"The Faith of My Father's"

I just finished watching A&E's original movie, The Faith of My Father's, a movie chornalcling John McCain's days as a POW in Vietnam. This movie showed what real torture is: multiple beatings, hanging by your wrists, inhumane living conditions. But this not only showed McCain's POW days; they also showed the times when he is in the Naval Academy in Anapolis, the treatment there, and other aspects of his life. It starts from when he was shot down to when he was finally released.

To me, this movie shows who the real war criminals were; the Vietnamese Communists who ran both the government and the prison that McCain was kept in. If any of those hippies had been in what McCain was in, they would have changed their minds, unless they were still on the pot, so there is no help there.

But what happened to the Vietnam war vetrans after they returned from conflict is just as inhumane; the throwing of shit, the degergation of the troops by using words such as "baby killer" and "war criminals" (which pretty much described the NVA and the VC), and other instances, like "Hanoi" Jane Fonda appearing on Vietnamese AA guns to demoralize our brave men and women in 'Nam. It disgusts me to no end.

Would I recommend this movie? Yes, I would, but I would suggest that young children not be present during its viewing, there are a few graphic scenes and some cursing.

Some Notes and Observations

Item 1, Newsweek:
Well, by now everyone knows about the Newsweek fiasco. Newsweek used only one source to authenticate the story, as opposed to multiple sources. Whether Newsweek is intended for the riots to happen or not is up for dicussion. I doubt that they wanted the riots to happen. Now that the story has been discredited, this may get some news organizations to better look into their sources and verify the stories further. Did Newsweek intend to make President Bush look bad? Maybe, maybe not. But this is another major blow to the MSM, as far as their credibility is concerned. Too many organizations are getting politics injected into newscasts, whether liberal or conservative.

Newsweek has lost a lot of credibility and trust over this, and it will be a Hell of a long time before they can regain the trust with the general public.

Item 2, Saddam's Whitey-tighties:
Have you seen the images of Saddam Hussein in his skivvies? When I first saw this on Friday morning, I was lucky to have finished my breakfast. The Butcher of "Sag"dad? Seeing Saddam in his underwear is like seeing Rosie O'Donald in the nude. Ugh.

What happened here is that the tabloid, the Sun I believe, somehow got a hold of these images from someone inside the US military. The military has rightfully condemned this action and has called for an investigation into who had the images. From some of the angles that I have seen the pictures of him, it looks like they may have came from a security camera.

One way or another, who ever released these needs to answer for their actions.

Item 3, Judicial Fillibusters:
Sometime this week, there will be a showdown on Captiol Hill over the judicial nominees of George Bush. While the Democrats allowed a vast majority of Bush's nominees to receive an up-or-down vote, they have blocked 10 of the President's choices from an up-or-down vote.

Now, back when the Republicans were the minority during the Clinton-era, they rarely blocked nominees. We gave them yea or nay votes. Now that we are in power, the liberals have obstruct almost everything Bush has set out to do. The fillibuster should not be used to block nominees, no matter how bad Congresspeople think of them.

I support changing the Senate rules to ban judicial fillibusters. That is all that is needed. If the Democrats follow their threat of shutting down the government, they will pay dearly for it. It would be political suicide.

Well, that is all for today. Hopefully, after May 27 (last day of school for seniors), I would be able to post more.

Well, this is interesting.

Today I came back to my blog, just for shits and giggles, and lo and behold, it's back. So now, this will be a back-up blog if anything happens to it.

My Return

Well, damn. I went on tblog.com to go to my blog, but when I got there, it was gone! Needless to say, I was pissed. So, now I will be posting here at Blogspot. Hopefully everything will work out fine here. Hope you all will enjoy it here.

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