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2008-11-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Ptah 2008-11-07 13:36|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 And The One will call these passengers "subbotniks".

Posted by ed 2008-11-07 13:49|| 2008-11-07 13:49|| Front Page Top

#2 by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Can my "peoples job" be repainting the black helicopters rainbow?

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-07 13:59|| 2008-11-07 13:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Note that it's not just school kids now, it's also us old folks over 55.

Slavery is being proposed.

Posted by AlanC 2008-11-07 14:01|| 2008-11-07 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Classroom Corps

Might this be a useful opening to teach kids first principles of liberty and such?

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-11-07 14:04|| 2008-11-07 14:04|| Front Page Top

#5 let me guess: next, we'll be required to give our charity funding directly to the government to "better focus" the equal distribution of those funds, since the churches and charities make "uncoordinated" distributions, and of course, a minimum-level-of-giving will be proclaimed by our betters

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-07 14:18|| 2008-11-07 14:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Let me be the first to tell the "One" to fuck off with this idea.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-07 14:38|| 2008-11-07 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 It was noted in the Turner Diaries, that an brown shirt-like civilian corps would be created by emptying the prisons and issuing the prisoners uniforms and guns.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-07 15:25|| 2008-11-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865.

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-07 15:27|| 2008-11-07 15:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Well the draft (even a civilian version) will certainly make the young people turn on the Democrats.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-07 15:40|| 2008-11-07 15:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Can I spend my mandatory volunteer time workin' at the local GOP office? It's like, civic minded and all that.

(Personally, I think he should up it to two years for the college pukes. They loved him so damn much, they should be ecstatic to serve the Dear Leader in his Great Leap Forward.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-07 15:50|| 2008-11-07 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Will this be on the test?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-11-07 16:26|| 2008-11-07 16:26|| Front Page Top

#12 #7 It was noted in the Turner Diaries, that an brown shirt-like civilian corps would be created by emptying the prisons and issuing the prisoners uniforms and guns.
Posted by Anonymoose

Works for President for Life Robert Mugabe and his lovely wife Grace.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-07 16:33|| 2008-11-07 16:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Choice is not an option. Can I get a 4-F for disability?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-07 16:35|| 2008-11-07 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Not sure where he is going with the "over 55" business because under his stewardship the government is going to guarantee that we will all have to work until we die. Retirement will start when six good friends carry you to your government approved retirement home.

Posted by RWV 2008-11-07 17:48|| 2008-11-07 17:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Let me second Darth Vader's idea.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 18:23|| 2008-11-07 18:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Motioned and seconded, I say "Aye"

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-07 19:18|| 2008-11-07 19:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Hey, Obama. I did my time. Go blow a dead bear.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-11-07 19:30|| 2008-11-07 19:30|| Front Page Top

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