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No piece, No Jesus

Someone has to date your women.

Perhaps there should be a benefit concert: "Rite-Aid"

Nobody smells a rat better than the blind.

I'll go if I can ride a burning dumpster across the Lions Gate Bridge...

If yer still party-less, and you can drift on over to Seattle, there's a pretty good annual costume party at our local bierstube tonight. First prize is one free beer a day for a year (I'm not sure if they ship to Bozeman, though). The place is called Prost. It's on Greewood Ave between 73rd and 74th street in the Phinney neighborhood, just W of Greenlake. We're gonna head on over there around 8:00 or so.

There was so much holiness in the room we were able to raise this poor man from Enumclaw from the grave. I believe he died in a riding accident.

Inshahallah.

A well placed Hormel summer sausage will eliminate any ambiguity.

...burned by his own desire.

At least he's not one a them damn faggits.

I thought that M4 I picked up at the Everett Gun Show seemed a little too cheap...

...and our three mules: Brokeback, Bareback, and Swayback

My frog press broke, forcing me to use the Mr. Coffee.

I think you're referring to same propoganda all of us choose to either believe or ignore rather than brainwashing. You're right, an astounding high number of Americans, not just military personnel, believe what isn't true. Not a pretty picture, but not limited to the military, either. As for the "Support the Troops" stickers, they represent the ultimate Do Nothing gesture; a trademark of modern, professional warfare. They turn my stomach. Their numbers are dwindling in step with the conviction of their owners.

Quite a few. They're called the National Guard.

Right now? McCain/Hagel would probably take it. Two years from now? WTFK? If the dems clean up in Nov, the onus will be on them to mop this mess up in two years. That's an awful tall order.

artificial assimilation

Several assumptions have been made here. The most common one is that nearly everyone who enters the military does so to escape poverty. The demographics of today's military don't support this, nor does the journalistic record. Some do join the military to get out of poverty, of course, but there are many other reasons people join. To serve their country, for starters. To challenge themselves. To do something significant in their lives. To straighten their act out. Because they like guns. To continue a family tradition. Because their friends did. Many reasons. The second assumption is that, without access to certain blogs, military personnel will not be able to come to their own balanced conclusions; the 'brainwashed' theory. It's nothing more than a form of condescension. I can assure you from personal experience that folks in the military are as or more critical in their thinking (after all, their living at the sharp edge of political policy) as the shopping focused population as a whole. As a cross section of our society, they have the same diversity of political views. Finally, the journalistic value of blogs is vastly overrated. The forums they provide do provide a form of online democratic discourse (but then again, so does talk radio), but they are invariably biased and, as a result, their stories highly filtered and not vigorously vetted. I have many friends who'll skewer FOX news (which deserves it), then email me an editorial from some obscure blog. Blogs are recreation, not news sources. If the censorship described here is actually happening, I doubt that it's significantly hampering our troops ability draw their own conclusions. I agree that this administration has put our military in a terrible situation. Rather than spending time kvetching about why some corporal can't log into Wonkette, why not log into the websites of various military units, which provide some remarkably frank, first hand reports of what is actually happening over there? After all, there are 130,000 voters over there...and over 200 million voters here. Which group needs to be better informed?

"My, what a beautiful baby" That kid's gonna go through a hell of a lot of razor blades

I consider myself a chewy, gooey centrist. BTW, I feel its my duty to report this abuse...we need not guess the perp.

I know one guy who's over there. Not a climber, but then we're not exactly discussing the finer points of crampons here. Anybody else?

Case in point ^