liberal democrat hypocrisy

apparently becuz congressman wilson shouted you lie when obama was actually lying last week he is now the biggest racist in america. thats not entirely true folks..

there are elected democrats that actually believe he is the new face of the next rising of the KKK. and because wilson said "you lie" the kkk is now going to..(AND THIS IS AN ACTUALLY QUOTE FROM THIS JOKER: Georgia Socialist democrat HANK JOHNSON ( this weeks douchebag/moron/racist of the week))

"get on their horses and terrorize colored folks in the dead of night"

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME

liberal democrat definition of a racist is:

"a white person who disagrees with higher taxes and a larger government"

yea i can see it now.. before last wednesday night.. all racists were giving up on their racist KKK ways. they were going to give it all up and re-enter society and start working at applebees and bestbuys.. but now since Congressman Wilson said you lie when the president was actually lying... these racists got all excited and decided to get their kkk outfits back on and get on their horses and start creating all kinds of hell for minorities.. yea just becuz wilson shouted you lie.

are these liberal democrats kidding me?? i know this is all a big dream and i will wake up any second now...

*pinch pinch*

still here :-(

i cant deal with the double standards and hypocrisy because it is literally everywhere. for example this latest debacle with congressman wilson. I heard on andrew wilkow today a black guy call in and say that wilson was racist for saying you lie.. because 20 years ago he supported the confederate flag to be flown froma courthouse. I could also go on and on about how flying a confederate flag means nothing about racism. If people are offended by the confederate flag because under the confederate government slavery was legal... then these same people should be disgusted with the AMERICAN flag because under the AMERICAN FLAG.. slavery was legal. But i digress... the host andrew wilkow said what about DEMOCRAT representative ROBERT BYRD.. who is an admitted former kkk member. the caller says .. people can change...

so to get this straight.. Politician A, a republican, is racist because 20 years ago he supported the flying of a confederate flag over a courthouse. but politician B, a demo, and an admitted former kkk member is not racist because he is allowed to change. so the support of flying a historical flag over a courthouse is somehow more racist than actual membership in the KLU KLUX KLAN... these liberals are literally out of their minds

this is a short post just venting.. my hypocrisy tolerance level has just overflowed and i cant take it anymore.. haha

don't worry tho everyone.. not going postal

Have a good rest if the week and remember to think: What would a LIBERTARIAN do? =-)

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington Texas

wats uuuuuup

I have been busy lately with school and family visits, etc but I wanted to get a post or 2 in at the start of the week.

Politics:

I have been following the "conservative million man march" story and it sounded pretty amazing for the people that were able to attend. Liberal media has tried to downplay the gathering by mis-reporting the number of people there... MSNBC has said it was only 10 or 20 thousand klu klux klan and other white supremist groups rallying because the president was black. The D.C. police and fire departments official head count had a number over 1 million. the only media outlet to report that number was a british paper the daily mail (i believe.. correct me if im wrong) I also saw among the speakers and performers that there were multiple african americans, hispanic americans and members of all races and backgrounds. The DC police have stated it was as peaceful as possible and everyone says that it was a great, fun, and patriotic atmosphere. I wish I could have attended this event which was not to protest the president or anything specific about barack obama.. it was a protest to tell the members of the US Congress to stop corruption, stop private interest, and most importantly LISTEN TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS. Taxation without representation is a pretty touchy thing and I know that the american people are lazy, but if politicians are told by the american people to vote no for something that affects all americans health (thus, controlling the quality of life or death of all americans)and the politicians still vote yes.. the politicians will certainly get kicked out of office and if the corruption continues.. a very revolutionary atmosphere will begin to form.

a video of how big the crowd was is here

Sports:

this year is my 1st year at trying fantasy football. I have won all my leagues in fantasy basketball the past 2 years, so I figured I would give the football side of things.. a shot. For week 1 i got very little production out of all my guys and I played against the league's high scorer of the week resulting in me losing my 1st game by 30+ points. This past weekend had some very good games. The USC ohio state game was good, Smu game was good, new mexico state won in a good game against a 1-aa school which hurts me to say. BYU won huge and didnt even have to punt once. they look really good. With their schedule having the 2 best teams in conference playing them at home. BYU has a legit chance of running the table and getting to the BCS champ game. Just depends on how many teams do the "undefeated thing". the bronco's bengals game on sunday was hillarious.. i just love it to watch that asshole "ochocinco" lose. My cards lost.. they started the game really slow and missed too many opportunities early. Early in the game is when the cards got to score, they are a team that needs to do well early so that the team plays hard late in the 2nd half. I am very excited as a cardinal fan about Beanie Wells. he looks legit. he wasn;t even 100% sunday and when he was let loose.. he looked VERY GOOD. If the cards can get a legit runner ( and i believe beanie wells will be the starter and 80 yards a game+ by the end of the year) their offense can be even more potent than it was last year and in the nfc west, they can look to make another postseason run.

