Friction and Harmony

Our own Private Goob celebrated his birthday last week by doing pushups.  A LOT of ‘em. 

It seems the soldiers in training are assigned a number of pushups for each piece of mail they receive – which they gratefully knock-out.  Along with our family, friends, and blog-friends mailing him and sending birthday well-wishes, Mrs. Who had her class mail a bundle of crafted birthday cards to him.  Two-hundred fifty-five pushups for the lot!  Goob didn’t sound distressed about it at all, however…  The DS allowed two buddies (who enthusiastically volunteered) to help him knock them out.  Thanks to EVERYONE who has been writing him – the cards and letters have been much appreciated!

Sorry I haven’t been posting more in the way of updates and photos – especially the photos.  Since about the second week, I haven’t been able to pick him out of the crowd!  But here are some cool pics from his unit (I don’t think any of them include Pvt Goob):

Belt fed weapons and night vision…  No wonder he says he’s having a good time! 

The majority of training has been completed, and now they’re preparing for final inspections and graduation.  They’ve already completed the rite of passage and have received their berets.   I’ll be at Fort Sill, OK in just over a week to see him graduate, and to spend a few precious hours making him retell the whole experience before he ships out for AIT until at least late November, possibly longer.

It seems an apology was issued by CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty, the author of this statement:

“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote toward the end of his column.

“Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”

As well he should have apologized!

Any US soldier would definitely have prioritized better…  Harry Reid would be shot twice, Osama Bin Laden strangled to death, and Nancy Pelosi BEATEN MERCILESSLY with the butt of the gun!

It’s Monday – Fuck Obama Day.  Have a happy one. 

I’m going to quietly flip the bird to our “#1 TOTUS” and let someone else do the talking.  I’ll add my two cents later…

UPDATE: Just stumbled across this…  I could say a lot, but I think the Photoshopped teleprompter just about covers it:

Getting there.

I talked with PVT Goob this weekend.  Things are going well.  He’s enjoying the letters he’s gotten from friends, family and even our blogger friends.   He’s trying to write back to everyone.  I told him that it’s damn near impossible to pick him out of his unit website pictures, ’cause everyone is in full battle gear – they all look alike – so he sent me this.  Looks like Private Goob has squared up a little!  He’s lost that scared, “what the HELL did I DO??” look.   Nowhere near perfect yet, but definitely getting there.

Lucky Goob – his 19th b-day is next week, which he gets to spend in Army BCT.  Why lucky, you ask?  Three words:  belt-fed weaponry!

I’m so jealous. 

Taking time off from the set of the latest Tim Burton film, Obama’s Whitehouse Chief of Limp Meatwhistles, Rahm Emmanuel stands courageously in the corner of the schoolyard bully, telling Israel that we’ll do nothing to prevent Iran from building its nuclear arsenal unless Israel capitulates to Palestinian demands via the time-tested, worthless tradition of Arab-Israeli  “peace talks.”

This bit of vacuous inanity comes on the heels of Hillary’s model diplomacy:

Last month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Israel that it risks losing Arab support for combating threats from Iran if it rejects peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

Wait a minute, who is the aggressor here?  I haven’t seen any Jews driving truck bombs into crowded markets, launching rockets into neighborhoods as schools are dismissing or kidnapping, torturing and murdering hapless Paleswinians, nor have I seen them whooping it up in the streets, pumping their fists and firing auto-loading weapons into the air in jubilant celebration of such events.  I haven’t seen Israel even condoning or threatening such actions to occur for any contrived condition or event.  And looking around the net, I can’t even find a single photo of a gathering of Jewish toddlers wearing those cute little bomb vests nor wilting under the weight of fully-loaded Kalishnakovs!    What the fuck?  So why should Israel be forced to negotiate a gorram grain of sand with these radical asswipes?

And what exactly have we learned that Palestine wants from Israel, anyway?  Well, if Al Jazeera, Ahmadinejad and just about every Imam that makes face time on MSNBCNNABC saying the same thing are the substantial Voice of Islam, Palestine suggests that all of Israel should walk out into the Mediterranean Sea and die, every last one.  Over and over again, we hear the cry for “an end to Israeli occupation,” yet any concession of how much land they should be “allowed” to occupy seldom falls short of “none.”

So now you are declaring that the official United States position is to force Israel to the table to negotiate what exactly, Rahm?  Israel should agree to willingly give up its tiny home in farcical “peace negotiations,” or we’ll do Not a Fucking Thing™ to prevent Iran from carrying out it’s sworn ambition to obliterate the Israelis by nuclear holocaust?  I’m not seeing an upside for anyone but Iran and the alleged Palestinian State here.

Rahm, as I see it, the only motivation you are leaving the State of Israel is that of desperate Self Preservation.

God help us all if you are so naive you don’t recognize the ramifications of that.  This from the party that attacked and mercilessly mocked Palin’s alleged lack of international expertise…

The irony would be hilarious if it weren’t so fucking scary.

How to speak to financially struggling Americans…   Arrange a Photo Op serving at a food pantry wearing fucking ugly shoes that cost more than a typical client’s monthly welfare check.

$540?! Stupid fucking n0-class wookie…

UPDATE: A co-worker just commented that of course shoes for Michelle would cost that much – just look at the fucking SIZE of those things!

He’s got a point.  Where do you find shoes for a Sasquatch?