Not likely. By running away Sicks Ate has shown himself to be a pathetic crybaby. I imagine when he comes back he will pretend this never happened.
Can we forever link Sicks Ate with umbrella marines, as we now link Starving Artist with cardboard tube fucking?
I’m planning on it. Of course, now that the game is afoot, that will just increase the odds of a complete bail out.
I don’t read Mr. Artist’s posts, but it’s my sense that he has never publicly indicated regret about having brought that up.
Sicks Ate, in contrast, has done so, right here in the thread.
Has he? I must have missed it during all my Obama kool-aid drinking.
And why do you think Mr. Kool-Aid busts through your walls? To get your guns and force your kids into gay marriages! Wake up, America!
To be fair, I think the OP gradually came to his senses about this thread. Here’s a recap of the evolving attitude:
And that was the last we heard from Sicks Ate. I think that by Pit standards, this arguably counts as a retraction and apology of sorts.
Whatever it was, him calling it a “game” means he doesn’t take it seriously, so I feel no compulsion to take anything he says seriously, including what might be generously interpreted as a passive-aggressive simulation of apology.
Short of a one-sentence unambiguous admission of “I have shamed myself by starting a thread with such a moronic complaint and reinforced my shame by trying to defend said complaint and will withdraw from the thread”, as far as I’m concerned, Sicks Ate forever bears the Mark of Lame, or at least until something more interesting comes along.
Why are the marines rubbing their bellies?
Keep fucking this chicken. Obama’s administration has good reasons to be pitted, it’s better if we keep this irrelevant abortion at the top of the thread list though.
Won’t somebody please think of the chicken?
And, sure enough, right on schedule, the right-wing hate radio hosts are condemning Obama for not saluting the Marine guards at the presidential helicopter.
Can’t link to the exact clip, but it was Roger Hedgecock (San Diego) 5/28/13 (today.) Just exactly what we said (above) would happen. If he salutes…he’s wrong, and if he doesn’t salute…he’s wrong! Gotta love these guys (assholes of the wettest variety!)
That moron “radio host” must’ve conked out from, what?, perhpas vapors when President Obama failed to salute the Marine. Immediately after realizing that he hadn’t, the President got out of Marine Corps One and apologized to the Marine. The Marine looked a bit surprised by that. After all, the regulations regarding saluting require the junior person to maintain the salute until the senior person either returns the salute or passes by.
You have to love it when a bunch of non-military bozos get all flustered and whine about the Prez not doing a military thing in a military manner when said non-military bozos don’t know what the heck they’re talking about!
Failing to return a salute when you’re actually engaged in something–such as being the freaking President of the country–isn’t a big deal. Failing to return one in a ceremony, on the other hand, is.
This sentiment brought to you by an actual military type, me.
IIRC, Reagan was the first president even to think of saluting the Marine guards. So if Ronnie did it, the right wingers will take it as gospel it must be done or else.
IIRC, Reagan got flack for that, but I don’t have a cite. Maybe it was said earlier, but traditionally, Americans have never been comfortable with the idea of an active service member being a president. Too banana-republican. But then again, Reagan got away with a lot of stuff (Iran-Contra comes to mind) that would have destroyed other presidencies. Americans loved the guy.
I don’t believe a president should return a salute–you’re a civilian, not a military person. Case in point: If anyone in 20th Century was entitled to return a salute it would be Eisenhower (who was a retired five star General of the Army)–but he never did. I be willing to bet he would have been appalled at Reagan’s actions–again, because of the banana-republican appearance.
I don’t have a problem with presidents saluting or returning salutes, because they are the commander-in-chief after all. But I certainly wouldn’t think twice if a president didn’t do it. I wouldn’t think twice if he did. It’s a total non-issue with me, except the righties whining about it looks pathetic to me.
In Mr. Ates’ defense, we see that the 76-year old Vicar of Christ braved the rain yesterday, without trying to humiliate any deacons or archangels into holding an umbrella for him.
Then again, Pope Francis is obviously not a baby-killing Islamo-atheist from Kenya with a peculiar skin color.