Bizarre Stuff This Week

The monster, Michael Rooker, from Slither, who also got whacked, uh, maybe, on The Walking Dead.

Bizarre Stuff This Week

Dangerous To Your Health

According to an article in AARP, over 100,000 deaths a year are caused from hospital mistakes; the same as if four jumbo jets crashed daily. Forty times a day, the wrong body part gets an operation. Most of the deaths occur because of infections by unwashed hands. Hospitals seem to be more dangerous than being in combat.

New Pants For The Army

The Army has new pants with built in knee pads, costing $100-125 per pair. I can see where the gay jokes are going to be flying all over the place, and they already have started. Think about how much that is going to cost just to buy pants for people in the military. (They call them pants now instead of fatigues.) I don't remember ever needing kneepads in Vietnam, and I don't understand the concept of kneeling so much that you would need kneepads. Or why have Americans suddenly become inflicted with some disease that make their knees unable to take the burden of kneeling on the ground without padding? I also think paying over $100 for a pair of military fatigues is a joke.

French Knives For Murder

The large French knife is the preferred means of killers who use knives. Out of 780 knife murders tracked through (1971-2011) by the Cutlery Association, 741 killers used a French knife...and in virtually every slasher movie ever made, the French knife is the weapon of choice. No one knows why. The lack of a hilt can lead to serious slide cuts on the one doing the attacking. One theory suggests that all killers with knives are frustrated chefs. Psychologists suggest that the reason is something as simple as "they like big shiny things just as much as they do the sound of squeaky toys."

Was The Wrong War Back Then

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 33 percent cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq."
Conclusion: The U.S. should have pulled out of Washington.

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Vietnam: The Liberty Bridge

(This entry has had a lot of comments, and I'm glad it can help bring Nam vets together or to help find each other. If you have a comment, please attach your name to the comment or from this point forward it won't be published. I've received many comments that are phony and obviously made up, submitted by anonymous submission. I do screen all comments. Click the photo to enlarge. Semper Fi.) This is the Liberty Bridge (click to make larger) in Quang Nam Province in Vietnam during July of 1968. Of the 14,000 Marines killed in Vietnam, 10,000 were killed in Quang Nam Province. (Figures in comment section show a little under 7000 KIA in Quang Nam.) This was late in my tour on July 2. The bridge had been blown once again by the enemy to isolate the Marine base at An Hoa. I was a 50 caliber machine gunner on a convoy to resupply the An Hoa Firebase. I called this the River Styx because it had a ferry boat. Once you crossed the river you entered a nightmare hell on earth cal

The Jesus Moth

Photo taken through a window screen. I had just gone over the first print copy of The Bad Season on July 22, 2006. I walked over to the window and saw this moth on my outside air conditioner unit. It was the most bizarre thing I had seen in a long time. I retrieved my digital camera and snapped a picture through the glass and the window screen before going outside in a failed to attempt to capture the moth. I contacted a moth expert. He told me what kind of moth it was, but added that he had never seen one with a cross on its back like this one. I call it the Jesus Moth, the Crusader Moth, or maybe the Infidel Moth. The syndicates wanted me to give it to them for free. They said they don't take pics from non-employees because "we would actually have to pay you for it." Hmm, what a novel concept, getting paid for something. I offered to swap for a syndicated story about my book. They refused. So I copyrighted the entire pic (the one below is a fragment from that p

The Old Corps: Marine Corps Boot Camp 1966

BLT 1/3 USMC 1967 Vietnam Boot Camp Hell I recently saw a video of what I assume was the current Marine Corps Boot Camp. It mentioned recruits reporting any abuse right away and the DI was trying to be tough (and he did sound tough to an extent), but underneath it all you could tell the old Corps was gone in the civilian desire (political desire by people who never served) to make things easier and less traumatic for the boots. They never mentioned abuse to us in 1966 because we were abused 24/7. I'm an old Corps Hollywood Marine (that's an inside Marine joke about the difference between boot camp in Parris Island or San Diego.) The boots in Parris Island claimed they had it rougher because they had swamps. The Hollywood Marines had mountains. I would rather walk in water than climb mountains so I disagree. I entered the Marine Corps on August 10, 1966. Marines had been in Vietnam for over a year. All of us would probably go to Nam. For some of us it woul

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