Yesterday, 4,000 US Marines poured out of Black Hawk helicopters and APCs into the southern Helmand province in Afghanistan, beginning a massive offensive move to secure the most wild portions of the country. This long ever due offensive marks the beginning of the real fight for Afghanistan under the new strategy put forth by President Obama.
 
It has been known for years that we have been losing the fight in Afghanistan, bad. The whole point of the original war on terror was to secure Afghanistan, wrestle control away from the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and get that son of a bitch Bin Laden. Seven years later we were no closer to a free Afghanistan or a captured Bin Laden, but with this new strategy being implemented we should all watch closely as the situation will change very quickly.
 
With lessons learned from the war in Iraq, we now understand that we can’t just bomb the hell out of the place and call it a victory. The US Armed Forces is shifting away from blanket attacks to building the infrastructure of the country and winning over the local population with real jobs and income.
 
The 4,000 troops will occupy and hold areas that haven’t even been touched yet, blazing new territory so fast that the insurgency is being caught with their pants down. Now with Iraq’s security being handed over to the Iraqi national army, the US Armed Forces will have the manpower and resources that it needs to effectively make a real difference in Afghanistan. The real fight is just starting, but now the insurgents in Afghanistan that once were safe are about to get squeezed real hard, giving real hope that this fight can be won, and Bin Laden can finally be brought to justice, or at the very least, bring some amount of closure.
 

 
On Wednesday, a Federal Judge blocked the publication in the US of a book by a Swedish author that is being called an unauthorized sequel to J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The book contains a 70 year old version of Catcher’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, with some very serious liberties taken with his character.
 
The books author, a Mr. Fredrik Colting, responded that “I am pretty blown away by the judge’s decision. Call me an ignorant Swede, but the last thing I thought possible in the U.S. was that you banned books.” Obviously the Swedish author has no idea that thousands of the greatest works of literature have been banned in American, and if anything, if you book is any good at all, it will be banned by people because it has such an effect on them and made them feel things that they might be afraid to admit. Furthermore, we American’s are all about free speech and all, but you can’t just take someone’s characters without asking them, and take a bunch of liberties that the author wouldn’t be down with, particularly an author as fussy as J. D. Salinger.
 
The book has already been published in the UK, and will definitely find it’s way onto the internet, so it’s not like the book is being suppressed worldwide, just in the country that the original author is in. I find nothing particularly wrong with the judge’s decision to block the publication in the US. I sure as shit wouldn’t want some random yahoo taking creative liberties with one of my characters, particularly one as iconic and well developed as Holden Caulfield.
 

 
In a hilariously retarded move, a 5th Grade teacher from the Northern California Isabella Jackson Elementary school sent her student home with a dvd containing memories from the past year, and a homemade scene of her having sex on her couch. How this mix up happened is still unexplained but numerous children from her class saw her butt ass naked getting pounded on the couch. Naturally, several long overdue birds and the bees conversations where had shortly thereafter.
 
Since it was completely an accident, the teacher will not face any legal trouble, but will most certainly be disciplined by the school administrators. “It’s felony stupid, but it’s not a crime,” said Ken Rosenfeld, a defense lawyer. “Is it something that she should be disciplined for? Absolutely, but fired for? She didn’t intend for this to happen.”
 
All hilarity aside, due to this incident, a bunch of 5th graders now know the real deal about where babies come from, and good for them. These kids should know what sex is, how it’s done, and all the biological processes that go with it at this age or earlier. Kids of Elementary age should be exposed to the realities of sex since kids these days are having sex younger and younger. I’m certainly not advocating showing hardcore porno to kids or anything, but something tasteful showing the real deal and following it up with some real information about sex would save a hell of a lot of people a lot of grief and unwanted pregnancies.
 

 
Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern is using the current economic crisis as a pretext to push her anti-gay, anti-porn, and Pro-Life point of view on people. Sally Kern, an out spoken homophobe is best known for saying that homosexuality is like a bad case of toe cancer.
 
