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calimary's JournalI'm gonna have to go to both Ventura and Pomona.
Really can't bear to miss either one!
I think they're gonna start hauling out that "Uncle Sugar" meme a LOT more often now.
I believe I heard some other knuckleddragger use it either yesterday or last night, too.
Maybe this is a good thing. I can't see how huckabee can possibly be a successful standard-bearer. There's no way he'll be able to carry the football to the goalposts. Hell, I doubt he'd even be able to get into the freakin' stadium.
Interesting that he claims - "let me know whether or not you want Obama impeached."
But you go there and there's no place to voice the opinion that stockman is a complete jackass and if we're gonna start talking impeachment, we need to go back and revisit bush/cheney FIRST. All they want is your name and your email - so they have you in the system to send you appeals for campaign donations.
Welcome to DU, taotzu!
Glad you're here! Quite an uproar stirred here last night, wasn't it? YOIKS!
I SO hope you're correct about your state. I'd love to see boner and kasich and the rest of 'em given the ol' heave-ho in the next election. I'd love to see the House of Reps turn blue again and get rid of more of those red-staters, while keeping the Senate true-blue, too. DAMN - we need to give this President a Congress who'll work with him on these ideas of his that have merit and strong support, instead of trying to pretend he doesn't exist, or getting all incensed because there's actually a black guy in the Oval Office and he isn't the janitor (which is the crux of it, in my opinion).
Methinks some of us were watching a different speech than the one I saw.
I want to make sure you know how many multitudes of times I have admired and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Will Pitt's always eloquently-stated views, and quoted them widely. But this time, Will, I think you misread this, my friend.
I missed the speech when it originally aired. Caught the very late replay. I was waiting for that last ten minutes or so, in which Cory Remburg was singled out. How one can think the President made some cheap, pathetic spectacle of this brave sergeant is frankly beyond me. I was seriously moved. And I thought it was FUCKING BRILLIANT to show, smack-in-the-face, WHAT WAR IS. And WHAT WAR DOES.
We've had it hugely and disgracefully and miserably sanitized for too many years. We've been WAY too disconnected. Too insulated. Anybody remember the orders from on high - during bush/cheney - that NO flag-draped caskets coming back from the war could be photographed, honored, or spoken about? No funerals were allowed to be covered, photographed, or telecast. They were hellbent on making sure America wouldn't know how much it cost or how badly it would hurt. 'Cause then nobody will mind or care how long you carry on with it. Or how many administration officials or hawkish politicians would get to keep saying "let's give it another six months and then we'll see." Those who attempted even to show ONE photograph were threatened with dismissal or fired outright, and vilified, accused of being al Qaeda sympathizers or Saddam lovers or traitors. NO ceremonies at Dover Air Force Base were covered. No media was allowed. Heaven forbid we have to see the results of that dirty work from Hell. Those coffins were brought back IN THE DARK. UNDER COVER. No solemn, reverent, or grateful greeting by their Commander-in-Chief, receiving them home after they'd paid the ultimate price (that the disgusting chickenshits in the Oval Office weaseled out of). As though America should be ashamed of them, and should keep them hidden - out of sight, out of mind, a dirty little chickenhawk secret. bush/cheney forbade ALL coverage. Guess what one of the first things was - that the newly inaugurated President Obama did? He made a beeline for Dover one late night, inviting broadcast and cable coverage. So we could, at last, all see that ultimate price tag. And get even the barest sense of that profound and permanent a sacrifice. President Obama wanted it out in the open, in public, for America to see and feel and experience. He wanted to lift that stupid ridiculous chicken-shit embargo and greet those coffins personally, and he did.
We needed to see that. We needed AS A NATION to see that. To have it pushed into our faces. To see the real invoice being delivered from that damn war and how costly the freedom is that we take for granted and speak about so casually, all safe and comfy at home here. We NEEDED to see that. And more. At this State of the Union speech, we didn't just see that young, damaged Army Ranger and his father up in the balcony with the First Lady, OR for that matter, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth in a brief glimpse, from down on the chamber floor. Anybody notice how visibly difficult it was for her to struggle to her feet to join one of the standing ovations? Remember her - the double amputee? She'd been a helicopter pilot, served in Iraq, and had both her legs blown off in bush/cheney's damn fucking war. And dammit, I think we need to see that. We need to be forced to face what the cost of war is!!!! Otherwise why the hell should we care if it never ends? We need to SEE, and FEEL, and WATCH, and EXPERIENCE, the fact that this is no game. There's no reset button in real life, like you enjoy after you've mowed down all the bad guys with your big bad-ass guns in your stupid damn hollow useless senseless video war game. Oh gee, isn't it fun. And you can just hit reset and start over with your troops all up 'n' at 'em again like nothing happened. No muss, no fuss. And all the wreckage and bloodshed and bodies and dismemberment just - POOF! Goes away. It's conditioned and numbed far too many of us to what war IS. It's not some exciting action movie where you can get up from and go out to the snack counter and buy more popcorn, and return to your nice comfy seat all free and easy and antiseptic and ever so far away, and thrill to the pretend carnage playing out on the big screen.
WE NEED TO SEE THAT. We NEED to have it shoved in our faces. We NEED to be forced to understand the true anguish. For too long in the last decade, many of us railed against the chickenhawks who never served, never saw combat, never paid any price, never even wore their country's uniform, never stuck their own necks out there in harm's way, never put their own asses on the line. Do we really need to keep pretending it's not there, that it doesn't really exist, that there really is no price to pay that's all that high. If we're gonna play the REAL war game, I think we need to see WHAT WAR IS, and WHAT WAR DOES. And we need to face it a LOT. We need to see what's real and what is most certainly NOT cheap and easy and glorious and clean and neat: the blood, the wounds, the permanence, the irreversible damage, the afflictions that last a lifetime and damage and break entire families for the rest of their days.
LOOK AT HIM, America. LOOK at what your hard-on for war has done. LOOK at Cory Remburg. LOOK at Tammy Duckworth. LOOK at what the boys and girls you were okay with sending off to that meat-grinder have to live with every damn day! Breathe it in and own it. And for GOD's SAKE STOP making - AND wanting - more of it.
(Oh forcryingoutloud, Pollyanna was just on TV spewing her singsong-y platitudes and cliches and bullshit with such a cutesy obnoxious smile. YUCK!!! Sorry - interrupted while I was writing this.)
Yep! It was on Sirius Octane for a long time, and Nikki Sixx named it his "Sixx Pick of the Week"
one rather celebratory Saturday about eleven months ago! MAN! I had it cranked up on the radio but couldn't hear a note. I was screaming too loud!!! Same thing as when I went to the Beatles concerts as a kid, and screamed my head off then, too! Couldn't hear a thing they played! Didn't matter!
Breathtaking!!!!!!!!! DAYUM this guy is good!
Dear God but I LOVE the Rude Pundit!!! He sure says what I'M thinking!!!!!
Welcome to DU, mylye2222.
Glad you're here. Yeah, another legend - gone. Reminds me of how I felt when John Lennon was killed. "DAMN!!! We STILL NEED THAT VOICE!!!!!!!!"
Understood! That's what our alert and devoted young San Jose Street Teamer posted, too.
I was just copying from the Warped Tour schedule I was given. But hey, Proudly Serving the Entire Beautiful Bay Area!!! I'm just STOKED at the routing! The boys haven't had much of an opportunity to develop three of the cities/areas enough yet, and the greater San Francisco area is one of 'em!!! YESSSSSS!!!! The other two are Las Vegas and Albuquerque. On all the other tours the boys have been on, you go wherever the headliner's people routed it.
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