they think they whip Mike Tyson. What are you, studying Ebonics?

Jerk, get back to work.

And how are you doing gathering that evidence that you went to a military academy?

Actually, Corrigan, we know that SFC Smith died for his country, a brave and selfless act that a big, bald, “french fry” model such as yourself would never have the balls to do.

BTW, I was waiting for you and frameone at at the corner of http://tinyurl.com/d7kud and http://tinyurl.com/anlo5 all day yesterday.

You never showed up. What happened? You had tickets fpr Brokeback Mountain?

No, but thanks to you, Frank, we all know that he was a man who would most likely still be alive if Dubya and his handlers hadn’t started an illegal, unnecessary war against Iraq. Now what was your f–king point again, Frank?

Oh, that’s right, you didn’t have one. Just taking advantage of another chance to suck off Dear Leader. Were you this hot for Nixon? If so, you’re getting less discriminating with your political johns:

Simple Arithmetic

With this many idiotic true believers around, the DoD shouldn’t have to pay for propaganda.

And like most bar rags who have a snootful, they think they whip Mike Tyson.

I’m such a fool to disagree with you, the master, or should I say badger, because you cling to a point like one.

If you truly have no respect for me, do us both a favor and ignore me.

This statement, “If I could once and for all convince you of your basic idiocy I think it would consitute a huge step forward for you personally,” is typical of the limitless arrogance that sickens me about you.

I have no problem telling you that I don’t like you. You are truly convinced that there is no right or wrong, there is only frameone’s law: What I say goes. He who disagrees with me is an idiot.

As to “what you hold dear”, I don’t believe you hold anything dear. I think you are perhaps the most self – centered man it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. A world ruled by people such as yourself would be worse than Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short.”

You are obviously completely out of touch with anything resembling humanity. Obviously, for you, the argument is the point. You just want to “subjugate your opponent”; you have no real point to make.

More and more it seems self-evident that you just don t care.

Now you’re getting warm, bucko! How important is this bs, anyway?
I tried to tell you that before but you were too rabid to pay attention.
This is BULLSHIT, Paul. Not Parliament. not Meet the Press, this isn’t even College Bowl. This is BULLSHIT.

Calm the fuck down, sissy boy, before you blow a friggin’ fuse!

And BTW Frank, people turning out for a parade and coverage in the media are not the same thing. Nice conflation between the two. For your point to have madeany sense you should have said “Armed Forces Day used to be covered a lot. Now it goes without a mention.” Of course then you’d have to prove that. Could you?

You don’t like me, do you, Paul?

But Frank think about this logically. Does my knowing who Smith was have any bearing on whether or not it was nearly impossible to find coverage on him in the mainstream press? In other words, my not knowing who Smith has nothing to do with whether or not the New York Times didn’t cover it. Because they did cover it. So did the Washington Post and the LA Times.

How many people in the country even know who Sam Alito is at this very moment and the New York Times is covering his hearings every day on the front page? If you walked out on the street and asked someone who Alito was and they said they didn’t know, would thar prove that the NEw York Times wasn’t covering the hearings enough?

THe DOD needs millblogs because I might not have known about Smith? But I don’t read milblogs. I read the New York Times. And the New York TImes covered Smith. So tell me again why the DOD needs milblogs?

Probably 25 to 30% of Americans could tell you that Gary Cooper played Alvin York.

Frank, I admit to being a dyed-in-the-wool, dripping fangs pacifist, and I’ve never heard of Alvin York. I’d be surprised if one American in a hundred has heard his name, knows there was a movie about him, or that Gary Cooper played him.

No point. Just sayin’.

If the MSM doesn’t cover it, it’s like it never happened

If the DoD wants to develop some human interest in the military, they certainly can’t rely on the MSM, which has politicized this war from Day 1.

And that includes FOX, Limbaugh and O’Reilly, as well as NYT and WaPo.

Another example from left field: When I was a kid, back when the earth was cooling, hundreds of people from my town went to a nearby Army base for Armed Forces Day the second Sunday in May.

In May of 1966, I marched with my Basic Training company in the Armed Forces Day parade in Philadelphia. Thousands of people turned out to see us. Now, Armed Forces Day comes and goes without a mention, except in the MilBlogs.

OK, you might be right. Folks who like old movies will know about him. Probably 25 or 30 percent? Who knows?

You are still ignoring my questions

Do you know who he was?
Do you know what s special about him?
I ll bet you don t.
Now check the link.

Sgt Alvin York was a conscientious objector who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War I. A movie was made about him. Probably 25 to 30% of Americans could tell you that Gary Cooper played Alvin York.

Would you care to hazard a guess as to how many Americans could identify SFC Paul Smith, and what his claim to fame is?

You never heard of him, did you?
Did you?

STFU