment-16756

if you have ever wondered what its like to be in the military I think tis article boils it down.
i remember sitting on my bunk at Benning with a letter from a friend of my dad's that this friend sent to cheer me up. it basically said 'dont be amazed that no one gives a shit about you, you may as well be dead once you leave for the service.."
Of all the things I wish someone wouldve told me about I wish they wouldve told me about all that. Its not that I think I'm so important but rather that these feelings relate directly to the stopping of the terrorists.
They own the press and the only thing that can push them off the pages is this blob of the war over there, shit, I mean on the other planet.
people have their i-pods, their hip hop, their crack, their liberal bullshit and every other thing that is ten times as insiduous than before to just make it all go away. But the water doesnt care and it will be coming in the back door soon as these "americans" just dont get it that we're falling apart, or rather we're morphing into turds now that the heat is on the pot.

I say this not because I want to be better or fell more elite or in the know. No, I say this because I want to save lives and maintain some sort of meaning to my life. I know I screwed it up back in the day, but I was a kid and peace is hell. You had to be there is all I can say.

I ask myself what I would say if I was MYon. I ask myself what difference it would make if all the slumming richkids I know would just get it for once, but theyre already so rich that they want to be poor. Theyre already so far beyond my station that anything I say wouldnt fit on their calender. I pity the rich idiots just like I did back in Birmingham. So unoriginal, so smarmy, stupid and soulless. So kerry...

What to do about it?
start a business asset where you dont have to worry about what your boss will say if you tell the truth and risk his boat.
start a political party with a platform that includes planks like dissolving "public" schools and union/socialist control of everything.
start an internet radio station that broadcasts to friends.
quit being such a mole hiding under the lawn eating worms.

everything that I used to do when I was a punk rocker that wanted to be a Ranger.

see, you were just too stupid..

2007-03-05T00:39:00.000-05:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR2007030300841_pf.html

seems that all my thinking is turning out to be right on time. I gots to go git me a 32 year old and then we can be all upper crusty.

poverty is not an accident.
and it is sad just how many people have accepted a crappier life just so they can have "their way".
good luck sis, you fallen back a long way..

marxism..what genius.

easy action review @ small's in hamtown 2mar07

2007-03-03T20:14:00.000-05:00

last night's show was a pleasant surprise.
when you know a band and you kinda have an idea how their day to day life goes its can seem like they may be drifting apart, losing interest due to the grind or girlfriends,roommates or other band commitiments getting in the way.
This is what it I was thinking when I went to the show and I thought that after seeing them awhile back that they might just mail this one in and just get paid.
but there's a genius in this band that defies my noodle.

Aside from being a loud band and having deep roots in the street rock heirarchy of motown, they also have their own vein of silver to mine and can change things up and come out with a new sound that no one is after except them.

I dont know of any bands that really sound like them and just like most of Brannon's stuff you have to let it grow on you before you can really catch the nuances. For instance, the length of breaks change, the drum parts get stretched out and then you can see more of what they were thinking when they wrote the song in the first place and it can surprise you that Tony is getting really good and that Matt's even better than you thought.

I know most of that is because they practice in the bathtub but its also because they are craftsman instead of media whores.

I didnt mind that show at all and vodka aside enjoyed myself immensely. EA is a fun band to see, and the crowd was a cross cut of genuinely interested Detroit rockers and a bunch of other folks that get rewarded for hanging with JB and his crew.
Can I make it more obvious that I am proud of these guys?!!

And on top of all that, there really isnt a contrived snobbishness with this band that I find so absolutely MANDATORY with todays bands. No lecture in the middle of the show, no fashion file bs, no PC dipshittedness.
No, electric6 cant hang with these guys. Nope, I just cant pick a band that I like right now more than them and if you know anything about P2 , all the bands I like are the best.
Its kinda like the wommerns I go after, way outta my league, somehow landed but never caged.

I know that most of JB's fans are thinking that EA is a second tier for him now that NA has been resurrected but that's really not holding up anymore.
I have concerns for JB on a personal level because I know around here people will watch you kill yourself without saying a word and I have seen him wrecked at shows and like I was saying at the beginning of all this, I expected a lot less, I'm honest to say, but the word I would use to describe EA after last night was SOLID.
Surprisingly (not by anything they have done, really..) Inspiringly, Solid.

They are my droogies; human, working class, art interested instead decorative.

Someone with talent in cinema should pounce on this band. But alas they are too stupid and probably think that theyre old and over. HA!

If youre from Detroit and you dont know about Easy Action, youre just simply a dork. No, youre not going to just get it with a ten second clip. No, none of your friends are going to go with you. But just like in 80 this is a diamond stuck down in the compressed crap of this whole region if not world that you might have to get your khakis dirty to check out.

Quintan Tarentino should be on the phone for their sound as a backdrop. The republicans should shove "Do It Cuz' I Can!" down the face of all the pc socialists. The soul tune off the record with the keyboards should be in the next ho movie..

You know, all that.

A band that knows nothing about business, is full of shy extroverts, has a strange way of getting things out, but in the end delivers the real thing.

How reassuring.

the new europeans and all that.

2007-03-02T15:01:00.000-05:00

lately I have been reading the writings of a UofM professor that I like (imagine that!!).
hence cf. http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=5cm8m89n8bpb099csz9qn8p6z7nzj8xp

there are many things that I have reacted to in this article but what strikes me as so hilarious is that all men are brothers and europeans and americans even more so. so what could come along divide them so? the EU...
that is FUNNY!!

my own experience with all of this is that I am from what is called a third culture. meaning that after having lived in germany for 4 years as a kid I returned to MI to never really feel completely blue and maize. there is still alot of me that remembers living over there fondly and all the adventure of it all. which brings me to my point: all of this is so absolutely luddite in that it just strips away all the adventure of life and is like handing all the answers out before a test. you know that you have "passed" but you also know that you cheated and didnt get the knowledge from the experience of studying and struggling to learn what was going on for yourself. You get a fake degree and you have to live another's answers.
i guess thats how i feel about all the great experiences in my life and also why my nephews couldnt give a damn about anything I tell'em. They probably do but I probably come off as such a prick that they feign ignorance because they just want to make their own mistakes.
not like I ever listened to a damned thing anyone told me..
and I'll never ever feel a bit of remorse for having made any of those "mistakes."

the other thing that has been messing with me is the mistreatment I have been experiencing from my "friends". its a suttle aggression that on the one hand is funny because I never considered myself so formidable, and on the other hand it makes me feel like an idiot for buying love with enabling abusers. Gee, where have i heard that before..I guess its all about forgiveness and remembering that God is my bestest friend and if he can forgive me I can forgive anyone for anything.

the next thing I want to address is my cussing. Its because I'm from detroit and from germany and sheisse is not a bad word. ever read the writings of Luther? try and read some of his german.. its hilarious how much of a fecal freak he was!!

