tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post155675620388293289..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Give up the 9/11 MythologyBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-49858607863353862412012-09-14T13:46:08.026-04:002012-09-14T13:46:08.026-04:00Obama's been a disappointment, but Romney woul...<i>Obama's been a disappointment, but Romney would be a disaster. I'll stick with the Kenyan Devil Baby I know, rather than the Sociopatich Helmet-Haired Smirking Devil I don't (nobody does).</i><br /><br />Haven't you noticed the good cop/bad cop routine, B^4?<br /><br />The "centrist" Democratic candidate adopts the program of last cycle's Republican (for instance, the USA PATRIOT Act, and <a href="http://www.crewof42.com/cbc/conyers-on-jobs-weve-had-it-lays-out-obama-calls-for-protest-at-white-house/" rel="nofollow">cutting Medicare and Social Security</a> to pay for wars for rich people, tax cuts for rich people, and bailouts for rich people.)<br /><br />Then the Republican adopts even more extreme right-wing policies, for product differentiation purposes (or to make the rich richer, basically). <br /><br />Next cycle, rinse and repeat. How does it ever stop, if we don't demand minimal interest in our interests? Note: rhetoric alone doesn't mean squat. The Bush-Cheney tax cuts, for instance, are now the Bush-Cheney-Obama tax cuts.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-88787617179643954932012-09-13T21:54:18.447-04:002012-09-13T21:54:18.447-04:00As the decade progressed, and the responses became...<i>As the decade progressed, and the responses became stupider and more brutal, I felt myself more of a New Yorker, but less of an American. My love of the city grew simultaneously with my distrust of the direction the country was headed in.</i><br /><br />After my first few times in NY I started wondering why there wasn't some kind of separatist movement. And of course it's way worse now.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-91262493518688998362012-09-13T13:07:48.389-04:002012-09-13T13:07:48.389-04:00Respect for BBBB, well said old chap.
Thanks, ol...<i>Respect for BBBB, well said old chap. </i><br /><br />Thanks, old chum!<br /><br /><i>I just left a note on your rump(roast).</i><br /><br />That'll leave a mark! Thanks.<br /><br /><i>What about people in the Heartland™ who were on 22nd and B'way on 9-11?</i><br /><br />Weren't you born in D.C.? You lived in NYC for a long time... you're one of us East Coast types, old chum!<br /><br /><i>But c'mon. A little perspective here. People in Aleppo, Grozny, Mogadishu, Faluja, Seoul, London, Paris, Prague, Leningrad, Tokyo - the list going back just three generations is endless - have suffered the kind of slaughter, destruction, sickness, starvation and brutality that we cannot imagine</i><br /><br />Yeah, that's certainly true... we really have been lucky as hell.<br /><br /><i>We know you're Americans out there. The point is that we are continually told that we're not. Not "real" Americans, not Americans at all. Until 9-11 happens and suddenly every shitkicker is acting like he cares about us as opposed to caring that he had an excuse to go blow up some Cary brown people.</i><br /><br />Yeah, and then they claim that the wars they support are in our name, even though a good portion of us don't support them, and we overwhelmingly vote against the assholes who are claiming to work on our behalf. <br /><br /><i>Well, since I'm not an American (hmmm.. I AM a North American though), and don't follow a lot of this stuff, I don't really feel qualified to comment. </i><br /><br />Your comments are always welcome, but you know that. <br /><br /><i>Didn't we all vote to END THIS SHIT, and not go, "Oh, it's o.k. when our guy does it!"</i><br /><br />Obama's been a disappointment, but Romney would be a disaster. I'll stick with the Kenyan Devil Baby I know, rather than the Sociopatich Helmet-Haired Smirking Devil I don't (nobody does).<br /><br /><i>I am not even gonna bother anymore.</i><br /><br />You didn't have to delete your comments. Oh, and as for getting out of the "enclave", I've traveled cross-country twice, and have seen much of the contiguous 48. I've even been to your homeland four times (I rate for the Baraboo cheese pavillion). It's been a while since I've left the northeast, but I've been through the Heartland. The point I tried to get across is that my love for my wounded city grew, but the not-so-slow-dawning realization that the administration was going insane led me to be increasingly alienated from much of the country. <br /><br /><i>Thank you for this, and Amen.</i><br /><br />I didn't know you were the praying type!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-73376838067274807622012-09-13T11:41:46.946-04:002012-09-13T11:41:46.946-04:00Thank you for this, and Amen.Thank you for this, and Amen.Dr.KennethNoisewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07756205027083077404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-35120640672462720742012-09-12T18:47:09.268-04:002012-09-12T18:47:09.268-04:00I am not even gonna bother anymore.
