Bush sets record-longest vacation in recent history

[transparant]

Brenda, somehow I highly doubt that part of your job description states that surfing the DIS is a productive use of company time. I'd even wager that it could get you suspended...or worse. The fact that you work for the US government and are therefore wasting tax dollars....our tax dollars... is inexcusable. But you are a republican and wasting other folks time and money goes with the territory.

Is this how service people in the AF protect our country, while on duty?... by posting on the internet?

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Not sure I understand to stabs at her but even folks on these boards that are very busy at their jobs dip into the DIS during the day. IT seems a pretty effective way of relieving the tension of the day. Not much different than folks taking smoking breaks and such. Do we maintain that government employees cannot ethically do that? There isn't any real logic to the notion that you can't do both.

Well I'm on here WAY too much, and my classes will probably cut into my DISing time! Are you good at math and science? Will you help me if I have any questions?

 

[Lebjwb]

Oh and I agree...wallpaper is evil.

 

[Lebjwb]

Oh Wook a wittle shaky head how cute.

 

[peachgirl]

Not sure I understand to stabs at her but even folks on these boards that are very busy at their jobs dip into the DIS during the day. IT seems a pretty effective way of relieving the tension of the day. Not much different than folks taking smoking breaks and such. Do we maintain that government employees cannot ethically do that? There isn't any real logic to the notion that you can't do both.

Hmmmm...I myself was ripped by the right because someone thought I might be posting on the Dis while I was at work (btw, I wasn't and I don't). Hell, I even got some really interesting emails from people threatening to track me down and report me to my employer.

Funny how I didn't see any conservatives jumping to my defense...in fact a lot of them thought it was a perfectly acceptable question and the threats?? Oh well, those were the breaks I was told.

It was fair then, it's fair now.

 

[Galahad]

Funny how I didn't see any conservatives jumping to my defense...in fact a lot of them thought it was a perfectly acceptable question and the threats?? Oh well, those were the breaks I was told.

Didn't see it or I very well might have. I wouldn't have seen these but I made a big mistake and broke my "no politics" rule and read this thread. Guess this will teach me.

 

[LoraJ]

Ah. Perhaps you'd be happier with day job then.

What the heck is that supposed to mean? That there is something wrong with people who don't work 9-5?

 

[Galahad]

What the heck is that supposed to mean? That there is something wrong with people who don't work 9-5?

No, of course not.

 

[transparant]

Oh Wook a wittle shaky head how cute.

Oh look....disgusting condescension - how pathetic.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

No, of course not.

I think that some of us really just admire her for her accomplishments. She is a successful woman in the military and she has so much time to DIS and run her own web site! I mean aint life just grand!

 

[BuckNaked]

I think that some of us really just admire her for her accomplishments. She is a successful woman in the military and she has so much time to DIS and run her own web site! I mean aint life just grand!

Yes, it is!!

 

[bsnyder]

apropos of the crosses Cindy Sheehan and others have put up in Texas, I thought this soldier's email was interesting. BTW, it was written before the media ever "discovered" Cindy.

Media Culture
"Don't Want to be Used"

Capt. William Guenther in Baghdad:

Sir, I hoping that you could possibly help me with this. Maybe you can't, but I'll have gotten it off my chest. I am an Army officer that is just beginning a year long tour in Iraq, as an advisor with the Iraqi Special Police Commandos. While I have every reason to believe that I will return home safety in eleven months, my eyes are also open to the possibility of that not being the case.

The reason I am writing you is that I have just read your article about what Susan Paynter wrote about the Marine "kidnapping" in Seattle. At the end of your article, you mentioned that you were somewhat taken aback by the fact that just a week or so earlier she had written a tribute to those who had lost a loved one. I went to her paper's Web site to read that article. Sure enough there it was: another story about a soldier, or their family, as victim. And typically they are portrayed as a victim of George Bush or Donald Rumsfeld. In and of itself that isn't a problem, but in so many cases that is all soldiers over here are to the elite: victims… or in the case of the favorite story to come out of this war, Abu Ghraib, villians. Anyway, I looked further into what Ms. Paynter had written recently, and there it was: an article about an "artist", Phil Hansen, who had created a "war collage" where he painted the faces of every dead soldier or Marine over a picture of George Bush. Ms. Paynter was very understanding of how Mr. Hansen was "showing his support for the troops," but that they had died because Bush had misled the country.

