Are They Fucking KIDDING Me?

[triadruid]

Watch out folks, we haven't seen anything yet...

"America Supports You" Freedom Walk scheduled by the Department of Defense for 9/11/05

Thanks to docwebster for the link...

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wait. What?
Seriously?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

You can't make this shit up.

Leni Riefenstahl must be throwing up a one-armed salute in her grave...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh the fun. This is from Gilliard's comment thread, and I like it. I like it A Lot.

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It may seem to be small potatoes compared to everything else, but the one thing that this administration has done that pisses me off completely out of proportion to the offense is that they have stripped the word "Freedom" of any meaning.

The "Freedom Walk", "Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast", "Operation Iraqi Freedom", "Freedom High School"; which I drive by every morning on the way to work. "Freedom" used to mean something - our heros are those who fought for this: both on the battlefield and in the streets, in the courtroom and the halls of Congress.

Since a word that means everything actually means nothing, "freedom" has become sort of a fuzzy feel-good concept that is dragged out to smear lipstick on whatever pig we're being sold today. It's greatest utility now is that of a bullshit warning - it tells you that the next words out of the speaker's mouth are going to be pure, unadulterated crap.
-Arekasi

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That was my favorite, as well.

Not christian, not a real american

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

'It tells you that the next words out of the speaker's mouth are going to be pure, unadulterated crap.'

I have seen this first hand. My former boss used to say things like, "If your not christian, your not a real american" and other peices of untrue and useless information. She once told me that the reason for our preparedness department was to protect the freedom of this country from terrorists.

Funny thing that, I thought the point of the health department and our preparedness was to protect the health of the public and save lives... oh well. I don't work for crazy people any more... oh wait... I still work in government. oops.

Um....what?

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't know whether to laugh or be offended by this evidence that the current administration thinks we're all dumbasses who would be distracted by something nonsensical as this as long as it's flashy and pretty and has music.

Jeesh.