Ralph Fiennes is nasty. And I wasn’t aware of the fact that he was on his way to talk to people about AIDS when he had unprotected sex with a stranger.

And the only real friend Britney Spears has was the hairdresser that refused to shave her head.

There. Next.

There were a few moments, when bullets were pinging around him and his unit was pinned down and greatly outnumbered by Iraqi insurgents, that Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein thought he was going to die.

He considered ordering his soldiers to start destroying equipment so it didn’t fall into enemy hands.

“But instead of taking the time to do that, I decided to take the fight directly into the trenches,” Nein said yesterday, moments after being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary bravery while defending a supply convoy on a road southeast of Baghdad in March 2005.

~SNIP~
Two others in the unit—Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester and Spec. Jason Mike, also showed great bravery.

In June 2006, Hester, Mike and Nein were awarded Silver Stars for their action during a ceremony in Iraq. Hester became the first woman to earn a Silver Star for action in Iraq.

(The damned hippy’s Cousin Joe there with Mrs. Cousin Joe and Staff Sgt. Nein)

So today is the Daytona 500 and Chinese New Year*.  So what do I do to celebrate NASCAR’s biggest race and the Year of the Pig?

I cook some Chinese spare ribs, a stir fry of bok choy, broccoli, snow peas, and shiitake mushrooms and serve it all with a side of chili-citrus-ginger noodles.

And I wash it all down with some Tsingtao beer.

* For those of you who don’t know - Mrs. TC and I adopted our son Connor from China in March of 2006.

After I bought my house we found a bunch of egg cartons and firecrackers (with a book of matches rubber banded around them) in my attic.

..........you find a lovely farm house set in a decent plot of land. the place has been empty for 15 years!

whilst exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. the door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open.........

Boazo

Hu spent the evening frying dough twists, eating steamed potatoes and making paper cuts with poor farmers?

Tonights episode:
Disc one of Desperate Housewives.

Payback’s a bitch.

Hey crickets, HE didn’t pick it. Sheesh.

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InterTubes weird here in the desert.... More anon.

I know, let’s PISS ON IT!

My wife and I recently watched as our three boys marched off to join Easy Company of the Army’s 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Their stoic faces belied their youth — ages 8, 6 and 4 — as they faced the horrors of dropping into Normandy 1944 as part of their best friend’s birthday party. There was plenty of action, of course, but nothing like what the parents would experience a few days later.

It appears that, as casualties and opposition rise with the Iraq war, even Liam Bowman’s 8th birthday party can become fodder in our national debate. Outraged parents complained that we were perverting the minds of children by glorifying war. Yet, there is something to learn from war — as we found out later with a visit to a small Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in rural Maryland.

It began as a birthday party for Liam, who has watched the HBO series Band of Brothers so many times that he can name all the men of Easy Company as easily as his third-grade class roster. Liam’s mom, Brigid Schulte, threw an authentic Easy Company party with World War II music, jump wings, Normandy maps, ammo boxes and root beer in the mess hall. With Liam’s dad, Tom Bowman, in Iraq covering a real war for National Public Radio, I agreed to play the role of Col. Robert Sink (head of the Airborne Regiment) while Liam served as Lt. Richard Winters, the central figure and commander of Easy Company in the series.

The outrage

As soon as the invitations went out, a couple of parents politely declined to let their children come to a war-themed party. Afterward, Brigid — a Washington Post reporter — wrote a short piece about the party, and the response from outraged readers was fast and furious. Describing the whole affair as deeply disturbing, one reader chastised Brigid for giving into the base, violent inclinations of her son: “Here’s a novel idea: Say no. Tell him that war is sad and horrible and should never be a cause for celebration.” ..........................

A coalition of major terror groups operating in Iraq today announced a symbolic, non-binding ceasefire in response to House Democrats’ passage of a non-binding resolution rejecting President George Bush’s troop surge plan...........................

How do you make a meal with a simple cheese pizza?
Nothing really goes with it but salad and that gets old.

It’s easier to try and think of things I wouldn’t do for this....

In this photo released by the Institute of Natural History and Ecology of the state of Chiapas, a chunk of amber containing an almost one-centimeter (0.4-inch) frog that was recently discovered by a miner in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, Feb. 16, 2007. If authenticated, researchers believe that the frog could have been preserved in the amber for 25 million years.

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I have a pretty darn cool dead stuff collection...but this is breathtakingly beautiful.

The plan follows revelations in this newspaper that people who live in areas with good schools, clean streets and low crime rates face big increases in their council tax bills.

It’s The Old Cock not the........

...and pruning.

OHMY!

As long as the pollen from the pines don’t kill me.

.........The closer a counterfeit comes to the genuine article, the more obvious the deceit. As the murderer dressed in women’s clothes walked purposefully toward his target, there was a village man ahead. But under the guise of a simple villager was a true Martyr, and he, too, had his target in sight. The Martyr had seen through the disguise, but he had no gun. No bomb. No rocket. No stone. No time.

The Martyr walked up to the murderer and lunged into a bear hug, on the spot where we were now standing.

The blast ripped the Martyr to pieces which fell along with pieces of the enemy. Ball-bearings shot through the alley and wounded two children, but the people in the mosque were saved. The man lay in pieces on the ground, his own children having seen how his last embrace saved the people of the village...............

I practically wear it like purfume

A common ingredient in many beauty products can increase the user’s chances of suffering from “superbug” infections including MRSA, it was warned today.

Scientists have discovered that repeated exposure to low doses of tea tree oil could endanger people.

The experts from the University of Ulster revealed exposure to low doses of the oil made pathogens such as MRSA, E.coli and salmonella more resistant to antibiotics, and capable of causing more serious infections.

Tea tree oil is commonly used in beauty products, but there is no legislation requiring manufacturers to state the concentration of the oil.

Prof David McDowell, of the university’s Food and Microbiology Research Group, said this increased the risks that people would use low concentrations of the product, fail to kill bacteria and increase resistance to antibiotics.

Just tonight I was offered the option of sparring with a hot kickboxing chick in the ring instead of on the mats...but I had to put on stinky sweaty nasty shin guards that have probably been worn by at least everyone that’s gone through that place at least once. Or I could opt to NOT put on stinky sweaty nasty shin guards and NOT spar with a hot kickboxing chick in the ring instead of on the mats and just do bag work.

..............So there I am 1/2 way underneath the ring digging toward the back of the piles of house stinky sweaty nasty boxing gear for a pair hoping the ones toward the back have been worn the least, gagging audibly as I slip them on and get pointed and howled at by some little 5 year old brown belt turd.

Prolly it’s a good thing that I work out in a dirty sweaty gym. I’ll bet I get exposed to EVERYTHING in there. (it’s more than enough to know what I already know of)
Makes me tougher. Haven’t been sick in months but for a touch here and there.

‘cept for that MRSA infucktion that almost killed me a year ago.

thanks, Boazo