Comments on: HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:11:24 +0000

Luther, your posts knock me out–like you’re speaking straight from the heart. You’re not the only one who has no steady ‘fix’ on the swirling events. Thing is, we do know what the big picture should look like. An America not blindly hurting herself. Then foreign enemies will miraculously begin to evaporate. Our Constitution is the end-of-history, as far as a few pages of how to encourage people to be their best. There’s never any confusion about goals, just how best to get to them.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:14:24 +0000

Yeah Buddy, unfortunately I know more than a few folks who would be filling out checks. We are walking a fine line here, sometimes I’m an optimist, sometimes I’m a pessimist. In the results that is. The “say the secret word” thread was somewhat depressing for me. When you folks get to talking you make a whole lot of sense, but it is above or out of the interest range of most. That is the crux. How can the intellectual foundations of freedom and the need to fight for same reach those who think it just all came out this way with no effort. We need a simple message and a simple sayer. Just a few synapses to string together in the thoughtless, somehow, someway. GW has done a good job, I have all the respect in the world for him. But somehow he is just not connecting to the other 49%, at all. And, of course, I realize what he (and us) are fighting against. But, I’m in it for the long haul, for freedom will win out in the end. Thanks for the above by the way, but the after work wine dulled the senses on this one.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:59:13 +0000

We’ll know we caved when Hezbollah and Hamas have storefront ‘charities’ in our cities, and are sending reps around to various company CEOs ‘requesting charitable donations’. And then later, running people for Congress. Our markets will be sliding into wreckage, financial institutions back to financing only cars, few people trying to get higher educations, unemployment and suicide rising, and the whole country taking on that tired, worn look as we slip into a middle eastern hostage nation despondency. Nothing dramatic to start, just an acceptance of one or two charitable organizations, who ‘want their story told, too’.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:26:33 +0000

I guess markus is gone.

Tim McVeigh might have been like your buddies too Markus, but look how he turned out. The fact that you know a couple of guys that went south does not change the fact that something like 7 out of 10 military voted for Bush.

I am so tired of hearing about how this war was not necessary.

Just how do you see this thing ending? We had two choices: cave for Saddam or take him out. Like it or not, that was the reality. He was not going to have it any other way.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:19:01 +0000

Second that, in spades!

By: Rick Ballard

Rick Ballard — Tue, 31 May 2005 18:11:12 +0000

Luther,

I’m saving that post. My compliments on the clarity of expression.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Tue, 31 May 2005 16:40:41 +0000

Thread is over I know, but…

marcus

“I can only HOPE though that I wouldn’t talk like you.”

I made two comments concerning you, saying you hadn’t a clue and that you wouldn’t make “a pimple on a good Marines a**”. Is that such ‘bad’ talk?

I appreciate the fact that you returned and attempted to engage in a more thoughtful dialog and also for ‘getting a clue’ as to what folks here were upset about. Though I expect you got exactly the reaction you were looking for.

Sorry for the drama, but to establish some bonifides, I spent four years with the Marines, served two voluntary tours in Vietnam, and held dying men in my arms. Just saying that I know well the horrors of war. Consequently I reserve the option of opinion as to who and who would not make a good Marine. And, by the way, that saying existed long before I was on this earth.

From approximately 1969 to 9/11/01, you could have classified me with the same status of your Marine buddies, with two exceptions, the Iranian embassy takeover and the bombing in Lebanon that killed 270+ Marines. I would have gone to war on both occasions.

Buddy eloquently explained the true nature of the war we are involved in and the dangers of giving ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy. And, yes, the left and the islamofacists are attempting to duplicate the same strategies as were used with such success in the Vietnamese war. I hold guilt to this day that I was, even if in a small way, a part of the United States decision to abandon the Vietnamese people to the fate of living under communistic tyranny. I will not make that mistake again.

I have no problem with fact based discussion as to the merits of the war we are engaged in. But ‘troll droppings’ and ‘leftist sloganeering’ are, IMHO, way out of line in a thread honoring the men and women of the Armed Services who have sacrificed the ultimate for this country.

By: KrilliX

KrilliX — Tue, 31 May 2005 06:59:09 +0000

Hey, pssst!

KrilliX is stealing ur pictures!

The Italian Spy

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 31 May 2005 05:53:16 +0000

Yeah, who wants to poltely tete-a-tete with Earthquake McGoon?

By: Fresh Air

Fresh Air — Tue, 31 May 2005 05:46:26 +0000

Every now and then one of the nutters can be saved, or at least reasoned with. You have look awfully hard to find the signs sometimes, especially when their first move is to rattle all the teacups in the house and spill stuff on the Persian carpet.