Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga has a very interesting biography.
From Wikipedia: He served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He completed training at Ft. Sill in OK and fulfilled his 3-year enlistment as a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Fire Direction Specialist while stationed in Bamberg, Germany. By his own account, he "missed deploying to the Gulf War by a hair." Moulitsas has described the Army as "perhaps the ideal society – we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return."
I have depression, and I'm a veteran. I kept my big mouth shut about it when I took my physical (I hadn't been diagnosed until six years later, but I knew for years). I enlisted in a time of peace and went to a war I opposed, so unlike Tancredo and like Kos, I can talk firsthand about the VA, because I didn't try to weasel out of war.
@wvu05 Thank you for your service! More veterans like you need to be heard. I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to remind a right-winger in 2008 that the GOP including John McCain voted against increased funding for the VA. The GOP loves to send our service men and women to war but then deny them the equipment to fight effectively and the medical services they need once their job is done. It is imperative that their hypocrisy is called out as you have done.
@wvu05 Thank you Sir for your dignity and service. You have made a difference . So may cretins out here drooling their hypocrisy - most likely never served nor have bothered to help achieve a better world. I understand your pain only so well.I've battled depression after I've lost my first husband for a couple years. I do not mean to pry in your life..perish the thought - but I found outside activities rather stimulating .
@classicallady Exercising can be very liberating. You are welcome if you decide to join this awesome group of friends we have here :) as well, we have several veterans among us. Thank you so much again. Cheers.
enlisting in the service while knowing that you faced the challenges of depression shows courage that few could understand. thanks for your service.
i don't want to make assumptions, but..... we have a female veteran in our group of YT pals who is a great resource for vets. if you need guidance in locating assistance, she may be able to provide you with helpful information: her username is chgosatrap. if you cannot locate her, reply here and i'll send a link via private msg.
They stand there those vermin, and pontificate how vital it was to "fight them there" and not here. They believed that terrorists would come here if we didn't go there. Yet not one single solitary college boy felt a duty to protect his own family by joining up.
Men their same age were being shot at in Iraq while they were bloviating about the frailties and illness's which prevent them from serving. Young Christian right wingers. Echhh!! Enough to make one vomit last years dinners.
@KuShxBassisT Liberals my ass. I take it you're a big bad right winger. Your man George Bush threw away the lives of10,000 U.S soldeirs in Iraq & Afgh. The pygmy Tancredo was a big booster of those 2 excersizes in blood letting. Conservatives have a great talent for STARTING wars. No talent whatsoever for successfully ending them.You guys refuse to accept the fact that brave libs & conservs as well, fight our wars. Not Tancredo, Limbaugh, Bush, et al. They support wars, but don't fight them!
@KuShxBassisT Yea, Kos sure don't look like a vet. Vets are supposed to be big tough and fearless. Like Limbaugh, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Beck, Hannity, Chuck Norris etc. Whoops none of those scumsuckers served, but Kos did. Kos served his country, whether you believe it or not. I see the word fuck-tard used a lot on the net. Fits you!
@Loejyrrab Chuck Norris was a an air force airman of something like that. He was in the military, but in a strictly non-combat , non-special forces type role. I think he was the tank wipe at a refueling station or something. so, he likes to play tough, but had a very peaceful and easy time during Vietnam.
@KataVideo Hey Kata, at least Norris cleaned up some dirty tanks. He did something useful. Bush never showed up at all. What a disgusting gang of weasels the chickenhawks are. Give em hell Kata.
The coming Apocalypse: republitards will lose even MORE seats in the house & senate in 2010/2012. Percipient citizens will demand the enactment of a Fairness Doctrine bill to curtail (& ultimately eliminate) the lies from hate-talk radio, Faux News and other sources of brainwashing. Without Limbaugh, Beck, Michael Savage and other idiot racist miscreant-crybabies, the CONservative movement will falter and die...FINALLY!!! An Apocalypse for some, but sounds like heaven to me!
