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Gary Breecher, better know as The War Nerd, "Saddam Died Beautiful: A Special Eulogy":

"Blaming Saddam for being what he was is like blaming a rattlesnake for killing. That's how it lives, and it's what that Crocodile Hunter guy would've called "a bee-YOO-tiful ambush predator." Saddam was right for Iraq the way a Sidewinder is right for the Mojave. The NeoCons scared us by shaking his fangs in our faces, as if Saddam planned to bite every single commuter in LA, when all he wanted to do was stay alive and in power -- because those were the same thing for him -- in the Iraqi desert, where everything stings, sticks or bites. We may as well have gone on a crusade to wipe out all the snakes and spiders in the desert for being what they are. Only difference is, we wouldn't have lost 3000 soldiers that way."

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Saddam was a rat-fuck bastard of the lowest order, but the world ISN'T a better place now that he's gone. In fact, for the amount of chaos his removal has sown, he might as well have been named Franz Ferdinand

So weird to think of the Mojave as being an actual place.

First thing I heard in my mind was Marty Robbins' "Big Iron". Damn Mojave Music Radio.>> ^00Scud00:
Also I know I've been playing too much Fallout 3: New Vegas because the first thing I thought when I saw the bracelet was "Hey it's a Pipboy."

This argument is always framed wrong by both sides. See, gays already have the same marriage rights as the rest of us: a man can marry a woman and a woman can marry a man. Opponents make this argument but then continue with another that's not true: that gays are asking for special rights. Gays are not asking for special rights, they're asking for new rights.

If these are "new" rights, then how did an activist judge magically discover them in the old Constitution? I appreciate your forthrightness. The actual activists simply claim these rights have been hidden in there all along like the right to an abortion.

These new rights would apply to us all. Straight or gay, we could all marry whomever we wanted, genders be damned. You should be happy to gain rights in a time when they are being whittled away in the name of safety. Just because you have no desire to utilize those rights doesn't mean they have no value. I don't own a gun but I'm glad I have the right to.This is not about sexual orientation; it's about freedom from government control over your personal life.

But marriage is not about any one personal life. It's about two lives intertwining on every level, including matters of the State.

What kind of "conservatarian" are you that thinks the government should have this sort of power?

A realistic one.


(re: Freedom from Religion)
It depends on how you interpret "freedom from religion". If you interpret it as meaning I should be able to live my life without ever being exposed to anything religious, then no. That's obviously ridiculous.

Glad you feel that way, but you're in a shrinking minority. Los Angeles removed a tiny cross from their city seal, and there's now a huge court batle over the Mojave Memorial Cross.

What it's supposed to mean, and what is protected by the First Amendment, is that I can live my life without having religious beliefs imposed on me by the government.

You may think so, but "Thou shalt not steal" is the basis for many of our secular laws. You cannot "escape" religion, it's intertwined with everything.

The government cannot tell me I can's go out after sundown on Friday or go to work on Sunday. They cannot make eating pork and shellfish illegal, at least not on religious grounds.

They cannot make you do these things on overtly religious grounds, but under certain circumstances they can make you do or not do all these things and more. How about curfews in a riot zone? Now we're back to the "Thou shalt nots" in varying forms.

Same-sex marriage was legal and common in the Roman Empire up until the Christians took power and made it illegal. They also had anyone who was in such a marriage executed.

If gay "marriage" is such a capital idea, why was it until 50 years ago virtually unheard of in almost every society? And in those ancient, wizened societies that threw off the shackles of Christian oppression, why did gay unions not return right away? Gay "marriage" throughout history has been less than a footnote. Polygamy at least has a long and varied history.

This happens in the southwest US fairly often as well. It's pretty trippy to be driving through a town you can only see a chaotic 10 foot radius of. The Mojave is a very dynamic and weird place, especially when 80+ mph sustained winds are involved.

I'm not convinced that those airplanes *are* on the way to the graveyard; that could just be the premise for the vid. "Imagine these planes are taking their final flight" type thing.

That said, there's one such large graveyard in the Mojave, among others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_boneyard

Since I made the move to a 22" monitor, I've had to upgrade
So now I have a few that I rotate through.

Currently it's http://www.picturecorrect.com/wallpaper/photos/cityscapes/new-york-1680x1050.jpg which I found with a google search of my monitor's resolution.

But I also use
Mojave sunset and
Mojave Moonrise - both of which I took and one of my favorites is Binary. I can't remember where I found it but it looks fricken sweet in a larger size. I've never had to worry about that URL as it's always been cut off - it's a very large image at 1600 x 1200.

I don't think the new album is perfect or anything, but I think its a decent album. It actually makes sense in terms of a musical direction, which I think load -> st anger didn't make much sense because it didn't sound like Metallica. This new album has a definite pre-enter sandman Metallica vibe to it, with enough of it sounding fresh but not reinventing. There are at least 3 songs that I feel really comfortable saying that they are good Metallica songs. A couple songs are just lame, and the rest are listenable. I'd recommend it. I don't think this song is bad, its just kind of pointless, and the video definitely could be better, as it looks like it was shot over a weekend out in Mojave, but hey, its Metallica \m/

For the longest time I had never heard anybody pronounce Mojave so I assumed it was "mo-jayve". True story.

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band; directed by Don Van Vliet (with much uncredited assistance from producer Ken Schreiber), cinematography by Daniel Pearl (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre); Don Van Vliet (vocals, harp), Gary Lucas (guitar), Jeff Tepper (guitar), Rick Snyder (bass), Cliff Martinez (drums); filmed on location in the High Mojave Desert near Lancaster, California; clip rejected by MTV USA as "too weird" upon release, now in the Permanent Film and Video Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; track taken from the 1982 Virgin album "Ice Cream for Crow"