I know that its not very good for building "repoire and credibility" but I'm a punk rocker, yes I am, and while it can at times show a lack of self restraint, it also shows a love of the truth and cutting through the leatherbound layers of our politically corrected discourse.
I also believe that William Francis Buckley was right in demanding the legalization of marijuana and the dismantling of the war on it and removal of it from the list of hard drugs like heroin, cocaine and alcohol.
I consider its ban the biggest hypocrisy in whitey american history.
as the brazilian girls sing: "Pussy,pussy,pussy marijuana!"
So i'm conflicted, who isnt and when your lexus runs into the rear end of a cop car you'll want a copy.

which brings me to a cab driver story about what happened the week before i went to keystone for the schilaufen.
I was driving in A2 and as the bars let out I drove past Live at Pjs where the old rubiyat was on huron and first. a crowd of angry freezing drunks started to move out into the street( I hate that and it instantly dq's you from riding in my crownvic) so I stopped and waited until they had moved towrads me and then sped past them to pick up any couple on a date. I stopped in front of a guy and gal that elegantly dressed opened my door to get in. Right then a drunken ho stuck her head in my front passenger window and demand the cab to which I appropriately replied in my best ebonics "hail, naaw!!". she (it) then began the usual drunken princess litany of expletives ,that some poor bastard is going to have ringing in his ears for eternity should he get clamped, and started getting in. I started to pull away and left her there.
she then called the dispatcher to complain that I was "rude" to her which gave the call taker a laugh. Then she called back in about ten minutes to say that I had "fondled" her.

Now this really pissed me off, because it added that its mother was an atternity and that blue cab could expect a writ of habeus ho'us. the dispatcer called my cell to tell me that he had to write me up so that the owner could have a heads up, which I understand as its a cya for him and the owners. I drove around steamed supremely for awhile then the lawyers son in me snapped into action and I started to drive back to the fares house tha I had let them off at to get them to talk on my cell phone to the dispatcher and have it on record that the fare saw it all and that I was falsely accused. I also needed to get a better idea of the their address for my sheet even though it was a walk up.
so on the way out to briarwood where they live I passed the big house and inevitably was stopped by the light at stadium and main (you'll never make that light dude..).
I then noticed a black BMW stopped in the road with a late twenties white guy waiving at me to pull over so I did to see if I needed to use my radio for help or whatever and seeing as I wasnt loaded I might get a good run out towards saline if it was a breakdown.
It turns out that the guy was a good sam trying to get a drunk yuppie home that had passed out at the light because he was shitty drunk (there it is.).

let me be clear as a bell, I hate drunks like the cops do now, one puked on my neck (thats another story..) and they are worse than any Ypsi crack-and-back (which I dont do either) gangbanger. Its always out of Conors too that I get these pickled jocks and all their narcissism.

I helped the guy get this dickhead out of his death machine and into my cab, then he moved the "learned executive" 's beemer ( another term P2 loathes..) to a legal parking spot and took off. Of course he didnt know where he lived but wouldnt do something as simple as hand me his license and began giving me directions on how to drive my cab. (dont ever fucking do that in a cab, just give them the intersection nearest you house and then simple direction begun or followed by please. Hindis need to learn this more than anyone else and I have scared the shit out of many by turning around and setting them straight on their manner of patronizing discourse.)

As he was too hammered to speak I just took him with me to the fare's house and told him he would have to wait while I handled some other problem another drunk has given me. I found the fare and he talked to the dispatcher and all was well on that front. When I got back into the cab expecting it to be filled with vomit or a dead yuppie he started off telling me what to do in his now awake snottyness too which I replied in my best infantryspeak. Shut up, tell me where you live and get out your money. so he passed out...

I then started driving towards Ypsi on 94 as he at least said that he lived by ford lake. It then struck me that I was again legally exposed to liability or liarability so I called the Ann Arbor police to get a statement on tape (they tape all incoming calls if you didnt know..) that I saved hs sorry ass and legally parked his car along with an unknown other.
this woke him up of course and he then started haranging me about what I could or could not do. I then informed him that at 6'2" and 250 lbs I would pull the cab over and pound him into a snow drift if he didnt shut up and get out his money and address, and that no one tells me what to do in my own effing cab.

By now the meter was a $40 bucks and I was gettin concerned because nothing ever works out straight in Ypsi when it comes to finance ( I was accused of racism just last night for demanding a deposit, actually to just see the money, from a girl that was going from UofM hospital all the way to leforge and huron river drive by EMU's stadium!) and that can really get to and get you fired if the dispatcher hears any whining on the radio because you didnt run the card first or at least guesstimate the fare and get a deposit. but i digest.

So he wakes back up and in our save your face before your ass culture of male vanity (thanks Moms!!) he started in on the "just go left here" shit.
that always means a wrong turn and of we ended up driving all the way around the lake and getting the meter up into the $50's. My Yoda told me to always let them navigate because they always get it wrong and add to the meter.
Another reason to "seek first to understand , then to be understood. Or just put yourself in other's shoes and just give them the address and intersection.

So we finally end up in front a gate to a giant mansion!! and he says that I cant come in, rabble that I am, and runs a credit card without a tip. It works, saving his skull, and then he has the nerve to ask me to punch in the code and drive him up to his palace off the meter.

This is your America folks...

So Christian that I am, I do it and as he FINALLY gets the hell out of my cab I tell him that he needs to get right with the Lord and he replies "I AM right with the Lord!!" To which I reply " I meant the one UP stairs!".

It turns out this guy is a slip and fall lawyer and probably a pillar of Ann Arbor society. I probably saved him and some lawn ornaments if not some undergrad chick trying to drive home unscathed.

So if you ever want to talk down to me about people growing weed in their basement and burning down watching the Wings game, remember my experience and where I am coming from. NEVER drive drunk because on top of endangering others, it proves that youre a vain selfish prick that deserves an ass beating.

