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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Gary sarge what no comment about my Hunger Games post . Glenn, what?!? People in Australia don't sleep? People in Australia don't have jobs? Of course, that's as ridiculous as your responses to me, because you aren't even addressing what I'm saying. Not by a long shot. As for "The Hnuger Games", I've read the 3 books many times and watched the movies many times. (The first movie was good, the remainder left too much out. They cut out many of the other redeemable characters from The Capitol.) Your comment about Katinss raising her arm has absolutely nothing to do with what I've said. I've said elsewhere that people are also taking offense to some of these athletes "taking a knee" during the anthem. Kneeling is recognized by many as a submission or deference, so how in the world anyone is taking offense to that is beyond me. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
My view is that we are the freest nation on Earth, And if I'm correct that many pledge, recite and sing by rote, are they even thinking of the symbol? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
+1 No, it doesn't. Call a spade a spade. I could be wrong, but I don't think Ozs is in agreement with you. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
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I Don't Want To Stand when National Anthem is Sang/Played. I Don't Go to any Event for Purpose of Standing and Listening to National Anthem. Most People Look Ridiculous during Anthem. Embarrassing to Witness. I Don't Want to Give A Few Minutes of My Time, Stand, and NOT CARING at This Moment about PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE SACRIFICES. I'll Care or Not Care, when I Want To. Because Some People BELIEVE INTENSELY, I Should Stand/Participate in Anthem, is, for me, A Great Reason Not To. Were My GrandDad, Father and Me a Vet? Yes. SO F**king What. Leave Me Alone World. F**K Off. F**King Yap, Man. May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
I Don't Want To Stand when National Anthem is Sang/Played. I Don't Go to any Event for Purpose of Standing and Listening to National Anthem. +2 Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Heh, finally I can put a big +1 to one of your posts. I couldn't agree more. Ok you guys, quit this right now. We shall have no agreement before it's time in this form! |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Seeing the pictures of the fallen and connecting it to sports is an absolute and complete disgrace to their memories. So, are you saying that because Kaspernick has protested one inequity or perceived inequity, all inequities or perceived inequities should be protested, all at once? Or, as you still have not answered, do you believe he should not be protesting at all? Don't go off on "grammar nazi" about the placement of the comma. You're still not being clear. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
I Don't Want To Stand when National Anthem is Sang/Played. I Don't Go to any Event for Purpose of Standing and Listening to National Anthem. +3 ... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Seeing the pictures of the fallen and connecting it to sports is an absolute and complete disgrace to their memories. You call disagreement "quelling"? Really? Seriously?? (Like we didn't see you type the Brit word for excrement with the i changed to y and then chastise me for my words.) Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I Don't Want To Stand when National Anthem is Sang/Played. I Don't Go to any Event for Purpose of Standing and Listening to National Anthem. +4 I remember my army days. At noon the regiment played a tune which meant that if you were outside hearing it you was supposed to salute the flag at attention. So what happens? Everybody avoided to be outside at noon and waited a few minutes before going to the canteen. Standing at attention perhaps alone on a yard feels very awkward to me and others. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Seeing the pictures of the fallen and connecting it to sports is an absolute and complete disgrace to their memories. Sarge I am stating that the fact Kaspernick's protest has started a a much needed conversation that previous protests have failed to start. He apparently sees hypocrisy in pretending all is OK in this country as that picture of that destitute veteran shows it is not. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
(Like we didn't see you type the Brit word for excrement with the i changed to y and then chastise me for my words.) You now the rules just as well as me. For further clarification, question those in power. If I could I wouldn't change the letters mentioned. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
This addresses nothing of what I said. I asked you to clarify which you posted a photo of 1984 with the statement "whipping into a frenzy". Isn't that known as incitement? |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Seeing the pictures of the fallen and connecting it to sports is an absolute and complete disgrace to their memories. And why, cxactly, are you saying this in response to what I said? What do you think I said? Do you continue to think that? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
(Like we didn't see you type the Brit word for excrement with the i changed to y and then chastise me for my words.) SETI Forums wrote: Message 1660510 - Posted: 1 Apr 2015, 22:29:38 UTC How many times have I even used such words here? 2 or 3 times in 11 years? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
Ya, there ya go... I just don't understand, do I? I'm just an a-hole, shameful and probably some other things. Punchline rimshot: badaboom-splash. Right on queue. There were three posts between the one I'm replying to and your previous post. One was a reply to your previous post and another referenced "Guy" which several of us here remember as being your name sometime before you became "socialism kills". Do you even bother to read the posts of others? What would be a meaningful acknowledgment? Right... As a veteran, I can't possibly know anything about other veterans who have personal problems, how they are treated, what they go through before they are released from active duty, where they go if it's documented that they have no "home of record" or anything about the chances of what the real situation is about the person standing on the street corner wearing tattered uniform items and begging for *money*. You know about your own experience, generalizing from the experience may be fair, though it may not. One thing is certain, unless you engage with the person begging for money, you'll not *know* that person's reason for being there. You may have an opinion, though opinions are not knowledge. Your answer is to give anybody all the money they ask for and that'll fix the problem(s). Whatever... keep on lobbying to do that. Who suggested this was an answer? Guy, your habit of assigning additional positions to posts you disagree with can only serve to antagonize, why not try to establish a posters beliefs prior to attacking them? Alternatively, if you are referring to a previous post, why not link it? I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
For the Children of the World. Send message Joined: 22 Sep 16 Posts: 59 Credit: 116 RAC: 0 |
Here's a thought. The US National Anthem should be broadcast, on all media sources originating from US soil, 5 times a day. All US citizens should at those times stand facing Washington with their heads in abeyance, right hand over heart. Problem solved. lol. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Seeing the pictures of the fallen and connecting it to sports is an absolute and complete disgrace to their memories. Sarge you did not say anything you only asked a question and I answered it. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30653 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Guy and Sarge are not the same person Glenn. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
There's a time & place for everything. betreger, I did not ASK anything in this post. I said, and have continued to say, that there is no inherent connection between sporting events and observances of things related to the nation, The singing of the national anthem appears to gave started (or at least became institutionalized) during dark times of war, when they had the opportunity to rouse patriotism at a time when a great multitude was present. By the weight of tradition, this practice continues. I said, essentially, that the trotting out of memes/pictures, by 2 here, of the dead and hurt is shameful to their memories. Since there is no inherent connection between sorting events and patriotic observances, as these 2 protest Kaspernick's protests, they plead to emotion while dragging along those that can longer speak for themselves. Dragged them into a conversation of which they should not even be a part. There is no inherent connection between sporting events and patriotic observances. You've disagreed with something, but it's still not even clear to whom or what you're responding. My question to you was "How?" Because you seem to be saying there is a inherent connection between sporting events and patriotic events ... ? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
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