Still Hating America.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The criticism - as written in other places less biased than the Chron - is that the families of several of the fallen do not like their sons'/daughters' names being used in an anti-administration, anti-war display.

I couldn't care less one way or the other, but I can see both sides of that argument.

I don't remember clearly, but wasn't there similar criticism of the Vietnam Memorial? I find that one to be particularly moving, and it would have sucked to only put the names up of soldiers whose family signed the waiver. (I think that there was also criticsim of the overall design of the Vietnam Memorial. I think it looks beautiful and I'm impressed that Maya Lin was only 21 when she submitted the proposal for it.)

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
I can see both sides, too. But from what little I've bothered to read about this, there aren't any signs or displays that would indicate that the display is anti-war or anti-administration -- even though that apparently is the sentiment of the people who put the display up.

There apparently were, but those were taken down a while ago.

So yes, the only vestige of "anti-war" sentiments is in the rhetoric occasionally used by the keepers of the site.

Ty, again, the Chron omitted a lot of this [gasp] back story.

And again, I have no truck in this. And a vandal is a vandal and should be thrown in irons, whatever the motivation.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I don't remember clearly, but wasn't there similar criticism of the Vietnam Memorial? I find that one to be particularly moving, and it would have sucked to only put the names up of soldiers whose family signed the waiver. (I think that there was also criticsim of the overall design of the Vietnam Memorial. I think it looks beautiful and I'm impressed that Maya Lin was only 21 when she submitted the proposal for it.)

When i lived in DC it was still pretty new. it was really powerful, but I don't think it was the design, I think it was that there were lots of people leaving "Miss you dad" type messages or sobbing in front of a name. I haven't been back in awhile, and I'm sure there is less of that now. Wonder if it still seems so powerful.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sidd Finch
Does this mean that you've broken the Arab/Muslim stranglehold on fuel for your outrage?

Have they blown anything up in the last ten minutes?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Heh.

He wouldn't meet me when he was in southern california, if that makes you feel any better.

remember the chubby fellow across the bar who kept his hands underneath the tablecloth for several minutes after you first walked in?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
remember the chubby fellow across the bar who kept his hands underneath the tablecloth for several minutes after you first walked in?

I don't know who you were looking at, or what bar you were in -- none of my bars has tables with tablecloths.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Have they blown anything up in the last ten minutes?

Arabs/Muslims?

Yep -- looks like they did. Another Baghdad market blown to bits, along with a few dozen people.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html


Thank God we liberated those people.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Ty, again, the Chron omitted a lot of this [gasp] back story.

I wouldn't be surprised, and would be curious to hear what Paul Harvey would have said about this.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't know who you were looking at, or what bar you were in -- none of my bars has tables with tablecloths.

I brought one for my table. Well, it was really newspapers IIRC.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Driving through the Richmond the other day, I would have guessed we were invaded by China.

Which always reminds me that someone should have kicked my ass when I signed up for high school German, and said "No, dimwit, you live in California - you can either take Spanish or Mandarin." Instead, I barely speak a language spoken in only 3.25 countries (Hi Lichtenstein!) and they all answer me back in good English when I try to speak German.

LessinMendoza

Originally posted by LessinSF
Which always reminds me that someone should have kicked my ass when I signed up for high school German, and said "No, dimwit, you live in California - you can either take Spanish or Mandarin." Instead, I barely speak a language spoken in only 3.25 countries (Hi Lichtenstein!) and they all answer me back in good English when I try to speak German.

LessinMendoza

While you're down there you should use your high-school German to see if they'll take you to the secret buried Nazi gold.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by ironweed
While you're down there you should use your high-school German to see if they'll take you to the secret buried Nazi gold.

Wohlauf spieltet, Spieler.

[Replaced_Texan]

I'm sort of amazed at how unsurprising I find this. (spree: WaPo article saying that there is no contingency plan if things don't work out as the President hopes in Iraq)

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm sort of amazed at how unsurprising I find this. (spree: WaPo article saying that there is no contingency plan if things don't work out as the President hopes in Iraq)

I like the quote, though. "Plan B is to make Plan A work."

[SlaveNoMore]

Replaced_Texan
I'm sort of amazed at how unsurprising I find this. (spree: WaPo article saying that there is no contingency plan if things don't work out as the President hopes in Iraq)

Did we ever have a formal "Eh, just let the krauts keep France after all" contingency plan in WWII?

In hindsight, we should have.