Figure it this way: if Trump gets elected, next January, not only will the Hollywood leftards be leaving for Canada, but they’ll be taking the Republican “establishment” with them.
Speed the fucking plow.
Iska Waran
April 1, 2016 1:49 pm
How come the Hollywood leftards never threaten / promise to flee to Mexico – since they love Mexicans so much?
Administrator
Author
April 1, 2016 1:51 pm
On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump
Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read “This laptop was brought to you by capitalism” and “TRUMP 2016,” Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy.
“Trumplicans,” he says, nodding with satisfaction. “I think it’ll take off.”
Lopez is the California director of Students for Trump. Working from his dorm at Westmont College, he helps marshal the thousands of students who are pounding out phone calls, taping up fliers and blanketing Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat in an effort to persuade their peers that Donald Trump is the man.
Although vastly outnumbered nationwide by left-leaning classmates chanting “Feel the Bern,” the youngest supporters of the GOP front-runner say they are similarly inspired by the hope of a radically different future and eager to support a leader who strikes them as anti-establishment and willing to speak his mind.
The verbiage that erupts from Trump’s stream-of-consciousness is not universally appreciated by students. Many say the very mention of his name can be hurtful, threatening or cause for intervention.
A Mexican American student at Scripps College in Claremont woke up to “#trump2016” scrawled on the whiteboard outside her dorm room. The student body president called it a “racist act.”
On the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, students protested when someone wrote in chalk: “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016.”
Jim Wagner, the president of the university, met with protesters and later sent an email to everyone on campus saying, in part, “They voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation.”
Young Trump followers say such backlash against minority opinion, in a realm where liberal culture dominates, is part of what draws them to the cause.
“Today, there is a movement to silence differing views,” Lopez says. He argues that the increasingly common practice of students turning to “safe spaces” is really about sheltering students from ideas with which they disagree.
“That’s not what America is about,” he says. “Mr. Trump, he’s single-handedly bringing back freedom of speech. He’s enabled students to voice whatever we believe in a thoughtful way.”
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Students for Trump began as a Twitter account in October in a dorm room at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C. Ryan Fournier, a freshman and early supporter of Rand Paul, was drawn to Trump’s blunt rhetoric and policies on border control and employment.
Between classes, homework and fraternity meetings, Fournier fired off tweets praising Trump and setting the record straight on what he considered misinformation.
“We love Muslims. We hate Islamic Extremism!” one tweet said.
In less than a month, Fournier had more than 14,000 Twitter followers. As GOP candidates like Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson dropped out of the presidential race, he gained thousands more. By December, he was devoting more than eight hours a day to spreading the word.
More than 5,000 students in 200 chapters in 38 states are publicly on board. Fifteen chapters have taken hold in California, on campuses including UC Santa Barbara and USC.
Students rally for Trump at Westmont College
I’m on team ABH — anyone but Hillary. I realized Trump can really do it, and the other candidates really can’t. — Ian McIlvoy, Westmont College student
For a volunteer-run enterprise, the operation is slick, with an HR department, a merchandise line and a team that’s constantly updating the website. Applicants for state director positions submit résumés and have their social media scrutinized.
Fournier’s take on the selection process would not have sounded out of place on “The Apprentice.”
“We don’t want to hire garbage,” the political science and pre-law major says. “It’s a very big job running a state.”
John Lambert, a sophomore studying wealth management at Campbell, is the business-savvy one in the leadership duo.
For Lambert, whose bio boasts that he founded a social media marketing company at age 16, Trump’s appeal lies in his business background and untraditional approach to politics.
“We’re tired of the typical … failing politician that’s all talk and no action,” he says. “Mr. Trump is not about that. He’s going to hire people that can actually do the job, and that’s why we’re going to have a successful country.”
Like Trump himself, the young people who support him trigger strong reactions.
In a January news release, Fournier wrote: “We cannot forget our haters, whose messages give us a good laugh. As Taylor Swift would say, “Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.’ ”
Looking ahead, the team is honing its ground operations in states like Wisconsin, New Jersey and California.
“We want to match what Bernie Sanders is doing on the Democratic side,” Lambert says.
The team hired Lopez, who grew up in the Central Valley town of Taft, to establish more chapters and recruit classmates like McIlvoy, who’s volunteering as state treasurer on top of working 20 hours a week at the library to pay off his student loans.
Their strategy, they say, is to get classmates talking.
McIlvoy, who identifies himself as half black, dressed up as Carson for Halloween, and Lopez recently launched a satirical petition calling for “GPA redistribution” to make a point about progressive tax structures that he thinks “punish success.”
“Our pitch was: Some students at the top have too much, and some students at the bottom have too little. So we should redistribute some of the top earners, the 4.0s, to lower students so everyone can graduate equally,” Lopez says. “That provoked people, and we had a lot of good conversations.”
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His last name raises eyebrows among those who see Trump’s accusation that Mexico is sending rapists across the U.S. border — which he’d protect with a wall whose height seems to grow with every debate. Detractors point to that plan as evidence that Trump is hostile to Latinos, if not a flat-out racist.
Lopez notes that his great-grandfather was Mexican but says he considers himself “an American, a Californian, a Christian.”
“Not all Hispanics hate Trump,” he says.
And the more he comes out as a supporter, the more other students do too, he says.
“I have about 25 chapter requests in my in-box right now that I have not been able to get to. The support is out there, and we’re trying to get them mobilized and speaking up.”
Donald Trump is about to blow up the California primary. Here’s how
Donald Trump is about to blow up the California primary. Here’s how
Which is not to say that Trump — who has insulted women, minorities and other conservatives, among others — is any less polarizing a candidate on campuses than he is within the Republican party itself.
“We’re just not attracted to that,” said Kerida Moates, president of the UC Berkeley College Republicans. Her group, she says, has made huge strides in persuading the liberal campus mainstream that “we’re just regular people who have different ideas about how to make our economy work.”
Then Trump comes along,” she says, “and suddenly all Republicans are being framed as racist again; all Republicans must be sexist. And it’s actually taking us backward in breaking those stereotypes.”
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Students who support Trump likely will remain a lonely group on campus, says Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC.
Trump, he says, continues to attract working-class supporters who don’t have college degrees and are anxious about job security in a modern economy that requires technology and information-based skills.
But Schnur does see why some college-educated millennials might be drawn to Trump.
“What Trump and Sanders have both done very effectively is mount a strident criticism against the traditional political process,” he says. “If you’re a young person and you don’t feel like politics-as-usual has a place for you, there’s a natural temptation to align with a candidate that can dramatically upend that system.”
