Panderings of a Young Conservative Mind

Subject:	Soldiers HATE the New York Times
Time:	1:00 pm.

June 26, 2006
A word from Lt. Cotton

Dear Messrs. Keller, Lichtblau & Risen:

Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.)

Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.

Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.

And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.

Very truly yours,

Tom Cotton
Baghdad, Iraq

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Subject:	Google Joins the Biased Media...Like Forever Ago.
Time:	6:00 pm.

I was trying to do a Google search on the story of the American soldier who took down like a bajillion insurgent terrorists first using his M16, and then his 9mm and then an enemy AK47, along with I believe a couple of grenades and an RPG launcher RAMBO STYLE! It's the kind of story you tell again and again because it's too freaking cool to forget. The kind of story you'd THINK would be well filtered and distributed throughout the mediums of the internet. You'd THINK. But instead all of my searches ended with lists and lists of negative attack stories of our military, Liberal blogs and websites, anti-american tales of Iraqi woe. After an hour and a half of that I got rather sick of searching (I've never had that much of a problem) and then somewhat suspicious of my one beloved search engine.

A quick research quest today brought up this... And now I know why.

from NewsBusters May 22nd

Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites?

Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.

At first blush, one can easily ignore such business decisions by the most powerful company on the Internet as being routine. However, on closer examination, such behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce) a degree of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess.

The article lists several examples of Conservative articles and sites that were cut off from their news resource pit, and then goes into why...HMMMMmmmmmmmm!

Is Your Internet News Service Fair and Balanced?

Few people with an above room temperature intelligence quotient question the existence of bias in the media, although there is great debate about the slant. However, it is conceivable that few folks have considered the possibility of Internet news providers possessing such partiality, and, maybe more important, the ramifications.

In the case of Google, there is some evidence that its employees lean strongly to the left. According to a February 2005 USA Today article on the subject: “As it claws for greater power, the Democratic Party has found a newly rich ally in one of the fastest-growing U.S. companies: Google.” The article stated that of the over $200,000 Google employees gave to federal candidates in 2004, “98% went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors.” And, with a largely successful public stock offering making “scores of millionaires among [Google’s] 3,000 workers,” “Democrats now have a potentially potent source of cash as they fight to retake the White House and Congress.”

Potentially more telling, a May 15 “Washington Prowler” piece at The American Spectator disclosed a link between Google and the ultra-left wing MoveOn.org:

Google has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation [“Net Neutrality”]. Some of that money has gone to an online petition drive and a letter-writing campaign, but the majority of that money is being used to fund their activities against Republicans out in the states.

Beyond this, Google appears intimately tied to former vice president and potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore. It is no secret that Gore is a senior advisor to Google, a position that garnered him a sizable number of shares according to Fox News political analyst Susan Estrich. On May 19’s “The Big Story,” Estrich discussed with host John Gibson Gore’s connection with Google, and how the wealth generated from the shares he owns in the Internet behemoth could give him enough money to finance his own presidential campaign.

This relationship goes further. According to a recent Wired magazine article about Gore, he is extremely close to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt who “supported Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.” Moreover, in April 2005, Google partnered with Gore’s cable channel, Current.

While Conservative sources seem to be under close scrutiny of Google, OTHER blogs and websites get a free pass. Sites with, to say the least, serious credibility problems (including hard-core anarchist site Infoshop, Justin Raimondo’s paleocon antisemitic site antiwar.com, barking moonbat lunatic asylum Democratic Underground, radical Islamic jihadi site khilafah.com and extremist pro-Palestinian site electronic intifada).

I think I remember somebody saying that their news wasn't liberal because they got it from Google. Oh wait, hang on...lemme pull it up. Yeah it's right here on my journal!

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What's funny here is that usually I turn CNN off in disgust and go to Google News for my source.

So, try again?

Looks like I didn't have to. Pwnd.

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Subject:	Hey David
Time:	3:42 pm.

From The Los Angeles Times: In this paper, war heroes are MIA by Frank Schaeffer. (via TIA Daily)

[I]f the "chattering classes" ever wonder why those of us in the military family sometimes bitterly resent the media, they need look no further than the "Haditha story." What bothers me is that I haven't seen one recent story dedicated to the heroism of our troops given such consistent prominence in The Times or other leading papers. Nor have I read a front-page headline about a military medal ceremony and the story behind it, although every year I see front-page treatment in The Times of who wins the Oscars. ...

