Nixon died when I was in fourth grade. My teacher at the time talked about how betrayed she felt watching Watergate come to light. I’ve always thought that my parent’s generation all felt pretty much the same way. A President, sworn to execute and uphold the Constitution of the United States, had committed deplorable crimes in order to win an election. (What’s most disgusting is that he had a good chance of winning that election in the first place).
Posts Tagged ‘neocons’
Will the Real Republicans Please Stand Up?
So, I got in an argument with a conservative. All he had to say was that God was gonna get me and that women are squirting babies into ghettos and leeching off of welfare before he regressed into babbling insults.
200 Channels and Still Nothing On
I recently spent the night at my father’s house after deciding that driving up to my house in a snow storm with no chains wouldn’t be such a good idea. Little did I know that a) it wouldn’t snow, and that b) I would be so enthralled by his digital cable that I would have to write a blog about it.
The Wicked Witch of the Right
UPDATE: This blog was previously written with a link to the videos posted below, followed by a brief explanation as to why I couldn’t load YouTube videos on my wordpress. I have since figured out that I actually can upload YouTube videos, but being such a noob, I had to get my boyfriend to figure it out for me. Anyway, I am now able to compile these videos for your enjoyment in one place. They all have something to do with the crazy neocon that everyone loves to hate: Ann Coulter (hence the title of the blog).
This Week With the Shrew
Ann Coulter’s defense of the military’s handling of the Pat Tillman case:
Liberals will even turn a war hero like Pat Tillman into an anti-war cause celebre posthumously — so he can’t disagree. Tillman died in a friendly fire incident that occurred — unlike Max Cleland’s accident — during actual combat with the enemy.
Because they are screaming, hysterical women, liberals treat friendly fire like a drunk driving accident. But friendly fire has been a part of war from time immemorial.
Liberals have an insane, litigious view of the military: There’s been an accident in warfare, let’s sue! It’s as mad as the line from “Dr. Strangelove”: “Gentlemen! No fighting in the War Room!” Golly jeepers, accidents can’t happen in a war!
And later in the article she somehow draws the conclusion that friendly fire is welcomed by POWs. So I guess that makes it ok:
But the POWs weren’t denouncing the U.S. military for risking their lives with “friendly fire.” They weren’t crying Mommy, investigate this! Get me a trial lawyer!If their camp had been hit by American bombs, it would have been as the POWs were shouting: “God bless President Nixon!”
That’s from their own mouths; that’s what’s in their hearts. Friendly fire — to a nation that hasn’t lost its wits — is part of waging war.
First of all the dog-in-heat has totally missed the point about the Pat Tillman case. The disgusting injustice wasn’t just the friendly fire itself (although it is still horrible considering that it is so much more preventable than it was thirty years ago), it was the way the Pentagon and the White House lied about the circumstances involved, portrayed it as a daring fire-fight, and didn’t even tell the man’s family how their own beloved had been killed.
Second, she forgot a space between “lawyer!” and “If” in the second quote.
And third, friendly fire is usually caused by someone that doesn’t have their wits about them, not by a nation that has its wits.
Fourth, friendly fire is a part of war. So I guess in her world, Americans should be happy when these things happen because it is a sign we are still fighting.
And lastly, CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE SAID GOD BLESS PRESIDENT NIXON!!!!! MY GOD!!!
Lol. Ok, I’m done.
How Wrong Were They?
So there are a lot of funny anecdotal books out in the humor section in Borders that have titles like “Stupidest Things Ever Said.” Many times you find that these quotes are merely premature ramblings by people who aren’t very far-sighted when it comes to the future. One such example would be August Lumiere telling someone his invention (a device for showing moving pictures) would never have a market. Another is Bill Gates saying that 56 megs of ram would be all anyone would ever need on a computer.
