HULK SMASH
Hey
2xs, same day.
Wow.
Sorry RC and QL - Ratfucker Bush!
Aren't you forgetting something, DWD?
Nevermind. There ya go.
Sorry, but I wouldn't want Goldberg and a rifle, together, anywhere near me. He'd be a danger to himself, to his unit, as well as to any passing civilian or the enemy. Besides, I think the Army and Marines try to weed out the psychos: nobody wants a sadist on board.
Besides, I hear you have to have a high-school degree.
What a sorry bag of shit...
Maybe he'll be joining my son and 2 stepsons in our basement bunker (it's damn hard carving out that concrete wall with kitchen utensils, but, hey, I'm a mom).
Sheeet - DWD - I wrote a longer answer, else i would have beat you to it.
These fuckers are such asswipes. Does he even realize how stupid and smug he sounds. How about the guys who are on their second rotation. Their families are hurting big time. Jonah basically is saying he has other priorities. Fuck him.
Damn! Atrios is whippin' them out!
I know some 50-year-olds who are going to the Sunni triangle in the next few weeks. Wife and children aren't exactly a good reason as compared to some.
However, I tend to agree with the basic premise. Unless there's a better reason than I've seen, taking a father away from a child is not a good thing. Of course the problems is that this applies to all the fathers over there. On both sides. Or all sides...
Jonah has other priorities.
Sorry, but I wouldn't want Goldberg and a rifle, together, anywhere near me. He'd be a danger to himself, to his unit, as well as to any passing civilian or the enemy.
Well, I kinda think the hawk pundits should be in their own unit and sent on cannon-fodder hopeless suicide missions so they don't get any of our other troops killed. After all, anyone who *wanted* the war, should get to go ahead of someone who just joined up so they could get some education, right?
But it's an all-volunteer army! Waaaaahhhhh....
Semi-on-topic: Put Hannity, Rush on the front lines
Why doesn't he just say "I'm privledged" and be done with it.
his other family obligations include protecting his mother's/masters coffin from being opened during daylight...
Jonah would get fragged soooo quickly if he ever joined the military...
Why the fuck aren't the Bush twins guarding the oil in Iraq either?
Because they're all a bunch of lying hypocrites.
Hell yeah, there should be a draft...but for just the people that support the war...and that includes every single Democrat who believes that leaving Iraq tomorrow should not be on the table.
Jonah's a big, fat coward who lets others die for his lies.
The worst kind of scum.
I already blogwhored this,
But fucking a, what a douchebag.
Marie Antionette never actually said "Let them Eat Cake"...
So Jonah has now surpassed her in the art of the profoundly ineffective yet horrid statement!
Let him eat shite!
Atrios:
The guy from my son's unit who died Thursday is 35 - same age as Goldberg.
My cousin in the Minnesota National Guard is currently away from his wife and two daughters. He is protecting "an embassy" in Baghdad.
His wife is working three jobs. They have move out of their house and into a trailer. (She has turned down offers from family to move in with them)
When he got out of the Army in 1999, he signed with Guard to help his home state. He figured that he would be filling sandbags on the banks of the Mississippi.
He did not figure he would be playing policeman in Baghdad. The only "kill zone" that he knows is the one in which he is standing.
Jonah can go fuck himself.
Mourners remembered Spec. Eric Ulysses Ramirez as one of his unit’s most valuable soldiers in Iraq and as a Star Wars fan who lived to be a “Jedi in his time.”
Hey, I can't help it if the minorities are taking up all the positions.
Atrios:
The guy from my son's unit who died Thursday is 35 - same age as Goldberg.
RCSanders
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Did he have a wife & kid, and another career back home like el Douche?
Goldberg has a baby daughter???
How did a fat, ugly fuck like him ever manage to get laid?
his other family obligations include protecting his mother's/masters coffin from being opened during daylight...
What do you mean?
Jonah has an important job here at home. He is part of the elite force tracking down enemies of the domestic State like the little known Ward Churchil. We can't possibly send him to Iraq. At least not now.