The prominence of stories about military malfeasance, absent stories about military heroism, creates an out-of-whack impression. When it comes to reporting on the military, it's as if we're back in the 1950s, only this time the media prejudice and insensitivity are aimed at military service rather than race. In the 1950s, you rarely saw a story about an African American unless he or she committed a crime or was portrayed with condescension as a victim. ...

What I would like to see is acts of military heroism regarded once again as newsworthy. Here is one story that would have merited a front-page headline if the editorial values of this paper were less dismissive of military valor.

Staff Sgt. Anthony L. Viggiani is one of the recently distinguished heroes of the Marine Corps. On Feb. 24, he was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Afghanistan in June 2004. Viggiani had been fighting Taliban remnants who were killing teachers and burning girls' schools. He led his men in combat after being wounded. He chased down and killed or captured the enemy. He humanely tended to the wounded enemy fighters he had been fighting moments before. He led his men to safety and honor. Was a Times reporter sent to cover the medal ceremony and to report on what lay behind it? If not, why not? Whose values dictate that winning a Navy Cross is less important than a Pulitzer, an Oscar or a PEN award?

Here is the Marines news release about Viggiani: DI awarded Navy Cross for actions in Afghanistan.

From the Media Research Center: Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroes. (via Hot Air)

While ABC, CBS and NBC have chosen to highlight this potential scandal, a new Media Research Center study finds those same networks have given far less attention to the heroic deeds of the 20 members of the U.S. military who have received the highest recognition for bravery since the war on terror began. In fact, 14 of the country's top 20 medal recipients have gone unmentioned by ABC, CBS and NBC. ...

None have been given more than a fraction of the attention that the latest allegations against the military have received. And while the networks have told of acts of heroism by others in the military with Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester of the Kentucky National Guard getting the most coverage among those honored with a Silver Star none of those other positive stories have interested the networks as much as news of possible military misconduct.

Yes, David. Your news IS biased.

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Subject:	Uh...
Time:	3:24 pm.

from her
DEAR Dwight

CAN YOU MARRY ME? I AM LADY OF 29 YEARS FROM AFRICA
AND I CAME ACROSS YOUR PICTURE THROUGH THE PHOTO ALBUM WEB SITE AND I REALLY APPRECTIATED
YOUR LOOKING.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MARRY ME, GET BACK TO ME AS SOON
AS YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL SO THAT I CAN MAKE MY PICTURE
AVAILABLE TO YOU FOR YOU TO SEE ME.

WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

MAY THE GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOUR ENDEAVOURS,

LARRIS.

from me
why do you want to marry me?

from her
DEAR Dwight,

I REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR LOOKING AND STARTED
DEVELOPING THE LOVE FOR YOU AFTER SEEING YOUR PICTURE.
BUT IT IS NOT NECESSARY THAT WE MUST MARRY EACH OTHER,
BUT WE CAN BE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND KNOWING EACH
OTHER VERY WELL . ANY OTHER THING CAN TAKE PLACE FROM
THERE.

I REALLY NEED SOME BODY WHOM I CAN TRUST, HOPE YOU ARE
TRUST WORTHY?

WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.

REMAIN BLESSED IN THE LORD AND WITH LOVE ,

LARRIS.

NOTE: YOU WILL NEVER REGRET MEETING OR KNOWING ME.

... wtf

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Subject:	Brilliant. Strictly Brilliant!
Time:	3:44 pm.

Man I wish I could have been there!

I was lingering near the audio equipment at one point when a middle-aged couple asked me if I knew the price of some speakers. I looked for a price tag and then read $99.99 labeled on the shelf by the product. I said "$99.99?" Unsure. And they pointed out, "No. That is the price of the wireless speakers". "Oh", I said "Maybe it's been labeled wrong." The man said, "Well, do you work here? I said, No," but I thought they looked like good speakers. They looked puzzled.

Just then an actual Best Buy floor clerk approached me:

Employee: "You can't talk to my customers".
Simmons: "I'm just having a friendly conversation with these people
Employee: "But you don't work here."
Simmons: "It's a free country I feel I can speak with anybody I choose."
Employee: "You're playing some games."
Simmons: "I'm just here to shop with my wife."
Employee: "Yeah, you and your 50 friends?"
Simmons: "I don't know anybody else here."
Employee: "Yeah, you're instigating (sic) our shirts."

