Politics: J'accuse!

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Not Me
I bet if they studied it, Reps make up a larger percentage of combat troops/deaths compared to their percentage in the population as a whole.

So what you are saying is that we need a draft for DEMS? That's a good way to (a) increase the GOP registration and (b) guarantee that we will be speaking Arabic within 5 years.*

*Note: This is a joke. It was not meant to be petty.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I don't mean for this to offend any particular groups, but I suspect that 1.) "combat forces" is probably true and 2.) "combat deaths" is probably true only if we consider the very most recent 25 years (i.e., post-Vietnam).

I wasn't guessing. I cited this source:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...rmy-usat_x.htm

When I googled the vietnam data, there are a variety of cites showing anywhere from 12 - 15% black deaths in Vietnam, but none show where they get their numbers.

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
To add to your guesses, I guarantee that you would find that graduates of Ranger school tend to be at the shorter end of the yardstick too.

I don't get that.

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Reps? Sure. But it seems like most of the great war wounds in congress belong to dems. Weird that, no?

Not wierd. But you have to cut FDR slack. We were attacked.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Not Me
I don't get that.

I've heard the accounts from a family member who went and flunked out after 3/4ths. It is a climate and diet-sensitive combat school. Basically, they teach you to survive in the desert, the swamps, the mountains and the forest (or something like that). You do the school in phases in different places. And they starve you. Shorter people (who are in decent shape) tend to survive a starvation diet better than taller people.

FWIW, Navy Seals have a (or at least used to have an) above-average failure rate for Ranger school.

My source's training unit was brought out after the third phase, with 1/2 of the class already gone. They entered, I forget, but I think Ft. Stewart in the morning and were ordered not to go anywhere near food until 4 PM. *Some* people couldn't stay away from the PX because they were so goddamned hungry. They were booted when they were caught.

The beauty of it is, they invite you to restart the school with the next class.

But, in the last 6 weeks, you've lost 40 pounds which you spent 6 months putting on in the expectation of what you'd suffer in the school. So, without 6 months to regain the weight and strength, you shuffle away and continue life as an infantry lieutenant (of above-average height) in air assault. For example.

Hello

[Not Me]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/ELE...104_Nader.html

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Navy Seal

I had sex with a Navy Seal. Pre-implants.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me
I had sex with a Navy Seal. Pre-implants.

How was she?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
How was he?

He had a fab bod.

[confidential to SS]You are obsessed with and jealous of me.[/confidential to SS]

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
Just try saying something about Tiger Woods internalizing racism IRL and watch the "you racist fuck"s start flying. Thank goodness we have this place where you can discuss such things without . . . oh, nevermind.

Are you proposing that there are entire subject realms upon which your statements are entitled to dignity and should be exempted from ridicule and contempt?

Sounds like political correctness.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Are you proposing that there are entire subject realms upon which your statements are entitled to dignity and should be exempted from ridicule and contempt?

Sounds like political correctness.

It is not PC. PC is when you intimidate people from saying things by screaming racists, etc. Funny thing is that the PC crowd only applies their standards when things are being said about a group that they like. If they don't like the group, i.e., white and/or Christian, then they allow you to speak.

I have no probleme with calling someone who is actually a racist a racist. But when anytime someone says anything unflattering about a black person people start screaming racist, it is boring and of course desensitizes people to real racism.

Why there is a disparity between interracial couples, i.e., why there are more black man-white woman couples than black woman-white man couples, is a serious and legitimate topic. If it were just about love, there wouldn't be a disparity.

Same is true of white-asian couples. It is much more common to see white men with asian women than to see white women with asian men. It is not all about love.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me Same is true of white-asian couples. It is much more common to see white men with asian women than to see white women with asian men. It is not all about love.

This has been covered at some length on the FB. Eventually, you get to polyandry, with a couple of intermediate steps.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
It is not PC. PC is when you intimidate people from saying things by screaming racists, etc. Funny thing is that the PC crowd only applies their standards when things are being said about a group that they like. If they don't like the group, i.e., white and/or Christian, then they allow you to speak.

You miss my point like Tarzan misses the jungle. When a bunch of people tell you to shut the fuck up because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, that's not political correctness. That's free speech. Just because it's a majority of people telling you to shut the fuck up doesn't make it oppression.

The only political correctness that ever presented a threat was college speech codes, which academic leftists embraced briefly in the early '90s before it became entirely obvious that it was a stuuuuuuuupid idea and left college graduates unprepared for interacting in the work place with GPs and CEOs. Little did they know jocks and rednecks would perform such a useful function in the academy.

However, the tradition of turning away, embarrassed, when Uncle Ed starts giving you his theory about how we were all better off under segregation? That's not political correctness, even though Uncle Ed heard it called "PC" on Rush. It's just good manners to refuse to engage with people who do not share enough of your values to make further interaction productive for either party. Thus, I will defend to the death your right to be told to shut the fuck up.

[Not Me]

Isn't there some First Amendment issues that make porno studios different from other workplaces? Would requiring condoms be a content-based prior restraint of speech?

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/4-...010009_29.html

• California Urged to Probe Porn HIV Cases
  
  By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press Writer
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Health officials asked the state Tuesday to investigate two cases of HIV infection in the pornographic film industry and to consider applying workplace safety laws to adult movie sets.
  
  The discovery last week that two performers, one male and one female, are HIV-positive also could prompt the industry or government to consider mandating the use of condoms during filming, said Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County health department. . . .

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thus, I will defend to the death your right to be told to shut the fuck up.

I'll defend it too, but I don't feel quite so strongly about it.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
However, the tradition of turning away, embarrassed, when Uncle Ed starts giving you his theory about how we were all better off under segregation?

What if Chris Dodd says it?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Eventually, you get to polyandry,

Polyandry sounds alot like college.