A friend told me about a serial dog poisoner in Hong Kong. As a dog owner, he was so terrified he ended up moving to Sidney. The sad thing is that these assholes don't ever seem to get caught.
I have a fairly large file, simply from having a very brief summer internship at the white house. The FBI are very thorough about this whole background check thing.
To be fair to the cuckoo clock - it's made almost entirely of wood. When I think of clock gears carved out of wood, I'm floored. But then, I'm also floored by consenual leiderhosen and Swiss Army Knives with USB drives. Alpine gift shops are kind of trippy.
I'd be willing to bet the person behind this had little or no recognition of the history behind that symbol. To wit, he (and I'm sure it was a he), probably remembered the graphics from Kiss. Of course, that's what I'm hoping, too.
True. I was being glib. But when I go shopping at a surplus store, I'm struck by the huge number of seriously ugly patches (largely for the Army - but that may be symptomatic of my surplus store). And, to be fair, they were probably (I'm guessing) executed by people serving in those units. So, I shouldn't be a dick about it.
No, I don't expect our professional troops to act like the SS. For one thing, the latter were the armed wing of a fascist political party. For another, they rounded up and gassed 6 million unarmed civilians. The SS were "badass" against the defenseless, and not demonstrably courageous. US Marines are trained to fight an armed enemy, and lay down their lives if need be. There's no moral or professional equivalency between the two organizations (individual assholes excepted).
The US military has a long and glorious tradition of badly designed, amateur graphics becoming official unit logos. If they can afford marching bands and valets, they should at least hire a couple of art directors to come up with better insignia.