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To: Kitten Festival

Chavez might be a totalitarian SOB, but it’s a bad headline nonetheless: “Fire upon” implies live ammo and deadly force, not “tear gas and rubber bullets.”


20 posted on 05/28/2007 12:34:10 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Chavez might be a totalitarian SOB, but it’s a bad headline nonetheless: “Fire upon” implies live ammo and deadly force, not “tear gas and rubber bullets.”

Couldn't agree with you more. It's a pretty short trip from here to Waco though.

25 posted on 05/28/2007 12:54:50 PM PDT by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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To: r9etb; Kitten Festival
Very bad headline, you beat me to it.

"Fired upon" implies LIVE ammunition and shooting to kill.

28 posted on 05/28/2007 12:58:07 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: r9etb

Chavez might be a totalitarian SOB, but it’s a bad headline nonetheless: “Fire upon” implies live ammo and deadly force, not “tear gas and rubber bullets.”

That’s just nit picking.
A wad from a blank can kill you.


105 posted on 05/28/2007 11:13:32 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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