In the support and kudos we (rightfully) give our servicemen and women, there is an all but forgotton component of service life, and that is the families of these extraordinary people. Here is the story of one Marine wife and mother.
I would echo tim Chaves's statement when he writes:
And we should be proud of those on the home front who make the heroics in Iraq possible. Schools, civic groups and places of worship should take the time to boost the morale of these families — by letting the children know how much we appreciate them letting their daddies and mommies protect us, and letting the wives and husbands know their struggle is equally heroic.
We will win the war on terror because there is a Colleen on the home front standing behind every Mark in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that support lets daddies fight and sacrifice so other kids can be free.
We can never forget that a lot of the hero's involved with the services don't even serve in uniform themselves. They fight the daily battle of "normal living",not the guns and bombs of a vicious enemy. They fight this battle alone and with a level of courage equal to any seen on the battlefield, and all too often are forgotten as being major contributors to the war effort.
OH NO!!! The HORROR! A student run amok attacked his teacher and threatened her with serious bodily harm! Whats a poor school system to do? Give him a ten day suspension while preparing expulsion procedings of course!
The crime? a seventh grader tossed a rubber band on the teachers desk when she requested that he take it off his wrist and give it to her.....I am shocked! SHOCKED I tell you! HOW could this young man have gone SO WRONG at such a young age?
The charge? Assault with a weapon intended to do bodily harm (he could have put the teachers eye out!)
The punishment? The student was charged with a level four offense -- the highest Level at the school. Other violations that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of Student Conduct.
John Gomez (AHA! must be a member of a violent Latino gang!/sarcasm off) (had to throw that in, after all, Moonbats KNOW how racist we evil right wing types are!) has been suspended for ten days, pending an investigation and an expulsion hearing.
This is yet another demonstration of the state to which our Public School system Indoctrination Centers have sunk.
I hope that young master Gomez's mother takes to the courts and stikes a good blow for the return of common sense. This is one time that the courts should be used, if the school officials persist in this idiocy.
PC, zero tolerance and a general lack of common sense seem to be the rule rather than the exception of the day.
Until that common sense returns, it behooves all parents that can, to
home school or avail themselves of a private school.
It's too bad that more parents aren't in that level of ability/affluance to do so. After all, the State needs those taxes to provide for the drones that can't seem to do anything for themselves anymore but protest what a raw deal they have in life, and can't Nanny be more generous?
While she was "flying" down the road yesterday (10 miles over the limit), a
woman passed over a bridge only to find a cop with a radar gun on the other
side lying in wait.
The cop pulled her over, walked up to the car, and with that classic
patronizing smirk we all know and love, asked, "What's your hurry?"
To which she replied, "I'm late for work."
"Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?"
"I'm a rectum stretcher," she responded.
The cop stammered, "A what? A rectum stretcher? And just what does a rectum
stretcher do?"
"Well," she said, "I start by inserting one finger, then I work my way up
to two fingers, then three, then four, then with my whole hand in. I work
from side to side until I can get both hands in, and then I slowly but
surely stretch, until it's about 6 feet wide."
"And just what the hell do you do with a 6 foot asshole?" he asked.
"You give him a radar gun and park him behind a bridge..."
Traffic Ticket $95.00
Court Costs. $45.00
The Look on Cop's face .... PRICELESS.
Hat tip to Slaglerock
Well, the Nanny state war against obesity has begun.
It's true that this story comes out of the UK, so why should we here in the US be concerned about it? Well how about the GFW's citing the UK as a model of "proper" gun control? Can the Fat Police be far behind here?
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The case is interesting. If we oppose the "nanny-state" taking him to a hospital, we really need to oppose the state's war on drugs. Food is certainly a more lethal addiction, when it's this extreme, than the continued use of hallucinogens or opiates. I would agree that the state needs to step back on this one.
Posted by: Karlo at February 23, 2005 04:28 PM (HoLw7)
The Imperial Dungeonmaster has a post up at the Rott outlining one example of the Public SchoolIndoctrination Center method of instilling Moonbattery to our young. It's all the more personal because the soldier who recieved the morale busting letters is the brother of one of the Loyal Citizens, Imamommy.