The Republican party itself is largely to blame for this insurrection by ignoring that even young fiscal conservatives are becoming more “progressive” on social issues like gay marriage, says Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of CIRCLE, a research hub at Tufts University that studies youth voting.
“Trump is a lesson in that,” she says.
An illustrated visit to Trump Nation
An illustrated visit to Trump Nation
It will be interesting to see how the Republican youth vote plays out come election time, says John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
“Young voters engage more often when things are tangible. … And you’re seeing very tangible differences right now between what a Donald Trump presidency would look like, what a John Kasich presidency would look like and what a Ted Cruz presidency would look like,” Della Volpe says.
“I’ve been in focus groups where I ask a young voter if they’re going to vote, and they’ll say ‘No, it doesn’t matter. They’re all a bunch of old white men; they’re all the same.’ That’s clearly not the case here.”
Back at Westmont, Lopez and McIlvoy are working hard to persuade their peers to vote for the right old white guy.
Donning suit jackets and Trump stickers, they walk across campus, drawing curious glances and friendly handshakes.
They’re relieved, they say, that coming out as Trump supporters hasn’t taken a toll on their social lives. Debates with friends have been lively, and they’re excited to recruit more students publicly as the political campaigns march closer to California.
“We’re hoping to get people involved, even if they’re against us. Come talk; be a part of the conversation. That’s what America is about,” Lopez says.
“Patrick Henry said, ‘I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,’ and that’s what’s important to us.”
Brian
April 1, 2016 2:14 pm
I have a really bad feeling that this clown show is going to lead to a Hillary win. We are done if that happens. Only something really bad will right the ship at that point.
bb
April 1, 2016 2:16 pm
From admin post …..We love Muslims , we hate Islamic extremism . Good grief .Almost like saying . We love rattlesnakes ,but hate deadly ones.
Westcoaster
April 1, 2016 3:33 pm
Trump is proving he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground about either foreign policy or domestic issues. Just watch how he avoids answering any pointed questions. Yes, he’s a pretty good snake-oil salesman, but were he to be nominated and elected, the U.S. would be in a world of hurt.
I’ll bet he knows even less than “W” did at this stage of the game. And the scary thing is, his ego is SO huge he doesn’t know the degree to which he is uninformed.
Vote in your own best interest. And that ain’t for Trump.
Tucci78
April 1, 2016 3:47 pm
Well, hey, there’s now a seventh reason for electing The Donald to the presidency.
Westcoaster is all butthurt by the prospect.
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“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way.”
— Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
Anonymous
April 1, 2016 4:16 pm
Best reason of all, it’ll piss off the Establishment.
Kill Bill
April 1, 2016 5:35 pm
One reason not too: Trumpf has aligned himself with neoconservative foreign policy hacks. Just like Bush, Hillary and Obama.
EL Coyote
April 1, 2016 9:41 pm
Vote for whomever. Mexicans survived 318 years of Trumps, what’s 4 or 8 more?
Admin, I was not worthy of Harvey Mudd college, it was painful to read about these fuckers going to one of the Claremont colleges. Oh well. I also told you of that white bitch I didn’t get either, right? I need some sympathy, where’s my buddy jFish?
M.I.A.
April 1, 2016 9:42 pm
How The U.S. Government Helped Kill 4,000 Jobs This Week At Boeing
Boeing BA +0.02%, the nation’s biggest exporter, disclosed Wednesday that the workforce at its commercial aircraft company will need to be cut by 4,000 positions this year, and maybe twice that number in order to reduce costs. The higher number would represent 10% of the 80,000 workers at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Always here, EC. Waiting for you to request my presence on TBP. All the while eating sandwiches made of processed ham. In other words, now that you are posting tonight, everything is Spic and Spam. 🙂
“Vote in your own best interest. And that ain’t for Trump.”
I micturate in the milk of The Bern.
Thank you, thankyouverrahmuch.
JFish
April 1, 2016 10:06 pm
PS – EC – I do have sympathy. I know what it’s like to be a minority. I do. Because I’m surrounded by ‘cool” people (and smart liberals) everyday. Hang in there, buddy. It will be OK…
Ed
April 1, 2016 10:08 pm
” In case of doubt, vote against.”
Heinlein got that one wrong. In today’s elections, voting against one morally retarded asshole requires casting a vote for another of the same. If “None of the Above” was on the ballot, you could vote against, but that ain’t the case.
Tucci78
April 1, 2016 10:47 pm
As regards RAH’s ” In case of doubt, vote against” Ed gets it wrong by way of incompleteness, remarking:
“Heinlein got that one wrong. In today’s elections, voting against one morally retarded asshole requires casting a vote for another of the same. If “None of the Above” was on the ballot, you could vote against, but that ain’t the case.”
Nope. Read the WHOLE quotation. Then see “Westcoaster,” and figure that said leftard provides a pretty reliable compass. If he’s FOR something or somebody, that’s the proposition or candidate to vote AGAINST.
Rainman
April 1, 2016 11:35 pm
Winston Churchill, before ww2, was considered a nut case like Trump and Perot. But Churchill was dead right about the only issue that mattered at the time, Nazi aggression. His cry ” We will never surrender” was the only sane path.
Trump is another egomaniac but he is dead right on the only issue that matters. I agree with Matt Bracken that Europe will dissolve into Muslim chaos this summer. It will blot out the sun and Amerika, and the world, will have to turn to that very imperfect man, Donald Trump, to deal with it.
I only hope Matt Bracken is wrong. But we can’t afford to take that chance. Europe is in chaos right now and it doesn’t look to be getting better.
Rainman………
PS…. I just signed a contract with a Muslim man today. He is one of the ‘good ones’. But the moderate Muslims either can’t, or won’t, do what it takes to take back their religion from the monsters who have hijacked it.
Rainman….
EL Coyote
April 1, 2016 11:50 pm
Westcoaster says: Trump is proving he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground about either foreign policy or domestic issues.
Westy, I’m on your side, man, literally. However, this ain’t The Berning Platform.
Tucci78
April 1, 2016 11:52 pm
Rainman remarks about having “…just signed a contract with a Muslim man today….[who] is one of the ‘good ones’,” and goes on to speak about how “…the moderate Muslims either can’t, or won’t, do what it takes to take back their religion from the monsters who have hijacked it.”