history:

95 years ago today. The emden had captured her 4th prize during her tour of the indian ocean which earned the ship of the title: "the greatest merchant raider of all time". I am currently reading the book on the emden now and will post some interesting facts about the emden as i get deeper into the book.

Youtube:

Can people seriously stop messaging me on youtube and calling me names??? I was talking to a guy I knew on a video's comment board. This guy has many views on historical issues that I do. All of a sudden I got 3 random guys literally stuffing my box with hate mail. II have only commented on historical videos except 1 time i commented ona pizza hut commercial.. i digress. I have only talked about military history on my comments. In these comments, every single one of them.. is text talking about battles and weapons. Somehow by talking about how good german artillery was in ww1.. I am a neo-nazi, cross burning klu klux klan member that is ready to take over the world because i hate everyone apparently. so for everyone that knows me.. i just wanted to make sure you knew who i really was :-P

wargaming:

I am thinking about running a ww1 naval game this november at millenicon. Please let me know if you think running a "mini-scenario" of von spee's east squadron would be a good idea. It would be 4 players, and have 2 parts players would control the same ships for both games.

part 1: BATTLE OF CORONEL

1 german would control the 2 armored cruisers 1 german would control the other 3 light cruisers. 1 british would control the 2 armored cruisers and the other brit would control the 2 light cruisers

part2: FALKLANDS

german players control same ships

each british player gets one invincible class battlecruiser and 2 light cruisers.

i think it would be a good game because it would teach the history of the east asia squadron. Also, with the numbers of players/ships the game would be much nore exciting with having 2 separate games in 1 setting. The players will get a chance to redeem themselves from the first game or go for an undefeated record, etc.

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington Texas

im scared of how poor us education has gotten...

I am amazed how many people I have run across that seriously believe that the germans of world war one were nazi's.

I have come across some that think they are real smart and sound even more ignorant: I ve justbeein in contact

with a guy on youtube that said :

" I know they weren't nazis becuz the party wasn't formed yet, but they were the same thing just in a different name.

they were white supremist that hate jews"

*jaw hits the floor*

are these people kidding me??? the imperial german military of ww1 had more jewish officers than any other european nation.

These are such ignorant comments that..

they dont really deserve a response but after the latest exchange I just had to post it.

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington texas

Whats up??

Hello all,

Just a quick update on everything.. school is great. I hate to admit it but, state universities in my experiences are far superior to private universities. I have either gone or considered/visited some private schools where hidden agendas and other Bullshit are considered more important than actual education. at my 1st school REDLANDS (private) alot of the teachers had a hidden left wing agenda.. to basically push as much radical left wing views on as many students as possible and hope it sticks to the majority of them so that down the road the left can win more elections. fairly simple idea.. happens to work. last year I went to a private catholic school for a semester for basketball.. I knew going in that the academia at the school was basically a bunch of LOONS, but the basketball aspect of it seemed promising enough and I consider myself intelligent enough to be able to block out all the agenda these catholic profs were pushing on THEIR students. Some of these teachers didn't use a syllabus, they simply talked about whatever they felt that day and always gave it a pro catholic church spin to it. Needless to say, there was a bible class mandatory for all 1st year students.. I have never had a teacher that was so angry and close-minded in my life. One could hear the trembling tone in her voice whenever she talked about something that she deemed wrong or "anti-church".. which doesn't mean anti-christian.. it just means anti- catholic. Needless to say with the whacko teachers and the coach at the school not knowing anything about strategy and coaching adjustments.. i decided to seek educational refuge at a state school. All my teachers have a syllabus, they all teach and speak on the subject that the class is actually about. So I must say I am really enjoying my semester at UTA.