Now back to running dog capitalism-P2

Candace Miller another Michigan RINO..

2007-02-18T16:49:00.001-05:00

so we had this secretay of state in michigan back in the day named Mr. Austin. he was a benign old black guy that seemed nice enough to just reelect year after year because we in Mi didnt feel that it was too big a deal to give a brother a break and just move on. besides, what dif did it make in the long run who made the license plates.
well, he was retired and we ended up electing a woman from the eastside of detroit (which includes everything east of flint all the way to lake huron..)
her name was Candace Miller and ti was seen as a victory for the working republican that we could get her in so she could clean up the elections (which she didnt, nother matter.)and make it easier to do things like pay money and buy paper from the crown's minions.
she didnt do that either. Michigan is a welfare state controlled politically by unions and their welfare franchisees. the factory rats that want the spoon to eternally come to them elected yet another perpetual vote buyer and she took the reins and rode her SofS job into congress.Now in a state with the levin brothers( totally worthless suicidal jews from southfield that dont support isreal or the Wo T, now with their spawn in power..), conyers the old horse from animal farm, dingell dangle the kennedy clone from down river, and stabencow the blubbering, we would think that our one republican from plantland would stand up and at least have the eggs to go the extra mile for our votes.

but no, she's all for betraying the troops and the free iraqis.

her excuse? W didnt do it right enough for her...

what a shameless, gutless, opportunistic display of complete stupidity.

this is why people from Michigan dont like the eastsiders. its like they are stuck in the ford era and are driving around in gremlins listening to foghat.

but alas,this is what you get from state controlled schools run by teacher unions for teacher unions. this is what you get from gender politics where the racists wont vote for a white man (oh GOD no!!) but have to settle for a traitor with no neck.

What is she protecting? does she want to stay in power (did I say POWER!!!)
for years, serving us with every last breath? Or does she want to do the job?!!!

I'm sorry but the republicans in michigan are a fucking joke. Saul Anuzis and all the rest of the klan up in Oakland county are a joke. the east side delegation that once saved America by coming out for Reagan are a sick joke of welfare scum worse than any project in Detroit.
They have sold out completely and arent Americans to me anymore. They are agents of the enemy and most of them dont even know it.
They think that they can just drive around in their minivans listening to madonna and britney telling people like me to shut up if we dare counter their stupidity because it might mean "controversy"...

traitors, RINOS, backstabbers,

jokes...

No, I dont give a shit...next

2007-02-14T16:33:00.000-05:00

so I just bouoght the online version of the rat race game from richdad.com

this is what I care about, and all the rest of that shit can get flushed.

it all started with a comment I made to RK about how I couldnt play online and how he was losing so much money not having an online game. He does and I found it and now Its in the mail. interestingly the RK says that now is the time to get into metals and out of equities. He thinks the ball is about to stop rolling.
So many democrats, so much suffering on the way. Sorry, but after getting slammed and ridiculed by all the assholes I have been trying to get on my team to go the other way, I am just not interested in conversions anymore.

Now I must turn on the meter..

bitter hags and the end of the world

2007-02-13T20:18:00.000-05:00

what a wonderful suprise!
A lovely reminder of the bullet that missed....

the day I heard the word that it was over the first thing that came to my mind was that I never ever had to worry about someone killing themselves in the bathroom anymore with a pair of scissors because the windshield wipers didnt go down all the way.

beware what you pray for, you might just get it. whoever thought that googling would end up being something that would leave you so creeped out.

ice station zebra...

2007-02-05T18:52:00.000-05:00

today is a day of inaction when it comes to moving on the suface of the planet so I will move beneath it.

report:
I donated $50 bucks to Dave Horowitz today. In P2 dollars thats about a thousand.
I was going to drive today and put the money towards my plan of getting a bldg but instead I took a shower.
I am being a pud.

I left a comment over at www.iraqthemodel.com about the upcoming ops in bdad and it hit me that there is so much hype about all this that someone needed to step back a bit and see it for what it is. they dont have a chance because we learned a few things in the nam about dealing with these assholes.

lesson number one: if the locals wont help, let them suffer instead of us.
sad but true, the reality of life on earth is that if you want to be a spectator while I'm working I am just going to do enough to keep everybody pissed because in that state they are more likely to figure out that they could stop it all if they just got off their asses. It sucks that so many are being killed there but who is doing the killing?!! is it our fault for not having enough of OUR kids getting killed while these Iraqi fucks are all riding around in BMW's bitching about traffic or their latest version arab idol?

lesson number two: we really dont need that many troops to take care of the counterattack which is really all we care about. the enemy is pissed because we arent tied down in Iraq and if we are we are tied down by strengthening our forces through really good practice. I am reading a book right now about the franco-prussian war and its interesting how the prussians went from being the worst to the best in less than 20 years and it all had to do with how they were organizing the link between the army and the population.
it seems that the monied classes all wanted to win the war but at the same time shit on the soldiers who were their closest rivals for power back home.
now we have two divisions holding down a country it took 20 to take, (ask Gen Haig).
some crisis huh?!!

and lastly I read the article on drudge today about the end of the world being postponed http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

hasnt hit yet here in the D but we're waiting..

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

you knew it was going to happen.

RUDY RUDY RUDY!!!

so what if he's a loon from NY, he didnt crack and that's all we need to know for now.

watch out muzzie, the MAN is back!

news from the front

2007-02-05T04:53:00.000-05:00

duh bears... need i say more.
best commercial was the dog getting into the parade.
worst was couric.

which brings me to my lastest dating experience: I have reached the conclusion that I have to never ever take a liberal city chick out ever again period. I know that she is super hot and that there are things about her that I like, but in the end they are psychos and not worth the hassle. what a bunch of broken people there are in this world.
you could say the nicest things and do them the biggest favor and they would rather have some total and complete scumbag from the gutter toss them around because its so much easier to just be a pig. have at it sis...

this weekend was all about the presss with me. I read over and over about how they are going batshit about the US and its allies winning in Bdad. They havent even begun the ops and its all ready been decided for the enemy.
which to the liberal west means they can still do whatever they want whenever they want and DAD cant stop them so, hee hee, lets get wasted..

and the best part is that the American kids let em.

this week will be all about getting a bldg in detroit so I can rent out studios to bands that I like. fuck it, i'm never going to get off my ass and get a house full of roomates unless I get a biz going first. I am going to be talking to my lawyer tomorrow if my vampiric sleep schedule can handle it. now is the time to jump at the shit though as it is 5 degrees outside.

its so cold here that I have a cardboard box in front of my radiator on my ford.

kills the bugs, keeps the bums off the street, makes for nice sunsets, keeps the ski hills in business... I cant come up with anymore. its on you.

guess we should look up more often.

