Iraqi Insight from Inside Iraq! (Unbiased view.)

This was forwarded to me from a West Point grad whose classmate met with a distinguished Iraqi IN Iraq a couple of weeks ago, and the grad originated this forward! Read on for a reminder & some insight:

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Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE
From a classmate stationed in Iraq…

Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:40 AMTo: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: The Sweetest of All Gifts

Much has been made of the episode wherein an Iraqi news reporter threw a shoe at GW when he was over here late last year. Many saw it as the pivotal expression of his supposed folly. Two days ago, I was in Najaf, the most sacred of Shia holy places. I carried on a conversation with two men until late into the night. One of them is a professor at James Madison U in Virginia (he intends to invite me to speak there); the other is an Iraqi man whose entire family was massacred; who led large Iraqi forces in alliance with US forces against Saddam. He is incredibly articulate in English (and I don't mean "for a non-native speaker"); he is both a US and an Iraqi citizen, with amazing insights into this country. The professor asked him for his most illustrative example of changes in Iraq. Below is a paraphrased rendition of his comments:

"Last week, the man who threw his shoes at George W. Bush was set free from prison. Think of how mind-boggling that is. If he had done the same to Saddam, the dictator would have personally shot him on the spot. Instead, he was detained, went to trial, was sentenced to three years, and released after 1 year for good behavior because that is what the law requires! We are now a nation of laws.

"That is a tribute to George W. Bush. And, he gave us the sweetest of all gifts: freedom. That is why we love him over here. There was a time when we feared to say anything to anyone. No more. Now, we all speak out. That in a country that suffered for 50 years. We have come that distance in only six. Mind-boggling."



[RichardShhh adds: Now, if we can only cause the same kind of change in Afghanistan! Americans, you gotta learn patience--only New Yorkers operate on a New York minute!!! And, FYI, I have been a US military combatant under enemy fire in Vietnam, Laos, El Salvador, Honduras, and Grenada--Don't misunderstand my loyalties!]

HNT #56 - Quickie first look at New Ink on Girlie Tat in Progress

First Entry(Wednesday):
Later pic posting may be a little raggedy as I write this 8 hours before I go get new ink added tonight on my unfinished Gangsta Girlie tattoo. The first ink is completely healed and I may wait for a 3rd session later to finish her legs as they are quite painful down in my armpit.

Second Entry(Thursday):
OK, it's a day later, I have new ink (see pic), and I'm out of time to write but my tattooist will need a 3rd session to finish most of the new tat of my Gangsta Girlie. So I'll post this and run -- and say "Happy HNT as well as Halloween" to you all! Florida and Texas readers, this Saturday the WingHouse girls will be "Dressed to Impress" in what are usually very revealing & fancy costumes (not their regular WH uniforms) which show MUCH more of their beauty than their normal WH uniforms! (Get it?)

Did you know the WH Girls (including bartenders) make about 1/2 of the minimum wage from the company, and THEY COUNT ON UR TIP $$ to make a LIVING wage? Be sure to leave the Girls nice, generous tips -- they will need them to break even on what they have to spend for their Dress-Up Day costumes for you!

HNT #55 - New Gangsta Girlie Pic Tattoo

OK, Folks, I DID it! I got the first half of a very good tattoo done which looks amazingly similar to a girl I know! How did THAT happen? Go figure....
Ur first peek is inserted above and I plan to finish with the full, unfinished tatt showing all the way down to my (OWWW!!!) armpit at the end of this post. !Muy Delicado, Senyorita!

Now, in all honesty, I asked my tattoo artist to do his magic and turn the opaque, black bustier pic he's drawing from into a translucent, negligee-like bustier using our best (lusty) imaginations. I have never seen this in real life but I LIKE his imaginary artwork!! (He is internationally recognized and has dozens of trophies for his tattoo work.) And I think I am falling in love with my left arm! (I'll let you imagine a vulgar follow-on line to that cuz they're easy!) LOL

I have to wait about 2 weeks for this skin to heal over & seal before we add more skin perforations and newer ink to finish the tattoo. Mike Sizemore, the artist, has pics of a gorgeous, large piece he did of Jenna Jameson in a bikini, and he plans to use the same revolutionary techniques to portray similar beauty in MY gangsta girlie's tat skin tones. NO black outline around the body! Unfortunately, this will take longer & cost more money, but it will be uniquely beautiful! Since it will likely be my last tattoo ever, why not? As long as my AF retired pay still gets direct-deposited to the bank, I'll be able to cover it. My next post won't be for a couple of weeks as I'll be waiting to finish the tat & show you! However, I WILL continue to change the sexy little pics on the right of this blog.

