rob

What good is punishment for mental illness? This isn't the 19th century anymore. Mental illness among our service members is skyrocketing and the current military command doesn't seem to be addressing it well enough from my civilian perspective. Your fire and brimstone moral system sounds chivalrous but is old-fashioned. Punative rehabilitation has it's place but not with a mentally I'll, decorated and wounded veteran of four tours. Four, right? You can't put a human in these situations without taking some responsibility for them How is this dumbass any different than Anders Breivik or Jeffrey Dahmer? Jeffery Dahmer wasn't a good guy with a decorated history who snapped after the trauma of extended tours and injuries that he signed up for in the first place in the defense of his country. Of course, I'm assuming that's the case with this guy, which by all accounts seems to be the case. I get your point, but if you can't see the difference between any two given cases of insanity than you're living in a pretty simple world!

You're right -- due process sounds great. Assuming that means we take care of our decorated veterans who are suffering from job-related PTSD or whatever (I'm assuming that's the case here, by all accounts he sounds like he used to be a really good soldier but I guess the investigators will figure that out). Of course the killing of civilians is terrible, but the Afghanistan government's desire for this guy's blood isn't worth an ounce of piss to me. They can go stuff themselves as far as I'm concerned, they're pretty poor allies. So I hope that we treat this service member fairly instead of throwing him under the bus as a political expediency because those bunch of jackals aren't worth it.

What good is punishment for mental illness? This isn't the 19th century anymore. Mental illness among our service members is skyrocketing and the current military command doesn't seem to be addressing it well enough from my civilian perspective. Your fire and brimstone moral system sounds chivalrous but is old-fashioned. Punative rehabilitation has it's place but not with a mentally I'll, decorated and wounded veteran of four tours. Four, right? You can't put a human in these situations without taking some responsibility for them

everyone talks about violence like it's always a bad thing. Hatred and anger have their place, we evolved them for a reason. what a bunch of hippies you guys are with your peace and love and rock & roll. They should just kick this guy out of the military and let him go. People are gonna snap in combat, it sounds like he was a good guy who got all messed up in the head and we should take care of our own. After all, we turned him into a pit bull in the first place. We should take some responsibility and take better care of our soldiers.

Probably you shouldn't ground children, either. Or yell at them. That might make them feel bad.

I thought kevbone was into candidates the mainstream media refused to acknowledge, but it turns out he's the one who refuses to acknowledge the non-mainstream candidates. ahhh, irony

None of which even register as a blip on the national scene Hey, if you're talking about electability then Ron Paul isn't an option, either. He won't even be on the ballot but these other guys will -- in some states

Er.... Ron Paul IS the status quo. Useless posturing. All the other candidates (Obama, Newt, Mitt and Rick) want and will continue the current occupations. Ron Paul will not. How is that the status Quo? there are other candidates, haven't you been listening?

They're all the same, kevin. Everything in the world is identical except for Ron Paul.

I only want chocolate cake. All other types of cake are identical!

Please explain to me how anything other than money backed up by gold is exactly the same as Obama and Santorum? Basically, anything other than Ron Paul is exactly the same? Are you high?

Instead of telling me why my candidate is wrong....why dont you tell me who to vote for that will do something different than the status quo. LOTS of people will do different than the status quo. Do you know who Goodspaceguy is? Are you familiar with the various Socialist Party candidates? Are you familiar with the Prohibition Party? Pick any of them, they're all extremely different than the status quo. I didn't realize your main priority was that they are different. That must make things simple.

We should have listened to Ike [video:youtube]

I don't remember congress declaring war on anyone. So really we are occupying. At the very least get that straight. And yes there is no end in sight and it is very much a tragedy. Congress doesn't have the balls to declare war, they might lose votes. They'd rather just give a blank check to the Executive Office and let him take the blame. Fucking wankers.

No one is even talking about tapering off. It's speeding up. Yes, it's really unfortunate. The republicans want to spend money on tax breaks for the rich and the democrats want to spend money on subsidies for the poor and the only guy who says any different wants to throw the economy into Mt. Doom or whatever. I'm sorry, anybody that thinks Ron Paul's solution is the answer is a fucking retard of the highest caliber of retards. I'm talking King of the Retards. Like Texas-caliber retardation. George W. Bush levels, the sort of retardation that is embarrassing to watch. Gosh, Rob, things are going so great now though! Ron Paul effectively wants to euthanize the patient, and people like Bill and Kevin stand behind him saying, "at least it's different!"

No one is even talking about tapering off. It's speeding up. Yes, it's really unfortunate. The republicans want to spend money on tax breaks for the rich and the democrats want to spend money on subsidies for the poor and the only guy who says any different wants to throw the economy into Mt. Doom or whatever. I'm sorry, anybody that thinks Ron Paul's solution is the answer is a fucking retard of the highest caliber of retards. I'm talking King of the Retards. Like Texas-caliber retardation. George W. Bush levels, the sort of retardation that is embarrassing to watch.

Starvation diets are not the right way to lose weight.

pics? open wide, here it comes

pics?

it has nothing to do with singular, it has to do with context and verb moods -- i.e. subjunctive vs. indicative verbs, etc. In this case, "were" would be the subjunctive mood of the verb "to be" and is appropriate for cases in which you are referring to something that's not likely to be true, reminiscing, etc. I.E. "I wish I were a rich man" vs "Yesterday, I was rich" -- "was" is the indicative mood of the verb and is appropriate for things that are true, or likely to be true in hypothetical situations. Doesn't anybody know English anymore??? Now, if teaching a class on spanking is something you are likely to do, then perhaps "was" is appropriate

Spanking isn't nearly as bad as biting off your son's penis

They already get to decide which drugs we get to take. ... They wish, but that hasn't been working out for them. More accurately, they get to decide which drugs it's LEGAL for us to take

Oh god, you mean the government gets to decide what is mean and hurtful, and if I'm too mean and vile they'll haul me off? NO THANKS!

you're not supposed to enjoy it. You're new at the whole sub/dom thing, aren't you?

One and a half Wassails and you're confusing Muffy with minx? Lightweight... no shit, you better hope she doesn't get the straight razor out for that.