In the past decade, i’ve had reason to go back over the Islam-related comparative theology stuff I was taught in parochial high school (which wasn’t much) and do a great deal more reading on the subject, most recently by way of Lt. Col. Tom Kratman, and none of this disabuses me of what I’d been taught in Religion classes back during the Kennedy Administration: Islam is a monstrous religion, and because it’s been frozen in time by the premise that the Qur’an – in Arabic, no translations sanctioned – is literally the word of the deity, updated during their Prophet’s career so that the bloodthirsty suras of the Mecca years trump (you should pardon the expression) and obliviate the more “religion of peace” dictations of the Medina period.
Dar al-Islam is foreclosed escape from their religion’s murderous past by way of exegetics and other metods of adaptation, and their religion is intrinsically barbaric. No getting around it.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 12:03 am
Tucci78 says: Then see “Westcoaster,” and figure that said leftard provides a pretty reliable compass. If he’s FOR something or somebody, that’s the proposition or candidate to vote AGAINST.
If Westy is your moral compass guiding you in the opposite direction, doesn’t that make you a Right Tard?
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 12:16 am
You Pavlovian monkeys have now got enough rope to hang yourselves. The Ollies could never sell you on fascism but using scare tactics and mortal threats from every side (somebody said Americans love to scare themselves) they prepped the way you should fall. Like a brilliant hustler, Old Man Oligarch has snookered the American people into demanding a wall and seeking the security of the conveniently installed Patriot Act.
Moozies, zika, swine flu, Bird flu, illegal aliens but not a word on crumbling infrastructure, government debt, pay to play politics. Those problems will magically disappear once Americans trade their freedom for the safety of the work camps.
Go ahead and ignore my comment. I’m an affirmative action commenter here and I automatically get 200 thumbs up just to level the white priv.
Ed
April 2, 2016 12:37 am
Don’t vote. It just encourages the cocksuckers.
Ed
April 2, 2016 12:44 am
“Nope. Read the WHOLE quotation. ”
I did read the WHOLE quotation before postin my fuckin brilliant fuckin observation, Tooch. For a smart guy, you’re blind as a fuckin bat sometimes.
Heinlein got it wrong. I was right because I’m a genius. So, there.
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 12:46 am
El Coyote asks: “If Westy is your moral compass guiding you in the opposite direction, doesn’t that make you a Right Tard?”
Doubtless such would be the yammer from Westcoaster and similar “Liberal” fascisti, not to mention such others as hew to the badly flawed “Left/Right” model of political classification, which puts authoritarian German National Socialists on the far right and Hugo Chavez’ authoritarian Bolivarian Socialists on the far left.
As William James once put it, “A difference that makes no difference is no difference at all.”
I prefer the Nolan chart, which parses a great deal more discriminately.
Actually, implying mental retardation as the reason why a leftist professes the political viciousnesses he does is, if anything, charitable. In fact, their consciously embraced ethics – or whatever else such sons of bitches claim in lieu of morality pertinent to the unalienable individual, civil and human rights of the people upon whose lives, liberties, and property they’re criminally bent – explain their hatefulness far more eloquently.
But stupid? Oh, yeah. Only the VERY stupid could convince himself that government-as-santa-claus is the proper application of the police power in a division-of-labor economy.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 12:53 am
Ed, I like Tucci. I sassed him at first, though. That’s mandatory.
Nobody here will ever recognize your genius, jealous fuckers.
I got over science fiction in 7th grade. Heinlein is cool but Asimov was the best.
There was an awful lot of imitator trash though. The same shit happened with
Garcia Marquez’ magical realism, several idiots thought they could imitate it.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 12:56 am
Now, I think it was Heinlein but I’m probably wrong, who wrote the short story about a robot that improvised a ray gun with a flashlight? That was a cool story illustrating moronic managers. The human instructed the robot to forget everything, like it never happened.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 1:07 am
Tucci78 says: Only the VERY stupid could convince himself that government-as-santa-claus is the proper application of the police power in a division-of-labor economy.
As a gentleman here wrote, God comes from within. The idea that the government can be Santa Claus comes from without. It worked in Mexico for a long time with the uniparty PRI.
I’m not convinced that the entire government debt is my fault. Yet, they hand you a few freebies and then beat you over the head about the unmanageable debt.
They classify you as liberal or conservative according to your limited point of veiw and load you up with a satchel of other attitudes. You want some government assistance? You are a liberal and favor gay marriage. But if you swear allegiance to the cabal and support all foreign war mongering, then we will call you a conservative, a patriot, someone worthy of government assistance.
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 1:10 am
El Coyote asks “…who wrote the short story about a robot that improvised a ray gun with a flashlight?”
Not Heinlein, insofar as memory serves. I’m not as familiar with Asimov’s corpus (either science fiction or science fact), but it sounds like the sort of story he would’ve written for John W. Campbell’s Astounding in the day. It evokes a plot device in one of Keith Laumer’s Retief stories in which by combining components of various innocuous appliances the good guys could arm themselves with an arsenal of advanced energy weapons. But no robot was involved.
As for “getting over science fiction,” the term for which you’re fumbling is “mundane.”
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 1:18 am
El Coyote justly complains: “They classify you as liberal or conservative according to your limited point of veiw and load you up with a satchel of other attitudes. You want some government assistance? You are a liberal and favor gay marriage. But if you swear allegiance to the cabal and support all foreign war mongering, then we will call you a conservative, a patriot, someone worthy of government assistance.”
Yep. That durned “lett/right spectrum” model. Doesn’t work worth a damn when classifying the far more complex political dispositions of real human beings.
I’ve not yet been able to reconcile how “conservative” in any way EVER jibes with “We’re cops of the world!” policies in federal government.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 1:25 am
Because that left/right model is pure mindfuck. You have been robbed of your free will and independence when your opinions become outlawed. They aren’t illegal yet but once enough people are on board, the unpopular idea will be declared a thoughtcrime. Somebody said that is already extant in Europe where you can’t question the official story of the holocaust. We almost cannot question the official Ferguson massacre of Big Mike the gentle giant.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 1:55 am
See that guy up there in the dark green T? That’s EC in younger days. I wish I knew how to make that pic my icon.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 2:04 am
Tucci78 says: As for “getting over science fiction,” the term for which you’re fumbling is “mundane.”
I hardly fumble anymore, it isn’t even within reach. I acknowledge the loss of brain. Common words disappear, familiar movie stars go nameless unless I can look up a movie title and look up the cast so that I can trace the actor’s films.
