Thats your story, we know how they end up. You use race all the time, and the whole world does know better.
How do I USE race Joe? Please give me an example of how I USE race for anything positive or negative? If I play the race card. then I am unaware of it and would like you to point out exactly where you think I have.
As for Eric Hu, sorry but I was yelling at him and neither of my friends heard me call him a "chink" in fact no one on the entire planet can ever tell you that I called anyone a chink. I don't even use words like that in jokes with my friends even when I am needling them about stereotypes. And it's not because I think I can't or shouldn't be able to call my asian friends chinks in the right joking context just like they could call me a cracker or honky if messing around with me. The reason I don't use those words Joe is simply because I never developed the habit of using them, I never thought to call any black person a nigger, never understood why an italian should be called a wop, or any other similar type of name. I also don't typically call someone a retard either for the same reason.
Eric Hu is simply a liar. That's my story and back to the lie detector there is NO CHANCE that he would pass that the test if question. But I would easily pass it. The fact is that all you can do to knock me is use hearsay, Ron Thomas said I did that, Eric Hu said I did this...... etc..
As far as your opinion of the war, good for you. However these kids who join to defend the freedom that allows you to make stupid statements, deserve better than that. They obviously didn't find the cause unjust to join, and defend the nation that they hold dear. Sure some have opinions after they join, because there are some that join and when the crap hits the fan, they just aren't cut out for combat.
Stop making it sound like everyone who joins the military is doing it for wide-eyed idealism. The vast majority sign up for a paycheck because they don't have a lot of other options. And when they know that the job will be to go to Iraq or Afghansitan where the will probably be involved in killing others they are essentially signing up to murder on behalf of the United States government. So when someone signs up voluntarily to go kill people for pay I don't have as much sympathy for them if they get hurt as I would if they were conscripted. If the "war" was a just war then I'd be 100% in support of people who volunteer to put their life on the line. As it stands I withhold a LITTLE bit of of support because of the circumstances. No where does it say that every American has to be 100% behind the soldiers carrying out there murders for the US government.
The fact is Joe that there are a lot of people who are cut out for combat who are disgusted that they are being asked to be in danger for this war. Thy don't believe in the mission AT ALL but do believe in doing the job they signed up for and being there for their buddies as best they can.
What our military and country deserves is to have every last soldier pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan immediately.
The 3000 casualties we had on 9/11 of innocent civilians is the only important number of the war.
Is it? See here you go again, a criminal organization managed to gain control of three planes despite the fact that our government and airline industry was negligent in providing the basic security measures that would have prevented it, impregnable cockpit doors, and because of that 3000 people died and the result is hundreds of thousands more innocents have died at our hands. Why don't you hold your own government accountable for the fact that psychopathic criminals with box cutters were even ABLE to hijack and take control of jet airliners?
No instead your response is let's go kill them all, all those "Muslims", kill them all. Doesn't matter how many are killed in retaliation, kill them all, nuke them, drone strike them, murder them, kill them all. When is it enough Joe? And on top of it another 3000 Americans are dead because of this, thousands more maimed,hundreds of thousands scarred for life psychologically.
When is it enough?
I love America way more than you ever will. I love it enough to want to see it loved by the world and not hated. I want to see it respected for it's leadership and not feared because of it's ability to reach out and kill by remote control. I love America so much I want it to honor the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and not become a quasi-police state where everyone lives in fear and acquiesces to every invasion of privacy and every restriction of movement in the name of security.
"He that gives up a little liberty for a little security deserves neither", Benjamin Franklin.
Stop with this friendly BS and lies. Mark my partner, bought a handful of cases at some ridiculous discout so you wouldn't have to ship them back. I do not sell them, they are for his league players, and I could give a crap less. I will never sell you crap, take it in trade, or do anything else less piss on them.
Are you going to say you were not friendly to me at the SBE in 2010? We had a conversation and laughed about AZB. I spent time at your booth and your showed me some Engles and Fellini cases. Later at the end of the show I approached you when Sterling asked me to find someone who might be interested in taking the remaining Wave cases. You asked Mark and then came and told me to bring them over. Then AFTER Mark bought them you praised the cases on the forum. No one asked you to do that. And on top of it you carried one of the Wave cases around for years. Not exactly the actions of an unfriendly staunch "buy American" type person.
You sound awfully frustrated? Does it bother you to be caught in lies? The fact is that many times in the years past we have shook hands at shows and been friendly and cool with each other and almost every single time you have gone back to attacking me shortly after the show was over. The one exception was when Mark bought a bunch of Sterling Wave cases. You praised those cases on AZB and waited someone longer to begin your attacks.
As an exploiter of the human condition, you have no standing to judge anyone else in regards to that matter.
JV
Really, an exploiter of the human condition? What condition would that be Joe? Do you somehow think that Chinese people are dying in the streets from starvation and I show up with a whip and a biscuit?
The people who work for me own property, have cars, motorcycles, Iphones, and live better than I do for the most part. My head seamstress after working for me for three years just bought her first house. My first tooler saved enough after three years to build a house and create a studio and now he employees several people making leather goods. Anyone is free to come and go as they please in my shop and they do.
This is the kind of nonsense and fake concern for the Chinese that I find reprehensible. On one hand you claim wrongly that I am exploiting poor Chinese people but on the other hand you would cut them off from trade and investment and thus subject them to abject poverty and very real famine. And furthermore you said with conviction that you would gladly kill ten million Chinese people instantly if it meant you could have full employment in the United States.
So the only one doing any exploiting here is you. And what you are exploiting is people's ignorance and fear of "China" and exploiting stereotypes all just to knock me.
BECAUSE
You have NEVER knocked Jack Justis for making stuff in China. Never said he is exploiting the "human condition", never said he uses child labor, never said he uses slave labor, never called him a murderer for operating in China. Nor did you apply any of that to your "boss" Mark for buying and selling Chinese made products.
The flat fact is that your actions and your words don't match and to me that makes you a phony all the way around. Your moral positions have more bends than the Kama Sutra. I am sure that if we were friends then you would be pushing my cases more than anyone else on this forum.
