Ok, Wait Just a Sec

I'm not the biggest fan of Barack 'Jesus is Back!' Obama for sure, but this is just so ridiculous as to be utterly stupid.

Al Qaeda's number 2 (what a shitty title) Ayman Al-Zawahiri is running off at the mouth again and flaunting not only the same old tired blame the US bullshit, but also an apparent ignorance of US politics.

Bush hasn't even left office yet and already he's up Obama's rear end.

Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to an intelligence monitoring center.

What in the hell is he supposed to do exactly? The Palestinians can't stop it...or rather won't, since they have an obsessive compulsive drive to blow up Israeli civilians with rockets (hey, it's more fun than Wii, right?)

The Israelis can't stop it now, because to do so would be a sign of weakness; something they certainly can't afford.

Bush can't stop it because well, ok, I'm not going to go there at the moment, but suffice it to say he can't.

So I guess it falls back on Barack Obama who's actually (sorry Ayman) not technically president yet.

Now I realize Obama's going to give us free gasoline, free college, and cater our turkey dinners every night for the next four years, all the while shooting laser beams out of His eyes and fighting injustice in a blue spandex suit, but give it a rest. There are limits to what Obama Himself can even do. 'Specially since, contrary to what every Democrat I know thinks, he really isn't actually President yet. Just saying.

al-Zawahiri described Israel's actions in Gaza as a "crusade against Islam and Muslims" and called it "Obama's gift to Israel...He kills your brothers and sisters in Gaza mercilessly and without affection."

Well, technically it kind of IS a crusade against Islam and Muslims. Just the ones who keep pissing in Israel's beer. And as for being Obama's gift to Israel, there he's just a dumb ass. It's kind of Hamas' new year's gift to themselves for years of kidnapping Israelis and blowing shit up in spite of agreements not to. I mean it's not like they randomly fire rockets into populated Israeli civilian centers or encourage suicide bombings from time to time or anything. That would be bad, and Hamas is the victim here, let's not forget.

As you can see, it breaks down like this.

Hamas = Launches rockets at kindergartens, kidnaps soldiers, uses suicide bombers. Kills indiscriminately. This makes them the victims.

Israel = Defends their territory and soveriegnty against Hamas, gets tired of being attacked and strikes back. Traditionally gives advance notice of retaliatory strikes in defiance of conventional wisdom and although not always successful, uses tactics designed to minimize collateral damage. This makes them evil Zionist crusader Nazis.

Obama = Jesus Christ incarnate, hybridized with Superman genes and fitted with ocular death beams. Evil Zionist Nazi Omnipotent Being who controls Israel with his psychic powers.

Make sense? Because that my friends is exactly how Zawahiri and the Palestinian cause want you to think.

This is not about Israeli Naziism. This whole affair, to paraphrase Reverend Wright, is a case of Hamas' chickens coming home to roost.

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FAIL in Vail

I hate the FAIL meme as much as anyone, but this guy has not only lived up to it, he's redefined the entire word. 

Just Stop Already.

It's official.  You literally can't make it three and a half minutes without some academic/pointed-hat/news commentator/government 'official' speculating on what the latest and greatest attack vector to be employed by terrorists will be. 

Forget nukes and dirty bombs.  Forget suicide bombers.  Break out the RAID, because apparently, terrorists COULD use insects as weapons.

They could also use midgets, nails, sausages, pop-tarts, teddy bears, exploding twinkies or even the dreaded water-balloon of mass destruction.

Please, stop speculating and wondering when and if and what...just live your life, enjoy it to the fullest and if the day comes when you're taken down by a pissed off fundamentalist muslimsquito, well then ya know what? At least you had a good run and didn't spend your life cowering in fear about something stupid.

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Wanna Get High?

Ok, so the title of this post is probably disturbing at best and misleading at worst.  The strongest drug I've ever done in  my life was vicodin and that was with an actual honest-to-god prescription.  I would however like to try grass.  Not marijuana, you see, Grass.  The CARD GAME called Grass. 

My wife and I took the kids out to the mall this morning for a little fun.  Just beyond the food court was one of those quickly set-up little kiosks selling board games, card games and puzzles.  Having just browsed that kiosk about a week ago, I wasn't really all that intent on it as we walked by, but I do always look out for anything that jumps off the rack and grabs my attention.  As luck would have it, it did. 

Grass.  The greatest idea for a game ever.

I have this thing for card games; not the usual standard deck variety, but the fun stuff with special decks and wierd rules and stuff that keeps it interesting, but I digress.

A game about dealing weed.  How nuts is that? Gotta love it.  Of course, I didn't buy it, but I got home and started reading what other people said about it and now I'm kicking myself in the ass for not picking it up while I had the chance.

I casually mentioned it to my wife and after laughing she said she'd actually like to try it.  The game I mean.  I think. Guess I should go grab a copy and see what happens.

 

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And Now The Rest of The Story

Now that I have a few more minutes, there's a little bit more to the tale of the XBox.  I rolled in to Target, cash burning a hole in my pocket. I was determined to take the plunge on the 360.

I bought it, went to visit with my family, then head home later in the evening to fire it up.  Opening the apparently factory fresh package, I immediately noticed something was awry with the bottom of the console.  It looked like the case had been opened then closed improperly; the side didn't fit flush with the end of the unit. 

Taking it out of its bag, I found surprise number two.  There was a gaping hole where the 60 GB hard drive was supposed to be.

Surprise three was that the bezel cover on the CD tray was missing.  Not only that, the original sticker that belongs on the bezel cover was carefully placed over the exposed DVD tray.

Of course, by the time I'd realized all this, I was 30 miles from the store I bought it from, and it was an hour to closing.

Mercifully, I was able to exchange it uneventfully with one from my local store that actually came with all the parts it was supposed to have, and the rest is history.

Joining the 21st Century

After nearly five years without seriously gaming, I gave in.  I finally caught up with the rest of the human race and got an XBox 360.  So far, I'm kicking myself in the ass for not getting one sooner.  I figured I'd be all conservative and just start out with one game (not including the groan inducing Kung Fu Panda and Lego Indiana Jones crap they bundled), so I picked up Call of Duty World at War.  

Keep in mind, I've been living under a rock and this was my first hands on experience with a 360.  I fired it up...jumped into the game, and my jaw hit the floor.  I simply didn't realize how good it was going to look.  Not to mention the little giggling like a schoolgirl moment I had when I first took down a bad guy and watched the blood literally spray from the back of his head. 

For someone whose last game was Call of Duty: United Offensive on the PC, I'm so glad to be back in action there aren't words to express it.  XBox Live, here I come.

Disclaimer: Yes I know I'm late to the party.  Let me have my fun.

Communism, Ahoy

Congressional Democrats are pushing legislation to send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange for a government ownership stake in the Big Three car companies.

And Chairman Obama hasn't even left an ass-print in the "big chair" yet.