I'd make a good Repooplican, except for the fact that I have a brain...

-- AnaHadWolves

This is the last sentence of an completely asinine, immature letter, but it typifies so much of the "progressive" Left. Remember, name-calling on the part of adults is a sign of regression. The entire letter offers nothing constructive, and it's based on nothing but caricatures and stereotypes.

And he has the nerve to sign off with a comment about his brain. [shaking head sadly]

Actually, the term "red neck" predates 1921 by nearly a century. It was a term referring to poor white farmers in the South, whose necks were reddened by the hours they spent working in the sun.

Blacks don't sunburn (at least not visibly), and rich whites don't work the fields, hence a very convenient bit of shorthand to describe a certain class of people.

But you're right: it, as well as Bubba, are insults. Surprising how many "sophisticated" and "diversity-loving" liberals so freely toss the terms around.

Race-baiting goes both directions. Just witness the race-pimps Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson telling blacks they'll all be lynched if a Republican gets elected, or the despicable ad the supposedly nonpartisan NAACP ran in Texas in 2000 that all but blamed George W. Bush for the dragging death of a black man. (Never mind that those men were caught, convicted and now sit on death row--in Texas.)

Enough with the stereotypes already. Yours are particularly bad, as someone else pointed out.

When I tell them that Stalin was marching on Japan and that was one of the reasons Hirohito surrendered, they laugh at me. --FreeProton

Well here's part of the problem. Stalin was not marching on Japan. Roosevelt and Churchill had been begging Stalin to open a second front on Japan for months, but Stalin kept begging off, citing how badly his army had been bled in defeating Germany.

It was only after Japan surrendered that the Soviets moved in to solidfy their position in the Kuril Islands, which had been disputed territory since the 1905 Russo-Japanese war.

Too bad you had to learn propaganda in your schools. It takes away from the very real sacrifice the Red Army made. (Bet you didn't learn about all the raping and pillaging that went along with the Red Army "liberation," by the way. That's why a heroic statue "honoring" a Red Army soldier in Prague was mockingly referred to as "the anonymous rapist.")

It's similar to a friend who grew up in France. He was convinced that France had pretty much single-handedly won the war in Europe with just a bit of help from the Americans and British.

FreeProton, perhaps you missed where I wrote, Too bad you had to learn propaganda in your schools. It takes away from the very real sacrifice the Red Army made.

And Burns in fact does touch on an episode of a Marine pulling the gold teeth out of a dead Japanese soldier. (It's in a later episode.)

But remember, German units went out of their way to surrender to American or British units to avoid surrendering to Soviet units. Notice also the waves of refugees who fled West in front of the Soviet armies contrasted to the, um, no waves of people fleeing East in front of the liberating Americans and British, in fact, greeting them with flowers, etc.

Several people have made mention of this. Of course, we didn't have that name back then, but we did call it "shell shock" or "battle fatigue." It is/was no less real, though. The scene where Patton slapped a "shell shocked" soldier and called him a coward was eye-opening.

I think PTSD explains a lot about my dad's generation, something we realize only way too late in retrospect. The only time my dad ever hit me was when, as a naive boy, I expressed disappointment that he had never personally killed a German.

Today, the master has become the slave with the Religious Right dictating the candidates that are "acceptable" to them and their ilk. Millions of dollars in revenue via television are at stake.

Now, that same Religious Right, in a pathetically egregious manner, has demanded that the Republican Party adhere to their precepts and kowtow to them instead of the American people

Substitute "Moonbat left such as Daily Kos and Moveon.org" for "Religious Right" and "Democratic Party" for "Republican Party" in this statement and you have a similar situation.

Be wary whenever someone uses a company's revenue when making an argument, as Glenn does here:

In 2005, the total revenue of Verizon -- from telephone services alone -- was $75 billion. ATT's total 2006 revenue was $63 billion.

Revenue is what they take in before taxes, costs, interest payments, overhead--you know, all that stuff that will tend to result in smaller numbers when you finally state how much money the companies made.

When someone cites revenue, it's a sure sign he's making a dishonest argument.