[ARCHIVED THREAD] - nuculer (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/19/2006 11:18:55 PM EDT
Why the hell does Bush still pronounce it that way?
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Pretty much. I've heard that he has been told that he pronounces it wrong, but continues to do it. It has always annoyed me when anyone says it wrong, even before I worked in the nuclear power field, but I suppose it's a pretty trivial thing to get all riled up over... |
Yup Do you work at a Nuke Plant? If so which one? I am at Calvert Cliffs. |
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According to Michael Medved, in private, he doesn't. Bush sat down with 5 conservative radio hosts last Friday, for almost 2 hours. According to Medved, he said "nuclear" several times during the meeting, and "nookular" zero times. BTW, Jimmy Carter - the great 'nuclear engineer' - also said "nookular". |
I was in the Navy as a Nuclear trained Electrician on a submarine. |
Michael Medved was an idiot even before he turned conservative. |
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He has hot twins as daughters, beat the bejesus out of the tailban, served turkey to the troops in enemy territory at his own risk, yanked his security guard out of a hostile crowd in a forieng country without even blinking (on camera even), and called a reporter an "asshole". He can pronounce "nuclear" any way he damn well pleases in my book. He even got a DUI. He's one of "the guys". I fully support GW. He's the man. |
Well said. The cretin Bush bashers haven't got a bloody clue. They are busy sniffing their armpits. |
I'm not a Bush basher at all. Not my favorite but we could do MUCH worse. Nooculer is just a pet peeve. |
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His image with who? The back-stabbing, so-called friends in Europe? The effete, elitist northeastern US socialists? The looney western US socialists? The effete, elitist, socialists media throughout the world? His image is fine. I think we could have done better, but I will take 90% when the choice is 50% any day. Just think, we could have had Gwhore or McCain... It seems that some people have too much time on their hands and have to bitch and moan about such inconsequential things that it is absurd. Maybe you ought to be thinking about ensuring that you and your friends are registered to vote and that you vote a straight republican line to ensure that the socialists don't take over the country again and drive it back into the deep-shit situation they once had it in. F |
Anyone who doesn't think a world leader should say "Santa comes down the chimbley", "I seen him at Walmart" or "Ax me a question", either.
Don't look down too much on us westerners, New Englanders and Europeans. Some of us are probably very nearly your equal, my friend. 
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I remember when Helmut Schmidt started to set the tone of how the cultured and know-it-all Europeans and the arrogant Japanese ridiculed Ronald Reagan, educating the world on how much better they knew how to manage their countries' economies. Let's see, most can't really remember any of the 10 or so Prime Ministers of Japan before Elvis and Schmidt got thrown out with the bad water. About that time, the Doonesbury crowd began the "we are so better" act. Let's face it, the effete socialist elite and socialist looney suck-offs in the NE and West of the US have teamed up with their socialist buddies to bring on what they have to counter what the republicans have done in the last 25 years, with one 8-year span of lunacy by Clinton: they can talk better, enunciate their vapid agenda in let-me-count-the-ways no one else can - or wants to. They are loved by the people that claim to be our friends but are most adept at putting knives in our backs and trading with our enemies - I believe they call them "competitors". Give me a good man that doesn't get each word right but can get the job done right every time over some effete, dickhead that steps out of a Madison Avenue ad campaign every day. You can have Kerry, Kennedy, Dean, Boxer, Daschle, Leaky, etc., etc., etc.. Oh yeah, take McCain and the other slack-jaw liberal RINOs as well. W isn't perfect, far from it, but he is a damn sight better than the rest of what we are looking at these days. Who needs to be loved and adored by our European friends when all they care about is getting close enough to our 6 us to stick it in deep and shaft us. F |
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Irrelevant. The man heard what he heard...and Bush isn't the only Prez who says "nookular". |
Why the hell does it matter how he says it. This country is in a whole heap of trouble and we need to be concentrating on how to fix it instead of getting after someone for how they say a freakin word! Sorry, I just read the Hugo Chavez thing on Fox and am not happy that this kind of BS goes on within our borders! |
So driving around drunk is a good thing? |
