If we all pattern our behavior after the worst examples available to us then all is truly lost.
Monday, January 02, 2006
From the Brave New World Dictionary (alternate edition)
Bush-ido: n a claim of adherence to the Japanese warrior spirit of Bushido made by a false warrior, specifically a president of the United States. ent U.S. English slang term bullshit: foolish insolent talk.
bushibravado: tough talk by guys who've never served...
"We can contribute a second hand anecdote to newspaper stories on rising concern, last year, from Secretary of State Powell and Deputy Secretary Armitage about Administration attitudes and the risks they might entail: according to eye witnesses to debate at the highest levels of the Administration... the highest levels... whenever Powell or Armitage sought to question prisoner treatment issues, they were forced to endure what our source characterizes as "around the table, coarse, vulgar, frat-boy bully remarks about what these tough guys would do if THEY ever got their hands on prisoners...."
Remember the word "bushusuru", meaning: to throw up on the Japanese Prime Minister in public?
ReplyDeletebushibravado: tough talk by guys who've never served...
ReplyDelete"We can contribute a second hand anecdote to newspaper stories on rising concern, last year, from Secretary of State Powell and Deputy Secretary Armitage about Administration attitudes and the risks they might entail: according to eye witnesses to debate at the highest levels of the Administration... the highest levels... whenever Powell or Armitage sought to question prisoner treatment issues, they were forced to endure what our source characterizes as "around the table, coarse, vulgar, frat-boy bully remarks about what these tough guys would do if THEY ever got their hands on prisoners...."
http://blog.browndemocrats.org/archives/000544.php
Doug,
ReplyDeleteYes. Doesn't "bushuru" also refer to wetting your pants at the thought of having to show up for you TANG drills?
Jeff,
Wow. Just wow.