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On Memorial Day, as I learned from one of Bill O’Reilly’s “for kids” books, there is something that occurs but once a year (ok, twice). GI Joe comes from the D.E.W. Line in his magical tank and bestows gifts upon military veterans for their service (“hope you weren’t counting on the ‘Dream Act’ but here’s the gift of PTSD José“). Hey, it’s right there on page 1, 29, or 187, look it up.
But then, just like Christmas, liberal grinchulist workers party member Chris Hayes had to ruin it by distinguishing veterans from the wars they were required to fight. How dare you question the expansion of Arlington Cemetery, sir — have you a normal amount of shame?!
All our soldiers are heroes…until they are not Republican enough — or do not perform to Ann Coulter’s satisfaction. Same thing.
It’s quite simple really.
But now that we’ve knocked shouted that issue down that we can get back to statements about our soldiers that are not to be criticized.
Fox’s Ablow: Women Wanting To Serve In Combat Is “Narcissism” And Allowing It Would “Shoot Holes In Our Culture”
I hope we all can be properly contrite and move on from this.
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I haven’t heard of the D.E.W. line in over 40 years. I’m glad we’re through with all that nuclear missile madness. Aren’t we?
Since they gave us zombie banks, now the right is going back to zombie biases. As if they hadn’t got enough to work with.
Nope. Today could be our lucky day.
It’s too bad Slim Pickens won’t be here to see it.
Don’t you know? Only Republicans are serious enough to be allowed to criticize our troops. You can’t trust a Liberal to do it because they are too hippified to be able to criticize only the important, criticizable stuff.
good morning all,
How did that DEW line work on the 9-11 lie day ?
How do i observe the warrior holidays. I see it as killers that were killed before or after they killed somebody else.
I refused to have anything to do with the killing fields when given the chance, # 6 in the Vietnam lottery, and have been vilified my entire life for my understandings and my refusal to laud and glorify the killers and their kills..
Besides, they keep asking for things like enough to eat and health care. Nogoodniks.
Good morning, pups. This morning we have Dowd and Friedman. MoDo shrieks “Andromeda is Coming!” And she has a bunch of questions: Will the earth’s rotation slow down? Will we be hit by another planet or galaxy? Will our magnetic field wither? Will we ever stop singing the apocalyptic blues? In “Paul Simon Takes Us Back” The Moustache of Wisdom discusses a must-see documentary on the making of Simon’s classic “Graceland” album in South Africa in 1985 is a story about when art confronted politics.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got warm apple walnut muffins. We got very lucky yesterday. Instead of the raging thunderstorms they had predicted we got a day-long mostly slow gentle rain with short periods of harder rain. That’s the kind of rain we’ve needed for a while. Thanks, Beryl! Have a great day.
Thanks, Marion, glad you got that needed rain, got some here in NW PA as well. Interesting that NYT columnists taking sidetracks from current events, this commentating stuff is hard work.
Nor will Peter Sellers. But Kissinger’s still alive. The hope keeps him going. That, and Hades isn’t ready for him yet. Thety haven’t finished the stadium they’re going to need for the festivities. More and more people keep buying tickets.
Right? And that’s as un-American as it gets. I mean, if they don’t have enough to eat, they should take that enormous trust fund they inherited and start a business, preferably separating other poor people from their money! What? No trust fund? Well it’s not my fault they had the poor judgment to be born into a family that’s not named “Trump” or “Walton”.
Well, it’s not like there’s anything worth commenting on happening in the world, after all… /snark
Join the army and see the world… from the underside. Should have read through the ad on to the unhappy ending.
Spare their beautiful minds.
Nope. Everybody still has plenty of rockets. We just have better detectors now, so we don’t really need the DEW line.
Boxturtle (But the only way to win is not to play – War Games)
That fine print will getcha every time. Maybe they should have been born to a family at least wealthy enough to have a lawyer on retainer.
It has been since it’s creation. All 6000 years. :-)
Galaxy, yes. It’s currently happening. Planet? Well, statisticly improbable, but we know there are wanderers. Still, there are none within 10,000 years of us at least. We’d see ‘em easily.
It’s certainly not conmsistant. And the poles are about due to flip. But Fukushima (which she’s NOT talking about) will get us before cosmic rays do.
As long as it sells news, no. However, we must be careful not to mention any dangers that would inconvience the 1%.
Boxturtle (The world is collasping around us, and we find the silliest things to worry about)
A small fix…
It does get pretty tough to comment when everything worthwhile to say would offend one or more sponsors.