The dick’s gone, (there was no funeral but it sailed away like the proverbial kipper fish, I doubt you ever read that silly poem, the song of the kipper fish) the brain is surviving just barely only because I participate on this blog. I understand the muscles start to fail as well.
Ed
April 2, 2016 6:50 am
“Nobody here will ever recognize your genius, jealous fuckers.”
Au contraire, mon frere. Half the nosepickers on here just draw back in awe when I post my glittering nuggets. The other half goes, like, “Huh, what dat mofo tawn ’bout?”
‘Course, nobody here will fuckin ADMIT that I’m a got-dam genius. That just wouldn’t DO, you know.
I like ol’ Tooch, too. That don’t mean that I won’t just plumb fuck him up if he gets outta line, though.
Ed
April 2, 2016 7:00 am
“Yep. That durned “lett/right spectrum” model. Doesn’t work worth a damn when classifying the far more complex political dispositions of real human beings. ”
True, that. Some wise (ass), probably me, once wrote:
If Hitler is the extreme of the right wing and Stalin or Mao exemplifies the extreme left wing, then the whole fuckin airplane is socialist.
See, I let you slide for misspelling “left”, just to show that I’m a compassionate motherfucker.
Suzanna
April 2, 2016 10:38 am
jive not “jibe”
Ed
April 2, 2016 2:46 pm
“jive not “jibe””
What? Did you see somebody calling me a jibe honkie? Let me at’em.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 2:51 pm
Ed, that wasn’t a jibe at you, Suzanna was just jiving.
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 2:58 pm
Everybody, stop it.
1. Admin does not use big-ass words. This is a family-oriented blog.
2. Col. —- said, let’s not use a cannon where a flyswatter will do.
3. Micturate? La Maggie was quite comfortable telling me, ‘piss on you’.
4. Go and do likewise, write like and intelligent adult and avoid stuffy language, please.
Ed
April 2, 2016 3:10 pm
” avoid stuffy language, please.”
Well, I can’t help it if I hafta micturate. Oh, I get it. That was way more info than y’all needed.
Suzanna posted that jive/jibe thang to the wrong thread. I hate to let an opening for a smartass remark go to waste. ahaha
It’s done rained all day here and I just got a new John Deere delivered. I am bored and may as well just micturate off the porch since I don’t want to get all wet playing with my new tractor.
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 4:32 pm
El Coyote writes: “Micturate? La Maggie was quite comfortable telling me, ‘piss on you’.”
I was in med school when I read *MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors* (“Hooker” 1968) and I had to look up “micturition” when the term appeared in the later chapters. It wasn’t a term in much use even in the medical profession five decades ago, but Dr. Hornberger’s fictional exploitation of his experiences in the Korean Police Action (especially in light of my own generation of docs having been much-drafted to serve during the Vietnam War) made an indelible impression.
The parts that *didn’t* make it into the movie or the crappy leftist television series still make the novel worth reading (see http://tinyurl.com/h6jeb6k ), emphasis on “The Second Coming of Trapper John.”
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Dago Red entered. He had some pictures he had taken of the Swampmen during the winter. At the time Trapper John had been sporting a beard and a large crop of unbarbered hair. Several of the pictures were of Trapper John.
“Look at The Hairy Ape,” said Duke.
“No,” said Red, “he doesn’t look like The Hairy Ape. With that thin, ascetic face and the beard and the piercing eyes, he almost looks like our Blessed Saviour.”
Taking another look, he crossed himself and thought better of it.
“If that’s what He looks like,” said the Duke, “I’m gonna try Buddha.”
“Lemme see that picture,” said Hawkeye Pierce.
He looked. “By Jesus, it does look like Him,” he agreed and lapsed into pensive silence.
A while later Hawkeye sat up, lit a butt, and said, “Hey, Trapper, how fast can you grow that beard back?”
“Couple weeks. What do you have in mind?”
“Money for Ho-Jon.”
“How’s that Yankee growin’ a beard gonna get money for Ho-Jon?” asked Duke.
“Easy. We’ll get a good picture of him, have copies made, and sell actual photographs of Jesus Christ at a buck a throw. If we make out with that, he can make a few personal appearances.”
Trapper looked interested. “Always knew I’d make good,” he said, “but I never thought I’d get to the top so fast.”
Stucky
April 2, 2016 4:54 pm
Recently, Ms Freud said to me “What happened to you?”
“What do you mean?”, I asked
“When I met you, you looked like a Greek God.”
“Oh. What do I look like now?”
“You still look like a God to me.”
“Oh, well … that’s nice!”
“Yeah. Buddha!”
EL Coyote
April 2, 2016 8:11 pm
Tucci, remember the part where a guy got depressed and the guys put a ribbon on his dick while he slept?
Or the cheese story?
Short arm inspection?
Ed
April 2, 2016 8:41 pm
It might have been in MASH where the Army field manual was quoted, instructing personnel to walk at least 3 paces from their beds before initiating micturition. It’s hard to remember exactly, since it’s been at least 40 years since I read it.
I think the ribbon on the dick was done for Painless, whose dick had been named The Pride of Hamtramk, but it had failed him , so he wanted to die and asked for a suicide pill.
The theme song for the movie MASH, titled “Suicide is Painless” was written, apparently, to fit that theme.
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 9:06 pm
El Coyote and Ed reminisce about the novel, MASH, and some of the other bits that didn’t get into either the movie or the TV show, though the “short arm inspection” element was made funnier still by the way in which the Duke and Hawkeye disguised themselves aboard that troopship by shedding their caduceii and assuming chaplain’s corps crosses only to discover that the enlisted men suspected of having contracted veneral infections got both a shot of antibiotic and a ticket to see the padre for “moral counseling.” .
Tucci78
April 2, 2016 9:10 pm
Ed, the excerpt goes like so:
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In Pusan they were directed to the Transient Officers’ Quarters and assigned to one of the Quonset huts. The hut was divided into three compartments, and they were in one of the end divisions. Each area was heated by oil stove, and each cot had a mattress on it.
“Which reminds me of something else,” Hawkeye said, as they examined their quarters.
“What’s that?” Duke asked.
“I am reminded,” Hawkeye said, “that back in The Swamp you were one of the most faithful observers of the night rules. Religiously you would leave your sack, walk three steps to the door and take the seven prescribed paces before initiating micturition. This is such a conditioned habit that I thought I’d mention it. It might not be appropriate tonight.”
“I’ll bear that in mind, too. Anythin’ else, Aunty?”
