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And Now, A Word From the Front to the MSM
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Journaljizzm, Our Military, The Long War5:26 PM
LC 0311 Crunchie was kind enough to forward this article to us, in which Chief Warrant Officer Jim Funk, a Blackhawk pilot of the Iowa National Guard currently in theatre, shares his feelings about the MSM and their relentless war to demoralize the troops, the American public and providing good cheer, aid and comfort to our enemies.
A snippet, but don’t you dare not read the whole thing:
“Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day? You inspire and report the enemy’s objective every day. You are the enemy’s greatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us on the battlefield so all he does is try to wreak enough havoc and have you report it every day. With you and the enemy using each other, you continually break the will of the American public and American government.
“We go out daily and bust and kill the enemy, uncover and destroy huge weapons caches and continue to establish infrastructure. So daily we put a whoopin on the enemy, but all the enemy has to do is turn on the TV and get re-inspired. He gets to see his daily roadside bomb, truck bomb, suicide bomber or mortar attack. He doesn’t see any accomplishments of the U.S. military (FOX, you’re not exempt, you suck also).
It’s not fair when some people state that the MSM don’t understand the importance of propaganda in a war. They understand it quite well, and they apply that knowledge to their trade every single day of the year.
The problem is, they’re fighting for the other side.
Rope. Tree. Journalist.
Some assembly required.
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The Enemy Press.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:36 PMTaqqiyeh,
Hogfood.
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Faquem.
Bastiches.
May 27th, 2007 at 5:50 PMUsing
The constitution of the United Stats of America provides the right to freedom of speech.
The US news media is a perfect example of abuse of that right.
Just like, if you qualify for a drivers license (key point) you have the right to drive your car. However, if you speed excessively, run people over, etc., you have abused that right and will have it taken away from you
Freedom of speech needs to live and breath, but it also needs to be taken away from the news media
May 27th, 2007 at 6:24 PMUsing
MSM is a waste of human genetic tissue. These are the lowest individuals on the planet. I only wish we could have a new season…
You know, like rabbit season, duck season, ABC season, CNN season…
May 27th, 2007 at 6:29 PMUsing
Meet Chief Warrant Officer Jim Funk…
He has something to say to the media: “Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day? You inspire and report the enemy’s objective every day. You are the enemy’s greatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us……
May 27th, 2007 at 6:39 PMUsing
The sad thing is that the MSN’s carping will work. Repeat the lie, make it larger, make it the only info “normal” people get and they will have no choice but to believe it.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:48 PMIt isnt possible unless you are unusually strong minded or insane to hold a position in the face of NO OTHER INFORMATION SOURCES.
Sad to say, but if it wasnt for the net, Id have no idea of what was “tripple checked for accuracy” by the MSN and what was raw info. Large numbers of people still havent got a viable alternative to MSN info, its an achilies heel for the west.
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Do these idiots not realize that if their twisted dreams come true and America as we know it is destroyed, they will be among the first to go? Or do they even fucking care?
May 27th, 2007 at 6:49 PMUsing
CWO Funk sums up the media mind set of “if it bleeds it leads” quite well.
The hajis know that all it takes is one successful hit and they get the coverage. If the media was living up to it’s own professed standards they would be reporting every haji killed with equal vim and vigor. I just don’t understand where objectivity became outright cynicism and antagonism.
Scratch that, of course I know when it happened, Viet Nam and the subsequent ascendancy of the hippie generation. The media lost Viet Nam for us but there wasn’t a military operation long enough for them to repeat their glory days until now, Somalia excepted.
Fourth Estate, Fifth Column, all the same thing.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:54 PMUsing
Didn’t the press keep the fact that FDR was crippled to themselves? They didn’t expoit that fact to try and sway the American Peoples’ loyalties. I guess back then, they actually considered themselves patriotic.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:57 PMUsing
I have noticed this for a while and have recently been paying attention to it. I do wish I would see people like him in the news more and less of lindsey,britney etc…. I remember having similar feeling on a thread which shows a picture saying the Marines are at war, America is at the mall. I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE WHO MATTER IN THE NEWS OR I WILL GO NUTS!!!!
