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By: fuck you

fuck you — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:51:45 +0000

You are all ignorant liberals. You have no idea of what war may be like and probably will never know. I hope you all break you clavicals.

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By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:53:55 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me a bit about the ex-pats, Pony. Assholes. Nixon was brilliant in abolising the draft. When he did that the revolution abruptly ended and the boys went home to papa.

By: Pony

Pony — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:09:12 +0000

Well Salty, you gets some and you gives some. I wish more like you would come here. Anyway, parts of Ontario are further south than northern California. And don’t forget, Vancouver area and south coastal British Columbia has the same climate as Seattle (which may not always be something good). But I picked Nelson B.C. for you, some threads ago. They get a lot of snow, but to get a lot of snow, you need temps just above freezing.

http://www.city.nelson.bc.ca/
Nelson weather
http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?bc-37&unit=i

By: saltyC

saltyC — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:46:16 +0000

oooh but that winter.

By: Pony

Pony — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:42:14 +0000

The ones who fled to Canada have mostly lived here without becoming citizens, or if they did take out citizenship, now vote as conservative/right wing as possible. Their primary goal now seems to be to shut down Canada’s universal tax-payer supported healthcare system. They you see, cushy-careered and highly paid, not to mention, having come into their American parents estates (you didn’t think it was the poor kids from Louisiana fled here did you?) find our taxes too high especially in *their* tax bracket. Of course they’re high. They pay for all those social systems they as lefties, said they supported. But these people don’t need the universal healthcare anyway. Their jobs come with all the velvet benefits any upper class tenured prof or similar would get. Won’t be their old-age that will be spent in pain and untreated ill-health. But their old-age *will* be spent in Canada, because they know a good thing when they live it: they’ll also collect our universal old age pension and other senior benefits, no matter how much other money they have or make or are willed. And they’ll have lots of spare time to support the likes of Harper.

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:44:36 +0000

I was 23 in 1970, the prime “dating” years when I was supposed to go out there and find the boy of my dreams. Problem was, Viet Nam cocked up the boys who went there and it cocked up the boys who didn’t. My entire generation was screwed.

They dumped the vets back in the world and us girlies were supposed to make them right again by just loving them enough. The boys who stayed were busy strutting around trying to prove they were not lily-livered cowards just because they got out of going there. The stories I could tell about some of those fun dates. I did not find the boy of my dreams.

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:36:57 +0000

Should Shrub even be wearing Army gear? He was in the Air National Guard, not Army, if I recall correctly.

I was a tot during Vietnam but I do remember my mother staying up all night crying, watching tattered & torn & brutalized soldiers coming home on plane after plane after plane. She’d lost friends to that war. Years later, during Gulf War I, we got into a knock-down drag-out over that war, which she supported, which never made any damned sense to me. She’s come to her senses and we don’t have to argue about Gulf War Stupid & Senseless this time around, thank goodness.

Fucking Rummy. Is the new guy any better, though?

By: grrr kitty

grrr kitty — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:33:14 +0000

My daddy was a WWII vet, my sister was in her rebellious teens, and I was a wee one. But not too wee to remember some dandy arguments over the morality of the Viet Nam war in our house.

Here’s the weird part. My sister has turned into an Iraqi-war-supporting rightwing nutjob. And now *we* get into some dandy arguments when the conversation turns to current events.

By: kathy a

kathy a — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:30:30 +0000

oh man, mar iguana.

vietnam was on the news every night in my childhood. such a nightmare, and we really did not see nearly the worst on the evening news. my parents were goldwater republicans, and they had faith in winning the damned war until nearly the bitter end. the things i have heard from some vets in the intervening years would make anyone’s toenails curl.