World's Oldest MackDaddyPimp steps up to help veterans

Some days I’m torn as to how I feel about Hugh Hefner. On the one hand, I have to give the man kudos for following his own path and for creating a vast entertainment empire from scratch. And on the other hand I just think it’s a bit creepy to be a 3,000 year old man always wearing silk pajamas and a velvet smoking jacket, with a harem of silicone tarts young enough to be his grandkids.

Either way, I’ll stand behind Hugh for his latest efforts. This year his annual Halloween Party will benefit an exceptionally worthy cause, The Wounded Warrior Project.

As always Hef’s estate on Halloween night will be filled with all the usual suspects and Hollywood’s elite, and half-naked chicks everywhere. Additionally, there will be some very special guests this year, as over 40 wounded troops will also attend the party.

"Hef was kind enough to let the Wounded Warrior Project be a beneficiary on Halloween. Proceeds will help severely wounded veterans that have recently served in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Executive Director of the Halloween 09 bash Jose Dominguez. (General admission tickets start at $1,000 and go up to $15,000 for VIPs.) "Halloween is the most sought-after night at the Mansion so it was a good opportunity to support our veterans and enjoy a great party at the same time."
This isn’t Hef’s first time helping out the Wounded Warrior Project this year, either. Back on May 16th, 2009, there was another big function at the Playboy Mansion to benefit the troops. The website for the event is still up at www.starsandstripes09.com . The site offers some fascinating insight into parties that the likes of me and most of you will never get to see.


And for the record, Hugh Marston Hefner served in the United States Army during World War Two.

Rock on, Hef.

www.woundedwarriorproject.org

Taxes and the REAL cost of Freedom (with guest blogger Jim)

Tax Day is rapidly approaching; time to give Uncle Sugar his pound of flesh, and be glad it's only a pound (for now).

Your money will go to various things the government deems necessary, like $100 a pound Wagyu beef, so the Lincoln of Our Times™ can entertain in style. (That's for the ribeyes; tenderloin filets are $150 and strip steaks are $126).

Or like the money wasted by Nasty Nancy Pelosi "repeatedly and aggressively", who pestered the military for aircraft to fly her friends and family, hither dither and yon, to the extent that it is felt she is treating the military as her own personal airline. See Fox News Judicial Watch article/report dated 3/10/09, or go read the wisdom of Steve:
http://mojosteve.blogspot.com/2009/03/look-at-meeeeee-im-nancy-peeeeeee.html .

Or the money Barney Frank sent to his bank to keep it afloat after it faced collapse due to shitty lending practices. Or my head-scratching favorite: money to study catfish genetics, which was dreamed up by a Republican. That’s $819,000.00 to study catfish genetics in Alabama, to be exact.

I know my tax dollars go to fund worthy causes too; the national parks, the interstate system, federal prisons, the FBI, and last, but most important, the military.

I know the military/industrial complex just pisses the left off, but there is much good that comes from it too. Advanced computer technology, a trained, reliable work force, better medicine and medical procedures, and most importantly JOBS.

But there is something else the military/industrial complex turns out; casualties.

Statistically, we are returning more soldiers than ever home, with very serious injuries, to include multiple amputees and traumatic brain injuries. Here is the catch; 40 years ago most of these troops would have died on the battlefield. Our sometimes tax-driven military/industrial complex did research and testing that is paying dividends now to our best and bravest.

But is there something we can do to help besides paying our taxes? Glad you asked. There are many charitable organizations you can donate to, to help our most needy service members and their families.

My wife and I donate to the Wounded Warrior Project and the Freedom Alliance, every year, after we get our tax return. Other worthy charities include, but are not limited to, Sew Much Comfort, Fisher House Foundation and Operation Gratitude. I understand money is tight for some, if not all of us, but ask yourself: can I do with a little less so that our troops and their families don't have to do without? Some of these organizations are looking for your volunteer talent if you can't spare any money.

We all bitch about taxes, and with good cause. Who wants to give $900 million to Hamas, or spend $400 million to fight STDs? I mean, what's a box of rubbers, $12? Why 400 mill?

This year, take control use some of that tax return to help your neighbors, your brothers and sisters, our friends, our heroes.

For a list of charities helping our service members and their families go to Reconnect America at http://www.military.com/giveback/ .


Additional notes, from MojoSteve:
Wagyu Beef refers to several breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to intense marbling and to yummy goodness...I wouldn’t know; I can’t afford it. It’s a splurge at my house to get a ten-dollar two-pack of ribeyes. The meat from wagyu cattle is known worldwide for its marbling characteristics, increased eating quality through a naturally enhanced flavor, tenderness and juiciness, and thus a high market value. Several areas in Japan are famous for the quality of their Wagyu cattle, and ship beef bearing their areas' names. Some examples are Kobe, Mishima and Ohmi beef. A quick look at www.lobels.com shows a steal, with 10-ounce ribeyes going for only $58.98 apiece. Or if you’re hungry, a 16-ouncer is just $91.98 per steak. A few weeks ago, you could score a 15-pound whole Wagyu ribeye from Costco for only $2300 clams. Nationwide unemployment is almost 9%, but the Obamunists are entertaining with hundred-dollar steaks. Something tells me that our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t getting Wagyu in their MRE’s.

