Musical Military – VAW-116

A while back I found some rather awesome music videos from the U.S Navy’s VAW-116 Hawkeye Squadron and one from USS Ronald Reagan. If you want a laugh, check them out! AWESOME directing and editing skills.

Outkast – Hey Ya

Black Eyed Peas – Pump It

All American Rejects – Move Along

Two Issues

I still harbour tremendous animosity towards Spain, France, Germany and Italy for their cowardice in Afghanistan. As I’ve said before those bunch of pussies make me ashamed to be European. I emailed the German government yesterday and called them cowards. It’s obvious they’re worried about the image of German troops in battle will bring up memories of World War, but in my email I told them to get the fuck over it and stop being cowards.

On a last note… I completely believe that the Israeli Defence Force deliberately murdered a Canadian military observer in a U.N observation post because he was going to report that Israel was committing war crimes in Lebanon. You can check out the story on CBC.ca >>

Plodding On

As usual… life plods on. Work is going good. Very very busy.

Life on the home front is same as always. Rocky at times, great at others. My daughter is doing excellently. I have great trouble getting her to drink her milk all at once… the only time I don’t have problems feeding her is in the morning around 6am.

Lorraine doesn’t have problems getting her to eat… and didn’t with Nicolas either, even though he was with me 90% of the days when he was still on the bottle. It used to bother me that my children eat better for their mother than me, but it doesn’t much at all anymore. I figure it’s just one of those things that has no rhyme or reason that I can figure out. So it’s all good!

I’m building my own community portal at http://www.kenoralife.ca to try and compete with long standing, but lack lustre local competitors mykenora.com and gokenora.com. Kenora Life offers free email addresses, and will eventually offer free webhosting, classifieds and a search engine. All in good time!

I’m sure most educated people have heard the latest bullshit in the Middle East – Iran has captured 15 British Navy sailors. They’ve said that the Brits were in Iranian waters… which is about as sure as anything could be sure wrong! Iran gave one set of coordinates… and then when the Navy pointed out those were still inside Iraq’s waters, Iran changed to another set of coordinates. They won’t release them, and the wimp in 10 Downing Street won’t launch a Cruise missile strike against Iran. If Margaret Thatcher was in power… this would have been over 5 days ago.

If Iran acts this way and tries to bully people now… what can we expect with a nuclear armed Iran? We need to bomb the hell out of the Ayatollah, and Ahmenedin

It irks me that Iran’s military could sneak up on ours without being detected which is almost impossible… so what the likely story is that either there was a failure of command on the HMS Cornwall, or they were in Iranian waters and were testing response times.

It irks me that it took President Bush a week to publicly say anything. I’ve been reading various peoples comments about this. One said that the Americans would have blown the Iranians out of the water… but instead we just surrender humbly and write rambling letters.

Put me in charge and I’ll have this sorted out in a week – launch a couple of Trident warheads at Tehran, and take a British aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf and keep it there permanently… that’d sort out those stupid f**king Persians. Why don’t they just stick to playing chess and making rugs?

Current Middle East Affairs

As I’ve stated numerous times throughout my blog, I am definitely far from anti-semitic or anti-zionist (or whatever the term for being against the state of Israel is). I very much believe that Israel has the right to defend itself using as much force as is necessary, and no more.

But it’s quite clear that they’re using grossly excessive force. John Dugard, a United Nations Rapporteur has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Apartheid situation in South Africa way back. Of course, Israel has called the report one sided. You can view the news story on the BBC News website. It seems that when ANYONE says anything about Israel, Israel ALWAYS finds a way to called it biased, or one-sided. I’d love to find a criticism of Israel, in which Knesset have been mature enough to say ‘we do agree with that, and we are in the wrong. We are going to fix the problem, by not murdering hundreds of Palestinians over the unjust murders of a couple of Israeli’s’.

You hardly wonder why the IDF is f**king up so much when you have stories about the Israeli Defence Minister going on hahahahahahahahaha!

The 2008 Presidential race is heating up. There’s only two real candidates – Clinton and Obama. The chances of someone else winning is probably around 10%. Also, there’s rumours that Al Gore MIGHT run for President. The problem is he’s spent so many years acting like he won’t, the chances of him getting any real support is not much. Especially when you have Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the race. I think Al Gore would probably be the best President because of his desire to tackle global warming. Put someone like Arnold Schwarzenneger in as Vice President, Al Gore as President and you’d have Greenpeace EXTREMELY happy! If I were an American, even though Obama has the charisma, and Clinton has the experience, I’d be hesitant in backing either of those because they’d be too unpredictable in what they would do with America’s defence budget and the military in general… if they’d be willing to contribute troops if another nation needed help. If they’d unilaterally step in to somewhere like Somalia… or Sudan… or bomb the blazes out of North Korea if it attacked Japan or South Korea. Some people call America’s defence spending ridiculous – I call it excellent. I sleep safer at night because of the trigger happy cowboys south of the border.

NATO / Daily Stuff

As I long suspected… most European countries are still a bunch of wimpish pussies.

At the latest NATO meeting, apparently they all agreed to do more – but upon reading the website of the German government, they are still wimping out and not redeploying ANY troops to other parts of Afghanistan – Check out the story!

I bought three more books by Patrick Robinson – awesome writer.  I love the Arnold Morgan character in his books.  Too bad there isn’t a real life character like that.  Mebbe there is, as I suppose they have to be loosely based upon someone – that’s usually the deal with inspiration for stories with authors and movie directors.

It’s getting extremely cold around here – other night it was -25 degrees.  The Toyota Matrix I bought is proving to be a worthwhile investment.  I went off the road on the reserve yesterday and came within about six inches of hitting a fire hydrant.  I couldn’t back up onto the road – as my tyres are not very good.  But at least the four-wheel drive allowed me to go further off the road in clean snow, turn around and make a run at it – which got me back onto the road.

Nicolas is sick.  Got an ear infection.  The Nurse Practitioner prescribed him Amoxycylin.  Should clear it up quickly hopefully.

I’m putting into action the words I preach about hatred on the reserve… I’ve cause to not like a few people on the reserve, and whilst there’s a few people I’d rather not hang out with, I no longer hate anyone or want them dead.  I came to the harsh realisation that it just isn’t achieving anything, and only serves to bring my health level down.  So being polite and civil to people on the reserve that I used to not like, I think is going to help me tremendously.  I don’t mind if those people still think I’m a bastard – that’s their prerogative, but I am going to go out of my way to be polite and accomodating.