Here's to YOU, Babe..... Love, Always & Forever! (Just like a tattoo...)

HNT #54 - My Current Sex Life!

Well, this is about IT! RedTube.com & pics of sexy near-nudes or nudes. I haven't been back to YouPorn.com since I discovered RedTube on my own, but one of my WH Girls who LOVES porn told me about the YouPorn site. It's FREE, as is RedTube! Definitely XXX on BOTH sites! There are lots of ads on sidebars there for supposed dating-fucksites but I don't bother. I have never paid for pussy and I'm not about to start NOW! PICS of pussy, yes; but paying for the real deal, no thanks! If you don't love or desire me enuf to GIVE it away, I don't want it! I would probably get more of it if I gave away free samples of my knowledge & techniques, but just how does one DO that? I'm all ears -- tell me!

BTW, if you think my longterm marriage was paying for pussy, you're mistaken! I did that for what I thought was 2-way LOVE! SHE probably saw it as paying for pussy since she didn't have tits and she was used to whoring for her male cousins & school chums in Laredo, TX anyway. Altho it may have been what SHE thought was a payment, my consent was NOT informed in any sense of the word -- just the outcome from highly-disguised manipulativeness by a damaged, lying Mexican-American teen-slut. But you should know, I never speak about her ! HA!

PS: And, Ladies, I KNOW I'm due for another pedicure! Soon, soon... ;-) HHNT!

HNT #53: The collection grows (& that's not ALL)!

Amorous Rocker, look what I have to show you here!!! I am still fixing up this wall-art-sculpture but she swore me to secrecy over whose shorts I got into. She must have liked how I did it tho, cuz u'll notice there's a red bra now inside the top!!! Ooo-la-la! Yet, things are not always as they seem...

For HNT tanning bed enthusiasts, I present Cock-in-a-Sock (almost sounds like "fast food," eh?:

HNT #52: Tanning Bed Pic & my home shrine to WingHouse Girls!

"Twitter" : I'm watching VH-1. Taylor Swift's video of "You Belong with Me" just flashed me back to my H.S. Class Prom I HAD to attend cuz I was the Class President but I went "Stag" (cuz my Dad never allowed me to learn to dance which forced me to become a near-Perpetual Virgin.) This STILL impacts my behavior and life today! Un-fucking-believable. (Old habits die hard -- good OR bad!)

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Speaking HOPEFULLY, I just recalled that I got my #1 fave WH Girl to take her shirt off for me last night! Ha-ha, I'm leading you ON a little! She took it off alone in private and gave it to me afterwards to put on the wall of my new "home saloon" & entertainment parlor since it's a WingHouse Girl's uniform shirt, and I bought her a new one to replace it! When I get it stapled on the wall, I'll get a pic of it to post here! [Done.] I've decided to get her shorts off next! LOL

HNT #51: Night-Vision Version

Just a quickie for THIS week -- almost wasn't even that! Doesn't this one look like a pic taken with "night vision" technology? Got it done thru editing at http://www.picnik.com/ (all free and kept private).

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I'd LOVE to see some sexy ladies thru night vision. This reminds me of something I was told when on AF active duty in Panama's Canal Zone area. A friend and an aircrew member wanted proof that our young pilot's "pure" girlfriend in Panama was fucking around when the pilot wasn't available-- apparently she was regularly horny AND trying to get a free ticket to the States (before Noriega lost power) with the first young officer she could snatch (having slept with a lot of other aircrew members that the pilot was totally unaware of.)

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Another pilot with our aircraft's NVG's (night-vision goggles) was supposedly drunk and asleep in the room he shared with this girl's "date" one night that her boyfriend-pilot was away. The NVG pilot had a pillow over his head and the room was dark so as not to wake him and to provide the date and the girl more privacy when they returned. The guy with the NVG's furtively watched them fuck somewhat quietly for a couple of hours on the other side of the small room from the "sleeping" pilot. Everybody was happy as a clam THAT night!