Her father is scheduled to be on the Hannity and Colmes show tonight (Feb,22,2005) I think it would behoove you to watch and see just kind of effect this type of incident can evoke, not just among the soldiers themselves, but their familys and friends as well.
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What would you do as teacher in this case, Deftsman? Censor all letters that don't meet a certain ideological standard? I think it says something for U.S. education that we don't do that. I checked out the "objectionable content" at the link and all I could make out was that there are some kids who have different views than their government. Is this so objectionable? Is it so awful that kids are worried about civilian casualities? The site had a bunch of nonsense about the views being leftwing academic propaganda. If grade-schoolers are now reading Chomsky or Das Kapital, Bush's No Child Left Behind is working wonders! Just a few years ago, half of the young tykes couldn't write their own names. As for the ideological deviations, perhaps we need to start a Bush Youth Corp and dress the younguns in freshly pressed brown shirts with identical American flags sown across the front. We can then instill some patriotic views in their bosoms before they get to uppity and start thinkin' for themselves.
Posted by: Karlo at February 23, 2005 07:16 PM (HoLw7)
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And the part about how some grade-schooler's letter might ruin morale was a real hoot. You've got people sitting out in the Iraqi sun and dust getting shot at, people flipping them off or throwing rocks at them all day, and they're going to all pack their bags and leave because of the questioning of some little grade-schooler.
Posted by: Karlo at February 23, 2005 07:18 PM (HoLw7)
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Karlo, that's not the point and I'm sure you know it. These guys aren't ready to pack their bags and leave because of some sarcastic, uninformed little 6th graders. But if you have ever been lonely, homesick, far from family and friends, you understand how much something like that cuts at your heart.
Haven't you ever felt strongly about something or someone, felt you were doing the right thing for them, felt as though you were doing the best that you could do under bad circumstances or conditions, only to have it thrown back at you as "not good enough" or completely wrong? Haven't you ever loved something or someone deeply enough to lay down your life for him, her or it, only to be rebuffed cruelly by the very thing or person you loved enough to make that sacrifice? The cruelties of love feel the same, whether it's a hostile, ungrateful lover or a hostile, ungrateful populace.
Sure, you can look at it as "big macho soldiers too sensitive to what little kids say" but you can also look at it "snarky know-it-all pre-teens try to act like they have a clue" as well.
I'm sure even Marx had days when the cruelties and lack of understanding within his own circle were unbearable.
Posted by: Mamamontezz at February 25, 2005 04:53 AM (61vfJ)
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Instead of being upset about such letters, I would see them as an opportunity for dialogue. As for motivations, I know from personal experience that many of the soldiers in Iraq in elsewhere believe in what they're doing. But the same could be said of the "insurgents." I'm sure they have bad days too when they are angry with the local population for not giving them adequate support. One conservative meme seems to be that we should all band together like members of a tightknit tribe. Personally, I feel like the world has enough tightknit tribes. Instead of true-believers, it could use a more independent thinkers who feel little loyalty to tribes or nations.
Posted by: Karlo at February 28, 2005 03:22 PM (ddf+l)
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"Instead of true-believers, it could use a more independent thinkers who feel little loyalty to tribes or nations."
You know Karlo, Stalin had a term for those who had no loyalty to their nation, he called them "useful idiots".
While dissent within the nation is good, indeed it's necessary to ensure non-stagnation of the body politique, such as occurring in Europe right now. Politics ends at the borders edge, from there, a united front is best for the security of the people.
At any time in history, when any group lost the basic cohesion to form a stable society, (ie when there was no longer loyalty to the society) that society has been destroyed by the groups that had maintained that cohesiveness.
"I'm sure they ("insurgents") have bad days too when they are angry with the local population for not giving them adequate support."
Yes they do Karlo, and take note of how they treat with those that "do not give them adequate support". WE have discussions and debates, THEY just put the dissenting population up against the wall and shoot them.
