Rick Pino - Your Love is Like

Here is a man who is so hardcore, Rick Pino baby! Rick Pino has amazed me with the music pouring from him! He is a Holy Spirit lead singer and worshiper. Rick Pino always lifts me up when I listen to him! I fully recommend all his CD's and any videos you can find of him. If you are a Christian you most likely will love him!

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Rocky and Son

This video should be self explanatory. Rocky is hardcore for sure.

A couple good points:

1. Are you nervous about the fight? I'm scared to death
2. You don't look scared? well you aint supposed to.

Those two points in the first part of the clip is awesome. Rocky admits he is scared; however, he does not share the fear. He keeps the fear hidden to keep fear from influencing others in a negative fashion. Then Rocky stands up to his son and explains how to be hardcore in his eyes. Very on target and raw speech. Rocky does not sugar coat his tone or words to make people happy. He takes his words and builds his son up while tearing him down at almost the same time. Rocky has a very interesting way of communicating; however, he seems very effective.

Great video clip! Rocky is hardcore!

3 Doors Down - Citizen Soldier

This is a great song and video. 3 Doors Down is an awesome band. 3 Doors Down has very talented guys who are passionate about there music and country. This is not the first some 3 Doors Down has wrote for the military, however, this song is now property of the National Guard. The National Guard is using this song and video actively for promotion. 3 Doors Down stands up for what they believe in, even if what they believe in is not so popular. 3 Doors Down is a great band and being from Mississippi is also a plus! 3 Doors Down is hardcore.

General George S. Patton Speech

I had a friend in Leadership class who presented this video. I had never seen this before. I really like this guy. A man made completely hardcore. This clip is from the movie Patton, toned down a bit from the actual speech. I like the approach Patton takes when he talks. He tell you how things is going to be, no room for sissy's in his troop. If you have read the actual speech, it is super good and real. The actual speech has a bit strong tone. I will post the speech at the end of the blog. I do not condone the language per se; however, the passion is there! This guy could motivate almost anyone, or scare them to death. Patton was bold and did not care what people thought. He told you how it was going to be. Patton is a true hero. I am sure he played a huge part in keeping his troops alive and going. General Patton is for sure hardcore.

*General George S. Patton's Uncensored Address to the Troops*


The Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944


"Be seated."

General George S. Patton Jr.Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.


You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.


You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.


Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.


All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling." That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son-of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit! There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did.


An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking! We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do.


My men don't surrender, and I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!


All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits.'


Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, Sir.' I asked, 'Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?' He answered, 'Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed.' I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' And he answered, 'No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!' Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds.


And you should have seen those trucks on the road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts.


Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable.


Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Someday I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton.' We want to get the hell over there." The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.


Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!


When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-fucking-basket.

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War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!


I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!


From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.


There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, 'Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, 'Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a- Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!'



"That is all."

John Q: Leadership Honors Forum Presentation

This is a video clip I presented along with a short paper to explain the displayed leadership. This clip and the whole John Q. movie is super hardcore. Anyone who is willing to do anything for the life of their child is awesome. It is sad how some people do not get treated because of no insurance or something similar.

The video I chose to develop my presentation with is John Q. This movie displays strong leadership qualities from start to finish. The video clip shows John being let down by the doctor. John’s son is dying fast and needs a heart transplant. John refuses to let the doctor affect his decision. John stands firm and eventually convinces the doctor to use John’s heart.

Leadership roles:

1.

John Q. – John is a positive motivational speaker. The circumstance John is in is bad; however, John stands up offering his heart to his son. John is determine, self sacrificing, and motivating, throughout this clip. John produces the facts, and bends the rules to complete his task. John is a great leader.
2.

Doctor – The doctor was negative at first. He refused to do the surgery. John kept talking and motivating the doctor. The doctor agreed to “cross the line” and do the surgery. The doctor became motivated and committed to John and his son.

Police Bust High School Kegger

HAHA... This is amazing. These guys pulled off a great party. I'm amazed that 90 tests was given... The search was also a bit invasive. These guys are totally hardcore for standing up and throwing a huge party and not drinking, to prove a point. To many times people in a community judge people by age groups, dress, and style. People need to realize, just because someone is not a cloned image of them, doesn't mean they are bad people!

Here is a few (some are long) quotes from news articles with the source listed:

1. Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.

