Karl says:

BTW:

If right moved to a liberal bastion like California he is probably posting anonymously to keep the liberal thought police that we all know are rampant in Cali, from kicking down his door.

Good point! Can never be too careful when you’re dealing with that elitist fighting unit.

Karl says:

Hey Chris I mean Al:

For awhile I really wanted to join up, one of my friends joined the Marines and is in sniper school at the moment, recon training sounds really tough, if I had joined I am sure I would have washed out by now.

Have you seen Jarhead? The unit featured in that movie does that. Don’t kid yourself…anyone can make it through, it’s just the state you find yourself in once that challenge is over with that does the washing…with a Brillo pad to your soul for the length of your enlistment contract and the few years you’re kept a slave due to stop loss.

It is amazing when you think what some people go through to serve thier country, all so they can wind up at some place like Walter Reed. I don’t see how anyone can claim that the current administration supports the troops.

I hear you on that one…which is why I’ve begun work on a cookbook where all the recipes are for the grill, and they all involve an American flag. Some of them, I’ll admit, are an acquired taste…in fact, the coneheads would probably love every one of them…but moreso than taste alone, these recipes are made to satisfy something much more vital than hunger.

Tricky finding a publisher who will go anywhere near it, but if all else fails, I’ll pitch it to a couple America-hatin’ book publishers in San Fransisco. Most likely I’ll be shot in the head at a B. Dalton’s just outside of Montgomery, Alabama. That, I can handle though, because once I’m gone, there will be 100 more just like me.

Someone will feed them after midnight and if Jesus doesn’t return soon enough, I have a feeling that Jerry Garcia’s birthday will edge out Christopher Columbus by 2015, and The Dharma Bums will be required reading for all 6th graders nationwide.

If right moved to a liberal bastion like California he is probably posting anonymously to keep the liberal thought police that we all know are rampant in Cali, from kicking down his door.

For awhile I really wanted to join up, one of my friends joined the Marines and is in sniper school at the moment, recon training sounds really tough, if I had joined I am sure I would have washed out by now.

It is amazing when you think what some people go through to serve thier country, all so they can wind up at some place like Walter Reed. I don’t see how anyone can claim that the current administration supports the troops.

I was thinking about you the other day and reminded Heather of how you were thinking about enlisting…it’s bizzare, because I was saying to her how it sucked there wasn’t all this publicity on the Army turning their backs on soldiers to refer to, and that all I could offer at the time was my own story and not much else.

If you haven’t enlisted then maybe I got my point across well enough, but it seems like all of a sudden the media has actually decided to pay some attention to the minions for a change. I’m sure you’ve read plenty on the various ways soldiers are being fed to the wolves.

FYI – Right moved to California, and he’s been MIA for a while now. I’ve suspected that the anonymous postings lately have been him, but I can’t be sure.

Good to see you are still blogging

Harry Reid always reminds me of Mighty Aphrodite, where Woody Allen is a guy who writes about boxing…Reid was actually a boxer, in the hydrogen-weight divison.

In a land of the ball-less, the man with one nut is king. Or something. More light than heat? Pretty limp on all the things that matter, seemingly stuck in a Shrum/McCauliffe/DLC haze. I look to the young guns for leadership on the issues that matter; Reid is more interested in consensus. Consensus makes sense when you’re arguing over the margins. But under the Bush regency, what we’re arguing over is the survival of republican government in the US. Time to be bold.

Jim, what do you think of Harry Reid? I’ve always been underwhelmed by his game.

Boxer or Schumer as Majority leader? More like Dear Leader, you may as well get some Stalin DNA, mix in some Pol Pot and make a clone.

One of the nice things about being a Democrat is that you can say and do what you want to do without getting approval first. Intimating that a Democratic majority leader would be authoritarian is laughable in the extreme. I understand that you think “The Hammer” is the only model for leadership. Such is the refuge of the thoughtless. Conservatism’s chief attraction for many people is that it allows, nay, demands, that they give up independent thought. Seems like you got yerself a double helping.

I’m glad you’re disappointed in what you’ve seen so far. Seems like a solid indication that the Democrats are doing something right. Given that the GoP held the congress for the first six years of the Bush regency and accomplished nothing, I’d think you’d be exited to see something going on at all. Like oversight, for instance.

You claim the Democrats are in power. Not so much. I know Republicans aren’t much on democracy, so I’ll remind you: a bill needs to pass both houses of congress then be signed by the President before it becomes a law. So whilst the Democrats have more power, unfortunately they do not have it all.

Sadly, you still seem to think that Iraq is about terror. Pray tell, what’s the Republican plan for creating a civil society in Iraq? Where’s all that oil we were promised? What’s the plan for “self-sustaining” government? I’ll let you off the hook on the “war on terror” bit. Clearly that’s just too much to ask.

Why don’t you drop the “anonymous” bit and come play? Too attached to your water wings to swim in the deep end?