Couldn’t the NYTimes have left Paul Krugman behind the Select curtain?
So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement.But 212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected the bill because they rejected the whole notion that we have to do something about greenhouse gases.
And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.
Good lord, talk about climate pollution…!
Funny, eh, how on Nov 4, 2008, dissent stopped being patriotic? So much so suppressing reports that don’t conform to the political consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming doesn’t even make Krugman’s radar. Add to that, the Waxman-Markey turning-American-citizens-into-serfs bill does not even rate a mention in USA Today.
After all, after designing the cars He thinks we should drive, overseeing the financial instruments He thinks we should use and dictating the healthcare He thinks we should follow, why shouldn’t The Won control how we light our homes?
(h/t Sister Toldjah)
Comment by LTC John on 6/30 @ 8:11 am #
“treason against the planet”
Perhaps the Perfesser could cite the statute or constitution that charge is drawn from? Maybe the charter of Captain Planet and the Planeteers?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 6/30 @ 8:18 am #
This hack used the word “treason” solely to draw a reaction and pageviews.
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 8:20 am #
Great. Stop exhaling, traitor.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 8:26 am #
It never ceases to amaze me how apparently educated folk can continue with the whole AGW charade…
Perhaps it’s because they have such a high emotional investment in the connivance that it is impossible to reason with them; they themselves cannot face the inconvenient truths…
Or, and call me cynical if you will, it is more along the lines of what the Czech Republic’s president spoke of when he recognized it as a typical communist control mechanism…
I occurs to me that it is simply an umbrella that the left uses to attract both the enviro-nazi’s that have their dreams of a utopia, give the statists another element of control, and the anti-capitalists yet another mechanism to cripple industry while raising more tax dollars to redistribute…
Treason against the planet indeed; all those who voted for it are guilty of treason against the US!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 8:30 am #
“And as I watched the deniers…”
Which is actually a worse smear than the “treason” charge.
YOU, if you don’t beeeeeeleeeeve in AGW are the moral equivalent of a Holocaust denier.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 8:30 am #
This is a twist on Godwin’s Law: That any online discussion will eventually decay to someone calling somone else a Nazi and whoever does so first should lose the argument.
People love to bandy about the term treason. It is not just the left. Ann Coulter uses Treason as the title of one of her books (although some of the examples from the left she cites are extreme enough almost support using the term).
Still, using Treason too liberally is a bad idea. The term Nazi should be reserved to those exposing National Socialism as some sort of ideal (not as a term to bash the right wing with as Charles “Pony Boy” Johnson does on a regular basis). The term treason should be used only for those individuals who overtly betray their country–not persons you disagree with politically, no matter how stupid you perceive their judgment. I do not consider those who voted for Cap and Trade to be traitors, but idiots, cowardly, craven, and in some cases mendacious.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 8:33 am #
Oh, yeah.
Fuck you, Paul.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 8:33 am #
Paul Krugman is not a traitor, Paul Krugman is a lying mendacious fucknut who thinks mean things of Rush Limbaugh as he furiously masterbates.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/30 @ 8:42 am #
As I watch Obama watching himself watching others watch him, I’m struck by the irony that he’d like to control what type of light bulbs people use in order to save power, but he has no compunction in commanding people to turn on there TVs to watch him watch himself watch the press corps lob softballs at him.
