Someone's inhaling, and it's not Setanta.
this time
Being one of those warriors in the "war on Christmas" I have to confess I slipped up yesterday and actually wished someone a "Merry Christmas".
My question is, "Does this count as an instance of friendly fire?"
Should I just pretend it didn't happen, should I purposely cover it up or should I report it to my superiors? If I do deny it, what defense should I use when the video surfaces?
Setanta wrote:Self-delusion and self-promotion, neither knows any bounds . . .
And that's expert testimony...
Setanta wrote:Thanks, Fellow Traveler . . . the plot thickens . . .
(Pssst . . . are we gonna get paid for any of this?)
(Haven't you gotten your check from George Soros yet?)
No, the bastard . . . i feel sooo exploited . . .
DrewDad wrote:dlowan wrote:If I were a student in Plano, I'd be a walking Christmas tree after that order. Have a little thing on my head.
If I were a student in Plano, I'd be asking my parents, "Why do we live in f***ing Plano, Texas?!?!?!?"
Have you ever been to Plano or is this simply the reflex response of a Liberal (Texas is evil!)
Finn d'Abuzz wrote:DrewDad wrote:dlowan wrote:If I were a student in Plano, I'd be a walking Christmas tree after that order. Have a little thing on my head.
If I were a student in Plano, I'd be asking my parents, "Why do we live in f***ing Plano, Texas?!?!?!?"
Have you ever been to Plano or is this simply the reflex response of a Liberal (Texas is evil!)
I've been to Plano. Have you, finn, ever been to North Bend, BC?
I looked up Plano last night. I was going to make some kind of smart ass remark just to tease Finn. Frankly it sounds pretty nice, if you want to live in Texas. I lived in Dallas for a short time, and it wasn't my cup of tea, but it sounded pretty great!
I, too, had a very negative opinion of Plano, TX, which was due to my ignorance and hearsay.
When I was widdle, I thought it was "Plain Ole" Texas. That inferior moniker resonated for years. Glad we all eventually seek our own information.
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blatham wrote:Finn d'Abuzz wrote:DrewDad wrote:dlowan wrote:If I were a student in Plano, I'd be a walking Christmas tree after that order. Have a little thing on my head.
If I were a student in Plano, I'd be asking my parents, "Why do we live in f***ing Plano, Texas?!?!?!?"
Have you ever been to Plano or is this simply the reflex response of a Liberal (Texas is evil!)
I've been to Plano. Have you, finn, ever been to North Bend, BC?
No I have not blatham, but I will have no reason to believe it is anything but a wonderful place unless and until I visit it or hear a first hand account from someone who has visited it and whom I trust.
Is it a nice place?
Stevepax wrote:I looked up Plano last night. I was going to make some kind of smart ass remark just to tease Finn. Frankly it sounds pretty nice, if you want to live in Texas. I lived in Dallas for a short time, and it wasn't my cup of tea, but it sounded pretty great!
Dallas and North Texas in general is not necessarily my cup of tea either, but, unfortunately, I'm not in a position to live anywhere I please.
But there is really only one reason the area ain't my cup of tea: The topography. It's too flat, has too few trees and those it does have are stunted little dwarves.
I like green better than brown.
Like I said...I will have no reason to believe it is anything but a wonderful place unless and until I visit it or hear a first hand account from someone who has visited it and whom I trust.
I'd invite you to visit Austin, but it is no doubt too full of them durned Libruls.
Kristof challenges O'Reilly to visit Darfur with him
RAW STORY
In Sunday's New York Times, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof challenges Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly to take a trip to Darfur with him to see "a real war against Christmas values," RAW STORY has learned.
Kristof offers "prayers" that O'Reilly and "other money-changers in the temple" will realize that the spirit of Christmas is about helping the needy and that fighting against genocide is a more worthy cause than "hectoring people to say 'Merry Christmas,' rather than 'Happy Holidays.'"
Excerpts from Nicholas D. Kristof's "A Challenge for Bill O'Reilly" follow:
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After I suggested in last Sunday's column that a better way to honor the season might be to stand up to genocide in Darfur (a calamity that O'Reilly has ignored), O'Reilly denounced me on his show as a "left-wing ideologue." Bless you, Mr. O'Reilly, and Merry Christmas to you, too!
Later in the show, O'Reilly described us print journalists in general as "a bunch of vicious SOBs." Bless you again, Mr. O'Reilly; I'll pray harder for the Christmas spirit to soften your pugnacious soul.
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So I have a challenge for you, Mr. O'Reilly: If you really want to defend traditional values, then come with me on a trip to Darfur. I'll introduce you to mothers who have had their babies clubbed to death in front of them, to teenage girls who have been gang-raped and then mutilated -- and to the government-armed thugs who do these things.
You'll have to leave your studio, Bill. You'll encounter pure evil. If you're like me, you'll be scared. If you try to bully some of the goons in Darfur, they'll just hack your head off. But you'll also meet some genuine conservative Christians -- aid workers who live the Gospel instead of sputtering about it -- and you'll finally be using your talents for an important cause.
Plano was where my lead petty officer lived when I knew him in 1965. Once we both took vacation at the same time. He gave me a ride to Medina Lake (northwest of San Antonio) in his shiny Edsel before going back to Plano. He was as good a guy as any, except, the last time I saw him he asked to borrow twenty dollars. "But, you know we'll never meet again," I started to say, but he had such a needy pleading in his eyes I gave it to him anyway. If anybody here goes to Plano I wish you would do me a favor and ask him for my money.
I live briefly in San Antonio, and ironically, was stationed there at Fort Sam shortly therafter, at the Medical Training Center and the Medical Field Service School. We often visited Corpus Christi and Port Aransas and Aransas Pass (Padre Island). We also visited Johnson City and the lake up there (that's been more than 35 years, so i don't remember the name of the lake--Canyon Lake?). We passed through Plano on a couple of occasions while just driving around (with country roads numbered in the thousands, it's easy to get lost, and we were frequently stoned). I didn't think much of Tejas, nor, many years later, Neuvo Mexico. But then, i don't like much of anything west of the Mississippi, because i don't like dry climates and remain unimpressed by the desert. I do like the ocean, and enjoyed Padre Island--that was in the days before college students trashed it.
Finn d'Abuzz wrote:Stevepax wrote:I looked up Plano last night. I was going to make some kind of smart ass remark just to tease Finn. Frankly it sounds pretty nice, if you want to live in Texas. I lived in Dallas for a short time, and it wasn't my cup of tea, but it sounded pretty great!
Dallas and North Texas in general is not necessarily my cup of tea either, but, unfortunately, I'm not in a position to live anywhere I please.
But there is really only one reason the area ain't my cup of tea: The topography. It's too flat, has too few trees and those it does have are stunted little dwarves.
I like green better than brown.
Ever been to Brookhaven Finn?
