Emotionally enabled by the Berkeley City Council, a small assemblage of the usual silly gits have warmed their own cockles – thrill to the movement, man! – by chaining themselves to the Marine Corps recruiting office in town. The San Francisco Chronicle breathlessly headlines the ensuing interest in the story by writing that the “right wing blogoshpere” has “gone ballistic”.
Your correspondent – who, by the way, has actually been “ballistic” and didn’t enjoy it all that much – believes that those of us who deign to notice the silliness of people who tell passersby that the Marine Corps is training young people to kill babies is to render them entirely too much honor. They’re playing at class clown and reveling in the attention that they get. It’s fun to point at them because they make such easy targets and because we get to paint the entirety of the anti-war movement as having the same degree of intellectual vapidity. Too easy, in fact.
But hese amadons aren’t merely beneath our contempt – they ought to be beneath our scrutiny.
Agreed. But I have a question.
Because of the comment I left on your previous post on their shenanigans, does that make me part of the “right wing blogosphere”? Cuz if so, how cool is that … I can be a left-leaning socialist Canuck AND a member of the RW blogosphere at the same time! Gawd, I just love the internets. [ICWSFTH]
heh, heh.. amadons… nothing captures idiocy like a good Irish word. Nice one, mo ghille.
As I sit here in Kabul, doing everything I can to improve the infant mortality rate in this country, I am fascinated at being accused of working for the death of the same babies I am trying so hard to save. I am not alone. Hundreds of service men and women are paying high prices to be here saving lives and building a nation just to save those same babies… and their mothers. Ignorant emotinallism and blindness to reality make for great theater. Clowns indeed!
Danger – Do not pay any attention to them, for, they are in the miniscule in numbers. They amuse us, providing us with a side show of their antics. They don’t speak for the vast numbers of people in our country who wake up everyday and thank God that we have you folks standing watch over us. Thank you for what you do, Godspeed, and come home safe.
You think Berkeley has changed over the years? They’ve been that way since dirt formed, and from the pics it looks as though it’s been the same bunch of idiots, aging ungracefully and using the same chains they’ve been hiding in their bedrooms for decades.
I’m equally amused at the New England counterparts in the People’s Republic of Vermont. Discover if you will that the big politcal bumper sticker this season is for Bernie Sanders for senate — a Socialist incumbent. I saw no stickers for any of the presidential candidates, though a few clip-jawed crew-cut (fe)males woud have likely voted for Her Royal Thighness.
During my four state bidness tour, I stayed in the former working-class town of Brattleboro.
So what are the Brattleborogians up to?
http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7803374&nav=menu554_2
These folks are out-in-the-open whackjobs, and rarely do they get their due in the press.
I do not support either Kampf of Fascist idiots. But lets start shining our pflashlights on the cockroaches no matter what corner of the kitchen they’re in. And “ballistically”, as they say.
Just sayin.
-SJBill
Shipmates,
Actually, if one has some time and a little money, it’s easy enough to play with these pinkos. Lots of fum too.
All you need to do is be able to suppress your emotions long enough to jouin them and attend a few meetings. get on the mailing list. Get names, numbers and addresses, as much personal info as you can. then get to work.
Start by sending donations in their name to organisations like the United Klans, Stormfront, The Aryan Nation, etal. Sign them up for newletters from every such organisation you can. lso sign them up for evry GOP newsletter and program you can.
Next, get a Hotmail account with a fictional name. Then, sign up for every skanky porn site you can. Adter you get signed up, switch the account email to THEIR accounts. They’ll never be able to get rid of all the spam.
Interestingly enough, this latter idea also works well for JIhadi websites that list email addys for contact.
Heh. When dealing with Code Pink and all the other sicko leftists, it’s best to fight dirty and with no mercy. They have none, and so shouldn’t expect any from those on the right side of things.
For example, one of my favorite stories is of an anti-war rally from right before we went into Iraq . Seems a couple hours before it was to begin a local farm was transporting a load of fresh manure and accidentally dropped the entire fresh steaming load along where the demonstrators were supposed to assemble.
AS they say, sh!t happens…..
It’d be a riot if something like that happened at the place where all these clowns were handcuffed to the doors and unable to get out of the way.
I enjoy the account of the manure dump, Tim, but the rest of what you espouse is giving them far too much time, thought and energy. I’d rather enjoy shining a light on them as SJBill says, and let them prove their value from their own mouths.
I’m happy to join Michelle as a member of that VRWC, gathering as we do on the internet. Code Pink and their ilk must be terribly unhappy in their own existence; why else would they protest it so? After all, cockroaches, hiding in the corners of our world, are only a nuisance to humans!
Danger… your dedication and service to people is very much appreciated! We are proud of you and all who serve!!!
The “Code Pink” breed of protester has no idea what you do because they don’t think of anyone but themselves. That’s what makes you all so very exceptional: you care about people in need.
Thank you!
Hey Lex, or anyone else who can answer this: What does “ballistic” meam? It’s used in some weird ways, such as ballistic nylon as in the material used for some backpacks and such.
Sorry to be uninformed.
When you go ballistic in an airplane, it basically means you’re out of airspeed and no longer flying – imagine trying a loop with not enough smash: When you get ninety degrees nose high and the airspeed bleeds down to nothing, when the only force acting on your machine is gravity?
You’re ballistic.
Ballistic usually means motion subject only to momentum and gravity, with an implication of a high rate of speed.
My guess is that the etymology comes from shot towers from which tiny bits of molten lead were dropped from a height sufficient to let them cool somewhat while still in a perfectly round drop shape. These are then further cooled by water. These were then used as musket balls.
Ballistic nylon is a forerunner of Kevlar, in that it was used in fabrics supposed to stop things that went ballistic, like shrapnel.
