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[drpsyche]

The New War

It is the year 1998. The Cold War has finally heated up like an attractive ghost pepper (a damn good looking pepper too, a solid 8/10). The Soviets have stolen valuable brain digitizing technology from the Disney Corporation and now a battle rages in East Germany as American forces have invaded. Uncle Sam, the American Uberman leads the charge and has personally torn his way through commies like a hearty lawnmower through an American lawn. The invasion is largely a success, but the USSR is not finished…

Uncle Sam flexed his muscles, destroying the sleeves of his red white and blue tailcoat. He dodged a trio of Soviet Solders and shoulder-checked a tank, knocking it right through a garrison.

 “Four Score and Forward!” Sam shouted, charging through the ruins to grapple with the stunned soldiers inside.

 One ran at Sam with a bayonet, but Uncle Sam outmaneuvered and head-butted him. The headbutt is fatal and the soldier dies like a mouse hunted by an American Eagle. As Uncle Sam stared out at the defeated barracks, he heard a familiar voice:

 “Sam!”

 Uncle Sam turned to face the owner of that deep powerful tone. He is a large blond man in soviet flag colored boxing shorts and gloves.

 “Drago!” Sam spat.

 “One shall stand,” Ivan Drago boomed. “One shall fall.”

 “Why throw away your life so recklessly?” Sam asked, advancing on Drago.

 “That is a question you should ask yourself,” Drago replied.

 Uncle Sam scowled and charged at Drago, catching him in a flying tackle. They crashed onto the street, Drago forcing Sam off with a knee to the stomach. They righted themselves and Drago immediately laid into Sam with a one two, punching him in the face twice. He followed up with a successful jab and then a right hook but Sam blocked it and landed a powerful body blow as a counterattack. With Drago pushed back, Sam hit him with a shoulder check and then a roundhouse.

 “America has never lost!” he boasted. “And never will!”

 Drago spat out the blood in his mouth, “You said this to the Vietnamese as well?”

 That dig struck at the core of Uncle Sam’s American Pride like the Canadians striking on American soil during the war of 1812. His anger allowed him to land a powerful right hook… onto Drago’s block. Drago countered with an uppercut, knocking Uncle Sam to the ground. Though Sam’s glorious red, white, and blue top stayed on his head.

 “I derive my strength from the will of the people!” Drago boasted as Sam rolled on ground. “Their hearts and minds joined in glorious Community! Our unity courses through my muscles!”

 Sam staggered to his feet, “Unity, huh? Will of the people, united behind your fists, eh? The deliberate starvations and ethnic cleansings, are they an aspect of your ‘unity’?”

 Now it was Drago’s time to be outraged, “I will not be lectured about genocide from an American.”

 He charged at Sam then, murder in his eyes. Uncle Sam took a page from the great American movie, The Karate Kid, and swept the leg. A powerful, painful blow landed on Drago’s knee. However, Ivan Drago was not deterred, and grabbed hold of Uncle Sam. He lifted the American into the air and hurled him at a pile of rubble, smashing him through it.

 “Finish him off, Drago!” one Soviet Soldier called out.

 Ivan Drago nodded and limped toward a discarded Kalashnikov rifle, another point of pride for Glorious Russia. Uncle Sam had gotten to his knees and looked up to see Drago aiming the rifle at him. The specter of death flashed in front of his eyes for a moment, but then his gaze was drawn elsewhere. The pile of rubble he was thrown through showed him a boon: a discarded Desert Eagle pistol (the pride of Glorious America).

 “Wait!” Uncle Sam shouted, holding up a hand in surrender. “Grant me mercy, Ivan Drago, I beg you!”

 “You, who outsource your morality to the free market, demand mercy?” Drago asked, annoyed that Sam would crawl towards him. “I thought you were made of sterner stuff.”

 “Oh no you don’t Uncle Sam!” shouted the Soviet Soldier, who was able to spy the discarded pistol.

 The shout distracted Drago long enough for Sam to surge forward and grab the pistol, immediately firing it at Drago’s injured knee. Drago yelled out in pain as he was kneecapped and Sam fired another shot into the bicep of the arm holding the Kalashnikov. Drago was forced to drop his weapon and staggered back, Uncle Sam standing over him and aiming the Desert Eagle at him.

 “I could have waited an eternity for this,” Uncle Sam said. “It’s over, Ivan.”

 “Nefur!”

 Ivan Drago and Uncle Sam looked up at the voice. Descending from the sky was a lithe figure clad in a distinctly French outfit. She struck the ground; twin circles of smashed earth, beneath her feet. She looked up at Uncle Sam, the sun shone on her silver body. Uncle Sam stared at this new opponent; she was a robot woman, clad in a maid outfit with cat ears peeking out of her braided black hair.

 “The Soviet Union’s new Vanyanguard!” she shouted, striking a magical girl pose. “Against Impawsible odds, I have risen again! Mew’ll nefur take down the USSR, beclaws Lenin has returned to finish the fight.”

 “What in the name of apple pie and ball park hot dogs is that?” Uncle Sam asked, leveling his Desert Eagle at the robot catgirl.

 “This… this is our victory,” Drago said. “The Disney brain technology we stole allowed us to reconstruct the greatest minds of our country! They are uploaded into vessels that are the cutting edge of Soviet Technology.”

 “Robot girls with bad puns?” Uncle Sam asked.