*Cough*
so was posting really disabled or was that just for the senior lounge at Pyongyang?
My aunt in her late 40s, my uncle and their two kids feel his pain. She's stationed in Kuwait waiting to rotate into Iraq. That's today's fucking National Guard aka the New Draft...but look on the bright side: we have a con-man sociopath for CinC elected by a nation of dumbshit suckers. Hallelujah.
Goldberg is an asshole. The sooner that chickenhawk piece of shit drops dead, the better for the world.
And while we're at it, fuck haloscan too.
I'm kinda new to the internets - what are "the rules" here? For how long is Jonah going to have to be Prof. Cole's bitch?
We all know what a bunch of cowardly motherfuckers these pricks are, but I'm truly shocked to see one blurting it out in public...
So, Haloscan was actually broken. Did not seem that different to me . . .
Sorry to go OT, but my head is exploding. Just read this at southknoxbubba.com
God have mercy.
...get tough on those having a tough go of it:
WASHINGTON - President Bush's budget will propose slashing grants to local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The Associated Press learned Saturday.
Bush molded the roughly $2.5 trillion spending plan for 2006 as a response to a string of record federal deficits, and is sends it to Congress on Monday.
The budget, the toughest he has written since entering the White House four years ago, seeks about half the increase for school districts in low-income communities he requested last year and a slight reduction for the National Park Service.Of course, the Pentagon gets 4.8% raise for their fine performance of late. Apparently the EPA hasn't been doing such a good job destroying things, so they get a 6% cut, not to mention a 3% cut for the National Park Service.
Oh, and I guess he can cut funding for law enforcement and coordination between agencies, because John Ashcroft advised in his letter of resignation that America is now safe from terrorism.
But, hey. We gotta come up with that $2 TRILLION it will take to fund the handouts to Wall Street, er, privatization of Social Security somewhere.
And excuse me, but a $2.5 TRILLION dollar budget proposal? Those tax-cut-and-borrow-and-spend Republicans are killing us.
OK, then.
Oh, and check out all the brownshirt outrage they're mustering up at the KKKorner™... truly worth a laugh!
isn't in the kill zone
Wotta dork. Notice how the Republicans argue:
He says, "lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent point," without giving an answer as to why it's not a pertinent point-
and by throwing that modifier "searingly" in there, he invites the audience to assume that anyone who wonders why hysterically ardent supporters of the war aren't joining the military themselves is exagerrating.
He offers a few facts about himself, without making the first bit of effort to explain why those facts are reasons that he shouldn't be expected to join, and he thinks he can get away with saying that they don't "ever seem to suffice." Well, duh.
He tries to make it seem as if the answers to our questions are obviously implicit to his little bit of smokescreen- a few sentences which don't themselves say anything much at all.
What he's really saying is that he just doesn't want to go to "the kill zone," but he pulls off a lot of distortion to make it seem like there's actually some reason that has more weight. But he can't produce it, because there isn't any.
I was writing a comment on Haloscan, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep," says Ellen Foo, student. "And then, like, my comment was gone. And it was a really good comment too."
I saw on TV a married couple in the National Guard from somewhere in the Midwest, and BOTH of them were being sent to Iraq. They had a small daughter, about five or six, and the scene of their departure was heartbreaking. So, fuck Jonah Goldberg and his lousy, unnecessary, dishonest war. I don't believe he really gives a shit about Iraqis and their "democracy" anyway.
Jeez....my cable's been down all day and
then Haloscan stopped working.
I came this close to having to read
a book.
safe yet?
How did a fat, ugly fuck like him ever manage to get laid?
One word: chloroform.
Totally off topic, but, The Ca. SoS has just resigned allowing musclehead to appoint a repub. who will then ok Diebold machines for the 2006 elections, and miracle of miracles, repubs will start winning elections in Ca. where they have never won before. You guys in Ca. better get with it or Ca. will end up a red state.
According to a dated and bio-scrubbed NRO bio:
He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Jessica Gavora — an author , who is currently serving as Senior Policy Advisor and Chief Speechwriter to the Attorney General — and his dog Cosmo.
