Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Moving moving moving

You see , the thing is, I don't like linkslutting around too much. And I hardly think I can just drop a sentence or two like "Dick Cheney may well prove to be the most ineptly dangerous/dangerously inept man in American political history" without some supporting arguments. Which he is. Was. Whatever.

Also. my editor will also kill me if she sees another 1000 word blog post before she gets BB #14 in. I'm pinned.

So in short, some quick observations:

1.) Don't lie to grand juries or the FBI. That's a crime, whether you like it or not.

2.) "Government" is not a problem. The "government" is the focused will of the people. Specific Administrations within governments are the problem.

3.) The Taliban and Al-qaida are building training camps and fielding battalion-sized forces. New rule -- one land war in Asia at a time.

4.) Please remember -- when you bomb people for their own good, they rarely take the point in the way you hoped. Empathy is our friend. When America was attacked, its population became incredibly nationalistic, and rallied wildly behind a leader who was of mediocre popularity beforehand. Assume other countries are also populated by human beings. (EDIT: Ezra also reminds us that President Ahmadinejad is not Hitler, primarily because unlike Hitler, he doesn't actually run anything. If you're going to argue that Iran s dangerous, then you have to start with the idea that you're talking about the Islamic Supreme Council going batshit nuts and signing their own death warrants, and move on from there. At least that will be a factually accurate discussion.)

5.) What Guliani's popularity proves is that the right wing of this country doesn't really care about so much are religious principles, but a big Daddy figure, the more authoritarian and Daddy-ish the better. Trading Bush in for Guliani is like going from strong-talking but secretly not very competent Daddy to mean smart Daddy who knows how to balance a checkbook.

Maybe we need to stop looking to the President to be our Daddy. Just saying.

6.)When wounded soldiers lay in their own urine at Walter Reed, we're sending units to Iraq without appropriate training or appropriate equipment (AGAIN or STILL, depending on my rage levels) --
Guard Units Short on Vital Equipment. Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, commander of the Oklahoma National Guard, said in an interview that one-third of his soldiers lacked the M-4 rifles preferred by active-duty soldiers and that there were also shortfalls in night vision goggles and other equipment. If his unit is going to be sent to Iraq next year, he said, “We expect the Army to resource the Guard at the same level as active-duty units.” Capt. Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state’s 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for it’s 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers. [New York Times, 2/22/07]

-- and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff say the Army is close to breaking -- then I can no longer remind you that "supporting the troops" is not the same as "agreeing with absolutely everything certain bastards in suits say." They are two distinct phrases with two distinct meanings. If you cannot see the difference between the job of soldiers and the job of sending soldiers to do things that have not been properly thought out -- I can no longer even attempt to engage. I am exhausted, sir. I will merely file your name in a tiny notebook, which sits in my desk, waiting until the day the Puke Gun is finally perfected. Then, my friends, then you had best bib the fuck up. Lobster bibs, improvised napkin bibs, whatever, and you scrabble on over to the linoleum because I will not leave until you have Krauthammered all over yourself and your loved ones.

7.) The Ask a Ninja DVD is out today. That is a good thing.

8.) And this was what I was working on last year

Brosnan takes the job while preparing a sequel to "The Thomas Crown Affair," which John Rogers scripted and Brosnan is producing under his Irish DreamTime banner. A director will be set shortly and production will begin before year's end.

The producers on it are filthily cool, and I hope they'll let me talk about the process a bit for your illumination. All this, of course, assuming somebody doesn't come along and rewrite the script after me. Which does happen, you know. Or so I've heard.

40 comments:

nolo said...

YES.

By the way, your puke gun link is broken.

marc bernardin said...

I just told my two-year-old to "bib the fuck up." The look on my wife's face was worth it.

Thanks for that.

Unknown said...

Fixed link, thanks.

Marc, I'll drop you a line soon -- madness here, but I want to chat.

Anonymous said...

No more Denis Leary, Please.

Please.

You can bump him off in the prologue if you want, but he is simply not skilled with the acting or the humor.

Anonymous said...

John, have you seen this?

Wes was a Marine, to be exact, a member of the United States Marine Corps. As an eighteen year old he got wet on the beaches of Iwo Jima, Saipan and several other unfriendly islands during WWII, and came home, much to his surprise, without a wound, well not a wound anyone could see, but one he would carry up to the present.

The other day, prior to the media frenzy over the death of Anna Nicole Smith, I dropped by to visit and as I entered the room I saw that he was crying...big tears rolling down his face. I asked him what was wrong, a question that I immediately knew was kinda dumb, I mean the guy is dying. He pointed to the TV which was looping video of young Marines in some city in Iraq kicking in doors and tearing up civilian homes. Women and children, frightened into silence stood by as these young Marines tore their homes apart and arrested their men. In a barely audible voice he said, "What have they done to my Corps? What have they done?"

Anonymous said...

Maybe we need to stop looking to the President to be our Daddy. Just saying.

I think this link backs that sentiment up pretty strongly.

towniebastard said...

A sequel to the Thomas Crown Affair will make my wife very happy. It makes me pretty happy as well. Can you write another scene with Rene Russo wearing that black dress again?

Hadyn said...

Ooooo the pressure of a Thomas Crown sequel. That bowler-hat-Nina-Simone final scene is one of my all time heist film favourites.

Unknown said...

Are you kidding me? I almost didn't take the movie because I didn't want to compete with that.

Teddy said...

I do love this blog.

Anonymous said...

Ahem. John, lock the back door, and the next time you meet your editor, have her checked for guns. I'm just saying.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

zWhy don't y'all just go and kick a cripple while yer at it! Until you've almost died a couple of times and had to function as the vice-president of the United States of America, then y'all oughta hush up.

1) Don't lie to grand juries about running a cocaine operation out of the White House while having sex with chubby fat girls.

2) Yer right - Government ain't the problem. People protesting the government is the problem

3) There wouldn't be no Taliban and al Qaeda if y'all would stop protesting the government.

4) I'll "assume" they're human beings when they stop trying to blow us up.

5) Guiliani had gay roomates and that's enough for me not to vote for him.

6) You can blame Clinton for the sad state of the Army and for not starting the War on Terror earlier and disgracing the United States with that chubby Jewish girl. But then again, I couldn't have sexual intercourse with Hillary niether!

God is Love!
BBN

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