~ story & vid ~
Look, jackasses. (May I call you jackasses?) Look, jackasses, despite your obvious fascination with the sound of your own superior, enlightened, elitist, and values-averse blather and your habitual, scripted, empty, knee-abrading rationalizations for cramming value-defining words through The Template™ in an attempt to eliminate, warp, or misrepresent any view of reality incompatible with The Narrative™, understand this:
you do not get to define the words “hero and valor.”
They who made the ultimate sacrifice have already defined those words,
and we who honor them already know what those words mean.
Now go back to the dorm, quit playing “If I were king,” and let the grown-ups do what we’ve gotta do.
~ vid ~
Yeah, there’s a lot more I could say; but you already know what it is.
Besides, ol’ Abe already said it pretty well:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863
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I HATE everyone of these commie symp fag loving sit down to pee bastards in the media who have no f***ing concept of the real valor and heroics of those who have died so their filthy leftist shit spewing mouths can run on and on.
And I ALWAYS WILL.
Damn these assholes piss me off.
I’m gonna print out Hayes’ picture so I can wipe my butt with it.
I, on the other hand, am perfectly comfortable calling Hayes an asshole.
Speaking of words, has anyone here used any of these words lately?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html?ICO=most_read_module
I have to agree with these guys. It can be good to come up with terms that are more neutral. I’m trying to think of words that are more palatable than “wuss,” “commie,” “pansy,” “ingrate,” and “fruit.”
…And, speaking of words, how about everything frikkin thing you say to your iPhone?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2150579/IBM-bans-Siri-fears-iPhone-personal-assistant-send-confidential-data-Apple-HQ.html
…this is just Apple, how much you want to bet Google (i.e., Android), the reigning snoop company, isn’t suffering a bit from snoop envy over this?
…And no reason this can’t be used for industrial espionage (guess that’s IBMs concern); how about your friendly local/state/fed gov getting access to it; and who’s to say foreign governments, their surrogates, and t*rror orgs aren’t hacking it this very moment?
^ about my Siri post: supposed you’d like to blackmail a few of your elected reps and/or government bureaucrats? Few things are more interesting that who they are calling, and what else they have to say, is there?
I’m betting he’d stay home from work if it meant he had to crawl through mud, crap in a hole, get used to his ass cheeks stuck together for days and haul around 80 pounds of gear to do his job.
Dickwad piece of puke shit. And they wonder why most people wouldn’t walk across the street to piss on their sorry ass if it was on fire.
^4 I in D –
Looking at your word list, any discussion of any news outlet’s mention of any DHS activity will get a hit on the list.
In fact, most any discussion of any of the news will generate a hit. Better just talk about the weather… oops, storm is on the list.
Guess we gotta learn American sign language and run a whole bunch of relays.
Breaking news: “Drones are learning American sign for their new role in …”
I just tried to get through that Hayes bit. I managed halfway. What a bunch of disgusting, effete, pseudo-intellectual metrosexuals.
They miss the meaning and connotations of heroism completely. Heroism is not necessarily “do dot do dah!” toot your horn war stuff, but describes a pantheon of unselfish acts that are undertaken in spite of grave risks of maiming and death.
They’re implying heroes set out to be acclaimed “hero” from the gitgo, and willingly go to war to be a hero, but heroes are for the most part ordinary people, both military and civilian, who find themselves in a tough spot, face the danger at hand, and do whatever needs to be done to accomplish the task that needs to be done, sometimes in the face of terrible odds against surviving the effort. Nonetheless, the job gets done, and when the dust settles, we civilized people sometimes get to honor the living, and sometimes we must be satisfied with honoring the memory of those who did not survive their efforts. This is what strong peoples have done for millenia; honor and remember those who strove mightily, sometimes giving all, for their fellow citizens.
That bunch of simpering, sniveling pseuds are no better than fucking jellyfish washed up on a beach, and will fade into oblivion just as fast.
“Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead,
and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.” – William Gladstone
With all the rabid pro-abortion attitudes the liberals had, it’s a shame his mother chose life.
re: #4
I told you all months ago that I had seen the actions that followed in-tel that had been plucked out of a tweet sent between two friends.
re: That effette a-hole.
I guess for some people being born and raised in this great nation is still not enough to make them an American.
Those no-load, panty-waisted, metrosexual dipdunks wouldn’t know either valor of heroism if a real warrior shoved a purple heart medal up their blow hole. Gah. Spit. Intelligentsia for it’s own sake is just blather; a skill at which these knuckleheads appear to have mastered. Just say “thank you” and shut the Hell up…
That hayes character isn’t worth the time it takes me to type this.
Now the list of words might as well be the alphabet. . .
Hayes is a typical overeducated snot who…. oh, hell, he’s on MSNBC and probably has less viewership than the late-night Viagra infomercials. He’s on a career path on parallel with Olberman and will spend his elderly years crying because no one will listen to how smart he is.
I wouldn’t even cross the street to call him a douchebag….
OK. We all want to rub them out. That’s a given. But as I see these assholes and 1st is MSNBC. Next its four of the most deep asshole/sewer shit for brains ‘journalists/pundits. #rd, not a damn one of them can even think past the jack-ass-a-ma-holes they are to be able to even sit in a ‘free country’ (take a quick comparrison to say living in,ah Syria right now) and be able to make such asshole comments without being killed stat! The Word of God stands and everyone is a liar:
“Ecclesiastes 10:3: Even when a fool goes walking, he has no sense and shows everyone else that he’s a fool.”
You hit it square Doug by saying “you do not get to define the words “hero and valor. They who made the ultimate sacrifice have already defined those words…” OOH Fucking RAH! ! !