Yay. Anyhow, haloscan just ate a series of insightful comments of mine. Wisdom lost to the ages....
Lost income? Freudian slip? Talk about class warfare.The whore does show his true colors.
Oh, and fuck Jonah, he is as big a whore as his fucking cock-sucking mother.
Hell, just the idea that this creature reproduced makes me cringe. Another gene pool shot to hell..
OT
New Dykes To Watch Out For! Clarice illustrates habeas corpus.
I'm kinda new to the internets - what are "the rules" here? For how long is Jonah going to have to be Prof. Cole's bitch?
Once you're own3d, you're always own3d.
Cosmo, a battlehardened vet of Jonah's intense spay/neuter philosophy, enjoys crapping on Jonah's important documents and momentos from Mother.
We shouldn't be so hard on him, didn't he have a pilonidal cyst, arthritic "football" knees, and psoriasis?
Can we start calling him Goldbrick now?
haha...what a fucking piece of gop shit. Such lame excuses not to get away from his duties as a valuable keyboard warrior and onto the front lines.
Shit, at the very least he coulda used his expertise in economics(haha) and posted his resume at AEI...shit, even Ledeen's daughter went, as clueless as she is and as unqualified for what she's doing.
This POS is what the RW offers as a spokesperson? Shame, shame.
Burn, Washington, burn. Burn down into the gound. Vanity, hypocrisy. Not to mention, idiocy. A flaming pyre!
Goldberg is ripe for a flensing.
as a former Soldier I find his excuse to be among the lamest. It's literal translation is "I'm a P*$$! and would never serve unless drafed, but of course I am right at the cutoff."
While I certainly am no liberal I too would not want this shitbird in my unit.
The way to take something useful out of this is to look at it to see how the arguments don't follow.
Think of how you'd argue the point with the guy rationally, not emotionally, if you met him face to face.
Getting that skill together is a good habit to develop, because it will help our side explain ourselves better to the public.
See, I can even make something good out of a piece of crap like this!
Kristof has just joined the proud ranks of the Chickenhawks!
his wife Jessica Gavora...currently serving...the Attorney General
Sigh!
They first made oogie eyes at each other under the filthy Justice statues then, later, played terminal footsie at an AG prayer meeting...hot, dirty, born-again horizontal dancing, pant!
Shorter Jonah: "I am a candy-ass, worthless, shitbag, coward. I will gladly advocate the death and dismemberment of others and the dissolution of thier families but don't count on me to back up my words."
I hate shirking lying little piss ants like this guy and the chickenhawk minions that kiss his feet. No integrity. No class. No convictions. No honesty. Not a one of them.
Er, I meant Goldberg of course. Still fuming about Nicks latest screed I guess.
It can't be said enough: Bring home the troops - send in the chickenhawks!
Two posts eaten. i am not even gonna try again. All just mental masturbation anyway.
Evening, freethinkers
Or, alternatively, you could just snark on it to get yourself fired up against the goopers. 
I'm going to get out of here now. See ya all some other time. 
~Swan
If you have no prior military experience and are over the age of 34, you can't currently enlist in any branch of the Armed Services.
The guys you are reading about who are over 34 are either career military or are Reserve/Guard guys whose initial military enlistment came when they were younger.
There was no need for this guy to talk about his kids. His age disqualifies him, unless he previously served.
They don't really want 35 year old guys out on the obstacle course in basic.
Cosmo, a battlehardened vet of Jonah's intense spay/neuter philosophy, enjoys crapping on Jonah's important documents and momentos from Mother.
Now, now, don't upset Mother like that.
this guy's got grandkids older than Jonah "Don't Call Me Rambo" Goldberg
http://www.marionstar.com/news/s...ws/
1731211.html
r. John Caulfield thought it had to be a mistake when the Army asked him to return to active duty. After all, he's 70 years old and had already retired - twice. He left the Army in 1980 and private practice two years ago.
"My first reaction was disbelief," Caulfield said. "It never occurred to me that they would call a 70-year-old."
