Comments on: Subject and theme. http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/ one writer's daily download Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Dorothy http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100937 Dorothy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:59:31 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100937 I declare a truce!! (in this country, in this blog) I declare a truce!! (in this country, in this blog)

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100932 brian stouder Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:51:42 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100932 subject: the Iraq morass theme: Good versus Evil in America subject: the Iraq morass

theme: Good versus Evil in America

]]> By: czucky Dimes http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100927 czucky Dimes Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:31:10 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100927 Let's see, maybe I can do this in broad strokes here: Clueless bible-thumping, hallelujah-shouting president invades a sovereign country, based on invented, contrived "intelligence", primarily engineered by his vice-president. Reasons for said invasion seem to change with each passing month. Promised welcome from inhabitants of invaded nation fail to materialize. Exact opposite, in fact, occurs, violence now rampant. President's tit,as a result, now in a wringer. His response then is the bogus, transparent, and infuriatingly vacuous claim that if we don't fight terrorists there, we will see them tomorrow on our doorsteps. Meanwhile, president's large propaganda mechanism advances idea that if we leave now unimaginable chaos will be the result. Opposition political party points out only that entire undertaking was based on bullshit from the start, and thus is destined to end badly. That party's stance seems to be "Let's stop all this bullshit now and get back to reality". And goddammit, what do you know, most people seem to agree, judging by the polls. Oh, those Americans. Kind of like Forrest Gump. They'll swallow crap for a while, it seems, but they don't like to be told that it's honey. Do these views put me in the "failure in Iraq" camp? Let’s see, maybe I can do this in broad strokes here: Clueless
bible-thumping, hallelujah-shouting president invades a sovereign country, based on invented, contrived “intelligence”, primarily engineered by his vice-president. Reasons for said invasion seem to change with each passing month. Promised welcome from inhabitants of invaded nation fail to materialize. Exact opposite, in fact, occurs, violence now rampant. President’s tit,as a result, now in a wringer. His response then is the bogus, transparent, and infuriatingly vacuous claim that if we don’t fight terrorists there, we will see them tomorrow on our doorsteps. Meanwhile, president’s large propaganda mechanism advances idea that if we leave now unimaginable chaos will be the result. Opposition political party points out only that entire undertaking was based on bullshit from the start, and thus is destined to end badly. That party’s stance seems to be “Let’s stop all this bullshit now and get back to reality”. And goddammit, what do you know, most people seem to agree, judging by the polls. Oh, those Americans. Kind of like Forrest Gump. They’ll swallow crap for a while, it seems, but they don’t like to be told that it’s honey. Do these views put me in the “failure in Iraq” camp?

]]> By: ashley http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100894 ashley Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:38:40 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100894 My <a href="http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2007/08/tom-snyder.html" rel="nofollow">fave Tom Snyder story</a>: One time, Tom was interviewing a man who had been married something like 35 times. He said "and 18 of my wives were virgins when we married. So for me, life has just been a bowl of cherries." Tom laughed his ass off and went to commercial. My fave Tom Snyder story: One time, Tom was interviewing a man who had been married something like 35 times. He said “and 18 of my wives were virgins when we married. So for me, life has just been a bowl of cherries.” Tom laughed his ass off and went to commercial.

]]> By: Jeff http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100893 Jeff Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:35:43 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100893 Thank you Rich, and yes -- the story is of the situation we're in, and what does it say about the next time? I'm stunned to hear Obama saying we should get out of Iraq fast, and bomb across the border into Cambodia, i mean Pakistan. Is that what we've learned? Some say we should withdraw from the Middle East, and support a large multi-national armed force in Sudan/Darfur -- is that what we've learned? That's my, uh, point. Just saying "war sucks and Bush lied and bring the boys home" may be a campaign platform, but if it's our point, nationally speaking, then we'll be bombing western Pakistan into the . . . hm, they're in the early Bronze Age already. What was the point, again? Thank you Rich, and yes — the story is of the situation we’re in, and what does it say about the next time? I’m stunned to hear Obama saying we should get out of Iraq fast, and bomb across the border into Cambodia, i mean Pakistan. Is that what we’ve learned? Some say we should withdraw from the Middle East, and support a large multi-national armed force in Sudan/Darfur — is that what we’ve learned?