May 27th, 2007 at 6:59 PMUsing
They will be content blaming the “Evil Right Wing Conspiracy” for it as they live out the rest of their miserable lives in a “political” prison.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:41 PMUsing
Unfortunately Mindy you will need to go to alternative sources for that. FNC does do a better job than the others, but even they need to step it up.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:47 PMUsing
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May 27th, 2007 at 7:57 PMUsing
I have to wonder about the sanity of the MSM…..I have known for many years the left is self-destructive and suicidal, seeking to destroy rather than build, dominate rather than negotiate, imprison rather than enlighten…but this ventures beyond the pale. They would support censorship in the name of tolerance, their holy mantra…….unless of course you disagree with them. Here in this small town I write regularly for our small town paper, largely on soldiers and second amendment issues. You know my views on both. Simply doing what we can, in some small way, for not everybody believes this shit coming out in the MSM…not by a long shot. I have found the people here to be kindred spirits, wise and fonts of knowledge to souls such as I. For I remain simple in my approach to life now in my mid fifties……..and I love and appreciate this nation far more than I did in younger years. I remember the cold war, was born during the Truman administration….a lot of changes, for duck and cover for me is a memory, not history. Let us not go there again.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:01 PMUsing
Rest assured my friend, they are quite sane for the most part. Keep in mind there are two types of leftists. The useful idiots on display at Drooling Underwear or the Kossack Kommie Kiddies, and those consciously dedicated to the destruction of the western culture. The MSM and their allies are fully aware of their actions and consequences.
Their seditious actions are even more despicable, as they use their credentials as alleged ‘honest’ purveyors of ‘news’ to brainwash the minds of our neighbors and friends.
Therein lies the treasonous intent of their propaganda war. Their lust for power transcends even the intellectual understanding that they side with the enemy satisfying that lust.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:20 PMUsing
The name William Tecumseh Sherman is still a cures word south of the Mason-Dixon, but this is just priceless;
For shear quotability, it is hard to beat Sherman.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:38 PMUsing
sheesh…Makes you wonder if all the great military commanders over the years ‘channel’ those before them. You could’ve attributed that to Patton and it would be spot-on as he had no love of the media either.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:47 PMUsing
Not many military men ever have Jackboot
, possible exception of the Spanish American War.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
May 27th, 2007 at 8:52 PMUsing
I have heard from my Vietnam combat veteran friends that what is going on today is akin to the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. We had No. Vietnam beat. The enemy heard the reports of how we were losing, saw the anti-war demonstrations going on, and it revitalized them to stay and fight. Had it not been for the media and the liberal assholes there would have been a different ending to the war and a lot of people would not have been massacred.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:27 PMUsing
You are right, Blue Star Rider , I have never forgotten that, or forgiven them for it. A friend of mine died in part because of them. Many here no doubt share the same views……
May 27th, 2007 at 9:36 PMUsing
Not much too add, other than this message for Mindy 1: (In my best Emperor Palpetine voice) “Your conversion to our evil conservative side is almost complete. Let the logic flow through you. Feel the reason and the contempt it brings for the MSM. Hahahahahahah!”
May 27th, 2007 at 9:40 PMUsing
I think most here do caveman, if not all. When Cronkite doubted our possible victory on the nightly news during Tet, that was the most despicable act of blatant piss poor reporting ever. If the media had done it’s job and reported the facts, the American people would have seen that Tet was an unqualified US victory.
I could see the Bulge if reported on by the MSM. “Hitler resurgent”, “unwinnable quagmire” etc.
There was a side meeting between a US officer and a N. Vietnamese officer during the Paris Peace accords. The US officer said “You never beat us on the battlefield.” The Vietnamese responded “We didn’t have to. We beat you in the newspapers and campuses of America.”