I have recently read KREUZERKRIEG by EDWIN P. Hoyt . It is the story of Maximillian Von spee and the german east asia squadron in the 1st year of the great war. It was a 310 page book that i managed to read in 60 hours. It was extremely well written and entertaining. I had never known how much time and resources at sea these coal fueled ships had to give in the effort to locate and secure more coal. The squadron had atleast 6 different colliers. Colliers are non warships that were sent to neutral harbors to purchase and take on coal to then transport to the squadron for the squadron's use. Neutrality laws of 1914 stated that a ship can enter a neutral harbor once every 3 months. These ships needed to take on coal every 2 weeks, so the squadron literally lived and died by its colliers efforts to get coal.

My current book is by the same author and the same subject essentially. The title is "last cruise of the emden". SMS emden was a ship of the east asia squadron which was detached from the squadron and sent into the indian ocean to conduct raiding of merchant ships. For 3 months the emden single handedly sunk 3 warships, 25 merchant ships, destroyed 2 wireless stations, and bombarded the indian port city of MADRAS. It is the only surface vessel to ever get the iron cross. (the crews got iron crosses as well, but the ship itself was awarded one) It is still considered the most famous commerce raider of all time. It caused allied shipping to be delayed or even canceled in several cases, it also caused the delay of reinforcements to east africa. After reading cruiserwar by Hoyt, I am very excited to see how the "last cruise of the emden" is.

Hope everyone has a great week.

FUNNY VIDEO

-Matt Bowden-

1st week of school.. in the books

SMS SCHARNHORST (flagship of east asiatic squadron)

SMS DRESDEN (survivor of Falklands & sister ship of world famous cruiser SMS EMDEN)

SCHARNHORST

BATTLE OF CORONEL

BATTLE OF CORONEL

Ive had a great 1st week of school.. I like all my teachers and am satisfied with all the syllabus'. With 3 history classes, I will have alot of writing to do, but I get to pick the topic in all 3 classes. Obviously, military history is not a punishment for me to write on. I plan on writing an essay on Rommel and N. Africa for my ww2 class, world war one in my hist. research class, and military history of the dfw area in my DFW class.

I have been playing a lot of ww1 naval wargames lately. The new rules I purchased at Historicon "Victory at Sea--Age of Dreadnoughts" are incredibly accurate, easy, and fun to play. The rules are also used for different eras of naval history(i.e. "Victory at Sea--world war 2" and "Victory at Sea--Age of Sail") I have not played the other two but from my understanding, it is the exact same game system just modified to fit the historical parameters of the time. I am working on collecting world war one german, british, russian, italian and austro-hungarian and fleets. I have found a company that has an incredible selection of ships at a third of the price of GHQ micro-nauts. PANZERSCHIFFE is the name and website: http://www.panzerschiffe.com/index.html . It is a great deal for me to have them at a third of the price with 0 assembly required. With the good prices, I will have a good sized collection in no time.

I'll post some pictures soon so the reader can get an idea of how my dreadnoughts are looking :-)

HAve a good week everyone! Remember: SMILE BIG and SMILE OFTEN.. life is too short not to!!!!

Funny video

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington Texas

PS: FROM now on I plan on putting a "this day in WW1 history in each post so here is the 1st one...

This day in ww1 history:

1914:

Western Front

Laon occupied by the Germans.

Paris bombed for the first time by German airmen.

Eastern Front

East Prussia: Rout of Samsonov's army continues: Germans capture many prisoners.

Southern Front

Serbia: Austrians recover from repulse of first invasion and prepare for second.

Naval and Overseas Operations

Cameroons: British occupy Nsanakong.

1915:

Eastern Front

Russian victory on Strypa (southern Galicia), taking 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns.

Southern Front

Italians eject Austrians from Monte Maronia (Julian).

French aeroplanes bomb Akbachi Sliman and Chanak (Gallipoli).

Political, etc.

German Ambassador's account of his last interview with Sir Edward Grey republished from German press.

Great Britain makes concessions to American trade with regard to blockade.

Letter from Mr. Balfour gives total deaths from Zeppelin raids as 89 - all civilians.

1916:

Western Front

Somme, Bavarians surrender south of Martinpuich.

British list of prisoners.

Southern Front

Tepelini (Albania) occupied by Italians.

Venizelist revolution at Salonika.

Naval and Overseas Operations

Germans retire from Morogoro (German East Africa) over Ruwu river.

Political, etc.

Turkey declares war on Romania.

1917:

Western Front

Germans force British to evacuate advanced posts north of St. Julien-Poelcapelle road.

British air raid on aerodromes on Belgian coast.

French success near Hurtebise (Aisne).

Southern Front

Heavy fighting at Monte San Gabriele (north-east of Gorizia); Austrian counter-attacks repulsed.

