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Freakin’ Stupid and Insane

March 23rd, 2008 at 11:05am Jon Murray

As I sat in church this Easter morning I heard requests for prayers for the families of those killed and injured in Iraq this past week.   My train of thoughts went on to this stupid war in which we’re engaged.  Can you believe in the year of 2008 we are still trying to resolve differences by killing each other?  Have we learned anything from history?  As children we were taught to not fight in the schoolyard…that lesson sure didn’t stick with our leaders.  We need to move beyond talking about the war in polite and respectful language and call it what it really is…Freakin’ Stupid and Insane.
Jon Murray

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4 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Pat Cunningham  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    You’re freakin’ right, Jon. Thanks.

  • 2. Paul  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    I don’t appreciate your article “Freakin’ Stupid and Insane”. We all know what the word means Jon, you are just spelling it wrong. You would think after you sat in church this easter morning you could do a little better. We have enough of the altered obscenities on the other blogs, now we have it on the RRS voters panel.

    Your style takes away fom the point you were trying to make and in my opinion is very inappropriate.

  • 3. Paul  |  March 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Pats comment had not been posted when I sent mine. Iguess I am wrong in my post. If its OK for RRS Staff to use the same term I guess its OK for anyone else to use what ever terms they want in expressing their views. Dosen’t say much for the RRS.

  • 4. Jon Murray  |  March 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Paul…
    I understand your concern about the original “root” to that word, however, you could probably say the same thing about “darn” “shoot” or “son of a gun” and don’t forget that often used acronym “snafu”. Actually I don’t normally use four letter words (OK, if I bang my bald head against the doorway in my shed I might say something) however, at this point I think the war demands language to get attention. Also, I think I did spell “freakin’ ” correctly.

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