Comments on: Big Boy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/ America's favorite blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Dave http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6020 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6020 Cutting an Aircraft Carrier and some 'phibs, denying the army of some weapon systems... Carl Rove will try to put this up for a congressional vote somehow so anyone that sensibly votes for for the cut can be derided as "Hating America and her troops" ...Next on Fox News, how liberals are trying to help al Qaeda kill everyone close to you... Cutting an Aircraft Carrier and some ‘phibs, denying the army of some weapon systems… Carl Rove will try to put this up for a congressional vote somehow so anyone that sensibly votes for for the cut can be derided as “Hating America and her troops”

…Next on Fox News, how liberals are trying to help al Qaeda kill everyone close to you…

]]> by: Allison in Santa Cruz http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6021 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6021 Oh dear. I was away for several days and missed you and your take on current events, Adam. The only news I got was TV news at the home of my brother-in-law, and that was all about tsunamis. Tens of thousands of people died, and it took the President of the United States 3 days to say anything about it? It's always good to hear positive news about the budget. And sure, we all gain a few pounds during the holidays. Now I'm gonna go NOT eat those 3 peanut M&Ms, and I'll be back to my usual svelte self. By the way, does anybody know how much body armor can you buy for the cost of an amphibious landing craft? Oh dear. I was away for several days and missed you and your take on current events, Adam. The only news I got was TV news at the home of my brother-in-law, and that was all about tsunamis. Tens of thousands of people died, and it took the President of the United States 3 days to say anything about it?

It’s always good to hear positive news about the budget. And sure, we all gain a few pounds during the holidays. Now I’m gonna go NOT eat those 3 peanut M&Ms, and I’ll be back to my usual svelte self.

By the way, does anybody know how much body armor can you buy for the cost of an amphibious landing craft?

]]> by: Emmarie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6022 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6022 This makes me quite sad to realize that in this case America is kind of like teenage girls, following these steps: 1. Live stupidly. 2. Be told there is a problem with how you live. 3. Look around you and say that the person telling you there is a problem was right. 4. Blame the media for making you screw up in the first place. The exception is that apparently the economy has overcome the cruelty of the media's misconception of how it should be, whereas many teenage girls never get past step 4. Or 1. This makes me quite sad to realize that in this case America is kind of like teenage girls, following these steps:

1. Live stupidly.
2. Be told there is a problem with how you live.
3. Look around you and say that the person telling you there is a problem was right.
4. Blame the media for making you screw up in the first place.

The exception is that apparently the economy has overcome the cruelty of the media’s misconception of how it should be, whereas many teenage girls never get past step 4. Or 1.

]]> by: Overland http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6023 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6023 Adam, This piece would seem to be implying that a tax increase might be warranted to pay for the oh-so-necessary Iraq war. We're supporting the troops already, just look at all those made-in-China "Support the Troops" ribbons on our SUV's. There can't be a SACRIFICE involved with this war -right? Let the Chinese and Japanese pay for it via Treasury purchases. But they can stop anytime. 1 Euro = 1.36 US Dollar today. Higher inflation, coming right up...World currency crisis possibly in future...Thanks, Yellow Rose. Adam,

This piece would seem to be implying that a tax increase might be warranted to pay for the oh-so-necessary Iraq war. We’re supporting the troops already, just look at all those made-in-China “Support the Troops” ribbons on our SUV’s.
There can’t be a SACRIFICE involved with this war -right? Let the Chinese and Japanese pay for it via Treasury purchases.

But they can stop anytime.

1 Euro = 1.36 US Dollar today. Higher inflation, coming right up…World currency crisis possibly in future…Thanks, Yellow Rose.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6024 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6024 How about we eliminate the Missile Defense Program? You know, the one that doesn't work even when we rig the tests? The one where the launch vehicle misfired on the last test? The one that will almost certainly NEVER work (and in any case if we had the brains God gave bastard geese in Ireland, we'd be tightening surveillance on container shipping and ignoring North Korea entirely...)? If "the Pentagon [is] looking to trim up to $10 billion in the 2006 budget alone", this looks like a prime candidate, since that's how much is budgeted to it in FY 2005... How about we eliminate the Missile Defense Program? You know, the one that doesn’t work even when we rig the tests? The one where the launch vehicle misfired on the last test? The one that will almost certainly NEVER work (and in any case if we had the brains God gave bastard geese in Ireland, we’d be tightening surveillance on container shipping and ignoring North Korea entirely…)?

