Nutjobs Ranting About Politics.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe we can short circuit this even more. Would you agree that those of us who stayed home and did important home front stuff, like say posting photos of a fat Teddy kennedy are just as eligible for elected office as the "vets?"

Well, some of us are. There is still a basic mental competency requirement, after all.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Point of order. Can we agree that the 7000 casualties have been distributed among waaay more than the 140000 American troops who may or may not currently be in Iraq? For instance, units who went and came back? Say, for example, that 280000 have been in-country. For those of you keeping score at home, that's one out of forty eligible for Purple Heart consideration.

On the other hand, some units, like the Marines who got into all that shit in Fallujah a few montha ago, have suffered greatly disproportionate casualties.

Now what else were you saying?

I think that if we look carefully at the statistics, we'll find that the officer and noncomm ranks received a disproportionate number of Purple Hearts, while the enlisted men did a higher portion of the killing.

Fucking officers.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Let me get the lies straight.

The gist that I'm hearing from the SBVFT is this: Kerry tried to run away to France, of all places. When that didn't work out he volunteered for one of those luxury divisions of the military (i.e. the US Navy) to go to Vietnam (hey, it was a French colony once, there's another connection...), volunteered for a "cushy' job in a swift boat. When that gig turned out to be a real bummer, he did everything he could to get the fuck out, while also looking like a hero, so he could lord it all over eveyone thirty years later when he ran for President. He blew up his own ass, conned the rest of his crew into going along with him in his efforts to amass medals (the new guy, as part of the crew hazing ritual, was even went so far as to fall off the boat to give cred to the Lt.'s heroism; they agreed afterwards to stay apart for 30-something years so as to not arouse suspicion of the grand plan) when guns were going off in the area so it could be argued that everything he did was under fire. He showed up to the infirmary for every mosquito bite and paper cut, just in case someone noticed the bleeding and gave him a medal. And, hey, the Navy, stupid fucks that they are, (oops, we're not saying that....) ate it all up and went along with it and gave him all the medals so he could go home to his cushy protesting gig back home. Unfortunately, everyone in South East Asia happened to see all of this, and they kept meticulous notes of his whereabouts while in Vietnam at all times, so they could alert the Navy that the medals were erroneously given under false pretenses. Of course, they couldn't file that report until they managed to raise funds (from a very generous Texan who builds crappy, ugly houses), and their method of filing the report was by airing advertisements and publishing a book. Hopefully the Navy will catch wind of this and do the right thing and take back his medals.

ETA: I just hope that the Navy opens a huge ass investigation on this, because there are some people down here in Texas who go so far as to lord their Purple Hearts on their license plates, and I wouldn't want to open up a lane for some bastard who was just looking to get out from under heavy fire.

I love you.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I think that if we look carefully at the statistics, we'll find that the officer and noncomm ranks received a disproportionate number of Purple Hearts, while the enlisted men did a higher portion of the killing.

Fucking officers.

Who do you think prepares the action reports? Not Private Pyle. So of course they glorify their version of history.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
I've never really heard Zell Miller speak before.

He's quite an ass-kicker.

He's almost a Coolidge, who was, despite his reputation, the American Churchill.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I believe in 1971:

1) Our President was nobly completing his fourth year of service in the Texas Air National Guard

2) Senator Kerry was giving succor and support to our enemy in war time by declaring himself and everyone else in the armed services as a war criminal*

While we're at it, let's go to 1972. Since Kerry's camp cannot defend even tself against the Swifties, it appears they have nothing better than to rehash all of the already-answered questions regarding the President's 5th year of Guard service in Alabama. As usual, Tyrone Marshall is leading the charge.


* If true, why would any anti-war Democrat want to vote for a self-avowed war criminal?

So, then the answer would be that Bush was visiting both his bartender and his coke dealer?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Who do you think prepares the action reports? Not Private Pyle. So of course they glorify their version of history.

And then they come home and write tax bills.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city
The truth about Kerry's medals is nothing. What is horrible is his testimony before Congress. I listened to the whole thing on the radio. It might as well be an advertisement to vote for Bush. I can't imagine what drove Kerry to testify like that.

Hippy love

[sgtclub]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 1 -- The United States and France introduced a Security Council resolution Wednesday demanding that 20,000 Syrian troops "withdraw without delay" from Lebanon and that Syria stop meddling in the country's November elections. It threatens to consider unspecified "additional measures" against Syria to ensure compliance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Sep1.html

[sgtclub]

Emerging theme of the Democratic response to the Republican convention speeches:

Schwarzenegger is not a Republican
McCain is not a Republican
Zell Miller is not a Democrat

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Well, some of us are. There is still a basic mental competency requirement, after all.

la revolución no será televisada: la revolución será en vivo!

Yours,

Juan, Spanish Marine Corpsman

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ilikenewsocks
la revolución no será televisada: la revolución será en vivo!

Yours,

Juan, Spanish Marine Corpsman

Hey, Gil. What's the word?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Sep1.html

I can here Syria quivering in fear from here.

[ilikenewsocks]

I missed the Green Party convention. Does anyone happen to know -- can you supply red meat for the party faithful when you're a vegan, or is that taboo?

-- Ralphie Boy

[Shape Shifter]

I hope the choir enjoys the sermon. From drudge:

FOXNEWS BEATS BROADCAST NETWORKS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT COVERAGE OF CONVENTION -- HISTORIC UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS FOR CABLE

10-11PM

FOXNEWS -- 5.2 MILLION
NBC -- 5.1 MILLION
CBS -- 4.4 MILLION
ABC -- 4.3 MILLION
MSNBC -- 1.6 MILLION
CNN -- 1.5 MILLION


http://drudgereport.com/