The One About But If The Fort Hood Shooter Had Been A White Neo-Nazi It Wouldn't Be Terrorism. Right?

I have a really long memory. Unfortunately it is also a really sketchy memory. For example, when all the hullabaloo started after Maj. Nidal Hasan, opened fire at Fort Hood, and many in both the media and politics wanted to start carrying on about how since Hasan, was a Muslim, with links to a radical mosque, his actions were clearly terrorism, I felt a tickle in the back of my brain. It was like a piece of song that you can only remember a couple of the words and have to half hum the rest. In this case it went, “Something, something, Neo-Nazi's something, la da da, United States military.” Or something like that.


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The One About Just Walk It Off Soldier.

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There's a saying, you may have heard at one time or another, “There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way.” Now I don't know if this is actually something that anyone in the United States Army says much, but even so, there is a certain amount of truth to it. To an extent the idea of the military having ways of doing things that are different from the ways that civilian organizations do things, is sensible and to be expected. But sometimes the army seems to think that they can by force of bureaucratic will force human beings to somehow be significantly different from their non military brethren. This is something that frankly is only workable in the short term. In the long term people are people. Their physicalities and more importantly their psychologies are not really terribly different, one from another.

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The One About In Two Words Mr. Herbert, “You're wrong.”

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Sometimes, when I read the opinions of some of my contemporaries I honestly have to wonder how they can be so blind. I'm not usually the sort to think that my opinion is the only possible correct one about most things, but as regards some things there are some opinions that frankly to me just make no sense.

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The One About The Wisdom Of Randal Graves.

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So Rupert Murdoch is considering not allowing Google to search his precious content. A move that Douglas Rushkoff wholeheartedly approves of apparently.

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The One About Like It Or Not MSM We're Part Of The Family.

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I have this uncle, my mother's brother. Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim, was frankly a bit of a jackass. He wasn't really mean or anything, just kind of obnoxious. But still despite any failings he was family, and it never would have occurred to any of us to deny our connection to him. Because that's the way family works. You may fight with each other. You might trash talk to one another's faces, and shit talk behind each other's backs. But you don't deny them, and when needed you make sure that they are taken care of. You (ideally) don't seek your betterment at their expense, nor (ideally again) do they seek theirs at yours.

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The One About A Business I Don't Mind Seeing Wal-Mart Take A Bite Out Of.

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So, Wal-Mart is offering coffins and urns at a huge discount through their website eh? Well it's about damn time!

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The One About To Hell With You (Health Care Reform Edition).

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Well it's angry hour once again here at The One About... Now I can hear you asking, “Gosh Roy, what on earth could you possibly be angry about?” Well faithful reader I'm glad you asked. And to your question I can only reply, “What cave have you been hiding in and did you happen to see Osama Bin Laden there?”

I kid. Seriously though, following path of health care “reform” and watching as it seems like any kind of meaningful reform has gotten watered down to the point that when (if) it's enacted it will amount to no real change either for the people, or for the insurance companies. And after a while of reading all the spin and nonsense I just throw up my hands and have to say, “To Hell With You!”


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