Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny
Guess wether it's cool or not depends on your politics ... For sure, that's the way 90% of the world views the US right now, for better or worse. -A On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE wrote: ** Forgive me…this isn’t exactly funny, but I think it’s cool, and I know there are a lot of ex-military types on the list who might appreciate it: www.ladylibertyvictory.com/imagejpg.html Norm __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny
It isn't necessarily politics. General Smedley Butler indicated it's more a matter of paying attention to what's really going on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedly_butler --Tim --- Andrew Hicox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess wether it's cool or not depends on your politics ... For sure, that's the way 90% of the world views the US right now, for better or worse. -A On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE wrote: ** Forgive me this isnt exactly funny, but I think its cool, and I know there are a lot of ex-military types on the list who might appreciate it: www.ladylibertyvictory.com/imagejpg.html Norm __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny
Tim, I take that to mean that we should be aware of what political family's patriarch was a particpant in the coup that Butler exposed, per the wikipedia article. Everyone else, if you don't know who that person was then you only get one guess as to what his last name was. Wealthy Pro-Nazis during that time continued their activities during and after congresional investigation, which should give everyone all the hint they would need. To me, the graphic is particularly offensive as it replaces the Statue of Liberty's torch (a symbol of enlightenment) with a blazing machine gun (pretty much the opposite of enlightenment). How anyone in this day and age could fail to see the irony of a gun-totin' tablet-of-justice carryin' Statue of Liberty and how that image plays to the view of America held by today's world boggles my mind. Norm, I'm 100% for a strong military, and I respect you as a person and as someone who knows pretty much everything there is to know about Remedy. But off-topic or not, that graphic should not have been posted to this forum. Drew Tulsa, OK On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Tim Widowfield wrote: It isn't necessarily politics. General Smedley Butler indicated it's more a matter of paying attention to what's really going on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedly_butler --Tim --- Andrew Hicox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess wether it's cool or not depends on your politics ... For sure, that's the way 90% of the world views the US right now, for better or worse. -A On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE wrote: ** Forgive me this isnt exactly funny, but I think its cool, and I know there are a lot of ex-military types on the list who might appreciate it: www.ladylibertyvictory.com/imagejpg.html Norm __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny
I am not in the mood to argue whether or not the original posting should have been posted. However, I am happy to say that this forum should NOT spend any time on US politics or political history as a result of the post. As much as those of us in the other 59 countries that receive the list might enjoy picking US foreign policy into little bits, it is the wrong forum for it. Enjoy a wonderful long weekend (in countries where that applies) and Labour/Labor Day :-) Daniel p.s. to be accurate, it was a URL that could optionally be followed not the graphic itself --- a bit snipped ... Norm, I'm 100% for a strong military, and I respect you as a person and as someone who knows pretty much everything there is to know about Remedy. But off-topic or not, that graphic should not have been posted to this forum. Drew Tulsa, OK ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: OT: Friday Humor...Maybe More Cool than Funny
OK Daniel, the URL should never have been posted. Drew On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, arslist wrote: I am not in the mood to argue whether or not the original posting should have been posted. However, I am happy to say that this forum should NOT spend any time on US politics or political history as a result of the post. As much as those of us in the other 59 countries that receive the list might enjoy picking US foreign policy into little bits, it is the wrong forum for it. Enjoy a wonderful long weekend (in countries where that applies) and Labour/Labor Day :-) Daniel p.s. to be accurate, it was a URL that could optionally be followed not the graphic itself --- a bit snipped ... Norm, I'm 100% for a strong military, and I respect you as a person and as someone who knows pretty much everything there is to know about Remedy. But off-topic or not, that graphic should not have been posted to this forum. Drew Tulsa, OK ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