Saddest thing about this is that your run of the mill dittohead (ROTMDH) doesn't even see the irony of this story.
Can we start calling him Goldbrick now?
Yessiree, Jonah!
I like it, damnit!
Did we just see a Swan dive?
A little advice for professor Cole:
Never wrestle a pig.
You both get dirty
and the pig likes it.
The reason Jonah is not serving is because he knows that there is no dire threat nor any grand freedumbizing mission, and the reason he can lie about the dire threat without doing anything himself is he is sociopath like all these rich parasite bastards who cannot conceive of a way of life other than parasitism and he really is not bothered by the idea that he is hurting people.
They are our mental inferiors.
They have no morality.
They have no ideas, only get-rich-quick schemes.
Speaking of Jonah enlisting, here is something I already posted on another thread. It is a TRUE STORY:
During the months of the propaganda assault that took place to manipulate and to lead the United States into war with Iraq, I remember reading a syndicated Goldberg column in which Jonah, advocated attacking Iraq.
At the time, I did not believe Bush about any of the reasons why Iraq supposedly needed to be attacked. And I was adamantly against any war with Iraq because I knew that a whole lot of people were going to be killed unnecessarily.
In a moment of inspiration and anger, I e-mailed Goldberg with something along the lines of the following message:
"Since you advocate so much for a war with Iraq, are planning on signing up to fight in it?"
I sent it off to him, and much to my surprise, he e-mailed me back.
His message went something like this:
"What a stupid point you make . . . to suggest that unless one fights in a war, one cannot advocate for it."
I replied:
"I suggested no such thing and you are distorting my meaning. What I am getting at is that in view of the fact that you advocate for this war so much, are you willing to put your own ass on the line and go sign up to go fight it?"
He replied again:
"I'll sign up to go into the military to fight if and when my country asks me to do so."
To which I replied:
"How dishonest of you. Your country has ALREADY asked you to join the military, and
does so everytime it runs a military recruiting ad on television."
Needless to say, he did not respond to this last message I sent him.
Shorter Goldberg: I don't want to.
Makes you fucking sick.
I read the link. This is clear illustration of why war is only and always the last fucking resort, not something to provide a vicarious circle jerk to balding jet ski riding middle aged white guys who can't think of a way to be anything other than a consumer all their fucking lives.
I'm sorry my father returned to service during the Korean War with a wife and two sons under 3 yrs. If you believe in this war, go sign up. Unless a war is worth the sacrifice of your life or that of your child, you shouldn't support it. Period. My uncle died fighting in WWII, I saw what it did to my grandmother, and at least she knew the sacrifice was for a just cause.
As for Sweet Jonah being over 35, well, certain skills, like nurses, are eligible up to the age of 40.
Furthermore, there were many over-40s who volunteered -- and were accepted as volunteers -- in WWII. Many were accepted as officers, but we could have our own Lincoln Brigade full of guys like Sweet Jonah, giving the anti-US forces what for.
As for his wife...heck, she can join, too! Sweet Jonah's readers are all for family values! I'm sure one of them can keep his kid while hubby and wife are out protecting America.
I just think Sweet Jonah hasn't protested enough. I think that if Sweet Jonah wants in the armed forces bad enough, he can find a way to get in, even if he has to lie.
I wouldn't call what Juan Cole did "wrestling"...more like merciless horsewhipping.
Should Jonah go, is there a Big 'n Tall in Baghdad?
This is clear illustration of why war is only and always the last fucking resort, not something to provide a vicarious circle jerk to balding jet ski riding middle aged white guys who can't think of a way to be anything other than a consumer all their fucking lives.
We'll see if they're still standing after the revolution comes.
Actually, "you can't advocate a war unless you fight in it" is EXACTLY what you are saying. It goes well beyond implication. There's really no room to doubt that this is your point.
That doesn't mean it is a BAD point, per se. There may be something to it. But you really can't say that your criticism of him doesn't make that point.
Haloscan working now?
There are married couples in the military and both are in Iraq, their children are back here with relatives. That shouldn't be allowed.
