Comments on: I’ve never trusted Klingons, and I never will…

By: Tom Clowers

Tom Clowers — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:51:58 +0000

Gook isn’t really from Vietnam. It comes from Korea, where I am living now. 국 or 国 (in Chinese) just means “country” during the Korean war it was first used to refer to the locals. That’s basically what it means, locals.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:18:12 +0000

And from the washington post as well (on McCain’s crash record):
https://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/10/mccain_fudges_his_navy_record.html

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:04:22 +0000

Good followup:
https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:00:27 +0000

I graduated at the bottom of the my class(like 608 of 680) and I think I’m doing pretty well. I’m sure most of my teachers thought I’d never amount to much. School just wasn’t my thing. I’m a skeptic. I’m not fond of either candidate and I’m not defending McCain for President, I just find that when faults that I can personally identify with are pointed out it touches a nerve.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:58:23 +0000

Thanks — I made the mistake of just assuming that one was true. I know that site of course, but I hadn’t seen that entry.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:45:18 +0000

Sorry about the previous post. That’s what I’m gonna start doing once I retire.

As far as all that political stuff, I’ve found a nifty website. Seems to be Non-partisan, https://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_mccain_crash_five_planes_did_he.html

Factcheck.org.
Check it out

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:19:09 +0000

Maybe you need to get a job and fix the fucking world!

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:18:03 +0000

Oh, Ok . Whatever…..
Red herrings.

Personally I’d like to vote none of the above.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:41:09 +0000

Fair enough — one could make the argument that almost everyone who went to Vietnam was an agent of genocide.

Personally I think his time being tortured disqualifies him.

I also think the fact that he seems to be completely incompetent, crashing his plane repeatedly, being at the bottom of his class, etc., should disqualify him.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:36:17 +0000

Well then, I’m sure every soldier that pounded ground over in Vietnam had no idea that when they used that word they using it any other way than as a derisive term to identify their directed enemy. I don’t much care for McCain, but if that’s the worst he has said, I don’t care. I don’t want to see him president, but I’d at least give him a pass on that. If the tales are true, he spent some time being tortured by the ‘gooks’

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:19:29 +0000

Yeah, I was surprised to find out that it was first used against Haitians, and is more of generic war/racial-hate term than something that’s specifically Vietnamese.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:31:16 +0000

Oh boy, I’m sure I That’s 180 pages of fun!
I can’t think of a single vietnam war themed movie that doesn’t drop the “dink” or “gook” word in it. In the context of it usage, it never struck me as being any different than : “kraut” or “hun” or “ivan” a generic term to identify the enemy.

I guess I’ll have to add another word that I never use or think of using to my lexicon of words that folks would find offensive. Pretty soon I’ll run out of pages.