Weird.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/30 @ 8:43 am #
There TVs! There they are. I think they’re their TVs there.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 8:45 am #
Seems like Webster disagrees with you Joe…
Main Entry: trai·tor
Pronunciation: \ˈtrā-tər\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English traytour, from Anglo-French traitre, from Latin traditor, from tradere to hand over, deliver, betray, from trans-, tra- trans- + dare to give — more at date
Date: 13th century
1 : one who betrays another’s trust or is false to an obligation or duty
2 : one who commits treason
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Main Entry: trea·son
Pronunciation: \ˈtrē-zən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from Latin tradition-, traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over, betray — more at traitor
Date: 13th century
1 : the betrayal of a trust : treachery
2 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign’s family
So by abusing some people’s unwitting trust in newspaper columnists, especially prize winning ines, Krugman is a traitor. And by trying to advance an agenda based on a connivance, he’s engaging in treachery, which is treasonous…
The same is true for the congressmen and women…
Hence, this instance is prbably not a case where “traitor” and “treason” are improperly used; nor probably are many others. While it may be inflammatory, and certainly a conversation ender in some cases, it has meaning…
And if the shoe fits?, well, you know…
Comment by Abe Froman on 6/30 @ 8:46 am #
It never ceases to amaze me how apparently educated folk can continue with the whole AGW charade…
There’s nothing amazing about it at all. It’s a pretext for much of what the proggie left wants to do anyway, so why would they even feign interest in the truth? What else so seamlessly combines a gateway for emboldening their hatred of capitalism, their loony hatred of suburbia and their dim-witted rationalizations for urban dysfunction?
Comment by alppuccino on 6/30 @ 8:50 am #
A rough estimate of 4.7 million Obamabots watching for an hour on 32″ TVs uses $564,000 worth of juice. That’s a couple nice nights out and a photo shoot.
I wonder why Barry doesn’t want people to junk their TVs. Weird.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 8:52 am #
Bob, Webster’s nothwithstanding, I would reserve that term treason for the crime of betraying one’s country as defined in Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/30 @ 8:57 am #
masturbate, Joe. No, that’s not a command, just a suggestion for better spelling.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 9:10 am #
You’re entitled to your opinion Joe,
So are writers and wordsmiths, as well as folks that choose their words carefully so as to precisely convey their tone, intent, and meaning…
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 9:18 am #
Well, yeah. The Palestinian Holocaust.
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 9:20 am #
Clearly he is, damned by his own big fat carbon footprint. His rules.
Comment by dr kill on 6/30 @ 9:26 am #
Ice cream socialists all.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 6/30 @ 9:53 am #
I would strongly urge Prof Krugman to read Jessen, C.A., Rundgren, M., Björck, S. & Muscheler, R., 2007. Climate forced atmospheric CO2 variability in the early Holocene: A stomatal frequency reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change 57(3-4): 247-260, if he can stand the traitorous words that leap off the page. It might just force him to use that lump keeping his ears apart.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 10:10 am #
There is something pathologically wrong with Krugman. The same with other radical leftists like Chomsky. They are obviously smart in their respective fields, but utterly fucking batshit crazy when it comes to politics and policy. In Krugman’s case, everything the right does is cloaked with the darkest most sinister motives. Chomsky goes well beyond Krugman, looking at everything America capitalism does in that light. There is something pathologically wrong with them. The idea that Krugman is having private dinners with Obama at the White House and advising him on policy is just insane.
Hence the reason I do not call them traitors, even though positions they take definitely could be called a betrayal of this country (although Chomsky is so bad he could be called and out and out traitor). I am not defending them. They are mendacious bastards and contemptable. But in their own fucked minds, they really think they are on the side of angels, they do not even see what they are betraying. We need a new word to describe delusional scum like Krugman and Chomsky.
Slartibartfast, thank you for the correction! Paul Krugman is a lying mendacious fucknut who thinks mean things of Rush Limbaugh as he furiously masturbates. My bad.
Comment by geoffb on 6/30 @ 10:14 am #
For the Krugmans of the world, their politics informs all of their knowledge. They find it impossible to “know” anything unless it conforms to the universe of Left political thought. Their form of knowing is a tunnel through which they view all and see little.
Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 10:24 am #
Emphasis mine.
Because what this amounts to is passing laws to make a particular industry artificially “profitable” (scare quotes ‘cuz you hardly ever have to throw zillions of public money at something that is “profitable”), and needs to be emphasized.