It's not the Apocalypse, but some of those chicken-hawk conservatards actually WANT the Apocalypse. The corporate mainstream media will not tell you that these folks think it's the "end times" and they want a nuclear confrontation with the Islamic world to hasten the return of white jeebus.
The neocons were dangerously insane, waving around their copies of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" with oily hard-ons over that glistening war machine lurking in the red, white and blue corner, but the fuckhead Christ-botherers who happy-clap for Hell-fire are a whole different league of "howling at the Moon" crazy.
I wonder if these idiots even understand that Jesus was a swarthy, dark-skinned Semite, the same race as an Arab ? That'd fuck them up.
@allieron No allieron, most of these Christians to this day don't freekin realize that Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew and croaked as a Jew, and yes, he was a Semite, like the Arabs. They think of Jesus as a Jeffrey Hunter blue eyed Nordic type. Recently, a young lady told me that Jesus was a Christian. Oh brother.
Damn.. you are incredibly stupid! I'm going to leave your comment up so everyone can see.
No.. I've never served in a Fire Department. But I don't go around starting fires, supporting fire and insisting that other peoples' children march straight into the flames. and then call them "hero" if they live.
Your analysis of Massachusetts and Democrats in general are faulty. Coakley lost that senate seat, no one else. "SOME" Democrats are panicking.. the low-brow conserva-dems.
@larkydozer I've served in the Fire Department for nearly 20 years all together. Furthermore, I support everything katavideo has said here. Soooooo, here's a nice steaming cup of Shut The Fuck Up.
@AntiAntiAmerica congratulations, you had a chance to make a point, and instead you made a grammatically incorrect accusation and closed with a broad, hackneyed cliche.
Al Franken: never backed down to a righty, ever, and look at him, a senator getting legislation passed and signed.
President Obama's gop smackdown last friday.. he walked into their house, took on 140 of them, smacked down each and every one and walked out without a scratch.
Sunday, Paul Krugman stuffed it right in roger ailes fat face, on the abc sunday morning show, and ailes had no come back.
Great video as always. Love the Monty Python into and extro you put in too. Shows you have class! :)
For your health care vids, maybe you could use the clip where the British officer is laying in a tent with his leg missing asking the doc if it'll grow back. At the end, Life of Brian's "Always look on the bright side of life"?
Sorta like the Rethugs proposed health insurance plan. :)
I took it down because I questioned its relevance, but then a right-wing gal mouthed off and claimed I was admitting an error.. LOL
there's no error, it's just an msnbc clip! usually I just ignore the insect, as this video had 3700+ views before, and now has almost as many as one of her biggest "successes".. double LOL
Thanks great video - I LOVE IT WHEN A REAL VETERAN CALLED OUT THE COWARD - HE LEFT - dO YOU THINK THOSE DRAFT DODGING CHICKEN REPUBLICANS WILL EVER GET THE MESSAGE?
I'm a veteran who made five deployments over the course of my four-year tour of duty, and I agree completely with the veteran in the video. I tire of Republicans who claim to have my best interests in mind, but support legislation that harms me.
I served under Ronald Reagan, and for all his military spending, he was no friend of the average service man or woman.
An like Reagan, congressional Republicans seek to enrich their "friends [sitting] at rosewood meeting tables in mahogany-paneled conference rooms high up in corporate towers" at the expense of the rest of us.
can you imagine if people in America embraced the notion of being responsible for their actions 24/7? there would be conservatives, but there would be NO republicans
it makes you wonder.. what are the congressional dems thinking? Obama goes to the gop retreat armed with the truth, faces down 140 gops in their home stadium, beats down each and every one and goes home without a scratch. Kos reminds this twerp of the truth and the twerp implodes.
Obama doesn't want to stand up to them. Pepsi and Coke. YOur going to die from diabeities either way. Obama had and has the potential to free himself from the normal political trappings. At some point he has to stop caring about his survival and start busting heads. Otherwise it was all for naught. On the plus side my idea for a man made continent free of human stupidity and ignorance is useful again.
Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga has a very interesting biography.
From Wikipedia: He served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He completed training at Ft. Sill in OK and fulfilled his 3-year enlistment as a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Fire Direction Specialist while stationed in Bamberg, Germany. By his own account, he "missed deploying to the Gulf War by a hair." Moulitsas has described the Army as "perhaps the ideal society – we worked hard but the Army took care of us in return."
zippyman818 7 months ago
Wonderful video!
385Mercedes 7 months ago
I have depression, and I'm a veteran. I kept my big mouth shut about it when I took my physical (I hadn't been diagnosed until six years later, but I knew for years). I enlisted in a time of peace and went to a war I opposed, so unlike Tancredo and like Kos, I can talk firsthand about the VA, because I didn't try to weasel out of war.
wvu05 7 months ago
@wvu05 thanks for your service
KataVideo 7 months ago
@wvu05 Thank you for your service! More veterans like you need to be heard. I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to remind a right-winger in 2008 that the GOP including John McCain voted against increased funding for the VA. The GOP loves to send our service men and women to war but then deny them the equipment to fight effectively and the medical services they need once their job is done. It is imperative that their hypocrisy is called out as you have done.
kaysandesses 7 months ago
@wvu05 Thank you for your service...
WeirdLiberalHead 7 months ago
@wvu05 Thank you Sir for your dignity and service. You have made a difference . So may cretins out here drooling their hypocrisy - most likely never served nor have bothered to help achieve a better world. I understand your pain only so well.I've battled depression after I've lost my first husband for a couple years. I do not mean to pry in your life..perish the thought - but I found outside activities rather stimulating .
classicallady 7 months ago
@classicallady Exercising can be very liberating. You are welcome if you decide to join this awesome group of friends we have here :) as well, we have several veterans among us. Thank you so much again. Cheers.
classicallady 7 months ago
@wvu05
enlisting in the service while knowing that you faced the challenges of depression shows courage that few could understand. thanks for your service.
i don't want to make assumptions, but..... we have a female veteran in our group of YT pals who is a great resource for vets. if you need guidance in locating assistance, she may be able to provide you with helpful information: her username is chgosatrap. if you cannot locate her, reply here and i'll send a link via private msg.
astraia1x 7 months ago
@astraia1x
Thanks Astraia, here I am!
chgosatrap 7 months ago
@chgosatrap
you are awesome!!
astraia1x 7 months ago
@wvu05
Hi, I am diane, a USMC vet (1973-76). We need to talk. Republitards can suck out my (I)(I) with a straw.
chgosatrap 7 months ago
@wvu05 Thanks for your service WVU05! Depression is treatable and there are many options. I hope you receive a treatment that works for you.
Go Navy! (oops, that just slipped out)
zippyman818 7 months ago
@wvu05 Thank you for your service. Tom Tancredo doesn't understand what it feels like to be a real veteran who actually was in a war.
Pellegrino80 7 months ago
@wvu05
I'm with ya, dude. We gotta hang in there.
leesagrrl 7 months ago
They stand there those vermin, and pontificate how vital it was to "fight them there" and not here. They believed that terrorists would come here if we didn't go there. Yet not one single solitary college boy felt a duty to protect his own family by joining up.
Men their same age were being shot at in Iraq while they were bloviating about the frailties and illness's which prevent them from serving. Young Christian right wingers. Echhh!! Enough to make one vomit last years dinners.
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
I'm having trouble believing that man is a veteran. Liberals need to hire better actors…
KuShxBassisT 8 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Who the fuck cares what you believe? Conservatards need to learn to use toilet paper, stop using their fingers.
KataVideo 8 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Liberals my ass. I take it you're a big bad right winger. Your man George Bush threw away the lives of10,000 U.S soldeirs in Iraq & Afgh. The pygmy Tancredo was a big booster of those 2 excersizes in blood letting. Conservatives have a great talent for STARTING wars. No talent whatsoever for successfully ending them.You guys refuse to accept the fact that brave libs & conservs as well, fight our wars. Not Tancredo, Limbaugh, Bush, et al. They support wars, but don't fight them!