2007-02-03T06:27:00.000-05:00

time to dust off that rail gun.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2526188&C=asia

i really dont like loral, clintoon or the fucking chinese bastards.

thanks bubba...

introducing the bhales connection

2007-02-03T05:48:00.000-05:00

you see that?!!
That's some high speed shite is it not?
I figgered it out all by lonesome. just dragged and dropped it right into the html.
that along with my ebay biz taking off makes me feel pretty danged 'complished.
watch yer back trump..

not seen on the news anywhere, thanks jimmuh

2007-01-31T17:59:00.000-05:00

this is your future...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070131/D8N08V9G0.html

no one cares, it doesnt matter, i want a check.

nephew has spoken...

2007-01-31T17:21:00.000-05:00

I have been reminded by my nephew that I need to learn how to write if I'm to be taken seriously.

I will hereby endeavor to clean it up..

Today's post will about the speech given at the University of Michigan's Rackham Hall the other day by four former terrorists to the people of the wolverine state.

It seems that all of the media outlets I have encountered couldnt bring themselves to actually report on the body of the speech, but instead remarked at the "controversy" surrounding it. This would be laughable if it were not sad and such a disservice to the people. My information was that the speech was to be a denouncement of the brainwashing that radical islam uses to make killers out of poor people and that it shouldve been hailed by the leftists at UofM for its defense of the underclass against tyranny and manipulation.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2226526&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Instead we were treated to programming written for the sixth grade reading level and never really got any idea what they were actually talking about.

War is Peace, Hate is Love, Knowledge is Ignorance.

more on the carshow, moron on the car show whtvr

2007-01-22T15:25:00.000-05:00

did you catch this?:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/22/070122074327.pbtqfqv6.html

of course this is being slugged as all toyo's doing but if you really tink about it, this is all detroit's doing. they have been building gigantic overpriced trucks for the last of the babyboomers to sink in while the rest of the world is moving on.
there are three USA's included in China and what does every third worlder want? Material posessions that will increase his/her ability to personally control his/her means to production. This is not what every American wants, they want hype and fluff because they have made it already and couldnt care less about things like future customers etc.

If there was one glaring reality on display at the autoshow it was the split between the can affords and cants. Ford was a company built on selling cars that were barely inches away from being farm implements. they were so practical that my grandma Mabel drove one across the USA thrice when she was in her teens. Now you get what? A $600 a month payment for car and insurance that does exactly what for you?

Now I know that there is a tendency to throw me in with those that follow the politics of envy. They are called disgusting marxists and I am exactly NOT one of them. I see the price of American cars as a function of two very important factors, the aging uaw worker that wants anything and everything and is so justified and righteous that they think that they are above any reproach. They then force the managers and owners and originators to pass this cost on to the consumers.

this is not going to work out and the American company that gets out from under this arrangement of the auto planets will be the one that wins and stays in the game. this company is called toyo and who else? I think it wll be Ford as they know how to play the game. The new fords are all german merkurs warmed over and softened to handle the big American asses.

What will this inexpensive car be like? think chevette and festiva. This what Detroit did to the world before. Cafe Credits and other congressional loopholes killed thousands as the cars were so mismatched on the road. but it made everybody happy and got ding dongell reelected. It also pushed Detroits head further under the guillotines blade.

People in China work for $.99 and hour and next year they will make even more. Wether or not they are correct in their envy they have their own money and the aim of the biz is to execute and deliver. Toyo will do this because they arent fat and happy.

Toyo ix going to make a move that will infuriate the competition. There will be baseball bats smashing these cars too. But there is a dark horse that no one is think about. in the past buying an enemy car resulted in wheels but that was it. Tis time around there will be iphone compatability with information being directly integrated into vehicle and thusly into the capitalistic tool box of the buyer.
There wont be a pull over and talk on the phone. the car will be the phone.

The tv phone and laptop will also become the car. Your tv will become a giant cellphone with a laptop in it and the first car that joins that nexus will be worth its weight in platinum.

think of it this way: youre broke, you just lost your job and there's no way that youre ever getting it back. so what do you do. well, if you want to succeed youre going to have to strip down your operation to its bare minimum and remove all the waste, then youre going to have to find a way to deliver a product (yourself) to a new buyer. this will be done over the net and in the real world it will be done in a car/ truck. This is the future of automobiles. there just isnt any room left for all the waste.

Now if youre rich already and you invested your earnings into assets that make you money when youre not working, you can then go by the baddest fastest car ever.

But if youre not, you will need to get a money maker. You will need a tool.

you will need a milwaukee drill. remember all those cordless drills that we invented for the space race? well it took them awhile to get into home depot. now the same thing is happening to cars/trucks. enjoy.

Detroit will either adapt to this or be thrown into the past.

P2's annual autoshow post

2007-01-21T14:36:00.000-05:00

just so you know, detroit is where cars used to some from and every year there is a religious pilgrimage to see what might be next, or all the hype, or the models..

I should note that all the normal people I know think that the NAIAS (as some dickhead brand builder wants you to call it -I'm American, and I call it
THE autoshow..) is depressing.
the cars cost too much
its not for everyman its for suburban dorks
its too hot in there and the city cant anticipate a single need of the show goers
cars have been ripped off and the unions sold us out for the babyboomers so they make most of the worlds Ford Rangers in thailand or some former enemy country.
that is why the autoshow is depressing..

I go for the following reasons:

I already know all that and I know that the leadership of the autoindustry is so out of touch with reality it is fun to see them fall all over each other as the house comes down.
the middle of the freest country in the world is falling out. therefore there will bee a huge disruption in the force and all these backstabbing countries that want to hron in on our freedom without ever lifting a finger to defend it will all lose there ass as the world economy collapses under the weight of all the corrupt "countries" crumble to the national socialist movements that will attack it and try to steal all the money so they can build palaces and yachts.

Is there an affordable VW for the 21st century? If there is it is probably being designed in China and only party members will be able to sell it..

