Comments on: Strangers with candy (updated) http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:13:34 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TheRealityBasedDave http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6390 TheRealityBasedDave Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:31:45 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6390 <p><em>“The non-profit, non-partisan group does talk about staying in Iraq, but Hegeseth said the current speech has been adjusted for public school students. He said it’s about sharing experience.”</em></p> <p>Ok. I’ll bite. If it’s really about sharing, they have a few speakers who are against the war, right? Ok, how about one of the 100000 wounded as a speaker. Sharing the experience of inadequate medical care & morphine addiction after an RPG hit their un-armored vehicle?</p> <p>Assholes.</p> “The non-profit, non-partisan group does talk about staying in Iraq, but Hegeseth said the current speech has been adjusted for public school students. He said it’s about sharing experience.”

Ok. I’ll bite. If it’s really about sharing, they have a few speakers who are against the war, right? Ok, how about one of the 100000 wounded as a speaker. Sharing the experience of inadequate medical care & morphine addiction after an RPG hit their un-armored vehicle?

Assholes.

]]> By: thingwarbler http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6355 thingwarbler Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:06:26 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6355 <p>New, from Axe: <i>Eau du Rove</i> — when that stubborn teenager really *has* to enlist.</p> New, from Axe: Eau du Rove — when that stubborn teenager really *has* to enlist.

]]> By: quakerinabasement http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6354 quakerinabasement Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:30:29 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6354 <p>Uncle Jimbo sez:</p> <blockquote><p>The National Heroes Tour is in Minneapolis today for a number of events, however we will not be visiting Forest Lake High School because the right of <strong>whiny left-wing buttheads </strong>to censor the troops out weighs the right of American students to hear from and meet the folks who have risked their lives for the freedoms we all enjoy.</p></blockquote> <p>Sounds non-partisan to me. What’s the problem?</p> Uncle Jimbo sez:

The National Heroes Tour is in Minneapolis today for a number of events, however we will not be visiting Forest Lake High School because the right of whiny left-wing buttheads to censor the troops out weighs the right of American students to hear from and meet the folks who have risked their lives for the freedoms we all enjoy.

Sounds non-partisan to me. What’s the problem?

]]> By: montysano http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6351 montysano Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:04:27 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6351 <blockquote><p>Oh, and here’s what our young men and women should be doing, rather than dying in Bush’s fucked up war ….</p> <p><a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893" rel="nofollow">http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893</a> </p></blockquote> <p>HB, that totally made me grin. Somedays I just love the Intertoobz.</p>

Oh, and here’s what our young men and women should be doing, rather than dying in Bush’s fucked up war ….

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893

HB, that totally made me grin. Somedays I just love the Intertoobz.

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6349 humboldtblue Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:39:48 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6349 <p>Oh, and here’s what our young men and women should be doing, rather than dying in Bush’s fucked up war ….</p> <p><a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893" rel="nofollow">http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893</a></p> Oh, and here’s what our young men and women should be doing, rather than dying in Bush’s fucked up war ….

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1762893

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6348 humboldtblue Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:38:31 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6348 <p>My dad has refused to email me anymore after he sent me a link similar to one of these traveling death squad revues. He just doesn’t understand how I could not rally, as a good patriotic American should, behind this clusterfuck.</p> <p>When are folks going to realize that just because our nation does something, that something is not always noble, legal or ethical?</p> My dad has refused to email me anymore after he sent me a link similar to one of these traveling death squad revues. He just doesn’t understand how I could not rally, as a good patriotic American should, behind this clusterfuck.

When are folks going to realize that just because our nation does something, that something is not always noble, legal or ethical?

]]> By: fauxmaxbaer http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6347 fauxmaxbaer Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:36:29 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6347 <blockquote><p>“We have not endorsed a presidential candidate. We’re not in the business of doing that.”… “is about supporting our troops, honoring their commitment and rallying the country to complete the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.”</p></blockquote> <p>Gee, I wonder who they would endorse, if they were going to endorse a candidate. I’m thinking maybe McSenile.</p>

“We have not endorsed a presidential candidate. We’re not in the business of doing that.”… “is about supporting our troops, honoring their commitment and rallying the country to complete the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Gee, I wonder who they would endorse, if they were going to endorse a candidate. I’m thinking maybe McSenile.

]]> By: dsidhe http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6346 dsidhe Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:57:49 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6346 <p>So it’s okay for a single parental objection to get a book about penguins removed from a library on the grounds it might turn students gay, but objecting to what amounts to a recruitment program for a highly controversial war on the grounds it might turn students, um, dead… That’s a few anti-American bad apples ruining it for everybody. In fact, it’s practically terrorism!</p> So it’s okay for a single parental objection to get a book about penguins removed from a library on the grounds it might turn students gay, but objecting to what amounts to a recruitment program for a highly controversial war on the grounds it might turn students, um, dead… That’s a few anti-American bad apples ruining it for everybody. In fact, it’s practically terrorism!

]]> By: captphealy http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6344 captphealy Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:06:49 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6344 <p>You’ll notice Axe limits its outlandish claims to helping skinny guys get girls.</p> <p>Getting kids to enlist in Operation SuperAwesome Total Freedom for Brown People and Cheap Gas is clearly beyond even the astonishing powers of body spray.</p> You’ll notice Axe limits its outlandish claims to helping skinny guys get girls.

Getting kids to enlist in Operation SuperAwesome Total Freedom for Brown People and Cheap Gas is clearly beyond even the astonishing powers of body spray.

]]> By: Cliff105 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6343 Cliff105 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:04:16 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/strangers-with-candy/#comment-6343 <p>When Reagan made sitting ducks out of US troops in the Middle East he pulled out promptly, using Grenada as political cover (30 Cuban construction workers dead, thems certified!) </p> <p>Will Bush/McCain Inc. use an attack on Iran as cover for an eventually-hasty retreat from the Madhi Army?</p> When Reagan made sitting ducks out of US troops in the Middle East he pulled out promptly, using Grenada as political cover (30 Cuban construction workers dead, thems certified!)

Will Bush/McCain Inc. use an attack on Iran as cover for an eventually-hasty retreat from the Madhi Army?

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