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But it fell to me as a "better" friend to the pilot than the witness to tell the bf what his girlfriend (actually, fiance') had done and that it HAD been seen directly (was not hearsay)! I have always been too quick to be a mature, responsible person & I accepted the responsibility to tell my young friend in the gentlest, but truest, way so that he would NOT be taken advantage of by an habitual liar.

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That ruined MY friendship with that young pilot in the long run, and I suspect "to get even" in a twisted way of thinking he had, he might have even done the same thing with MY wife back in the States when I was away at Grad School! That was the wife I married to keep her from becoming the lying, unwed mother of my oldest son -- everything she ever said to me is now suspect but I should have stopped believing anything she said long before we got married! Hers were all BS stories aimed at getting her own way! (Oh, BTW, SHE was Central American Hispanic too!) NEVER before had I ever seen a person so selfishly twisted who could keep such a straight face through so many lies. If you are an honest man, in today's lying, civilian society, you are going to be taken advantage of! You shouldn't be so good and trusting cuz no one ELSE is, out here! Pity, that!

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HNT #50 - Virgin Tanning Booth Experience

Well, I'm running a little late on the words to go with the tanning booth pic I drafted a couple days ago. This pic was just before my 2nd session two days after my FIRST session where I lost my virginity (read last post or 2). This was before my first STANDING tanning booth session which is only 10 minutes max -- 1/2 the time of a bed max -- cuz it's one powerful UV-ejaculating motherfucker! (90% of the tannees are mothers or pussies looking to get tan and become mothers!)

BTW, did I ever mention that I'm a motherfucker, too? I've only fucked mothers and virgins in my life (and one lying semi-virgin on her way to BECOMING a mother, lol.) Not sure which I prefer -- but, anymore, I'll flirt with ALL pretty women & trade feels & pics, too, but only tight semi-virgins need apply to hang around. And I've got one in mind for my next tattoo ;-)

HNT #49: Who's Blue? Me or U?

Lessee... Interesting color shift just by hitting the "Negative" filter. It's a quickie without firing up the camera otra vez. BUT, it IS a new pic!

BTW, I lost my virginity yesterday -- on a TANNING BED! What I mean is, I lost my "Tanning Bed virginity" for 15 minutes! Didn't hurt at all. Tomorrow, I'll go back and get it done in Standing Position for 10 more! (I don't think THIS position is in the Kama Sutra!)

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I'm STILL a "Born-Again VIRGIN," NEVER FEAR! LOL! 15 years of virtual celibacy and counting! I advertise that as a challenge as much as is reasonable, but no under-35 girls seem unprejudiced about my extensive years of prior experience due to age! BTW, I WAS popular enough to get elected as my high school Class President -- I just had a mandatory job, no car, and no spare time thanks to my Dad's browbeating! Just as well, most of the girls I know now lost their virginity at 14 or younger (from what they tell me via the round-about way of saying, "I went on B.C. at 14!") If that's supposed to titillate, it's working -- but something's lost as much as something's gained by that!

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I LOVE some 20-somethings, but I'm not sure I want to be the x-hundredth link in the chain coming out of their crotches. I DID get my proof from the Doc that I've been celibate (a Quest Diagnostics printout of last week's clean STD check for everything but Herpes.) They don't check for Herpes anymore cuz no one can tell now where it came from or which got it first, the mouth or the crotch?! Who's ever used a dental dam? In today's youngsters, who ever HEARD of a dental dam? LOL The modern fund of general knowledge is WAY too limited--ever see Jay Leno's "All-Stars?"

HNT #48: Always check this Blog's sidebar for new nekkid pics each week!

OK, True to my word, I have changed the sidebar half-nekkid pics as I do every week for HNT. Check 'em all out! After 2 months, my builder finished the final painting in the new room yesterday so I'm adding a leisure pic taken today altho not originally in the plan for this week. I may take next week off if I don't get any comments -- I've changed to some pretty straight articles lately & doubt their popularity.

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Now, this pic is probably the closest thing ur ever gonna see to my getting an X-rating! LOL ---- Happy HNT!