Although the rest of the Quonset filled rapidly, there were, among the other guests, few other medical officers and none from MASH units. There were few people who had been up forward, so Duke and Hawkeye were satisfied to keep to themselves. After a reasonable number of drinks and at a reasonable hour, they decided to hit their sacks, but after fifteen months on hard cots a mattress atop a spring may seem uncomfortable. Duke, having tried his, dragged his mattress to the floor, where he went to sleep until approximately 3:00 a.m., when Hawkeye was awakened by a loud voice complaining in the next compartment.
“Hey, buddy,” someone was protesting, “you can’t do that in here!”
“I’m doin’ it, ain’t I?” Captain Pierce heard Captain Forrest reply, and shortly Captain Forrest returned to flop down on his mattress again and begin to snore once more, as the occupants of the next compartment continued to grumble and complain.
There’s a sixth reason, too.
Figure it this way: if Trump gets elected, next January, not only will the Hollywood leftards be leaving for Canada, but they’ll be taking the Republican “establishment” with them.
Speed the fucking plow.
How come the Hollywood leftards never threaten / promise to flee to Mexico – since they love Mexicans so much?
On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump
Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read “This laptop was brought to you by capitalism” and “TRUMP 2016,” Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy.
“Trumplicans,” he says, nodding with satisfaction. “I think it’ll take off.”
Lopez is the California director of Students for Trump. Working from his dorm at Westmont College, he helps marshal the thousands of students who are pounding out phone calls, taping up fliers and blanketing Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat in an effort to persuade their peers that Donald Trump is the man.
Although vastly outnumbered nationwide by left-leaning classmates chanting “Feel the Bern,” the youngest supporters of the GOP front-runner say they are similarly inspired by the hope of a radically different future and eager to support a leader who strikes them as anti-establishment and willing to speak his mind.
The verbiage that erupts from Trump’s stream-of-consciousness is not universally appreciated by students. Many say the very mention of his name can be hurtful, threatening or cause for intervention.
A Mexican American student at Scripps College in Claremont woke up to “#trump2016” scrawled on the whiteboard outside her dorm room. The student body president called it a “racist act.”
On the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, students protested when someone wrote in chalk: “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016.”
Jim Wagner, the president of the university, met with protesters and later sent an email to everyone on campus saying, in part, “They voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation.”
Young Trump followers say such backlash against minority opinion, in a realm where liberal culture dominates, is part of what draws them to the cause.
“Today, there is a movement to silence differing views,” Lopez says. He argues that the increasingly common practice of students turning to “safe spaces” is really about sheltering students from ideas with which they disagree.
“That’s not what America is about,” he says. “Mr. Trump, he’s single-handedly bringing back freedom of speech. He’s enabled students to voice whatever we believe in a thoughtful way.”
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Students for Trump began as a Twitter account in October in a dorm room at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C. Ryan Fournier, a freshman and early supporter of Rand Paul, was drawn to Trump’s blunt rhetoric and policies on border control and employment.
Between classes, homework and fraternity meetings, Fournier fired off tweets praising Trump and setting the record straight on what he considered misinformation.
“We love Muslims. We hate Islamic Extremism!” one tweet said.
In less than a month, Fournier had more than 14,000 Twitter followers. As GOP candidates like Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson dropped out of the presidential race, he gained thousands more. By December, he was devoting more than eight hours a day to spreading the word.
More than 5,000 students in 200 chapters in 38 states are publicly on board. Fifteen chapters have taken hold in California, on campuses including UC Santa Barbara and USC.
Students rally for Trump at Westmont College
I’m on team ABH — anyone but Hillary. I realized Trump can really do it, and the other candidates really can’t. — Ian McIlvoy, Westmont College student
For a volunteer-run enterprise, the operation is slick, with an HR department, a merchandise line and a team that’s constantly updating the website. Applicants for state director positions submit résumés and have their social media scrutinized.
Fournier’s take on the selection process would not have sounded out of place on “The Apprentice.”
“We don’t want to hire garbage,” the political science and pre-law major says. “It’s a very big job running a state.”
John Lambert, a sophomore studying wealth management at Campbell, is the business-savvy one in the leadership duo.
For Lambert, whose bio boasts that he founded a social media marketing company at age 16, Trump’s appeal lies in his business background and untraditional approach to politics.
“We’re tired of the typical … failing politician that’s all talk and no action,” he says. “Mr. Trump is not about that. He’s going to hire people that can actually do the job, and that’s why we’re going to have a successful country.”
Like Trump himself, the young people who support him trigger strong reactions.
In a January news release, Fournier wrote: “We cannot forget our haters, whose messages give us a good laugh. As Taylor Swift would say, “Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.’ ”
Looking ahead, the team is honing its ground operations in states like Wisconsin, New Jersey and California.
“We want to match what Bernie Sanders is doing on the Democratic side,” Lambert says.
The team hired Lopez, who grew up in the Central Valley town of Taft, to establish more chapters and recruit classmates like McIlvoy, who’s volunteering as state treasurer on top of working 20 hours a week at the library to pay off his student loans.
Their strategy, they say, is to get classmates talking.
McIlvoy, who identifies himself as half black, dressed up as Carson for Halloween, and Lopez recently launched a satirical petition calling for “GPA redistribution” to make a point about progressive tax structures that he thinks “punish success.”
“Our pitch was: Some students at the top have too much, and some students at the bottom have too little. So we should redistribute some of the top earners, the 4.0s, to lower students so everyone can graduate equally,” Lopez says. “That provoked people, and we had a lot of good conversations.”
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His last name raises eyebrows among those who see Trump’s accusation that Mexico is sending rapists across the U.S. border — which he’d protect with a wall whose height seems to grow with every debate. Detractors point to that plan as evidence that Trump is hostile to Latinos, if not a flat-out racist.
Lopez notes that his great-grandfather was Mexican but says he considers himself “an American, a Californian, a Christian.”
“Not all Hispanics hate Trump,” he says.
And the more he comes out as a supporter, the more other students do too, he says.
“I have about 25 chapter requests in my in-box right now that I have not been able to get to. The support is out there, and we’re trying to get them mobilized and speaking up.”
Donald Trump is about to blow up the California primary. Here’s how
Donald Trump is about to blow up the California primary. Here’s how
Which is not to say that Trump — who has insulted women, minorities and other conservatives, among others — is any less polarizing a candidate on campuses than he is within the Republican party itself.
“We’re just not attracted to that,” said Kerida Moates, president of the UC Berkeley College Republicans. Her group, she says, has made huge strides in persuading the liberal campus mainstream that “we’re just regular people who have different ideas about how to make our economy work.”