 “Eh, it was Gorbechav’s idea,” Drago said with a shrug.

 “The defeat of catpitalist pigs is meowsic to my ears!” Vladimew Lenin said.

 Uncle Sam emptied his gun at the robot but the bullets were as useless as the British’s demand for taxation. Her metal skin, folded a thousand times in the roaring fires of state sponsored smithing, were impervious to the fragile fickle of the free-market. Vladimew activated the jet engines in her feet and flew at Sam, drawing a hammer and sickle from her sleeves.

 She swung the hammer and Sam caught it, crushing the weapon easily, but Vladimew struck at her true target with her sickle. The red, white, and blue top hat upon Sam’s head was sliced in twain. The symbol of freedom, capitalism, and statehood was broken. Sam could feel the fight draining from his limbs like the respect of the American people for the presidency when Watergate happened.

 Uncle Sam fell to his knees, defeated.

 “Hiss-tory will see this as a pawsitively vital moment,” Vladimew said. “Mew-Mew Marxism will reign over the world and Western Society will face Catastrophe!”

 “America will never surrender to the likes of you!” Uncle Sam said. “So long as there’s gas in our cars, burgers on our grills, and the love of Lady Liberty in our hearts!”

 “Your mrrroxie is commendable,” Vladimew said with a smug smirk.

 “Your conquest of America will fail. Just like your handling of Chernobyl,” Sam said.

 With those words Uncle Sam disappeared in a flash of patriotic light, returning to America. Drago and Vladimew departed to their base to treat Ivan’s injuries. America’s disastrous invasion of East Germany would be the start of a new era of warfare, one far stupider than any previous ones. Vladimew’s success allowed the creation of other robot maids: Nikittyta Khrushchev, CATherine the Great, and Meowseph Stalin. Their original attempt at invading America was repulsed by a mechanized Statue of Liberty and now the space station, Sputnik VI, is being converted into a transforming robot maid in order to counter her. The war wages on and the world becomes all the dumber for it.

[onthegoinmco]

David Roark, photographer

The Fourth of July is this week, and Walt Disney World Resort is gearing up to celebrate our nation’s birthday with entertainment, scrumptious treats, and patriotic pageantry! 

Here are some highlights and tips on how to make your Independence Day at Walt Disney World extra magical. 

Photo: Walt Disney World

Fourth of July @ Magic Kingdom Park

“Disney’s Celebrate America! A Fourth of July Concert in the Sky” will offer booming fireworks orchestrated to patriotic melodies at Magic Kingdom Park on both July 3 and July 4 at 9:15 p.m. Here’s more entertainment planned at Magic Kingdom Park: 

A fuzzy cast of Muppets – Miss Piggy, Kermit, Fozzie Bear and friends will reenact famous moments in American history in a whimsical way during “The Muppets Present … Great Moments in History.” The live show is performed several times daily near the Hall of Presidents in Liberty Square.

There is also a special PhotoPass offerings for the 4th of July you won’t want to miss including:

From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (weather permitting), look for a photographer in the East Plaza Garden who will assist you with capturing two photos and a one-of-a-kind super-zoom video from a unique angle above the theme park. This experience will be available for a limited time after the holiday, but beginning July 3, the photographer here will offer a patriotic prop you can include in your photos and video.

Add some stars and stripes to your photo near Partners Statue where the photographer willoffer this pawsitively fetching prop featuring Pluto.

During daylight hours be on the lookout for a photographer near the Liberty Bell who can capture Yankee Doodle-dandy photos of you enjoying the atmosphere, as well as a Muppets Magic Shot. 

Visit the Fantasyland castle wall near Prince Charming Regal Carrousel to take a photo in front of Cinderella’s Coach.

At the twilight’s last gleaming, salute the “American Original” Mickey Mouse with a bokeh opportunity available on Center Street (near Uptown Jewelers). 

Beginning at sunset, enjoy a dazzling display of red, white and blue with this light painting opportunity available behind Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe in Liberty Square.  

Guests can dance the night away with DJs spinning tunes at a Hoedown Throwdown in Frontierland and an out-of-this-world Galactic Gathering in Tomorrowland. 

Fans who are not able to join in the Independence Day celebration at the park can view a special July 4 live stream of the dazzling fireworks display on the Disney Parks Blog begin at 9:13 p.m. ET on the Fourth. 

Photo: Walt Disney World

Fourth of July @ Epcot  

“IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth” will end its nearly 20-year run on September 30, 2019. So this will be the last chance to experience the patriotic Fourth of July grand finale of this beloved nighttime spectacular. “The Heartbeat of Freedom” fireworks extravaganza will begin immediately following the 9 p.m. “IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth” display.  Here’s more entertainment planned at Epcot: 

The Voices of Liberty will perform great American tunes during a Fourth of July concert on the America Gardens Theatre stage at 5:30, 6:45 and 8 p.m. on July 4. The group also will perform in the rotunda inside The American Adventure pavilion at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Guests can meet favorite Disney characters donning their “Spirit of 76” patriotic attire at The American Adventure throughout the day on July 4.

And guests can indulge in themed eats and sips honoring Independence Day throughout the park – everything from patriotic cupcakes and special dining packages to red, white, and blue sangria and a Boom Berry Lemonade.

Also, be on the lookout for special Fourth of July decor at Disney Springs, specialty Food and Beverage items at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and at select Walt Disney World Resorts.  

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