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Rampage of the Innocents - My Historical Romance Novel (now, with more sex and violence for my teenaged readers)
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Norman Rogers recounts the summer he spent hiding from the stern love of his father and living as the world-famous "frisky mole boy" in the Groton, Connecticut sewer system. The Frisky Mole Boy of Groton seduced the women of the town and solved crimes, all while subsisting on a steady diet of depravity and confusion.
I Love My Guns More Than My Children
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Why wouldn't you blurt out all of your secrets to Bill Shatner? He's a fantastic listener. I think that if his acting career hadn't been so successful, he would have made a tremendous talk show host.
Friday, July 30, 2010 
Time to go after the dingbat who made up a phony story?
Former Vice President Al Gore will not face prosecution on an allegation of sexual assault from 2006.
The allegation, brought forth by Molly Hagerty, claims Gore sexually abused her during a professional massage at the Hotel Lucia in Portland, Oregon, on October 24, 2006.
The Portland Police Bureau did not recommend prosecution "due to a lack of credible evidence," according to the Multnomah County district attorney's office.
"After evaluating the materials submitted by PPB I have concluded that I agree with the assessment that a sustainable criminal case does not exist," Senior Deputy District Attorney Don Rees wrote in a memo Friday. "Ms. Hagerty's detailed statement ... is insufficient to support a criminal charge given other contradictory evidence, conflicting witness statements, credibility issues, lack of forensic evidence and denials by Mr. Gore."
I've said it before and I'll say it again--if this story had been about Dan Quayle, you would have never heard the end of it.
What were those "credibility issues?" I would certainly like to know how this situation got to where it is, and why has my time been wasted?
*the other crazy allegation was the one where he was rightfully elected President of the United States. Snap!
Friday, July 30, 2010 
I would rather not see your muu muu riding up like that, Ma'am.Are there still some sensitive souls out there who don't want to hear the truth? We are living in Fatass Nation. A self-centered, overfed country full of chattering boobs is slouching toward a self-amused rendezvous with oblivion. We need to slim down, toughen up, think of the common good, and put an end to tomfoolery, grabassing, and spirited hijinks.
Why am I thinking that the use of the word "cranky" hear is intended to defend a useless generation from criticism?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a former Eagle Scout, addressed the Boy Scout jamboree being held at Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill.—and struck a decidedly cranky tone.
In his Wednesday speech, Gates said that young Americans are “increasingly physically unfit,” and cast doubts their character, too. QuotingWalter Lippman, Gates said he sees daily “the disaster of the character of men” and “the catastrophe of the soul.”
But, he was quick to add, not among Boy Scouts.
“At a time when many American young people are turning into couch potatoes, and too often much worse, scouting continues to challenge boys and young men, preparing you for leadership,” Gates said.
Gates praised scouting for pushing young people into the wilderness to learn both about nature and self reliance. He also said the Boy Scout’s great contribution was encouraging public service. “The scouting movement shows dramatically that service, public service, still beckons the best among us to do battle with complacency, neglect, intolerance, and the emptiness of the spirit that are the common enemies of social peace and justice,” he said.
The Boy Scouts are just another paramilitary organization, you know.
Norman Rogers | tagged Commentary, Culture, Current Affairs, Defense, Fitness, Media, Society, Thoughts | in A Man of War, A Professional Blogger Like Me, American Society, Assorted Musings, Fatass Nation, Freak Show, My Brilliant Observation, Norman Rogers, Phony Outrage, Shooting Past the Obvious, Walk Like the Dickens Email Article Friday, July 30, 2010 
Interested (a photo that I took recently)I don't know what to make of this:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday that he was disappointed by criticism from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates over the release of about 76,000 pages of U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan.
Gates said Thursday that the massive leak will have significant impact on troops and allies, revealing techniques and procedures.
Assange rejected that assessment Friday, saying in a release that Gates "has overseen the killings of thousands of children and adults" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, also criticized Assange and the person who gave him the documents. WikiLeaks, Mullen said, was risking lives to make a political point.
"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," Mullen said Thursday at a Pentagon news conference.
I still think Assange is a useful idiot. He's being used because his self-righteousness is his Achilles heel. The intelligence and defense communities know how to exploit self-righteousness. I don't care whether you're talking about the United States, Britain, France or wherever else--self-righteousness is what turns the screw when it comes to justifying a bloated defense budget. There are players, and then there are the people being played. Who has mastered the game? Assange? Please.
He represents a world view that is inherently anti-American and anti-Western, provided that he is still able to make money in Western society without being incarcerated or marginalized. The events of the last few months have inflated his sense of entitlement. Well, he has the freedom to be a powerful, influential figure solely because the intelligence gathering agencies and the defense ministries and the larger national security community of the Western nations (mostly just NATO) have not done what their counterparts in most of the world would have done and that is kill him outright.
If you need further proof that there is a judicious hand behind what we're doing, look no further than the fact that Assange is still alive. Speaks volumes.
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Mippin Portal for An American LionI don't know if this is even going to work, but it sure sounds like something I need to be doing. Follow me on Mippin!
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Friday, July 30, 2010 
Count Chocula kicks some serious ass, sirThe headlines are breathlessly precious and full of portent: Anne Rice has left Christianity:
Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity.
The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist," “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.”
Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian ... It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”
Rice then added another post explaining her decision on Thursday:
“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me," Rice wrote. "But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been or might become.”
Marketing ploy or the sad realization of a person that God has thwarted their ambitions? Well, God and I have always gotten along swell. I think she's doing a great job.
There's a little bait and switch here, however. She's turning her back on the faith but she still puts Jesus up on a pedestal. That's bad news for her legion of vampire fans (Count Chocula is the only vampire that ever made sense to me). Did it occur to her that there could be a Christian faith without Jesus? Or that there could be a Jesus and no Christianity but a sort of "feel-good" religion that eschewed war? Not the Quakers. No, that would make too much sense for someone who is against violence to simply become a Quaker. They don't sell too many books, I guess.
If the marketing people tell her she should hook up with Scientology or the Wiccans, let's hope this all gets sorted out before the paperback edition comes out.
What if Jesus was a vampire? One who liked to wear ascots and drive a Jaguar?
Yeah.
Got you there.
Peace out, homeys.
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