Her Royal Obamaness the First Lady of Socialism wants you all to give up your piece of the pie and eat cake (or eat shit, I guess) in order to socialize healthcare, but she got busted in October at the Waldorf Astoria noshing on lobster appetizers at 25 bucks a whack, whole lobsters at 50 a pop, a relatively cheap champagne at 44 dollars (a glass? Probably, since Bollinger is a big-name vintner in France dating back to 1585. It goes for a couple hundred a bottle online, and you know the Waldorf marks that shit up. It’s the preferred champagne of James Bond, incidentally) and a big ol’ serving of Osetra caviar, from the rare Persian sturgeon (ie: Iranian caviar) for $150.00. She spent more on an afternoon snack than most of her subjects can spend a month on groceries.

Please, blow up the above picture to see it in all its glory...


Support the Wounded Warriors Project. Support the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Support the USO. Here at Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity, we support our troops, because we used to be the troops. We support our veterans, because we are veterans. Please, if you can, do a little something for those who give all they have for all we have.

Look at Meeeeee, I'm Nancy Peeeeeee!!!

The balls of some people. Even if they physically lack balls.

Today I refer to the Speaker of the House, the Dishonorable Nazi Pelosi. Here we are, in hock up to our collective American ass, and she’s babbling on about a potential second round of a stimulus (ie: SUCCUBUS) on top of the Omnibus Bill (which His Obamaness Himself even said was far from perfect) and the first Succubus Package and the Bank Bailouts and the Automotive Bailouts and all the other bullshit we’ll be paying for over the next 3,000 years.

But Nasty Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid and His Obamaness really grate under my skin when they continue to kick our military members in their members.

What? What’s that? You wonder what of which I speak?

Eric Shinseki, Secretary for Veteran’s Affairs, confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

Are you fucking kidding me? These kids voluntarily go forth in the service of their nation and in defense of the freedoms of repressed and oppressed peoples in Third World shit-holes around the Middle East, and you bastards have the despicable audacity to ask them to pay for their own treatments after losing arms, legs, eyes, or suffering horrible burns and traumatic brain injuries? How dare you?

Instead of bullshit pork projects, how about funneling some of that Succubus Package funding to the Veteran’s Administration to help with the therapy and rehab for our returning heroes? And incidentally, General Shinseki, what with your two Purple Hearts earned in Vietnam and half of your foot blown off by a mine, did you pay for anything privately or did the Army take care of you? Thankfully there's organizations like the Wounded Warrior Project to help our returning heroes.

And Obama, who has never set foot in a recruiting office let alone served this country he wanted so badly to lead, has the cherries to come out and say that we’re not winning in Afghanistan, sullying the sacrifices given by the 666 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan to date as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Reminds me of last year when Dirty Harry claimed that the war in Iraq was lost and that the surge had failed. Shit like that mocks the 4,260 brave troops who have died in Iraq.

And Pelosi…well, I told ya’ll months ago that she bitched and bitched about what sort of luxury ride she’d be flying around in as Speaker. She wanted the biggest plane this side of Air Force One. She has to drag her strap-hangers, bootlickers, pee-ons, and other minion serfs like some sort of motley entourage waiting on her hand & foot. And since she has galley slaves to feed her grapes and fan her with palm fronds, the sycophantic slag expects that the entire Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force is at her beck and call., with unprecendented demands for military aircraft and wasted taxpayer resources with last-minute cancellations.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Defense detailing Pelosi's multiple requests for military air travel. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal DOD email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi's numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker's last minute cancellations and changes. The following are a few highlights from the documents:

In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, "Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?...[T]here's no need to block every weekend 'just in case'..." The email also notes that Pelosi's office had, "a history of canceling many of their past requests."

One DOD official complained about the "hidden costs" associated with the speaker's last minute changes and cancellations. "We have...folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc."

So she just expects a jumbo jet to be on standby every weekend for her to scoot back to her lair in San Fransisco?

The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Queen Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. "It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable...The speaker will want to know where the planes are..." wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker."

During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of "crew rest requirements" and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: "We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [Congressional Delegation] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that."

Speaker Pelosi came under fire in 2007 for requesting a 42-seat Air Force carrier to ferry the Speaker and her staff back and forth between San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was allowed access to a 12-seat commuter jet for security reasons after the events of 9/11.

Pelosi's office disputed the claim, pointing to White House policy enacted after the September 11 attacks allowing for the House speaker to travel to his or her congressional district via military aircraft whenever possible for security reasons.

Her predecessor made do with access to a Gulfstream G-V (known in the military as a C-37). But she wants a much bigger plane. Heavens forbid she migt have to stop at a secure Air Force base in the heartland to refuel. She demands cross-country non-stop door-to-door delivery. It’s not like she’s getting out of a taxi in a seedy neighborhood to get gas…it’s an Air Force base. Whassamatter, Nancy? Too close to them common people in the Red States? Bitch.

"Taken together, these documents show that Speaker Pelosi treats the Air Force like her personal airline," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Not only does Speaker Pelosi issue unreasonable requests for military travel, but her office seems unconcerned about wasting taxpayer money with last minute cancellations and other demands."



Be thankful you even get to fly with the professionals from Air Mobility Command, Pelosi. You could be stuck on a commercial jet, delayed at airports, luggage lost, paying 10 bucks for a pillow, 20 for a blanket, 50 for a can of Coke, and having to pee in a cramped broom closet where some couple from Hoboken on their way to a honeymoon in Vegas just did the nasty on the sink.


Maybe take a bus, Mizz Madam Speakerness. Get out amongst the commoners and see how much they loathe you. We can call your bus BOTOX-ONE…