SO, big news yesterday, bigfat boombooms in Baghdad and they narrowly missed Wolfowitz. Too bad! I don't usually pray for miracles, but another burning Bush wouldn't be a bad thing, either.

I have been thinking lately about all the SUPPORT OUR TROOPS stickers and how people use that crap, and the flag, and words like "freedom" and "life" to make their politics seem unassailable. If you don't 'support our troops' you must be some kind of ungrateful bastard, or worse. And how could you be against freedom? Haven't you read about Saddam? And if you aren't pro-life, you must be...pro death??? And finally, if you aren't proud to be an American, if you insist on runnin her down, you probably hate America.

Well I am up to my eyeballs in my own bile from that kind of strongarm self-righteous donkey dung. I have had it, and I am here to say it, I am not on the defensive motherfuckers because I do, I HATE AMERICA. Now, let's define which America I hate- I hate the overweight, complacent, ignorant, TV brainwashed, Wal_Mart shoppers who buy shit from China and then turn around and complain about not havin no jobs, over-consuming extravagant labor-saving gadget owning, garbage-puking, suburb-sprawling SUV driving, fatass armchair football and armchair war directing idiots who view this country as an island, the best in the world (easy to say when you never been anywhere else) (or mebbe you think it's great cuz all the immigrants want to come here, well, newsflash, they also want to come to Canada, Germany, England, hell anywhere with a better standard of living so don't flatter yourself) and have an unquestioning trust of the same government that tested nukes on their own citizens, and don't know where anything is on a map and don't care and don't have to care about anything but the latest reality TV show and the latest product on the designed-for-obsoloesence-and-crowding-the-landfill-shelf FOX news-watching, watery-canned-beer swilling undereducated exploit-themselves-by-voting-for-obscenely-rich-bastards who-export-their-jobs-pollute-their-backyards-and-cut-their-labor-protections-and-health-benefits (the numerical majority of welfare recipients are still WHITE you dumb hillbilly fucks) (and not a farmer I ever met will hire you to harvest 'cause you are fat and lazy and can't TEN of you hold a match to one determined Mexican)(not that you'd even apply for such a job you'd rather collect unemployment cuz you were born here so you must be too good for that kinda work) Yeah, I hate America. I hate the America that bombs and funds killers across the globe and blood everywhere, my tax dollars at work to manipulate foreign affairs for our world domination. Don't make me list the countries. However one-sided Chomsky may be, he make a fine list of our questionable or downright disgusting displays of disregard for human rights, in the name of....democracy? How the fuck can you be free when you are DEAD? If you want to listen to some fine music by some young men who know what I am talking about, go out and get yourself some ANTI-FLAG. They'll tell you where to stick that bloodsoaked rag.

Speaking of blood, I am also PRO-DEATH. I think abortion is great because, uh, THERE ARE TOO MANY FUCKING BABIES AND WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF CONSUMING THE WHOLE EARTH LIKE A VIRUS. SO what is the point, embrace nihilism, enjoy the ride on the gravy train? It is sick to see how many of my generation embrace that attitude and surf on through the carnage with their sweatshop baseball caps. I hope the next hijacked airplane hits a frathouse.

I am also anti-immigrant; not because I think they are eroding my culture, but because they reproduce more prolifically than later generations; and the last thing the world needs is more American consumers taxing its resources. Culturally, I am all for immigrants and race mixing and whatever else will weaken the grip of my own ethnic group on this country. We've had our turn, let someone else take a turn at oppression. Bring the American Dream to full fruition. Anyhoo, I have been slumming in my local international groceries, tasting the strange fruits of globalization, and I am not sure how I feel that we have so many Russian immigrants lately.. I love the salt-of-the-earth folks but what about the skinhead mafia types? The blonde bimbos seem harmless, but that tired, leathery, machismo of the menfolk? Or the evangelical, Eurocentric racist reproduce like bunnies folks? Just what America needs- a fresh dose of self-righteous whiteys. I know we need nurses, mechanics, janitors... but I was happier with the Filipinos. And yes I am racist in my own special way- against my own race, and the Chinese, who are next in line for world domination through sheer numbers and a materialism that rivals our own. Plus, they eat everything that moves...without the courtesy of closing their lips. There. Said that, too.

