Posting Towards Gomorrah

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe Sidd has me on ignore and he won't realize what an idiot he has made of himself. I hope so for his sake.

Do you maintain that the children of the upper classes enlist in the military, especially in wartime, in the same proportion as the children of the lower classes?

Have you ever met someone who turned down a four-year private college to enlist? How many people?

Has anyone on this board served as an enlistee?

Will anyone on this board recommend that their children enlist in the military, rather than go to college? Why or why not?


I am not saying, and have not said, that only poor folk join the military. Telling me that enlistees have high school degrees is interesting but not relevant -- as Spanky has relentlessly pointed out, that means they can't read because of the trial lawyers' union, or something to that effect. But your professed notion that enlisting, especially in wartime, is viewed as favorably as all other options by those people with the advantage of a full range of options is reality-challenged.

Why didn't you enlist, Hank?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch

Yeah, because no one should ever note that so few Congressional hawks send their kids to the military.

I don't see Chelsea lining up to help out in Iraq.....probably too busy in intellectual pursuits.....like her dad......

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I actually admire you for standing up for yourself- it shows growth. Remember when you stopped using parentheticals because I said it was gay? you were going to get thurgreed to beat me up? now look at you, arguing with nononon just like an actual 3-digit IQ holder.

I do remember you fantasizing about those things. Nice to see that your fantasies now extend to the outside world, too.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I don't see Chelsea lining up to help out in Iraq.....probably too busy in intellectual pursuits.....like her dad......

While Bush was keeping the skies of Alabama safe.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch


Will anyone on this board recommend that their children enlist in the military, rather than go to college? Why or why not?

If we were at war, yes. The service of the defense of our nation is the greatest tribute one can make to our nation, freedom and G-d; and an effective rejoinder to the appeasing cut and runners in the Demo party.

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why didn't you enlist, Hank?

Medical disqualification. His wife told me he's impotent, but he forgot about the don't ask, don't tell exception.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Why didn't you enlist, Hank?

I grew up lower class, and as I have now proven, the lower classes are less likely to enlist than the middle class. Plus, I'm 73 now.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
While Bush was keeping the skies of Alabama safe.

Alabama is part of America too, notwithstanding its obvious deficiencies.

ps: In fairness, could you edit your post to insert this pic:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ea_clinton.gif

[nononono]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
No, you didn't call me a moron or fucking idiot. Congratulations -- you've been right at least once today. That puts you ahead of Hank for the year.

But, you did suggest that I found something "so wrong, so off-putting about people who have some level of formal education below what you tend to value?" You also suggested, repeatedly, that I was basically accusing the entire American military, plus car mechanics, of being "deplorably stupid."

As my response made clear, I (1) found that insulting, condescending, and moronic, and (2) make it perfectly clear when I consider someone to be deplorably stupid (i.e., you, in the above-referenced posts).

If I had really wanted to make it personal, I'd have used anatomical references. (Spanky has never recovered from my calling him a spleen.)

Oh, Sidd, down boy. You took a comment I made to another poster as a personal attack on you. I gave commentary, and you responded with something that I suppose passes for good rejoinders on whatever playground you lurk around. Boring. In your desperate revisionism, you claim your only point was that there are fewer children of wealthy people than under-$50k-household-income-people in the military, a "point" that the conversation moved past long ago, so keep up or hush up.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Penske_Account


ps: In fairness, could you edit your post to insert this pic:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ea_clinton.gif

or maybe this one:

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
If we were at war, yes. The service of the defense of our nation is the greatest tribute one can make to our nation, freedom and G-d; and an effective rejoinder to the appeasing cut and runners in the Demo party.

How's the marathon training going?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
How's the marathon training going?

Well p'd, P!

[SlaveNoMore]

More on Senator Disgrace from his old friend, John O'Neill:

As a member of what John Kerry called in 1971 an Army like that of “Genghis Khan,” I wasn’t surprised by his comments that our troops in Iraq were those “stuck there” because of bad educational performance. It is a fitting sequel to his claims, as recently as last spring, that our soldiers “were terrorizing women and children” in the dead of night, and as long ago as his many statements in the early 1970s that we were murderers and rapists.

Kerry has stated this was just a misfired joke. But it was not a joke to the Pennsylvania mother with two sons in the Marines in Iraq (who both volunteered with MBAs and far higher grades than C-student Kerry) who recently called me crying. Nor was it a joke to millions of us who listened to our maimed and dead friends described by Kerry in 1971 as an army of rapists and murderers.

Bob Casey’s decision to stand with John Kerry and attempt to explain away this appalling statement represents a disgraceful disregard for our troops and their families. Not only should Mr. Casey apologize for his blind partisanship, he should forcefully repudiate John Kerry’s remarks and issue a statement of support to our men and women in uniform who are bravely serving in Harm’s Way.

[Spanky]

I challenge anyone to find a better political discussion board than this one. This one is awesome. It is the perfect balance of facts and emotional attacks. For a while it was getting little high brow and touchy feely. The moderator (Ty) changed the tone by starting to be nice and polite to everyone, but that has since been rectified. Now the sarcasm and zingers are back. Politics is like sex. It is only fun if it gets a little nasty.

Most boards are just full of emotional baseless attacks (without any substance) or people preaching to the choir, or boring technical discussions. This one has great balance and a great give and take.

Anyway - that is just my opinion


:box:

I have given up on the FB board. It is just too boring. Ty, maybe you could try and spice it up a little like you do this board? When this one gets dull you are good at throwing a piece of meat out. The FB board could definitely use some spice.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Spanky
Politics is like sex. It is only fun if it gets a little nasty.

Hmmm, when you put it that way....
:whip:

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by nononono
Hmmm, when you put it that way....
:whip:

Were you here when Spanky divulged that he likes to hit on 16 year old girls?

It was by far and away the most revealing element of the Foley scandal.