And they are about to go out of the food business - just this week I ate at Custard’s Last Stand.
Isn’t it time we added Republicanism to the DSM?
Please tell me this is a joke.
Maybe that’s how he’ll try to spin it.
It’d be a stupid joke. Why is this regular pro forma meeting something he’d even take notice of, let alone joke about, let alone at the expense of another Republican (Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez)?
Actually, it was Lieutenant Colonel Custer
It was clearly meant to be a joke. Rogers didn’t intend for this to go public. It was supposed to just be a little knee-slapper he could share with his buddies - who he clearly figures enjoy a little ethnic humor as much as he does.
This wasn’t a public policy statement. It’s a reflection of how some party leaders act when we’re in private.
Oh, sure, and then they get to be eaten first! That’s what they want!
Well, there’s a 7-ton bronze sculpture of Lenin in Seattle and there’s also the Cuban section of the movie Sicko.
Granted, neither of those says anything about a politician any higher than the Mayor of Seattle, but I think the modern world has more to fear from Communism than from Western expansion. I’m doubtful that the US is going to try and conquer Japan anytime soon.
You are of course correct, sir.
I don’t know anything about the Lenin statue, I’ll have to research that, but Michael Moore is not in any way an official or representative of the Democratic Party.
“Granted, neither of those says anything about a politician any higher than the Mayor of Seattle”
My post is my cite.
Okay, I found some info on the Lenin statue.
Apparently, it was brought to Seattle by a private individual who saw it as a work of art in spite of what it represented (stupid, but there you go). It ended up lying in his backyard where it became part of his estate when he died. Since then, his family has been trying to sell it and in the meantime it’s been displayed on a couple of different street corners where it’s been mocked and treated ironically. The only mayor mentioned in that article is the mayor of Poprad, Czechoslovakia. Do you have a cite (other than your post) that the Mayor of Seattle was involved in any way?
So, no, not much equivalence there.
I do wonder how many more years of stories like this we’re in for until everybody groks that the internet is not a private conversation. Even if it is one email sent to one person.
I misread the article and grant that your interpretation is correct. It looks like it’s only the Fremont Chamber of Commerce that has anything to do with it.
Those damn free-enterprise communists.
Did Custer ever even visit New Mexico?!
I thought Custer ‘retired’ as a Lieutenant-General?
You were probably thinking of innervate, which means the opposite of enervate.
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His highest brevet was Major General which he held towards the end of the Civil War (having first been brevetted all the way from Captain to BG) and also at least on one later posting when he was in charge of a larger command. For most of the last 8 years of his life, though, whenever he was only in command of the 7th he’d be serving as a LtCol and that’s as what he died.
It is customary military protocol for a retired or deceased officer to be referred to (and in modern times in the case of a pensioned retiree, paid) as per the highest rank known to have been served honorably so he’d be an MG for those purposes. Custer of course never formally retired and we civilians may just as well call him General or Colonel Custer for all he cares.
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