cc.com is now a recruiting office?

[lI1|1!]

i love the smell of in the morning

[AlpineK]

First we're going to take control of that beach then we're going to surf those killer waves.

[jon]

Charlie can't have this beach! Charlie don't surf!

[joblo7]

how long must we suffer the affront? how long is your deal??

[joblo7]

how long must we suffer the affront? how long is your deal with the enemy of the free people of middle earth.

[canyondweller]

You don't have to suffer. You can choose to not participate in this site, if their advertising choices offend you so much.

[joblo7]

man has the capacity to deny anything.

including his own divinity.

[builder206]

I’d love to log some trigger time. I’d join if they would take me, but I have a condition.

[ClimbingPanther]

v, i'd guess the vast majority of us support letting the admins make their own big boy decisions. thank you for voicing your concern, but saying it over and over again does not help your pitiable plight, it just annoys everyone and you lose your voice. do you fathom that?

[JosephH]

The Army raised the enlistment age to 42 in 2006.

 

So, how many of you defenders of liberty are that age or younger? Why haven't you joined up yet? I mean, if you can climb, you can fight - right? In fact, you are the very folks the Special Forces are looking for, that's why the ad is here. Serenity can no doubt give you the lowdown on what to expect and how to navigate today's Army to fit in fast. And if you're older than 42 then are your kids serving or are you encouraging you kids to enlist when they get out of highschool?

 

So, what's the real word here? Is this all talk or are you prepared to support your beliefs with your own life or your childrens'. The recruiting office near you is open today and you or your kids still have time to make it over there.

 

Talking shit on line is about as daring as clipping bolts. Join the Army Special Forces and you'll be doing some dirty, runout trad for at least a little while - and serving your country.

 

 

[joblo7]

i see what i do. thanks.

sometimes repetition and persistance must be used to the detriment of self promotion.

 

can you generate one of those poll thread thing ??

[KaskadskyjKozak]

how long must we suffer the affront? how long is your deal with the enemy of the free people of middle earth.

 

Whatever you say, Frodo.

[No. 13 Baby]

Charlie can't have this beach! Charlie don't surf!

 

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[PaulB]

a classic song about a recruiter and the recruited...

In a similar vein, based on actual events

 

Recruiting Sargeant by B. Hallet, performed by Great Big Sea

 

Two recruiting sergeants came to the CLB,

For the sons of the merchants to join the Blue Puttees;

All hands enlisted, five hundred young men,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

 

They crossed the broad Atlantic in the brave Florizel,

And on the sands of Suvla, they entered into hell;

'Twas on those bloody beaches, the first of them fell,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

 

So it's over the mountains and over the seas,

Come, brave Newfoundlanders, and join The Blue Puttees;

You'll fight the Hun in Flanders, and at Galipoli,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

 

The call came from London for the last July drive,

"To the trenches with the Regiment, prepare yourselves to die."

Roll call next morning, just a handful survived,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

 

So it's over the mountains and over the seas,

Come, brave Newfoundlanders, and join The Blue Puttees;

You'll fight the Hun in Flanders, and at Galipoli,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

 

The stone men on Water Street still cry for the day,

When the pride of their city, went marching away;

A thousand men slaughtered, to hear the King say,

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

[STP]

...The founding fathers would be so proud.

 

Frankly, I don't have a problem with recruiting ads on this site.

 

Curious, but were the Founding Fathers, in their time, in favor of a standing army? Rather, it seemed that they believed that the citizens armed with the power of their convictions and guns would form a milita to repel enemies. Also, didn't the people see the danger of foreign mercenaries, e.g, the Hessians, that they were furiously against them? More importantly, a U.S. soldier takes an oath uphold and defend the Constitution, that is, the People. What or who does the mercenary hold allegiance to?

 

I'd see the standing army as a symptom of something larger that is a threat.

 

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson

 

Ok, call me crazy...

 

[joblo7]

well, he had seen the future and tried to warn us and protect us but here we are , suffering at the hands of the corporate giants.

[STP]

...chronic deficit spending (the hallmark of the welfare state)...the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Gold and Economic Freedom, Alan Greenspan, 1966

http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html

 

But, article from Washington Post informs us that since the percentage of the cost of war is small compared to GDP then it'll be painless. Whatever...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050701582_2.html

 

 

[ivan]

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson

 

should the children of rapacious assholes be at all suprised that they exhibit the same aggresive, capitalistic indifference to one another that their forefathers did?

[archenemy]

There is a capitalistic indifference gene?

[ivan]

There is a capitalistic indifference gene?

don't know about genes, but there is a board-game!

[archenemy]

Risk? Monopoly? I love those games!

[ivan]

Risk? Monopoly? I love those games!

apparently not jefferson though - might explain why he was up to his ass in hoc when he went tits up!

[lI1|1!]

 

Navy Calls MySpace Kids "Alien Life Force"

 

[Off_White]

Risk? Monopoly? I love those games!

 

You too? It's hard to find aficionados of those long attention span board games in the modern age.

[G-spotter]

Risk? Monopoly? I love those games!

 

You too? It's hard to find aficionados of those long attention span board games in the modern age.

 

Yeah they must be too busy putting in 6 hours a night playing World of Warcraft to sit down and play a three hour game on Monopoly.