The Beast's Ian Murphy hates American troops.

This is the blogger who pranked Governor Walker. Touche. But before you place Ian Murphy on your "how cool is he?" list, keep in mind - he hates our American soldiers.

excerpt from "Fuck the Troops" -

So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo fucking hoo. They got what they asked for—and cool robotic limbs, too.

Likely, just reading the above paragraph made you uncomfortable. But why?

The benevolence of America’s “troops” is sacrosanct. Questioning their rectitude simply isn’t done. It’s the forbidden zone. We may rail against this tragic war, but our soldiers are lauded by all as saints. Why? They volunteered to partake in this savage idiocy, and for this they deserve our utmost respect? I think not.

The nearly two-thirds of us who know this war is bullshit need to stop sucking off the troops. They get enough action raping female soldiers and sodomizing Iraqi detainees...

Here's the full post. While I don't agree with everything our country does in the name of democracy and I'm fully aware there are always a few bad apples in the bunch, I do not lend credence to sweeping generalizations when it concerns our American troops. Murphy obviously doesn't care about anyone or anything other than the shock value of his writing.

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore (from "We Were Soldiers" fame) said to Dan Rather, "Hate war, but love the American soldier".

And hate people like Ian Murphy instead.

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Posting to Blogger by email...two observations.

Alright, so my message posted (see below).

"I'm just trying to see if I can post by email. Did it work?"
- Jeff

But I see two issues:

1) Whatever email address you post from, it posts all the crap you have below your signature. And I have a lot of crap below my signature (and above it).

2) It posted to my blog as a DRAFT, which means I still had to go into the blog and POST it. Soooo...what steps does posting by email eliminate if you have to go into your blog to post it? Did I do something wrong?

Blogger? Anyone?

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My revamped original play blog: Bumbershoot.

I thought I'd try a new blog site for my original plays. I'd been using Blogger but wanted a change - didn't like the way it looked. Blah. So I went to Wordpress. Bumbershoot - The Plays of Jeffrey James Ircink. Looks a tad more professional. And cleaner. Take a gander if you're interested. You get a synopsis of each play and you can click on "read the rest of this entry" to read a 20-page dialogue sample of the play.

One thing about Wordpress for all you bloggers out there, setting up links is a breeze compared to Blogger. One-click and you're done. Oh - if you don't check out the blog, the picture I used for the blog banner is an original called, "Mossy rocks in a creek". I was in a hurry to name it. Didn't think it was a big deal at the time but I get a lot of remarks that the photograph looks like a painting. Maybe I did think it was "something" or I wouldn't have taken it. Who knows - I was drinking at the time (it was during our annual walleye fishing trip up at the Rainbow Flowage in Lake Tomahawk, WI).

And "bumbershoot" is a slang British term for "umbrella".

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