If “the Pentagon [is] looking to trim up to $10 billion in the 2006 budget alone”, this looks like a prime candidate, since that’s how much is budgeted to it in FY 2005…

]]> by: Thompson http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6025 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6025 My personal favorite missile defense moment? Had to be when, just after Bush announced the installation of several almost-functional pieces of point defense, Putin immediately stated that Russia was working on a missile that could bypass the system. Okay, the irony of that comment is that Russia's current missiles could bypass the system. Nevertheless, huzzah--this incredibly expensive defensive "tool," and a supposed ally is talking about rendering it obsolete in roughly a year and a half. Not a year and a half from full functional deployment, but a year and a half from initial untested deployment. Well, who knows? Maybe Russia'll need another year and a half after the defensive system is actually up and running to build a workable counter-measure. Yup. That year and a half of protection from what amounts to the method of attack terrorists are LEAST likely to use will certainly make -me- feel better. My personal favorite missile defense moment? Had to be when, just after Bush announced the installation of several almost-functional pieces of point defense, Putin immediately stated that Russia was working on a missile that could bypass the system.

Okay, the irony of that comment is that Russia’s current missiles could bypass the system. Nevertheless, huzzah–this incredibly expensive defensive “tool,” and a supposed ally is talking about rendering it obsolete in roughly a year and a half. Not a year and a half from full functional deployment, but a year and a half from initial untested deployment.

Well, who knows? Maybe Russia’ll need another year and a half after the defensive system is actually up and running to build a workable counter-measure. Yup. That year and a half of protection from what amounts to the method of attack terrorists are LEAST likely to use will certainly make -me- feel better.

]]> by: tess http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6026 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6026 Thompson, wait, are we talking about the same Russia which has been known to slack when it comes down to protecting old missle silos, nuclear waste, and nuclear weapons sites? Oh boy! Big boy's going to lard up a little more before daddy-Bush and daddy-Cheney finish these next 4 years and Americans are still going to feel nervous but ironically safer with the mandate boys in power. Yup, this upcoming year's going to be a hell of a toboggin ride. Pity we're the ones on it. Thompson, wait, are we talking about the same Russia which has been known to slack when it comes down to protecting old missle silos, nuclear waste, and nuclear weapons sites? Oh boy! Big boy’s going to lard up a little more before daddy-Bush and daddy-Cheney finish these next 4 years and Americans are still going to feel nervous but ironically safer with the mandate boys in power.

Yup, this upcoming year’s going to be a hell of a toboggin ride. Pity we’re the ones on it.

]]> by: Katie http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6027 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6027 "......if we had the brains God gave bastard geese in Ireland....." SNORT!!! ROFL! Actually, that is a VERY good point. N. Korea has been rumbling and grumbling like a pendantic two year old, and yet Shrub et al don't even notice. I hate to see what is going to happen when the temper tantrum erupts. “……if we had the brains God gave bastard geese in Ireland…..”

SNORT!!! ROFL!

Actually, that is a VERY good point. N. Korea has been rumbling and grumbling like a pendantic two year old, and yet Shrub et al don’t even notice. I hate to see what is going to happen when the temper tantrum erupts.

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6028 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6028 <a href="http://bottleofblog.typepad.com/bottleofblog/2004/12/bushs_iraq_war_.html">*Here*</a> for another take on how the war is causing cuts in defense spending. Dizzyfying, ain't it? And I hope, hedera, that th't y'meant that the fine Irish geese have <i>more</i> brains than bastard geese elsewhere. Ye did, now, din't ya? 'For 't'would be a shame if a car just "blew up" outside yer house, now wouldn't it? Happy New Year t'all! *Here* for another take on how the war is causing cuts in defense spending. Dizzyfying, ain’t it?

And I hope, hedera, that th’t y’meant that the fine Irish geese have more brains than bastard geese elsewhere. Ye did, now, din’t ya? ‘For ‘t’would be a shame if a car just “blew up” outside yer house, now wouldn’t it?

Happy New Year t’all!

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6029 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/12/30/big-boy/#comment-6029 I noticed that they plan on decommissioning the "John F Kennedy". Can't have that name around to remind W how a good president ran things. Nothing is more efficient at projecting our power to more places than an aircraft carrier. And for the same price we can have a missile defense system that can't do anything. As long as you are living in a fantasy, I guess it doesn't make any difference. I noticed that they plan on decommissioning the “John F Kennedy”. Can’t have that name around to remind W how a good president ran things.

Nothing is more efficient at projecting our power to more places than an aircraft carrier. And for the same price we can have a missile defense system that can’t do anything.

As long as you are living in a fantasy, I guess it doesn’t make any difference.

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