Then Trump comes along,” she says, “and suddenly all Republicans are being framed as racist again; all Republicans must be sexist. And it’s actually taking us backward in breaking those stereotypes.”
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Students who support Trump likely will remain a lonely group on campus, says Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC.
Trump, he says, continues to attract working-class supporters who don’t have college degrees and are anxious about job security in a modern economy that requires technology and information-based skills.
But Schnur does see why some college-educated millennials might be drawn to Trump.
“What Trump and Sanders have both done very effectively is mount a strident criticism against the traditional political process,” he says. “If you’re a young person and you don’t feel like politics-as-usual has a place for you, there’s a natural temptation to align with a candidate that can dramatically upend that system.”
The Republican party itself is largely to blame for this insurrection by ignoring that even young fiscal conservatives are becoming more “progressive” on social issues like gay marriage, says Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of CIRCLE, a research hub at Tufts University that studies youth voting.
“Trump is a lesson in that,” she says.
An illustrated visit to Trump Nation
An illustrated visit to Trump Nation
It will be interesting to see how the Republican youth vote plays out come election time, says John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
“Young voters engage more often when things are tangible. … And you’re seeing very tangible differences right now between what a Donald Trump presidency would look like, what a John Kasich presidency would look like and what a Ted Cruz presidency would look like,” Della Volpe says.
“I’ve been in focus groups where I ask a young voter if they’re going to vote, and they’ll say ‘No, it doesn’t matter. They’re all a bunch of old white men; they’re all the same.’ That’s clearly not the case here.”
Back at Westmont, Lopez and McIlvoy are working hard to persuade their peers to vote for the right old white guy.
Donning suit jackets and Trump stickers, they walk across campus, drawing curious glances and friendly handshakes.
They’re relieved, they say, that coming out as Trump supporters hasn’t taken a toll on their social lives. Debates with friends have been lively, and they’re excited to recruit more students publicly as the political campaigns march closer to California.
“We’re hoping to get people involved, even if they’re against us. Come talk; be a part of the conversation. That’s what America is about,” Lopez says.
“Patrick Henry said, ‘I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,’ and that’s what’s important to us.”
I have a really bad feeling that this clown show is going to lead to a Hillary win. We are done if that happens. Only something really bad will right the ship at that point.
From admin post …..We love Muslims , we hate Islamic extremism . Good grief .Almost like saying . We love rattlesnakes ,but hate deadly ones.
Trump is proving he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground about either foreign policy or domestic issues. Just watch how he avoids answering any pointed questions. Yes, he’s a pretty good snake-oil salesman, but were he to be nominated and elected, the U.S. would be in a world of hurt.
I’ll bet he knows even less than “W” did at this stage of the game. And the scary thing is, his ego is SO huge he doesn’t know the degree to which he is uninformed.
Vote in your own best interest. And that ain’t for Trump.
Well, hey, there’s now a seventh reason for electing The Donald to the presidency.
Westcoaster is all butthurt by the prospect.
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“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way.”
— Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
Best reason of all, it’ll piss off the Establishment.
One reason not too: Trumpf has aligned himself with neoconservative foreign policy hacks. Just like Bush, Hillary and Obama.
Vote for whomever. Mexicans survived 318 years of Trumps, what’s 4 or 8 more?
Admin, I was not worthy of Harvey Mudd college, it was painful to read about these fuckers going to one of the Claremont colleges. Oh well. I also told you of that white bitch I didn’t get either, right? I need some sympathy, where’s my buddy jFish?
How The U.S. Government Helped Kill 4,000 Jobs This Week At Boeing
Boeing BA +0.02%, the nation’s biggest exporter, disclosed Wednesday that the workforce at its commercial aircraft company will need to be cut by 4,000 positions this year, and maybe twice that number in order to reduce costs. The higher number would represent 10% of the 80,000 workers at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2016/04/01/how-the-government-helped-kill-4000-jobs-this-week-at-boeing/#35ae35c36d12
Always here, EC. Waiting for you to request my presence on TBP. All the while eating sandwiches made of processed ham. In other words, now that you are posting tonight, everything is Spic and Spam. 🙂
https://youtu.be/yjj1o23ERv8
“Vote in your own best interest. And that ain’t for Trump.”
I micturate in the milk of The Bern.
Thank you, thankyouverrahmuch.
PS – EC – I do have sympathy. I know what it’s like to be a minority. I do. Because I’m surrounded by ‘cool” people (and smart liberals) everyday. Hang in there, buddy. It will be OK…
” In case of doubt, vote against.”
Heinlein got that one wrong. In today’s elections, voting against one morally retarded asshole requires casting a vote for another of the same. If “None of the Above” was on the ballot, you could vote against, but that ain’t the case.
As regards RAH’s ” In case of doubt, vote against” Ed gets it wrong by way of incompleteness, remarking:
“Heinlein got that one wrong. In today’s elections, voting against one morally retarded asshole requires casting a vote for another of the same. If “None of the Above” was on the ballot, you could vote against, but that ain’t the case.”
Nope. Read the WHOLE quotation. Then see “Westcoaster,” and figure that said leftard provides a pretty reliable compass. If he’s FOR something or somebody, that’s the proposition or candidate to vote AGAINST.
Winston Churchill, before ww2, was considered a nut case like Trump and Perot. But Churchill was dead right about the only issue that mattered at the time, Nazi aggression. His cry ” We will never surrender” was the only sane path.
Trump is another egomaniac but he is dead right on the only issue that matters. I agree with Matt Bracken that Europe will dissolve into Muslim chaos this summer. It will blot out the sun and Amerika, and the world, will have to turn to that very imperfect man, Donald Trump, to deal with it.
I only hope Matt Bracken is wrong. But we can’t afford to take that chance. Europe is in chaos right now and it doesn’t look to be getting better.
Rainman………
PS…. I just signed a contract with a Muslim man today. He is one of the ‘good ones’. But the moderate Muslims either can’t, or won’t, do what it takes to take back their religion from the monsters who have hijacked it.
Rainman….
Westcoaster says: Trump is proving he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground about either foreign policy or domestic issues.
Westy, I’m on your side, man, literally. However, this ain’t The Berning Platform.
Rainman remarks about having “…just signed a contract with a Muslim man today….[who] is one of the ‘good ones’,” and goes on to speak about how “…the moderate Muslims either can’t, or won’t, do what it takes to take back their religion from the monsters who have hijacked it.”