Starting at the door I went left into the Audi exhibit. Everything to the right was GM land and it seemed that they really wanted to go after the whole show. Audi was up in platforms that were really nice and they had racing cars that turn right every once in a while, but who in the crowd watches 24 lemans races sponsored by Cartier or Rolex?!!!
the ghetto pimps and the auto elite are just as disconnected as each other.
they deserve each other..

Remember GM's ad campaign about bsebal, hotdogs, apple pie and cheverolet?!!
now they have sheryl crowfeet the communist singing the praises of international tyranny and a bunch of reall really sexless hillary mobiles and a vette..

The Audis were really really neato but they all cost 50g's or more and they were just stupid deck chairs on the titanic. It was funny though how all the Middle Easterners all flocked over there. Fitting that people from countries where their neighbors get stuffed into holes and the 1 per cent that run things live in palaces.
Funny too how they all love the nazi company's cars?!!
when I was a kid porsche made the 914. sure it wouldnt win off the line against a 350 v8 but they were mid rear race cars that could turn on a dime.

THEY DIDNT COST 60K EITHER!!!

No one is listening..

Then there were the BMW's. I didnt see anything of any real interest there as the German companies all seemed to be doing the same thing as before and who wants to pay $2k a month to IGMETALL if they even know what that is. overpriced hype. where's the technology windfall in my pocket?!!!!!

you either get crap warmed over or you have to sell your house for a car. doom coming.

I ignored the Japanese companies across the way as they have NUTHIN in design that even comes close to not being from the early nineties. That acura silver thing? That was some CCS kid from Rochester's senior project for the last twelve years..

I then walked over to ferrari and they were neato, but this is Detroit Michigan, what the hell so I need to be looking at a bunch of boring ass rich people and their compensators for being dickless. Italians are cool, but they are cool in the carrera a gumball rally across mexico in naturally aspirated cars that you could at least approach. The scag was 500 hp and too expensive anyway.

Now I checked out RollsRoyce and Lambo. Wow. Not.

In the middle of the floor across from the Silver Waste of Money there were some four door pcikups with rural families sitting inside of them looking out of the most practical vehicles in the building. The look on their faces said "shut the door and lets get the hell out of here!!and "boy did they have to make this thing look lamer?"

I then walked over to the new VOLT by GM. there was nothing in the show that really interested me more than this car as it is the future. It could save the entire industries ass if they just try and remember what got them here:
CAPITALISM IS ABOUT BRINGING BETTER PRODUCTS THAT THE CUTOMER WANTS TO MARKET!!!

Service is about anticipating needs and executing.

Note to GM. Dont just make a mini cts out of weightless parts, make a four door 4wd truck that plugs in, make it so that the guy living in the country with his wide screen,voip and banjo can drive into town and back on $4 worth of electricity. DO IT NOW NOT TEN YEARS FROM NOW!!!
The chinese communist party is working on one as we speak, they dont have to wait for the other communists in DC to approve..

The door hinge on the VOLT was the most intriguing design (aesthetics) element I could see at the show but we havent gotten to volvo yet..

I got stuck into the GM land corner which ended with a race car, again, with no film of it racing or now hot women, there was just some asian guy with a dewd accent from cali standing there trying to polish a turd. It was a warmed over sunbird dork mobile that someone had dropped $100k of race development money on. It couldnt been a bathtub and raced well for all that money. disconnect..

Then I went through the un marked portal of blandness and found myself looking at an aston martin that was covered in nasty dust with a burned out old car exec and some airhead sales zombie sitting there. the hood was closed, the doors were locked, why did they even show up? No video , no music. just some car. whatever..

I then went up and checked out the volvos. Now this car company is about as dead as one can get when it comes to design. they are coming out the other end of the hillary chute and even had male models standing around to prove their party membership. the sales department was completely lost in detroit..

note; to sweders,if you have to put the word "man" behind a product, its probably too gay to begin with. "manbag", what happened to all the smart people?!!

I went and sat in an s40 and checked out the door width. If I was going to buy a car, I mean to own t and not a lease meaning that after all the payments I would have a 5 year old car that I could feel good about, it would be one of these for one simple reason. The safety of the passengers is not compromised by the marketing money. they start off with a car that includes all the protections of the race cars that GM and Ford put on their cars they reserve for the racing team and they sell it to you if youre smart enough to buy it. I see so many wrecks driving my cab and I can tell you that volvos are perfect for michigan because after you hit that ICE! and are flying into the trees you dont want to be in a VOLT you want to be in a volvo with doors that are a foot thick.
they are tanky and have a roll but they will let you walk away. sure, other companies have safety but ford bought volvo so they could steal the beam design that goes across under the drivers butt. They arent smart enough to market this, they would rather have manmodels instead of CRASH! video which every one of the autoshow zombies really wants to see (all the rich people cars being SMASHED!!!! THATS THE TICKET!!)
You can show me all the bi turbos, bi curious you want but in the end its about bumper cars and insurance payments. Show me a high school chick from waterford driving a volvo into the rar end of a pick up and walking away..
Sex sells, sex is things smashing together. figure it out dickless wonders.

Then I went to Ford land. I have to say that I just love the way that this company is headed. Sure the new cars suck and they are indistinguishable from the rest of reality, but Ford is trying to reconnect. Not to some fantasy but to the day when you could buy a CAR. The radio was a joke, I could hardly fit in the GT500 but the shifter! those short throws!! This was what they shouldve been making back in the nineties. This was what I was talking about. And guess who was stuck all over these cars? Americans from down the block!! and they should be proud of this car. It has all of the dividend that I am talking about. Its all stuffed in there and modernised and even if you have to pay extra you know that the money is at least going to a state that hasnt bombed us or shot your neighbor's uncle in the face.

After leaving the show I tried to give Kwame a chance and ride the people groover. Unfortunately for me I forgot that Detroit is a third world power and they have no problem making 1000's of people stand around in an airless hallway for a hour just to save a three block walk in freezing weather. Where is the air? Why cant the people's air conditioning union have someone phone the 21st century and send in some A/C?!! Why only have two train cars when you KNOW that hundreds of thousands of people are coming?!!!
laughable if not so tragic.

