Thread: Go crazy in here!!!

Originally Posted by zipper

Well, I was trying to keep it clean to support the happy atmosphere. Over the past couple days I was wondering if we need a 'psychotic' thread. I'm a ranter, in need of an outlet.

For instance:

Being military, I had to move a lot. One of my biggest pet peeves was getting the new phone line. I like to keep it simple, so I find the list of options very tedious:

Them - Would you like call waiting?
Me - Is a busy signal still free?
Them - What if someone else calls and you're on the line?
Me - Then they can tell from the busy signal that I'm home, and can try back in a few minutes. WITHOUT interrupting my current conversation.
Them - Would you like caller ID?
Me - No.
Them - Wouldn't you like to know who's calling?
Me - If I want to know who it is, I'll answer the phone
Them - Ok, then, in addition to your service, there's a state tax, a federal tax, a city tax, a we need more money fee, a our CEO needs a great pension fee, a bribe the FCC tax, a deposit until we can come up with another fee, and a touchtone service charge.
Me - WHAT?!?! A touchtone service charge? When is THAT going to be considered an industry standard? Do you even have customers with dial phones? I couldn't even buy a kit to build one at Radio Shack, let alone buy one!
Them - I just spoke to a customer this morning with a dial phone
Me - of COURSE you did. There's one 85 year old lady somewhere in the Appalachians that still has hers, so you all call her once a day just so you can say that to me. WTF?!?!?
Them - So do you want phone service or not?
Me - FINE

cell phones are the worst - I don't want pictures, songs, videos, ring tones, text messaging or any other crap until they make one that washes dishes. How about one that rings directly through to the person I call, I can understand them and they can understand me without static or distortion, and it doesn't drop halfway through. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?!?!!?

This is what the Crazy thread is for, until someone starting messing it up with other crap!

OK Zipper... tell us how you really feel about phones. Come on now.. don't hold back.

J/k my friend..

I'll be putting together a comprehensive grammar on the many tenses and uses of the word 'fack'

Originally Posted by zipper

I'll be putting together a comprehensive grammar on the many tenses and uses of the word 'fack'

Just what we need!

Not good news for our friends in Iraq...
Per Fox News TV-still not in control of city at this time...
Al-Sadr's Shiite Militia Seizes Control of Southern Iraq CityFriday , October 20, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Shiite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by the country's powerful, unofficial armies, witnesses and police said.

Mahdi Army fighters stormed three main police stations Friday morning, planting explosives that flattened the buildings, residents said.

About 800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were patrolling city streets in commandeered police vehicles, eyewitnesses said. Other fighters had set up roadblocks on routes into the city and sound trucks circulated telling residents to stay indoors.

CountryWatch: Iraq

The militiamen later withdrew from their positions and lifted their siege of police headquarters under a temporary truce negotiated with an al-Sadr envoy. It wasn't clear on Friday afternoon whether security forces had reasserted control over the city.

Al-Sadr's envoy, whose identity remains unknown, was due to meet with Maysan province Gov. Adil Mudher, local Mahdi Army commander Fadil al-Bahadli, and al-Sadr's representative in Amarah, Mohanad al-Moussawi.

The Iraqi army dispatched two companies to Amarah from Basra, the south's largest city, and a British officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make press statements, said Iraqi army and police forces were massing to retake the city of 750,000.

Britain returned the city to Iraqi military control in August.

Authorities imposed Friday morning a curfew in Amarah until further notice, the Defense Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press.

"All the parties have started a truce as two army companies were dispatched from Basra." Mohammad al-Alaskari said." But the situation is still tense."

Shiite militia violence, mainly against the country's Sunni minority, has ravaged Iraq since February when a Shiite holy place in Samara was blown up. The violence has been on the increase, but this is the first recent fighting that has pitted Shiites against one another on such a scale.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dispatched an emergency security delegation that included the Minister of State for Security Affairs and top officials from the Interior and Defense ministries, said Yassin Majid, the prime minister's media adviser told the Associated Press. Al-Sadr representatives had rushed Amarah from the holy city of Najaf to the north.

Karim Khalaf, the Interior Ministry spokesman, told the Associated Press Iraqi security forces had reached the outskirts of the city.

At least 15 people, including five militiamen, one policeman and two bystanders, had been killed in clashes since Friday, Dr. Zamil Shia, director of Amarah's department of health, said by telephone from the city, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The fighting also wounded at least 59 people — 31 militiamen, six policemen and 22 civilians, including 3 children — according to Riyadh Saed, the duty physician at the city's main hospital.

The events in Amarah highlight the threat of wider violence between rival Shiite factions, who have entrenched themselves among the majority Shiite population and are blamed for killings of rival Sunnis.