Boxturtle (Guess we’ll have to wait for the next Offical Leak from the White House)
It’s entertainment, not news.
Boxturtle (One of the very few things Rush said that I agree with and it’s usable EVERYWHERE!)
The hard times for job seekers raises the qualifications being offered for service, another reason the 1% congratulates itself for cutting jobs and wages, also offshoring.
Wow! I just found out that a Republican, (who was actually born in Mexico), candidate’s eligibility being questioned is exactly the same as the birthers questioning Obama’s place of birth because he’s black… or liberal… or something. Thanks MSNBC!
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
I think Modo read a science book then went to a tin foil hat site.
Okay. Just to be clear. The Poles don’t actually “flip” but the magnetic field regularly reverses itself but that won’t let “cosmic rays” in. It’s happened millions of times throughout history and to the best of our knowledge has never resulted in an extinction event.
Mayan calendar ran out of room so ended in Dec. of 2012. Recently discovered larger calendar goes on quite some time before running out of room. I know, that’s overdosing on reality.
Ok that is news still the rest is well stuff I learned along time ago or stuff from tin foil hat sites I think Modo is running out of ideas to write about.
‘to the best of our knowledge’
which is pretty tiny, leaves lots of room.
MoDo is about decorations of the news thingee, imho.
Correct on both counts. But not nearly as scary. I dunno about millions of times, but they have conclusive evidence for 4 and compelling evidence for others.
But AQ is going to make them flip this time, with technology given them by Iran. And they’ll crash every airplane in the sky. So stop the defense trigger cuts or all your GPS will have it backwards!
Boxturtle (Even money says that line hits Fox by the end of the day)
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?cat=6
If we assume Bill’s viewers will vote GOP a not unreasonable assumption then Bill dropping in the ratings does not look good for Mitt. Where is the GOP’s imaginary majority?
Set GEEKMODE on
Actually, we know quite a bit about the flips and we can show that no documented flip has occured approximately the same time as an extinction. and we have evidence supported theories that point to other causes for the extinctions.
set GEEKMODE off
Boxturtle (Though I do wonder if the Mayan’s somehow knew about Fukushima)
Deciding if they’re pissed enough at Obama to support Mitt.
Boxturtle (I never thought I’d wish for Reagan back)
That’s the gods fooling with us.
If they are pissed they would be watching Bill and Sean to get their anger fix instead they seem to be watching wrestling and sponge bob:)
I expect Bill and Sean to amp up the crazy to get more ratings a week or so before the GOP convention. I predict it will turn more Moderate voters from the GOP.
But who will be their scapegoat Women, Gay’s, Illegals, etc if they focus on one group it will be easier to focus their viewers attention but if they go for everyone they leave No hate Behind and get all the 30%ers on board.
They just risk pissing off more Moderate Voters then. The only way the GOP wins is vote fraud and denying people the right to vote.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?cat=6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
300 + million people lets be very fair to Bill 200 million watch tv and watch when he is on tv that means less than 1% of the population watches him at any given time.
I’m betting gays and religious freedom will be their chosen issues. Immigration will be a regional scapegoat, based on how badly the GOP needs Hispanic votes in the area. They’ll hide the War on Women in religious freedom.
Boxturtle (What’s a “moderate voter”?)
America’s corporate fascists, the one’s Jefferson warned of? The “enthroned corporations,” President Lincoln lamented about? The supreme Commander of the European, Allied Forces, President IKE, warned Americans about these interests, having no qualms compromising law, life and liberty to protect business models and profits at the expense of the republic. The corporate fascists have challenge the rule of law and manipulate the entities making law. Congress as an entity during slavery, sucked back then, as it does now.
Turn off your TV. Cancel Scumcast! You know! The little black box which conditions the willing? Block your cell phone number and let the dirt bags in congress have it! Give kudos to responsible politicians.(oxymoron) Exercise your first amendment right, you know the one right the bastards want to squash. So you can’t challenge their lies and business models tantamount to systemic corporate servitude? This is life…. Not entertainment!
Religious freedoms is a biggie, after all – the biblical injunction to kill the gays is followed by one to kill children who don’t obey, and there you can appeal to every fussy parent! The possibilities are endless.
too funny………hahahahahhaha
sorry Goodwin…just like the Nazis…too bad our only Gypsy is Cher,and they had better not take her on
The Ablow thing was pretty awful, especially when that Ablow guy referred to women as the “Feminine species.” The guy’s apparently such a hardcore misogynist that he doesn’t consider women to be the same species as men. As for the women in combat argument, they’re already in combat, and people who talk about front lines and foxholes in anything but a historical context are idiots.