That’s my, uh, point. Just saying “war sucks and Bush lied and bring the boys home” may be a campaign platform, but if it’s our point, nationally speaking, then we’ll be bombing western Pakistan into the . . . hm, they’re in the early Bronze Age already. What was the point, again?

]]> By: Rich B http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100855 Rich B Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:31:01 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100855 I don't think Jeff's links need a "point", if by point you mean an angle. They're stories of the mess were in. These guys are inside the mess we've made and it looks like they're doing a pretty good job, considering. As far as the Failure-in Iraq basket is concerned seems to me it's this (Republican) administration that wove the basket. I don’t think Jeff’s links need a “point”, if by point you mean an angle. They’re stories of the mess were in. These guys are inside the mess we’ve made and it looks like they’re doing a pretty good job, considering.

As far as the Failure-in Iraq basket is concerned seems to me it’s this (Republican) administration that wove the basket.

]]> By: Danny http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100829 Danny Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:11:15 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100829 <i>Don’t know who Jeff is, but only one question–What exactly is your point? OK, two questions, then. Why should we navigate all those links you put up just to wade through DOD bullshit? And I wish there existed a stronger word than bullshit to describe that.</i> I think Jeff's point is well within your grasp, Chucky. Maybe you just don't want to know, because maybe, like Minority Whip James Clyburn states, all of the Demcrats eggs are in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001380.html" rel="nofollow">Failure -in-Iraq</a> basket. Don't know if you are in that camp, but a lot of people are, unfortunately. Don’t know who Jeff is, but only one question–What exactly is your point? OK, two questions, then. Why should we navigate all those links you put up just to wade through DOD bullshit? And I wish there existed a stronger word than bullshit to describe that.

I think Jeff’s point is well within your grasp, Chucky. Maybe you just don’t want to know, because maybe, like Minority Whip James Clyburn states, all of the Demcrats eggs are in the Failure -in-Iraq basket.

Don’t know if you are in that camp, but a lot of people are, unfortunately.

]]> By: Jim http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100804 Jim Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:02:55 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100804 Another good reason for young reporters to NOT use a tape recorder: endless quotes that don't mean anything. My advice on quotes was to only use them if the subject made the point better than you could. Another good reason for young reporters to NOT use a tape recorder: endless quotes that don’t mean anything. My advice on quotes was to only use them if the subject made the point better than you could.

]]> By: danindy http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100791 danindy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:15:48 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100791 Goat Trauma website was hilarious!! They need to add Childhood Chicken Trauma to the list too! (mine was compliments to the Ft. Wayne Children's Zoo) Thanks for the 'enlightening' website Nance!! Goat Trauma website was hilarious!! They need to add Childhood Chicken Trauma to the list too! (mine was compliments to the Ft. Wayne Children’s Zoo)
Thanks for the ‘enlightening’ website Nance!!

]]> By: alex http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100658 alex Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:23:41 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/07/31/subject-and-theme/#comment-100658 Childhood Goat Trauma, indeed. Today some vendor left giant karaffes of coffee at my place of employment. Press a lever and... voila! You're back in the petting zoo, where the squirts coming outta them critters and splashing on the gravel conjure the gross-out your're feeling when it hits the bottom of your cup. And the German Chocolate Whatever has the perfect barnyard amoniac bouquet to give you PTSD. Childhood Goat Trauma, indeed. Today some vendor left giant karaffes of coffee at my place of employment. Press a lever and… voila! You’re back in the petting zoo, where the squirts coming outta them critters and splashing on the gravel conjure the gross-out your’re feeling when it hits the bottom of your cup. And the German Chocolate Whatever has the perfect barnyard amoniac bouquet to give you PTSD.

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