May 27th, 2007 at 9:46 PMUsing
BiW, #21
ROFLMAO
May 27th, 2007 at 9:48 PMUsing
Yes, they write, but so can we……..and some of us do it very well, Misha being a classic in his own right. I will be in our local paper again…….but just some thoughts on tomorrow….I will share them too, seeking to touch the human heart and soul, side-stepping the intellect. For while the mind can lie, the heart cannot.
“Land of Lincoln…I love you and wish you well, but sometimes I fear…for alas, I remember Babylon……” From Author C. Clarke.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:04 PMI stood today, that thought running through my mind………remembering past memorial services.
The quiet flags, standing guard over their charges….remembering, reminding us what this day is for and about…not the Indy 500…or picnics, or gettin’ shitfaced drunk……yes, they all have their places, but this day is to remember and honor our war dead.
To stand and see the old vets…..and to feel the honor I do when they wave and call me by name…for they know me by sight. Just one six pack type of dude in a small farming town……but one that’s been told he writes awesome articles in the paper supporting veterans and their families. I turned the town on to Soldiers Angels after Misha brought it up here. Some vets joined up. I haven’ heard from my soldier in quite a while. I have sent some letters, but I know all too well…………….
It matters not to me that my name is to be engraved on a veterans memorial here at an elementary school…..every vet, past and present, living or having lived here in Dog Patch………what matters is that we remember those giving all so we could have some, even so simple as to come together here at this precious site we call home.
I often feel unworthy of being included, for little was asked of me in comparison…very little. I will never know if I had the spunk within to do as these men did……..and do.
So I seek to render aid now…….with my pen, or wallet, or supporting the Bill of Rights……for such things are precious.
The city manager here, speaking to me last week at city hall where I had visited to get something notarized……..he said he never forgot when I stood up alone in front of that bastard former mayor and his cronies, looked him in the eye, pointing at Old Glory on the wall behind me, saying…..”This flag represents a document I hold sacred, second only to Holy Scripture itself!”
For I discovered, at least in places like Dog Patch, the vast majorty of us reman silently aware and cognizant of what is going on. Our attitude is we can feed ourselves, for we do so along with all the lefties in the cities. We can defend ourselves, for example I don’t know one person on our block not owning a gun…at least one. We barter, trading talent, services or goods for the same from one another. A century old hardware store three blocks from my home a favorite haunt.
So tomorrow to attend a somber, simple, beautiful service, along with my vet friends, supporters of all kinds…those of us shedding a proud tear or calm voice.
May this never vanish from this Earth….and as long as people such as we endure.
It never will………
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What absolute crap! The media is our sole tiny, fragile levee holding back a tsunami of right wing fascism. Heroic patriots like the political prisoner Dan Rather are the only difference between us and Nazi Germany II.
When WE write the history books this censored reality will be told!
May 27th, 2007 at 10:17 PMUsing
Bwahahahahahaha…breathe, hahahahahaha Oh my sweet..bwahahahaha!
HarleyRrace, you need to take off your tinfoil hat and let the mind control rays in. It’s so much better when you just accept the dominance of the VRWC.
Man, that’s some good satire right there HarleyRace, good indeed.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:23 PMUsing
Read very carefully what you just said. And now, you ignorant fuck, for your continued edification…fascism is a left wing phenomenon…..to the right of communism, but little else. By the way, I entertain no doubts whatsoever should you and your fellow cretins be in charge that the consored reality would be told. And little else.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:29 PMTwo final points. One, you will never be in charge….and finally, your writing and composition suck.
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Right up there with “Rock Against Drugs”.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:31 PMUsing
Ok…this has to be a satire troll. When they resort to digging up the rotting remains of “Fake But Accurate” Dan “What’s the Frequency Kenneth?” Rather to use as an example, you KNOW this has to be bullshit.
