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Veterans Day

I am using this place for a graphic for my brief Veterans Day post at the Marmot's Hole.

Remembering

The funniest thing I've read all week

America will fall one day.  That is certain.  All nations do (China has at least a dozen times).

But the tripe that "citizen reporter" Michael Werbowski spewed out would not be worth the read if it weren't so funny.  A sample:

At home, America offers its growing illiterate, incarcerated or homeless population a brief reprieve from their pitiful existence by means of a computer generated "virtual reality."

Yeah, those illiterate homeless guys in jail play so many computer games that they might soon give the hegemonic Koreans a run for their money in the Starcraft competition.

Really.  If there is another IKK blogger out there with more time, this is a fisk that writes itself.

UPDATE:  GI Korea has taken up the "challenge" of fisking the Werbowski piece. 

Lie'n cheat'n and steal'n no more

Eddie Guerrero; October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005

One of my guilty pleasures is watching WWE wrestling, so I was saddened to hear that one of my favorite stars, Eddie Guerrero, has died:

A World Wrestling Entertainment star was found dead in his hotel room Sunday in Minneapolis, where he was scheduled to appear that evening in a WWE show.

Eduardo Gory Guerrero, 38, didn’t respond to a wake-up call Sunday morning, authorities said. His nephew, fellow WWE wrestler Chavo Guerrero, and hotel security at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center forced their way into the room and found him.

There were no apparent signs of foul play, police said. An autopsy was planned to determine how Guerrero died.

With pro wrestling, it is often hard to tell the truth from BS, so make what you will of Guerrero's bio at Wikipedia.  Guerrero was one of my favorite 'heels' (bad guys) and a great performer.

UPDATE:  The cause of death was heart failure:

The late Eddie Guerrero's wife, Vickie, told WWE.com today that the cause of Eddie's death was due to heart failure. According to Vickie Guerrero, “It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep."

If you ever watch wrestling, you would know that Guerrero was in good shape.  He was also my age, which is cause for worry.  I guess I need to join the local gym after all (but without overdoing it).

Remembering our veterans