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RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets
Lapzilla writes "In an article from LA Weekly, it would appear the RIAA has taken their fight to the streets. Wearing jackets with "RIAA" emblazoned upon them, they have taken to busting street vendors in an FBI fashion for selling bootleg CDs and DVDs."
I justheard some sad news on talk radio. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Alfred Pugh, the last known combat-wounded U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 108, just 10 days short of his 109th birthday, when he died Wednesday. Pugh, who often told visitors the key to a long life is "keep breathing," joined the Army in 1917 and fought in France during World War I with the 77th Infantry Division. In 1918, he was wounded during the Meusse-Argonne offensive, one of the war's bloodiest battles. He died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Bay Pines. VA officials said he was the oldest wounded combat veteran in the United States, and one of fewer than 1,000 remaining American World War I veterans. Friends said he loved the attention that came with being known as the oldest wounded combat veteran in the United States. "It tickled him when the classes would come by the busload to see him," said Pugh's niece Carolyn Layton. Born Jan. 17, 1895, in Everett, Mass., Pugh raised 16 foster children, played the organ into his 100s and was an avid football and baseball fan. He is one of 10 veterans profiled in the book, "The Price of their Blood," published last month and co-authored by Jesse Brown, former U.S. secretary of Veterans Affairs. He spoke French and was used overseas as an interpreter until the battle in the Argonne forest, when he inhaled mustard gas that left him unconscious and with chronic laryngitis. "It was like a fog," Pugh said in an interview in 2002. "... We didn't get any gas masks until the day after it happened." After the war he returned to Maine and worked as a railroad telegraph operator for 12 years before delivering mail for 26 years. He came to Florida in 1971. In 1999, he was named chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, a prestigious medal bestowed by the French government.
People had the right to firearms in iraq and there was no freedom of speech whatsoever.
People like YOU who think that your little pea-shooters will save you from dem lib'ril fed-er-al-lys are not only mistaken, but it is YOUR FAULT that we have the patriot acts.
Without your apathy and counting on your popguns to save you, maybe people would have mobilised to action instead of sitting on their FAT FUCKING ASSES eating CHEETOS and watching HEE-HAW.
I like my gun because it makes me feel safe. I have no hair on my balls to stand up against anything so I hide behind my .45 and hope they dont have one as well. I live in a gatted comunity so that all the brown people wont rise up and take over my naberhood because I got that rent a cop who asks who your going to see when you come and see me. I also lock my doors and shut my windows just in case in my little slice of heaven some unsuspecting person passing by might think that I welcome anyone who is just passing by. And dont forget my gun shaking behind the couch as im watching "COP"s on TV waiting for them punks to crash through the door and take my 6 pack. Yes I fear everything and everyone because its cool.
"'Yrch!' said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
So are you prepared to take responsibility for your actions?
Yes. That's probably an unusual concept to you.
A modern day witchhunt.
As soon as I start up XMMS, it crashes and no more writing to /dev/dsp for me!
:(
I don't think Linux likes my soundcard, is all
Duct tape, XML, democracy: Not doing the job? Use more.