Comments on: Pentagon To-Do List http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/ America's favorite blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16652 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:35:52 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16652 A refresher course in ethics? Murder is an ethical issue? I guess handcuffing them first made it unethical, whereas if they'd been given the opportunity to run and were then shot as they were fleeing, it would be merely an unfortunate stress-relieving sporting event. Maybe we can institute a program of refresher courses in social ethics for domestic killers. A refresher course in ethics? Murder is an ethical issue? I guess handcuffing them first made it unethical, whereas if they’d been given the opportunity to run and were then shot as they were fleeing, it would be merely an unfortunate stress-relieving sporting event.

Maybe we can institute a program of refresher courses in social ethics for domestic killers.

]]> by: cooper http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16645 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:37:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16645 dee, you clicked on the link anyway, right? I thought so - after all it's Foreign Policy Magazine, how bad can it really be? As the article says, "think Charlie in the 'West Wing'." dee, you clicked on the link anyway, right? I thought so - after all it’s Foreign Policy Magazine, how bad can it really be? As the article says, “think Charlie in the ‘West Wing’.”

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16643 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:12:05 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16643 Ooh, that's good, siobhan. Ooh, that’s good, siobhan.

]]> by: siobhan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16638 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:35:19 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16638 "Attack dogs probably don’t make good seeing eye dogs; punishing one for attacking does not make it better at leading the blind." (Ze Frank, re: Haditha) “Attack dogs probably don’t make good seeing eye dogs; punishing one for attacking does not make it better at leading the blind.” (Ze Frank, re: Haditha)

]]> by: Hot Tub Tommy http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16635 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:07:12 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16635 Damn, I missed him! Next time, stall the little sneeky-shit, will ya? I've got Gen. Hayden on retainer and he can trace the post back to his computer, even a laptop! We'll get that sorry welp soon enough. Thomas DeLay, Border Patrol Commandant/ Lobbyist/ Patriot Damn, I missed him! Next time, stall the little sneeky-shit, will ya? I’ve got Gen. Hayden on retainer and he can trace the post back to his computer, even a laptop! We’ll get that sorry welp soon enough.

Thomas DeLay, Border Patrol Commandant/ Lobbyist/ Patriot

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16625 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:56:42 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16625 Julia, You're not an ass. Julia. The coverupmeisters were/are. I didn't know until last year, which shocked me. The fact that it occurred didn't. Neither did the slaughter of retreating Iraqi conscripts at the end of the first Gulf War. Sickened me, but it didn't surprise me. In that case, instead of covering it up, I think we (collectively) got off on it. I remember my mother reading the section in my 8th grade history book on WWII (would have been 1956) and saying to me that it wasn't the WWII she had experienced. She didn't have any use for anything but comprehensive honesty. The ommissions and misperceptions did not amuse her, and she thought that if someone was old enough to read about WWII, they were old enough to read something besides a simple-minded gloss-over. Julia,

You’re not an ass. Julia. The coverupmeisters were/are. I didn’t know until last year, which shocked me. The fact that it occurred didn’t. Neither did the slaughter of retreating Iraqi conscripts at the end of the first Gulf War. Sickened me, but it didn’t surprise me. In that case, instead of covering it up, I think we (collectively) got off on it.

I remember my mother reading the section in my 8th grade history book on WWII (would have been 1956) and saying to me that it wasn’t the WWII she had experienced. She didn’t have any use for anything but comprehensive honesty. The ommissions and misperceptions did not amuse her, and she thought that if someone was old enough to read about WWII, they were old enough to read something besides a simple-minded gloss-over.

]]> by: Julia http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16623 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:47:06 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16623 Sorry. I'm an ass. No Gun Ri was left out of everyone's education, because the military appears not to have told anyone. Oh well. If I'm to be honest, the Korean conflict hadn't made it into the history books in use at my school at that time, anyway. Sorry. I’m an ass. No Gun Ri was left out of everyone’s education, because the military appears not to have told anyone.

Oh well. If I’m to be honest, the Korean conflict hadn’t made it into the history books in use at my school at that time, anyway.

]]> by: Julia http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16622 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:43:31 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16622 Murray - don't forget the firebombing of Tokyo, which was completely omitted from my high school and college education...and that education was in the 'good old' mid-late 20th century. Also thanks to you and Ginny; I had never heard of No Gun Ri, and as soon as my stomach quits churning over Haditha, I'll do some reading. Murray - don’t forget the firebombing of Tokyo, which was completely omitted from my high school and college education…and that education was in the ‘good old’ mid-late 20th century.

Also thanks to you and Ginny; I had never heard of No Gun Ri, and as soon as my stomach quits churning over Haditha, I’ll do some reading.