In the past decade, i’ve had reason to go back over the Islam-related comparative theology stuff I was taught in parochial high school (which wasn’t much) and do a great deal more reading on the subject, most recently by way of Lt. Col. Tom Kratman, and none of this disabuses me of what I’d been taught in Religion classes back during the Kennedy Administration: Islam is a monstrous religion, and because it’s been frozen in time by the premise that the Qur’an – in Arabic, no translations sanctioned – is literally the word of the deity, updated during their Prophet’s career so that the bloodthirsty suras of the Mecca years trump (you should pardon the expression) and obliviate the more “religion of peace” dictations of the Medina period.
Dar al-Islam is foreclosed escape from their religion’s murderous past by way of exegetics and other metods of adaptation, and their religion is intrinsically barbaric. No getting around it.
Tucci78 says: Then see “Westcoaster,” and figure that said leftard provides a pretty reliable compass. If he’s FOR something or somebody, that’s the proposition or candidate to vote AGAINST.
If Westy is your moral compass guiding you in the opposite direction, doesn’t that make you a Right Tard?
You Pavlovian monkeys have now got enough rope to hang yourselves. The Ollies could never sell you on fascism but using scare tactics and mortal threats from every side (somebody said Americans love to scare themselves) they prepped the way you should fall. Like a brilliant hustler, Old Man Oligarch has snookered the American people into demanding a wall and seeking the security of the conveniently installed Patriot Act.
Moozies, zika, swine flu, Bird flu, illegal aliens but not a word on crumbling infrastructure, government debt, pay to play politics. Those problems will magically disappear once Americans trade their freedom for the safety of the work camps.
Go ahead and ignore my comment. I’m an affirmative action commenter here and I automatically get 200 thumbs up just to level the white priv.
Don’t vote. It just encourages the cocksuckers.
“Nope. Read the WHOLE quotation. ”
I did read the WHOLE quotation before postin my fuckin brilliant fuckin observation, Tooch. For a smart guy, you’re blind as a fuckin bat sometimes.
Heinlein got it wrong. I was right because I’m a genius. So, there.
El Coyote asks: “If Westy is your moral compass guiding you in the opposite direction, doesn’t that make you a Right Tard?”
Doubtless such would be the yammer from Westcoaster and similar “Liberal” fascisti, not to mention such others as hew to the badly flawed “Left/Right” model of political classification, which puts authoritarian German National Socialists on the far right and Hugo Chavez’ authoritarian Bolivarian Socialists on the far left.
As William James once put it, “A difference that makes no difference is no difference at all.”
I prefer the Nolan chart, which parses a great deal more discriminately.
Actually, implying mental retardation as the reason why a leftist professes the political viciousnesses he does is, if anything, charitable. In fact, their consciously embraced ethics – or whatever else such sons of bitches claim in lieu of morality pertinent to the unalienable individual, civil and human rights of the people upon whose lives, liberties, and property they’re criminally bent – explain their hatefulness far more eloquently.
But stupid? Oh, yeah. Only the VERY stupid could convince himself that government-as-santa-claus is the proper application of the police power in a division-of-labor economy.
Ed, I like Tucci. I sassed him at first, though. That’s mandatory.
Nobody here will ever recognize your genius, jealous fuckers.
I got over science fiction in 7th grade. Heinlein is cool but Asimov was the best.
There was an awful lot of imitator trash though. The same shit happened with
Garcia Marquez’ magical realism, several idiots thought they could imitate it.
Now, I think it was Heinlein but I’m probably wrong, who wrote the short story about a robot that improvised a ray gun with a flashlight? That was a cool story illustrating moronic managers. The human instructed the robot to forget everything, like it never happened.
Tucci78 says: Only the VERY stupid could convince himself that government-as-santa-claus is the proper application of the police power in a division-of-labor economy.
As a gentleman here wrote, God comes from within. The idea that the government can be Santa Claus comes from without. It worked in Mexico for a long time with the uniparty PRI.
I’m not convinced that the entire government debt is my fault. Yet, they hand you a few freebies and then beat you over the head about the unmanageable debt.
They classify you as liberal or conservative according to your limited point of veiw and load you up with a satchel of other attitudes. You want some government assistance? You are a liberal and favor gay marriage. But if you swear allegiance to the cabal and support all foreign war mongering, then we will call you a conservative, a patriot, someone worthy of government assistance.
El Coyote asks “…who wrote the short story about a robot that improvised a ray gun with a flashlight?”
Not Heinlein, insofar as memory serves. I’m not as familiar with Asimov’s corpus (either science fiction or science fact), but it sounds like the sort of story he would’ve written for John W. Campbell’s Astounding in the day. It evokes a plot device in one of Keith Laumer’s Retief stories in which by combining components of various innocuous appliances the good guys could arm themselves with an arsenal of advanced energy weapons. But no robot was involved.
As for “getting over science fiction,” the term for which you’re fumbling is “mundane.”
El Coyote justly complains: “They classify you as liberal or conservative according to your limited point of veiw and load you up with a satchel of other attitudes. You want some government assistance? You are a liberal and favor gay marriage. But if you swear allegiance to the cabal and support all foreign war mongering, then we will call you a conservative, a patriot, someone worthy of government assistance.”
Yep. That durned “lett/right spectrum” model. Doesn’t work worth a damn when classifying the far more complex political dispositions of real human beings.
I’ve not yet been able to reconcile how “conservative” in any way EVER jibes with “We’re cops of the world!” policies in federal government.
Because that left/right model is pure mindfuck. You have been robbed of your free will and independence when your opinions become outlawed. They aren’t illegal yet but once enough people are on board, the unpopular idea will be declared a thoughtcrime. Somebody said that is already extant in Europe where you can’t question the official story of the holocaust. We almost cannot question the official Ferguson massacre of Big Mike the gentle giant.
See that guy up there in the dark green T? That’s EC in younger days. I wish I knew how to make that pic my icon.
Tucci78 says: As for “getting over science fiction,” the term for which you’re fumbling is “mundane.”
I hardly fumble anymore, it isn’t even within reach. I acknowledge the loss of brain. Common words disappear, familiar movie stars go nameless unless I can look up a movie title and look up the cast so that I can trace the actor’s films.
The dick’s gone, (there was no funeral but it sailed away like the proverbial kipper fish, I doubt you ever read that silly poem, the song of the kipper fish) the brain is surviving just barely only because I participate on this blog. I understand the muscles start to fail as well.
“Nobody here will ever recognize your genius, jealous fuckers.”