Way to miscon...I am not even gonna bother anymore.<br /><br />Way to misconstrue what I said.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-45196521929208527102012-09-12T18:43:47.913-04:002012-09-12T18:43:47.913-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-50871383205127832262012-09-12T17:38:48.436-04:002012-09-12T17:38:48.436-04:00both sides are equivalent,
Are you saying that t...<i>both sides are equivalent, </i><br /><br />Are you saying that the USA PATRIOT Act is <i>not equivalent</i> now, zrm?<br /><br />Has that horrible piece of shit suddenly become acceptable because Obama demanded that it be renewed with all its crappiest provisions intact?<br /><br />Didn't we all vote to END THIS SHIT, and not go, "Oh, it's o.k. when our guy does it!"<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-60247863526761741932012-09-12T17:33:58.371-04:002012-09-12T17:33:58.371-04:00UPDATE 2. It's redundant at this point to say ...<i><br />UPDATE 2. It's redundant at this point to say comments are great, but here's a taste: Big Bad Bald Bastard tells our subjects, "To paraphrase Ving Rhames in Pulp Fiction, 'You've lost your 9/11 privileges";</i><br /><br />WooHoo! (At Roy's.)<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-57622309008829457072012-09-12T10:37:16.201-04:002012-09-12T10:37:16.201-04:00Well, since I'm not an American (hmmm.. I AM a...Well, since I'm not an American (hmmm.. I AM a North American though), and don't follow a lot of this stuff, I don't really feel qualified to comment. <br /><br />I can remember being pregnant with Gabby and thinking to myself that I was crazy to bring another life into this world with all of the crap going down. That only lasted for the day though. Then I was happy to be pregnant again after that. :)<br /><br />((Hugs))<br />LauraLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18206086996758491041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-46451226256335007992012-09-11T23:43:39.033-04:002012-09-11T23:43:39.033-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-51308724970098303002012-09-11T23:42:00.788-04:002012-09-11T23:42:00.788-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-52392424834303229712012-09-11T22:32:35.477-04:002012-09-11T22:32:35.477-04:00Here's the thing - I'll try to keep this u...Here's the thing - I'll try to keep this under 800 words - but it really comes down to this: Americans do not have any institutional, generational or visceral understanding of war. So we piss off a bunch of religious fundies and they mount a surprisingly complex and effective attack that we utterly fail to prevent due to hubris and lack of focus. Some pretty significant buildings get wrecked and three thousand people get killed. That's bad.<br /><br />But c'mon. A little perspective here. People in Aleppo, Grozny, Mogadishu, Faluja, Seoul, London, Paris, Prague, Leningrad, Tokyo - the list going back just three generations is endless - have suffered the kind of slaughter, destruction, sickness, starvation and brutality that we cannot imagine. I mean that literally - we cannot actually understand in our imaginations what this kind of modern, mechanized, three dimensional, endless war in our cities and towns and neighborhoods and HOMES means to people, families and communities. Oh, we like our movies and we like our guns and we like our sense that might makes right, but our butthurt over 9/11 now more than a decade after the fact is ludicrous. That's a bad week in Syria, a few hours of unimaginable horror in Rwanda, a millisecond in Hiroshima. People all over the world know the fear and intimidation of soldiers killing each other in their front yard, raping their daughters and sisters, stealing their stuff and offering, at best, the chance to live to see the sun come up tomorrow. <br /><br />We bring this technological horror show to bear without any understanding of what it means to the people who bear the brunt. And we continue to suffer and shake and fear and hate over one attack that generated three thousand KIA eleven years ago. Times are changing, and I can promise you that war and fire and death is coming to our blessedly isolated continent, but the lessons to be learned in the hard crucible of heartless brutality might ultimately make us a better people.<br /><br />Because right now? We're the thugs, the gang doing all the crime...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-61759164523084156472012-09-11T21:57:47.475-04:002012-09-11T21:57:47.475-04:00What about people in the Heartland™ who were on 22...What about people in the Heartland™ who were on 22nd and B'way on 9-11?<br /><br />Ah never mind. <br /><br />P.S. Certainly the right-wing has used and abused this tragedy, but let's remember that the Bush-Cheney USA PATRIOT Act is now the Bush-Cheney-Obama USA PATRIOT Act.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-63923004123574099992012-09-11T21:05:18.175-04:002012-09-11T21:05:18.175-04:00I just left a note on your rump(roast).I just left a note on your rump(roast).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-25204750628974586292012-09-11T20:25:01.448-04:002012-09-11T20:25:01.448-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-37716182590898982542012-09-11T20:24:03.114-04:002012-09-11T20:24:03.114-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-53578674497677716762012-09-11T19:54:18.451-04:002012-09-11T19:54:18.451-04:00Respect for BBBB, well said old chap. Respect for BBBB, well said old chap. Hamish Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.com