Also, can’t put my finger on it, but it just doesn’t seem to be kosher…
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 10:26 am #
Silver Whistle, how about for all these public policy wonks a little lighter reading such as Bjorn Lomborg. While Lomborg believes manmade CO2 contributes to climante change, he cautions that emphasis on it takes away from far more important environmental issues we should be focusing on (rather than throwing away billions and trillions of dollars on schemes that do nothing to correct
global warmingclimate change. Once a darling of the left, Andrew Sullivan used to promote him as a sane moderate voice, Lomborg is now ignored by them for rejecting their BS pseudo-science and emotionally laden false chicken little arguments, even though from a pramatic public policy position Lomborg is obviously correct.Comment by Wm T Sherman on 6/30 @ 11:08 am #
An economist expresses his strong, yay melodramatic opinion on a scientific question completely outside his area of expertise.
What else is he going to gas on about? Synthetic organic chemistry? Genetic engineering? Astrophysics? Auto mechanics?
What a whore. What a sold-out, attention-seeking, whore. He can shove that Nobel medallion where the sun don’t shine - it means nothing to me.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 6/30 @ 11:14 am #
23. Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 10:24 am #
“The House of Representatives came together to pass an extraordinary piece of legislation that will finally open the door to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, preventing the worst consequences of climate change, and making clean energy the profitable kind of energy,” President Obama said in the Grand Foyer,
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How to make green energy profitable: pass legislation outlawing unprofitability.
How to play the flute: Blow into the little hole at the end and move your fingers around on the other holes.
Easy.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 12:05 pm #
Wm.T.Sherman: What else is he going to gas on about?
How about the wonderous strange things he can pull out of his ass.
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 12:11 pm #
In similar news, Karen Bass, Cali’s Speaker of the Assembly, explains a heretofore unrecognized form of terrorism:
In unrelated, but also deeply disturbing news, the Minnesota Supreme Court has now made it official: Senator. Al. Franken.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 6/30 @ 12:16 pm #
Ah, Karen Bass. Her head looks like a cabbage with eyeglasses on it.
Comment by bastiches on 6/30 @ 12:18 pm #
How to make green energy profitable: pass legislation outlawing unprofitability.
That line of Obama’s is one of the most mendacious to pass a President’s lips in ages. Absolute insanity is required to believe that the government can make a product or service profitable. Why isn’t this just bloody obvious to every citizen?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/30 @ 12:25 pm #
“The House of Representatives came together to pass an extraordinary piece of
legislationshit, that will finally open the door todecreasing our dependence on$250bbl foreign oil, preventingthe worstno consequences ofclimate changefantasy/science fiction, and makingcleanany energy theprofitable kind of energythe most expensive thing in the history of the fucking planet,” President Obama said in the Grand Foyer of the Politburo.There. Fixed that for you slick.
Comment by LTC John on 6/30 @ 12:26 pm #
“I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.”
That darned 1st Amendment. Can’t we just eliminate “unfair” free speech?
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 12:27 pm #
Franken linky. And another.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 12:28 pm #
Sure. But the left and the right calling each other treasonous and traitors, by itself, really does not accomplish a lot. We have to go beyond that and get to why they are completely, utterly full of shit.
Comment by Pablo on 6/30 @ 12:28 pm #
It’s a big day for the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 6/30 @ 12:29 pm #
“Treason.” By Calvin Klein.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 6/30 @ 12:32 pm #
I think Franken is going to out-grotesque the entire field in D.C. Pelosi, Frank - they are rank, putrid, but not in the same league. It is the unbridled ego, and a deeply perverse nature hitherto concealed more or less successfully. I’m talking Caligula here.
(Remember the pilot episode of the original Star Trek series? A guy got glowy eyes and infinite power. Kirk opines something on the order of, “He’ll act out the basest thoughts and fantasies that we all have but never dare reveal. What’s to stop him? He’ll dare!”)