In short, the show was spectacular if you think about the fact that all these people were riding horses just a hundred years ago. there wasnt one tractor at the show and no steam engines either..
other than that, it was an artless display of arrogant and shallow power. Power of the disconnected elite frmo both management and union. It was a disservice and an indication of just how distracted and vulnerable our society has become. But its all about sales sale sales now and benefits benefits benefits so I wouldnt be surprised if they elected a horse to the consulate.

In short, there were some happenings

things i'm behind on etc

2007-01-15T01:11:00.000-05:00

writing my book about the gys that get stuck in hawaii back when it was forming.
getting my pictures and movies up on my blog
writing more about iraqthemodel and other blogs I should be reading more of
the hilarity of driving all the rich drunk kids around ann arbor
all my buddies' projects and how theyre all getting famist
my need to get health insurance and end all my addictions
how comedy people always get real good then die
the exacting science of the perfect sleep schedule
why i cant get the perfect woman for me while I am still so hot
getting all the front of my truck fixed
selling all my militaria on the net.
getting all of my bitchin inventions built before the chinese steal all my ideas by spying on my cab

you know, all the usual...

wanna see my mooooovie?!!

2006-12-28T16:05:00.000-05:00

see if this works..

ok it dint.

wait around long enough and theyll write it for you..

2006-12-27T08:44:00.000-05:00

back in 1987 so long long ago i took an econ class at my local comm college.
there was this knowitall from wayne state that taught us just how important keynesians were and that classical economics was stupid.
it was all about scarcity.
so i went home insulted because I just KNEW he was full of shit.

well, here is my vindication;
For a long time, economists believed that much of their job was to analyze a world of scarcity, the grim business of harvesting limited resources and distributing too few goods to too many people. And then there was the matter of decreasing returns to additional investment. Such returns were once "a familiar topic in economics," David Warsh tells us in "Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations." After all, "even the richest coal vein plays out."

Decreasing returns and scarcity animated the doomster wing of economics, of which Thomas Malthus was the principal architect. It was he who lamented overpopulation so famously, even ahead of Paul Ehrlich, and predicted bouts of "periodical misery" to adjust human numbers downward, putting them, at least now and then, in equilibrium with the world's limited riches.

Mr. Warsh, a former economics reporter for the Boston Globe, does not intend to mock earlier theories of political economy but to tell the story of their gradual refinement over time--especially as "one system of thought replaces another." He notes, for instance, that anti-Malthusian concepts central to the understanding of modern economic growth--abundance and the notion of "increasing returns"--came to compete with the scarcity school of thought. It is axiomatic to us, not least because of technology's marvelous effects, that "the same amount of work or sacrifice produces an increasing quantity of goods." But it was an idea that required special attention when it was first considered plausible.

The worry at first was that, in theory, increasing returns--where they proved possible--would create monopoly power. In Adam Smith's famous pin factory, division of labor and specialization yielded increasing returns. But why wouldn't the pin factory, or any other enterprise generating increasing returns, increase itself (so to speak) at the expense of every other enterprise of lesser aptitude and slower growth? Monopoly power would then undermine the competition that, in Smith's view, put markets on their virtuous path.

It remained a worry--and a conceptual conundrum--for a long time to come. Fifty years ago, the economist George Stigler framed the problem this way: "Either the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market, and, characteristically, industries are monopolized; or, industries are characteristically competitive." If they are indeed characteristically competitive, then the monopoly-threatening aspect of Adam Smith's view is, as Mr. Stigler noted, either "false or of little significance." Like many modern economists, he sided with the reliably competitive nature of industrial growth, and the fate of modern economies has borne him out.

But what about growth itself--especially the sustained economic growth that we now take for granted (however sluggish it may be at times)? At an informal academic conference in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1988--assembled by Jack Kemp, then a member of the House--the Stanford economist Paul Romer presented a paper that ultimately turned the economic thinking on its ear. In Mr. Romer's work, as Mr. Warsh puts it, "the concept of intellectual property was, if not exactly 'discovered,' then formally characterized for the first time in the context of growth." Mr. Romer saw that knowledge was "both an input and output of production."

Thus instead of land, labor and capital--the traditional inputs of economic theory--it was "people, ideas and things" that mattered, driving technological change and entrepreneurial creativity. "No longer were the advantages of technical superiority to be understood as a case of 'market failure,'" Mr. Warsh writes. "They were part of the rules of the game." Such superiority was by its nature temporary--i.e., nonmonopolistic. New knowledge constantly trumped old, and the law (rightly) gave ideas only limited property-protection.

More and more, economists came to see that it was knowledge that made the difference in modern societies--e.g., in software, drugs, industrial processes, biotechnology and other parts of the economy where the upfront costs were large, the payoffs enormous and the benefits widespread. Economists inevitably turned their attention to the institutions or invisible structures--constitutions, customs, property rights, cultural sentiments (like trust)--that help to generate knowledge and sustain its effects.

In his admirably compelling account of economic thinking over time--from Adam Smith to the present day--Mr. Warsh shows a certain partiality to abstract mathematical theory. He might have given more credit to the thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, the great philosopher of freedom and opponent of central planning; or to historians such as Joel Mokyr, who has chronicled the effects (as the subtitle of one of his books has it) of "technological creativity and economic progress"; or to popularizers such as George Gilder, who has documented (and celebrated) the role of knowledge in economic growth, especially in our computer age.

Mr. Warsh does, though, quote the great British economist Alfred Marshall, who observed as early as 1890 that "knowledge is our most powerful engine of production; it enables us to subdue nature and force her to satisfy our wants." More than a century later, knowledge is still the true wealth of nations.

is that cool or what?!!

more thoughtcrime..

2006-12-14T14:01:00.000-05:00

note to self:
name first son augusto..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20928842-7583,00.html

now lets review.
Pinochet was a bad bad man and all the teitelboims were there to help the little guy.

just like all the venzuelans that will be sacrificed to satan and the party next year when the war starts down there and spikes the oil prices.

buy gold dipshit.-tl

Random thoughts and the Lowly Lions

2006-12-10T13:16:00.000-05:00

Well here we are in dec folks and some things are never going to change.
the Lions are fighting for the best draft pick and hopefully will lose to the Vikes and get us a Quarterback. But, alas, they will probably win and give it to The Raiders.
How funny!! Its not that big a deal as they are so far away from the playoffs its sick, but its just so hilarious to me that they are always this shitty.

I bought my parents the basebrat movie and they loved it. Merry Christmas folks!!