Sally Kern has released her manifesto, the Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality, which specifically names “abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse and many other forms of debauchery” as the source of our countries economic crisis. Much like Jerri Falwell and Pat Robertson blaming the September 11th terrorist attacks on gays and women, this dumb cunt is just using a current crisis to push her conservative Christian values on anyone she can get to listen to her.
 
People are listening too, but not the people that you might think are her target audience. Her opposition, gay rights advocates are hanging on her every word. In response, the gay rights advocates fired back with the following statement. “Instead of dealing with issues that she ought to be dealing with, it seems she’s advocating her religious views once again, which is not the proper purview of an elected official.” Pretty much hits the nail right on the head with that one.
 

Now this is the most important marker to the global economy being fucked!

When someone needs his/her job that much they would KILL to have the same work place!

As in ok people have been known to kill for money but kill for work ?

Spanish police have arrested a man whom they suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, newspaper El Pais reported on Tuesday.

The head of audiovisual services at the Barcelona International Convention Center contracted a Colombian man who shot and killed the director of the convention center on Feb 9, according to police.

The director had planned to lay off the arrested man as part of a restructuring project, police said.

In fear of losing his job, the head of services, through his sister, contracted a team of six Colombians who planned and carried out the killing, El Pais reported.

Police have also detained the sister and six Colombians.

The shooting marks one of the most extreme actions by Spaniards who fear losing jobs, homes and businesses during a recession in which unemployment is rising faster than in any other developed country.

Other cases include an indebted Spanish builder who kidnapped his bank manager at gunpoint and the head of a construction firm who threatened to set himself on fire unless debts he was owed were paid.

 
A group of Godless heathens have opened up a summer camp for Atheists which opens up in Bath, England next month. The camp organizers say that they wanted to start a camp for kids that was “free of religious dogma” and emphasized free thinking. While only 24 slots exist this year, the demand his been so high that this Richard Dawkins endorsed program will expand exponentially over the next few years.
 
The camp strives to “exist as a secular alternative open to children from parents of all faiths and none.” It is nice to see something like Camp Quest UK in this day and age when such public displays of Atheism has been scorned in the past. In a recent poll it was found that among Americans, Atheists were seen as one of the least trustworthy groups, ones to be watched and held at a distance. Now with this program gaining in popularity, more kids will be able to opt out of being bludgeoned over the head with religious propaganda all the time.
 
I myself went to a Christian themed summer camp back in the 1980’s and it certainly would have been nice to have had another option instead of a camp where you had to sit around and listen to daily sermons and such instead of shooting rifles and hiking and other sweet ass camp activities.
 

 
Just when it looked like the infamous file sharing site Pirate Bay was about to launch a salvo of attacks against International recording industries, it was announced that a Swiss software company had negotiated a deal to buy the site from the now imprisoned owners. Yes, The Pirate Bay is going to go the way of the Napster and start charging the user to get access to content, conforming to the wishes of the US and International Recording industries.
 
The very name of the site The Pirate Bay is meant to conjure images of rebellion and freedom. Freedom of information specifically, for all those who wanted it free of charge. But now that the content will have to conform to a standard set by the RIAA or MPAA, and information is doled out at whatever price they choose to sell it at, will only clog and choke the the exchange going on in The Pirate Bay, slowing it down at first and dooming it to a slow death.
 
The big torrent file sharing search sites are going down fast. Mininova.org, another site comparable to The Pirate Bay in size has also announced that they will begin trying to legitimize it’s business as well. Looks like the nets are shifting towards the next big thing in unrestricted access to copyrighted material as some more of the grey area’s of the internet get tamed.
 

Ok let’s start with agreeing on this…that guy is AWESOME ..i mean what a nice joke slash domestic abuse thing to come up with! Am i right ?!?!

Ok maybe if you aren’t into domestic abuse we will agree to disagree…

Authorities said a man has been charged with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose and elbowed her for smoking in the house. An arrest report shows that the 51-year-old husband was charged Saturday. Police said the couple began arguing when the wife began smoking a cigarette in their home.