I am all for world peace but I am not so naive as to think we can overlook all our differences, folks, being human we'll have nigger jokes as long as there are niggers, and no I am not talking about black folks, not everyone who speaks ebonics is an idiot. No, just niggers as Chris Rock refers to, the ones who chainsmoke as they gas up their car at my local pump, who look you in the eye as they cut you off with no turnsignal leaning hard into their side window because...white people sit up straight? Yeah, niggers who drive at night with only parking lights, whose only sense of power in a society that has systematically stripped them of any status for 300 years is an oppositional rule-breaking style and the fear factor, does that crazy nigger have a gun? I don't blame them, reparations are due. Due, mothafucka! I mean we stil have two Americas, separate and unequal (to borrow a chunk ofHacker's phrase.). Now, I just don't want to pay them by giving loads of my Halloween candy to a joyriding football player in his little brothers' mask shouldering his way into my livingroom, spouting some tweakin bullshit about his sister in the hospital as he shovels. true dat.

But more on my niggaz later. Seems my racism distracted me from our troops. Yes. I finally realized that while I totally respect the committment and professionalism (if you don't count binge drinking and whoring) of our fighting folk, I have no respect for what they have been involved in since WWII. They are sworn to defend our Constitution, and our rights... and to defend our nation. Defense was the only reason given for the creation of the military in the Consitution, and even then it was to be a militia of the people, based in the states, not a standing army. But times change.

Anyway, no one has threatened to take away our freedoms, folks. The North Koreans didn't fly over and start bombing us. The North Vietnamese were not threatening to take away our freedom of speech. Not one enemy has ever had a military capapble of invading the USA and deposing our government. Nuking us, yes. But not without suffering the same fate, so that never happened.

Point is, I really don't know what the hell all our boys have been dying for overseas for the last 50 years, but it has had jack shit to do with my freedom here at home. Wanna know who died for my rights? The labor protestors died so I could get a minimum wage when I worked fast food. Who died for freedom? Martin Luther King Jr. and his bunch died so that the freedoms in the Constitution could be extended to ALL citizens of this country.

So, thanks to the boys in Iraq, but no thanks- you've been bamboozled, and every time one of you is killed, well, it's just chickens coming home to roost. You been hung out to dry like the Vietnam soldiers. Bush wanted a war and now he's got it, and I am stuck paying for it with my taxes and you with your asses. And there are no weapons of mass destruction in sight- so what the hell are you dying for? A charitable effor to help the Iraqis? There's some revisionist history for you- I mean, that isn't what Congress voted on. They were still pissing their pants from 9-11 and BUsh handed them some rap about Saddam is gonna kill us all, terror, terror, terror, scary indistinguishable towelheads, who are all crazy on the religious shit we funded in Saudi Arabia, and so they hate freedom. Nevermind their love for sovreignty and need for dignity.

Here's my message to the troops: do yourself a favor, don't re-enlist. Just get your ass home in one piece, move on with your life, and make a difference back at home. I see them stickers, Pray for America, and I do. We need a few good men right here. Oh, and don't kick my ass over politics- I just disagree with Mr. Rumsfeld. The military is not the problem- it is how it is used. In an ideal world, force is never used. And we can get a lot closer to that ideal than we've done lately.