I have been very bored as of late and that must mean that I'm goiing to be busy as all get out soon.

I think that I am going to go get some wood and chop on it. If life has taught me one lesson it is that if you want to get ahead you have to start small enough to ensure quality. that means wood to me. I want to make bird feeders that look like restaurants so kids can laugh and birds can make it through the winter if they are stupid enough to stick around like I am.

Days like this are for getting surprised again by how beautiful the wrld God has made for us really is. sitting out there in the cold with a rifle waiting for Bambi's uncle was just the shock of beauty that I needed after all the dreck of this town. I know its a fantasy but that's fine.

The struggle continues...

my favorite tune by roxy finally shows up..

2006-12-07T03:02:00.001-05:00

dig this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee9vScE0WxE
its an old jazz standard and once when I was working on a tour boat in san diego bay it was on the player piano rolls?!!
this is what I was supposed to be like by now.. HA!

I gotta get going on the blog asap. its getting silly.

I was so bored tonight I almost cried. boo hoo like HWB.
just means something interesting is going to happen.

gave the daedulus speech to the nephew tonite. i could give it to myself a few times. its about how you need to fortify your position more and build in some fat before you go saving the effing world. my nephew has been at school for 6 mos and he's already trying to volunteer for ROTC. I can see his point but he just needs to know that he has to learn to get in touch with himself and know if he's doing stuff as a concious choice or as a reaction and that he needs reinforcement that doesnt come from proving to people that he's so weird etc.

its classic stuff that seems so trite when you talk about it but when you go through it its the hardest thing in the world on you.

Its all part of finding out just how hard things really are if you dont adjust and adapt to reality.

One day I hope I can do that too.

my favorite tune by roxy finally shows up..

2006-12-07T03:02:00.000-05:00

North Hall and today..

2006-12-01T17:22:00.000-05:00

Of an undisclosed purpose I went to North Hall yesterday and met the Army Reserve Officers Training Course commander.
It turned out that he had been stationed across the parking lot at FLW when I was there or a lil after I left.
thousands of thoughts entered my bain as I went there, most glaring was that so much had changed since I left the army and it was surreal to thin about how far things had gone.
I thought that nothing would ever change with the 9th Infantry and boy was I ever wrong.
The next thing that struck me was that the building the AROTC used to find and train the professionals and leaders for our freedom securing forces was a slum. Not only was it a slum, but it reeked of politics and intentional neglect. The parking structures that surround that building are all brand new and the dental school next door engulfs and almost blots out the hq.

I have a long long history with the ROTC building as when I was a little kid I used to go back up into the fire escape tube that used to go up the side of the building and slide down over and over and over again. It was a secret landmark of UofM that the son of two eggheads that couldnt get enough of that 70's college experience.

I remember back during VN that they wanted to burn this building down and that the cadets would go in there with their civvies on and change into uniform and then change back into civvies to leave.

All the while serving an institution that guaranteed the childish elites their rights to crap all over those with tons more honor and integrity than they have.
Just as less than one percent of UofM students/profs is a marxist leninist apologist for the gulag, what per cent of those that train in this building do you think are klan members that loved My Lai.
Well, the indifference of the world's most intelligent students is deafening...

I can understand why a prospect would turn right around and walk away from North Hall intead of risk a Michigan Degree (that's the difference, right?) on these babykiller robots of rightwingness.

There should and will be an outcry against the indifference and ignorance of the powers that be that spend millions for jocks at Michigan but then leave ROTC cadets in a slum.

If the left ever wanted to create respect from the members of our armed services, they certainly can't expect it from UofM ROTC cadets, they are smart enough to get into UofM so they will most likely never forget the bigoted leftists treatment of themselves and their classmates.

Thank you ungrateful Michigan tax payers and University of Michigan Regents, along with the leftist press, for completely lacking any class or reasonable respect for a worthy institution that your blind servility to Political Correctness demands you crap on.

As for you cadets, you are a miracle to behold. You are probably too busy to get involved or wouldnt want to risk your careers by biting the hand that teaches you, but I don't have to kiss that so I will be sounding off for ya.

Sua Sponte,
Mr. Thad Lucken
Ft. Livingroom, MI USA

Anybody notice anything different with the games?!!!

2006-10-28T15:29:00.000-04:00

what do you say to a someone that lacks motivation?
does it matter that they already have everything but integrity?
I ask myself these kinds of questions as I drive around Detroit and see all the "poor" people sitting around.
oh, well..

now as i start to say this about the '06 Tigers let it be know to all that I applaud the efforts of the Cardinals and that they deserve everything they won.

THAT SAID lets go on this series:

Baseball is by far the most humiliating and demoralizing sport known to man. Every play starts with either the pitcher or the hitter going from goat to bloat. And the World Series is just like that. You go from beating the Jankees to losing on the road in NL land. sheesh. wow...

What happened?
Well, first off I dont have a mortgage and an huge network ego so I can tellyou right off that it is a crime to play baseball in the winter. Its just so absolutely stupid and cultlike to play the game in conditions like they did and the only possible explanation is corporate greed. GREEEEEEEEEED!! They can't leave money on the table not even to save the game. They just don'have it in them for whatever reason, culture, lack of morality, stupidity, alien control- whatever you want to call it. And the worst thing about it is that in this land of the free these great big strong men are too stupid or cowed to say anything.

Ask yourself honestly if you think the play wouldve been different of this series had been played a month ago like it wouldve been in '84??

You can't honestly think that those balls picked off the ground wouldnt have been thrown differently by pitchers that wouldnt be freezing their asses off in a bull pen that was 40 degrees or less.

Please for the love of God could just one of these dumb jocks on the air waves mention this GLARING FACT!!!!!!!!!!

Granderson slipping on the outfield? Are you kidding me? The ball that Inge picked up both times hit that wet cold grass and stopped. It made the game look so stupid and YES I WOULD SAY THE SAME DAMNED THIN IF WE'D HAVE WON!!!!

Next, our hitters went cold. COLD!!! GET IT?!!!

If you don't think there's a difference between hitting fast balls in the 30's than the 70's youre a suck up jock without a brain.

Sports looked stupid watching baseball in fur coats, the entire business looked stupid and empty. they have sold their souls.

And then they want to put skyboxes in the big house so they can show all the other boney assed dermatologists how much money they have made and that they can't sit outside for an hour for a KIDS GAME!!!!!!
BABY BOOMERS HAVE NO CLASS AND THEY SURE AS HELL HAVE NO SOUL!!