Jonah is a chickenshit little prick.
citizen Able
Point taken.
And another note? Why doesn't Sweet Jonah join the Iraqi Army? There were Yanks in the RAF during "The Big One", so why not Sweet Jonah in Iraqi Khaki? I'm sure the Iraqis could find a use for him.
OT, but fuck!
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
OT, but fuck!
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
Sorry, didn't think it went thru the 1st time.
Atrios, you liberal elitist! I meant that if you're a WHITE, 30-something with a wife and a baby you're ineligible to go to Iraq. You liberals always take things out of context.
Sheesh.
OT: Russia and China just took a collective leak on the dollar.
You can support a war without going. But, when you question the integrity and patriotism of those who aren't suffciiently enthusiastic about the war, and impugn the motives of all critics, screeching about "national security" and then your little war goes badly and military recruiting goals aren't met and the national guard gets depleted, I'd say at the very least you should be doing a bit of soulsearching about the whole enlistment idea. Or, hey, at the very least NRO can send him over to be an embedded reporter for a few weeks so he can report on the latest school opening
I'm sure the Iraqis could find a use for him.
Yes, hummm, Jonah's snow-white skin, curvey figure, apple cheeks and dark curley locks surely would make our pouty-lipped pundit extremely popular among his Iraqi National bunkmates (wink, wink)
What will you fight for then?
That is a question that has been circling my mind for a while now. I think I have the answer now. I will fight for America. Not the America that fights undeclared wars against an ill-prepared foe based on ideology rather than facts. Not for an America that will destroy the lives of anyone over the age of 53. Not for an America that specializes in hate and eschews the considerations of half of its population. Not for an America that actively discriminates against its own population. Not for an America that believes that we are always right: no matter how wrong we prove ourselves to be.
But I will fight for an America that will stand as a beacon on the hill for freedom and democracy. I will fight for a country that believes that those who work the hardest, will succeed the most. I will fight for an America treats its friends with respect and its enemies with honor. I will fight for an America that will treat its least citizens with honor and respect. I will fight for an America that fulfills its obligations to those promised.
I am so sick of these asshats that I am ready. If the Republicans try to disenfranchise people who do not believe as they do; then they want to see nuclear - let’s bring it on. I am ready to fight for my retirement. I am ready to lay waste to anyone who would counter the vision of America. How about you?
There was no need for this guy to talk about his kids. His age disqualifies him, unless he previously served.
That might be relevant had this war not started while Jonah was younger than 35 and eligible to enlist.
Or, hey, at the very least NRO can send him over to be an embedded reporter for a few weeks so he can report on the latest school opening
Atrios
Oh, you know he could never worry Kathryn Lopez like that.
Test. I don't think HaloScan is working for me. Refresh has given me 26 comments for the last 10 minutes or so. Fuck Haloscan and fuck bushco.
Yes, Atrios, he could in fact be an embedded reporter.
What he CAN'T do is enlist.
If a 35 year old guy with no previous military experience walks down to a recruiting station Monday morning, they will turn him away. He will not be allowed to enlist.
This entire entry is only redeemed by the fact that it doesn't look like Jonah knows that he flat-out isn't eligible, and is trying to justify his lack of service on other grounds [i.e. family obligations and economic hardship]. That tends to imply that he wouldn't consider enlisting even if he were eligible. Which he's not.
You can support a war without going. But...
Bingo. Alas, what you wrote is too nuanced, so I'm afraid that disqualifies your entire point. Thanks for playing.
Actually, "you can't advocate a war unless you fight in it" is EXACTLY what you are saying.
BZZZZZZT! No wrong sorry... we have a lovely consolation prize, though.
Johnny, get him the fuck out of here...
Actually, "you can't advocate a war unless you fight in it" is EXACTLY what you are saying. It goes well beyond implication. There's really no room to doubt that this is your point.
--Not quite. Goldberg set up a straw man by subtley distorting the whole thrust of what I was saying. Goldberg's straw man would make me attack, for example, crippled citizens who might think that a particular war is a good idea, but because of their physical handicap, can't go fight in battle. I was not saying that you can't advocate for a war unless you fight in it yourself.
