Comments on: Mysterious Hot Metal Rains from Sky

By: Nimby

Nimby — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:55:41 +0000

Dear Mr Fusion: Thank you for the suggestion. I’m always looking for new literary adventures. Some recommended a book apparently written by a Greek god called “Green Eggs and Ham.” I thought it was a cookbook. The characters were well drawn and fully fleshed out but I think the story may have been – poetry! It seemed like every line had a rhyme or nine.

Dear Mr McCullough: As part of my apology I will not take you to task for Bush-bashing (at least for a while). But you keep your hands off Dick Nixon. As I said before – he let me out of the Army! He was a great man!

By: AlgoreIsWorseThanHitler

AlgoreIsWorseThanHitler — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:25:09 +0000

The last 8 years are absolutely nothing compared the last 8 weeks. Yikes. We’re circling the drain and augering in.

By: McCullough

McCullough — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:13:16 +0000

You guys are killing me. In a good way….

BTW..I thought everyone knew what a chickenhawk was..the malady was rampant among Bush’s staff, except for perhaps Powell.

Concerning the continued Bush bashing, as long as I can feel the pain of the last 8 + years, I dont feel compelled to give this guy a pass, or sympathy, maybe as time goes on……….but I doubt it. Hell, I’m still grousing about Nixon.

By: dr wally

dr wally — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:08:01 +0000

Hot “cast iron” falling from the sky? Can you say “meteorite”? That’s what they look like — just a melted cast iron brick.

(now back to the real topic…)

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:48:36 +0000

Hey I like that picture. It so adequately summed up all that has been wrong for the past eight years.

It has only been the past year, or so, that I have heard “chicken hawk” used to refer to anyone other than a non-military person promoting war. As I recall, the term came about in the years leading up to the War of 1812 when some New England merchants and ship owners were upset that the English Navy was kidnapping American sailors for their own ships.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:45:16 +0000

#21, Mr. Nimby,

Sir, or is that Dr. Sir, may I recommend the Nancy Drew series? They were published along side the Hardy Boys yet have a certain “hot” appeal to them not to be found with the Hardy Boys. Read one and you will breathlessly jump into the next book.

Well, not really. I lied. But once, many years ago when I lay in bed with a broken leg, that was all that was left in the house to read.

By: smartalix

smartalix — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:35:44 +0000

Maybe a boiler blew up somewhere…

By: Mr Diesel

Mr Diesel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:29:37 +0000

#21 Nimby

Damn that last part is hilarious. Great way to start my day.

By: MotaMan

MotaMan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:12:44 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/dklyf6

it’s a tooth from some sort of mulching machine, that explains why it was hot.

oh sorry I forgot this thread was about bush…

By: Nimby

Nimby — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:04:23 +0000

Uncle Patso, I’ll assume you meant the complementary definition of mensch. Thank you, sir.

Bobbo: I was well aware of the controversy concerning the Bush contribution to the war. I had just not heard the term chickenhawk used in this way. I try to read much more than my medical journals. I’ve finally finished the entire “Dick and Jane” series and am starting the Hardy Boys. There’s a lot of words in the Hardy Boys – I do wish they had more pictures. Thanks for the referral but The Urban Dictionary is where I automatically went when I did look up the term.

As for my chickenhawkishness? I was in Viet Nam with the IV Army 6th Btn 21st FA. I was a sergeant E-5 but my friends called me “Doc.” My Honorable Discharge is “signed” by Ricky Nixon. I treated everything from bullet wounds to dripping dicks. In fact, didn’t I see you in my venereal warts clinic? How’s that clump round your anus doing?

By: bobbo

bobbo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:21:56 +0000

#18–Nimby==”I have a doctoral degree so consider myself somewhat well-read but” /// I do wonder how anyone well read could miss the 8 year controversy about BushtheRetards chickenhawk status. Its been discussed in national newspapers as well as this blog several times. You do know that reading extensively in some some area of expertise of interest to no one else is not actually being well read?

Be that as it may be, I offer to you and all gentle scholars the urban dictionary. Fun to read even on a casual basis but an absolute necessity before going off half cocked:

http://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chickenhawk

#19–Unc==mensch? Just as likely just a chickenhawk.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:05:29 +0000

I wonder if it was part of one of the satellites that collided over Siberia the other day. (Do they use cast iron in satellites?)

And #18 Nimby: you, sir, are a mensch.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:13:44 +0000

Dear Mr McCullough – I would like to withdraw my post above and extend to you my apologies. I have a doctoral degree so consider myself somewhat well-read but, in my experience the definition of a chickenhawk is a homosexual predator of young boys. I mentioned this to a friend of mine and he had never heard of MY definition but gave me one he knew about politicians with no military experience pushing for war. I did a quick search and found both are valid. It’s obvious now you meant to infer the latter when my gutter mind saw the former. Please accept my apology and please do not throw any more cast iron my way.

By: 5minutehate

5minutehate — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:27:50 +0000

You do know Bush is out of office, right? Oh, that’s right, Bush is the center of most liberals’ lives. All things are real only in relation to Bush. Obama was a passing fad, but now that he’s disappointed them, back to the old standby.

Goldberg! Goldberg!

By: deowll

deowll — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:06:42 +0000

Okay, I thought about it and I still don’t have a clue why a red hot hunk of cast iron would be coming through a roof.

I like cast iron but this is about as poor a choice for something to go into something that flies or goes into space as you can think off.

Unless it is a hunk of Meteorite or a fake I just don’t get it.