Happy Veteran's Day

Here's one for all who serve our country. Sorry that you have to be in the Suck. Just remember, the 'Bamer promised to get y'all the hell outta there. We're still waiting mister President.

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Last week down in the ABQ, some chucklenut thought it would be a good idea to hang his Nazi flag and his American flag outside his house. People were pretty cheesed off ‘cause the Nazi flag was displayed over an upside down American flag. Next thing you know, the huckleberry gets a visit from the Federales and the flags were removed. That gets me to thinkin’. Isn’t hanging flags outside your house your right under the First Amendment?


Now, I don’t condone what the BSC motherhubbard did but I will support to the death his right to do it. After all, in Iran, China, North Korea or Russia, if you “desecrate” their flag, they’ll perp-walk you to their version of Gitmo lickety-split. True dat. But this is America. It is everyone’s right as a citizen to do with the flag as they see fit. Anyone remember the antenna flags everyone flew on their Hummers after 9/11? What about the flags that corporate hucksters use to sell their wares on the Fourth of July and Veteran’s Day? Crass, vulgar and tasteless, maybe…but not against the law.


Here’s the crux of today’s biscuit: If the Government-Cheese sends John Q. Law to the house of a citizen for displaying a Nazi flag, WTF are they doin’ when the right-wing nut jobs wave teabag placards depicting the President as Hitler? Or Stalin? Or the Joker? Where is the Fuzz when the gun nuts show up outside a ‘Bamer speech packin’ heat? Yo FBI, there are plenty of crazies in the world but bein’ crazy isn’t an offense in the USo’A. If it was, Glenn Beck would be sleepin’ at the Gray Bar Motel and Kanye West and Joe Wilson would be his cellmates.

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We’re not pacifists here at PTB. In fact, we like rubbin’ a butt on the bad guys as much as anyone. Problem is…we haven’t really fought the bad guys since 1945. After that, it’s been the ‘military/industrial complex” that Ike talked about – fighting wars just to fight ‘em.



Nowadays we remember all those who served this great nation so bravely by celebrating Veteran’s Day. Way back when, it was called Armistice Day – the day when the “War to End All Wars”…ended. The crux of our biscuit is simple: If the politicians who start shit had to go out there and fight, they wouldn’t. Then we could all go back to celebrating the END of war. Below are takes from some old friends of ours…






What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864



Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato



A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo


Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark



War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. ~Pope John Paul II...



Amen to that brother!



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A Lowdown Dirty Shame

89 Years ago today, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the "War to End All Wars"...ended.


And nothing changed.



89 years later twenty-five percent of homeless Americans are veterans.



When they say they love America and they support our troops...they're lying!


Happy Veteran's Day...yeah...unless you're a veteran.


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