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2014-11-10 Fifth Column

Salon Spits in Face of Military on Eve of Veterans Day

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-10 12:39|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Typical liberal cowards.

Ignore Afghanistan like last time and we'll have another 9/11.

Dismantle our military and we'll be invaded.

I'm for shipping them off to Iraq/Syria where they can be as non-military as they like.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-11-10 13:26|| 2014-11-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah. They are only playing to their audience: a 2 year old with a hand full of poo and a wall to smear it on, quoting from one of the comments.

When the balloon goes up and there is mayhem upon us ( from any number of sources) the site owners will be the loudest screaming (whining) to be rescued.

FWIW: Did not even know this site existed until this article, that is how relevant they are.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-11-10 14:30|| 2014-11-10 14:30|| Front Page Top

#3 It's Salon. Like Slate and Time, they publish "bash the holiday" articles like this because it gets them "eyeballs" and outraged commentary. That generates the numbers they use to present to the advertisers.

Screw 'em.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-10 14:38|| 2014-11-10 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The same guy who would scream and yell at the idea of a draft would give the finger to those that volunteer for the danger so others don't have to chosen randomly. What a tool.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-10 15:13|| 2014-11-10 15:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone needs to write an app, call it shitlist. Basically you tag sites like Salon so that any story or link from a tagged site that looks interesting will have a mouse-over reminder of why that site sucks so that you can decide to give them a click or not.

Salon has frequently fooled me with decent sounding article titles and always left me disgusted.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-10 15:15|| 2014-11-10 15:15|| Front Page Top

#6 This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
- Shakespeare, Henry V

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-10 15:37|| 2014-11-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

#7 "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf." - George Orwell - 'Notes on Nationalism'

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-11-10 17:19|| 2014-11-10 17:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Procop, you forgot Henry IV, Act 1 Scene 3:

But I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;
He was perfumed like a milliner;
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
He gave his nose and took't away again;
Who therewith angry, when it next came there,
Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
With many holiday and lady terms
He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded
My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.
I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,
To be so pester'd with a popinjay,
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,
He should or he should not; for he made me mad
To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--
And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.
This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,
I answer'd indirectly, as I said;

Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-11-10 20:27|| 2014-11-10 20:27|| Front Page Top

#9 To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.
-- Scrawled on a bunker outside Khe Sahn, RVN

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-10 22:03|| 2014-11-10 22:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah, Hotspur. A most troublesome man.

They say when he was killed they brought the body to Bolingbroke, who wept before ordering it dismembered.

I guess dat's da Marches for ya. Can't live without 'em, can't keep from dismembering them.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-11-10 23:08|| 2014-11-10 23:08|| Front Page Top

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