Oh, Fiddlesticks: I’ve Always Liked Benicio del Toro.

by Little Miss Attila on January 27, 2009

But he does seem a bit petulant about this “I’ve been caught glorifying a murderer” problem.

(He looks a lot like Che Guevara, but he doesn’t drive a diesel van; what’s that all about?)

Del Toro is cute, though. Of course, so was Che himself. And Ted Bundy. And Lenin: quite the studly murderer.

A lot of these guys were just dreamy.

Tagged as: Do Girls Like Bad Boys?, film, The Romance of Revolutionaries

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Darrell January 28, 2009 at 12:41 am: Maybe you can include this Amazon link for Andy Garcia’s “The Lost City”…
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Andy-Garcia/dp/B000C3L2PC

It does represent the opposing point of view. And at $10.95, it’s a better deal all around.

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Azmat Hussain January 29, 2009 at 11:34 am: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/army_suicides

Watch out for those gun loving tough guys, sometimes they point the weopen in the wrong direction.

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Darrell January 29, 2009 at 2:00 pm: What kind of bastard gloats over the death of his fellow countrymen?

Why is the AP surprised that anyone had this reaction given that a Socialist was about to grab the reigns of power and assume the role of CINC of the American military? They might have looked at older data, as well, and asked why the DOD had changed past numbers that used to be presented by the Defense Manpower Data Center of the Statistical Information Analysis Division. “Self-Inflicted” deaths of 238, 236, 232, and 250 were reported for Clinton’s first term of 1992 to 1995, inclusive, for example. Correct me if I am wrong, but any of those numbers is higher than the 128 total for 2008 reported in the article you referenced–but you are the mathematician aren’t you? Seems to me that somebody changed the way they are reporting data. I would expect a reporter to ask, but I guess only the AP was available at the time. Unless “self-inflicted” and ‘suicide’ mean something different to you.

When the US people finally kick today’s posers out of office, Az, you should fight that instinct to stick your head up a goat”s ass. For a few minutes anyway. Now go and teach our precious children and fill their impressionable little minds. That’s why I have a gun safe, btw.

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Darrell January 29, 2009 at 8:23 pm: Using science to promote a political agenda. Using statistics to amke a false point.
Let’s say the 128 number from your article is correct. With roughly 2 million full-time equivalent total military personnel, your 128 suicides generate a suicide rate of 6.4/100,000. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the suicide rate for young adults ages, 20 to 24, is 12.5 per 100,000. The national average is 10.9 suicides per 100,000 people in the general population. So are military suicides a major problem? Seems that military suicides are occuring at about half the rate of similar age groups in the civilian population. So why the AP article? Maybe it is supposed to serve the same purpose of the smear campaign being waged by the MSM trying to link a larger number of homicides to people who have served in the military–when the real rate is about half that of those that didn’t serve. Wasn’t Katie Couric trying that this week? Weren’t we supposed to think that ex-military people are walking time bombs? Heck, she was so earnest with her tale of a single murder.

Kick these shitbags to the curb–tell them you are on to them. And tell them to STFU.

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Azmat hussain February 1, 2009 at 3:03 am: Sorry to upset you again Darrell, i seem to do that a lot. I have only one political agenda, and that is to present this idea that war is a lose-lose situation for all. I have a solution for these suicides, if you indulge me. Also if you can think without the fog of ideology for a moment. When people come back from war take their tools away! Just like when I come home I put away my weapons of Math instruction away, I leave my graphing calculator at the office.
Now as far as the mental health of soldiers is concerned, that has always been in question, here are people who are put to the extraordinary test of risking their life without the 72 virgins for the next life and they do it voluntarily.
I also have a solution to suicide bombings, we have the technology to track each gun, each RPG, and IED, guess who makes the most of them in the world and sells them to make a profit. Well all we gotta do is fit each of these with a little RFMD micro device, this way we can sell them to the Afghan freedom fighters and then have a precise location of the stash and not hit civilians, or even if we do we cam prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were weapons that were to be used against us. This would also help us track all the illegal guns in the USA as well.
I have a lot of good ideas on how to use technology to fight this no longer called the war on terror and the nobody cares war on drugs.
Here is the solution for Iran, sell ’em some Nukes and once they are in Iran track them and explode them near the Ayotollah. I like Ahmandinajad but lately he is not unclenching his fist so I say if he goes all the better.
Lastly Darrell I am not here to teach you mathematics and the idea of a rate. Nor do I believe that numbers can be used to score political points. The reason why the war is not affecting you is because of your high AQ (apathy quotient) You could care less if 128 lives are lost or 12,000. As long as you got a warm gun in your drawer to make you feel safe and happy. By the way, I have always been curious, am I writing to a young adult? Because you seem to be able to rattle off facts from history without any understanding of the context. And you get upset easily and seem to lower your own standards by stopping to profanity and insult. I think that you are a better person than that in real life and even in anonymity capable of displaying the class to which you really belong.