Nice post Lee – Berkeley alum friend of mine takes great pains to point out that the Engineering Dept is an oasis of reason in that flower-quagmire…New Oxford Review likewise, though they tilt a bit ultra-orthodox. Just got back from the best/shortest ER (minoor emergency clinic) visit I ever had – stitches – lost a chunk under the chin on a live oak building a tree-house for the grandaughters…poor ladder placement but I grabbed a limb -next time I’ll shimmy out a bit more before freefall [ballistic]. Do you know that most treehouse accidents occur during construction? Does Code Pink know this? Do they know what grandaughters are? ER Doc laughed about generations & said “If you were 20 something, your entire family would be here instead of just you.” – said he had a 60 something in there w/ a nasty head gash, who answered his wife’s cell call: “No honey, I’m running some errands downtown – be home in a bit.” He told Doc: “Why worry her?” Not as off topic as some might think. Does Code Pink do anything w/out drama? I wonder what folks like that do when it’s quiet. No Haiku please.
Who is beneath our scrutiny? I keep hearing these pink wearing people making a loud buzzing but I can never seem to be able to make sense of it.
The conversation around here is quite a bit more interesting.
Speaking ballistic – I wouldn’t mind getting launched by a rocket to try it. since its all momentum and gravity, I think my spaceship knows which way to go…
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Ass Clowns
Michelle,
You multitasking overachiever, you’re giving me an inferiority complex!
I thought that unloading the aircraft was a ballistic maneuver as well. Sounds like the term ‘ballistic’ is used specifically for a BOHICA stunt.
BTW Cap’n, you said you’ve been ballistic; don’t leave us hanging!
Marc, actually ballistic comes from the Latin word, Ballista. Think of a crew served crossbow that shoots a 5 foot long bolt. Watched R. Lee Ermey use one to down a blow up rabbit on Mail Call.
Believe it or not, the major of Berkeley is a former Army Captain. He’s backpedaling a bit:
But he’s also offering to help the Marines get out of town:
“Disrupted the whole block?” After the city council (as Lex so eloquently phrased it) emotionally enabled the protesters by giving them a parking space and six-months’ of protest permits?! Wow. That’s chutzpah.
The whole news article is pretty amazing. Apparently one of the council members is a former Marine.
It’s stories like these that make me grateful I do not live within a day’s drive of California. They also cause a bit of fantasy, which I enjoy but know I’d never do. Like taking a John Deere 6600-series with a manure spreader behind it, parking it in the designated Code Pink spot, and having the rotors pointed at the handrail nearest the Marine Recruiting office.
Then just sipping coffee and waiting to throw that lever.
They could call to have me towed. I’ll bet my rig against any tow truck that can traverse a Berkely street.
But, with a top speed of 18mph reality steps in. I just can’t drive out there in time before everybody, Code Pink, Marines and Media, lose interest in the antics of a few never-has-beens in pink.
Pity, really — a John Deere manure-spreader vs a Code Pink activist would be a fair fight when it comes to the slinging of bullsh*t, be interesting to see who won two out of three falls.
Max
Lex,
Ballistic? As in “Falling Leaf?”
Been there, done that once.
Subsequent U-Trou change…
Nose
Maybe all the water pipes in Berkeley are made out of lead. Or maybe a lead pipe fell on their head(s). But there’s brain damage of some kind.
Oh, good Lord! I’ve known some Marines more or less, about a dozen or so, and I’ve known some hippies, many more than that, and I prefer Marines.
The Marines I’ve met were unfailingly polite to me, even if (as I sometimes suspected) they didn’t personally approve of me. The hippies, well, some weren’t too bad, but an awful lot of them were just rude as hell while pretending to be mellow, and I had to imitate the good example said Marines showed me, so as not to cause un-necessary trouble.
See! Just casually associating with a Marine or two is good for you
Ballistic as in a M821A1 APFSDS-T leaving the tube at 1600 meters per secondhaving less that 2 mils of rise over line of sight at 3000 meters. then all the prurdy, purdy sparkeliees.
With a 6 month protest permit, I can only imagine how difficult the Marines will have it for that “gracious” 18 month timeframe given them by that oh-so-generous Mayor. Backpedaling indeed.
FbL
The link doesn’t work. Could you try again?
Thanks.
Michelle, don’t know what happened, but the link works for me.
I did some back-end repair on it – there was a validation check tag at the end of the link which sent the system looking for a secure server. Don’t know if that was left over from your link FbL or whether my new WordPress install somehow imposed it.
One of the Berkeley City Council members does claim to be an honorably discharged former member of the Corps. However, he has also been quoted in other news accounts as saying “I was drummed out of the Marines for disagreeing with the Vietnam War.”
Since the practice of drumming out disgraced members has, unfortunately, fallen from fashion, we now discharge people either administraitively, or at the end of their enlistment.
One might come to the conclusion that an individual who claims to have been “drummed out” just might have received something other than an honorable discharge. In fact, it might have been something a LOT less than an honorable discharge. I don’t suppose that the Councilman would be interested in making his record public, but I’ll bet it would be highly informative.
Once again I may be the dead spider on a dying thread but a ton and a half of pictures, and history of this (cough,cough) citizen conflict. The crazies are at it again, but then, it is free theater of the absurd:
http://www.zombietime.com/berkeley_marine_corps_2-1-2008/
MaxDamage,
I think it would be a toss up on what would smell worse as well. The manure spreader or a group of aging has been code pink hippies.
Jim C
We have a movement afoot in the Senate to strip the backdoor earmarks to Bzerkeley for thier shameful protestations.
It’s been ever so…
“For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!”
…from Kipling’s “Tommy.”
I’m thinkin’ that it’s best for my health to ignore these folk… else my head will explode.