You find negative in everything...sad way to live, but that's your life.....not mine! Real world...try it sometime...it's really a wonderful experience, even with the negatives that exist. There is no pefect world except in your angry mind.
You and box are tooooooo funny! You think my vocal opposition to government public policy is personal anger. LOL
You guys are a hoot. You guys must have been brought up on that Norman Vincent Peele sh*t - The Power of Positive Thinking. You think my ability to look at a pile of sh*t and call it sh*t is negative. You have been taught to look at a pile of sh*t and to deal with it.
I couldn't be happier! To realize that I speak to a couple of brainwashed ex-miliary telling me what "reality" is, and it is hilarious! Box, who I believe served during Vietnam, and you who served, but I don't know when, gives be great perspective on the extend of the level of brainwashing and how difficult it is to change. I know it will take a generation to die off before any real change can occur.
These are a couple of people that want to protect children from working the family farm, but joining the marines at 17 with parental consent to take orders to kill and to die in the Middle East desert, or in Box's case in the rice patties of Vietnam is nobility in their American society.
You and box are tooooooo funny! You think my vocal opposition to government public policy is personal anger. LOL
You guys are a hoot. You guys must have been brought up on that Norman Vincent Peele sh*t - The Power of Positive Thinking. You think my ability to look at a pile of sh*t and call it sh*t is negative. You have been taught to look at a pile of sh*t and to deal with it.
I couldn't be happier! To realize that I speak to a couple of brainwashed ex-miliary telling me what "reality" is, and it is hilarious! Box, who I believe served during Vietnam, and you who served, but I don't know when, gives be great perspective on the extend of the level of brainwashing and how difficult it is to change. I know it will take a generation to die off before any real change can occur.
These are a couple of people that want to protect children from working the family farm, but joining the marines at 17 with parental consent to take orders to kill and to die in the Middle East desert, or in Box's case in the rice patties of Vietnam is nobility in their American society.
Have I mentioned before that Cicero always gets it wrong. His accuracy sucks but his consistency is flawless.
Just so you know Cic... You can join the military with parental concent at age 17, but you can't be sent to a war zone till you are an adult..age 18. ( I've corrected Cicero on so many issues I really should get paid for my efforts)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Have I mentioned before that Cicero always gets it wrong. His accuracy sucks but his consistency is flawless.
Just so you know Cic... You can join the military with parental concent at age 17, but you can't be sent to a war zone till you are an adult..age 18. ( I've corrected Cicero on so many issues I really should get paid for my efforts)
Box, can you fire M16's at 17? Is that more dangerous than farm equipment?
I know people that lied and joined the marines at 16.
Box, can you fire M16's at 17? Is that more dangerous than farm equipment?
I know people that lied and joined the marines at 16.
Kids do sometimes lie. But to enter the military, once you've signed a commitment with a recruter You then need to pass through a military processing center, where you will need to show a birth certificate As proof of age. So a 16 year old would need to forge a birth certificate to join.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Kids do sometimes lie. But to enter the military, once you've signed a commitment with a recruter You then need to pass through a military processing center, where you will need to show a birth certificate As proof of age. So a 16 year old would need to forge a birth certificate to join.
That might be the case today but it wasn't always that way, its well known that kids served under a fake age while the military looked the other way. My friends father joined at 16 during the Vietnam era, luckily he and his group missed deployment by days.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
One Marine in our group who was going to Vietnam had to wait in Okinawa until his 18th birthday before he could proceed to a war zone. No one that I knew was under age 18 except those few who had their parents permission.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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