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Darrell February 1, 2009 at 3:15 pm: So with your “intelligence,” the military suicides are the problem even though the civilian RATE is TWICE AS HIGH, and the civilian population is LARGER. Stick around. We need ineducable people. Why SHOULD facts get in the way of your point? It never has in any of the hundreds of encounters we’ve had in the past. Even those containing profanity and insult in your portion of the conversation alone.

I am sure that the former Soviet-Bloc countries, like Bulgaria, that supply the majority of the explosives for IMPROVISED explosive devices, will comply with your tracking scheme. Heck, even those that decided to go “homemade” will surely sabotage themselves as well. “Curses! Foiled again!!!!” You can get a job as a planner in the Obama administration with ideas like that!

You rattle off words to make your points. You don’t care if they apply or not: Words are simply tools. When I was quoting studies saying that Arabs killed hundreds of millions of Hindus, you stipulated billions and said that nobody cares, it was long ago. That should give readers who don’t have a history with our exchanges some perspective.

And by the way, U.S. soldiers aren’t allowed to keep their “tools.” Even a young adult of 54, like me, knows that. Maybe if Arab “soldiers” didn’t live with women and children and bring their “tools” among them, “civilian” casualties would be lower. Even those that had been terrorists five minutes ago when they were firing weapons.

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Azmat hussain February 1, 2009 at 9:23 pm: Dude, the facts are so boring, it is what is so. The sun is shining may be a fact but everyone knows it and is irrelevant. Since you are older then me Darrell I am bound by tradition to give you respect. That also means that I will accept your facts as facts and will not argue those. I am allowed however, to address your contingent statements, you do not know for a fact that Bulgaria will comply with a tracking request do you? Secondly, the figures on Military or civilian suicides are not mine, they are yours and are uncontested by me. I am only making the point that the cost of war cannot be measured in what happened in the past, it is something that we have to deal with in the future.

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Darrell February 1, 2009 at 11:29 pm: Let’s just say we will always agree to disagree.
And those that don’t heed the lessons of the future are doomed to repeat them.

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Azmat Hussain February 2, 2009 at 12:56 pm: Darrell it is interesting to note what you do with facts, I did not say that the figures were good or bad, that was your reaction to the story. You do not like certain facts so you put on a spin negative or positive depending on your agenda. Comparing suicide statistics to the Clinton era? I am surprised you did not find some other country in the world where the suicide rates are higher as your argument. Can you see how you are trying to justify something that really needs no justification. Please disagree with me all the time, in the process you are exposing who you really are. Let me know the source of your upset as well, is it the MSM or is it something I said.
Thanks

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Darrell February 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm: No. You tried to make a point, misrepresenting a set of statistics–as AP was doing. They gave statistics for military suicides–without showing us comparable statistics for the civilian equivalent population. The AP article itself (that you referenced) made the implications that I refuted. If you did not agree with the AP article, you should have made that clear. Your words, however, showed that you did agree. You warned us to stay clear of the military. Since civilian suicides occur at double the rate, it makes more sense to be wary of civilians and their collateral damage, especially since they outnumber the military by a large margin.
The Clinton era numbers simply show that military suicides are not a growing problem and are not related to Bush policies–as both you and AP surely want to imply. I also pointed out a discrepancy in the data and the manner of reporting the data (a change in terms–suicides versus self-inflicted deaths–and numbers not being identical)–something any reporter should have done. People that use data watch for such things. Sometimes changes are meant to obfuscate rather than illuminate. And foster a political agenda. Talk to James Hansen at NASA about that.

In conclusion, the lying Left keeps its title.

Keep lying and I’ll keep showing people what an lying ass you are.

By the way, this is all part of the current war on the military by the Left. The first wave consisted of statistics trying to alarm people that military or ex-military homicides in the US were alarming–or at least worth highlighting in dozens of reports– when they are in fact occurring at half the civilian rate. They similarly omit the last part–that’s the spinning. Refuting that isn’t spinning. It’s simply providing the facts. You know, the boring facts. Those annoying things that destroy every one of your arguments.

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