Fighting broke out Thursday after Qassim al-Tamimi, the provincial head of police intelligence and a leading member of the rival Shiite Badr Brigade militia, was killed by a roadside bomb. In retaliation, his family kidnapped the teenage brother of the Mahdi Army commander in Amarah, Sheik Fadel al-Bahadli, to demand the hand-over of al-Tamimi's killers.

Khalaf, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said three people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of involvement in al-Tamimi's murder.

Amarah, a major population center in the resource-rich yet impoverished south, is a traditional center of Shiite defiance to successive Iraqi regimes. It's famed marshlands were drained by former dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1990s in reprisal for the city's role in the Shiite uprising that blazed through the region after the 1991 Gulf War.

The city lies along the Tigris river just 30 miles from the border with Iran, whose Shiite-controlled government is accused of backing Iraqi militia groups suspected of involvement in sectarian killings now wracking the country.

The showdown between the Mahdi and Badr militias has the potential to develop into an all-out conflict between the heavily armed groups and their political sponsors, both with large blocs in parliament and backers of al-Maliki's ruling coalition. It also could shatter the unity of Iraq's majority Shiites at a time when an enduring Sunni insurgency shows no signs of abating.

Badr and the Mahdi Army have struggled for years for control in the south, al-Sadr's political bloc, the so-called "Sadrists", and the Badr's backers, the SCIRI, both being members of al-Maliki's ruling coalition.

The fighting comes a day after the chief military spokesman in Iraq said a massive two-month-old security operation in Baghdad had failed to meet targets while the monthly death toll for American troops in October had climbed to 74, putting October on course to be the deadliest for U.S. forces in nearly two years.

"The violence is indeed disheartening," Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad.

Sunni insurgents battling U.S. forces to the north made a further show of force on Friday, with masked gunmen linked to the main Sunni insurgent group, the Mujahedeen Shura Council staging a military style parade through the cities of Haqlaniyah and Haditha in the western province of Anbar.

The gunmen urged residents to back an announcement by the group on Sunday that it has established an Islamic state made up of six provinces, including Baghdad.

That followed a similar demonstration Thursday by masked gunmen in Ramadi, a Sunni stronghold in Anbar, where U.S. forces have taken heavy losses against the insurgents.

The province's police chief was assassinated Thursday by gunmen who burst into his home in Ramadi.

Elsewhere, mortar attacks killed 10 people in the Iraqi city of Balad, where sectarian fighting between Sunnis and Shiites had already killed 95 people.

Gunmen shot and killed four men trapping hawks in the Balad Roz district, 55 miles northeast of Baghdad, said a police officer speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. The trapping of hawks for sale to trainers and hunters is common in Iraqi in the autumn months.

In Khalis, 13 miles east of Baqouba, a police patrol clashed early Friday with gunmen, killing three onlookers and wounding three others, he added.

Shiite backers of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group rallied in the sprawling Baghdad slum of Sadr city to mark a day of opposition to the state of Israel. Among the 600 participants were those carrying banners reading, "Israel is a cancer in the Arab nation's body." The slum is a stronghold of the Mahdi army militia.

Despite that show of support, a Baghdad residential complex housing Palestinians was attacked with mortars Thursday night, killing 4 men and injuring 11 other people, police Capt. Mohammed Abdul Ghani said

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UK may return to Iraq crisis city
BBC NEWS | UK | UK may return to Iraq crisis city
The violence has left dozens of people injured British troops are on standby to re-enter Amara in southern Iraq after an outbreak of serious violence.
The Army could return to the city just two months after it pulled out if the Amara authorities ask for help, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.

Clashes between police and up to 300 gunmen have left at least 12 people dead and dozens injured.

A curfew has been put into force, but BBC reporters in Iraq say it is unclear whether the situation is under control.

The MoD pulled all UK troops out of Amara in August because the security situation was "relatively quiet" there.

HAVE YOUR SAY
The policies regarding Iraq must be reviewed and changed

Justin Schultz, Boise, US

Iraqi forces took over security in the city - in Maysan province - and British troops were given other responsibilities in the surrounding area.

But about 700 Iraqi troops have been sent to Amara to deal with the current violence, and a 500-strong battle group of British soldiers has been put on standby.

Major Charlie Burbridge, based in Basra, confirmed that British forces were providing air surveillance in the city.

He told Reuters news agency: "There were a number of clashes between the Iraqi police and rogue elements of militias in Amara.

"Some of these clashes became quite intense exchanges of fire."

High-level delegation

It is thought the violence was sparked on Thursday morning by the arrest of the brother of the local leader of the Mehdi militia, loyal to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.

Gunmen attacked a number of police stations in Amara - the administrative centre of Maysan with a population of about 300,000.