Dissent and discussion can only occur among people that have respect for others opinions and viewpoints. The "insurgents" idiology precludes any such differences and works to stamp them out, and preferably in the most brutal manner possible, to discourage further dissent in the future.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 28, 2005 06:15 PM (61vfJ)
For a little levity, listen to this classic from the old Tonight show. A classic piece of comedy featering Jack Webb and Johny Carson in 1968. It stands the test of time well.
(requires windows media player)
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As a child i appeared on Candid Camera,they came to my school in New Jersey,and filmed myself and a few classmates talking about road signs,this was about 1967 ,it was shown on The Tonight show sometimein 68 or 69 during an Allen Funt Visit to the the show.
Ihave tried to get a clip or trancript from both the Tonight show archives and Candid Camera but they were erased and are part of the lost episodes of both shows.
I guess thay was my fiften minutes of fame.
So much for my music career I miss the Carson Show and the intro theme
most of all.
Funny and true story
Posted by: NeilV at February 21, 2005 10:42 PM (YpRpk)
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There has been a void on late night teevee since he left.
Here's a good send-off though, in case you haven't seen it yet:
http://curmudgeonisms.blogspot.com/2005/01/better-late-than-never.html
Posted by: Dave S. at February 25, 2005 04:56 AM (xWF8s)
FINALLY! some economists put the "myth" stamp on the so called "transition costs" of following President Bush's proposal to partialyy privatize Social Security. The Democrats main argument is that the scheme would require up to two trillion dollars in additional "transition costs". And the general public, being uninformed on just how Social Security operates and ignorant of macroeconomics in any case, are being scared to death by these claims.
As Edward Prescott, 2004 winner of the Bank of Sweden Nobel Prize in Economics, and Lawrence Hunter, senior research fellow with the Institute for Policy Innovation, show, there ARE no transition costs, merely a shifting of debt from one form to another. Those costs are ALLREADY BEING INCURRED under the present system.
The politicians in our government have long been conducting a hoax on the American people, and apparently, the present state of education in the country today has failed to give the people the ability to see through that hoax.
IF I was a conspiracy theorist, which I am NOT, I would only conclude that NEA policies were a plot to ensure the docility of the masses though indoctrination rather than forwarding education....still if you look at the decline in real education of the last 20 or 30 years, it does lead one to wonder if the conspiracy nuts don't have something, after all?
I may have serious feelings of animosity towards Senator Clinton, but when she has it correct, I must ackowledge it. Even if it's a ploy to try to move herself into a "centerists" position for a presumed Presidential bid in 2008.
She has gone public in stating that we should NOT set a firm deadline on withdrawing from Iraq. I believe that to be good policy, both in our, and the Iraqi people's best interests.
Kudos to her stance in this one instance, too bad she has shown herself to be a closet Socialist, or I might have to start considering her as a candidate worthy of voting for.....NAH, that will NEVER happen!
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Actually, she did make several similar comments last October, I think. She was speaking in Iraq to the troops at the time ... so if that trip was not in October, I cheerfully stand corrected.
Posted by: Adriane at February 22, 2005 05:19 AM (bN2BQ)
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We'll trade you one Hillary for one McCain. (We'll have to put him through some heavy reindoctrination sessions, mind you.)
Posted by: Karlo at February 23, 2005 07:20 PM (HoLw7)
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No need for a trade Karlo, we'll give McCain to you. His entry into your way of thinking is 85% there anyway.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 23, 2005 07:25 PM (LmMJW)
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I still see the need for heavy reindoctrination sessions. (; Actually, I disagree that McCain is "left" in any sense of the word. But he is at least independent and at times principles--qualities lacking in most of our politicians. That said, if he ran for president, I would never vote for him since I don't care for his stand on most issues.
Posted by: Karlo at February 24, 2005 11:58 AM (HoLw7)
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"That said, if he ran for president, I would never vote for him since I don't care for his stand on most issues."
SOMETHING we agree on for once!
...and at times principles--qualities lacking in most of our politicians.