Which brings me to my point. I thought about it before I got over here, and feel even stronger about it now that it may be my reality. God forbid, if something happens to me over here, I do not want to be used by the likes of Phil Hansen in Seattle, Michael Moore, Gary Trudeau, or Ted Koppel, to make their political points against the war, the President, and finally the country, all the while saying "they support the troops". I have no doubt in my mind that Michael Moore would rather hear a report that 600 soldiers were killed last month in Iraq rather than 60 — but he "supports the troops". Anyway, are you aware of any list that is around that soldiers could put their name on so that if something happened, while understanding our families couldn't stop it, that these despicable phonies would be asked not to use our deaths to further their agenda that runs completely counter to why I volunteered to be where I am and counter to the real desires of 99 percent of the Iraqi people?

I have a wife and a four year old son. Truly my biggest concern is how selfish I have been to leave him for a year, and possibly allowing him to grow up never truly knowing his father. I have discussed this with my wife, I don't want him ever to believe that he or his father were victims of his country, which I love even more after being away from it again.

Again, if you are aware of any such petition please let me know.
I haven’t been able to find any petition like that, but maybe the greater NRO community knows of something. If I get any information I’ll let you know as soon as I can.

[ 06/16/2005 12:42 PM ]

Those on the Left, do you ever wonder what Casey Sheehan would have to say about his mother's protest? Does the thought ever cross your mind?

 

[peachgirl]

Those on the Left, do you ever wonder what Casey Sheehan would have to say about his mother's protest? Does the thought ever cross your mind?

I believe that since she's his mother and I have no doubt she loved him deeply that she knows what her son would have thought and that's enough for me.

Perhaps you knew her son better than she did, but I don't.

I am pleased however that she's got you guys squirming as much as she does.

 

[transparant]

I believe that since she's his mother and I have no doubt she loved him deeply that she knows what her son would have thought and that's enough for me.

Perhaps you knew her son better than she did, but I don't.

I am pleased however that she's got you guys squirming as much as she does.

I'm not squirming. After what I experienced today...I'm saddened.

 

[BuckNaked]

I believe that since she's his mother and I have no doubt she loved him deeply that she knows what her son would have thought and that's enough for me.

Perhaps you knew her son better than she did, but I don't.

I would never claim to know her son better than her, but he chose to re-enlist knowing that he was going to Iraq. To me, his actions speak louder than her words.

I am pleased however that she's got you guys squirming as much as she does.

Not sure what you consider squirming...as I've said before, let her sit down there all summer, it makes no difference in my life whatsoever.

 

[bsnyder]

I believe that since she's his mother and I have no doubt she loved him deeply that she knows what her son would have thought and that's enough for me.

Perhaps you knew her son better than she did, but I don't.

I am pleased however that she's got you guys squirming as much as she does.

Not squirming here. My candidates won the election. And elections DO matter. Perhaps that's why there's such a desperate quality to the Cindy Sheehan media circus. The Left thinks they've finally found "The Secret Weapon". If it wasn't so exploitative of a family's grief, and a dead soldier's honor, it would be amusing.

 

[peachgirl]

Your posts suggest otherwise...

If she's no worry at all, why give her so much of your attention?

Oh yeah, definitely squirming.

Your candidates may have won, but Bu$h's numbers are in the tank. He's may be President, but he's got little chance of getting much of his agenda accomplished....a very, very good thing!

 

[bsnyder]

Your posts suggest otherwise...

If she's no worry at all, why give her so much of your attention?

Oh yeah, definitely squirming.

You mean by posting here on an internet board?

 

[peachgirl]

If it wasn't so exploitative of a family's grief, and a dead soldier's honor, it would be amusing.

Give it a rest, you couldn't care less about that family's grief. If you did, you'd stop trashing his mother.

 

[bsnyder]

Your candidates may have won, but Bu$h's numbers are in the tank. He's may be President, but he's got little chance of getting much of his agenda accomplished....a very, very good thing!

So I keep hearing and reading. If it makes you feel better, by all means keep thinking that. And if it makes you feel better to think I'm squirming, by all means continue with that notion too.