The Patriot Game

[Dr Dave]

Barry McCaffrey, patriot.

[jesus marion joseph]

Thank god Gen. McCaffery doesn't write a blog. That might tarnish his viability as a broker of credible data for news media. As it is one of his employers, a news medium, has vouched for his credibility, so we can rest assured we're getting nothing but the unvarnished truth from him.

[GoodSpeak]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Thank god Gen. McCaffery doesn't write a blog. That might tarnish his viability as a broker of credible data for news media. As it is one of his employers, a news medium, has vouched for his credibility, so we can rest assured we're getting nothing but the unvarnished truth from him.

Once again we pretend that an opinion in a newspaper [couched as such] is comparable to the stupid shit passed off as truth in a blog.


Did you read the whole article or just selected bits of it?


There is a big giant CLUE here JMJ....grab it.

[GoodSpeak]

I'm sorry....am I making too much sense again?



I'll stop.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally Posted by GoodSpeak

I'm sorry....am I making too much sense again?

....trying to think of a logically constructed sentence less embedded in reality.

Tough...

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Thank god Gen. McCaffery doesn't write a blog. That might tarnish his viability as a broker of credible data for news media. As it is one of his employers, a news medium, has vouched for his credibility, so we can rest assured we're getting nothing but the unvarnished truth from him.

Yeah, NBC News, owned by General Electric...really, there is just no bottom to these assholes...

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

Yeah, NBC News, owned by General Electric...really, there is just no bottom to these assholes...

Certainly you are not suggesting that GE being one of the largest defense contractors has anything to do with it?

Don't you realize that that GE's Jack Welch, who bought NBC, is one of the great American heroes?

[tippy]

I was watching this episode of Upstairs Downstairs night before last and it was about how the tide turned against the Bellamy's German bakers after the sinking of the Lusitania. The normally sensible Hudson was reading periodicals like The Beastly Hun and getting the kitchen staff all worked up about spies and all people German even though Hazel and Rose and even Mrs. Bridges were against the swelling animosity against their bakers and others like them, who were naturalized British citizens. They had even baked Daisy a birthday cake and delivered it special for crying out loud. Anyway, the baker and his wife and his young son are attacked and bloodied by a mob of their former customers and neighbors and their bakery burnt down to the ground so let that be a lesson to you. Hudson, I got to tell you, can be a real disappointing piece of work at times.

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by tippy

I was watching this episode of Upstairs Downstairs night before last and it was about how the tide turned against the Bellamy's German bakers after the sinking of the Lusitania. The normally sensible Hudson was reading periodicals like The Beastly Hun and getting the kitchen staff all worked up about spies and all people German even though Hazel and Rose and even Mrs. Bridges were against the swelling animosity against their bakers and others like them, who were naturalized British citizens. They had even baked Daisy a birthday cake and delivered it special for crying out loud. Anyway, the baker and his wife and his young son are attacked and bloodied by a mob of their former customers and neighbors and their bakery burnt down to the ground so let that be a lesson to you. Hudson, I got to tell you, can be a real disappointing piece of work at times.

There is a name for this: The Human Condition. I've been reading Huizinga's "The Waning of The Middle Ages," and it is fucking depressing to see how little human nature has changed.

[tippy]

Yes, I realize that what I find most frustrating and intolerable about life is people’s tendency to provincialism but there is simply no way to escape those attitudes. It would be akin to escaping culture and how could you ever do that. I attribute my difficulty with this as having sort of escaped the mindset of my unique and awkward upbringing (Mormonism) which is somewhat far removed the way most people are brought up in the U.S. so when I associate general intolerance with that very closed set of rules I was brought up with – I jumped from the fire only to find myself in a frying pan anyway – well, it just gets my goat. Perhaps valiums are in order here.

[GoodSpeak]

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

....trying to think of a logically constructed sentence less embedded in reality.

Tough...

Hm.


Try to think of logic actually imbedded in your brain.


You can do this, Brian...c'mon, bay-bee!