McCain wasn't a hero. He showed up for the military and he did his time but it's laughable to say he was any good at it. Winding up in a POW camp in Vietnam sucks ferociously but that's not heroism, it's unrivaled human misery.
McCain was just one more guy who got screwed by a bad system into a bad war. If that makes him a hero then there are many of them running about as the system never got any better and the bad wars got even more pointless.
Donald Trump seems to think he's a hero or he would be in no position to say whether he thinks anyone else is a hero. He's no more a hero than meeting a beautiful woman on Second Life and discovering later she's really some unshaved bum in Hoboken who was divorced by his wife when he started wearing her clothes.
Caitlyn Jenner was actually recognized by some coke-addicted organization of lunatics in California as a hero but there's some disagreement from Kim Howe's family on that as Ms Howe is the one who died some months ago when Jenner hit Howe's car in an accident with her SUV. Since then, Howe has weaseled out of criminal charges and is now trying to dodge paying any damages. (Daily Mall: Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Courage Award win is SLAMMED by victim in fatal car crash as she claims former Olympian ' still refuses to accept responsibility for taking a life')
It's an absurd situation as the only ones who are saying Jenner is hot are women. I've yet to hear a man anywhere say he would do her and I'd put money down that you won't find one. That's not so much because she's transgender but rather she's such a worthless self-absorbed fuckhead. It would be like screwing Facebook and imagine facing that in the morning.
That's one shabby crop of heroes. The unfortunate aspect is America has got some great heroes but real ones hardly ever identify themselves whereas fake ones hardly ever do anything else.
Jonas Salk cured polio and didn't take one dime in royalties or profits from the vaccine he discovered. Maybe he could have caught the disease by working with it but that didn't stop him and it brings tears to my eyes thinking how many lives he saved around the world. Here at the Rockhouse, we think he's a fine example of an American hero.
How about all of those nurses who worked on the Ebola cases when that was trying to make it into America. The nurses don't even get the glory of the doctors but they took the same risks and they got it done. Maybe I've missed it but I've never seen these people getting any awards for heroism.
People talk about cops all the time but they hardly ever mention firemen even though the firemen will be facing death almost every time they roll out in their firetrucks. It's an incredibly dangerous job but they're hardly ever recognized as heroes for doing it.
America really sucks at synthesizing heroes ... but there's no need as there are plenty all around already. All that's necessary is to recognize the real ones. The hardest part is getting past all the fakes ones who get in the way.
McCain was just one more guy who got screwed by a bad system into a bad war. If that makes him a hero then there are many of them running about as the system never got any better and the bad wars got even more pointless.
Donald Trump seems to think he's a hero or he would be in no position to say whether he thinks anyone else is a hero. He's no more a hero than meeting a beautiful woman on Second Life and discovering later she's really some unshaved bum in Hoboken who was divorced by his wife when he started wearing her clothes.
Caitlyn Jenner was actually recognized by some coke-addicted organization of lunatics in California as a hero but there's some disagreement from Kim Howe's family on that as Ms Howe is the one who died some months ago when Jenner hit Howe's car in an accident with her SUV. Since then, Howe has weaseled out of criminal charges and is now trying to dodge paying any damages. (Daily Mall: Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Courage Award win is SLAMMED by victim in fatal car crash as she claims former Olympian ' still refuses to accept responsibility for taking a life')
It's an absurd situation as the only ones who are saying Jenner is hot are women. I've yet to hear a man anywhere say he would do her and I'd put money down that you won't find one. That's not so much because she's transgender but rather she's such a worthless self-absorbed fuckhead. It would be like screwing Facebook and imagine facing that in the morning.
That's one shabby crop of heroes. The unfortunate aspect is America has got some great heroes but real ones hardly ever identify themselves whereas fake ones hardly ever do anything else.
Jonas Salk cured polio and didn't take one dime in royalties or profits from the vaccine he discovered. Maybe he could have caught the disease by working with it but that didn't stop him and it brings tears to my eyes thinking how many lives he saved around the world. Here at the Rockhouse, we think he's a fine example of an American hero.
How about all of those nurses who worked on the Ebola cases when that was trying to make it into America. The nurses don't even get the glory of the doctors but they took the same risks and they got it done. Maybe I've missed it but I've never seen these people getting any awards for heroism.
People talk about cops all the time but they hardly ever mention firemen even though the firemen will be facing death almost every time they roll out in their firetrucks. It's an incredibly dangerous job but they're hardly ever recognized as heroes for doing it.
America really sucks at synthesizing heroes ... but there's no need as there are plenty all around already. All that's necessary is to recognize the real ones. The hardest part is getting past all the fakes ones who get in the way.
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When my mom was under Hospice care for 8-months, we had two CNAs that came to the house every day. (Well, they alternated days, but you know what I mean. These two women cared for her every day for 8-months.) As CNAs, they were at the bottom of the salary ladder, yet the dedication they showed was absolutely amazing. They did the job, not for the money - it's minimal - but because they truly cared about the people they were comforting in their final days, my mom included. You want heroes? There are two. Every person they care for is terminal. Many are violent. None are capable of performing even the most basic form of hygienic care. Many have communicable diseases. Despite all this, these CNAs are the most dedicated health-care workers I've ever encountered. In the count of heroes, you'll find them near the top of the list.
Exactly what I mean. My wife worked with old people for some years as a nurse and that gave some idea of the difficulty of the job and the incredible way people do it. All that time they live with the knowledge they're one needle stick away from turning HIV+ or some other horrible thing. There's a special kind of tough which makes these people.
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