When the victim picked up the phone and began calling a friend, authorities said the husband believed she was trying to call police and elbowed her in the mouth during a struggle to grab the phone.

The woman was soaked with water when deputies arrived. The husband told deputies he had been watering the grass and did not intend to spray her.

The man was taken to the Martin County Jail and released after posting bond.

Did his wife post bail ? they never tells us that!

Now this is a subject most frowned upon by most people but the latest news on it has to be shared!

To make a long tory short the new laws make every computer sold come with preinstaled software that limit access to over a few hundret thousand sites!

This is all cleverly hidden beneath protecting people but the truth is they are just using this to whithold information from the people.

There once was a funny video on youtube about chinese google …wich actually has words like democracy with 0 answers …wich actually is above fucked-up.

This is the worst and most obvious form of missinformation out there!

What do Johnny Depp, Garfield, Paris Hilton and roast pork have in common? In China, the answer is that a new government-mandated Internet filter rates some pictures of all four of them as bad for your moral health.

Beijing has ordered all personal computers sold in China from July 1 to be preinstalled with the Green Dam software, which it says is designed to block pornographic and violent images, and which critics fear will be used to extend censorship.

But a trial of the programme, which is available online for free download (http://www.skycn.com/soft/46657.html), suggested

its filters may be of limited use to worried parents.

When the software is installed, and an image scaner activated, it blocks even harmless images of a film poster for cartoon cat Garfield, dishes of flesh-colour cooked pork and on one search engine a close-up of film star Johnny Depp’s face.

With the image filter off, even though searches with words like “nude” are blocked, a hunt for adult websites throws up links to soft and hardcore pornography sites including one with a video of full penetrative sex playing on its front page.

This is wrong and nit fair!

 
If you know anything about Hunting, you know that Man is the most dangerous game. Now, what was once the private pleasure of mercenaries and the military, any Tom Dick Or Harry with $6000 can go on an adventure cruise, complete with as much murder as you can commit with no risk of prosecution. Yup, that’s right. Murder cruises.
 
Naturally one wonders, what the fuck? How is this in any way shape or form legal? It is legal if the people you are killing are pirates! The cruise ships are taking these groups of tourists into the most heavily pirate infested seas in heavily armed luxury yachts. The boats are running the gauntlet going extra slow, making them perfect targets. But when the pirates come and try to take over the boat, the AK-47 armed tourists get to go to work.
 
The only reason that this works is because it is in International waters and the people you are murdering are technically outlaws. But what’s next after this? Is the next big thing going to be Minute Men patrols along our borders, shooting up illegal immigrants? It’s okay because they are criminals and not human beings, right? Just like those pirates, right?
 

 
Wow, get this. We all know that John Edwards lost the 2008 Presidential race because he couldn’t keep his cock in his pants and was banging the hell out of one of his campaign workers while his wife sat around dying of cancer. Well, Mr. Edwards aide, Andrew Young now claims that Edwards actually made a homemade porno tape with his mistress Rielle Hunter.
 
This isn’t all that surprising with all the celebrity dumbasses throwing sex tapes around like party favors, but what is so surprising about this story is how lax Edwards was about keeping the affair under wraps. While Rielle Hunter was pregnant, she stayed with Young, who everyone thought fathered her child, even though he was married and had a wife and kids of his own. After Rielle Hunter rolled out of Young’s pad, Young and has family packed up and moved to California. While they were unpacking, Young found a video tape, popped it in, and saw John Edwards and Rielle Hunter banging like bunny rabbits. They were so nonchalant about it, they just had sex tapes goddamn lying around the house.
 
Within the tape, Edwards talks about getting married to Hunter if his wife died and what kind of music they would have at their wedding. Talk about a total douche bag, he can’t even wait for his wife to die before he starts talking about moving on with some other slut.
 
Unfortunately, this tape will most likely never see the public light, but if it ever does, you will be sure to see what a true politician is like when behind closed doors.
 