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Why?
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Now now little Jimmy, be sure and color in Tom Tancredo's name on your big wall map of GOP Chickenhawks.
kaysandesses 7 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Again and again here we go:I've got a simple solution for the paper or plastic baggers that post here.
Don't watch any Hollywood product or most TV shows as they are made by libs, have blacks, gays, Mexicans and Latinos in general.
They employ union workers and mostly are written by socialist.
classicallady 7 months ago
@classicallady Stick to NASCAR, wrestling but avoid looking at the racial minorities and make sure to assume that none of the wrestler are gay.
Give cartoons a miss too because most of the writers are flaming liberals.
So, that gives you sport without minorities and porn. Get to it and your minds will stay as pure as the driven mud.
classicallady 7 months ago
@classicallady
LMFAO!
chgosatrap 7 months ago
@chgosatrap Hehehehehehe
classicallady 7 months ago
@KuShxBassisT Yea, Kos sure don't look like a vet. Vets are supposed to be big tough and fearless. Like Limbaugh, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Beck, Hannity, Chuck Norris etc. Whoops none of those scumsuckers served, but Kos did. Kos served his country, whether you believe it or not. I see the word fuck-tard used a lot on the net. Fits you!
Loejyrrab 4 months ago
@Loejyrrab Chuck Norris was a an air force airman of something like that. He was in the military, but in a strictly non-combat , non-special forces type role. I think he was the tank wipe at a refueling station or something. so, he likes to play tough, but had a very peaceful and easy time during Vietnam.
KataVideo 4 months ago
@KataVideo Hey Kata, at least Norris cleaned up some dirty tanks. He did something useful. Bush never showed up at all. What a disgusting gang of weasels the chickenhawks are. Give em hell Kata.
Loejyrrab 4 months ago
@Loejyrrab they sure are, they sure are
KataVideo 4 months ago
Classic
bittyrock 9 months ago
Tancredo IMO didn't know Markos was a Veteran!
bittyrock 1 year ago
Run awaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
joeypolanski 1 year ago
The coming Apocalypse: republitards will lose even MORE seats in the house & senate in 2010/2012. Percipient citizens will demand the enactment of a Fairness Doctrine bill to curtail (& ultimately eliminate) the lies from hate-talk radio, Faux News and other sources of brainwashing. Without Limbaugh, Beck, Michael Savage and other idiot racist miscreant-crybabies, the CONservative movement will falter and die...FINALLY!!! An Apocalypse for some, but sounds like heaven to me!
bedpanX 1 year ago
Tom is a scared pussy and he got OWNED by Kos. Fucking typical Republican. Hypocrites, the lot of them.
jensen1901 2 years ago
*lol pwned*
5/5 disabled stars!
jamesmorgandavies 2 years ago
A Reich-wing Republiconned Senator happy-clapping for war yet who has chickened out of actually FIGHTING one ??
Gee. That's rare.
Ha ha.
No, just kidding.
The GOP. Starting the wars you'll die in for their wealthy friends profit margins.
It's not the Apocalypse, but you can see it from here.
allieron 2 years ago
It's not the Apocalypse, but some of those chicken-hawk conservatards actually WANT the Apocalypse. The corporate mainstream media will not tell you that these folks think it's the "end times" and they want a nuclear confrontation with the Islamic world to hasten the return of white jeebus.
KataVideo 2 years ago
Yeah, it's scary, isn't it.
The neocons were dangerously insane, waving around their copies of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" with oily hard-ons over that glistening war machine lurking in the red, white and blue corner, but the fuckhead Christ-botherers who happy-clap for Hell-fire are a whole different league of "howling at the Moon" crazy.
I wonder if these idiots even understand that Jesus was a swarthy, dark-skinned Semite, the same race as an Arab ? That'd fuck them up.