But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer.

The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties....

...Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.

The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol."
( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23851011/ )

2.Dustin Zebro insists he didn't throw a root beer keg party to embarrass the police. His school, yes, but not the police.

It struck him as unfair that D.C. Everest Senior High suspended students from a dance team awhile back because they were pictured on Facebook drinking out of red plastic cups that tend to signal a beer bash.

So Zebro, an 18-year-old senior, devised a plan to show that things are not always as they appear. He bought a quarter-barrel - of root beer - and a tall stack of red cups, and he spread the word that the party was at his house in Kronenwetter, a village just outside Wausau, on a Saturday night this month.

"There were keg stands and root beer pong and all that, so it looked like a real party," he said. The idea was to post photos on the Internet and fool the school, he said.

Police showed up because of a complaint about cars blocking the road, and an officer administered breath tests to 89 teens.

Every kid blew 0.0....

....Everest student Keaton Meinel is one of the students who made the video. He and friends pulled up to the party, saw the flashing police lights and figured this could get interesting, he said. They taped until an officer made them stop.

With each negative breath test, the crowd cheers and shouts out encouragement like, "Good form." One guy flaps his arms as he's blowing into the mouthpiece. Several seconds of the song "I Believe I Can Fly" was edited into the video for that scene, and even the officer can be seen smiling....

....Dustin Zebro admits that no one should assume root beer is always the beverage of choice for these or any other high school seniors. Plenty of underage drinking goes on.

We have a tendency to believe the worst when it comes to kids this age. It's refreshing to be wrong about that sometimes and to find a houseful of soda-chuggers, even if they're doing it ironically. That's easy for me to say, of course, when it wasn't my house packed with 89 teenagers.
( http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=733050 )

3. Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.
( http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/03/28/ap4828964.html )

Other sources:

1. http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008303240043
2. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080325/GPG0101/803250603/1207/GPGnews
3. http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/16950586.html?video=YHI&t=a (video)

Hardcore heros? Black and White

I was searching youtube for the right Louis Armstrong song to post, and I found the Blue Yodel No. 9. This video not only has Louis Armstrong, however, it also has Johnny Cash! This video is great because it shows the music passion in both of them. They are on the stage, playing raw / live music. No effects or anything. How many musicians can create the music these guys do. Both Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash are American music legends and completely hardcore. I wish I would have had a chance to see them live... Also in this post I am posting a video compilation of Louis Armstrong songs. One video is not enough to show the passion and talent Louis Armstrong had!


Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9



Louis Armstrong - Compilation of Music

A Life of Hardcore

Randy Pausch is a dying professor. HE chooses to go on with his life, despite his health problems. He is not just running away from the problems in his life, he is spear heading the issues he faces. He is becoming well known for his lecture he made a while back titled "Last Lecture." It's a great lecture everyone should watch. Randy Pausch IS hardcore.

Randy Pausch reprising "Last Lecture" on Oprah


Randy Pausch's actual "Last Lecture"

Linkin Park - Faint

Linkin Park has mastered creativity. Linkin Park recreates the the style of the music with every CD release. It's impressive to see a band take the risks of not being simple and stagnate. Most bands would never take a major style change to recreate the music. A style change is a major risk, which could potentially end the band. For the reasons listed, Linkin Park is hardcore!

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

Anything with Johnny Cash is hardcore. No explanation should be needed. I'm not a country music type of person, however, I believe Johnny Cash is not country at all. I believe Johnny Cash is in a genre of his own. Johnny Cash pumped out great music up till death. He never lost the touch he had. Johnny Cash IS 100% hardcore. Oh, He always had on his signature black clothes, which was super cool also.

Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding

FFDP has a unique style. The leads / riffs seem to fit the music well, and has a great tone. The band as a whole seems to have a grasp on dynamics. All this makes FFDP hardcore.

Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver

Killswitch Engage... Arguably one of the best bands of all time. Adam D (guitar player) is one of the best metal/hardcore music producers around right now. So having him in the band makes a great band amazing. This song is a cover song from the 80's, however, Killswitch has mastered the song and brought new life. Killswitch Engage IS hardcore.

As I Lay Dying - The Darkest Nights

This is one of the most amazing Christian Metal bands around. Great live performances! As I Lay Dying is certianly hardcore!