World War Forever...

World powers such as the U.S. and Russia bombing the Middle East and killing way too many civilians has created a war that will never end. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/yemen-drones_n_4152159.html

While very tragic, the more than a 125 people killed on Friday in France is a true testament of modern day war. In 1914, the war to end all wars, World War I began. Currently there are more than 50 wars going on across the globe as stated in the 2011 book "Deadly Indifference" by Michael D. Brown and Ted Schwarz. 

War is not called war anymore, but non the less, it's war. The Vietnam War is still known as the Conflict in Vietnam, a conflict in which more than 55,000 U.S. soldiers were killed; average age being 19-years-old. The so called Vietnam conflict also begot the death of more than two million Vietnamese citizens, many of whom were Innocent women and children. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/opinion/for-america-life-was-cheap-in-vietnam.html?_r=0

The current war the U.S. is involved in, the War in Afghanistan, aka 'Operation Enduring Freedom' has caused the death of more than 2,300 American soldiers, non of which are the sons or daughters of political leaders I'm willing to bet. 

World leaders seem to take a sadistic pleasure in sending other peoples children to die, yet everyday people buy into the balderdash of war, because they (we) blindly follow the lies of the government. 

Government

Liquid lunacy fills the goblet of greed and wets

the lips of the unethical which bleeds across the

world. Harbingers of havoc, apprentices of apathy,

creators of chaos, and distributors of destruction.

Soul destroyers and mindless material builders.

Thrust into there lies and bred to consume.

                                                            Izzy Schurr

Today's war is uncharted and much more scary then ever imaginable. The drone strikes that kill children in the Middle East create more and more enemies for the U.S. and other world powers on the planet. 

Friday's attack in France which killed more than a 125 civilians is just a terrible taste of modern day war. ISIS is an enemy created via the countless bombings by the U.S., Russia and other world powers of this still primitive world.     

ISIS and its members and believers are invisible until they strike, just like the U.S. and Russian drones that bomb and kill women and children across the seas.  http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/russia-airstrikes-syria-civilians-us/411478/  

No, I don't condone ISIS and what it represents, nor do I condone the U.S. war politics, there both evil things in my mind. 

Sadly everything is about money and power and the men who hold high places are the rich and fortunate ones, and they care nothing, absolutely nothing about the poor and middle class, if you believe other wise, your blind to the facts. 

The killer who was killed himself before he murdered four marines in Chattanooga Tennessee http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/14/world/paris-attacks/ this year was a small example of the forever war. 

To start a quest for world peace, all bombings must stop. "Nearly 90 Percent Of People Killed In Recent Drone Strikes Were Not The Target," an October Huffington Post article written by Marina Fang states. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-strikes_561fafe2e4b028dd7ea6c4ff

Wake up people and be prepared for the worst, because so called smart bombs, aka drones don't just kill the enemy, it's common sense, a bomb cannot just explode and kill only its true enemies, all civilians, woman and children near, receive the harsh realities of modern day war.

Ronda Rousey Against Holly Holm; Worth the Hype?

Pay per view fights tend to be a joke, yet morons like myself occasionally purchase these fights, and yet some these bouts can still be worth the money.

The feature and title match between yesterdays UFC fight between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm was not worth the $60.00 for the match, but it was still not a rip off. Rousey clearly got whooped in the fight, Knockout in the second of a three round fight, but it was a real fight, unlike the third fixed  heavy weight bout between Mark Hunt of the U.S. and the Brazilian, Bigfoot Silva, the Dutch diver (fighter).

The heavy weight fight between Silva and Hunt was a joke, Hollywood at it's worst. Hunt threw a punch that a thin glass jaw entity such as myself could have taken, and Silva went down like a high paid puppy. It was main event mafia style boxing that clearly illustrates the timeless and obvious fixes throughout the boxing world.

All major sports are fixed in my mind, but boxing is so blatant about it. Is every pro fighting, hockey, football, baseball and football match fixed? Certainly not, but the games that are, wow, just review the 2001 AFC playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots.

For sure, the Patriots are the only NFL team to lose a playoff game and win the Superbowl in the same year. The Pats got the win handed to them by the referees in 2001 by a made up balderdash tuck rule that is now obsolete, and the Raiders should have faced the over rated Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship and not the Pats who went on to win it all. I'm regressing, yet telling it like it is, but none the less off track from topic.

Rousey was out matched in Saturday's fight. Holm was clearly the better and more educated fighter yesterday.

"Rousey is a brawler, Holm is a surgeon, a precise striker. She (Holm) has so many weapons and so many more options and we saw those options utilized tonight to perfection," one of the broadcasters said after the fight.