And just to go along…if Dan Rather were truly a political “prisoner” and this were a true fascist regime, we would be talking about him in the past tense because his empty head would be in use as a bird house in the White House Rose Garden right now.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:51 PMUsing
Sam Kinnison had it right… “Rock INVENTED drugs!!”
May 27th, 2007 at 10:52 PMUsing
Since the government refuses to bring charges of treason against the MSM in spite of their blatantly conducting an information war against our military in time of war, I am wondering if civilians can bring lawsuits against the MSM for treason. After all, their giving aid and comfort to our enemies while demoralizing our troops makes the lives of civilians less safe, that has to be something that one can sue for damages for.
If I had the funds I would bring this lawsuit.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:02 PMUsing
Sometimes I think it will take lead instead of gold……….which reminds me, I’ve been remiss…my .45 needs cleaning. Tomorrow.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:04 PMUsing
Hey Black is White, what about curious’ idea. Is that actually an actionable suit?
May 27th, 2007 at 11:06 PMUsing
It does lend wings to the imagination, crunchie…..then watch those sleazy hypocrites seek refuge behind amendment one as they look to eviscerate amendment two, etc.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:09 PMUsing
Article 3, Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:21 PMUsing
Dear God, What has this place come to?
SFC (RET) USA
May 27th, 2007 at 11:39 PMUsing
How do you edit a post?
May 27th, 2007 at 11:40 PMUsing
You can’t, LC Old Dog, but if you’re referring to the very minor typo, I fixed it for ya
May 27th, 2007 at 11:42 PMUsing
Thanks Boss
May 27th, 2007 at 11:43 PMUsing
Naw. It’s more like the MSM is a rusting iron curtain of willful obfuscation and outright lies trying futilely to withstand the mighty, unrelenting output of a Krakatoa of Conservative Truth and Righteousness.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:14 AMUsing
This thread makes me physically ill (seriously–stomach ache). The pieces I read in the NY Times about the progress in Iraq don’t count? About how well we had done in the Anbar province? How bit by bit, we are chasing insurgents out of Baghdad and having the citizens be grateful for it? Or am I just delusional and imagining it? (don’t answer that) Isn’t the killing of soldiers something that is important and should be reported? (Not that it’s the only thing that should be.) Shouldn’t we know that as soon as we chase the Taliban out of one province in Afghan.., they move to another province?
Just because someone is leftwing and disagrees with the goverment and war policy does not mean they don’t care about our country and our troops. They just have a different view (which apparently is not allowed). Personally, I think the troops need to stay longer to get things stabilized.
I have been enlightened on how demoralizing antiwar protests are. I never understand the uproar before. I express myself in writing and have never attended a protest against this war. Where I live, people were putting a cross on the beach for every soldier who was killed. I think it’s a touching memorial; other people thought it was too anti-war. What do you think?
People fought and died/are dying for the right to a free press, and you want to indict the press for treason? Isn’t that kind of out there? There was a soldier in Afghanistan who said he was fighting for freedom, and people here were rolling over on their rights way too easily.
Well, that’s my opinion. Try and make it not hurt too badly when I get reamed.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:19 AMUsing
Not to be really annoying and post more where I’m not wanted, I started reading the NY Times selections that get e-mailed to me. The lead article is about how much chaos and violence there would be if we pulled out of Iraq. It’s a long piece. Is that non-traitorous enough?
Maybe it’s more the tv news you guys have a beef with. I get my info from print. I never get to watch the world news shows, because the person I am with in the evenings trys to avoid bad news. I see the local news, which is feeble. They report bombings and deaths, but no analyses so that normal people (not well read) could understand what is going on. Actually, I would consider the local news biased, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be prosecuted for treason. I just think they suck. They are inconsequential–the car crash, the house fire–almost nothing that matters in the long term. There’s probably a reason why Americans are so uninformed compared to the rest of the world. (No, I don’t hate the US–just pointing out a flaw. I point mine out all the time. First instance, a tendency to be verbose.)