]]> by: nato http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16621 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:16:51 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16621 Hey, if we can just keep shooting <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19325667-1702,00.html?from=rss" rel="nofollow">pregnant women</a> and <a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-31-voa11.cfm" rel="nofollow">Afghanis</a>, maybe everyone will forget about the whole Haditha thing and get back to focusing on more important things. Like the Tony Awards. Hey, if we can just keep shooting pregnant women and Afghanis, maybe everyone will forget about the whole Haditha thing and get back to focusing on more important things. Like the Tony Awards.

]]> by: Lemuel http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16619 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:22:56 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/05/30/pentagon-to-do-list/#comment-16619 Today is another rainy day in Valdo… oops, I almost gave away my location! It’s too wet to go into the fields because we may spread anthracnose (a fungal disease I’ve been learning about recently) throughout the entire crop of be… the plants we’re harvesting for seed money to get Xerxes’ patent approved. I’m a bit paranoid about giving away too much info, since you-know-who and his band of forty (thousand) thieves are out looking for me. Better to tell you about our trip so far. When I last wrote, I said we would be crossing the border that night, and we did. I thought at first that this gang I fell in with were Coyotes, but they turned out to be just run of the mill Mexicans, who arrived in Nogales, MX the same day I did. They had talked around and found a way across that was so ingenious, it was only exceeded by its depravity. I told you I was vegan, right? Well, I happened to say something like that to Rocio and she came up with the final plan – we came across the border in the back of a refrigerated truck full of hanging beef and we hid inside the hollowed out body cavity. I’m learning to keep my mouth shut around these guys. After the customs inspectors took off the first two sides of beef and loaded them into their cars, they weren’t interested in the rest of the load and we passed right through. I found out later that there are already three (3!) tunnels under the fence in Nogales and we could have gone into the USA walking upright and bipedal, but this was some sort of hazing they like to run on the Gringos, when they can. By some miracle, I didn’t blow chunks, so I guess I passed the test. Did I mention that these Mexicans are very resourceful? Xerxes is a bit of a pencil neck geek – Native American scientist, now there’s a thought I bet you’ve never had before – and an inventor. He pulled an instrument that looked like a pen from his Pocket Protector (yes!) and began scanning the bar-codes on the bill of lading of each car of the first freight train we came across in Nogales, AZ. He found a car that was to be off-loaded in Val… where we are now. We will be leaving after tomorrow for an undisclosed location. I will be buying a Toyota Prius and a Honda Hybrid Accord with one of Mr. DeLay’s credit cards (seems fitting) and we’ll be off on our next adventure. I’m going to be hanging with these guys for a while and brush-up on my Spanish. The librarian is telling me it’s time to get off the computer, so I have to end here. Buenos Noches, muchachos y muchachas! I’ve got to work on that Spanish. Today is another rainy day in Valdo… oops, I almost gave away my location! It’s too wet to go into the fields because we may spread anthracnose (a fungal disease I’ve been learning about recently) throughout the entire crop of be… the plants we’re harvesting for seed money to get Xerxes’ patent approved. I’m a bit paranoid about giving away too much info, since you-know-who and his band of forty (thousand) thieves are out looking for me. Better to tell you about our trip so far.

When I last wrote, I said we would be crossing the border that night, and we did. I thought at first that this gang I fell in with were Coyotes, but they turned out to be just run of the mill Mexicans, who arrived in Nogales, MX the same day I did. They had talked around and found a way across that was so ingenious, it was only exceeded by its depravity. I told you I was vegan, right? Well, I happened to say something like that to Rocio and she came up with the final plan – we came across the border in the back of a refrigerated truck full of hanging beef and we hid inside the hollowed out body cavity. I’m learning to keep my mouth shut around these guys. After the customs inspectors took off the first two sides of beef and loaded them into their cars, they weren’t interested in the rest of the load and we passed right through. I found out later that there are already three (3!) tunnels under the fence in Nogales and we could have gone into the USA walking upright and bipedal, but this was some sort of hazing they like to run on the Gringos, when they can. By some miracle, I didn’t blow chunks, so I guess I passed the test.

Did I mention that these Mexicans are very resourceful? Xerxes is a bit of a pencil neck geek – Native American scientist, now there’s a thought I bet you’ve never had before – and an inventor. He pulled an instrument that looked like a pen from his Pocket Protector (yes!) and began scanning the bar-codes on the bill of lading of each car of the first freight train we came across in Nogales, AZ. He found a car that was to be off-loaded in Val… where we are now. We will be leaving after tomorrow for an undisclosed location. I will be buying a Toyota Prius and a Honda Hybrid Accord with one of Mr. DeLay’s credit cards (seems fitting) and we’ll be off on our next adventure. I’m going to be hanging with these guys for a while and brush-up on my Spanish.

The librarian is telling me it’s time to get off the computer, so I have to end here. Buenos Noches, muchachos y muchachas! I’ve got to work on that Spanish.

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