Friday, December 15, 2006
The wisdom of Steve Cook delivered directly to my email inbox
I’m still getting email about the whole Wal-Mart Nazi SS Totenkopfis t-shirt controversy. Is it really a controversy? I don’t know and I don’t care.
Some of the email messages I get are positive and well thought out. Others, not so much. Some of the messages sent to me are so idiotic and stupid that they are actually quite funny. Here is one such email I received this morning.
Steve Cook <keywest63020@charter.net> wrote:
Emblems similar to nazi emblems on wal-mart t-shirts….!
To quote john Stoessel (sic) “give me a break”..so what…..do you have any idea howlong the skull and crossbones have been around? The skull and crossbones is also an insignia for the fighter wing aboard the USS Washington aircraft carrier(I think that is the correct ship). I saw it on the History channel the other night. You gonna contact George Bush and have him change that also?
The swastika has also been around since the dawn of civilization and was used by many civilizations including the american indian…..it can actually be traced back to ancient judiaism (sic).
The ss symbols are from the ancient Runes symbols…shall we outlaw all of them also?
Why dont you get your panties in a wad over something that matters and not some vague reference to last mid-century.
If you wanna get mad @ wal-mart about something ,why not complain about the crappy produce selection .
Nothing personal…..but if you really want to make a difference in this world quit looking back and try to look forward.
I am pretty sure that no one was gonna walk into wal-mart and say.” Dude!…look….an SS deathshead t-shirt..i gotta have one!”
Steve
My favorite part is where my new friend Steve invoked the name of ABC’s 20-20 John Stossel. He’s the guy that’s always trying to argue that global warming is fake or that it’s perfectly acceptable to charge $20 for a bottle of water during a disaster because it ensures that the person who really needs that water gets that water.
As though there are some people that don’t need water.
Steve takes me to task for “looking back”. He advises me to instead “look forward”. This is interesting since he’s the one commenting on a blog post I made over a month ago.
Talk about being relevant.
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