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Derbig Mooser

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:55 PM

Good Old Buckyl, he's no collectivist!

Oh wait, before I go. Will you please tell me what all the ridiculous disruptions by lwm and puppets adds to "Glenn's cause" and would Glenn recognize this aid?

Buckyl

Hey! I've got a great idea Bucky, old knife! Why don't you ask Glenn your Goddamed self? Why just infer or imply? Why not e-mail Glen and make your case?

Oh, And how does LWM do the puppet thing?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:59 PM

@buckyl

My antics drive Glenn out of his mind and make him bang his head on his desk

LWM

See bucky, out of his own mouth! Just a gentle nudge from you and I bet Glenn will 86 LWM. ("86" or "86ed" - to get thrown out of a bar, ejected)

You've got the power, buckyl!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:11 PM

@Aycharach

Aycharaych, just one little thing. You keep on saying "They dehumanise the enemy". No, they don't, and have no power to do so. They can kill them, but they can't dehumanise them.

The ones they dehumanise are themselves, and they dehumanise the troops they are training.

They dehumanise them so they will overcome whatever innate and cultural or even religious (I suppose it could happen) objections they have to what is asked of them. well, what they are ordered to do.

They can't dehumanise the enemy, they can't even talk to them.

It is, if you consider it, much more then a semantic difference.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:19 PM

@RMP (&G)

Great! I'm so glad you got a chance to look at the Winter Soldier stuff! One thing, I'm pretty sure that "Democracy Now" featured info on the hearings and excerpts (and gripping excerpts, and dismaying they were, and very obviously an almost unbearable trial for the men speaking)

And it was IWVAW auspices for the project, right?

Anyway, I'm glad you know about them, they were, as they were bound to be, very affecting.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:32 PM

As have we all, I'm sure.

I have written things I later regretted.

I call it "conversational typing". Did anybody ever really anticipate that thousands of people would want to sit and, basically,- type each other letters! Without any pictures or music, on a plain white bacjground, just to communicate with each other, not even anticipating a hook-up! Nod-Nod-Nudge-nudge, wink-wink.

In addition to my very, very bad typing, add my dyslexia, tremors, occasional bouts of double vision, and the always constant (?) threat of syncope,and it's a wonder I haven't said anything which would enabl buckyl (or others) to mulct me for substantial damages under the Libel Act.

To avoid that, I try never to insult anyone. I would rather, rather, compliment them to death, or at least into disability.

And since my address got out, I moved, and now I never go out.

It's safer that way.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:40 PM

@ bystander

As I understand it, only the most enlightened and spiritually advanced of the Tibetan Masters, or the lamas(?) can tell where another person, let alone themselves, is on the Wheel of Karma, and what their probable re-incarnation staus would be.

Is it possible? Could it be? Can we have such a One amongst us?

Will buckyl be leaving balmy Florida for frigid Tibet?

In such a case, would you continue to be a "bystander", or would you trek high into the Himalayas to seek spiritual sustenance at buckyl's feet?

I know what I'd do.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:46 PM

Classic first, and last mistake.

I feel that I must accept the judgments of my peers

William Timberman

What are you, nuts? Run, man, get while the getting is good. If you're gonna be lynched, at least don't volunteer for the job!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:52 PM

@WT

L.W.M.'s lover

So I'm to have my heart broken, into the bargain?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 08:00 PM

@RMP

That makes me think of something else which I hope will interest and inform you. It's Thomas F Barton's "GI Special" a soldier produced and written (along with other stuff) newsletter, distributed in PDF form, as an e-mail attachment.

If you Google Thomas F Barton "GI Special"

It is primarirly disytibuted to serving soldiers, but you can get it by e-mail. Very interesting, in many ways.

If, on the other hand, you have information that Thomas F Barton is someone who should rightfully be summarily executed by the next passer-byer, well, in that case, please forget I mentioned it. I don't want to make no trouble.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 08:08 PM

@ bystander

So buckyl will have to go alone? Wait a minute, I remember now, I saw that National Geographic (Hmm... National Pornographic! Anybody see any possibilities there?) special!

When they figure out who the Lama is they come and get him, and its "fust cless" (as my good friend Hyman Kaplan said) all the way! I hope buckyl likes ghee!

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