Comments on: Bush: shame of a nation, part 1,204,599 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:31:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Ex Partiate http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515967 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:31:50 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515967 What can be said the man if you could call it that is a total disgrace to the human race What can be said the man if you could call it that is a total disgrace to the human race

]]> by: misskate http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515956 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:40:00 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515956 I'm sorry, forgive my ranting, but if I don't let myself have an angry moment here I'm going to start breaking things in my apartment: My little brother just got back from Afghanistan. He lost three friends (already overseas) while he was in training stateside, and another five comrades while in Afghanistan himself. One of them was blown to pieces before his very eyes. He has PTSD, which he himself cannot refer to directly, but which is immensely apparent to the trained eye. AND BUSH GAVE UP GOLF? To send THE RIGHT MESSAGE? Okay. I'm done. Can't. be. rational. anymore. Now I have to turn of the laptop before I smash it. Please forgive my rather explosive emergence from lurkerhood. Couldn't contain myself this time. I’m sorry, forgive my ranting, but if I don’t let myself have an angry moment here I’m going to start breaking things in my apartment:

My little brother just got back from Afghanistan. He lost three friends (already overseas) while he was in training stateside, and another five comrades while in Afghanistan himself. One of them was blown to pieces before his very eyes. He has PTSD, which he himself cannot refer to directly, but which is immensely apparent to the trained eye.

AND BUSH GAVE UP GOLF? To send THE RIGHT MESSAGE?

Okay. I’m done. Can’t. be. rational. anymore.

Now I have to turn of the laptop before I smash it.

Please forgive my rather explosive emergence from lurkerhood. Couldn’t contain myself this time.

]]> by: cohumulone http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515954 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:43 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515954 What's the chance that Davis' 20-page memo isn't just a rehash of the same tired right-wing campaign strategies? About the only difference is likely to be a suggestion that the Repuglican congresscritters decline offers from Commander Codpiece to campaign with them. What’s the chance that Davis’ 20-page memo isn’t just a rehash of the same tired right-wing campaign strategies? About the only difference is likely to be a suggestion that the Repuglican congresscritters decline offers from Commander Codpiece to campaign with them.

]]> by: Eric http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515952 Wed, 14 May 2008 23:12:22 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515952 "our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by...not going out on the links anymore." Funny that didn't stop him from dancin in public during the war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA “our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by…not going out on the links anymore.”

Funny that didn’t stop him from dancin in public during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA

]]> by: Eric http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515951 Wed, 14 May 2008 23:10:15 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515951 "our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by...not going out on the links anymore." Funny that didn't stop him from dancin in public during the war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA “our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by…not going out on the links anymore.”

Funny that didn’t stop him from dancin in public during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA

]]> by: rjb http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515947 Wed, 14 May 2008 22:27:51 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515947 I found this line to be particularly troubling: "If you’re a faithful person, you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through." OK, so what the fuck does "faith" have to do with empathy anyways? If anything, I think his concept of "pray away the guilt" is about the farthest thing from empathy that I can think of. This is the kind of statement that makes me... a generally mild-mannered atheist, want to go out and throttle the nearest... wait... wait... the moment passed. I'm better now. Still, though, empathy has nothing to do with faith. Most of us feel empathy because we are human. If you need faith to find your empathy, you've got some serious problems. I found this line to be particularly troubling:

“If you’re a faithful person, you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.”

OK, so what the fuck does “faith” have to do with empathy anyways? If anything, I think his concept of “pray away the guilt” is about the farthest thing from empathy that I can think of. This is the kind of statement that makes me… a generally mild-mannered atheist, want to go out and throttle the nearest…

wait… wait… the moment passed. I’m better now. Still, though, empathy has nothing to do with faith. Most of us feel empathy because we are human. If you need faith to find your empathy, you’ve got some serious problems.

]]> by: MikeEss http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515928 Wed, 14 May 2008 20:12:26 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515928 <i>“conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”</i> ...which translates to: <i>We are creating yet another way to channel money out of the pockets of the proles and into the pockets of the wealthy and influential via the Military-Industrial Complex. And don't ask why - We're Republicans, it's what we do...duh!</i> And if you think Blackwater is great now, wait 'til you see them ON the water! Blackbeard's got nothing on us!... “conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”

…which translates to:

We are creating yet another way to channel money out of the pockets of the proles and into the pockets of the wealthy and influential via the Military-Industrial Complex. And don’t ask why - We’re Republicans, it’s what we do…duh!

And if you think Blackwater is great now, wait ’til you see them ON the water! Blackbeard’s got nothing on us!…

]]> by: Mnemosyne http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515925 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:59:23 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515925 <i>(I mean even during the gulf war we didn’t change the naval structure.)</i> Yes, because during the first Gulf War we weren't planning to invade any major South American countries to get their oil. Now we're planning to invade Venezuela, so we need to change the naval structure to do so. Very simple, really. (I mean even during the gulf war we didn’t change the naval structure.)

Yes, because during the first Gulf War we weren’t planning to invade any major South American countries to get their oil. Now we’re planning to invade Venezuela, so we need to change the naval structure to do so. Very simple, really.

]]> by: squashed http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515920 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:46:21 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515920 This is major naval force realignment. The kind of things that happens only every 20-30 year or major world war. (I mean even during the gulf war we didn't change the naval structure.) This is major naval force realignment. The kind of things that happens only every 20-30 year or major world war. (I mean even during the gulf war we didn’t change the naval structure.)

]]> by: Mnemosyne http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515918 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:38:23 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/bush-shame-of-a-nation-part-1204599/#comment-515918 <blockquote>Washington announced at the end of last month that it is resurrecting the long-ago moth-balled Fourth Fleet to reassert US power in the Caribbean and Latin America. Created at the time of World War II to combat German submarines attacking merchant shipping convoys in the South Atlantic, the Fourth Fleet was seen as no longer necessary after the Second World War and was disbanded in 1950. The Pentagon’s a statement on the revival of the fleet gave a far vaguer indication of its new duties, saying it would “conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”</blockquote> In other words, since our war in Iraq isn't bringing us enough oil, we're getting ready to invade Venezuela and overthrow Hugo Chavez as well. Nicely played, Republican assholes.

Washington announced at the end of last month that it is resurrecting the long-ago moth-balled Fourth Fleet to reassert US power in the Caribbean and Latin America. Created at the time of World War II to combat German submarines attacking merchant shipping convoys in the South Atlantic, the Fourth Fleet was seen as no longer necessary after the Second World War and was disbanded in 1950.

The Pentagon’s a statement on the revival of the fleet gave a far vaguer indication of its new duties, saying it would “conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”

In other words, since our war in Iraq isn’t bringing us enough oil, we’re getting ready to invade Venezuela and overthrow Hugo Chavez as well.

Nicely played, Republican assholes.

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