Comments on: Late Night: Craven and Bigoted is No Way to Go Through Life, Son.

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:55:51 +0000

Do you ever find yourself yelling “PLEASE DO, ALREADY!” when you see the news reports of the Texans talking secession? I don’t see how it could be anything but a disaster for them, but even if it works out great, at least they’d shut up already. Maybe we could have them name their new country The Real America and convince Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin to relocate down there while we’re at it.

By: Robt

Robt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:35:13 +0000

This is a small percent of the nation’s population. many that would move on to hating the crickets making their noise at night keeping them awake.
But they have their pied piper(s).

I can understand the curiousity of such insanity inflicting fellow Americans. Sort of a call for health care reform but, aren’t they being overly publicized?

Is this overly publicizing of these fringe wing nuts embeding them into the republican party ? Just lacking their covertness?

By: Cherri

Cherri — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:22:33 +0000

You’re right! Only sick people have such thoughts…
I’ve to agree with Mr.Krugman on his views of our beloved country.
But,I wonder if these people who made such dis-tasteful statements even realize that words have power. …and words should be express carefully with respect to the past & future generations to come.

By: nahant

nahant — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:07:02 +0000

I would say so!! Good for him he has found a way to help other Vets who are suffering and need a willing ear and shoulder..

By: nahant

nahant — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:05:26 +0000

hey PPD how goes it??
We get on the big bird tomorrow evening and back by 10PM your time. This trip has been great fun… today we met up with my cousin who is retired from the “T” and we toured Boston downtown and then over to Harvard… He got us on the T with his retiree pass and we kept bumping into his old buddies there.. we will be glad to be getting home to the real world and real California weather not this “Wait a minute and it changes shit. from sweltering humid heat to Tropical storms and down pours and now they are predicting FROST!! Can you fucking believe it??

By: Funnydiva2002

Funnydiva2002 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:04:28 +0000

(((((Kelly)))))
Oh, dear. That’s just awful. I’m so sorry.
FWDiva

By: KellyCDenver

KellyCDenver — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:03:42 +0000

Hey everyone, ES has the LLN thread up ^^^^^^^^^^

By: newdealfarmgrrrlll

newdealfarmgrrrlll — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:02:10 +0000

FWDiva, yeah, sadly my 5 yr old grandson notices way too much. Not a healthy situation.

nahant, i have a friend who was a green beret and spent 12 years in ’Nam. He says he was on the first boatload of youngsters stupid enough to buy into it, and got out at the beginning of the really ugly part. He’s now a penniless street musician, and opens up about his experiences (and how gut-wrenchingly it changes you to kill someone) to youngsters at the U who are either returning vets or newbies contemplating the military. I think he performs a valuable public service.

By: PPDCUS

PPDCUS — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:57:31 +0000

hey nahant

By: KellyCDenver

KellyCDenver — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:57:18 +0000

Here’s a thing. Back in 1982 I dropped my brother Jim off at the Navy induction center in Phoenix (Yes, in Phoenix, they have receiving centers there for all branches.)

We talked and wrote and then with the advent of the internet emailed and kept together for marriages (his and others) and so forth for a long time.

Once 2003 invasion of Iraq came around, he became morose. (He was the engine chief on a Ohio class sub then.) He wrote to me, “we are not allowed to tell you what you’ve seen on CNN (as regards Shock and Awe) but you’ve seen parts of it on CNN.”

He faded from sight until 2005. He surfaced long enough to get divorced. I asked him what the hell he was doing, and never heard from him again; even when I emailed him to let him know our sister was passing from cancer.

I still don’t know where he is or what he’s doing, and he hasn’t responded to multiple communication attempts to tell him about my dad, who is pretty much going terminal as far as the docs are saying.

Somehow, he’s gone; and I don’t understand why.

I just despise the military. I don’t get what has happened to Jim, but something did.