--What I was saying was that assuming that you are able-bodied and in all ways qualified, you can't advocate for a war unless you are willing and ready to fight in it yourself.
--What I was really saying is, "Jonah, how much do you really believe your own propaganda about Iraq being a threat to us? If you really believe it so much, then why aren't you signing up to go fight in this war to protect your family and your homeland from this imminent threat you say Saddam presents?"
--Jonah understood what I was saying quite well.
--He's a lying little weasel of a shit. And his disengenuous come-back about his own country first asking him to fight before he joins (I suppose he meant a draft), just underscores that fact.
He could sign up to be a civilian contractor in Iraq - maybe a truck driver. That would let him earn good money to send back to his apparently near-destitute family.
Jonah and his minions - No integrity. No conviction. No honor.
If the army won't take Jonah, what's stopping him from trying to get on with one of the corporations supplying mercenaries to Iraq? I should think that would be right down the wanker's alley.
There was no need for this guy to talk about his kids. His age disqualifies him, unless he previously served.
That might be relevant had this war not started while Jonah was younger than 35 and eligible to enlist.
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Ah, but I'm sure he would counter that when the war began he expected it to be over before his personal enlistment could possibly make any difference.
Yeah, I would have a lot more respect for "I don't choose to" more than making up lame excuses which don't wash.
jimmyraybob - crossed posts. Sorry.
Max Schmelling also died the other day.
I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income,
Anybody want to set up a collection online? I'm sure Jonah would get a lot of money. What would be his minimum figure before he'd go? I'm sure it could be met.
What I do think is interesting is that out of the thousands upon thousands of emails I've gotten from people in the military over the years, maybe a dozen have ever asked this question. [snip] Meanwhile, the military guys have been overwhelmingly friendly and very often grateful for the support we offer around here.
1. Email, so verifiable as to Identity.
2. Amazing how a conservative site get's overwhelmingly conservative emails.
Putz
OT: I´m in Chile. Watching TV, they have the FOX entertainment channel. CNN International has the Daily Show with a prior disclaimer that the news is not factual; actually, this is a good idea - they should have it for all American news broadcasts. Rotated watching the State of the Union broadcast between BBC & CNN. The people the BBC had on were much more critical whereas CNN´s coverage was all fluff.
I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income,
It we set up a paypal/amazon account earmarked to raise money to free Jonah to go to Iraq, how much could we raise?
RC,
Attaturk giving you whoring lessons? Nobody does it better.
Hell there was a link to a legit new article a while back where they called up a 70 yr. old doctor to serve. He answered the call!!!!!!
I know of a 58-year old warrant officer, a grandmother, who was activated a few months back.
OT, but according to whitehouse.gov, SS faces a $10 trillion underfunding problem (mentioned twice). Oddly, they don't say when that would occur.
George "3 Card Monte" strikes again!
RC,
(hope this doesn't make it a double. Haloscan is hungry tonite)
You getting whoring lessons from Attaturk? Nobody does it better. Seriously, I love his site.
"...having a wife and baby make you ineligible to go to Iraq..."
This has probably been pointed out up thread, but the wife and baby strategy worked just great for Big Time.
Remember when there were people willing to pledge "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor"? Some of them were in their thirties with wives and children who depended on them, too. Johan aint fit to wipe the shoes of kids getting shot at in his fun little war.
Wondering if anyone has opinions about the Ward Churchill flap. Was flipping channels, and faux news had his attorney on.
Diogenes
Pretty transparent attempt by the repub noise machine to discredit mainstream progressives by association. Churchill may inluence people, but he doesn't make many friends. The book is 2 years old, so the question is "why now?" My answer: the Social Security fight. Just another way to distract the "American Idol idiots" from the facts by substituting a pop culture brouhaha, ala swiffer boat vets.
