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Why rather fuck than fight when you can do both?

Yeah, fucking selfish bitches. Why don't you gather up a group of women soldiers and deliver this valuable message to them? We'll chip in to help pay your hospital bills.

I heard all of this shit at the Naval Academy in 1979, the second year women were allowed to attend. Will someone please author a detailed history of the collapse of the US Navy since then? THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW.

I saw a documentary earlier this week about sexual assault of women in the military. They estimate it is as high as 50%. And it has been systematically covered up for decades. Does this mean they are also addressing that issue? And pregnancy has been a problem in the services for years. No, nothing to look at here, move along! Haven't read a single piece about that being much of an issue in effectiveness, but hey, you're the expert, Gen'ral. I also hear rumors that DARPA is funding the development of something that will stop pregnancy. No, it's not your posts. Bottom line is: half our military could be gerbils and we'd still have the largest force in the world several times over. To say that putting our money where our mouth is regarding basic civil rights in our almost purely offensive military puts our precious democracy at risk is pretty much a joke at this point. It's been, what, over 70 years since we fought a defensive action. Yeah...we're all really shaking in our retro Nikes over here. We could sure use some kick ass women in the higher ranks to replace retarded crackers like Tommy Franks and Bright Idea Primadonnas like Patreaus. They're finally starting to take the drool soaked reigns away from the Gerber brained melt downers in Congress. Fuck me, this shit is so long overdue.

In 30 years the military will be all killbots anyway. Sheeit, a few teenagers in Rockstar-proof flightsuits working from Mom's house be all we'll need to wreak havoc against the world's peasantry.

Not really: NYT "It was unclear why the Joint Chiefs acted now after examining the issue for years, although in recent months there has been building pressure from high-profile lawsuits. In November 2012 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban on behalf of four service women and the Service Women’s Action Network, a group that works for equality in the military. The A.C.L.U. said that one of the plaintiffs, Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar, an Air National Guard helicopter pilot, was shot down, returned fire and was wounded while on the ground in Afghanistan, but could not seek combat leadership positions because the Defense Department did not officially acknowledge her experience as combat." The decision does appear to have come from the military itself, still smarting, no doubt, from losing the uber expensive and embarrassing Witt lawsuit, which was won by the ACLU of WA. Uh huh, cuz that's how we roll. Considering that women have already been serving in combat positions for years now. A lawsuit's like a sip of strong coffee and a puff in the morning - it tends to move things along a bit faster. DADT was probably on its way out, too, but it could have lingered for years and years without the Witt case. It's all just part of holding the government accountable to the rule of law. Keeps those retards from eating their own poo as often as they are wont. Soldiers weren't so hot on serving with blacks, either, but things turned out OK. The one thing you can count on in this world is change. Some adapt well to it, others not so much. The first group tends to do better in the long run.

That's coming soon. Count on it. The draft actually was instrumental in turning public opinion against the war in Vietnam.

Women will now need to register for the draft. It will be interesting to see whether that has any effect on how carefully we consider going to war. Of course, without an actual draft, the effect may be nada. It hasn't been, um, too careful of late. The draft is an interesting civil rights issue. On one hand, should the state force citizens to kill, and thus violate a basic moral tenet? On the other, and all volunteer force means a true cross section of the population doesn't get to loose their sons and daughters - so why speak up when shitheel projects like Iraq happens? Principles versus practical result. Hmmmmm.

The mysogyny is running strong on Facebook, complete with lamentations from soldiers about pregos and sluts! 2013? Not everybody got that memo.

My brain is phat.

haters gotta hate, and winners gotta win, boys. It's the Song of the Angry Hairless Monkey.

Perhaps Che can enlist Tommy the Drunken Turtle and the Old Hippy to get his revolution off high center. In the meantime......(yet another) VICTORY PART-AYYYYYY!!!!!

Wo-man. Woah, man. You've got a gun. Let's have some fun. Look at those Ta-li-ban run...

One guess as to who sued them...

I did meet a cool lady in a 1960's motor boat who said she'd been boating on the lake since the damn was built. It took about a decade to fill, during which time she and her family started plying its waters, watching cliff after cliff collapse into the water due to undercutting. There are countless petroglyphs and other remains down there.

I kayaked on Powell for 10 days. The slickrock shore is covered in several inches of grey, stinking slime. Two of the arms were closed due to fecal contamination. I bumped a grogon with my paddle - a first in any body of water for me. Every beach was a garbage pile save one - way up the Escalante, inaccessible to motor craft due to a logjam. The lake has shrunk to a fraction of its original size - making water quality problems even worse. That was my experience, anyway. It probably looked a lot better when Charlie Heston swam away from his spacecraft in Planet of the Apes.

With Obamacare, you'll be able to comparison shop for insurance online everywhere. That's how they're gonna steal your soul.

Some folks have a lot more to worry about than the rest of us blue pill poppers. Knowledge can be a burden.

Well, if they do that's one more great reason to despise them.

If you're fat you don't deserve to live, so no flu shot. Fortunately, you won't live long. That'll be one less pair of drum tight spandex to have to look at, I reckon.

Why can't they invent french fries made of broccoli?

It's a greasy slope!

You can't live without fat. Your brain's made of it. Think about it.

Zion's Subway (long day or 2 day) and Keyhole (1/2 day) are great first canyoneering trips. Water temps are around 50 - be prepared for that. Guided trips with a lot of swimming supply drysuits. Orderville Canyon is a cool long day, low tech day. It dumps out into the Virgin River, though - lots of wade and swim the last 2 miles or so. July's fine - just watch the wetter. Buckskin Gulch is another area fave - 13 miles or so, one escape hatch midway. Non technical. Be ready for 100+ temps up top. Lake Powell is a huge toilet bowl, complete with floaters. Its really, really disgusting, particularly in summer. Half burned car batteries in fire rings 5 feet apart - the white trash power boating community has really redecorated the place up nice. They should definitely drain that shithole.

on Ptarmigan Ridge this weekend. There was a little bit of everything up there this weekend - patches of it not bad. The ring around the moon was super spacey, myan. Slept out under the stars with the bag unzipped. Tyson, did the pox take ya, brothuh?