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Stephen King fires back after blogger attacks remarks
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| Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Posted on 05/07/2008 4:31:52 AM PDT by metesky
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To: mbynack
To: 70th Division
You can't send King an Email because he took his website down just as soon as he started getting responses to his stupid remarks.
He claims his webmaster was going on vacation. Yeah, and the dog ate my homework.
Apparently he was inciting his board readers/members to attack the Newsbusters blog for pointing out his stupidity, but his minions were vastly outnumbered by the folks who objected to his siccing the mindless on NB. So he cut and ran like the coward he is.
And a 4-F too, from high blood pressure, flat feet, and bad vision IIRC.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:13:54 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: metesky
"That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt," he said in a statement posted on his Web site.That would be beneath contempt, but that's not why King is being criticized. Maybe King has a problem reading... Let's ship him to Iraq!
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:14:35 AM PDT
by
Tao Yin
To: Drawsing
the strange keyboard charactersYeah, I don't know what that's all about, I just copied and pasted the source code.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:17:46 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: ottbmare
All offciers in the Army must have a degree before being promoted to Captain; however, very few earn a commission w/o a bachelor’s. To be successful, an officer has to continue education, earning a masters at about the senior captian (8-10 years o service) or while a major (10-16 years). Many officers are sent to top-flite schools to earn these degrees and they incur a service obligation usually of 3 years for every year of school the Army pays for. They usually are assigned duties at laboratories or other research & development entities specific to thier specailties, both military and educational.
Hope this helps
God Bless
To: AnAmericanMother
Thank you madam. I love it. he is just such a wonderful guy. LOL
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:19:31 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
To: Future Snake Eater; ottbmare
I'm a trifle behind the times, but I knew Army officers back in the day (Vietnam era) who didn't have undergraduate degrees. My husband was a "ROTC Jock" so of course he had his degree, and plenty of officers in his unit did also (the CO had an accountancy degree) but it wasn't universal.
I would think there must still be some OCS types who escaped unscathed by college . . . but I'm not really up to speed on what's going on now.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:19:54 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Old Grumpy
Being his neighbor, I can tell you that he is rumored to be even stranger than you thought.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:19:55 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
King: I support our troops, but I don't support either the war Then you don't support the troops, ass.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:20:53 AM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(Part of me is intrigued and the other part is disgusted at the part that is intrigued.)
To: Da Coyote
He worked in a laundry when he first started writing, before he hit it big.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:22:52 AM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Change.....that's what we will have left in our pockets if a Democrat gets elected president!)
To: metesky
“King said he supports the troops but believes the war in Iraq is a “waste of national resources “
An analogy for Stephen would be: Some would say they support publishing books; but they are against trees being made into paper.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:23:43 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
To: AnAmericanMother
Post 25 has it dead on in regards to the current standards.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:24:51 AM PDT
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: metesky
His novels suck.....
....the best of his movies was “The Shining” and he hated it because it did not follow his book......thank God.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:26:10 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
At least hes not claiming it was a botched joke.Looks like he's using the Tom Daschle "that's outragous!" defense. How dare we question his patriotism when he makes unpatriotic comments!?
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:26:31 AM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(Part of me is intrigued and the other part is disgusted at the part that is intrigued.)
To: Tribune7
in which he suggested poor readers have limited prospects, including service in the Army. "I donât want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you donât, then youâve got the Army, Iraq, I donât know, something like that. Stephen King "suggested" nothing, he didn't "imply". He was upfront and blunt about it.
Meanwhile illiterate dumb Americans who can't read a Stephen King novel can pick up copies of his books on tape. I'll wager that the number of NON-MILITARY persons listening to his books on tape are greater than the number who serve in the military and listen to his books on tape.
What a dumbass antimilitary thing to say.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:27:30 AM PDT
by
weegee
("I didn't kill innocent people." - Bill Ayers, Weatherman. Terrorist. Obama's comrade.)
To: N. Theknow
Maybe he supports the mission and not the troops.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:28:15 AM PDT
by
weegee
("I didn't kill innocent people." - Bill Ayers, Weatherman. Terrorist. Obama's comrade.)
To: Vaquero
....the best of his movies was The Shining and he hated it because it did not follow his book......thank God.And he produced a made-for-TV remake of the movie with Stephen Webber (Wings) in the Jack Nicholson role. LOL! Yeah, that was much better than Kubrick's flick /s
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:28:49 AM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(Part of me is intrigued and the other part is disgusted at the part that is intrigued.)
To: ottbmare
Isnt it true that all officers have undergraduate degrees and the vast majority of them above lieutenant have at least one advanced degree? Ive dated some majors and colonels and they all had either a couple of masters degrees or a doctorate. Do you have to get the advanced degree before the military will promote you, or does it come later? I ask because my boy wants to be an officer and were trying to do some planning here. I'm not sure about the other military branches, but the AF requires a Bachelor's degree before you can be commissioned as an officer. Graduate degrees are not mandatory, but they are considered during officer promotions. I've known several very good officers that were passed over for promotion to Colonel because they didn't have a graduate degree.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:28:57 AM PDT
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: metesky
i will now shun mr. king’s books just as i shun jane fonda’s films.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:29:08 AM PDT
by
ripley
To: AnAmericanMother
This whole brouhaha came up a few days ago. I went to that website to leave my remarks. There was nowhere to do so other than leave remarks about the website itself to the webmaster.
Well, I chose that route. I gave my personal information (accurately) and typed my message (not a very nice one). On hitting submit, a message came up that my message was improper and could only be about website issues.
It was obvious someone was monitoring the page; had to be. I suspect I wasn’t the first to leave a message that way. Oh, there was a forum one could join, but I didn’t want to go that route. Why bother having a presence on a Stephen King forum? I’ve never read his books, never seen a movie of his.
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posted on
05/07/2008 5:31:09 AM PDT
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
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