The'll get over it. Bin Ladin on the other hand.......
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...n-mission.html
Some Native Americans are upset over the codename used for the attack on Osama (Usama depending on where you get the story) bin Laden's compound.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
The'll get over it. Bin Ladin on the other hand.......
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
I never get this stuff. They could have used codename Onceler, and I wouldn't care, as long as they got him...
cawacko (05-04-2011), Damocles (05-04-2011), Schadenfreude (05-05-2011)
onceler is not your real name...when i first heard the name i thought the same thing...why would they link geronimo or any other person alive or dead (besides hitler etc) to one of the world's most vilified figures?
they have a point
Wasn't it just a few years back a member of CBC asked why black names weren't used as hurricane names? This is just me but if my name were used in an operation to kill the most wanted man on the planet I would be pretty damn proud.
Geronimo is a name often used in military operation, and in the alphabet, why are they complaining now?
The way the stories keep changing they may have given him the name Waldo
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -Thomas Sowell
The most controversial thing I've ever done was to decide to think with my brain instead of my skin color. - Candace Owens
because it's in keeping with America's racist tradition, so much so we don't see the problem till the agrieved injun speaks up.
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
cancel2 2022 (05-04-2011)
Linking the worlds most hated criminal to an Indian Hero
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
Cancel 2018. 3 (05-04-2011)
When I saw the story, I predicted outrage over the call sign. Looks like have have my fellow mankind down pretty well.
Personally, I would have gone with something demeaning for the Big O's call sign, such as Shemale, Felcher, Mott, Herpes, etc.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Topspin (05-05-2011)
Minister of Truth (05-05-2011)
WATERMARK, GREATEST OF THE TRINITY, ON CHIK-FIL-A
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Minister of Truth (05-05-2011)
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu...
Geronimo is not used in the alphabet. Although it is very often used as a code word. Seriously, it's just a code word there is nothing meant by it, other than not letting anybody listening in hear you saying, "That Osama Guy" and tipping them off...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Phantasmal (05-05-2011)
come dance w Jak o the shadows
freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose
first there was the leg race then the arms race and now the brain race
all animals are created equal - G. Orwell
some animals are more equal that others - SCOTUS
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