Posted on 03/28/2008 11:03:02 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
It was soon after the tragedy of 9-11 and I was working as an ORSA at beautiful Ft. Hood, Texas. The world was shocked at the brutality and savagery of the attack, but we at the mighty US Army Operational Test Command did not lose our sense of humor.
The lady who cleaned the latrines in our building dutifully brought in a urinal cake holder with Osama’s smiling mug right in the center. You would have had to have been drunk to have missed. After a tough, hard day of nerd-wrestling test data, I could always imagine myself hosing the spare grits of couscous out of his mangy, terrorist beard.
I have no idea which company came up with the inspired Bin Ladin urinal toy, but it seems a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune has decided that canceling the Vets For Freedom National Heroes Tour at a local high school was a wonderful thing. He seems to believe that unlike the impartial and fair Minneapolis Red Star Isvestia, these heroes’ tour guys are politically biased. He wrote a column praising the principal for his principled stand against young minds being exposed to ideas that haven’t been pre-filtered by the obnoxious, nattering left.
Veterans for Freedom Blogger, Peter Hegseth, is an alumnus of Forest Lake High School; where the tour was scheduled to visit. After going on to Princeton University and then winning a Bronze Star in Iraq, the current principal of the school, Steve Massey, is acting as if having him back would be an embarrassment.
The higher-ups in the school district were there to protect their principal. School Superintendent, Lynn Steenbock, then claimed it was cancelled to promote school security. He then goes on to worry that people will think they are anti-veteran.
The real truth involves the left-leaning Center for Media and Democracy. These individuals charge that Hegseth and his compatriots are a front group for the Bush White House. They claim that his outfit is a secretly funded cabal…..
If that is the case, it must have been part of the top-secret plan to undermine Donald Rumsfeld. Hegseth very publically demanded more troops for Iraq, in October 2006, in direct apposition to President Bush’s stated strategy, one month before the high-stakes 2006 Mid-Term Election. If he works for a Bushinista Death Squad, he had his Glock pointed in the wrong direction with that one.
Powerline Blog calls The Star Tribune to account for Coleman’s petty hatchet job. He describes the newspaper in perhaps the only terms that accurately fit the role of the modern print media in much of America. Blogger Scott Johnson writes the following about The Star Tribune.
Nick Coleman is a third-rate columnist for a second-rate newspaper. He wields his Star Tribune metro column like a hatchet, performing acts of destruction that seem to fulfill some dark needs. Coleman's column illustrates how a newspaper such as the Star Tribune can become a corrosive force on the civic life of the community it serves. - Powerline (27 March, 2008)
The only redeeming feature I could find in Coleman’s odium opis was the cute picture of him right next to the hate speech. It was perfect. Now if only I could find out who made those urinal cake holders…
Hey, hey, Hey, HEY!
Did the current principal of the school win a Bronze Star in Iraq?
Is he drunk again ?
That’s what I thought. The way the sentence is written, the compound participial phrase “After going on to Princeton University and then winning a Bronze Star in Iraq,” appears to describe the principal even though the intent was to describe Hegseth. It is a rather common grammatical mistake that editors apparently rarely catch.
After going on to Princeton University and then winning a Bronze Star in Iraq, he appears to have become an embarrassment to the school in the eyes of the current principal, Steve Massey.
I could comment on editor letting that sentence go into circulation.
However that would be beating a dead horse, and then I would have PETA after me.
He’s called “Prick Coleman” for a reason. I detest him.
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