Italians claim 27,000 prisoners since 19 August.

Naval and Overseas Operations

British seaplanes drop many bombs on aerodromes near Belgian coast.

Political, etc.

M. Malvy, French Minister of the Interior, resigns.

1918:

Western Front

Australians capture Mont St. Quentin (overlooking Peronne).

End of Battle of Bapaume.

Germans evacuate Mt. Kemmel.

Eastern Front

Supplementary Peace Treaties signed at Berlin.

Bolshevik position 75 miles south of Archangel on Vologda Railway carried by Allies.

Naval and Overseas Operations

British attack Germans successfully near Lioma, un Lurio valley (Portuguese East Africa), and drive them south.

Political, etc.

London Police strike settled; men return to work.

SORRY :-/

Hello friends and readers,

sorry everyone for not being on here at ALL lately but I will be on the computer and effectively.. be on here alot more often. There is no real news, I have just been enjoying my last few weeks of school/homework free summer.

Miniatures wise I have been working on 1/72 german (and 1 austrian) models for bluemax/canvas eagles games id hope to play later on. I have also been working on GHQ Great War Micronauts. I have just completed the German East Asia squadron (pics will be posted next post) and the english 4th cruiser squadron (Battle of coronel) and the english south atlantic squadron (falkland islands). I will be playing the whole German east asia squadron campaign throughout the week and will have pics/reports on the next post or 2.

I start school on the 24th. I am taking 15 hours including 3 history classes (world war 2 history, history of north texas (lol), and "intro to advanced level history research". also have German 1 and art appreciation (lol)) Although I am not looking forward to the homework/studying of 15 hours. I am excited to change up my routine from summer. I will look forward to my world war 2 and german classes the most.

I intend on asking my german teacher/department staff to help me with translations of the jasta files over at the ferko collection at UT-Dallas.

In case the reader does not know, I have found a special collection at UTDALLAS called the Ferko/williams collection. The ferko collection is over 500 boxes of original or copied documents of the german airforce in World war one. Every jasta has its own folder and with it are complete victory lists, complete squadron rosters, after action reports, photos, maps and other documents. Some are in german and some were translated by this "A.E. Ferko". From what i have read, he was an american that spent his entire life collecting and researching everything on german aviation during the great war. As one could imagine, the information at the ferko collection is insanely valuable and most has never been collected , analyzed and published as I intend to do. I do research over there once or twice a week and I based on the size of the collection I will be in the "collecting of information stage" for atleast a few months.

The williams collection is the same as ferko except it covers mostly the RFC and allied aviation throughout the war. Although it is mostly allied, williams collection has about a dozen boxes of german/austro-hungarian aviation information. As I mentioned above, any files in german will not be a problem for me to have translated.

I will probably be doing my last bit of traveling for 2009 in the next 2 weekends. I will be in Austin this weekend for a family reunion (moms side) of sorts and the following weekend my mom,dad, and I will be road-tripping throughout west texas. We plan on seeing most regions of the "big bend" area. I have been out there once before and it is without a doubt as equally beautiful as the deserts of arizona,utah, new mexico, Nevada and eastern california. As always, I will have many pictures up from the two trips ASAP.

Other than relaxing and enjoying the last few days of summer vacation, I have not been doing much at all. I have not been been to many movies, nor have I been watching any tv at all. The only tv I have seen in the past few weeks have been the history international channel, military channel and hobo to see the new comedy series they have "HUNG".

I have been doing a great deal of reading recently. I am reading 2 books right now and have been doing a great deal of switching between the two almost daily. I am reading John Mosier's "MYTH of the Great war" which is in my opinion the best book on the great war that looks at the war from a "logistical,national aka "Big picture" point of view. I am also reading a book I picked up from the city of arlington library "the ship that changed the world:the escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914". It is well written and an easy read.

Thanks for tuning in and I will be making posts with great frequency now that school will be starting and I will be on the computer all the time..

FUNNY VIDEO

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington Texas

new great art found!

hey hey I found some really good art and thought id post some. (NOTE: THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN 305 Skoda artillery piece.. once the german got a battery to the NAMUR forts.. they all fell within 36 hours of the guns arriving. One fort sustained 23 direct hits before surrendering. Each shell for the gun weighed 846 pounds and delivered close to 30 kilos of high explosives.

the pic of the austro/italian fight is one of the Isonzo conflicts on the southern front.

Have a great day and rest of the week.. we're half way to the weekend!!

-Matt Bowden-

Arlington Texas