:-D
allieron 2 years ago
@allieron No allieron, most of these Christians to this day don't freekin realize that Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew and croaked as a Jew, and yes, he was a Semite, like the Arabs. They think of Jesus as a Jeffrey Hunter blue eyed Nordic type. Recently, a young lady told me that Jesus was a Christian. Oh brother.
Loejyrrab 1 year ago
@allieron Good point allieron!
Loejyrrab 1 year ago
They think the "rapture" is coming in their lifetime for fucks sake. These aren't sane people.
FixedNewsChannel 2 years ago
Have you ever served in the Fire Department?
ChickenFireHawk!
Obama lost the state of Massachusetts.
Democrats are panicking.
larkydozer 2 years ago
Damn.. you are incredibly stupid! I'm going to leave your comment up so everyone can see.
No.. I've never served in a Fire Department. But I don't go around starting fires, supporting fire and insisting that other peoples' children march straight into the flames. and then call them "hero" if they live.
Your analysis of Massachusetts and Democrats in general are faulty. Coakley lost that senate seat, no one else. "SOME" Democrats are panicking.. the low-brow conserva-dems.
KataVideo 2 years ago
@larkydozer I've served in the Fire Department for nearly 20 years all together. Furthermore, I support everything katavideo has said here. Soooooo, here's a nice steaming cup of Shut The Fuck Up.
kaysandesses 1 year ago
@kaysandesses
Looks like you privilege emotion over reason.
Too bad this is what passes for civil discourse these days.
AntiAntiAmerica 1 year ago
@AntiAntiAmerica congratulations, you had a chance to make a point, and instead you made a grammatically incorrect accusation and closed with a broad, hackneyed cliche.
buh bye.
KataVideo 1 year ago
@KataVideo Good work Kata. Love your spirit. Stay on their asses.
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
ZING !!!
kakompo 2 years ago
Owned.
Tancredo, get your bigoted, racist, small-minded, hypocritical, simplistic-thinking self out of here.
MintDentalFloss 2 years ago
let's see, your video is up for what, two days, and already it has more views than most of kookie's?
it really must suck being kookie. doesn't it get tired of looking at those photos, errrr videos, in its page? lol, what a friggin moron.
FKASG9SSM 2 years ago
I love seeing republowcrits get mad when they get called out.
swwigy 2 years ago
swiggy, that's all it takes.
Look at alan grayson.. they're afraid of him.
Al Franken: never backed down to a righty, ever, and look at him, a senator getting legislation passed and signed.
President Obama's gop smackdown last friday.. he walked into their house, took on 140 of them, smacked down each and every one and walked out without a scratch.
Sunday, Paul Krugman stuffed it right in roger ailes fat face, on the abc sunday morning show, and ailes had no come back.
they lose, every time.
KataVideo 2 years ago
Nice, Kata!
Glad to have you back!
Someone in a Python mood today, hmm? :)
crimsong19 2 years ago
@crimsong19
thought I'd try something completely different
KataVideo 2 years ago
@KataVideo
Great video as always. Love the Monty Python into and extro you put in too. Shows you have class! :)
For your health care vids, maybe you could use the clip where the British officer is laying in a tent with his leg missing asking the doc if it'll grow back. At the end, Life of Brian's "Always look on the bright side of life"?
Sorta like the Rethugs proposed health insurance plan. :)
Painkill3r4 2 years ago
You reuploaded and got the ratings disabled - what happened, soc accounts, Kata??
Zakdayak 2 years ago
@Zakdayak
I took it down because I questioned its relevance, but then a right-wing gal mouthed off and claimed I was admitting an error.. LOL
there's no error, it's just an msnbc clip! usually I just ignore the insect, as this video had 3700+ views before, and now has almost as many as one of her biggest "successes".. double LOL
so it's just up for a week to rub her face in it
KataVideo 2 years ago
@KataVideo Let me guess, Nocensorshipyt? Anyway, that's hilarious "now has almost as many as one of her biggest "successes."