Comment by Benedick on 6/30 @ 12:33 pm #
Lefty political projects are indeed profitable. To Lefties.
Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 12:37 pm #
Ah…of course.
It depends on what the meaning of is is.
Comment by Eben on 6/30 @ 12:45 pm #
1. Outlaw dirty energy
2. Subsidize clean energy
3. Profit
Comment by PCachu on 6/30 @ 12:50 pm #
How to make green energy profitable: pass legislation outlawing unprofitability.
Okay, that characterization is unfair. It’s more like:
How to make green energy appear profitable: pass legislation making all other forms of energy even more unprofitable.
See, that’s not “mendacious”, that’s “head-rammed-up-your-own-ass, chewing-on-your-own-poop, telling-yourself-it’s-candy retarded”, and I hereby apologize to all actual retarded people for the insult of implying you’d say something this dumb. That’s the sort of stupidity that would normally manifest in the form of a law to ban cancer or something.
Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 12:52 pm #
Benedick, you must be listening to Glenn Beck to get such crazy ideas.
Also, Rush is saying the Polar Bear population is 5 times greater than 50 years ago, so, you know, obviously the proper term is climate change, not global warming.
We gotta do something!!
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 12:54 pm #
The essence of greed, fear, and taint meat.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 1:06 pm #
Meanwhile Queen Bee Michelle wants some more say on policy…what could go wrong?
Michelle would be along this line of this queen, or perhaps this one.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 1:27 pm #
Palin uses polar bear pelt diapers for Baby Trig.
Hugh Hewitt want a polar bear rug for his den. Made out of new born polar bear cub pelts of course.
Rush Limbaugh gives polar bears oxycotin.
Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 1:37 pm #
Did someone mention treason?
Comment by geoffb on 6/30 @ 1:44 pm #
Our new King and Queen are more along the lines of this couple or this one.
Comment by B Moe on 6/30 @ 1:55 pm #
Definitely Juan and Eva. Obama’s man crush on Hugo makes it apparent what his goals are.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 2:22 pm #
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Comment by Eben on 6/30 @ 12:45 pm #
1. Outlaw dirty energy
2. Subsidize clean energy”
3. Destroy the economy
TFTFY
Comment by Spiny Norman on 6/30 @ 2:50 pm #
Krugman is a self-serving douchebag who thinks he’ll be part of the Ruling Class when the Revolution comes. I reality, he’s a useful idiot who’ll be tossed aside when a future Dear Leader has no further use for him.
There ya go, Krugman Economics 101.
I kinda have to agree with Joe: “treason” and “traitor” have been, like “fascist”, so overused that the terms are basically meaningless noise - even in situations that they might even be appropriate.
Yep.
Comment by B Moe on 6/30 @ 2:58 pm #
How about liberal, conservative, racist, socialist, free market, capitalist, gender, marriage, tax, subsidy, income… and on and on. If we quit using words the pinheads have twisted to near meaninglessness we won’t be able to communicate at all, which is what we are rapidly approaching.
A fucking political Tower of Babel.
Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque on 6/30 @ 3:16 pm #
Anyone ever noticed that Krugman looks like a little weasel?
Comment by A Conservative Teacher on 6/30 @ 3:17 pm #
Be nice to Krugman- it isn’t like he owes his allegiance to the United States of America. It isn’t as if Krugman respects and honors our Constitution. He, along with a lot of Democrats including Obama, is a ‘citizen of the world’- a tool of the dictator ruled UN, a puppet for despots and tyrannical rulers, and a fool planted in our great nation.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 3:19 pm #
B Moe all the words you just listed can be used. We need to make rational arguments why Obama and the
Democratic Congress are wrong. Merely mimicing Krugman and calling anyone who opposes cap and trade a “traitor” is arguments for the retarded (which unfortunately is a sizable portion of the Demcratic Party base). We do have to explain why a seriously flawed bill, that will do nothing to
global warmingclimate change, and which will cost consumers thousands of dollars a years and jobs is a very bad idea.But if you can toss in an argument on how Krugman is actually a traitor too, what the hell. I am all ears.