May 28th, 2007 at 1:54 AMUsing
Nice to see someone say what needs to be said. Wish it could have happened forty years ago.
CWO Skul Yup, Nam driver.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:12 AMUsing
I think the truth is that there is unreported progress, and ‘over reported’ failure. That’s pretty much business as normal for war reporting.
There was a post here about Patton and his supposed disdain for the media.
I actually think that Patton, McArthur, and Eisenhower were very sensitive to the value and the role of the media. Used constructively, the media can be an important weapon of war. Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers”, while possibly mocking the process, showed the importance of getting the people on side.
The man on the street sees things in the media and accepts those as fact. It’s a funny feeling when you’re there, on the ground, and then read what the guy in the foxhole next to you wrote about that day. Was he lying? Whatever the case, what was printed becomes the accepted reality. The man on the street begins to believe that his army, made up of his brothers, uncles, friends and fathers, is somehow bad, and stupid.
Bit of a ramble, perhaps. However, the foxhole incident is something that I will never forget.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:35 AMUsing
I liked the comment at the bottom of the page (which is actually the first comment):
Fortunately, he (she? he/she? it?) got a good beatdown.
May 28th, 2007 at 4:42 AMUsing
I truly feel sorry for all our soldiers over there. They bust their asses and give their lives for an ungrateful nation. It makes me sick to know that the MSM is engaged in espionage and no one does anything to stop them. They constantly deliver the news or operations to the enemy as well as demoralize our troops.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:29 AMUsing
RE#21 The conversion is halfway there,but you must get rid of my prochoice stance(although the partial birth abortion ban did not bother me) pro gay rights and pro stemcell research. Think you can do that??
May 28th, 2007 at 5:50 AMUsing
One wonders what the erudite Mr. Funk would say about Madam Pelosi and how she’s spending the Memorial Day weekend…
Pelosi Holds Global Warming Talks
May 28th, 2007 at 6:13 AMUsing
I love this one, it says it all:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2007/05/27/
I’m as staunch a member of the VRWC as they come Mindy1, but I’m also pro gay rights (just not pro gay lifestyle indoctrination) and my wife has MS, so you can research all the stem cells you want.
Then again, I’m not much of a church-going man and think the way to win the War on Drugs is to tax (most of) them like any other recreation product.
You’ll find all sorts here, not just hard-core church, pro-life “classic” conservatives.
Oh, I’m also one of those feelthy immigrants, here for your jobs and yer womenfolk (my wife is American, I ain’t - yet).
May 28th, 2007 at 6:44 AMUsing
Great cartoon–probably accurate. I have one comment, though. College professors are being targeted for assasinations and are leaving the country in great numbers (can’t really blame them). It’s a great loss and wasn’t really reflected in the upbeat cartoon.
Welcome to the US! It’s an awesome country if you have skills. My mother was an immigrant, and I think there is a work ethic that is missing from some (not all) Americans. Areas with a lot of immigrants have high rates of job growth.
Okay, I am ignorant of the some of the terminology. Forgive if I asked this before and forgot, what is the VRWC? and what is a meme?
I guess I’m still here, but should go away. I left another thread in a snit after a comment that this forum wasn’t really for debates. Oh well–guess that leaves me out.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:04 AMUsing
VRWC-Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Taken from a quote that Hillary Clinton made in response on an interview on the “Today” show regarding her husband. At the time, she felt that all of the allegations against him were part of said conspiracy. Folks like us just took it as a badge of honor and/or satire.
Mindy1: We welcome all types around here. Heck, even I’ve been accepted on this site.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:36 AMUsing
That is the happiest news I’ve heard all week.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:47 AMUsing
(The leaving in great numbers part):lol:
May 28th, 2007 at 8:59 AMUsing
Sire,
Much of the reporting being done isn’t even neutral, it is actively defeatist and anti-American. The press thinks that they are above acountability and accuracy…and the press thinks we will just believe anything in print. Is there any e-mail or letter writing campaign to pressure these people? They may thing they are above the law, but they are not above being subject to economic pressure, i.e. they are not going to print this junk if no one will pay for it.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:05 AMUsing
Ooops. I spoke before I read the cartoon. I thought you meant American College Professors!!!!!
