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You forgot about celibacy.

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Now that I'm nearing my mid thirties, I wholeheartedly agree.

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I'd be totally in favor of that sort of thing as well, though I don't have a problem with people choosing the public health service or Teach for America or some other civil service, regardless of physical ability, instead of the military.

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Nope and nope. Maybe my mother, who was very familiar with the concept of national honor and sacrifice from not eating much meat, butter, or sugar during World War II so that troops in the field were adequately supplied, didn't think that her son and the rest of the soldiers going off to Iraq were being treated by their commander in chief with the respect and and honor that seems so important to you. Maybe she thought that if Iraq was important enough for the president to gamble with her son's life, then maybe it was important enough for the sons and daughters of the men and women in Washington to sign up, too. Maybe she thought back to the Liberty Ships that her uncle helped build in two weeks in the 1940s, and wondered why troops in the field in Iraq had to buy their own kevlar vests and ceramic inserts. Maybe she remembered that you couldn't buy a new car between 1940 and 1946 because the Big Three were busy making tanks and trucks and jeeps for the war, and wondered why only one company had a contract for making armored Humvees, and was only working single shifts, while men like her son were welding scrap metal to their unarmored vehicles.

And maybe my mother thought that, because of all this, that the president demonstrated that he didn't care enough about the troops to make any sacrifice. Of course, given all her thoughts, I suppose if I posted her picture, you'd just add a comment about how ugly people always seem to hate America. Whatever.

Whoa. Uh, heavy.

The Jesus Thing
 

Sebby, the Jesii have no age. They are all ages at all times. In this forum I invoke the image of the compassionate babyjesus, but such holy spirit is inseparable from its composite parts.

What's important to remember is that we are never alone. He is with us.

Whenever the culture of death kills a baby, it kills a part of the babyjesus. Crucifiction is a metaphor.

When one dies on the battle field in defence of God's Shining City on a Hill, one gets a free pass. The rapture of the babyjesus overrides the corporeal sins.

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I dont know France. It works in Israel and that is good enough for me.

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Whatever it takes. VBAMN.

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This is a big who gives a shit in the same way that what my-flag-waving-no-english-speaking-penniless-swarthy-immigrant-grandparents-who-came-over-to-Ellis-Island-at-the-turn-of-the-19th-century-and-then-proudly supported-4-of-their-sons-going-to-war-in-the-40s-and-50s-to-defend-freedom-and-the-noble-causes-of-their-adopted-homeland blah blah blah think or feel doesn't make a fucking rat's arse worth of difference to national security policy.

W has made hard decisions in our national defence. We had a referundum on his performance. The hate America crowd lost the referendum. Whether or not W's kids serve in the military is irrelevant to any of it.

Can a president be indicted? I thought just impeached?

The story is really not credible IMO.

Ok, there is someone crazier than Spanky. That has to be the stupidest infotainment "article" ever created.

Nor IMO.

The liberals need to deflect the glaring spotlight of my probing questions here and on the D.U. to their presumed next presidential candidate because they know she can't answer.

Indeed. Given that the grand jury is in DC, it seems like a pretty unlikely location to have a confab of this sort, and how Rehnquist, Scalia, and Olsen get in it, I have no idea.

I could buy the "fire the prosecutor" angle, but only up to a point. And, frankly, there's no way that plays these days.