Yeah, so readers or not, let's blog. I have a serious backlog of rants that need unloading somewhere, anywhere, and this digital diary shit will do. So here's one. I recently had a conversation with an ancient WWII vet, nice guy, but then it got to politics. The country is going to shit, he basically told me, and he didn't envy my generation inheriting it. To shit how? Well, for starters, we're a bunch of wimps. Dan Rather moans about 1 or 2 soldiers dying every day in Iraq. Did I know how many died in WWII?? No. 2 million, he sez. So, I guess by this logic we should shut up until at least 2 million US soldiers are dead, then we can say, hey now, wait a doggone minute, that's more than WWII!!! And we should have been more patient with Vietnam.. or, we should have just 'fought to win' as one relative of mine sez. By nuking the bastards, I would assume, since that's how we saved our soldiers from more casualties in WWII, our so-called 'good war'. Sure, my granddaddy sacrificed; but then I also gather he didn't know what to do with his life, was contemplating opening a grocery or something...but that wasn't what my grandma had in mind, maybe, or he had some wild oats left to sow, who knows whose idea it was, but maybe he was just doing what so many young folks do when they enlist- they are looking for direction. I was once young and in need of direction- and I found it by leaving the country too, but as a social worker instead of a grunt.

I am so sick of these old dinosaurs and their progeny forcing WWII down my throat like some sacred cowflesh. I restrained myself from telling the man what I truly felt- out of a general respect for my elders, who are not long for this earth (thank god)- mind you, I was not silenced out of any respect for his military service, whether or not he considers it selfless. Hear this: Hitler was bad, but there is no such thing as a good war. There is a massive grey area between good an evil, and war is squarely in the grey, especially when the US is involved. What was fucked about WWII? For starters, the internment of 100,000+ Japanese Americans, 90% of whom were citizens. How the fuck can you claim to be fighting for freedom and protecting the Constitution when you systematically deny it to other races every time a war breaks out and your old racists fears are fanned? The old fart confirmed his racism by explaining that he didn't agree with everything Bush did; I almost sighed til he hit me with the follow-up: Bush failed to militarize the Mexican border. There's something that would help the US economy! Shoot the people that risk their lives to slaughter the chickens we fry and pick the grapes we give away to one another for 99 cents a pound. This was where I had to pose a question: how much, I said, do you want to pay for your tomatoes? He immediately conceded that our continued reliance on chepa labor to run the bottom rungs of the capitalist machine was indeed a sticky pickle.


But I am not done yet with why WWII was fucked. What else: oh yeah, the live testing of the Manhattan project on Japan. Uranium on Hiroshima, and Plutionium on Nagasaki. Even peace protestors handed me the standard line that we dropped the bombs to reduce US casualties that were expected in the case of a land invasion of Japan. And that is no doubt why Truman dropped them. But the history you didn't read is how Truman's top diplomats, the people who knew Japan and Japanese culture, advised him to make clear that Emperor Hirohito, revered as a God, was not in danger should Japan surrender. Instead of taking the counsel of culturally competent experts, Truman went with the hawks who demanded 'unconditional surrender.' Remind you of the current adminstration? The Iraqis will embrace us and we will be able to pull our troops out in a matter of months...which middle-East expert propsed that? None of them. It was the hawks masturbating over their global chessboard. Even after the 2nd bomb, the Japs didn't give in. It was only when they understood the Emperor was safe. The bombing, the incineration, the radiation, was completely avoidable. It is a disgrace that should plague our nation to this day, the way the Holocaust plagues German history, that we are the only nation to have ever nuked people. Nuclear weapons, or in modern parlance, weapons of mass destruction. What hypocrisy to demand that other nations should not produce the weapons we have silently threatened the world with for the last 50 years. No one should have nukes. And here is Bush seeking to create new nukes, small nukes, 'bunker busters'. After living through the 80's, when the world awoke to th e lunacy of nuclear escalation, we are again considering building more. Maybe nuclear holocaust is the only solution to cleanse the world of the current capitalist plague. Too bad it would take out so many other species as well.

Now, to his credit, me and the geezer did agree heartily on one thing: where the hell were all these flags on September 10th???? How cheap to see the flag selling peanut butter cookies, vinyl siding, breakfast cereal, and loads of pulpy music (especially that ignorant cowboy crap that can't distinguish between bin laden and saddam...shit encourages truckdriver roadrage. But more on that later.