Yes, he said INSTIGATING.

I told him, "I'm only wearing what I wore this morning, and walked away.

A little while later, an older woman with a handful of products walked past me at one point muttering to herself, "Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!"

Read About It!

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Subject:	The Perfect Snack
Time:	1:38 am.

So I was taking a stroll through Wal-Mart with a friend of mine when I happened to look up at one of the big commercial-looping TVs they have hanging in their SuperCenter(tm) and it had this hot ass MILF holding a spoon full of ice cream in a rather tempting manner, eyes gleaming my way and I was caught wondering, "is this diet icecream?" Of course my answer came soon thereafter as a clear and definite "NO." Curse you, Eddie's Icecream.

But then it got me thinking about eating healthy and I looked to my left and saw a carton of Apples. Now, Apples aren't the healthiest thing on the menu of Life but they certainly take the cake for being better for you than Eddie's Ice Cream. So then I started thinking about the practicality of snacks and Apples vs Ice Cream and I concluded that people eat Ice Cream over Apples for two specific reasons. 1) They just have a hankering for it. 2) It fills you up, where as Apples do not. Because, Apples just aren't filling.

But that got me on a roll! What if Apples ARE just as filling as Ice Cream - or better yet MORE SO! Stay with me on this...

Suppose Apples could have the same nutritional elements they had before, or even better nutritional elements. But now they're just as satisfying as Ice Cream in that they leave you with a full and bloated belly just before sleep time! What an invention! What an Idea! I tell you, it'd sell like hotcakes!

So that's when I put it all together... We can geneticaly engineere goats to glow green. Why not genetically engineere Apples to have Chicken in them?

Think about it! No! Keep thinking! Crunchy on the outside! Chewy on the inside! A crisp green layer of apple skin surrounding a nice rounds blob of chicken flesh only THIS chicken flesh GROWS! Like, on a TREE! DUDE! SWEET!

And with all of the healthy attributes Chicken already has to offer, we now have a satisfying meal in one fruit, thing!

I'm a genius.

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Subject:	Stray Cat Rules
Time:	9:32 am.

OK, due to my adoption of Booboo Kitty and the recent influx of stray cats, I've decided to set up new rules for the house to combat my urge to keep bringing more of these fur-dwellers in...

STRAY CAT RULES
1. Stray cats will not be fed.
2. Stray cats will not be fed anything except dry cat food.
3. Stray cats will not be fed anything except dry cat food moistened with a little milk.
4. Stray cats will not be fed anything except dry cat food moistened with warm milk, and leftover fish scraps.
5. Stray cats will not be encouraged to make this house their permanent residence.
6. Stray cats will not be petted, played with or picked up and cuddled unnecessarily.
7. Stray cats that are petted, played with, picked up and cuddled will absolutely not be given a name.
8. Stray cats with or without a name will not be allowed inside the house at any time.
9. Stray cats will not be allowed inside the house except at certain times.
10. Stray cats will not be allowed inside the house except on days ending in "y."
11. Stray cats allowed inside will not be permitted to jump up on or sharpen their claws on the furniture.
12. Stray cats will not be permitted to jump up on, or sharpen claws on the really good furniture.
13. Stray cats can jump on furniture but must sharpen claws on new $114 sisal-rope scratching post with 3 perches.
14. Stray cats will answer the call of nature outdoors in the sand.
15. Stray cats will answer the call of nature in the 3 piece, high-impact plastic tray filled with Fancy kitty litter.
16. Stray cats will answer the call of nature in the hooded litter pan with 3 panel privacy screen and lots of head room.
17. Stray cats will sleep outside.
18. Stray cats will sleep in the garage.
19. Stray cats will sleep in the house.
20. Stray cats will sleep in a cardboard box lined with an old blanket.
21. Stray cats will sleep in the special Kitty-Komfort-Bed with non allergenic lambs wool pillow.
22. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed.
23. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed, except at the foot.
24. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed under the covers.
25. Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed under the covers except at the foot.
26. Stray cats will not play on the desk.
27. Stray cats will not play on the desk near the computer.
28. Stray cats are forbidden to walk on the computer keyboard on the desk when the human is asdfjjhhkl;lj fd.;oier' puyykmm4hbdm9lo9j USING IT.