Comment by geoffb on 6/30 @ 3:30 pm #
This is to raise the ratings of the Sunday morning political shows. A tag team of Franken-Biden will do wonders. Comedy of the highest and blackest sort.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 3:36 pm #
geoffb, like Andy Kaufman or Borat levels of uncomfortableness, but it is 100% real. Taking joke making to a whole new level.
Yeah, the joke is on us. Thanks Minnesota, thanks for nothin.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 3:42 pm #
Andrew Sullivan is railing over McCain being craven over picking Palin. Jesus Andrew, no Trig bashing today. Meanwhile Ace offers a different view of the subject.
While not treason on a national level, if Steve Schmidt fed Vanity Fair stuff on Palin, it is definitely a betrayal of trust to the guy he backed.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 3:47 pm #
Can we give Minnesota to Canada?
Comment by Eben on 6/30 @ 3:55 pm #
Someone once said that you get the leaders you deserve…
Comment by Spiny Norman on 6/30 @ 3:56 pm #
I’d call that a “false dilemma” fallacy, as the only of those that might apply is “racist”.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 6/30 @ 4:03 pm #
The world’s most “unfunny” comedian as a US Senator is compelling evidence that the 17th Amendment was a big mistake.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 4:07 pm #
Everytime I hear the term Senator Franken, my testicals ascend. There they go again.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/30 @ 4:14 pm #
So are writers and wordsmiths, as well as folks that choose their words carefully so as to precisely convey their tone, intent, and meaning…
Well, that leaves out Mr. Krugman, doesn’t it?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/30 @ 4:20 pm #
I wonder how Al Franken’s ego will take being at the bottom of the heap? Even in a Democrat controlled Senate, and one with a large majority, seniority hath its privileges, and being a newbie really doesn’t. Can he keep his mouth shut enough to not ruffle the senior feathers in his own party? We will see.
I wonder what committee assignments he will get?
Comment by David Brooks on 6/30 @ 4:25 pm #
Now, Now. All this bickering is no way to make the tent larger and attract the moderates. Plus, I’ve got tee times at the congressional to think about. I mean, if I wrote a column with clear, focused, conservative principles I’d be relegated to municipal courses and we don’t want that now do we? Focus people. And don’t even get me started on how hard it is to score an invitation to polo. My Gosh, my handicap is now down to three goals!
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 6/30 @ 4:28 pm #
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/30 @ 4:20 pm #
I wonder how Al Franken’s ego will take being at the bottom of the heap? Even in a Democrat controlled Senate, and one with a large majority, seniority hath its privileges, and being a newbie really doesn’t. Can he keep his mouth shut enough to not ruffle the senior feathers in his own party? We will see.
I wonder what committee assignments he will get?
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He’ll be Caligula, I tells ya. Maybe his giant ego is a blessing in disguise - Democrat internecine conflict.
Comment by newrouter on 6/30 @ 4:47 pm #
here’s treason
here
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 4:58 pm #
I saw that router. Is there any confirmation that public funds are being used rather than donations? If he is using tax dollars to pay for this, I am prepared to fire up the torches and grab the pitch forks. I have no problem with a big celebration at the White House. In fact, the 4th demands it. However, this seems a bit much. File under “If a Republican had done this.”
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 5:01 pm #
Careful newrouter; there is to be no treason spoken of…
There are some among us that might post your comment at another site in hopes of instigating some kind of internecine flame war…
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 5:04 pm #
“Comment by Blacque Jacques Shellacque on 6/30 @ 3:16 pm #
Anyone ever noticed that Krugman looks like a little weasel?”
Krugman is a little weasel.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 5:07 pm #
Comment by Semanticleo on 6/30 @ 4:39 pm #
Do you speak English?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 5:10 pm #
“Obama’s Unified Field Theory of Governance”
Fascism changed it’s name?
