Letters to the Editor
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test.
shut up. okay. who knocks my speller out? nevermind. i go slice a tomatoe and dance elsewhere. no step on toes. no shoes, bare feet, no Internet. I stooopid. no got a spelling bee certificate, damn drones have no stinger. i go. I remember a tweeting Red Breast Robbin fly into the garden. She sat in a sread-out position and flapped her wings. I watched as a worm surfaces in front of the Red Breast Robbin. She ate the brown worm. I never forgot the site.
It was not preposterous. It was nature's handiwork...a miracle. Bees, birds, and people need to eat. I am needing a bowl of red cherry tomatoes with olive oil, fetta cheese, and sour vingar. Once in awhile a person needs to stop the tummy from gurgling and growling like a bear.
No beer for while...IMHO. That's my last words for today. apologies for being cranky. No sorry. I see bloody liers who need to say, "SORRY!" to all the slain and THEN begin to apologize to the friends and families of those placed in arms way who dropped DEAD!
What thugs and modern day cut throats we see blabber-mouthing for a filthy buck. Slimes.
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Roger Waters Summed It Up
Whenever I see all these right-wing bantams strutting around with imaginary medals on their chests, I think of the great Roger Waters title from his Amused to Death album: "The Bravery of Being Out of Range." How these miserable hypocrites can fool anyone other than themselves -- if they do -- is beyond me. Every bully is a coward with a forward defense, and every armchair bully is even worse -- a coward whose toughness resides entirely in his imagination, and is only made possible by being "out of range."
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Does not suffice
Jonah Goldberg: "As for why my sorry a** isn't in the kill zone, lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent question. No answer I could give -- I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income, I have a baby daughter, my a** is, er, sorry, are a few -- ever seem to suffice."
There must be thousands of people in Iraq who are over 35, have children, can't afford the lost income, etc. Thousands. And many of them were not pounding out propaganda egging on this war. So no, it doesn't suffice. But the sense of entitlement and utter lack of all ability to sense irony is very impressive.
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Dolchstosslegende
Enough is now known about the Vietnam War, its genesis and prosecution, to state definitively that it was a fiasco. The assumptions it was built upon (the domino theory, the virulence of communism, etc) were false. The Tonkin incident was a lie. We should never have entered the war. Once in, the sooner we could have got out, the better it would have been for Americans and for Vietnamese alike. No harm befell the US that would have not been lessened by leaving sooner or enhanced by staying longer.
To fail to understand this, to blame the fiasco on America's lack of will, not only annouces the writer's lack of seriousness as a thinker, but it is also an attempt to create a new Dolchstoßlegende to stifle criticism of our Fearless Leader's eternal state of war.
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714Day @ 10:46
I'm serious.
When I was wounded on FEB 10th 1970, another PFC got his big toe shot off. No lie. It really is documented in the after-military-action reports.
I no pull your leg off or toes.
Also: A 'shake&bake' in our infantry unit shot his self in the foot to get air-lifted from the jungle. Boy did he cry like a big baboon baby. There are many bones in the foot and it did hurt.
No doubt about it. Where is my spell-check? Thief!
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Perhaps I'm not desensitized enough, but...
there's something about using one of the sadder days in recent history to name a generation that strikes me as particularly crude and loathesome -- especially when the label is held aloft as if it marked an occasion of victory.
I know, I know, the victories wound up coming against the constitution, the bill of rights and of the mainstream press. But still.
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This is an obsene post!!!
You have no right to impune the patriotism of PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE INDUVIDUALS like myself and other important conservative american conservative individuals like our brave commander in chief who's doing a tough job in a time of war with our beave fighting tropps in har,'s way and he has to deal with obsene disloyal "liberal: individuals like yourself whi won't let him DO HIS JOB FOR A CHANGE just because I can't inlist at this point in time doesn't mean I'm not a fighter at this point in time I have many important obligations and duty's to attend at this point in time and I feel I am more good to our war by staying stateside and offering my services by writing and speaking outg about how important and vital it is at this point in time not to loose our nerves and take the fight to al Quaerda anf not to "cut and run" like ALL the liberals like yourself want to do because your just disloyal traitors!!!
You have NO RIGHT TO BAD MOYTH ME OR OUR BRAVE CIOMMANDER IN CHIEF AND I URGE AND?OR ORDER YOU TO CEASE AND?OR DISIST IMMEDIATLY AT THIS POINT IN TIME!!!
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Re: ondelette's link to list of US military interventions since 1890
Always worth a reminder.
Note how many times Our Glorious Troops in Battle were sent to put down domestic labor strikes, to engage in "warfare" with the Domestic Dependent Nations (ie: Induns), and to intevene in Central American civil wars (always, of course, to favor the patrons).
Of course there were also the Imperial adventures such as the seizure of Hawaii, and the former Spanish Empire. Putting down the Philippines Insurrection being the most similar circumstance to the current Imperial debacle.
Yes, we may have had few troops to field, but BOY were they fielded. Time after time after time.
And the Philippines War was a Glorious Triumph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War
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What about Iran?
All these war mongers thing Iran needs to be invaded and conquered too, something the US military is not in a position to do.
So why isn't there more calls for voluntary enlistment or discussion of a draft from Bush and Cheney?
Is this the grand struggle of civilizations or not?
If it is, get drafting. What's that? It would be political suicide? I thought these people didn't "watch polls" and allow little trifles like "overwhelming public sentiment" to sway them from the right path.
Even within their own crazy world view what they're doing doesn't make sense: Iran is a mortal threat and the the US forces are not large enough to effectively defeat them. Conclusion? Status quo.