Semper Fi

Happy Birthday you F***ing Jarheads, from a former Squid.

The Warrior Song

Uh-Rah to all those who have been fighting the good fight.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

~George Orwell

We are those rough men

Thanks to Brutally Honest.

More info about The Warrior Song here

Paypal hates guns, and apparently the military

Saw it initially over at my friend Jennifer’s site, but The Smallest Minority has the whole story.

The story is that Soldiers’ Angels is right now holding a raffle where the prize is a very nice .45 pistol.  Because Paypal has a policy that ranks guns right up there with crack cocaine and pornography

relate to sales of (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (e) items that are considered obscene, (f) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (g) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (h) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (i) ,certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law

I could understand if they based it around the law, like the rest of their ‘Terms of Service” agreement, but it’s not.  It’s a blatant “We hate you gun owning bastards” that I don’t have to put up with and I’m not going to.  So, all I have to say to Paypal is that they can go take a nice, long flying fuck at a doughnut because I will NEVER use their service again under any circumstances.  I’m also going to buy two tickets.

Fuckwads.

Guilty Pleasures

I have found a new guilty pleasure.

While flipping channels yesterday in an attempt to find SOMETHING on the boob-tube that was worth watching I came across a program that made me flop back on the couch, forget about my other plans for the day (like kitchen cleaning and vacuuming) and revel in all out dudeness.  It’s called Deadliest Warrior and it’s on SPIKE TV. They were doing a marathon of them so I was set for the afternoon.

Yep, supreme guy stuff.

They start the show with the premise of what if two warriors who never met in reality were put up against each other?  Examples of what they did are Apache vs. Gladiator; Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior; Pirate vs. Knight.  They they go through the whole show testing weapons to see how much damage the really inflict in the hands of various experts, and to be honest I was amazed at the amount of damage that some of them could do.  Even weapons that I have trained with I did not truly realize how devastating they can be until seeing them used against ballistic dummies.

During the weapons testing phase there is a lot of trash talking among the two teams of experts but it is good natured for the most part and all part of being a guy who has 100% confidence that his fighting style is the best, and to be honest they all have a right to brag.  On one show they did Yakuza vs. Mafia and the Mafia expert showed how easy it was to shatter a spine with a baseball bat but the Yakuza expert just looked and said “Big deal, I can do that with my leg” and then proceeded to prove it.

Once all that is done they plug it all into software that was developed for combat simulation for armies and has been modified for individual combat.  They then run the combat 1000 times to see who comes out on top the most.  I won’t post any video’s from the show here for two reasons.  One – You can see the whole episode online over at SPIKE and I don’t want to ruin the suspense of the fight at the end of the show by posting it here.

I did learn one thing though.  Ninjas had a black egg that they would carry with them that was filled with ground up glass.  They would crush the egg in their hand and then throw the glass dust into the eyes of their enemy – nasty.