Argh! One of my co-workers

[rox63]

is wearing a "Gathering of Eagles" t-shirt at work today. On the back it says "Fighting the insurgency at home." Should I tell him I'm an insurgent? He already knows I'm a liberal.

[trumad]

1. Does he leave a trail from his knuckles?

[rox63]

3. Actually, he's a paraplegic

He rolls into work in a wheelchair. Not a result of combat, but from a motorcycle accident. But I think he was in the military years ago, long before his accident.

[seriousstan]

7. Absolutely, get in the face of the wheelchair bound paraplegic.

[rox63]

12. I'm not saying a word about it at work

I'm trying to maintain a collegial atmosphere in the office. But I think political t-shirts are innappropriate to wear to work.

[Coexist]

2. ask him if they get the bulk rate when they buy shirts by the dozen

;)

[PA Democrat]

4. I'd ask what "Fight the insurgency at home" means.

Is he advocating violence? Is he trivializing what is going on in Iraq? It's way beyond an insurgency, it's an all-out civil war. Ask him if he saw any car bombings or sniper attacks on his way to work this morning, or if there were any beheaded corpses lying along the road. Ask him if his neighborhood has been ethnically cleansed.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Hmmmm

- Put on the wrong shirt this morning? With you involved wouldn't it be a gathering of chickenhawks.
- Why do conservative men have to wear slogans to make others think they are manly?
- Fighting insurgents over here because you are such a fucking coward you are afraid to fight them over there?

[rox63]

8. Because he's in a wheelchair

He actually has a good reason to not be over in Iraq.

[BOSSHOG]

15. Information

that would have been good to know in the original post.

[rox63]

17. See post #3

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1908864#1908882

[meegbear]

6. Ask: "Is Howie Carr a shithead or what?"

[izzie]

9. What is a Gathering of Eagles?

Maybe we should think about this eagle stuff. Old Russia, Germany and Austria all used eagles/logo to get behind. I do believe the days of empire and autocrats are gone. If it is a match to wards empire I do feel bad for this guy. That is beating a dead horse to death for sure.

[rox63]

10. "Gathering of Eagles" was the main pro-war counter-protest group at the DC march earlier this month

:banghead:

[izzie]

18. Thanks I had for got.

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[bunkerbuster1]

Yes, tell him you're an "insurgent," by Sean Hannity's definition

Remember that Hannity believes that liberalism is similar to terrorism and despotism...

http://www.amazon.com/Deliver-Evil-Defeating-Terrorism-Liberalism/dp/0060582510

And then you can ask him why he believes such silly, stupid people.

[seabeyond]

11. why do you want to fight me?

ask him.... and let him figure it out. this is what i like to do with the religious belt baptist christians in my area as they preach all the people to hate while they call themselves christians. i always allow myself to be the people they hate. and then i ask these people that know me, "why do you hate me"... and it floors them. also makes them say, well it is all others, not me, i am different. allows me to say, maybe, just maybe all these illusional people they hate would really be just like me too, if they knew them.

[Le Taz Hot]

13. I saw a young man at the bus stop the other day

wearing a t-shirt that said: "Support the troops, not the protesters." I was SO hoping he would get on the same bus that I was getting on but, alas . . . He knoweth not how close he came to being re-educated. (Gotta love those captive audiences.)

[rox63]

14. I used to carry around some military enlistment papers to hand out to folks like that

But it isn't appropriate in this case, because of the guy's disability.

[raccoon]

22. I wish you'd had the chance to ask him why the HELL he wasn't one of the troops! nt

[acmavm]

16. Ask him if the shirt really should say 'Gathering of vultures'.

[PassingFair]

20. No, a gathering of these:

SMEAGLES!

Saw this posted the other day, and I'm STILL
chuckling about it....

[tanyev]

19. Ask him if it bothers him that the obsession with flags and eagles is very reminiscent of the Nazis.

[woodsprite]

21. My * supporting, NRA gun toting co-worker wore a flag shirt on Monday.

I had to take a 'mental health' day to recuperate yesterday. :evilgrin: