Post by Stan de SDPost by Bill Z.Post by Stan de SDThe whole Tahquitz flap, where you accused me of doing
something w/r/t an incident where you weren't there (I was), and to
this day still don't know the day it happened and the name of the
person killed.
ROTFLMAO - *you* provided a description of this accident and described
what you did. I pointed out what your statements implied, based on
many years of experience rock climbing.
I pointed that that you weren't there, don't even know the date, or
the details of what happened. As far as your claim of "many years of
rock climbing", it means nothing regarding the incident. You weren't
there...
You yourself *posted* the details of what happened and your own words
condemned you. You have no one to blame but yourself. To recap, what
started that discussion is that you made one of your silly "cowardice"
charges with some vague threat. I just laughed at you, mentioning in
passing all the free climbing I've done. You thought that meant
climbing without a rope and then ranted about it, not realizing that
"free climbing" simply means not using a rope for physical support, only
for safety. By failing terminology 101, you showed you had next to
zero experience. To try to puff up your obviously non-existent
resume, you went on about that accident, and filled in all ther relevant
details - enough that anyone with years of climbing experience would
know exactly what the situation was regarding you.
I don't *have* to be there to know that you sat on a ledge eating lunch
and snapping pictures as some guy died because *you* provided that
information. Now, all you had to do was to admit that you were a rank
beginner and the people taking you along figured you weren't capable
of helping in any way and might actually slow everything down as they
had to look after you. But you couldn't do that - you had gone on
record lecturing someone with considerable experience and couldn't
bare to back down and lose face.
Post by Stan de SDPost by Bill Z. Democrat Says He Helped Bush Into Guard to Score Points
And the fact that Bush's father was Navy pilot in WWII, with 58 combat
missions, a DFC and associated gedunk would not have had any influence
in the matter? And yet, Bush's stay in the Texas ANG was still more of
a commitment than YOU ever made to this country...
ROTFLMAO. You have no valid argument whatsoever. Bush was in a
champagne unit with all sorts of other well connected individuals.
It's been documented. I gave you a link and you ignored it. The
existence of such national guard units in the past is a historical
fact. With a volunteer military, such safe havens aren't needed
today, but they did exist back then. Here's the article I cited and
quoted again. It pretty much speaks for itself.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60319-2004Sep3.html>:
Democrat Says He Helped Bush Into Guard to Score Points
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 4, 2004; Page A02
A former senior politician from Texas has told close friends
that he recommended George W. Bush for a pilot's slot in the
Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War because he was
eager to "collect chits" from an influential political family.
The reported comments by former Texas lieutenant governor Ben
Barnes add fuel to a long-running controversy over how Bush
got a slot in an outfit known as the "Champagne Unit" because
it included so many sons of prominent Texans. Friends said
that Barnes had recorded an interview for the CBS program "60
Minutes" that will address the question of whether Bush pulled
strings to evade being sent to Vietnam.
Barnes, a longtime Democrat who works as a lobbyist and
political consultant in Austin, has said that he is now "very
ashamed" of helping "a lot of people who had family names of
importance get in the National Guard." He made the statement
during a meeting with John F. Kerry supporters in Austin on
May 27, a video of which is now circulating on the Internet.
...
Barnes has told friends that he intervened with Rose to help a
number of other prominent, young Texans into the National
Guard. In addition to Bush, who was accepted for pilot
training in May 1968, other recruits to the Texas National
Guard during the late 1960s included the son of former Texas
senator Lloyd M. Bentsen (D) and members of the Dallas Cowboys
football team.
Now, Stan, what do you think the probability was of that single unit's
members including George W. Bush, the son of Senator Lloyd Bentsen,
and members of the Dallas Cowboys? Do you really want to claim it
was due to random chance?
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