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America, you keep using that word
« on: March 27, 2011, 12:48:50 PM »
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America: You Keep Using That Word…
http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/03/america-you-keeping-...
by Jim Wright
… I don’t think it means what you think it means.



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So, I’m driving into Anchorage this morning.

Along with the usual herd of jackasses who, despite living in Alaska still don’t seem to know how to drive in snow, one vehicle in particular caught my eye.

It was one of those enormous black pickup trucks, with the huge knobby tires and smoked glass windows and chrome roll bar complete with half a dozen giant chrome halogen lights and a ten foot high antenna whipping about in the slipstream and pipe organ-like exhaust pipes jutting up from behind the cab belching thick plumes of white diesel smoke like the twin contrails of a fighter jet on full afterburner."

"What I really wanted to ask is this: Proud American? Really? What is it exactly that you’re proud of? You say you love your country? You say you love the United States? Really? Which part? What is it that you love about it? Specifically, what exactly do you love about America?

Because, see, so far as I can tell, people like you seem to hate just about everything that makes the United States what it is. "

http://www.stonekettle.com/2011/03/america-you-keeping-using-that-word.html

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    I'm a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer. Nowadays I live in Alaska where I spend most of my time working in my woodshop or fishing. I occasionally consult for the Military. I have delusions of becoming a full time writer - or conquering the universe, whichever is easier... You can email me, your future ruler, at stonekettlestation@ gmail.com, be sure to put "Stonekettle Station" in the subject line or else my moat monster will eat your messenger and make a funny origami hat from his skin.

The writer of above stonekettle blog.  All I can say is that he must have gotten brain damage from his stint in the Navy.  Appreciate his service, but he certainly doesn't "get it" at all.     ::) ::)
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2011, 12:53:47 PM »
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America, you keep using that word
   
America: You Keep Using That Word…
http://www.stonekettle.co...1/03/america-you-keeping-...
by Jim Wright
… I don’t think it means what you think it means.



"
So, I’m driving into Anchorage this morning.

Along with the usual herd of jackasses who, despite living in Alaska still don’t seem to know how to drive in snow, one vehicle in particular caught my eye.

It was one of those enormous black pickup trucks, with the huge knobby tires and smoked glass windows and chrome roll bar complete with half a dozen giant chrome halogen lights and a ten foot high antenna whipping about in the slipstream and pipe organ-like exhaust pipes jutting up from behind the cab belching thick plumes of white diesel smoke like the twin contrails of a fighter jet on full afterburner."

"What I really wanted to ask is this: Proud American? Really? What is it exactly that you’re proud of? You say you love your country? You say you love the United States? Really? Which part? What is it that you love about it? Specifically, what exactly do you love about America?

Because, see, so far as I can tell, people like you seem to hate just about everything that makes the United States what it is. "
How about being proud of the freedom to drive whatever type of vehicle you want regardless of how much it pisses off the liberal treehuggers...
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2011, 01:26:10 PM »
I thought diesel smoke was black?
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2011, 01:33:22 PM »
I've heard the Navy does that to some people...

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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2011, 01:49:37 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on March 27, 2011, 01:26:10 PM
I thought diesel smoke was black?
It can be any color in a bouncy.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2011, 01:50:19 PM »
Liberal knee jerk reaction. The bumper sticker, "Patriotic American" set this one off. liberals HATE free speech.

Liberals hate America. Any display of patriotism or even the flag is offensive to them. They cannot stand knowing people out there love a country that liberals plan to tear down and replace.

Therefore any bumper sticker that supports the troops, or expresses patriotism must be hypocrisy. It violates the liberals religious devotion to a socialistic tyranny.
If a liberal doesn't love this country then no one can. Further: No one is allowed to.

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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2011, 01:51:03 PM »
2,775 words of that drivel, and not a single one of them worth reading.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2011, 01:53:39 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 27, 2011, 01:51:03 PM
2,775 words of that drivel, and not a single one of them worth reading.