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THE BANKERS AND THE DIPLOMATS
(Malvina Reynolds)
INTRO
Last night, I had the strangest dream,
I saw a big parade, with ticker-tape galore,
And men were marching there the like
I'd never seen before:
1. Oh, the bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
Oh, happy day, I'd spend my pay to see them on parade,
Their paunches at attention and their stri-ped pants at ease -
They've gotten patriotic and they're going overseas.
We'll have to do the best we can and bravely carry on,
So we'll just keep the laddies here to manage while they're gone.
chorus: Oh, we hate to see them go!
The gentlemen of distinction in the army!
2. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army
It seems a shame to keep them from the wars they love to plan,
We're all of us contented that they'll fight a dandy war -
They don't need propaganda they know what they're fighting for
They'll march away with dignity and in the best of form,
And we'll just keep the laddies [young folk] here
To keep [each other] the lassies warm.
3. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
We'll have to make things easy, 'cause it's all so new and strange,
We'll give them silver shovels when they have to dig a hole,
And they can sing in harmony while answering the roll,
They'll eat their old K-rations from a hand-embroidered box,
And when they die, we'll bring 'em home and bury 'em in Fort Knox!
by Malvina Reynolds, from Faith Petric, 1977
THE BANKERS AND THE DIPLOMATS
(Malvina Reynolds)
INTRO
Last night, I had the strangest dream,
I saw a big parade, with ticker-tape galore,
And men were marching there the like
I'd never seen before:
1. Oh, the bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
Oh, happy day, I'd spend my pay to see them on parade,
Their paunches at attention and their stri-ped pants at ease -
They've gotten patriotic and they're going overseas.
We'll have to do the best we can and bravely carry on,
So we'll just keep the laddies here to manage while they're gone.
chorus: Oh, we hate to see them go!
The gentlemen of distinction in the army!
2. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army
It seems a shame to keep them from the wars they love to plan,
We're all of us contented that they'll fight a dandy war -
They don't need propaganda they know what they're fighting for
They'll march away with dignity and in the best of form,
And we'll just keep the laddies [young folk] here
To keep [each other] the lassies warm.
3. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
We'll have to make things easy, 'cause it's all so new and strange,
We'll give them silver shovels when they have to dig a hole,
And they can sing in harmony while answering the roll,
They'll eat their old K-rations from a hand-embroidered box,
And when they die, we'll bring 'em home and bury 'em in Fort Knox!
by Malvina Reynolds, from Faith Petric, 1977
Breaking news, Haloscan still sucks.
THE BANKERS AND THE DIPLOMATS
(Malvina Reynolds)
INTRO
Last night, I had the strangest dream,
I saw a big parade, with ticker-tape galore,
And men were marching there the like [in the ranks]
I'd never seen before:
1. Oh, the bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
Oh, happy day, I'd spend my pay to see them on parade,
Their paunches at attention and their stri-ped pants at ease -
They've gotten patriotic and they're going overseas.
We'll have to do the best we can and bravely carry on,
So we'll just keep the laddies here to manage while they're gone.
cho: Oh, we hate to see them go!
The gentlemen of distinction in the army!
2. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army
It seems a shame to keep them from the wars they love to plan,
We're all of us contented that they'll fight a dandy war -
They don't need propaganda they know what they're fighting for
They'll march away with dignity and in the best of form,
And we'll just keep the laddies [young folk] here
To keep [each other] the lassies warm.
3. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army:
We'll have to make things easy, 'cause it's all so new and strange,
We'll give them silver shovels when they have to dig a hole,
And they can sing in harmony while answering the roll,
They'll eat their old K-rations from a hand-embroidered box,
And when they die, we'll bring 'em home and bury 'em in Fort Knox!
by Malvina Reynolds, from Faith Petric, 1977
my email to goldbrick
Congratulations for successfully insulting every
married serviceman with your pathetic laundry list of
reasons why you can't be a member of the armed forces,
in spite of the fact that you so desparately shilled,
lied, and frankly made up enough shit in all of your
pedantic writing to assist this demonic administration
in it's run-up to the totally unneeded farce of a war.
Their blood is on your hands. I wish you pancreatic
cancer and herpes of the anus.
