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2006-03-13 Iraq

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-03-13 00:13|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Highly recommended.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-03-13 00:42|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-13 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2
Thanks Sea.

Posted by RD 2006-03-13 01:18|| 2006-03-13 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 A true hero.

The enemy had no such doctors, and many many more casualties. Magnify the horror by 100, take away the morphine, and you get an idea what the enemy casualties were going through.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2006-03-13 01:59|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2006-03-13 01:59|| Front Page Top

#4 and you get an idea what the enemy casualties were going through

Maybe it's because I have an old, vacuum tube sympathy meter...but...nope...nothing.

Posted by Rafael 2006-03-13 02:58|| 2006-03-13 02:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I have an old, vacuum tube sympathy meter

I remember when Sympathy Meters had ferrite cores and they used to get hot enough to fry an egg on the top. blah, blah, blah

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-03-13 08:34|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-13 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I had trouble getting to sleep last night after reading this.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-13 08:52|| 2006-03-13 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I would love to see a movie about this kind of heroism. Hollywood sucks, except for Mel Gibson, so if any of you know Mel....

Posted by wxjames 2006-03-13 09:12|| 2006-03-13 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe it's because I have an old, vacuum tube sympathy meter...but...nope...nothing.

Don't think grom was asking for sympathy - more like imagery.

That imagery that really should be conveyed to the 'Oriental' mindset. Won't be absorbed by it presently, tho.

Posted by Pappy 2006-03-13 11:02|| 2006-03-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I remember when Sympathy Meters had ferrite cores and they used to get hot enough to fry an egg on the top

Bah! The spring that fed my undershot Vitruvian waterwheel-powered sympathy meter dried up so long ago that the replacement gudgeon had barely broken in enough to ensure that the flayrods wouldn't go out of skew on the treadle ...

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-13 12:23|| 2006-03-13 12:23|| Front Page Top

#10 waterwheel-powered sympathy meter

Lazy kids today. Why, I remember cranking my first sympathy meter by hand in the snow, and being thankful for it.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-03-13 13:00|| 2006-03-13 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't think grom was asking for sympathy - more like imagery.

I know. Still, it was a great opportunity to test the meter. I thought maybe with such a strong image...but nope.

Posted by Rafael 2006-03-13 13:16|| 2006-03-13 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Great read.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-13 13:37|| 2006-03-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL!

Posted by RD 2006-03-13 13:40|| 2006-03-13 13:40|| Front Page Top

#14 I remember cranking my first sympathy meter by hand in the snow

Uphill, both ways, and against the wind I'm sure.

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-13 13:52|| 2006-03-13 13:52|| Front Page Top

#15 I was wondering about my sympathy meter.
I checked the schematic it looks like R-15 is burnt out that is why the meter isn't reading. It wouldn't deflect much any how as the current is much too low to make the needle budge much anyway.
Looks as if I am not a sociopath any way.

Posted by SPoD 2006-03-13 14:28|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-13 14:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Jeepers, what a heroic story! I'm totally awestruck. I can only hope the full story of the 2nd battle of Fallujah becomes widely known so we can honor the people who served there.

As for the sympathy meters, it's a digital world now, you sorry-ass old farts! Get yourselves one of those new meters on a chip powered by a watch battery. They can register nano-scale sympathy events which makes them so useful in dealing with Paleostinean current affairs.

Posted by SteveS 2006-03-13 14:55|| 2006-03-13 14:55|| Front Page Top

#17 But....even with the nano-scale digital babies, I barely get a blip when I think about "Palestine".

But the ol' disgust-o-meter works just fine for them. Go figure.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-13 15:13|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-03-13 15:13|| Front Page Top

#18 you sorry-ass old farts!

That's Mister sorry-ass old fart, to you!

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-13 16:05|| 2006-03-13 16:05|| Front Page Top

#19 As for the sympathy meters, it's a digital world now, you sorry-ass old farts! Get yourselves one of those new meters on a chip powered by a watch battery. They can register nano-scale sympathy events which makes them so useful in dealing with Paleostinean current affairs.

I'll get a digital sympathy meter as soon as I get three good reasons to develop some sympathy for splodeydopes. That should be sometime after the second freezing of He$$.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-03-13 16:08|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-13 16:08|| Front Page Top

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