A high-level delegation has been sent to the city by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to seek a solution to the problem.

Iraqi officials claimed that the army had managed to quell the violence, but eyewitness reports suggested there was still gunfire well into the afternoon.

The UK military has been making moves to hand over power to Iraqi forces in Maysan, following transfers of power in Dhi Qar and Muthanna provinces earlier this year.

The BBC's Paul Wood, in nearby Basra, said there were two ways of reading the current situation.

If the Iraqi army has calmed things down, our correspondent said it would be seen as a "vindication of the British strategy of handing over to the Iraqis - it shows they are capable of coping on their own".

"The other reading is that things are still unstable, the British army will have to go in, and that will throw that whole strategy into reverse."

Basra and Maysan are the only two provinces still under British control.

gee brain what are we gonna do today......... the same thing we do every day pinky try to take over the world

Originally Posted by phiberoptik

gee brain what are we gonna do today......... the same thing we do every day pinky try to take over the world

OMG I was totally thinking to say the same thing!

Al-Sadr's Shiite Militia Seizes Control of Southern Iraq CityFriday , October 20, 2006

Yep, I saw this earlier and had to put my crankypants right back on. I was trying to cheer myself up with stupid limericks, and it didn't work. Here it comes Vipor, what I really think:

Why the FACK is Sadr still alive? All bullspit aside, there's a reason why anyone with any facking sense left the Middle East centuries ago. This is what happens when you leave the facking retards behind to interbreed.

They do not understand anything but a strong hand. It was a mistake from the start to do anything but impose hard-core martial law from the getgo. I was there when the stellar decision not to disarm the populace was made because IT WOULD HURT THEIR FEELINGS. Like I would worry about the so-called feelings of any group of people that has such obvious disrespect for life, their own or anyone else's.

You should see the PC crap that goes on - we had more briefings about sexual harassment and cultural sensitivity WHILE IN IRAQ then we did on how to identify and detain the enemy.

I loved serving my country, but I was looking for some action with a bunch of fellow dedicated Americans, not with a bunch of pansy-a$$ higher-ups. Besides, a little grab-a$$ gets me through the day with a smile. What's wrong with that?!?! Smack my ass, pass the ammo and get out of the way - we have some bad guys to kill. Not negotiate with; kill. Not reason with, make deals with, pander to, beg, plead, order, demand, or any other synonym - KILL. That's all they understand, and that understanding NEVER changes. You simply have to wait for the younger generation to grow up under different circumstances, but the circumstances in place now are only perpetuating the cycle.

While we're at it, the UN can shut the fack up. 95% of the countries there are led by thugs that took over by force. Unfortunately, they are cunning enough to use our own good intentions against us and we are stupid enough to let them. I'm done with the nice-guy approach. I'd be happy with being on the winning team. If we are going to fight, let's fight to win. If we have to kill a few insane fackers who don't know when to quit, so be it. If a few civilians get killed along the way, whatever. I'm willing to bet far fewer would have been killed in the long run if we'd had a little more leeway in the Rules of Engagement from the start and been able to scare the man-dresses off of them and shut them down. We had KIDS dropping hand grenades from overpasses. A few rounds from a 50cal would have nipped that ship in the bud.

But no, what do we do? Pound our chests for 'kicking ass', when historically arab 'militaries' are some of the worst ever, fail to disarm them, rearm, resupply and train them in OUR tactics (what Einstein came up with THIS facking idea, I'd like to know). And then wonder how it went wrong!??!? Worse than that, we're STILL trying to 'get along' with the Iraqi gov't? Every Iraqi man over the age of 2 is corrupt; it's simply a way of life there. Their whole population is a big family/tribal/mafia/religious sect morass of stupidity. They lie every time they speak, their signature isn't worth the paper it's written on, and they prove this over and over and over again. I can't believe that they even bother meeting and talking about anything, what a freaking waste of time.

You would have to hear me scream to get even a glimpse at how angry and frustrated I am with this. We are a few days out from the anniversary of some very good friends' deaths in that godforsaken hellhole wasteland, and I have many more over their now. Anyone who does not understand that when their country is at war, they are at war needs to get the fack out.

In the meantime, though I do appreciate every news article posted, I can't STAND to read about any more meetings or discussions or committees or declarations or other facking bullspit.

Were I Condoleeza Rice, the message would have been: PUT UP OR SHUT UP. ONE WEEK. And I would have backed it up with my size-12 boot up his a$$ along with the systematic levelling of Baghdad until they straightened up or ceased to exist.



Now, imagine what I would have to say if I were on the rag! This is the REAL reason they don't want women in the military - we're SCARY and we don't play fair, we play to WIN