Eat shit and die,
a reader
If you're ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob!
What I do think is interesting is that out of the thousands upon thousands of emails I've gotten from people in the military over the years...
Oh, please, Jonah.
Lie some more, you scumbag.
my email to goldbrick
Congratulations for successfully insulting every
married serviceman with your pathetic laundry list of
reasons why you can't be a member of the armed forces,
in spite of the fact that you so desparately shilled,
lied, and frankly made up enough shit in all of your
pedantic writing to assist this demonic administration
in it's run-up to the totally unneeded farce of a war.
Their blood is on your hands. I wish you pancreatic
cancer and herpes of the anus.
Eat shit and die,
a reader
SC's governor joined the Air Force Reserves at the age of 42. And he is C-in-C of the SC National Guard and Air National Guard.
If you're ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob!
Jonah Goldberg, sorry-ass piece of crap, wants to fight wars from his keyboard. He's OK with fighting and dying for the good ole US of A - as long as he's not the one doing the fighting and dying. He's awfully generous with other people's lives and bodies, isn't he? Put something else at risk, other than your dignity and reputation, to defend your views, you porcine coward.
my letter to the gold man
Congratulations for successfully insulting every
married serviceman with your pathetic laundry list of
reasons why you can't be a member of the armed forces,
in spite of the fact that you so desparately shilled,
lied, and frankly made up enough shit in all of your
pedantic writing to assist this demonic administration
in it's run-up to the totally unneeded farce of a war.
Their blood is on your hands. I wish you pancreatic
cancer and herpes of the anus.
Eat shit and die,
a reader
"...having a wife and baby make you ineligible to go to Iraq."
This has probably been pointed out up thread, but the wife and baby excuse worked just great for Big Time when he couldn't manage to go to Vietnam.
Meanwhile, the military guys have been overwhelmingly friendly and very often grateful for the support we offer around here.
The lurkers support me in email.
They do! They do!
Remember the little girl in California who had some moron from the State govt insult her name? Wasn't her name Isis? Is this getting to be a popular name for little girls?
Hey, I'll bet a real smart cookie like Jonah could come up with something here.
BTW, for all my favorite lawyers, the Paper Chase is on TCM.
1973.
The National Guard would take Jonah. They do not have arbitrary age limits.
Right now, they'd take just about anybody.
Every day is a new miracle in America. We are now giving credence and critical attention to the likes of O'Reilly, Goldberg, Hannity, and Limbaugh. I think we've scraped through the bottom of the barrel and now we're drilling deep into the sewer.
Remember the little girl in California who had some moron from the State govt insult her name? Wasn't her name Isis? Is this getting to be a popular name for little girls?
"about the Ward Churchill flap. "
I AM DAMNED PROUD that a guy who only has an MA has managed to acquire a tenured position with a top salary around $95k p/a and by god he has the right to hang onto it with every fingernail and fibre of his being. God Bless America!
Colorado is a fine, fine state.
From the bluest city ine the bluest state in the country, someone who puts his money where his mouth is.
Richard Daley Jr.
CHICAGO (AP) Mayor Richard Daley's 29-year-old son, whose name and MBA from one of the nation's most prestigious universities would have opened doors to a well-paying career, has joined the Army instead.
He's not much younger than Goldberg, is he?
Remember the little girl in California who had some moron from the State govt insult her name? Wasn't her name Isis? Is this getting to be a popular name for little girls?
I see Matthews actually has a real left of center person on the show tomorrow, Katrina vanden Heuvel. I hope he also drags that idiot Bobo on and she rips him apart.
OK, Either haloscan is so starved it's eating posts by the buttload, or I'm looking at a dead thread. Did somebody throw a party and forget to invite me? Accidently on purpose?
Diogenes-
TalkLeft has an interesting post on Ward churchill.
Every day is a new miracle in America. We are now giving credence and critical attention to the likes of O'Reilly, Goldberg, Hannity, and Limbaugh. I think we've scraped through the bottom of the barrel and now we're drilling deep into the sewer.