As a soldier myself, I know better. I know that only a combat soldier can represent a combat soldier. It is disingenuous of a chaplain in the U.S. military, for instance, to claim to speak for all soldiers. It is in the chaplain’s job description to, for a lack of better words, justify everything his fellow soldiers do. A chaplain should not come out publicly, posing as a regular combat soldier, and claim to know what the troops want. They do not in any way represent the average combat soldier. They should not come out and say stop complaining about casualties, or what we really want is for America to have the political and moral courage to see the mission through, or Get behind the mission. It is their job, I repeat, to keep the troops morale high by concocting various reasons why they should be a world away from home risking their lives. If my chaplain ever claimed to speak for me I would be sure to deliver unto him a swift kick in the ass!
If I could say something to my cousins at arms down in the U.S. it would be don’t let your padres become political officers! It is disconcerting for me to see chaplains posing as regular G.I’s, sounding more like commissars than spiritual ministers.

It is now in fashion for our neo-con friends to say look at Vietnam. We were going to win, and then we pulled out, and now those 60,000 lives were lost in vain. Let us not make the same mistake in Iraq.
But the pro-war make too many assumptions: 1) That we are pacifists, 2) That we think it is reasonable for American forces to pull out right away now that they have created such a mess, 3) That the troops do not know there is some doubt as to the reasons they are there in the first place.
The latter is most important when it comes to the ramblings of our modern day zampolit.

While they may at first appear to have a brain, the folks at ProtestWarrior.com are fucktarts and so are their followers.
I was sometimes amused by the way they poked fun at leftist or liberal stupidity, that is, until I realized they intended to replace it with a stupidity all their own.

In their manifesto they want progressives to just be honest and admit, get this “that we hate freedom”. And they must mean it when they say it. They actually think we hate freedom. And the reason we spend so much time studying human freedom, and becoming active in ways to improve our freedom is because: we hate it.

In fact, I hate freedom so much, sometimes when I’m bored and I don’t know what to do I just shackle myself to a concrete pillar in my furnace room and beat myself up with a lead pipe.

You honestly have to be nearly retarded to buy into this.

One of the founders was a major in political science (no word on whether he got his degree). But somehow, citing the threat of ‘Islamo-Fascists’ they manage to ask, with a straight face I think ? do you think these type of people want to destroy us because we’re bad, or do they want to destroy us because we’re good? This is the fundamental question that determines how we deal with the threat we face.”

Wow, I never knew it could be boiled down in such simple terms. I wonder if every other nation in history that felt threatened believed that they were on the side of the ‘good’.

There’s only one explanation for this:

Then they take a bite out of Friedman’s ass: “Don’t you see there is a trillion dollar market for education out there? If we had free-enterprise education, businessmen would be funding schools all over the place, each one competing to offer the best services, the highest standards. Parents would take an active role, shopping for the best schools for their children. They would be clients, not voters. What a renaissance of education we would have.”

Sure. I want my curriculum devised by a corporate board of directors. I want what I learn to be in the interests of shareholders. Oh what a renaissance of education we would have! All the complications of a two-tiered or free market system are left out of the picture for obvious reasons.

And while some of their posters are admittedly funny, others look like this:

And they brag about “crashing” protests. Like it’s such a heroic feat to barge in on some wimpy hippies and shove sarcastic signs in their faces. Anybody can do that. My grandma did it last night. But just to make sure they don’t pull these stunts again we’re starting a new organization called:

God I need some Tim Horton’s right now.

Ideas are like nails, the more you hit them, the deeper they go.
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I didn’t realize I was on the wrong path in life until a neo-con told me “you have no moral compass”. It all made sense to me after that.
For every day I spent kicking old ladies, painting cats, cheating on my fiance with flat-faced hookers, and shooting heroin, it was all because I didn’t have a little plastic square thing with a magnet and some grids and numbers that was somehow connected to my sense of morality.
As for why these people choose a compass to make their analogy: First, compasses are stubborn. They inevitably point North. So they’re right, I don’t have a compass. Compasses are for navigating terrain, not life. Bitches. Besides, compasses are unreliable when you don’t know how to use them properly. You can plot a backbearing, misjudge distances, set the wrong magnetic declanation, etc.
The next time I do a navigation exercise with my troops I’m going to tell them to put away their compasses and use their common sense. We’ll see if that works.

One word: Lenin.

No rock group since has had such a revolutionary among their ranks. Not to be confused with the other Lennon, Lenin opted to start a revolution from his bed using the powers of peace and love and… and other stuff… You see, because through the power of music and shit you can get people who are infatuated with your rock star-ness to also sit around and do nothing. And when that happens the state magically puts itself back in the hands of the people and not those of corporations.

Lennon, on the other hand, got too involved in academics, law, politics, and all that other mumbo jumbo. For his efforts he was awarded a circle of friends with bushy moustaches and a lust for power. All this shit made him so stressed out, nigga had a few strokes and eventually died. His shady friends stuck him in a mausoleum where you can see his embalmed body to this day.

He didn’t even write any good songs. He was all serious and shit.

In contrast, Lenin was assasinated, shot dead by Mark David Chapman in New York City. That’s the sign of a real revolutionary. Real revolutionaries don’t go out like suckas.