May 28th, 2007 at 9:05 AMUsing
[…] in Iraq know what the MSM is doing this summer. Posted by Ian S. […]
May 28th, 2007 at 9:20 AMUsing
[…] William Tecumseh Sherman on Reporters: I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. […]
May 28th, 2007 at 9:23 AMUsing
psychochick (#50) says: “Areas with a lot of immigrants have high rates of job growth“…
Hmmm, what planet is this happening on psychochick?
I mean I know what the wetback invasion isn’t doing for Texas and California and it aint pretty regardless of how pandering politicos want to spin it…
May 28th, 2007 at 9:23 AMUsing
Psycochick:
Please don’t go! Yer kinda fun to have around!
Almost every thread is for debate - things like the Memorial Day post Jackboot put up about 45 minutes ago would be an obvious exception to that, but in general, most are open.
To step back a couple of points, the NYT is starting to post some “success” stories from the sandbox. Still on page C-67, but they have started. This follows a 5 year run of “Quagmire!”, “Bush’s Vietnam!”, and a few hundred other little lies. It’s about damn time, but it’s like the people jumping on a city buss after it has been involved in an accident, if you get my drift.
The MSM has consistently tried to force “Another Vietnam” down our throats, apparently missing the fact that the legacy of Vietnam can be laid at the feet of the MSM in the first place. Ya see, when we stopped the major Combat Operations in 1973, North Vietnam was a broken, defeated enemy. They had nothing left, and the South was a going concern. Two years later, after another two years of the MSM hammering home “America’s Worst Defeat, Ever”, the Democratic congress renigged on peact treaties with Both Sides, and gave away the victory (and the sacrifice of all who fought there), not because of Political Expediency, or because we couldn’t afford the Treaty Obligations (we spent more a year for Aspirin than the treaties would have cost), but in a TEMPER TANTRUM. They were mad that they would not be allowed to put Nixon in Jail.
At any rate, please stick around. We will both learn something, I am sure.
Now, if i may be excused, I am taking my daughters to Arlington today, and want to avoid the rush.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:28 AMUsing
Ten-Ten
I might be biased, since I work at a university. I never made it to a professor’s level and technically am a failure. But I get to do research and not have the pressure of teaching and academic committees. Definitely, not all professors are communist sympathisers. You want professors teaching engineering, genetics, computer science, let alone writing and history (those are probably the contentious ones). People come from all over the world because our college educations are so awesome. The poly sci prof I had on The Role of the Military in Politics gave left-wing lectures and conservative readings (although that was 20 years ago). There are some departments that are way more out there than others, but sticking to the basics will give you a damn good education. I’m also strongly in favor of trade schools for kids that don’t want to go to college. They are needed and get paid really well.
About lawyers. Monica Goodling and about 150 other lawyers working for the White House attended Pat Robertson’s law school. It’s ranked in the bottom league of law schools (according to US News and World Reports), and of the latest class, 60% failed the bar on the first try. Nice to know that merit is rewarded.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:32 AMUsing
A failure, psychochick. Why? Sounds like you have done pretty well. If you are happy doing what you do and find stimulation doing so it can’t be too bad. I never finished college, not even close…so I undertook the task of educating myself, as witnessed by the some two thousand books I have around here. Not to mention the internet. But I don’t see a failure in you…..I certainly do not share many, if not most of your views, but it does add to the local ambience. You gotta’ have a thick skin around here, I’ve been bit more than once, friendly fire. We all have. We remain a contentious bunch, do not tolerate fools or bullshit well. call it a weakness……but it does not label us as intolerant knuckle draggers. Many of us have simply seen too much first hand, buried comrades and friends, just done life one day at a time. No ivory towers or castles in the sky. Today I am leaving soon for the cemetery, to pay homage to our war dead and visit some friends, see some familiar faces. For as you work at your university…please remember those faces that gave those people the right to do and say what they do. You are never a failure until you say so…….I always get back up, dust my ass off and try again. Guess I haven’t got the sense to know when I’m in trouble sometimes.
