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Now You Can Add "Despicable" to "Stupid"
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Puts me in mind of a benefit I helped organise for victim/families of the Omagh bombing. We had mostly local talent, but got Sinead O'Connor, Liam Neeson and Tommy Makem to appear gratis. Van Morrison was approached and asked us for a £2000 appearance fee.
Not on a scale with what Mr Bush did, but it's a difference of degree, not of kind. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 (July 9, 2015 at 5:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Puts me in mind of a benefit I helped organise for victim/families of the Omagh bombing. We had mostly local talent, but got Sinead O'Connor, Liam Neeson and Tommy Makem to appear gratis. Van Morrison was approached and asked us for a £2000 appearance fee. I disagree. It is a difference in kind. Van Morrison is a singer for hire. Bush was supposed to be someone who served America. And America already paid him, and continues to pay for his security. Not to mention the fact that Bush is to blame for the maiming of many servicemen. Unless you are going to tell us that Van Morrison was connected to the bombing and was a paid government worker, I would say it is very much a difference in kind. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Well-put, Pyrrho. One is expected to be mercenary; the other made a career promulgating a public image of humble service.
Morrison did not give the lie to his own public image bandied about by his agent. Bush, on the other hand, did. 
What was he going to say to them anyway? Sorry you got maimed for nothing?
Well, not entirely for nothing, I guess. Some fat-cats did make a mean profit.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
(July 9, 2015 at 11:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote: What was he going to say to them anyway? Sorry you got maimed for nothing? Well yes, for one thing, Bush got paid $100,000 for speaking to them. That isn't nothing. If there were no wounded veterans, there would be no speech to them, and so Bush would not get his fee for speaking to them. So it obviously served a purpose. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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