Texsox

From the Marcel Marceau dies thread QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 10:21 PM) In related news, fellow mimes around the globe are experiencing some difficulty as they try to travel to the funeral. Many are reportedly stuck in large, invisible boxes, while the forward momentum of several others appear to be impeded by strong winds which they, inexplicably, keep trying to walk against.

Thank you.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 08:46 AM) Yeah, go look at history. Go look at all the rich young men who risked losing everything to go off and fly for the RAF against the Nazi's even before the U.S. entered WW2. Go look at the men and women who left high paying careers behind to enlist in the army after 9/11 ( I know several of those kind of people personally ). I've been doing this for a long time and I have seen a very broad cross section of the military in my time here. I can state for a fact that there are just as many people from middle/upper class backgrounds as there are poor kids. I stand by my statement and I have just as many examples backing my argument as you have yours. Your condescending attitude and poor attempt at humor just make you look that much more ignorant. Again, I'll agree there are exceptions, but looking at Army racial profiles, the Army has been reporting year after year a greater percentage of minorities in their ranks than in the general population. Further, you do not have to be a citizen to serve. You do become a citizen if you are killed while serving. I guess it's one form of amnesty we all can agree on. I am not denying the fact that men and women of all classes heed the calling to serve. That too has been consistent. (Bush, for example bravely flew over Texas.) We also allowed our best and brightest to fight the war from a classroom seat. But facts are facts, the wealthiest and the connected found ways around the draft. Some did answewr the call, like John Kerry. There are just as many upper and middle class as poor kids? 50/50? So you say.

Linked More. much more than this, at the link. What I find interesting about this is the old slippery slope. By the time someone woke up and said enough is enough, many mistakes had been made. Now that department is seemingly stuck with those mistakes. There has to be room to say, we're not going to take this anymore. Have sex on your own time, in your own car. Any more here will result in firing.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) No. Still hoping for organizations like the ACLU to quit being such hypocritical assholes. I guess that's just as forlorn a hope as it is hoping for you to quit defending them for it. They are just defending the Constitution. When that becomes helping people like Howard Stern and people who want to get religion out of schools and other public places, I disagree. But I also think it's wrong when the government wants to take away our rights.

I'm guessing the publisher started the story. It was the best way to get us to even think about that book. Now with everyone on that set nailing everyone else, I wonder what was happening on Gilligan's Island, Oh the humanity . . .

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 07:34 AM) Ah, the influential people attempting to keep discrete by sending the messenger onto...a message board? Talk about discretion! '_ It seemed the best place to look. Searching other sites just wasn't working.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 02:09 AM) I don't know what this douche is doing with an "R" next to his name. He believes that the U.S. is to blame for 9/11 for chrissakes. I believe the oath of R entails believing the US is always right! Kick him out. There is no room for disagreement in the R party.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 02:17 AM) It is bulls***. It was bulls*** yesterday, today and will still be bulls*** tomorrow. When this nation goes to war there are young men and women from all walks of life who answer the call and go fight. This is true no matter what the moveon.orgs and the Michael Moore's will tell you. Check history. Of all your qualities nuke, how well you articulate thoughts is perhaps the most charming. I suppose this is the necessary training you've received and I am certain you represent your bros well. Yes, of course there are men and women from all walks of life in the military. But one white kid from Winnetka doesn't equal 100 Hispanic kids from San Benito, Texas. One white kid flying a plane, doesn't equal 100 less advantaged kids on the front lines walking. And we can go way back to conquering armies imprisoning immigrants and putting them into their army. We could look at armies where the privileged could buy their way out of service. Slaves were sent off to war time after time.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Sep 23, 2007 -> 02:02 AM) Just another shining example of this leftist organizations hypocrisy. Just another example of how anything that fits their agenda to destroy Western Civilization is fine while anything that preserves it is bad and should be litigated out of existence. Still hoping for that 1950's Ozzie and Harriet life.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 22, 2007 -> 11:07 AM) Oh for crying out loud... As SS predicted days ago, this is how the media is going to portray him. Sad.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 22, 2007 -> 04:23 PM) Why doesn't someone call out Jesse Jackson for not being a human being? Do you think he is a God?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 22, 2007 -> 04:22 PM) I almost responded to this post with sincere thought. But Tex's premise can't be real. Who coined the term non-deadly and why? You don't think it was a marketing ploy to sell more tasers? When we have labels that are less than accurate, or misleading (98% Fat Free) it is usually to sell something. I'm not claiming it is evil or dishonest, it is something we accept in our society. I found it amusing that we had to be reminded that non-deadly doesn't mean it is 100% death free. It means it it kills less times and less enough to be called "non". I believe most people know what sex is, and they know what non means.

Alice

I asked if the rods were hollow and she said they were solid, which seemed weird to me. If I understand her description they are about 4-5 inches long, blunt on both ends, and solid. I confirmed he's smoking pot, which really didn't upset the mom, but there are some other circumstances which would make things nasty if he ever got caught. Sometimes it isn't what you do, but who you are.

I just had a long conversation with the parents of a young man I know. They found a few things in his room and are wondering what they mean. First off, they found rolling papers and tobacco, He claims he is smoking custom cigarettes. Is that reasonable? Second off, and more strange. Round, pencil shaped, metal rods. A bunch of them. I can't think of any reason. For reasons I can't get into, their son is not available to explain what they are, but may help this kid. Any ideas soxtalkers

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2007 -> 07:09 PM) For those who consider, you know, the icky party, I wouldn't rule him out yet. But at least from my perspective I'd say he's running a really sloppy campaign so far. He does not look ready for prime time yet. That could well change before January. I really want to pull for a guy in both leagues.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 21, 2007 -> 04:44 PM) Yep. All these BigSqwert and Balta stories are converting me away from Fred Thompson. I was trying to like him, I really was.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 21, 2007 -> 01:51 PM) ^^^^ And it's because they are not putting America in front, only themselves. In some cases. I'd think less for those not facing elections, more for those that are.

The ACLU and others have taken "the government shall not establish one religion" and perverted that into the government shall allow no religion. Wrong in my book.

Kap, I agree with everything you said. I've said all along that conservatives and liberals should clean up their own houses. When some elected official becomes an assbag, dump him fast and make him an example. Instead, we start thge spin machine and protect "our guy". Not all the time, but way to often. As far as messages getting hijacked by people you don't want, it can't be helped. Skinheads vote GOP, that doesn't make GOP wrong. We shouldn't want peace because they want peace!? Look at Israel and their neighbors, we see how far that gets. And aren't terrorists using the "America wants war"? as a rallying cry? So the GOP is being used as well.

I agree with most of your post, but is it possible for someone to not give Israel 100% and not be antisemitic? It seems that somehow there are two groups of people, those that agree with Israel 100% and will give them everything, and antisemitic. As soon as someone thinks that Israel is wrong, they get branded. Perhaps that is one small problem that needs to be resolved before progress can be made in that corner of the world? Of course, the problems are so huge, I don't think any of us will be alive to see a true and lasting peace.

Of course you are correct, and I am usually a big advocate of our system, but this is the second time in my lifetime was are stuck in a war that we seemingly are at a stalemate. I blame some of this on the lack of cooperation between the three groups.

I like his expanded NATO plan.

While the explaination is simple, there are huge budget implications. Side bar, who should be fighting this or any war? The White House, Congress, or the Pentagon? We seem to have all three, which if they were all pulling in the same direction would be unbeatable, but it seems as if we have three different directions.