May 28th, 2007 at 10:20 AMUsing
LC HJ Caveman82952
I hope your trip to the cemetary goes well. I’m new out here, so I don’t know any of the people that died in war here. I guess that wouldn’t stop me from going to a cemetary to pay my respects, but they are far from here. I can do it in my mind. That must be horrible knowing people that were killed. Maybe I’ll have a moment of silence.
That’s really impressive that you have 2000 books. Are they all in one room? My husband only had a year of college, but reads obsessively. He knows everything about popular music (industrial to big band) and is really knowledgable about politics. It’s very impressive. He works for a chain book store, so it pays off.
I guess you are right. I can obsess about the negative. Having an ivy-league PhD is definitely a good thing. I almost never have any one call me Dr., but it’s useful when people are being snotty (I’m overweight and don’t look impressive). The black nail polish and industrial/punk t-shirts probably don’t help. But being faculty lets you run your own lab and research program. However, it’s a lot of work and a lot of pressure, and not everyone gets tenure. I’m way too sensitive for departmental politics. I’m better off in my corner of the lab doing research. I have a lot of freedom in what I do, which is incredibly great.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:12 AMUsing
Something the MSM seems to have forgotten:
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us
freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier,
not the campus organizer, who has given us the
freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes
the flag who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is
draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn
the flag.”
I don’t know who originally wrote that but it’s true.
Semper Fi
May 28th, 2007 at 11:26 AMUsing
Hangin’s too good for ‘em, unless you can use the same rope until it breaks. The dirty no account anti-American bastards.
Right, Crunch, as long as you’re not watching Shepard Smith, the liberal puke.
May they take some of the high school indoctrination squad with them.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:13 PMUsing
Nor do I, MasterGuns, but I will never forget it. Before leaving for morning coffee, the Other Half and I hung the colors from their usual perch in front of the house. Just this morning, the other Half and I returning from our morning mocha at the coffeehouse…I worked yesterday to be off today, the most sacred of Federal Holidays in my book…driving by the cemetery I will be returning to shortly. It galls me no end to hear wingnuts and general losers bad mouth the troops. Makes it easy, talking shit about a dead man called Home..one dying so he could keep talking shit……until some of his friends show up…..just regular guys like me, pausing in front of a silent triangular case on my living room mantel……Thanks Dad…….
May 28th, 2007 at 12:17 PMUsing
Charles M. Province.
I used that same verse for a Memorial Day Post I made last night.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:36 PMUsing
Well we right wingers / settlers in israel are not very receptive to the left wing scum that are journalists.. http://www.stateofjudea.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=33
That was at the amona outpost, the van was hit with a light bulb paint bomb, notice how its leaning ? its tires were slashed
a few other journalist’s car’s were “reconfigured”
Ive met a few decent photog’s..I recommend though that everyone pick up stephanie guttman “the other war” she details the BS the reporters would make up supporting the pali terrorists and blaming israel.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:54 PMUsing
You forgot to mention WND but they are not MSM.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:58 PMUsing
And in a related story…
(The following sung to the tune of, “The Banana-Boat Song”)
Come mistah telly-man, re-connect me t.v. station!
explain this Harry, and we’ll let you go home. . .
May 28th, 2007 at 4:26 PMUsing
My Google search returns:
- Father Dennis Edward O’Brian, USMC (often incorrectly attributed to Charles M. Province)
May 29th, 2007 at 11:31 AMUsing