You HAD to ruin it with that statement. McCain is for one thing and one thing only, and that's John McCain. I believe that Preident Bush is one of the most pricipled politicians there has ever been.
You may not agree with those principles, but he tells you exactly what he believes and why he believes that way and then proceedes to follow the course he has outlined, even in the face of some of the greatest opposition that any President has ever had to deal with.
THAT is the definition of being principled. I think that that is one of the reasons that the Left hates him so much, they know that he won't go along to get along.
Those tapes made by a "friend" of his reveal that to be true, the private Bush is the same as the public Bush. They also revealed that he was willing to go against what the Left considers his "Main" voters bloc, the evangelical Christians, in his remarks about gays. For that alone, I am certainly grateful.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 24, 2005 12:38 PM (61vfJ)
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Rather than principled, I think Bush is loyal--to his own true constituency of the extremely wealthy. When it comes to the smoke-screen of social issues, on the other hand, he's the ultimate opportunist. Are we to believe that this cocaine-sniffing draft-dodging weasel who never worked a damn day in his life has these heart-felt religious convictions that make him stand up for the war on drugs, the value of hard work, religious values, and a robust and aggressive foreign policy? A bit hard to swallow to say the least. Each time I see him in front of a podium shifting around as he whines about how someone else just "doesn't get it," I just can't believe that anyone sees him as the example of a "leader." You could toss a rock into any crowd of people with 2 or more people in it and hit a better leader.
Posted by: Karlo at February 24, 2005 03:48 PM (HoLw7)
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"loyal--to his own true constituency of the extremely wealthy."
"draft-dodging weasel who never worked a damn day in his life..."
Most perfect descriptions of Senator Splash I have ever seen! Thanks Karlo!
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 28, 2005 06:21 PM (61vfJ)
I'd put THIS IDEA in the file marked "it SEEMED a good idea at the time".
The unintended consequences of this proposal far outweigh any benefits, in IMHO. It would raise the costs of ownership and be too easily thwarted by criminals to have the intended result. It's an obvious ploy by the GFW's to erect yet another barrier to citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights.
I saw this story at The Dutch Report and I was sickened by the thought that the situation there had deteriorated to the point that representatives of a legitimate government had to be housed in a maximum security prison to try to guarentee their safety.
I know that it would seem to affect me more than the majority of my readers, after all, we live in unprecedented safety here in the United States, and Holland is the country of MY birth, not their's; but if they think about it, they would realize that if it could happen in a country known for it's tolerance and freedom, it could happen here. Don't think that it can't. (it would be poetic justice to see Sen."Splash" Kennedy under that type of protection protocall....wonder if they could "lose" the key to his cell?)
If we don't wake up to the threat that Islamofacism presents everywhere in the world, how long will it be before WE provide housing at the Greybar Hotel for our Senators and Congressmen to provide for their safety? I don't believe that we will ever go that route, thats what we have the Secret Service for, but still, it does give one food for thought. When a small group of fanatics can disrupt the nomal conduct of governmental members, that government is in serious trouble.
It will be a tricky thing here in the U.S. to maintain the level of freedom we enjoy and still have an effective means of combating this scourge, in the end, we'll have to accept a certain level of danger to keep those freedoms intact, but I believe that more can be done than is being done at present.
We must never trade freedom for security, but we must be more vigilant and responsible for our own safety, and realize that that safety IS under attack. We have one advantage over the Dutch, and that is our Second Amendment, which not only affords us the freedom to bear arms, but tacitly recognizes our individual freedom to protect ourselves, with deadly force if need be, without the EU attitude that only the official defenders of the law can provide protection.
UPDATE:Here are some comments by security specialists and government officials on the situation.
The reaction by some of the governmental apparatchiks is, to say the least, inexecusable, and the voters should remeber this the next time they go to the polls.
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Its sad to see whats going on the Netherlands.
You are correct it could happen here.
it will be interesting to watch the situation in Holland.I dont have a real warm fuzzy feeling about the Islamists over there.
