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2010-09-22 Home Front: Politix
Lt. Col Allen West Social Security # posted in Dem's Hit Flier
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Posted by Sherry 2010-09-22 09:56|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 The Florida Democratic Party has just guaranteed LTC West's victory in November.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-22 10:46||   2010-09-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Florida Democratic Party spokesman Eric Jotkoff JERKOFF
Posted by armyguy 2010-09-22 10:46||   2010-09-22 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 and just to think if he had really cheated on his taxes he could have been made Treasury Secretary.......
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-09-22 10:49||   2010-09-22 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Inquiring minds might ask, not that there is anything codified, but what might the minimum time and experience level be, for a junior senator and War Veteran to run for the office of President of the United States?
Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-22 10:53||   2010-09-22 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Starting with Truman all the presidents had some type of military service. President Regan and George W. both had stateside service in the reserves and guard respectively if memory serves. But if you want to follow the trend for the last two decades it goes Military, Non, Military, Non. Guess who the two nonservice presidents are.
Posted by Lowspark  2010-09-22 11:54||   2010-09-22 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Beoeker I'm with you. But then I would vote SPOD for Prez and Joe M for vice right now given the current situation...
Posted by 49 Pan 2010-09-22 11:58||   2010-09-22 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I hope Lt. Col West immediately filed with his local Social Security office to change his social security number, and sent a notice to his credit card carriers and the three credit reporting agencies that he has done so and why. Also the FBI.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-22 12:18||   2010-09-22 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Guess who the two nonservice presidents are

An excellent argument why we need a couple years of mandatory service out of high school and before college. It would cancel a lot of the indoctrination in socialist and misdirected/conditioned/programmed thinking picked up through 13 years of K-12 education.
Posted by gorb 2010-09-22 14:09||   2010-09-22 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 No.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-09-22 14:18||   2010-09-22 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 It would cancel a lot of the indoctrination in socialist and misdirected/conditioned/programmed thinking I. Don't. Think. So.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-22 14:22||   2010-09-22 14:22|| Front Page Top

#11 An excellent argument why we need a couple years of mandatory service out of high school and before college.

Because nothing teaches independence and individualism like forced labor!

Consider who keeps pushing for the revival of a draft and the "mandatory volunteerism" crap. Then consider if they're really interested in countering, or reinforcing, collectivist indoctrination.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-09-22 14:58||   2010-09-22 14:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Show us Obama's Birth Certificate and we will call it even.
Posted by Bertie Huperens2168 2010-09-22 15:17||   2010-09-22 15:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Draft: Korea, Vietnam
AVF, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom.

I know which force I want protecting me. And producing future leaders. No more Jack Lemons and Alan Aldas, thank you.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-09-22 20:08||   2010-09-22 20:08|| Front Page Top

#14 NS: Draft: Civil War, WW I and WW II.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2010-09-22 20:33||   2010-09-22 20:33|| Front Page Top

#15 I was talking about mandatory service in the sense of not fighting.

Fighting forces are best if they are volunteer. But who's to say a draft is going to only net folks who aren't willing to fight? I may be wrong but I'll bet there are more than a few folks out there who have gone into the armed services felt it was the least bad option, but at least it was a choice, and I'll bet they are more likely to succeed because at least they saw it as an opportunity rather than an obligation.

And I don't even know if we could sustain a force of three million people, or if there would be enough work for them. But hey, we are paying $2M for each alleged road construction worker today, so I'll bet a two-year stint at building roads or whatever could get a whole lot of roads built real cheap, and give some folks an idea of what we should be protecting instead of giving away. Too many people take for granted what we have and work hard to maintain. Some people think milk comes from stores, and not that stinky dairy that they built their house next to. This might change that, or at least help.

I'm sure liberals would do something to eff up the experience, though, so I don't know if it would be a good thing or not in that regard.

The mandatory service for Israel works out very well. They have their share of liberals, but it would be worse if they didn't have a mandatory service. It puts these folks right up against what they are fighting for, and believe me they have the idea of what is going on when they get out. Also, the two or three year break after high school helps focus their minds, and they excel at further education. And they learn how to do things in a practical fashion, not an idealistic of theoretical fashion that is doomed to failure because they never got exposed to reality.

An awareness of reality that is sorely lacking in the USA today despite the fact that that very same reality is standing in front of us with a knife.
Posted by gorb 2010-09-22 22:46||   2010-09-22 22:46|| Front Page Top

#16 drafted soldiers fought and died just like us regular army guys.
Posted by bman 2010-09-22 23:30||   2010-09-22 23:30|| Front Page Top

#17 I've been in service both pre and post VOLAR. We do NOT want draftees in our modern military. And the Dems and Obama would love to have a good source of bodies for their brown shirts.
Posted by tipover 2010-09-22 23:49||   2010-09-22 23:49|| Front Page Top

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