And it was after you finished that you realized this. :lmao: :rotf: :tongue: :fuelfire:
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2011, 01:56:12 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 27, 2011, 01:51:03 PM
2,775 words of that drivel, and not a single one of them worth reading.

You counted!  ::)  :-)
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2011, 02:13:28 PM »
**** off liberals. This country lets people drive wha tthey want. For now we still have some rights as long as you ****ing genetic freaks don't get your way.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2011, 02:23:43 PM »
I counted nothing. 

That is probably the only useful feature I like about Microsoft Word.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2011, 02:33:16 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on March 27, 2011, 02:23:43 PM
I counted nothing. 

That is probably the only useful feature I like about Microsoft Word.

It would have been really nice to have back in high school & college.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2011, 03:17:22 PM »
The fact(?) that this guy made Chief doesn't impress me at all. The military is a big place with a few million people in it, unfortunately no shortage of asshats. I doubt this clown held any position of real meaning in the fleet, a place that tends to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Likely a pogue who idled away his service years in the rear area realm of carpets and air conditioning.

In the Marines me & my buddies referred to these types as "R.O.A.D." sergeants or "Roadies" (Retired On Active Duty).
The civilian counterpart would be like the fat guy with 8 inches of plumber's crack on the highway crew, leaning on a shovel as he pats the beads of sweat off his forehead with a hanky while he watches the men work.  :loser:
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2011, 03:45:59 PM »
I read his rant, or I should say, skimmed it because my eyes started to glaze over after the first couple of paragraphs. Basically a warehouse full of strawmen. I couldn't figure out who he was supposed to be addressing. Apparently it's meant for some character who hates every single part of the American experience, whoever that may be. That or he intends to say that anyone who is dissatisfied with what any facet of America has become is a "hater" and cannot still be proud of the country.

I would give him credit for lashing out at moonbats as well in about 25% of his screed, except that he strikes me as one of those people who likes to imagine himself as being "above the fray". You know the kind, smarter than both conservatives and liberals, having had their Moment Of Zen that allows them to look down and laugh at us mere mortals arguing with one another. They go through life not really taking a stand on anything. Political nihilists, I like to call them.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2011, 04:00:29 PM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on March 27, 2011, 03:17:22 PM
The fact(?) that this guy made Chief doesn't impress me at all. The military is a big place with a few million people in it, unfortunately no shortage of asshats. I doubt this clown held any position of real meaning in the fleet, a place that tends to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Likely a pogue who idled away his service years in the rear area realm of carpets and air conditioning.

In the Marines me & my buddies referred to these types as "R.O.A.D." sergeants or "Roadies" (Retired On Active Duty).
The civilian counterpart would be like the fat guy with 8 inches of plumber's crack on the highway crew, leaning on a shovel as he pats the beads of sweat off his forehead with a hanky while he watches the men work.  :loser:

He did not make Chief. It's likely he was never in at all.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2011, 04:38:19 PM »
He claims he was a CWO, but I'd be willing to bet dimes to donuts he hasn't the first foggiest ****ing clue how one goes about that in the Navy these days.

Oh, and white smoke?  Not even close.  And smoke from afterburners?  Not since the F-4.
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« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2011, 04:58:19 PM »
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It was one of those enormous black pickup trucks, with the huge knobby tires and smoked glass windows and chrome roll bar complete with half a dozen giant chrome halogen lights and a ten foot high antenna whipping about in the slipstream and pipe organ-like exhaust pipes jutting up from behind the cab belching thick plumes of white diesel smoke like the twin contrails of a fighter jet on full afterburner."

White smoke from a diesel ?

Yeah. Sure.

If that's not an outright fabrication - that is steam or an indication that the truck is due for a trip to the doctor.

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"What I really wanted to ask is this: Proud American? Really? What is it exactly that you’re proud of? You say you love your country? You say you love the United States? Really? Which part? What is it that you love about it? Specifically, what exactly do you love about America?