Au contraire, mon frere. Half the nosepickers on here just draw back in awe when I post my glittering nuggets. The other half goes, like, “Huh, what dat mofo tawn ’bout?”
‘Course, nobody here will fuckin ADMIT that I’m a got-dam genius. That just wouldn’t DO, you know.
I like ol’ Tooch, too. That don’t mean that I won’t just plumb fuck him up if he gets outta line, though.
“Yep. That durned “lett/right spectrum” model. Doesn’t work worth a damn when classifying the far more complex political dispositions of real human beings. ”
True, that. Some wise (ass), probably me, once wrote:
If Hitler is the extreme of the right wing and Stalin or Mao exemplifies the extreme left wing, then the whole fuckin airplane is socialist.
See, I let you slide for misspelling “left”, just to show that I’m a compassionate motherfucker.
jive not “jibe”
“jive not “jibe””
What? Did you see somebody calling me a jibe honkie? Let me at’em.
Ed, that wasn’t a jibe at you, Suzanna was just jiving.
Everybody, stop it.
1. Admin does not use big-ass words. This is a family-oriented blog.
2. Col. —- said, let’s not use a cannon where a flyswatter will do.
3. Micturate? La Maggie was quite comfortable telling me, ‘piss on you’.
4. Go and do likewise, write like and intelligent adult and avoid stuffy language, please.
” avoid stuffy language, please.”
Well, I can’t help it if I hafta micturate. Oh, I get it. That was way more info than y’all needed.
Suzanna posted that jive/jibe thang to the wrong thread. I hate to let an opening for a smartass remark go to waste. ahaha
It’s done rained all day here and I just got a new John Deere delivered. I am bored and may as well just micturate off the porch since I don’t want to get all wet playing with my new tractor.
El Coyote writes: “Micturate? La Maggie was quite comfortable telling me, ‘piss on you’.”
I was in med school when I read *MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors* (“Hooker” 1968) and I had to look up “micturition” when the term appeared in the later chapters. It wasn’t a term in much use even in the medical profession five decades ago, but Dr. Hornberger’s fictional exploitation of his experiences in the Korean Police Action (especially in light of my own generation of docs having been much-drafted to serve during the Vietnam War) made an indelible impression.
The parts that *didn’t* make it into the movie or the crappy leftist television series still make the novel worth reading (see http://tinyurl.com/h6jeb6k ), emphasis on “The Second Coming of Trapper John.”
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Dago Red entered. He had some pictures he had taken of the Swampmen during the winter. At the time Trapper John had been sporting a beard and a large crop of unbarbered hair. Several of the pictures were of Trapper John.
“Look at The Hairy Ape,” said Duke.
“No,” said Red, “he doesn’t look like The Hairy Ape. With that thin, ascetic face and the beard and the piercing eyes, he almost looks like our Blessed Saviour.”
Taking another look, he crossed himself and thought better of it.
“If that’s what He looks like,” said the Duke, “I’m gonna try Buddha.”
“Lemme see that picture,” said Hawkeye Pierce.
He looked. “By Jesus, it does look like Him,” he agreed and lapsed into pensive silence.
A while later Hawkeye sat up, lit a butt, and said, “Hey, Trapper, how fast can you grow that beard back?”
“Couple weeks. What do you have in mind?”
“Money for Ho-Jon.”
“How’s that Yankee growin’ a beard gonna get money for Ho-Jon?” asked Duke.
“Easy. We’ll get a good picture of him, have copies made, and sell actual photographs of Jesus Christ at a buck a throw. If we make out with that, he can make a few personal appearances.”
Trapper looked interested. “Always knew I’d make good,” he said, “but I never thought I’d get to the top so fast.”
Recently, Ms Freud said to me “What happened to you?”
“What do you mean?”, I asked
“When I met you, you looked like a Greek God.”
“Oh. What do I look like now?”
“You still look like a God to me.”
“Oh, well … that’s nice!”
“Yeah. Buddha!”
Tucci, remember the part where a guy got depressed and the guys put a ribbon on his dick while he slept?
Or the cheese story?
Short arm inspection?
It might have been in MASH where the Army field manual was quoted, instructing personnel to walk at least 3 paces from their beds before initiating micturition. It’s hard to remember exactly, since it’s been at least 40 years since I read it.
I think the ribbon on the dick was done for Painless, whose dick had been named The Pride of Hamtramk, but it had failed him , so he wanted to die and asked for a suicide pill.
The theme song for the movie MASH, titled “Suicide is Painless” was written, apparently, to fit that theme.
El Coyote and Ed reminisce about the novel, MASH, and some of the other bits that didn’t get into either the movie or the TV show, though the “short arm inspection” element was made funnier still by the way in which the Duke and Hawkeye disguised themselves aboard that troopship by shedding their caduceii and assuming chaplain’s corps crosses only to discover that the enlisted men suspected of having contracted veneral infections got both a shot of antibiotic and a ticket to see the padre for “moral counseling.” .
Ed, the excerpt goes like so:
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In Pusan they were directed to the Transient Officers’ Quarters and assigned to one of the Quonset huts. The hut was divided into three compartments, and they were in one of the end divisions. Each area was heated by oil stove, and each cot had a mattress on it.
“Which reminds me of something else,” Hawkeye said, as they examined their quarters.
“What’s that?” Duke asked.
“I am reminded,” Hawkeye said, “that back in The Swamp you were one of the most faithful observers of the night rules. Religiously you would leave your sack, walk three steps to the door and take the seven prescribed paces before initiating micturition. This is such a conditioned habit that I thought I’d mention it. It might not be appropriate tonight.”
“I’ll bear that in mind, too. Anythin’ else, Aunty?”
Although the rest of the Quonset filled rapidly, there were, among the other guests, few other medical officers and none from MASH units. There were few people who had been up forward, so Duke and Hawkeye were satisfied to keep to themselves. After a reasonable number of drinks and at a reasonable hour, they decided to hit their sacks, but after fifteen months on hard cots a mattress atop a spring may seem uncomfortable. Duke, having tried his, dragged his mattress to the floor, where he went to sleep until approximately 3:00 a.m., when Hawkeye was awakened by a loud voice complaining in the next compartment.
“Hey, buddy,” someone was protesting, “you can’t do that in here!”
“I’m doin’ it, ain’t I?” Captain Pierce heard Captain Forrest reply, and shortly Captain Forrest returned to flop down on his mattress again and begin to snore once more, as the occupants of the next compartment continued to grumble and complain.