#2 2008-05-26 12:56:43
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#5 2008-05-26 15:59:57
Semper Fi
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#6 2008-05-26 16:10:44
De Oppresso Liber
To absent comrades.
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#7 2008-05-26 19:11:37
i was there
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#8 2008-05-26 19:42:29
That looks fairly new. Where is it?
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#9 2008-05-26 20:12:46
Dover AFB, Delaware
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#10 2008-05-26 20:52:42
Sic Semper Tyranus.
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#11 2008-05-26 20:54:50
I've celebrated Memorial Day by getting high as shit and watching nunsploitation movies all day, and can personally account for several hundred million "fallen soldiers."
God Bless America. Now excuse me I have to go rehydrate.
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#12 2008-05-26 21:03:39
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
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#13 2008-05-26 21:37:27
choad wrote:
Sic Semper Tyranus.
Better run through the jungle, choad -- some of us weren't born fortunate sons (or daughters). Educations and commitments when you have NO MONEY -- nope, none at all! and the gov't offers to pay your way to good schools-- whoo boy, you get burned, but at least you got to study with the leisure class and learn, too late, that you've put your ass on the line to get raped and murdered so trustfund weaklings can continue to do fuck-all. Once you're in the soup, no matter how incompetent & greedy the leaders you've sworn your oath to, you'd have to be a rat bastard of the highest order to give up and leave your men behind, especially to die for nothing.
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#14 2008-05-26 22:07:02
Nice flag pin.
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#15 2008-05-26 22:08:02
MSG Tripps wrote:
That looks fairly new. Where is it?
OKC. Not a vet memorial, but something I have not completely come to terms with. 
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#16 2008-05-26 22:08:10
Rest in peace all those that have made such an unfortunate sacrifice.
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#17 2008-05-26 22:28:08
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#18 2008-05-26 22:44:16
choad wrote:
Sorry, dude -- but I'm sleep deprived, fragged, and got to spend almost no time with the people I consider family. It seems like seconds pass between the time they're crawling into bed with you after a nightmare and they're all grown up and making very bad decisions.
Seedlings turn overnight to supernova and all that.
I wonder if American mythology will ever catch up to relationships between women who sell themselves into the warrior identity and their daughters -- my little 'un, not born from me but to a hairy hippie, put into my care as an accident of relational constellation, and raised right when I could have her, has -- DESPITE ALL I TOLD HER -- decided to completely disregard my instructions and put her sweet little ass on the line for Uncle Sam again.
Just like I ignored my dad. Frowney-face.
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#19 2008-05-26 22:52:52
DoucheEllington wrote:
Educations and commitments when you have NO MONEY -- nope, none at all! and the gov't offers to pay your way to good schools-- whoo boy, you get burned, but at least you got to study with the leisure class and learn, too late, that you've put your ass on the line to get raped and murdered so trustfund weaklings can continue to do fuck-all.
I recognize the scum you describe as my own immediate family and the face I shave whenever I damn well feel like it. Or as the first born male on either side, that's how it was supposed to work. I was mutant spawn, though. Evicted from the nest at an early age, I've spent the last 40 years grubbing for the same chump change as my fellow proles and consequently, usually trusted by no one. It's a weird world to inhabit. I grew up with many of the assholes who rule us.
Had I known news writing was slated for extinction and rarely changes a fucking thing anyway, I might have tried to make a difference some other way.
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#20 2008-05-26 23:08:29
choad wrote:
...usually trusted by no one. It's a weird world to inhabit. I grew up with many of the assholes who rule us.
Had I known news writing was slated for extinction and rarely changes a fucking thing anyway, I might have tried to make a difference some other way.
News writing USED to make a difference -- in many small towns, it was the only writing of any credibility, subject to external review, regularly read by the general public.
However.
Nobody with power wants anyone else to be able to judge them on any level, by any criteria. As a direct result of money being able to cumulatively control enough means of communication, "journalism" has become the ether-soaked rag of those who profit from the ignorance of the general population.
Just sayin'. I can't throw stones at low-flying aircraft at this point.
It was good to see what's been happening here. I'm glad that even the people who made my ass itch and burn are able to publish (and punish) and spread word of whatever/whoever they want to, and have an audience that calls bullshit to provoke reasoned, if otherwise insane or entertaining, reponses.
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#21 2008-05-26 23:20:55
DoucheEllington wrote:
News writing USED to make a difference -- in many small towns, it was the only writing of any credibility, subject to external review, regularly read by the general public.
I have my doubts it was ever anything more than spectator sport.
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#22 2008-05-26 23:33:30
choad wrote:
DoucheEllington wrote:
News writing USED to make a difference -- in many small towns, it was the only writing of any credibility, subject to external review, regularly read by the general public.
I have my doubts it was ever anything more than spectator sport.
Yes, but the spectators were mostly small-time hustlers. Now we are all utterly fucked unless we stay angry, active, and aware of low-cost, prole-pleasing means to -- say it with me -- SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM!!!
I write this as a prole of long standing and fierce breeding. Show me your ass, flash me your penis, tell me you love me, whatever -- just don't expect me to do what you want.
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