ZOT! The Walking Wounded

The American Conservative ^ | January 31, 2005 | Fred Reed

[hard_rocker1232]

The observant will have noticed that we hear little from the troops in Iraq and see almost nothing of the wounded. Why, one might wonder, does not CNN put an enlisted Marine before a camera and, for 15 minutes without editing, let him say what he thinks? Is he not an adult and a citizen? Is he not engaged in important events on our behalf?

Sound political reasons exist. Soldiers are a risk PR-wise, the wounded a liability. No one can tell what they might say, and conspicuous dismemberment is bad for recruiting. An enlisted man in front of a camera is dangerous. He could wreck the governmental spin apparatus in five minutes. It is better to keep soldiers discreetly out of sight.

So we do not see much of the casualties, ours or theirs. Yet they are there, somewhere, with missing legs, blind, becoming accustomed to groping at things in their new darkness, learning to use the wheelchairs that will be theirs for 50 years. Some face worse fates than others. Quadriplegics will be warehoused in VA hospitals where nurses will turn them at intervals, like hamburgers, to prevent bedsores. Friends and relatives will soon forget them. Suicide will be a frequent thought. The less damaged will get around.

[Darksheare]

Word Perfect did the same thing, until I told it to add them to it's dictionary.
*chuckle*

[SolidRedState]

[MeekOneGOP]

haha! Well, there ya go. Works great for the home computer.

Now at work, hmmmm? :^D

[Darksheare]

At work.. they'd get mightily upset over seeing odd words like "Garouk Sha'uul!" and such saved to the machine.
Not to mention "U'unfratha Bu'ugraith"..

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!

Aw, what the heck? Give it try. Just once. :^D

[pharmamom]

Dang nabit! I always miss the ZOT!!!! You guys have all the fun. (Goes off in corner and pouts.)

[pharmamom]

You can also go up to the Edit button and hit "undo autocorrect" - and then add the word to your spellcheck.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. :^)

[pharmamom]

How's tricks? You guys have been crazy-zotting lately. I wish some trolls would post at night...I miss all the action during the day. Reading through the pings I get, I startle the cats by laughing out loud. FReepers are funny people!

[Republican Wildcat]

Farewell.

[GVnana]

Because Marines don't watch CNN, you dope.

[zip]

You are one sick bastard.

[b4its2late]

[exDemMom]

Let it fix it for you and type a few words beyond. Then, go back and 'fix' the word to the corrupted spelling you desire. After typing the last letter in the word, hit the "End" key instead of the space key and resume your typing.

I believe that if you backspace, fix the word, and then just keep typing, Word will not change the word again.

I like the autocorrect feature--besides fixing things like "hte" and "teh", it makes life easier on me--for instance, when I was writing my Ph.D. thesis, and my topic was a scientific word containing 25 letters and 7 other characters--yeah, autocorrect can be really nice.

[Doctor Raoul]

I get plenty of news from military. Not that they'd call it news, they usually share what they're doing and what matters to them when they write me.

The mainstream media is doing a big disservice to the troops in 99% of the cases.

Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter

[TADSLOS]

A righteous ZOT. I saved the guntape.

"Breaking right, FARP inbound"

TADSLOS

[OSHA]

You are banned but maybe you'll slink back to see this....

Well, I won't say that my style of conservatism has ever been particularly popular, but it is principled, and I think that matters more.

From what I've read, your brand of conservatism is marked by collaboration, appeasement, and compromise with your political enemies? Get along at any cost.

Sounds the opposite of principled to me!

[OSHA]

"Garouk Sha'uul"

I never new their ware too u's in Sha'uul!

[Antioch]