Back to Iraq, see ya'll next year.

That's right boys and girls, today's episode of name your favorite empire focuses exclusively on the country of Iraq! Me, I favor ancient Ctesiphon.......mmmm Ctesiphon, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are left alone if they run faster than the goats. What's your favorite? There's so many to pick from.

What now makes up Iraq has been part of/conquered by CTESIPHON, (of course), Sumeria, Akkadia, the Medes (or one group of the Persians), the Chaldean Dyna...

I. Got. My. First. ELECTRIC GUITAR!!!!!! YAYA!!!

That's it. It's frickin' late. Except, I'm thinking of starting a fund to send Col Gene hobby stuff, maybe buy him a guitar. I don't usually write articles to flame bloggers specifically, but damn, this johnny one-note stuff is just killing me and I'm grumpy the last week or so. I dunno, maybe a Save the Gene fund is a bad idea? If we can't save enough for hobby stuff ( a different hobby anyways) maybe we can save enough for some therapy and a ...

Clearly I haven't written anything in the last few days, and well, let's face it, nobody ever knows wtf to say about my limerick movie reviews, even on the rare occasion that they aren't complete doggerel. I've been, let's say, down with the sickness (you mothers get up, come on get down with the sickness.....in his best richard cheese inside his head imitation). Diarrhea, fever, we had it all, now available at low low discount prices.

Well as of this morning, I'm alive and well again. So, w...

More evil than Christopher Lee,
From these vampires your pants fill with pee,
It's Darker and Starker than books by Clive Barker,
no Bruce Campbell, but produced by Rai-mi.

The lines were all stark and quite keen,
And the characters suitably mean,
But they still fell down dead,
When you chopped off their heads,
Like a Baldwin or perhaps Charlie Sheen.

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Sweet clean ride Fender,
Don't have eight hundred dollars,
Crap crap crap crap s*...

I think before I left, I made my opinions pretty clear about the Iraq war. For example. Link

I'm not crazy about us being in two wars at once. I'm not entirely nuts about the reasons we went to war in Iraq. (to be fair, Saddam believed he had the crap, had used it in the past, and wanted to do so again) Then again, we don't go to war with N. Korea, and they've got frickin' nukes. (instead we bargain/get blackmailed yet again, trading massive amounts of fuel oil, one of the critical items for ...

That's right, flood his blog site wishing him a happy birthday. I forget the year, but Nov. 20 is his special day. Mail him a fried chicken. (or four fried chickens and a coke) Very very special. Yeah.

(and yeah, its my birthday too.)

No really. So I've been in country for seven or eight weeks, and I wake up with a mesquito bite. Under and slightly to the left of my erm, junk. Okay, that's weird. Next morning, I've got a goose egg, so I go in, see an med type assistant who says I've got an infected lymph node and puts me on Keflex. Twelve hours later I wake up and my legs turning purple down to halfway down my thigh. Hmmm......this might not be good.

So after seeing a real doctor, "Usually, people come in before it gets th...

So I'm watching Woody Allen's "Everything you wanted to know about sex* (but were afraid to ask)" and my wife starts laughing....more than normal. Apparently Doctor Doug Ross, the character played by Gene Wilder, who falls in love/lust with a sheep from the hills of Armenia, is the exact same name used by George Clooney's character on ER. Being straight, I of course wouldn't know. (said the man who knits.....)

Just coincidence??? Hmmmmm................

Oh yes, Regis also makes a cameo in t...

Okay, I'm not that clever, I stole it from a cartoon I saw at the bookstore.

I'm home on leave for a couple of weeks, so I'm kinda sorta blogging again. So I can get it all out of the way at once, Iraq. You wanna know what it's like? Go outside (you'll need a friend.) Find an overfilled portajohn and stand next to it. Get your friend to put a blowdrier in your face on high. Have him throw sand in your face occasionally. Periodically pick up 80 lb weights and put them down after a while....

Write no more, I'm off to war!!!

I ain't gone yet, but it's close enough I'm stopping now to keep the timeline fuzzy for opsec type reasons. Ain't saying where or when I'm goin' or what I'm doin', but it oughta be fun! Plus, I'll finally be ought of the #$%%@!!! rain! Woot.

Maybe I'll get the chance to check in once in awhile, but in the meantime, don't expect anything for at least seven or eight months. Maybe not for the full tour. I can't break opsec there, 'cause nobody knows how long I...

O Media, which me protects,
Tell me what to be scared of next.

A dozen people killed by SARS,
West Nile Virus, faulty cars,
with airbag lights that catch on fire,
or ride upon a firestone tire.
Bovine hormones give you breasts, or positives on gaydar tests, and nationwide postal anthrax too,
(how many died, did I? did you?)

O Media, which me protects,
Tell me what to be scared of next.

Make me frightened with filmstock grainy,
E coli lettuce and "richard" cheney,
I heard he ca...

It's life, Jim
But not as we know it.

Tantalizing green women,
Night after night. (mr. sulu, take the helm)

If I give 'er any more she'll blow, indeed.

No, I can't diagnose that sore on the end of your.......well, after all,
Dammit, I'm a television actor, not a doctor, Jim.

You boldly went where no man did before, on a five year mission.
Seeking out new life........and lonely, single civilizations.

Set phasers to kill, indeed.

Don't look now, "kling-ons" on your......sta...

Alright, sports fans. So you've had a rough day of protesting the Iraq war by blocking Seattle rush-hour traffic. (thanks a lot by the way.........damn it.) No? You're the biggest pro-Bush fan since his Scottie dogs?

America is divided politcally over the war in Iraq. Everybody's got an opinion about it. I'm sure you're forming your opinion based on sound judgement stemming from long hours of research and well informed decision making. Maybe not.

I was reminded tonight of a Daily Show epi...

Washington - March 6, 2007

In a surprise move by acting Secretary of the Army Peter Green, the Department of the Army has decided on the ninth major change to the Kevlar body armor in the past three years. Although unorthodox, the doctors at Walter Reed have announced a new surgical technique that will allow soldiers to be tattooed, head to foot with liquid Kevlar.

Critics of the program call it ludicrous, insane, and immoral. Others wonder why the Army hasn't thought of it sooner. Says pr...