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The Real XX Problem
Nothing in this article addresses Newt Gingrich's observation that, ''If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength.''
Posted to Politics by MisterJayEm on November 8, 2009
drill sargents
In other words - coddle them!
Posted to Explainer by david wayne osedach on September 23, 2009
Torture only hurts us.
''torture is fundamentally at odds with the image of the United States as a country that will play by the rulee''Correction: Torture is fundamentally at odds with the image of the United States as a country founded in fairness and righteousness. I carry a Geneva Conventions Identification Card. I've carried it for 8 years. My wife has carried 1 ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Davaal on September 3, 2009
Billy
A scribble of a notion of something I might decide to work with...it's fictional...but draws from something that actually happened. I grew up in a day when many of my friends were going to Nam. We were all military kids...socialized in the culture, so while some were actually drafted, most volunteered. 3 of them never came back... Billy was a ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on July 23, 2009
Lost Our Cotten-Pickin' Minds F-22
I am a liberal: a liberal amount of freedom and a liberal amount of force when someone tries to take it away. Now I realize that its a popular notion the cold war is over and Russia and China - two of the most oppressive and aggressive nations on earth have some how morphed into benevolent capitalist but the reality is the only reason we are not ...
Posted to War Stories by zbzoom on July 22, 2009
A Big Argument about a small thing- Gay Marriage etc.
They used to say that Money makes the world go around. But now it's sex. First thing is for the feds to change their policies and get rid of the strict rules against same sex marriages. The states will follow and the world will not fall apart. With melting ice caps and warming trends the integration of homosexuals etc. into the whole society ...
Posted to Politics by mrsmurgatroyd on May 25, 2009
Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law
International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009
Re: The beauty of polysynthetic languages
This is beginning in some respects to resemble a chicken-and-egg question. And I think it's largely because both you and Wrolph tend to import esthetic judgments into a historical and sociological arena. The survival of Latin can be considered an exception. The Latin language itself followed the swords of the legions to a certain extent, but only ...
Posted to Culturebox by Boswell7 on May 9, 2009
Crypt
In the early spring of 1963, a B-47 pilot lost his life in an ATO-related fire. My memory is vague on this, but I think the wheels did actually lift from the tarmac...that the jet was in the air, and then crashed... His name was James Meeks. He was a Major in the Air Force. His crewmen were all able to escape, but he was trapped by his own ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on April 10, 2009
bad economy - good military
It is sad that because of the recession and lack of jobs that many have no choice but to join the military and fight in Iraq and Afgahnistan.
Posted to Today's Papers by david wayne osedach on January 19, 2009

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