"jps" wrote in message
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:07:20 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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Lu Powell wrote:

"H the K" wrote in message
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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:33:16 -0400, "it's me, Jim" "j i

wrote:

Copied from another newsgroup. I thought some of you would be
interested.



Please watch this all the way through. It's a moving as any video
I've
ever seen. You'll most likely need a handkerchief.


*Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class
John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City,
Georgia,
just south of Atlanta, on June 11, 2009. The Henry County Police
Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough,
Georgia. A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to
be taken and the approximate time.

Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects
honor and no longer honors sacrifice outside of the military. Be it
known that there are many places in this land where people still
recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. _Georgia_
remains one of those graceful places. The link below is a short
travelogue (about 12 minutes) of that day's remarkable and painful
journey. _But only watch this if you wish to have some of your faith
in people restored. Please share widely. Well worth watching.

Click on link to see video http://blip.tv/play/AYGJ5h6YgmE**

A great thing to see. Made me feel good and sad all at once.

--Vic


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It's too bad that in January 2001, a simple-minded man took over the
U.S. presidency and later that year initiated a series of actions that
resulted in the unnecessary deaths of 4,000 Americans, tens of
thousands
or even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis, and serious
injuries to hundreds of thousands more. If only Americans had been
smart
enough to elect the brighter man running in 2000, eh?

What a horrendous mess Bush left behind for Obama.

Too bad those Georgians weren't assembling to protest Bush's idiotic,
misguided, and misdirected war. All they have to show for it now is
yet
another dead American with a family.

Just had to spoil a moving tribute with your loony left bull****, eh
Hairy?



There's nothing "loony left" about pointing out the stupidity of a war
of
convenience, ****-for-brains.

A better tribute is to welcome home returning *live* soldiers and
assuring
them they never again will be sent off to fight a war of convenience.

Ever fish the basin adjacent to the St. Augustine Airport? Great place
for
reds and sometimes tarpon.

Then where is the railing against Clinton for involving us in a Bosnian
War?
We are still there.

Iraq=NFL
Bosnia=PBA

There was a humane reason to be in Bosnia. Iraq? Oil for Cheney.

There was? The Serbs and Albanians have been killing each other for at
least 600 years. The Albanian's are the Columbians of Europe (drug
dealers), and it was a European problem. What interest did we have in it?
Same time a million people reduction in population was going on in Ruwanda.
Why not hamane stuff there?

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:01:47 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:40:46 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:02:11 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:52:22 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:34:03 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:08:26 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:57:37 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:21:32 -0400, H the K
wrote:

snipped for brevity

- - -

It's too bad that in January 2001, a simple-minded man took over the
U.S. presidency and later that year initiated a series of actions that
resulted in the unnecessary deaths of 4,000 Americans, tens of thousands
or even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis, and serious
injuries to hundreds of thousands more. If only Americans had been smart
enough to elect the brighter man running in 2000, eh?

What a horrendous mess Bush left behind for Obama.

Too bad those Georgians weren't assembling to protest Bush's idiotic,
misguided, and misdirected war. All they have to show for it now is yet
another dead American with a family.


If one were prone to issuing the hasty generalization, upon reading
the tripe above, one would suspect that liberals, progressives, and
Democrats were all dissembling, self-serving, revisionist,
intellectually dishonest, radical propadandists. Fortunately, for the
good of objective history, there are still some liberals,
progressives, and Democrats that won't descend to this level of inane
rhetoric.

If one were prone to issuing the hasty generalization, upon reading
the above tripe and numerous other posts by this author, one would
suspect that "conservatives" are at least disingenuous propagandists
and given to the worhip of sesquepedalianism.

Did you learn to write while living on the Ponderosa?

May the gentle reader note that the only contributor in these last few
notes to submit a word longer than 16 letters was our endearing JPS -
Just Propaganda, Son. Perhaps our endearing JPS was intimidated by
the two syllable word "inane"? Who's to say?

Try reading for content and note that my reflections are based on your
normally ponderous screeds. Say hi to Hoss for me.

