Making Baby Jesus Cry

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
The board already has a penske. There's not really any need for you to stoop so low.

Every year or so he disappears for a few months. If I haven't been practicing, what then?

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Not Bob
...but it's pretty high for the JAG units. There's an older judge from here that's over there, and the state bar newsletter had a regular column from Iraq last year, written by an assistant district attorney in his upper 30s.

Can't join if you're over 35.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Can't join if you're over 35.

Is that for active-duty JAG or reserve/NG units? Or both?

I was under the impression that it was 40 for some reason, but obviously I was wrong.

And penske is old.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Not Bob
No he isn't. He can join the National Guard or the Reserves, and odds are that his unit will head over at some point. I don't remember what the age cut-off is, but it's pretty high for the JAG units. There's an older judge from here that's over there, and the state bar newsletter had a regular column from Iraq last year, written by an assistant district attorney in his upper 30s.

We've had a big media event because one of our empolyees just dramatically joined up. I think he's in his early 50s.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
We've had a big media event because one of our empolyees just dramatically joined up. I think he's in his early 50s.

Penske's real problem with getting in the military isn't age, it comes from the "don't ask don't tell" policy. you see a guy like Penske, you just gotta ask, you know?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Bob
And the original post that started all that talked about theft of stuff and trashing the place. The missing W keys was a small part of what Penske alluded to.

But why take him seriously about this, Ty? He still talks about the "conspiracy" behind Vince Foster's death, despite the fact that even Ken Starr investigated it and found nothing other than it was a suicide. He's just jerking your chain, sts, iykwim, aittyd.

He and Spanky and I were having a fairly high-minded conversation last night about the statements that Bush made before the war about WMD. He and Spanky acknowledged that Bush made misrepresentations which were not supported, and which were not borne out by the facts on the ground once we occupied Iraq. But Penske and Spanky defended Bush by asserting, fairly I believe, that Bush honestly believed that he would find WMD, so he was not lying.

I then asked whether it reflected poorly on the President that he had been wrong about something so important, and that he had followed a foreign policy based on some sort of faith in himself rather than in a full consideration of what his people were telling him. That's where we went off the rails: Penske's only response to that, which is perhaps the defining question of the Bush presidency, was to start talking about Clinton.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Do you even think W could find IRAQ on a fucking map?

Wanna bet? I'll give 10 to 1 odds, but you have to wager at least $1000.

Originally posted by pony_trekker


Ok, so why haven't you volunteered to go there and die for the wonderful Iraquis?

I inquired into the possibility after 911 (with Slave as my witness, I was unemployed at the time). I was told I was too old.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by baltassoc
You are just going to have to take my word for it. In a prior life I had journalistic (and editorial) aspirations. I have a collection of death threats from conservatives who took umbrage with some of the positions I took in my editorials. It was mostly the gun control and pro-choice columns that tended to rile up the masses. Standard stuff: "Babykillers deserve to die" [oh, the irony], "I'll be waiting for you with my assault rifle in hand," etc.

Then there was when I was in law school, interning at a Federal Court. On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade I walked out of the building to grab some lunch and was screamed at as a baby-killing-son-of-a-bitch who deserved to die. Irony was, that building only houses Article I courts.

Oh, yeah. And then there was that time I accompanied a scared friend to Planned Parenthood to get advice on birthcontrol (thinking smart, she decided it was a better to not actually have to come later on to obtain an abortion). She was a friend; I was disinterested in the event. Didn't stop one of the protestors who were gathered at random (I used to drive by there all the time, and never saw protestors before or since) from yelling at me "What gives the right to kill your baby? You don't deserve to live. We'll be waiting for you when you come out."

So, out with it. When was the last time a Democrat offered to relieve you of your head at 300 yards with a deer rifle?

Fair enough. I was mugged, beaten and had a gun stuck in my mouth. Given that it was Seattle and the population is like 90% democrats or left thereof, and given the fact that there were six assailants present, I think its safe to assume at least one of them was a democrat.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Penske's real problem with getting in the military isn't age, it comes from the "don't ask don't tell" policy. you see a guy like Penske, you just gotta ask, you know?

Right. For further info, our guy is 53 and just joined the U.S. Army Reserves. There was a ceremony and everything. ETA, I'll be happy to send Penske his contact info if he wants to make further inquiries on how old farts can join the army.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Like you, he's too damn old.

Oops, merde! STP.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I already admitted it, you troll. My point was the other stories about crazy vandalism turned out to be bogus. What happened is roughly what happened at the end of other administrations. BFD.

I disagree, give mea cite on what happened at the end of other admins? See you can't just admit it and say it was wrong, you have qualify it down. Why can't the left take personal responsibility for their own deviance?

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop

No more than the similar incidents in 1993 reflected the legacy of W.'s father. Give it a rest.

What incidents?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
C'mon down careful Arnie!

Penske, this is what passes for an apology. You and I need to lower our expectations for what to expect from polite discourse.

I can hardly go lower at this point.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Not Bob
No he isn't. He can join the National Guard or the Reserves, and odds are that his unit will head over at some point. I don't remember what the age cut-off is, but it's pretty high for the JAG units. There's an older judge from here that's over there, and the state bar newsletter had a regular column from Iraq last year, written by an assistant district attorney in his upper 30s.

How do you know I am not older than upper 30s? I inquired about enlisting and at the time I was told I was too old. I will ask one of my reserve friends.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Fair enough. I was mugged, beaten and had a gun stuck in my mouth. Given that it was Seattle and the population is like 90% democrats or left thereof, and given the fact that there were six assailants present, I think its safe to assume at least one of them was a democrat.

Doesn't count. Shit, who hasn't been mugged? Or at least had the business end of a gun pointed at them in anger? This is not a testosterone contest of who's life has been more in danger. It's about politics and the decorum exhibited in the debates thereon.

Unless one of your muggers left you with a "and that's for supporting free-trade, motherfucker." Which in Seattle, I could see.

Were they dressed up as clowns?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Doesn't count. Shit, who hasn't been mugged? Or at least had the business end of a gun pointed at them in anger?

Does it count if the anger wasn't directed specifically at you but at the car next to you?