Zakdayak 2 years ago
"Nocensorshipyt".. haven't met that one yet! must be one of those conservatards with 24,000 sockpuppets
KataVideo 2 years ago
great work KATA! been missing your great videos! :)
khnum21 2 years ago
@khnum21
thank you, I wish I had time to do more
KataVideo 2 years ago
Thanks great video - I LOVE IT WHEN A REAL VETERAN CALLED OUT THE COWARD - HE LEFT - dO YOU THINK THOSE DRAFT DODGING CHICKEN REPUBLICANS WILL EVER GET THE MESSAGE?
justonefirefly1 2 years ago
Tancredo makes Tommy Davis look mature and reasonable. What a pussy.
KidVolcano 2 years ago
@KidVolcano
yep. with Kos and with Vietnam.
KataVideo 2 years ago
I'm a veteran who made five deployments over the course of my four-year tour of duty, and I agree completely with the veteran in the video. I tire of Republicans who claim to have my best interests in mind, but support legislation that harms me.
I served under Ronald Reagan, and for all his military spending, he was no friend of the average service man or woman.
LarcheOsborne 2 years ago
@LarcheOsborne
Thanks for your service.
And raygun's only friends sat at rosewood meeting tables in mahogany-paneled conference rooms high up in corporate towers
KataVideo 2 years ago
Thank you.
An like Reagan, congressional Republicans seek to enrich their "friends [sitting] at rosewood meeting tables in mahogany-paneled conference rooms high up in corporate towers" at the expense of the rest of us.
LarcheOsborne 2 years ago
"i think he left a little bit early"
yeah, another conservatard quits in the middle of something uncomfortable. LOL!
FKASG9SSM 2 years ago
@FKASG9SSM
see, there is precedent for scarah failin
KataVideo 2 years ago
Tancredo was too embarrassed to continue. Republicans and their past, it gets them all the time. It shows them for the hypocrites they are.
OhioDemocrat 2 years ago
@OhioDemocrat
can you imagine if people in America embraced the notion of being responsible for their actions 24/7? there would be conservatives, but there would be NO republicans
KataVideo 2 years ago
nice video!
hiro8002096 2 years ago
@hiro8002096
ありがと! アメリカの政治屋はヘンナですよ!
KataVideo 2 years ago
RepublicTURDs are a party of tantrum babies...
Pellegrino80 2 years ago
@Pellegrino80
and the taxpayers have to change their diapers
KataVideo 2 years ago
Typical Republican... runs away when faced with cold hard TRUTH.
criskity 2 years ago
truth to repugnicants is like sunlight to vampires..
KataVideo 2 years ago
epic, I love how he just leaves when he knows he's beaten XD
silver6kraid 2 years ago
Still funny
Artivous13 2 years ago
I agree. This wasn't just funny; It was a fucking ass whooping.
Th1mastermike 2 years ago
i'VE WATCHED IT OVER AND OVER - SHOULD BE BROADCAST EVERY WHERE - LOVE IT!!!! CAN'T GET ENOUGH.
justonefirefly1 2 years ago
@justonefirefly1
strangely, tom tancredo's punditry seems to have cooled off significantly since Kos PWNED him
KataVideo 2 years ago
it makes you wonder.. what are the congressional dems thinking? Obama goes to the gop retreat armed with the truth, faces down 140 gops in their home stadium, beats down each and every one and goes home without a scratch. Kos reminds this twerp of the truth and the twerp implodes.
stand up to the gops.. they will lose everytime.
KataVideo 2 years ago
Obama doesn't want to stand up to them. Pepsi and Coke. YOur going to die from diabeities either way. Obama had and has the potential to free himself from the normal political trappings. At some point he has to stop caring about his survival and start busting heads. Otherwise it was all for naught. On the plus side my idea for a man made continent free of human stupidity and ignorance is useful again.
Artivous13 2 years ago