The second fight of the preliminaries  for the Rousey and Holm fight was a solid fun watch. I'm not a fan of the UFC for any particular reason, I just prefer what I was raised on, football, baseball and basketball. The men's middleweight fight between Jamaican born and now New Yorker, Uriah Hall and Australian Robert Whittaker was an entertaining brawl. Any fights with either of these two involved would be worth a watch for any sports fan. I'm very pleased I got to watch this fight, especially seeing how versatile and how Hall used his marital arts skills despite losing while going the distance.

With all said and done, I'd pay for the next Rousey fight. She's still 12-1.

Veterans Day, A Day That is Celebrated by Civilians and A Reminder to Me, I Could Be Retired or Maybe Dead by Now.

My job has black-out days, and Veterans Day is one those days you cannot take off, unless it's one of your normal two days off per week. Civilians benefit more from Veterans Day than veterans, but it's really no big deal, just interesting to me.

As a veteran I'm required to work on Veterans Day at my place of employment. With all said and done, I wish I'd stayed in the U.S. Army. In 20 years I could have retired. I could have been financially secure for life since 2003, with full medical and dental benefits, now I'm just another modern day pauper with a bleak financial future.

With all that said and done, life goes on, and laughter keeps me adrift as I perpetually shift through the sands of uncertainty. As much I despise war, military is very necessary. The number of weapons and troops nations posses is a bit much, but the military is a fantastic outlet right out of high school or college.

The military taught me how not to be a slob. I learned quickly from the Army, that no matter what you do during any given day, especially if it's your Saturday, whatever you do, get dressed and clean your dwelling place.

Sad indeed, more than 6,880 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 2003. http://icasualties.org/.  Since the men who hold high places will never advocate for positive change, war is here to stay, tragic for the too many wounded and killed in the battles of war. Outside the combat zone, the military is a great place to start adulthood.  

DVD Sci-Fi Reviews of "Self / Less" & "Terminator Genisys"

"Self / Less", released Monday to the general public on DVD is a science fiction whirlwind into the realms of immortality and the love between man, woman and their children.

Ben Kingsley portrays Damian, a man dying of old age. His extreme wealth enables him to transform all his thoughts, memories and knowledge into the body of a healthy young man. (Ryan Reynolds) At first, this is a fantastic plan, youths teen age lascivious desires become reality, his cancer is gone and his body is several decades younger and stronger. The conflict arises when young Damian (Reynolds) learns of the unscrupulous details of where his young body came from and the life old Damian unintentionally stole from another man.

Old Damian while in the young body sets fourth to reunite the mans life he stole with his wife and very young daughter. The wife Madeline (Natalie Martinez), because of her young daughter is trying to fall back in love with her husband, but everything mentally is not him. The young daughter Anna, so adorably played by Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen knows nothing of this and just wants to have her family life back with her mom and dad.

Old Damian also wants to patch things up with his own daughter who is fully grown. Doing that is pretty difficult when she knows he's died, and approaching your own child, when your about their same age in a completely different body is indeed a tough sell. On top of all this, the underground company that gave Damian his new life wants to take it back and also erase the lives of Anna and her mom Madeline.

There is a lot going on in "Self / Less" and it works well. This movie illustrates what humans will do and sacrifice for true love; the true love shared between two lovers and the love of family. Three and a half stars easy.

"Terminator Genisys," the latest of the "Terminator" flicks hit the DVD shelves also on Monday.
For the record, I love the original 1984 "Terminator" movie, unlike "Terminator Genisys," the original movie  had a great story-line, and the special effects where fitting for the plot.

The new "Terminator Genisys" is a cartoonist suck fest that was not intense nor funny. The world can only be saved by two people, Sarah Connor, played by the gorgeous Emilia Clarke and Kyle Reese, the male looker in the flick, portrayed by Jai Courtney. Anorld Schwarzenegger again plays the villain robot turned good to help the two humans save the world from the complete take over by cyborg machines. 

If film makers are going to have bombastic over the top special effects, the movie had better be done in true comic book nature, such as films like "Sin City," "The Spirit" and "300." The new "Terminator" might have worked if the it were a comedy or even a farce. When movie makers try and be serious, than have a scene in which two mortals, Connor and Reese in this case are in a full sized school bus with no seat beats and the bus does at least two spins in mid air before colliding the the ground, and neither person has so much as a scratch is too stupid and ridiculous to take seriously. 

The film makers should have paid me to watch this lame weak story and special effects geared toward the mind of toddler aged children. While I'm at it,  the 2008 flick "The Dark Knight" was another stupid movie I would have loved if I was 3-years-old. 

I prefer dialogue and acting as opposed to cartoon like special effects and sub moronic story's. Zero stars for "Terminator Genisys" and "The Dark Knight" for that matter.   

Double Disasters

Wow, the new "Vacation" movie staring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate is in the running for one of the worst films ever made, it's a comedy and it's not at all funny.