When I was going through highschool it was all the rage to have a Beatles haircut. Some kids were even kicked out of school for having them. The teachers thought it made kids unruly, or that it wasn’t respectfully conservative enough, etc. So imagine their surprise when I showed up at school looking like Lenin, with my head shaved completely bald except for the sides, a raggedy suit and tie combo, and trademark goatee (drawn on with black permanent marker).

I just wanted to show respect to Walter Jones a pro-Iraq war US congressman who wanted to change French frie to “freedom fries”.
First of all as a side note contrary to popular belief I would like to point out that french fries all called that way NOT because they are from France, but simply because the way the potatoes are cut to make them shape … like fries… it’s called “to french”.
Now I am not shakespeare or a linguist specialist but I found it funny that there was such a great deal… when it was not even a symbol of France.

What happened is that Mr Walter Jones decided to change his opinion on the war in Iraq.

“I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that’s all been proven that it was never there.”

He said his change of heart about the war came after he attended the funeral of a US sergeant killed in Nasiriya, Iraq, in April 2003. Mr Jones said he was moved by the soldier’s widow who read out her husband’s last letter.

“And that really has been on my mind and my heart ever since,” he said.
BBC News

It takes a lot of courage and evidence for someone like him to change his opinion. I am surprised that the french fries deal was covered so much everywhere and that now no one is really talking about it…

Dr. Lawrence Britt did an examination of the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and Latin American regimes. He found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military -
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism -
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media -
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security -
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined -
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected -
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed -
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections -
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

There is something I can’t stand, it’s when some random housewife shows attitute and writes ‘nah’.
Jus the attitute that this word suggests makes me want to wear a pair of boxing gloves and destroy their teeths… After that at least they would not show their snobby attitute anymore and instead of ‘nah’ would just say ‘nyah’.

On another note, apparently the poor soldiers over there don’t have air conditioners…. poor souls. I mean we have to be gratefull to them after all, cause when we are stuck in the heat on the highway and we have nice cool fresh air in the car from the AC it’s thanks to the oil they are securing over there for us. So let’s thank them and hope that they get AC very soon. Once they get AC maybe we could see what we can do for the rest of the world where there is no water and people dying from dehydratation (yes there are people dying because they don’t have water to drink).
After that we can pray for your brave mercenaries, so that they also also get each one of them satelite TV and a painting kit… and hey why not a hair dryer too…

Today being unpopular is all the rage. Whether you’re left or right on the political spectrum, you’re not cool unless you’re pissing people off. The pundits and personalities love to say “If I’m not making people angry I’m doing something wrong”, which is a lot like saying –

How does that make sense? When did this happen?
I have an idea. It all started with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. Remember him? He was the first “bad guy” in the WWF to be “cool”. He kicked ass everywhere and for whatever reason. He just didn’t care. And the people came to love him. He whooped the pansies, drank beer in the ring, swore, beat his wife, and generally did everything a real man should. I, of course, thought he was ridiculous. I couldn’t believe people were cheering for this asshole.

“Stone Cold” wins the belt after some unsavoury deed.

In the good old days we had tough guys and girls that perhaps seemed to be assholes or bitches at first, but inside they had a good heart, and we knew it. We held back our cheers until they reformed. John Travolta is famous for playing such characters. Look at Danny Zuko in Grease. What a total asshole, but by the end of the movie he turned around. And what about Saturday Night Fever’s Tony Manero? A total sexist, self-absorbed asshole (with some pretty sweet dance moves) who eventually came around.
But ever since “Stone Cold” things have changed. Ann Coulter was born. Howard Stern came out with a movie and became more beloved than ever. The assholes of the world united and for some reason we embraced them. Then the assholes began chanting their mantra:

“If I’m not making people angry I’m doing something wrong”.

Maybe. Or maybe it means you’re a dumbass. Maybe, just maybe, you make people mad because what you say is full of shit. I’ve already mentioned Ann Coulter, and here in Canada we all saw her get humiliated (not that this is anything new) by Bill McEwan on the CBC when she insisted that Canada sent troops to Vietnam. We saw Bill O’Reilly exposed for blatantly making up statistics by fake news sources. Similarly, we saw some anti-war types saying equally ridiculous things, again, being confrontational for the sake of it. Saying something crazy would get you noticed, so everybody went on a rampage, seeing how crazy they could get, and making up the facts to go along with their story.

Hitler made people mad because he was a crazy fucking lunatic who killed millions of people for reasons he made up in his head. He was controversial because he was doing what Hitler did, being a fucking prick. There was nothing cool about that.

What these assholes today fail to realize is that sometimes they piss people off because they’re being stupid pricks. It’s that simple.

And throughout all of this fighting by those who have turned themselves into ideas made of stone, reality has drifted further into the fog. Unlike real battle, where trenches and machines are pulverized into little bits, and one side advances as the other falls away, in this war of words, every time a shot is fired the enemy becomes more deeply entrenched. Even attempts at reconciliation are met with a closed bunker, machine guns still jutting from every orifice. There is no listening, no negotiating, no shifting of ideas to meet reality. Just two sides, cemented in their place, miles apart. And between them, growing more and more lush like a garden, is everything they refuse to share.

Damn you “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. Damn you straight to hell.

The Commie Sutra Collective (CSC), despite the lies and hatred directed against it, is back. After our exile into cyberspace, where we found ourselves after seeking refuge in all the corners of the earth and in the folds of cyberspace, we have returned. And after a long night of collective work the website is now up and running.
Thanks to the great people who made this website possible.