If my modest notes are laborious, Sartre would leave you tied up in
knots. (BTW - Try looking up "sesquipedalianism." And you may want
to use my spelling of the word.)

Sartre is worth reading. You? Not so much.

Go ahead, carp on my spelling - lowest form of rebuke.

None of this changes that you're a ponderous read with little to say.

More than likely, I'm unwarrantably skeptical; but, I have my doubts
that you're versed in Sartre, existentially speaking. Now as to your
steady employ of red herring arguments, I have not doubts.

I prefer reading Kant to Satre or Camus.

Although I understand them, existentialists leave me cold for what may
be obvious reasons. Grok?

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:16:31 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:01:47 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:40:46 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:02:11 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:52:22 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:34:03 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:08:26 -0700, jps wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:57:37 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:21:32 -0400, H the K
wrote:

snipped for brevity

- - -

It's too bad that in January 2001, a simple-minded man took over the
U.S. presidency and later that year initiated a series of actions that
resulted in the unnecessary deaths of 4,000 Americans, tens of thousands
or even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis, and serious
injuries to hundreds of thousands more. If only Americans had been smart
enough to elect the brighter man running in 2000, eh?

What a horrendous mess Bush left behind for Obama.

Too bad those Georgians weren't assembling to protest Bush's idiotic,
misguided, and misdirected war. All they have to show for it now is yet
another dead American with a family.


If one were prone to issuing the hasty generalization, upon reading
the tripe above, one would suspect that liberals, progressives, and
Democrats were all dissembling, self-serving, revisionist,
intellectually dishonest, radical propadandists. Fortunately, for the
good of objective history, there are still some liberals,
progressives, and Democrats that won't descend to this level of inane
rhetoric.

If one were prone to issuing the hasty generalization, upon reading
the above tripe and numerous other posts by this author, one would
suspect that "conservatives" are at least disingenuous propagandists
and given to the worhip of sesquepedalianism.

Did you learn to write while living on the Ponderosa?

May the gentle reader note that the only contributor in these last few
notes to submit a word longer than 16 letters was our endearing JPS -
Just Propaganda, Son. Perhaps our endearing JPS was intimidated by
the two syllable word "inane"? Who's to say?

Try reading for content and note that my reflections are based on your
normally ponderous screeds. Say hi to Hoss for me.

If my modest notes are laborious, Sartre would leave you tied up in
knots. (BTW - Try looking up "sesquipedalianism." And you may want
to use my spelling of the word.)

Sartre is worth reading. You? Not so much.

Go ahead, carp on my spelling - lowest form of rebuke.

None of this changes that you're a ponderous read with little to say.

More than likely, I'm unwarrantably skeptical; but, I have my doubts
that you're versed in Sartre, existentially speaking. Now as to your
steady employ of red herring arguments, I have not doubts.

I prefer reading Kant to Satre or Camus.

Although I understand them, existentialists leave me cold for what may
be obvious reasons. Grok?

Kant. Why am I still dubious? Kant is necessarily more laborious
reading than Sartre, and far from being existential in his synthesis.
And no doubt you have studied Kant in his native language in order to
dutifully capture the nuance of his moral imperative. Impressive. I
realize I'm behind the scale; but, I'm lucky to finish a single page
of Kant's material in half of an hour. I suppose I'm just a stranger
in a strange land, right?

(Cold for obvious reasons? What on Mars is that?)

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Lu Powell wrote:

Harry is an unrepentant loony liberal who never met a left-winger he
didn't like, an independent thinker he didn't hate, and a union goon he
didn't fawn over. He's a legend in his own mind who thinks the whole
world revolves around his ass. And those are his redeeming qualities.



Well said.

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:38:12 -0400, D wrote:

Lu Powell wrote:

Harry is an unrepentant loony liberal who never met a left-winger he
didn't like, an independent thinker he didn't hate, and a union goon he
didn't fawn over. He's a legend in his own mind who thinks the whole
world revolves around his ass. And those are his redeeming qualities.



Well said.

Damn, I missed that. It must have been among the 1200 posts on my
screen after my week's absence.

Very well said. Thanks for repeating it.

Should be a sig line.
--

John H