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 5:17 pm #
That is a hell of a pig roast Obama has planned. Is Bon Jovi footing the bill for that?
Oh and if you thought throwing the term traitor was bad, how about terrorist in this context.
Yet Obama stopped calling it a war on terror in regards to al Qaeda.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 5:17 pm #
Yeah let New Whigs like Drudge foment a modern JW Boothe. The rest will just hint at the target by proclaiming the ‘evil eye’ of Islam will getcha!
Right cleo, because pointing out flaws of THE ONE are the same as advocating assassination. As for the vast majority, we will be satisfied with the ballot box. The O, not so much.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 5:19 pm #
Oh, should have said the vast majority, both left and right would be satisfied with the ballot box.
Comment by Sam Hall on 6/30 @ 5:31 pm #
Yeah let New Whigs like Drudge foment a modern JW Boothe. The rest will just hint at the target by proclaiming the ‘evil eye’ of Islam will getcha!
If I’m a New Whig, you get to be an Old Merkin.
Comment by newrouter on 6/30 @ 5:34 pm #
No but compare and contrast
here
Comment by newrouter on 6/30 @ 5:37 pm #
here
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 5:44 pm #
I remember that well, router. The “Oh my God, Nancy Reagan is buying china when people are starving. How out of touch!” I guess we don’t have to file it under ‘if a Republican had done it.” We have an example. The double standard is striking. Thanks for the reminder. I need a drink.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 5:48 pm #
seman is a big fan of Mussolini.
Comment by guinsPen on 6/30 @ 5:51 pm #
The Farce on the Cloakroom Floor it is, then.
Comment by geoffb on 6/30 @ 6:01 pm #
Nah, Soros is his Caligula, got him his Senate seat. He’s Senator Horse’s ass.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 6/30 @ 6:19 pm #
HA! Good one! Really funny comming from someone who wouldn’t recognize an idea if it started chewing on your noggin.
Comment by lee on 6/30 @ 6:27 pm #
I’m thinking the sugar that will make the medicine go down will be seeing our predictions about Obamas ideas coming to fruition.
Course it will still be some damn bitter medicine…
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 6:36 pm #
OT - Bob Reed made reference to my calling him a flyboy in a thread a few days ago. I meant to respond at the time but they were closing the door and I had to “turn off all electronic devices.” You know the drill. Bob, you do know, hopefully, that it is all in the spirit of inter-service rivalry and all in good humor. Kind of like when I called RTO a flag waver. You can all call me jarhead anytime you want. Just make sure you are standing at attention when you do it. Heh.
Ssemper Fi
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 6:37 pm #
Stupid laptop keyboard.
Hangs head in shame.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 6:42 pm #
OOO-RAH from a Marine Corps dad.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 6:44 pm #
OOH RAH back N’Obrain. How’s Matt? Tired of LeJuene?
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 6:50 pm #
Big D,
You are my fav-o-rite Devil Dog!
It was light out here anyway that same night, so I was signin’ off too…
My best to you and yours,
And to Mel too, truly a national treasure…
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 6:54 pm #
Drat! another spelling error; friggin’ laptop keyboard!
Ah, I shouldn’t blame the equipment for operator error…
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/30 @ 6:54 pm #
Mike Thomas, of the Orlando Sentinel (not a noted conservative at all):
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/30 @ 7:03 pm #
“Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 6:44 pm #
OOH RAH back N’Obrain. How’s Matt? Tired of LeJuene?”
Guess not, he’s re-enlisting.
Going for a non-deployable position.
Get his rocker, move to Eighth & I.
Now THAT would be nice.