Lets begin with the freedom that allows a regular Joe to be able to own such a vehicle and the opportunity that a regular Joe has to get work so that they can afford to operate a great big gas sucking truck like that, even after paying for you worthless moochers like DUmmies.

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« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2011, 06:34:36 PM »
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You hate your neighbors, you do, you hate them. You hate the ******s and the spics and the chinks and the gooks and spooks and hajis.  And, man, there’s nothing you hate more than when they call you a racist and a bigot. You hate all those minorities with their whining about equal rights and political correctness and affirmative action. You hate that they get a free ride.  You hate how they can’t take a joke. You hate the greedy Jews. You hate the terrorist Muslims. You hate the child-molesting Catholics. And you just *******ed hate those atheists.  You hate anybody who wasn’t born again. You hate that guy with the long beard and the red turban who runs that store you hate downtown.  You hate those people who can’t speak English without an accent.  You hate having to dial 1 for English, my God how you hate that. You hate the fags in their little Speedos, demanding the right to wed just so they can mock your third marriage.  You hate immigrants, and not just the illegal ones either. You hate the idea that those dirty, diseased sons of bitches come here to this country and take all the good jobs.  You hate that your daughter is dating one of them. You hate that one of their kids can become president when there are plenty of good God fearin’ naturally born white men around –

I didn't read the whole blog before I posted the DUmp link.  I just can't get past all the projection.  If anyone hates anyone, it's Jim Wright himself.  It has to take a massive amount of anger and hatred to write such a lying rant.   :loser:

Aside from that, is he actually claiming Obama, or Obama's parents, were immigrants?  Is he a birther, too??   :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2011, 06:56:42 PM »
Wow, Mrs Smith. He came up with all of that just from seeing a pick-up truck with a bumper sticker.

In the book, "The Art of War," the first rule is to know thy enemy. This guy has NO clue. We know liberals, but they live in a fantasy world, and they know nothing about us. November 2010 is all the sweeter knowing liberals haven't learned a single thing.
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« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2011, 07:10:40 PM »
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or an indication that the truck is due for a trip to the doctor.

So is the DUmmy. Maybe it's time for their distemper shots.
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« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2011, 07:58:13 PM »
It was only a couple of years ago that DUmmies would voice outrage at anyone who would question their patriotism. They don't do that anymore.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2011, 08:09:45 PM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on March 27, 2011, 01:26:10 PM
I thought diesel smoke was black?

I know it was when my old car broke down once. But the dummies don't drive earth killing diesels so I doubt they'd know anything about them anyway.
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« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2011, 09:20:10 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 27, 2011, 08:09:45 PM
I know it was when my old car broke down once. But the dummies don't drive earth killing diesels so I doubt they'd know anything about them anyway.

In the first place, diesels are the CLEANEST burning engines on the planet. 

Second, you would get the white "smoke" from a diesel engine in extremely cold weather.  It's called "water vapor", and the blogger in the OP would have it right comparing the trailing "smoke" from the exhaust pipes "like the twin contrails of a fighter jet", because they are exactly the same thing.  Water vapor.
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Re: America, you keep using that word
« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2011, 09:38:31 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on March 27, 2011, 09:20:10 PM
In the first place, diesels are the CLEANEST burning engines on the planet. 

Second, you would get the white "smoke" from a diesel engine in extremely cold weather.  It's called "water vapor", and the blogger in the OP would have it right comparing the trailing "smoke" from the exhaust pipes "like the twin contrails of a fighter jet", because they are exactly the same thing.  Water vapor.


I know they are. I drive one everyday however, I also know most of the people at DU I've talked with have issues with diesels.

I must have read it wrong if thats what the OP was talking about, but then again I only skimmed over the post.
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« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2011, 10:02:44 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 27, 2011, 09:38:31 PM

I know they are. I drive one everyday however, I also know most of the people at DU I've talked with have issues with diesels.

I must have read it wrong if thats what the OP was talking about, but then again I only skimmed over the post.

I got the same opinion from the OP as well.  DUmb-dicked DUmmies don't know "shit" from "Shine-ola".
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