HNT #47 -- See OHNT for today's pic post

For pics, I may actually start to tip you off when I am gonna be on The Other HNT in any given week. We'll have to see how long that lasts!

(Over the years, I've had quite a few up there. Have you spotted any before? If so, why don't you just tell me how many and/or in what month/year but not what they look like -- I still need some anonymity, but I'm curious how observant you think you've been/are. Some of mine WERE pretty-well disguised.)
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OK, I'm going to add a little here that will undoubtedly continue in future weeks. I'm adding this as I listen/watch a regular Christian church service on evening TV. Part of why tonight is to offer my worship (such as it is) in hopes that the Creator will look kindly on my favorite WingHouse Girl #1 who surprisingly, asked me to include her in my prayers that she might get hired at the medical office where she is serving her Associate's Degree "externship." It is sort of an emergency medical center and she is LOVING it ALL! She really beams with having found a true career (& a respectable, professional one) at a perfect time in her life (age 25 3/4). She is a smart person and very attuned to people, and I know loves the compliment she received just the day before from the Doctor in charge about her work ethic and helpfulness and enthusiasm at work!

This is VERY cool for MANY reasons, but she was already in my prayers for many reasons. I have noticed how she really seems oriented to going on (if only she had the $$) to finish her R.N. and BSN degree! Her telling me this was fortuitous as I was about to present her with a medical-scrubs top I had mail-ordered from Florida State University in Tallahassee. When I gave it to her, I felt a little Divine Influence intervening as she then called it "perfect" cuz her medical office had just decided on Fridays everyone should wear scrubs from their favorite school & she didn't have any yet! (Thanks, God, for helping me help a girl whom I love find herself a little happier & belonging where we both think she belongs!)

But, to ask me to say PRAYERS for her, surprised me! I'm guessing her family has sort of a watered-down generic Christian view like so many Americans, and I do not disparage that because I think Life has recently watered down MY view of the validity of many aspects of Christianity. But I guess she heard from her best friend that I was including the friend in special prayers & daily TV worship so the friend would get accepted for the one rare Nursing School slot that had just opened up to recent A.A. degree grads & the friend was hoping for. Now the friend did not get selected for the rare slot in spite of her brightness and need and deserving nature, so it added to my surprise since my prayers didn't seem to be effective other than in building our hope and faith observance. But one never knows and I believe it cannot HURT to have people pray sincerely for your good intentions -- especially when we cannot do anything else. It IS doing something when we have done everything else that we can!

My beloved WH Girl FURTHER shocked me by saying she was thinking of going to church soon with another WH Girl she had formerly worked with as a bartender here in Palm Harbor. I don't think this is a giant "true believer" conversion but I think it's revealing an interesting aspect of reverence I had previously sensed in my friend but had never before heard or seen direct evidence of. Which tells ME it's sincere -- not like a few fakey WH Girls I've known in the past who put Christian crosses all over their MySpace pages and then sluttify their bodies regularly to throw people off what is REALLY on their minds! It's further proof of positive intervention because I think both church-bound girls have recovered from terrible drug problems in the past! My friend is a very honest, very responsible young woman who does not rely on other people to do HER work or pick up HER responsibilities, but I see this as a good sign that she recognizes humans cannot control or influence EVERYthing in their own lives. And that a certain amount of respect for a Higher Power's involvement and role is both realistic and appropriately modest.

The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that my #1 Girl is a very sexy girl. She is realistically and admirably fun-loving and sexy. But, I doubt she is aware of one of the toughest aspects of orthodox and mainstream Christianity -- a relatively antithetical attitude toward overt sexuality outside of marriage. (Some denominations are "worse" than others about condemning all sexuality outside of heterosexual marriages, but all Christianity is clearly negativistic toward sexuality.) Each denomination and individual Christian has his/her own position with respect to sex. But I just want to caution my friend and will send her a copy of this article to be aware and non-plussed by others' INtolerance when she sees it. Not to be surprised. Most Christians don't always have very Christ-like attitudes or behavior. After all, as Christians, they're supposed to admit to being sinners too! ;-)

Me? Sinner or not, I believe in One God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. I try to do right and make this world a better place. Sometimes, I even succeed! At least, I try.

!Happy Half-Nekkid Thursday, Chicas & Chicos!
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