Cheers from Sunny Tampa Bay
Posted by: NeilV at February 21, 2005 10:50 PM (YpRpk)
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral-- doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
-Robert Heinlein
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It seems to me that the person they call is a Navy recruiter and as a former Army recruiter, I can appreciate that the Navy recruiter just laughed it off! I had recruiters working for me that got pissed at just about anything until I had a chance to show them the humor of a situation.
Pretty funny, thanks.
Posted by: Thomas Nichols at February 20, 2005 03:06 AM (L20+G)
I just learned from Kim du Toit's site of the loss of another American hero, U.S. Army Sergeant Adam J. Plumondore.
The loss is made all the harder to bear due to the fact that Sgt. Plumondore was the Adam of the "Walter and Adam Fund" that Kim has been sponsering in his bid to help the troops. I was unable to contribute to this effort ere now, but I will make it a point to do so at the earliest possible time...mortgage be damned.
I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to Sgt. Plumondore's family, I hope they can take some small measure of comfort in knowing that Adam died doing an important job. His sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Update: Kim has posted eulogy to Sgt Plumondore made by his C.O., LTC Kurilla. It is a most inspiring piece.
Recently I received a heads up on the existance of the site http://www.forsakethetroops.info, from several of my friends.
I went there and read the inane, deceitful, and singularly hate filled diatribes there, and experienced the most powerful RCOB moment I have had in my memory. I was so angered by what I read there that I was unable to post a coherent post about it.
Luckily, my nephew over at the Slaughterhouse could and did write a reasoned post. Go there, read what he wrote and follow your own consciounce(sic). I agree wholeheartedly with Slaglerock.
There are times when free speech just becomes an expression of unreasoned hate, and should be exposed to the world to see, and to provoke a response against it. The ONLY difference between he and I is that I WILL call the site owners scumbags, for that term describes them perfectly.
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I received information on Michael Crook who runs the website mentioned. He previously had another website called CATT (Citizens Against The Troops) and he prvious hosting company shut it down on him. Below is a portion of the email I got throught the Vets Mailing List.
To: The Planet Abuse Dept.
From: An American Citizen
Phone Number To Call and complain 214.782.7800
Fax Number To Fax This Email 214.782.7756
Please Copy the text below and forward it on to abuse@t.heplanet.com. Print it out and fax it to them as well. Then take a few moments to call them and tell them how disgusted you are.
This email/fax is to report that the website hosted by “theplanet” located at www.foresakethetroops.info with the IP address of 70.85.56.166 is extremely offensive to Active Military members, their families and to all Veterans who have served their country with honor and pride.
According to The Planets acceptable use policy located at http://www.t.heplanet.com/legal/aup.html under Internet Etiquette it states. “The Customer is not permitted to post any material that is illegal, libelous, and tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against Company by offended users.
While although the information placed on www.forsakethetroops.info may be perfectly legal, I find it extremely offensive and I am retaliating against your company, www.t.heplanet.com for allowing the content of www.forsakethetroops.info to exist. What is even more appalling is that The Planet allows this content while our nations finest are currently at war
It appears that doing a whois look up does not provide any information regarding who maintains the website www.forsakethetroops.info. Therefore since the IP address belongs to The Planet, it is assumed that the company is responsible for the offensive content of the aforementioned website to include the content of the following link www.forsakethetroops.info/marine.html
Posted by: Bonnie at February 20, 2005 08:56 PM (8k9Ap)
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The information at http://www.forsakethetroops.info/ is information we should know. Admitedly the writer is angry and upset but what can people expect when the election is stolen from them to proceed with an illegal war.
Posted by: milo at April 26, 2005 07:24 PM (W8clH)
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Why is it ok for *you* to excercise *your* free speech to criticise what *he* does, but not ok for *him* to excercise *his* right?
Free speech either works *all* ways, or it doesn't work at all. That is, after all, what the US military is supposed to fight for - or have they dropped the oath soldiers take to protect the Constitution [you know, that little thing that guarantees freedom of expression]?
