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No Yellow Ribbons Here (BARF Alert!)
Daily Collegian (UMass) ^
| 2/24/05
| Thomas Naughton
Posted on 02/24/2005 12:28:47 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: TFFKAMM
Where are we now? Are we in a better place? Is the world safer for democracy? No, it is not safer and we are not in a better place. 25 million freed people might disagree, Tommy-boy.
I have a rule when reading self-absorbed garbage such as this little screed - when I get to the fifth invocation of the holy word "I" and it's still the first paragraph, it's time to quit reading.
To: 76834
Believe me when I say your rep is intact here. I musta clicked on the wrong reply button. I blame it on shaking fists, haha.
Very sorry for the upstart I gave you.
To: RightRules
No problem at all friend.
Was shaking a bit myself after I read the origional post.
83
posted on
02/24/2005 1:28:05 PM PST
by
76834
To: TFFKAMM
Ripping off the ribbons is so constructive, so adult, so helpful to the soldiers he professes to care about./sarcasm
84
posted on
02/24/2005 1:28:11 PM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: TFFKAMM
While back someone had an article explaining what a Chicken Dove was. This guy is as Chickendove as they get.
85
posted on
02/24/2005 1:29:32 PM PST
by
Swiss
To: An Old Marine
God bless you. For some honor, duty, loyalty and love of Country have real meaning and their lives reflect that.
You must be one of those people.
To: TFFKAMM
What this idiot writier derserves when he messes with private property.
87
posted on
02/24/2005 1:30:54 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("There out ta get me! They won't catch me! I'm #@^#@# innocent! They won't break me" - Guns N Roses)
To: Holicheese
88
posted on
02/24/2005 1:31:43 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("There out ta get me! They won't catch me! I'm #@^#@# innocent! They won't break me" - Guns N Roses)
To: TFFKAMM
They call that school Zoo Mass/Amherst.
89
posted on
02/24/2005 1:31:58 PM PST
by
Radix
(The next time that I find a good Tag Line, I'll be sure to post it here.)
To: TFFKAMM
It must feel good to believe without question, to benefit from the blind belief of young men and women who chose to join the armed forces, to sit in a radio studio in New York and admonish the public to give in like the troops, to just follow orders, to live as just a number that will soon be etched into a gravestone that no one will ever see. Kipling said it best-
Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
Spare me the moral outrage, Mr Naughton. How much nobler is it, to slink in parking lots, stealing ribbons from unattended cars? How much braver is it to cower behind a keyboard and spit on the backs of your protectors? How worthy a gravestone does he believe his skulking will buy him?
Who knows? Death comes for us all. I console myself thinking that should he and I die of old age on the same day, I won't have to lie in bed with his regrets. I won't die wishing I had fought with my generation when they needed me, because I was there. I won't die wishing I had supported the next generation when their time came, because I will.
Mr. Naughton may live his whole life never knowing what it is to risk your life for what you think is right, even in the face of protest and ridicule. His comfortable, arrogant condescencion will keep his precious prejudices safe and the bitterness in his heart fresh.
I pity Mr. Naughton because he's a coward. I pity him all the more because he clearly knows it to be true.
90
posted on
02/24/2005 1:32:51 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. Mark it zero, Dude.)
To: rdwtic
"Somewhat" in love with himself? More like worships himself in third person. Typical liberal. He considers himself worthy of worship.
To: rdwtic
"Somewhat" in love with himself? More like worships himself in third person. Typical liberal. He considers himself worthy of worship.
To: Lazamataz; All
I wonder if Professor Airwaster has the stones to rip the stickers off cars which also bear a military-base sticker?
Somehow, I think not. I also have a hard time believing that such a chickensh** even does what he claims. That'd take brass he obviously lacks.
93
posted on
02/24/2005 1:35:03 PM PST
by
Long Cut
(The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
To: TFFKAMM
Dear Thomas Naughton, Book a ticket to Canada..we dont want you here!
To: mak5
So Mr. Naughton is admitting to serial theft?Yes.
Time for an indictment.
95
posted on
02/24/2005 1:37:24 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: cyclotic
I don't like yellow ribbons either. To me they are a symbol of weakness and tears. I prefer the strength embodied by the colors red, white and blue. ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! The original song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was about an ex-con doing time. Not the symbol I want for our soldiers. Not at all.
To: arizonarachel
To: Uncle Fud
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! The original song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was about an ex-con doing time. Not the symbol I want for our soldiers. Not at all.
That may be the origion of the yellow ribbon but it has evolved to be a symbol of thought and prayer for anyone who is away from home, especially military.
Thats the reason I have them here.
Merely a symbol stating that I am greatful for them and their service. And as long as any of our military is in harms way you can bet they will be displayed here.
98
posted on
02/24/2005 1:44:32 PM PST
by
76834
To: 76834
To me the yellow ribbon means "Hurry up and come home right away". It may be appropriate for hostages.
I don't think it carries the unequivocal meaning that "I support our troops and their mission"
To: Swiss
I dunno what a ChickenDove is but then if this guy is representative of the species then I imagine I neither want to know nor would we likely run in the same circles.
You don't find too many chicken-anythings in the US Marines.
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