How 'bout we just post the President's resume'... (the early years) EDUCATION: * I entered Yale in 1964 with a SAT of 1206 (Verbal 566, Math 640), 200 points below Yale's average freshman in 1970. * I graduated Yale in 1968 with a 2.35 GPA * In the fall of 1970 I was rejected from admission at University of Texas Law School. * In 1973 I applied to Harvard Business School with a 2.35 GPA. 1973 admission statistics are unavailable, but for an incomplete comparison today's Harvard students average a GPA of 3.5 - no students were accepted with a GPA lower than 2.6. * I graduated Harvard Business School with an MBA and below-average grades. * Two negligent collisions in July and August 1962 in Houston, TX * Arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in New Haven, CT in December 1966 for stealing a christmas tree while drunk * Convicted of drunk driving on September 4, 1976 in Kennebunkport, Maine. As a strong supporter of the Vietnam War I did everything in my power to avoid military service, both foreign and domestic: * In February 1968 I applied to the Texas Air National Guard after scoring the bare minimum of 25th Percentile for the Officer's Pilot Aptitude Test. With low scores, no other qualifications listed, and a long list of applicants ahead of me nobody is sure how I got into the guard. Ben Barnes offers one explanation, swearing under oath that he called Brig Gen. Jim Rose at the request of my father's friend Sidney Adger, allowing me a privilege I did not otherwise deserve. * I left the 111th "Champagne Unit" on May 24 1972, requesting a transfer to the Alabama 9921st Air Reserve, a postal unit with no airplanes and no pilots. I did not appear for any service in the 9921st. * On July 21, 1972, my transfer request to the 9921st was rejected and I was commanded to return back to the 111st in Maxwell, TX. I remained away and did not return to Texas. I refused to submit to a physical exam in August, four months after the Air Force made drug tests mandatory for pilots on April 21, 1972. I was suspended and grounded as a disciplinary measure, ensuring I would never fly again. * On September 5, 1972, I once again requested a transfer to Alabama, and once again I failed to appear (this time at the 187th). Neither my commanding officer nor Mavanee Bear, my girlfriend at the time claims to have ever seen me in uniform, though I did get a free dental checkup. * I never met the requirements for honorable discharge, earning only 38 documented points out of a required 50 in 1973-74. I also completed only 36 of 43 required inactive-duty training periods in 1972-73, and 12 of 43 required in 1973-74. Fortunately I "worked something out" and was issued an honorable discharge I did not earn. * My participation in the National Guard was so low that even by the end of the Vietnam Conflict I had flown only 336 hours, not meeting the minimum standards (500 hours flight experience) for combat duty. Even if I had been called to active duty I would have been unqualified to serve by military regulations. * I founded Arbusto Energy in 1979 with money borrowed from family friends including James R Bath, representing Salem Bin Laden. Over the next five years I accepted at least $4.7 million dollars from my father's friends including George Ohrstrom and Russell Reynolds, Jr., returning $1.5 million to investors and taking on $3 million in debt. My company was rescued by a buyout from Spectrum 7 by my successful Yale classmates Mercer Reynolds and William DeWitt Jr. in 1984. * After the failure of Arbusto I was awarded a position as Chairman and CEO of Spectrum 7. My participation resulted in more failure as the company was driven to the brink of bankruptcy. I was rescued by a buyout from my father's friends Phil Kendrick and Stuart Watson at Harken Oil and Gas in 1985. * Impressed not by my abilities but by my connections to important people I was rewarded for my failure at Spectrum 7 with a seat on the Board of Directors at Harken Oil and Gas. Harken was a miserable failure during the time I spent there - it posted $23.2 billion in losses. I was investigated by the SEC for selling my shares one week before the loss announcement, and the resulting investigation explicitly did not exonerate me. * I was the owner of the Texas Rangers, made possible only by my father's friends William DeWitt and Richard E. Rainwater. My participation resulted in incredible success for myself and terrible misfortune for my neighbors. I used eminent domain to take taxpayers' land, paid for it with $4.9 million taxpayer dollars, and then spent $191 million more taxpayer dollars to build myself a stadium. I left the city of Arlington, TX with a $7.5 million debt that I still refuse to pay, even after I sold the Rangers to Thomas Hicks for $250 million (a 2500% profit). |
Its called sarcasm,...& a little comic relief. Lighten up Francis. |
I didn't stutter the first time www.m-w.com/dictionary/nuclear hell, even my old copy of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary Copyright 1973 , page 780,says it's an acceptable (but nonstandard) pronunciation. Then I was watching a Harrison Ford movie the other night where he stranded on an island with some gal. Six Days, Seven Nights I think was the name. During the movie he used the exact pronunciation you dislike so much. Jimmy Carter always used that pronunciation too but I haven't heard the media making fun of him. You've probably been hearing it for a long time and only notice it now because the MSM and DUh people have pointed it out so often. |
Was there something in there that wasn't true? I'm honestly wondering if it was a lie that got you that pissed off, or posting something true that got you that pissed off. 
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