"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it..." -- The Declaration of Independence
Former USMC, registered Republican (No, I don't tow the party line), once-certified bullet sponge and hired goon for US corporate interests, now shameless corporate slave, political science major, and ocassionally intellectually prostitute myself as a freelance writer/political something-or-other.
Currently moonlighting as a military analyst specializing in assymetric warfare/counter-insurgency and a penniless mendicant the rest of the time. I'm an easy-going, sarcastic, cynical bastard, eccentric romantic, and monopoly/chess freak. Hey, the great Cyrano de Bergerac was a violent, sociopathic psycophant, and drunkard with a peculiar gift for exquisite poetry and astounding prose. Perhaps romance is merely a psychosis of the mind and a paralysis of the heart; emotionally instantaneous and physiologically overwhelming.
I spent a somewhat disillusioning military career perpetuating deception and untruths for my country; serving a military-industrial complex that had become devoid of conscience, absent of accountability and disturbingly mercenary. Now, I've dedicated my time to the exposition of these lies and the corrupt policies that have led us into numerous and unecessary wars. Yep, payback's a bitch, Kiddos.
I'm generally a very laid-back and out-going kind of guy. I can be quite passionate about things that I truly believe in and if you get me into a heated debate, sparks are going to fly. Like the rest of my fellow cave dwellers and primates, I'm a big football fan whether it be the NFL or NCAA. If you can't find me on the weekends during football season, chances are I'm watching the games.
I am a very independent person who enjoys the company of friends, but also likes his alone time to just think and contemplate. I have a profound love for literature, mythology, history, and independent or foreign film. I'm a huge bookworm and you'll normally find me reading three or four books at a time. I enjoy deep thought-provoking conversations whether it be on current affairs, theology, conspiracy theory, geo-politics or the intricacies of crackerjack box toys.
Lately, I've learned that life isn't always as complex as we seem to think it is. Just apply the principle of Occam's Razor and most things can be broken down into their simplest forms. I've realized that I haven't been taking enough risks lately. Need to throw caution to the wind and stop standing around waiting for Shrodinger's cat to kick down the door with all the answers. We're slowly turning into Pavlov's dogs; content, complacent in our daily routine, unblinkingly unquestioning automatons of an over-bred society ruled by an intellectual conformity imposed by the elite few and falling fast into a Nietzscheien decadence.
Maybe it's time to question rule and authority. Break the ties that bind and forsake the oaths of yesteryear. There is a revolution stirring in the hearts and minds of the collective world soul. What are we going to do about it? Isn't that the question? Perhaps, we'll find an answer. Perhaps, tomorrow or today or yesterday. All the world's, afterall, a stage or so it's said to be.
Need to rant and rave, but have nobody that will listen without having to be put on 24 hour suicide-watch afterwards? Go ahead and hit me up. This six-degrees of separation thing is like the crack of Alighieri's virtual purgatorio, once you get a little whiff, it's off to nose-candy city and beyond the 9th level in a bloody handbasket.
"Misunderstanding breeds distrust...Koyaanisqatsi."
"There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord..." - Homer
"You can't know the vulgarity of war until you've been there, until you've been splattered with your friend's blood." - Anonymous
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
"I put my hand on her chest to stop the streaming blood. She told me that she could not breathe, her body trembled and she closed her eyes," said Ra'd Abu Saif of his 12-year-old daughter Safa's last moments after she was shot by an Israeli sniper.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Teddy Roosevelt
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - President Harry S. Truman.
"Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,
Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry
Wheels out into the sunlight. What bold grace
Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!
Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,
With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye
Of purple batteries, every gun in place.
Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,
With torches burning, stepping out in time
To some quick, unheard march. Our ears are dead,
We cannot catch the tune. In pantomime
Parades that army. With our utmost powers
We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers."
- Amy Lowell
"Hopeful hearts will find forever / roses beneath the snow,"
"Be polite, be professional, have a plan to kill everyone you meet." - 3/11, USMC
Joke of the Day:
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!" The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off - go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."
From a hilarious scene in Family Guy:Ronald Reagan: Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, tear it down!
(Reagan starts punching the wall of a McDonald's)
Ronald Reagan: Reagan Smash! Reagan Smash!
Mcdonald's Employee #1: What's that?
Mcdonald's Employee #2: Oh it's just Reagan. Just leave him alone, he'll tire himself out.
(Reagan lies down on the sidewalk)
Ronald Reagan: Reagan sleepy ...
Okay, seeing as you've consistently abused my patience and tolerance. Bands, Promoters, Psychos, Web Cam Chicks, Hackers, etc. Do us both a favour and do not email me. The answer will be a resounding No Thank you and you will be subsequently blocked, reported, eviscerated, hacked into a million pieces, etc. Thank you. This has been a Public Service Announcement. ;)