Comment by geoffb on 6/30 @ 7:08 pm #
Of course the report is wrong and what will kill many is the effects of the Agenda of the Global Warmists. That’s the AGW that kills, it’s proven technology.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 7:13 pm #
8th and I is good duty. I was there from 85 to 87, A company 3rd platoon, also known as the Silent Drill Platoon. When the screening team came out to Pendleton to gather Marines for the dog and pony show, I really didn’t want to go. I wanted to get out to the FMF, but I must say that my time in Washington was good duty. If he has a choice, SDP is a good way to go. You get out of DC in the winter to train in Yuma. Give him my best when you talk to him next.
Comment by Mel on 6/30 @ 7:23 pm #
I don’t remember you being a stutterer. There’s one S in Semper, Boyo.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 7:38 pm #
How are you Mel? How are your travels these days? I hope you’re somewhere nice, enjoying your extended summer vacation…
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 7:39 pm #
Fa…Fa…Fa…Fuck You Mel. Nice to hear from you. You never call, you never write….
Hope all is well.
Comment by Mel on 6/30 @ 7:47 pm #
Hi Bob. Doing well thanks for asking. Dave I’m sorry about sticking you with Robert’s will. You were always the responsible one and that’s why we did what we did. I’ll call you in a bit.
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 8:04 pm #
Big D, I saw the 8th and I Silent Drill Platoon in 81. It was awesome. If you were part of that team that is very impressive indeed.
N. O’Brain, it would be awesome to have a son as part of that team.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 8:13 pm #
Ah the Navy Yard/Marine Barracks in DC…
It’s become to “gentrified” these days, the neighborhood has lost it’s more colorful elements; lost it’s edge…
Used to be that the Marines were the only ones tough enough to live there!
I mean, my flyboy, actually former flyboy by that time) ass didn’t live there; I lived in Arlington when I was at the Naval Security Station uptown.
It would be a great place for Matt to transfer to N O’Brain. He’s be close to you and his mother in Philly; just a couple hours driving…
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 8:14 pm #
81 was before my time Joe. Interestingly, it used to be known as the Silent Drill Team until about 83 or 84 when they changed it to “platoon.” Maybe they focus grouped it? Anyway, I was there from 85 to 87.
As an aside, if there is anyone in the DC area, can you tell me if there is still a Maggie’s on M street?
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 8:17 pm #
If you mean on M street SW over by the barracks, I don’t think so BigD. Like I said, the areas become too high rent these days!
Comment by Joe on 6/30 @ 8:27 pm #
Big D, I remembered it as the Silent Drill Team, but I was not sure after you called it the Silent Drill Platoon.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 8:32 pm #
Bob,
It was in the Georgetown area and I think it was M street but I might be mistaken. It’s been a long time! The barracks are in SE which was in and amongst gov’t housing. Haven’t been back since 87 so I don’t know how things are now. I do. however, remember the name of the bar, Maggie’s. Maybe that’s why I have an affinity for our Maggie? Sorry RTO.
Comment by Big D on 6/30 @ 8:34 pm #
Evidently I have a problem with punctuation. Red pens?
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/30 @ 8:41 pm #
That, I couldn’t tell you BigD. I spent a lot of off time in DC at the Dubliner, over by Union Station…
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 6/30 @ 11:40 pm #
Speaking of treason…Here! Hold muh beer and watch this!
(Give it 60-90 days. You’ll know it when ya see it.)
Comment by geoffb on 7/1 @ 10:44 am #
The price of votes is rising in the inflationary cycle of Obama.
Comment by B Moe on 7/1 @ 11:19 am #
What? Did you slide that last 1/32″ and go completely of your nut now, Warren?
Comment by Neo on 7/1 @ 9:23 pm #
“India will not accept any emission-reduction target — period,” Ramesh said. “This is a non-negotiable stand.”
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The legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to impose trade penalties on nations that do not accept limits on global warming pollution is a concern for India, Ramesh said.
“We reject the use of climate as a non-tariff barrier,” the minister said. “We comprehensively and categorically reject any attempt to introduce climate change” as part of World Trade Organization talks.
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