Posted by: Eoghan Ryan at April 28, 2005 01:03 PM (BL77V)
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listen, Crook is a hyprocrite... he himself censors us service members when we wanna give him a piece of our own mind. Heres his censor disclaimer: "Because of the ignorant actions of a few, who can't express their opinions without obscenity, insults, and disrespect, the message board requires that you register to read or post. Also, the guestbook is now moderated. Amazingly, no one is trying to voice their opinion. It's surprising what happens when anonymity is taken away. Peoples' balls fall off. There's free speech, folks, but only to a limit, and it has been abused..we have been abused. Disagree with us, fine, but do it with respect and couth." So it sounds like he can bash people like me with insults and disrespect and get away with it...and when people like me bite back, he reserves the right to censor us... does that sound right at all? NO!
Posted by: ADAA Ryan. Y at April 29, 2005 01:40 AM (hm/j9)
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What can you expect when we had an illegal president send troops into an illegal war. Congress was never asked to 'declare war', so it's illegal. We were also lied to about the reasons for going to war. We have George Bush junior who never served a day in his life in active combat and served in the national guard back in the Vietnam days when EVERONE knew that guard duty was the rich man's way of DODGING THE DRAFT. Bushie's rich papa enabled him to dodge the draft to Vietnam. Of course now, you have millions of people very upset with Bush and the military.
If you want to blame someone, the blame lies solely at W's feet.
Fighting some stupid nonsense war over in Iraq, in no way protects or garauntees my rights of free speech or any other freedom expressed in the U.S. Constitution. Why the hell aren't we fighting all the other horrendous dictatotors in the world???
Blame George for this upset guy who built this upset website.
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That dolt Michael Crook IS NOT against the war...he's against the TROOPS. He is an army basic trainee wash out. He even wrote about his "military experience" and how he regrets his decision not to appeal when they booted his rear for fraud. Can't blame Bush for a guy who hates the troops. The military has been around ALOT longer than Bush and will be around long after he is gone. All you have to do is go check out his site to see just what a loser Michael Crook is. Go to forsakethetroops and see his idiotic ramblings. Go to his personal site michaelcrook.com and see for yourself what a brainless wonder he is. Or better yet, go to his 'wife's' site sillygoose109.com and read her moronic ramblings. Can't blame anyone for these people being as stupid as they are. Michael Crook is a self proclaimed gay nazi wanna be who admittedly got the crud beat outta him by his ex wife. Yeah, he's a winner i'd stand up for.
Posted by: diana at May 20, 2005 08:36 AM (JXX4i)
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all of you Bush haters need to be ashamed of yourselves. It's punitive minds like yours that are what's wrong with the united states today. take into consideration the people that have saved lives overseas. Yes, we all know you are still bitter about losing the election, but just for a moment, let's pretend you're adults. When's the last time You had the responsibility of leading a country? Hmommm, you think you know everything there is to know about the situation overseas? Have you been there? Half of you haven't set foot outside the perimeter of your hometown or city. life is about experience, so the next time You're president of the united states, let us know how it goes. The next time You're putting that military uniform on knowing that you're going to save someone's life today or help a country develope into the 21st century, by all means, speak your mind. But until then, why don't you try educating yourselves with fact instead of fiction. As for everyone else that is proud of calling themselves an American, don't even worry about michael crook. he's nothing but a spineless man who's lost his ba**s and his 15 min of fame will be over with soon. as for all you supporter's of him, we're not worried about you because all we have to do is look at your source.
Posted by: kim, USAF at May 26, 2005 08:12 AM (Zv+BP)
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Michael Crook got kicked out for fraud and that is too funny! What a whiny-BITCH he is. He was challenged to a fight by, get this, a 60 y.o. Vietnam Vet but Crook declined! What a fvcking pussy. A poster child for the Libs!
Posted by: GunnyG at May 31, 2005 05:49 PM (PXaeY)
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The sh*t-eating liberal's site got shut down. The Planet acted fast and nuked the piece of sh*t.
