Marine slang: A clusterfuck was any group of Marines big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up, i.e. "That blocking operation was a giant clusterfuck!" Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out "clusterfuck!" and one or more guys would walk away. (Capmarine.com)
Clearly, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is "all screwed up"; that makes it a clusterfuck by definition. However, the term is even more a propos. Tactically, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is a clusterfuck. The analogy to "Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round" is clear. In Vietnam, "in the open" meant being exposed in the rice paddies or jungles. In Iraq, "in the open" means (1) urban warfare where (2) troops (and contractors) must be supplied by trucks which (3) are not armored thereby making them vulnerable to (4) the "incoming rounds" of IEDs placed along the roadside. Nice work, Inerrant Boy. (And the resonance to the words of Matthew 18:19, "wherever two or three are gathered together," is heartbreaking.) NOTE: A tip of the Ol' Corrente Hat to the man in the grey turtleneck for mainstreaming the word "clusterfuck" when applied to Bush's war of choice in Iraq.
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I am glad you can speak that way. When I think of painting, I think of backache.
Haw. When I think of backache...
... I think of computers!
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
tape tip for you--
i don't know if it's worth the extra time and work tho-- How to Seep-Proof Masking Tape http://www.diyideas.com/howto/Paint/seep...
That is a great hint....
... but I think it's more of a "stripes on the wall" concept.
In an old house, nothing is really true; the idea is to create an illusion of straight lines, so I think that brushwork is probably better.
Plus, it's all such a weird mindset. I'm a Clement Greenberg kind of guy: There's a plane, and there's paint. But now there's layers and layers of paint, and tape, and now a sealent for the tape -- it's still all about surface, but it's a layered serface, that's elastic (latex pulls away...). I think probably the end point of it all is taping the windows and getting an air compressor and a spray gun. That and styrofoam pediments. It's just bizarre.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I like the cheap china bristle brushes because
they give a great point and they're disposable. So at $1. a brush I can do a good days work and then pitch the brush. I don't always have great luck washing out brushes and having them keep a point.
I love this job!
I love this job!
Cheap brushes?!?!
I see the argument, but so far, my excellent brush has washed out just fine. We'll see how it goes. I'm used to the kind of brushes my father had, which lasted for years....
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I use hair conditioner on my brushes.
It prevents frizzies!
You're winding me up
C'mon. That can't be true.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
A lot of good brushes
Are made out of hair, so that is entirely possible.
And yes, latex stretches out. When you open your next can of paint, take that semi-dry layer of paint that sticks to the lid, peel it off, and stretch it out. Come back in an hour, it will have shrunk back down to the same size it was.
That's why it's called LATEX, it works just like the gloves.
Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
I used brush conditioner on my hair
Maybe that's why it all fell out.
I still have all my hair
I keep it in a bag in the closet.
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“I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
The fumes, oh no, the fumes.....
I can only take teh serious for just so long.