This election cycle is going to be the beginning of the Right/Righteous in this country TAKING BACK the language and returning America to the ‘covenant’ that was mad with our Fore Fathers so many years ago.
Jess @ 8 made me laugh … thanks!
Really, what is wrong with these people that they can’t just take a moment of dignified silent prayer instead?
Peggy, what’s wrong with them is that they can’t perform a selfless act and would not do anything that would put their life at risk for others. They perform acts for others only when calculated to bring rewards to themselves–and that reward may be acceptance or praise of the PC collective. They might join the military but only with ulterior motives. They do not want to consider that simply serving in the military is an honorable undertaking. Dying in military service is incomprehensible in their “what’s in it for me” world.
Contrast: Their “heroes” are Mao, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, Guevara, Pol Pot, Osama, Obama,…
I tried, but I couldn’t make it through the whole thing.
My poor cats are probably still wondering why Daddy is so angry today. I should give them an extra teaspoon of tuna fish to help soothe them — brought to you by The US Armed Services!
Fucking hippies piss me off.
#HayesHeroism is now trending on Twitter.
I just went to Bing to do a search and todays picture is
“Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery” and they describe it on the clues as the center of our nations most sacred shrine.
Google, well just what you would expect from them.
As for the list of words they track, under weather tsunami is one of them.
I’m so screwed…
Add this: “Flock you Gashole!”
One of my Invisible friends on FB, currently serving at Ft. Huachuca, put it quite well….. He likened it to Penis Envy. Those that can’t be heroic feel uncomfortable talking of those with heroic traits.
Come, that there is good stuff.
3:55 wasted minutes of insane Starbucks chatter. I have seen much more realistic and intelligent statements on latrine walls.
Before anyone get all high on Abe, ’tis better to see what he did rather than rely on what he said. This book (free on-line) is highly recommended to bring “honest Abe” back to earth – and under 6 feet of it, which is where he belongs: http://www.americascaesar.com/
Lloyd (16)
Re: “We all want to rub them out.”
Nah, we need bad examples.
What we should do is rub their faces in their own putridity as often as possible, so that regular people and thier kids aren’t confused by thinking that what these jackasses say makes a lick of sense.
Wollf (23)
Yeah. I didn’t get into analyzing these dweebs too much; but I may get around, sometime, to tying their view of heroism and valor to Hollywood. I mean, like, you know … where else they gonna have any contact with those terms at all, in J-school and their line of work?
Manfred (25)
This ain’t about Abe.
It’s about how his words give perspective to what “hero” and “valor” mean.
His point (and mine) is that the actions of the dead defined those words, not us, and certainly not those arrogant MSNBC dweebs.
Sure, go ahead and trash Abe; but let’s discuss my imperfect character, then, too.
Abe & I have many faults, but ingratitude isn’t one of ‘em.
Hayes is just another weenie licking felcher on TV news.
If hero make you uncomfortable, try this. Call them the men who ran 4 miles everyday before you had your second latte. Not so they could look good for the camera but because they prepared for that day they knew they’d be called upon to either defend your way of life (as pathetic as you have made it) or introduce those freedoms to someone else. Call them the men who left pregnant wives and young children, never to return, so that any offspring you don’t put to the knife could grow up and maybe know more of heroes that their narrow minded ancestors.
They think they’re smarter than we are. They really do. They think that because they went to “x” school and got “y” degree and regularly talk to “z” people that they’re smarter than we are. AND – because they’re smarter than we are, they should be in charge and they are justified in slanting the news, ignoring facts, neglecting to tell us about some things while over-emphasizing other things, in order to get society to move in the direction they think is correct.
I don’t think it ever occurs to them that just because you decided to not go to “x” school and get “y” degree doesn’t mean that you’re not smart enough to have done so if you chose. It just means that you decided to do something else with your life. And that in any case even if you are smarter than someone it doesn’t give you the right to lie to people, either by commission or omission, in order to influence their vote or their behavior. It doesn’t mean that you have the right to impose your view of society on someone else.
Hell, I graduated from MIT. I’m smarter than half those a$$holes put together. I spit on a B.A. in Journalism.
And I have something else to say.
What’s heroism? Sure, it can be one specific act of surpassing bravery and self-sacrifice. But it doesn’t have to be. It can be the act of putting yourself in the position of sacrificing your time and your body for years on end without every knowing if you might be called to sacrifice your health and your life at any time – and doing so willingly and voluntarily because you know it has to be done and are willing to do so yourself instead of waiting and hoping that someone else will do it.
When I talk about military service (not that I have ever served, mind you, but most of the male members of my family have) to leftists, they always imagine that they joined because of being poor or being minorities or lacking intelligence enough to survive in the civilian world. In a word, they want to portray them as victims. When I tell them that people are motivated by patriotism and by a desire to serve they scoff. They just can’t credit patriotism as being a positive thing and that people would willingly do such a thing on that basis. They can’t imagine that military people aren’t victims and they themselves are so full of seeing America as being an evil imperial power that they can’t imagine that other people see America as the world’s last best hope and that it’s something worthy of serving.
When people read the intercessionary prayers at church one of the groups we ask for prayers for are those known to us in the military. Most people put them in the section when we pray for people who are sick or hurt or in any kind of trouble or distress. I refuse to do so. I put their names in the section where we ask for prayers for those in our community. Being in the military doesn’t mean that you are suffering or injured – it does not mean that your are a victim. It means that you are supporting us and are worthy of our prayers. In fact, it’s more of an issue as to whether we are worthy to pray for you than the other way around.
30- RonF. Right on. So many of the prayer intentions seem too contrived. I thank my priest every time they include members of the military.