Posted by: Devil Dog at May 31, 2005 05:58 PM (PXaeY)
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I think this website business is as offensive to my American (not to mention HUMAN) sensibilities as anyone else does.This Crook guy is an insult to America not to mention a very sad mixed up human being. I would feel sorry for him if I didn't hate him so damn much. After all, I call myself a liberal. If you listen to the comments of many on either liberal or "conservative" sides of the political aisle, you'll find that they generally agree. The guy has no place among decent folks. What the reader will not see however, are sentiments such as: "That Crook guy is a right wing plant to make Democrats and civil libertarians look foolish. Those lunatic fringe hate mongering wingnuts think they're gonna provoke us into calling them inbred meatheaded retards who are married to their sisters. Those goddamn low rent trailer trash neocon redneck, red-baiting, snake handling jerks only have a IQ of 13 between them. Those gun-happy, ned -beatty-raping assholes must think we're all as poorly spoken and ill informed as they and their poorly spoken, draft dodging, coke snorting, alcoholic leader. The wingnuts are coming, boys, run for the hills- I hear banjo mus
ic!!"
I realize that those to whom I addressed those comments didn't get my point, so I'll explain: We can disagree on issues and still be neighborly , patriotic Americans. If all one can do to support one's position is to smear the landscape with perjorative opinions of one's opponents, I don't hold out much hope for their point of view. If that's the best they can do, they have my sympathy. Americans are generally smarter than that, last fall's elections notwithstanding. You know who you are and so does America. Nevertheless I wish you peace because you're my neighbor. Oops- sorry I said the "p" word. I'll go wash my liberal mouth out with soap now. Shame.
Posted by: Feral at September 14, 2005 12:16 AM (zBKec)
Take the quiz: "WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?" Category Unknown You don't fit into any of the above categories, so perhaps before you get angry or confused, check what other religion(s) you scored the highest on. For example, you might be a Christian-Pagan, or a Discordian-Wiccan. Just use a bit of logic. However, according to this test, you're simply 100% YOU. You don't fit into any of the world's boxes.
I don't normally link to anything Rush Limbaugh...I find him to be a little too baombastic for my tastes, but this was just too good to pass up. Seems Senator Kerry believes that he still matters in foreign affairs, and was eager to discuss same with the President.
President Bush chose not to dignify Mr. Kerry with a response.
The fate of all political losers....
Kim du Toit posted a link to this story. I have to say that I agree with him; too bad the Texan S.W.A.T. team didn't act like Texans and just shoot the bastards.
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Ahh so you admire violence and silencing the opposition? Hmm who does this remind me of?
Posted by: wanda at February 17, 2005 08:38 PM (1ivbm)
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Yes, Wanda, I do believe in treating violent people violently. Given Greenpeaces's escapades in the past, there was no assurence that these people weren't intent on the same here, and disrupting thousands of people's livleyhoods is violent in and of itself. Call it capi-ecoterrorism.
Dissent is good, peaceful protests are fine, but having freedom of speach doesn't mean your free of the possible consequences of that speech.
I'm perfectly free to call someone's mother a whore, but I shouldn't be too surprised if I receive a violent response to that remark.
Posted by: delftsman3 at February 17, 2005 08:51 PM (h4ZzC)
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I'd shoot the little pricks for general principal or maybe, just for fun.
Remember Wanda, well thought out, effective violence is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Of course, I'm one of those gun nut, right wing types.
Posted by: elliot at February 17, 2005 10:49 PM (kuXgU)
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To I smell like a fish named Wanda,
How about all the peaceful idiots provoking fights at the Republican Convention last summer?
And I agree with Delfts ,protest all you want but break the law, invade someones office space and you might take a few whacks.
I am heading to my office and if any maggot infested peace creeps,Pasty faced, peta goons ,or stinking Kyoto protesters show up .
I am probly going to slap a few around while waiting for the Police.
I hope they come .It would be fun to introduce them to my Malamute who could use a new scooby snack..Or to a pepper spray and taser cocktail a few if they get out of line....
BUWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Posted by: Lc NEilV at February 18, 2005 02:03 PM (TQZU2)