This movies attempt at humor was less successful then Army officer, George Armstrong Custer's last stand at The Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876. It's failed plea for humor was less gratifying then drinking a cup of hot water with three cups of salt and less entertaining then emptying out a dirty vacuum bag.

Retarded monkeys on acid could have written a better script. I didn't even smile once in "Vacation" which was spawned to DVD on Tuesday, the 3rd.

The new "Vacation" flick did absolutely no justice for the original "Vacation" from the 80s.  In the new disaster, the character Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) is a grown married man with two sons and sets fourth to drive his family 2000 miles to the fictional Walley World. Not a single scene in this lame movie was remotely entertaining or funny.

"Brothers of War," a World War II saga was another flop. This 2014 movie was given to the U.S. on DVD also on the 3rd of this month. A hapless and pointless drama about two brothers whose minds are completely skewed and thrust into a drama that had the excitement of dead flies on a window seal, and was as entertaining as AM radio in the middle of Montana.  

I'm not sure if "Brothers of War" was a biblical metaphor for the brothers Cain and Abel or if  film maker Mike Carter was trying to justify the need to commit suicide, which may have been better than watching this movie. The story-line was all over the place with a confusing theme. This is a another no star movie. 

The Devil's Pouring drinks & His Daughter Needs a Ride...

I  combined my words with the lyrics of Hank III and Neil Peart.

The devils pouring drinks and his daughter needs a ride. Mistress of the dark unconscious,
empress of the hidden race, beware her sexy dark embrace. Sometimes she's evil enough
to surpass Bundy's brutalities and can make Manson look meek, or she's incredibly sweet;

Sweeter than honey and sugar itself, the definition of beauty, at least in your mind, a
woman so enticing, incredibly understanding, and remarkably wise, yet still craves your
presence.

                                                                         Neal Peart, Izzy Schurr and Hank III.

 More words from Dead Poems...

                                                                                        Beer

       Laughing eyes and beer highs accentuated her bare

       thighs. Wish I’d had an attractive lie. 

                         Girl to Woman

Young flowered eye cutie. She’s riding on the

bright side of time before she emerges into a

lady. A true lady. Passion pure, primitive lure.

                                          

                                                          Izzy Schurr

The Lunatic Loser

Basking in the company of family, friends and laughing with my peers at work are some of the great things in life that ignite my dreams to transport desires and drive me when I'm down.   

Lunatic loser is a fitting phrase for me, as a past middle aged entry whose done nothing with his life other then help too few cancer patients and yell at the TV sometimes when the Oakland Raiders or the Oakland Athletics are losing again. 

Thanks to my brother Eddie and his wife Diane, I was not homeless when I was out of work just a few short years ago and the two of them allowed me to clean their house and do landscaping to earn my keep for food and shelter. 

My inability for meaningful communication hindered me severely from 2009-2014. In 2009 I was a dish washer (sanitation technician) making decent money for the Olema Inn in the town of Olema. Washing dishes when I was 45-years-old sent me off to a state of suicidal thoughts, and severe depression, but my acting skills kept this from surfacing to all my family and friends that actually enjoy my presence. 

I peeked much too early in life. I was at my prime in 9th grade. The following are actual words from my 9th grade year book written by my awesome drama teacher, Ave Bartell. Bartell's cursive writings to me when I was leaving her drama class and junior high school in 1979;

'How will I ever replace you Mark? It will never happen-I'll always remember you in "Taming of The Shrew." Sorry to have you leave for Piner. (Piner High School.)-but in three years you certainly helped our shows and the Drama Dept. and I hope you stay with the theater and keep in touch-I won't be surprised to see you on a 'real stage' some day-your surprising humor is terrific. Hope you remember all the good times...I'll miss you an awful lot.' Love Miss Bartell 

Ave Bartell

While I'm on the subject of sort of praising myself, a way cool drama and class mate of mine, Tom Boriolo wrote the the following about me in the same year book. 

 'Mark, I've  never called a lot of people unique before, but you've got to be the true definition of the word! I might not be taking drama anymore, but you'd better keep it up because your good at it. Tom Boriolo. 

Fast forward to present day, I'm just a lunatic and laughing loser with a remarkable candor for embracing the positives in life; despite perpetually doing jobs any 12-year-old can do, and forever having little income, I've found a way to embrace happiness. 

Phil & Gina Garcia, and loco me

Once upon a time, I thought I'd never have the money to travel, because of my current job and vacation hours, I've gone to Hawaii twice now, this October and October of last year. Both times I've gone with my friends of more than 25 years, the Garcia's. I'm already looking forward to October, 2016, so I can go back to Hawaii, for my annual relaxation time, or to use the parliamentary language of our times, 'my yearly chill fest.'

The plane ride to Hawaii with Ruby and Gina