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Military Standards: IQ vs. Work Ethic / Altruism in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Warning: Military content ahead. If you are easily bored go read Lileks instead. Question: Is the Army better off recruiting geniuses or altruists? 1992: &n

Reply to Warrior Monk in Work JoeUser Forums

The retreat ceremony has always been a sore subject for me with new troops. One of my Drills back at GAFB always made a point of finding (and smoking) the soldiers who would run to get inside prior to the sounding of retreat. There used to be a poster in one of the GAFB chow halls with a poem wondering how many fallen soldiers would love to be able to stand outside and salute the flag but couldn't. I am glad to hear that

Reply to Gee, Seems that Democrats dont like Hatred in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The only thing that can mean is that she has promised CAIR something.

Reply to The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

well then, there is a difference between these blackwater folk and you. What exactly is that difference then? I took money to go do a job in Iraq for the government (as do Blackwater folks). My job both caused deaths and prevented them (same as Blackwater). What is the difference?

Reply to Please help me..... =P in Beginners JoeUser Forums

Zubaz - you beat me to it.

Reply to Quick accountability type thingy. in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

190? Thats a pipe dream for me...

Reply to The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

I have never worn the uniform myself, and most likely never will Never a requirement for an opinion... Personally I don't think money motivates them as much as serving their country </TABL

Reply to The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

Christ, why do you read this shit, greywar? Sometimes I simply have to read opposing views. Occasionally it results in an anuerism.

Reply to The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

They're not leftest...they're not even on the fucking chart. Well as Arquonzo once opined : "Once you far enough towards either end of the spectrum you just start circling to the other side". I think that applies.

Reply to JU Assignment in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I now list my occupation as "warrior monk." It has a nicer ring than "geek"

Reply to Onward Through The Fog in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Boring, OR? For real? I had to google for it. Man I would hate to grow up there.

Reply to Duke Rape Hoax May Finally Lead to Justice in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm still wondering why Nifong went so far out on a limb about this. IIR wasn't he trailing politically there when this case hit? I am operating just from memory here but I seem to recall this being a pull-from-behind sort of publicity thing...? I could be wrong though.

Reply to The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

if i am asking something that has already been answered, No problem SC, I was in the Army as a Korean linguist from 1992 until Oct 2005. I too went to Iraq for a bit (and enjoyed the hell out of it) and made a boatload of cash while there due to combat pays and tax-free status. The "contractor" reference is that each soldier

The Lunatic Leftist Loves it When Americans Die in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ok you miserable bags of shit : I have had it. I have been a hell of a lot more tolerant and a lot less vulgar since my return from blogging hiatus but you excerable, defeatist, Anti-American, traitorous fuckbags have found a way to piss me off again. Be thankful I am not drunk while writing this as that would prompt even more invective. &nbsp

Reply to My girl is your girl really in Dating JoeUser Forums

He says it's my 'thing' and he doesn't want "to intrude". I get the same thing from my wife...

Reply to Attempting A Sock in Misc JoeUser Forums

Wow I really tried to grasp this but the jargon! Might as well have been a Swahili discourse on the nature of evil...

Local Businesses Pay No Attention = Bush's Fault in Politics JoeUser Forums

Here is the indirect reason for this entry. Via Espn of all things. "At a marina near Russell Springs, workers spent Monday moving million-dollar houseboats to moorings where they can stay afloat after the water recedes. "We're kind of at a loss," said Estelee Slusser, who operates the Alligator Dock No. 1 marina. " It has just happened so quickly. We really don't kno

Reply to I wonder if he'll let me? in Misc JoeUser Forums

umm... good luck I suppose. I never quite understood the desire for extra holes in one's anatomy but whatever makes you happy...

Reply to My girl is your girl really in Dating JoeUser Forums

I thik you will find that many times people's expectations of a blog are either not met (no comments / too many comments) or met in ways they don't like (people don't agree with them/get into flame wars) and this tends to result in blog-slumps like your gf's.

Reply to Dam Break Could Flood Area of 1.4 Million in Politics JoeUser Forums

And a 5 second Googling debunks the whole thing: "The cost of the full repair project, which will include fortifying the dam with grout to a depth of 275 feet and building a concrete cutoff wall, will be $309 million and, optimistically, will be complete in 2012" Ergo planned for, budgetted, and on the road to being done. Or as you put it "ignored!!!!!!!!!!!" &n

Reply to A Call for Leadership: The copyright issue in OS Customization JoeUser Forums

Wanted to read it, couldn't. Blech.

Reply to Do You Care if Obama Attended a Madrassa? in Politics JoeUser Forums

That makes it look like the Hillary thing is just an excuse to associate the words "Obama" and "Muslim" over and over. It is, Insight often trends to the Savage-right and this is one of those times. They don't care about Hillary's part simply because they can't get past the M-word.

Reply to Ten green bottles.. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Also a more destitute nation provides many more willing recruits. Prosperity is the enemy of would-be warlords.

Reply to Do You Care if Obama Attended a Madrassa? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I don't think you would have seen the kind of radicalism you might find now, especially in Indonesia. I agree, and even if you had seen that sort of radicalism, it certainly didn't stick.

Reply to Do You Care if Obama Attended a Madrassa? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Now who is digging up this dirt I wonder. Insight was reporting on Friday that Hillary had dispatched staffers to Indonesia to "get the dirt" on this particular madrassa. In other news, I still don't care.