People don't watch their team anymore, they watch "college football" where they listen to a bunch of hairdos that have never played the game talk about ten games at once to see who's "ranked" so the games start at 4:30 pm so the networks can make millions off KIDS WITHOUT PAYCHECKS!!!!

I when the Big Ten had Ten teams, when football was about graduation and professions that helped people (like doctors and engineers, not sports management and psychology). People went to college to serve society not themselves and the colleges made sure that sports didnt conflict or replace school. They didnt play in August, they didnt play 20 games and they road to bowls on the train. Teams like Vanderbilt would have NO BUSINESS playing at MICHIGAN STADIUM unless they actually WON SOMETHING.
But now its all PC lies and tricks to get mo money mo money and moe money. Its not the money that's bad either, its who gets it and why.

So now we play a kids game with 18 year olds under the lights so that vegas can see the results, there's no honor but ranking by a bcs sickening calculus of greed and decadent lust for power and the moral cowards at the top want to sit on a couch looking down at the freezing multitudes from their sky boxes.

Its just absolutely soul-less and sickening what has become of our society.

what could be more interesting?

2006-10-10T16:52:00.000-04:00

today is one of those days that seem like a saturday when its just tuesday.

great shit:
tigers
student loan refi
working at concert tonite
getting internet dating crap together
remote controls for car stereos
new south korean tanks

bad crap:
pot bellied pig pops nuke?
summers over
headaches
car insurance
dick devo only answer for jenny

I have been lurking at iraqthemodel.com and theres been some interesting stuff over there. other than that its just drive on sgt drive on.

Where's Conyers? Where's ANYBODY?!!

2006-09-26T11:23:00.000-04:00

Darfur is out of hand.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=HBA00BMZL5XFPQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/09/26/do2602.xml&posted=true&_requestid=319048

I don't care what you think about politics and what side of the aisle you sit on, this is just stupid. There are thousands of people twisting in the wind while those we pay to do something about things like this are fighting a egotistical cynical turf battle.

I am most worried that the only possible result of involving black america will be a "solution" that will be pc and therefore exactly wrong.
I basically boils down to the fact that white liberals have brainwashed and economically addicted black america to a welfare state with its obligations that enable only the political result that will enable african christian slaughter.

there are just too many coincidences and dovetailing issues on this one and its disgraceful. Not since FDR dragged is feet to support England against Germany and enable Hitler to murder thousands before we began fighting back has our political establishment set up such a disaster. Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq/Iran War, 3rd Reich, Darfur. Its pretty easy to pull off, just blame Bush.
Jessuh would probably tell you that you were trying to trap him and make him look bad before he changed the subject or answered a question you didnt ask.

Finally a catholic with cajones..

2006-09-18T16:24:00.000-04:00

http://www.nysun.com/article/39849

read this article and think real hard about your reality. Do you rally think that you have a chance against the nuclear islam? Do you really care.
then read this article and tell me where you see any mention of the fact that we are war...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2360948,00.html

people, what you are witnessing is the weimar republic reborn and the beginning of a mass suicide of vain relativists. what realy really sucks is that they will take millions with them.

unless.

sunday with P2

2006-09-17T18:28:00.000-04:00

fianlly took a day off and slept through the Lions rebuilding with just an eye on it for a bit every hour or so.
I got really tired driving so much this week but the dinero is piling and thats a good thing.
Sitting in the cab reading "Charlie Wilson's War" was pretty fun but my mind went a wandering adn it landed at "How to Yourself". I wasnt taught how to do that in my household. My parents were too busy either trying to pay for five kids and anyone they brought home, or saving the world from comies or conservatives. No one ever stopped me and told me that loving yourself didnt mean the conceited self worship that I thought it (was inculcated) to believe. I thought that "self esteem" was vanity.

Little did I realize later in my life that loving yourself was essentially the first step to letting God love me and then letting someonoe else. I have always wondered what it was that made me so ashamed of myself and therefore unable to simply tell someone I was involved with to shut the fuck up and see me for what I am: someone that needs to be loved beyond all concern for the evil eyed critics that mock and denegrate. I thought it was just so gay to think all that shit mattered, but looking back on it its probably the most distructive thing I ever bought into.
I made so many deals with people to buy their love and friendship, I got involved with gorgeous women only to deal myself completely out of the picture eventually. As if that were the real purpose. As my Dad (r.i.p.) put it "I've served others my whole life, why not now?"

Little did I know that that definition of serving others was codependent narcissism.

"Charity begins at home" and all that...

Now the stakes are a little higher. I don't have the time left I used to and am chosing a different route. I no longer countenance the conceited that I used to and I really don't mind it not having them around. I know it wasnt their fault if there was one and have learned from my mistakes. Boy is it ever fun to call them out on their shit though!! If it is still a distraction from my real mission which is to live free and plentifully.

God's love is there but not if you replace it and crowd it out with false selflove.

I kinda knew that, but didnt practice it daily so it didnt grow. But there's a new sheriff in town and they can all fuck themselves.

how to unquit by P2

2006-09-15T15:38:00.000-04:00

I get a lot of time to think, I make a lot of time to think. Its what I do.
when I'm not dreaming or driving I usually try and check to see if I'm being positive and realistic. Oneof the things that popped up was the idea that those who have failed or given up on a project are usually the best at it and instead of trying again with the new knowledge of how not to do it, they just blow it off.
case in point: my friend bought and flipped a house. In the between time he rented it out and had some problems with his tenants. Once he sold the house he said he would never do it again because it was such a hassle. But was he right? why whouldnt he just not do what he did before and not forget this time to do it right. Another friend got into day trading and made a lot of money, right before he got greedy and lost most of it. Now he says that he would rather not bother even though he is throwing away a boatload of knowledge.

I have come to the conclusion that it is narcisscism that guides this choice as the only justification can be that they just won't and that it is a "personal choice".

I think about VietNam and how we threw away all that knowledge and called it a "syndrome" instead of a learning curve. Obviously the Army doesnt think that way and they have made great strides in iproving the situation.

But alas the narcisisstic "personal choice" makers are back and they are bringing up their noise levels all over again. Its pretty obvious that they are lying and saying that they have proof or such but it really is all about them and the way they want to fail with an excuse.