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Subject:	Floor Down
Time:	10:05 pm.

We finally got most of the plywood bolted to the new framework. Now I am searching for a metal supplier here in Jacksonville. If I can't find one, there is an online depot where I can get my sheets but right now we're looking for 1x1 plates of Cold steel and Diamond Plate, just to test the surfaces. Either way, we're looking at around $500 on just the flooring to do this right. Here we go.

Tomorrow, I need to get ahold of this molding company here in J-town. It appears that the triggers on the AK47s are a little too frail in their plastic state. I'm trying to duplicate the piece in a metal form and replace them all when the guns arive next week. If it's possible to do, my stock will be the most durable and the AK47 will return to the top-of-the-line product in my arsenal. This business is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I left my camera with this kid on our last troop out to Mama Fu's so I can't take any pictures right now. I'll have some soon enough.

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Subject:	Highlights from Home
Time:	9:27 am.

All right, so I'm finally back and all of the celebrations have officially ended. Already I've jumped back to work on carpeting the soundbooth walls and we're almost finished framing the floors. Tomorrow we take the truck out to pick up the last of the boards and plywood floor panels. Soon I'll be able to have all of this junk back in its place and I can finally stretch out on my bed again. But I digress.

*** LA HIGHLIGHTS ***

- La Prive is the best club I've ever been to ever. And it comes at no surprise that the place is completely Korean. You don't pay for entry. You buy a booth with a bottle of Crown Royal and unlimited Korean orderbs. There is no bar to stand in line. If you want anything, anything at all, you raise a candle and a server is there to wait on you. At La Prive - and unlike any American club I've ever been to - they aren't doing you a favor letting you in. You are doing them a favor by giving them your business and they let you know it any way they can. If you ever get the chance, get your friends together and take a visit.

- Hollywood and Highlands is the most over-rated place on Earth, and it can take a walk with Hollywood Blvd. Both of those places are bum-ridden and worthless. Boring as hell. Avoid at all cost. On the pluss side, they are about a five minute walk from Amiba Records which is a giant warehouse gutted and racked with nothing but CDs. Millions of them. Every color, every genre, new and old, rare and rare-er. I love this place. Picked up the Last Dragon sound track as well as a new copy of Team America soundtrack for six bucks. Rocky got tons of breakbeat tracks for pennies. This place rocks. Before your clubbing at La Prive, you may want to check out this place for some on-the-road tunes. Fo shizzle.

- One thing you learn about Hollywood is Never Trust the Producer. Out of the four teams I joined, two of the Producers dropped out without a word and left the rest of us hanging. This after I spent an entire day writing an origional screenplay for them, complete with the stupid jokes and specific scenes that they had insisted on having, and driving me crazy repeating them as if they were works of genius. I hate living. But I met some cool people out of it. The other team that didn't pull through "accidentally" wrote me out of their movie and didn't tell me about it until I called them. On the positive, this drove the AD nuts because he really likes my work and we stay in contact now and he wants to use me for his upcoming screenplay. We'll see how it all works out.

- I did score one role. I was an angry asshole who knocks over and old man and yells at him for being old. Sounds like something I'd do in real life! :)

- I started an airsoft business. Met with my brother's truck-driving buddy who's chinese and took me into the chinese wholesale district to make contacts. Now I have a shipment coming in from Atlanta. 370 lbs of weapons and ammunition. Holy crap I think I just creamed my pants.

- Flew out to Atlanta to attend the second Premiere of The System Within. We have two more to go and the next one will be in my home state, Miami Florida! It was an awesome time and Joey and Chris drove up to support me. We partied and hit on girls and all was groovy. The next day I road with them back home and took a nice, long nap.

And that's pretty much it. Went out to TGIF for my Birthday and everyone showed up and it was cool because it was the first time in years that all of us had seen eachother so everyone was happy. We ate and drank and banged Mary and then went home and watched the Batman and Superman cartoon movie and played Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo in the cinema. All is well here on my end.

Thanks for all of your wellwishing. I'll keep it close to my heart :)

Gotta get back to working on the soundbooth.

Peace all!

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