 
In a sure fire move to piss off every gay citizen in America, Texas police officers performed a late night raid on a gay bar called the Rainbow Lounge on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raid. For those of you that don’t know, back in 1969, police in New York City raided a gay bar named The Stonewall Inn, which resulted in the Stonewall riots. To the homosexual crowd, the riots represent the beginning of the Gay Right Movement in America and the first time that homosexuals stood up to unfair sexual discrimination.
 
Raids like this are not uncommon all over America. Coppers roll up and check ID’s to make sure that there aren’t any underage kids there. Typically when this happens, some ID’s get checked and for the most part it is pretty tame. Not when it came to the Rainbow Lounge though, as many witnesses said. The cops rolled up with zip tie handcuffs in force, and started arresting people left and right. One of the people detained had his skull broken during the arrest, raising the calls of police brutality.
 
Unfortunately for the people involved, they were in Texas, meaning that in all probability, there will be no backlash against the cops who performed the raid whatsoever. On the local level, people are going to get screwed pretty badly, as all the people arrested will most likely be convicted of whatever charges the cops decided to stick them with. On the national level however, this will only serve as just another example of how institutions are still discriminating against homosexuals on a pretty large scale and will hopefully advance the Gay Rights Movement even further.
 

Wow now this is a really stupid crook if i’ve ever seen one !

Not enough that he robs a house but he just decided to live in it ?

Did he think he can actually STEAL THE HOUSE?

Now this is just pure stupidity on his side!

Police said a man broke into a Cincinnati home and proceeded to stay there for a week, watching television and sleeping in the master bedroom while the family was on vacation. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department arrested 19-year-old Nicholas Truesdell on Friday and charged him with burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

An affadavit said he broke into the four-bedroom home through a rear window on June 16. Authorities said he also used the computer and drove the family’s 2007 Nissan Altima around for more than 48 hours.

 
Following the news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death, the boy who claimed that he was molested by Michael Jackson back in 1994 has admitted to making up the story for profit. This guy, Jordan Chandler, says that ”Now for the first time i can’t bare to lie anymore. Michael Jackson didn’t do anything to me.”
 
Pretty shocking stuff, since it was the allegations from this kid that pretty much destroyed Michael Jackson’s career and unfairly made him to butt of over a trillion pedophile jokes. Sure, Michael Jackson was already falling prey to the whole plastic surgery nightmare thing, but he never lost the ability to perform, and this public shaming surely drove him into isolation, only deepening his madness.
 
In all honest this kid Jordan Chandler might not be the real bad guy here. With admitting that he lied, he also blamed his father for making him do it. ” I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell only lies. Now i can’t tell Michael how much I am sorry and if he will forgive me.” Yup, too late on that one, buddy.
 
If what he is saying is true, then his Father is truly the villain of the story, and it’s probably true too, since Chandler was only a kid at the time of the story. Pretty good story too, since almost the entire world got duped into believing these guys, myself unfortunately included.
 

 
In a very interesting study performed by Swiss scientists on ER patients, it has been proven that by smoking weed, you decrease the chance of accidentally injuring yourself by 3 to 6 times. Anyone who has smoked weed on a regular basis could have told you this, and probably has, but to the rest of the non smoking world, this should prove an excellent point for the legalization of marijuana.
 
After observing 486 different ER patients, the researchers found the following. If you have had a drink within six hours, you are 3 times as likely to accidentally hurt yourself than if you are sober. No shit right? On the other hand if you have smoked a joint within those same six hours instead of drinking, you are 3 times less likely to hurt yourself than if you are sober. Therefore, not only are you safer smoking than you are drinking, your are actually more careful than if you are sober!
 
This is pretty ridiculous when you think of how many people have been turned away from decent jobs because they tested positive for marijuana. In fact, those same people would have been 3 times less likely to fuck up and injure themselves than the jackass that did get hired but maybe sneaks a few drink every once in a while.
 
The more and more these studies come to light, the more that people are starting to realize that a lot of people have been lying to them about weed. At the current state I would not be surprised to see marijuana legalized in the United States within ten years, if not five.