Comments on: Oops! U.S. Military Recruits Gays

The Skinny: Army, Navy, Air Force Ads That Ran On Gay Networking Web Site Are Pulled

[missingamerica]

A good day will be the day people start boycotting any product that is advertised on a Murdoch-owned media outlet of any sort.

[sonotso]

'' ...

imagine shoving trillions of dollars

of drugs

down kids throats,

imagine waving trillions of dollars

of guns

in kids faces,

imagine all the people

sharing all the world,

i hope some day you''ll join us

and the world will live as one,

... ''

[jn122736]

Posted by alphaa10 at 01:54 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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While I wouldn%u2019t argue with your accuracy, I would add that there are those who are very articulate, yet couldn%u2019t get a thought or meaning across with wheelbarrow.

[jn122736]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''''t think it''''s right.

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.
Posted by drivelphobe at 02:00 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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drivelphobe, I believe I have read every comment on this article so far and I fail to see where wfbdem used specific name-calling, insults yes.

BTW isn%u2019t your interpretation of wfbdem%u2019s ID (white ******* boy democrat)actually name-calling?

[signof4]

At least they caught the mistake and pulled the ad. I''m all for g*ays in the military. We need expendable people to clear mine fields and detonate unexploded ordinence.

[Krazcarl]

THere was a group of knights in the middle ages that were primarily gueers {don''t you love how CBS will let us say gueer but not g*y} they were the most feared and victorious fighter of that period. The spartans and greeks encouraged it for dedication on the battlefield.I see nothing wrong with it no I''m not gay I belive it deviant behavior but that''s just my opinion and one thing I learned in this life is not to tell others how to live unless they start knocking at my door and values.

[jn122736]

alphaa10,
Your posts, as usual, are thoughtful and accurate.

The sad fact however, is that too many of us cannot admit/accept the fact that we have (through the failed, and often illegal, Bush administration policies/actions the last 7 years) been so wrong.
No mistake or error can ever be corrected without first admitting to the mistake or error.

[drivelphobe]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''t think it''s right.

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.

[drivelphobe]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''t think it''s right.

wfbdem..You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.

[alphaa10-2009]

To Mitch0927-- Most who post comments understand there will be misspellings and various artifacts of a computer keyboard, including repeated lettersssssss and mising letters or even non-registered l tters. Not to mention various grammatical signatures which serve as a measure of the poster''s literacy.

Fluency rarely substitutes for content, however, and some rudely-written posts contain gems of wisdom.

Granted, a little pre-submission editing will help and is always encouraged, but errors are often helpful for context-- they reveal more about the general education and viewpoint of the poster than he or she might otherwise reveal.

All to the good, of course...

[terrapin78]

Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater said, "You don''t have to be straight to die for your country, just shoot straight".

If it is good enough for Barry, it is good enough for me.

[photogeezer]

G**** have always served in our military, always have, always will. In our lifetimes, excluding them from military service will seems as stupid as excluding black people and women. I served with some; their behavior off the job was none of my business, any more than mine was any of theirs. This country has to learn to leave other people the hell alone.

[jn122736]

if you''''re going to spout off with you ideals, I would recommend taking a writing course, you know, like an eighth grade level, because you just look stupid. If you want to get your point across, then I suggest you proof read before you post.
Posted by mitch0927 at 01:16 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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"if you''''re going to spout off with "YOU IDEALS"

It can be embarrassing to criticize others over things you do yourself.

Besides, when most people proofread their work, they often read/see what they intended to write in the first place.
I generally use Microsoft word (which helps point out errors) to write my comments and I still miss some errors

[alphaa10-2009]

Six long years after 911, Bush still flounders with the mission he was assigned by the American people, in congress assembled. Rather than find bin Laden, and prosecute the so-called "War on Terror", Bush and Cheney have squandered both opportunity and a huge public funding, with little but a disastrous war to show for it.

A GAO investigation now reveals Bush has pulled a Katrina-scale failure of due diligence at the Department of Homeland Security. As its report says "... there is as yet no overall strategy to coordinate the various activities across federal agencies and the private sector. Further, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks processes needed to address specific weaknesses in sharing information on control system vulnerabilities."

AP/CBS adds, "Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, a TSA report shows. At Chicago''s O''Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60 percent of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons."

What has the DHS been doing? While we still should worry about an attack on a prominent public landmark like the World Trade Center of New York City, the newer mode of attack is far more damaging. Characteristically, however, Bush has been out to lunch.
(see next Department of Homeland Security--2)

[alphaa10-2009]

Department of Homeland Security-- 2
Unwilling to confront their monumental failures across the entire national security front, Bush and Cheney instead have tried to distract the public with a battle with congress. Bush and Cheney have made constitutionally unwarranted claims about the powers of the presidency not seen since the days of Richard Nixon. When Bush first made these claims, he barely avoided a mass exodus in protest by DOJ officials, and a crisis over executive misbehavior surely will mark his final year in office.

A basic requirement of presidential power is the oath to "execute faithfully the laws of the United States". Instead of carrying out the will of the people in congress, however, Bush and Cheney say they have the power to defy congress. Bush and his hundreds of signing statements leave a paper trial which is superb grounds for impeachment.

Bush once confided he understands the advantage of a dictatorship, but the urgent question is whether he understands the rule of constitutional law. Bush is the individual who, in November, 2005, facing an assembly of party members critical of his NSA spying program, bristled like a teenager caught drinking after curfew-- "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It''s just a GD)((#@*! piece of paper!"

Is this figure, who claims to be president of the United States, the same who pledged an oath to "protect, preserve and defend" the document he calls a "GD)((#@*! piece of paper"?

[wfbdem]

drivelphobe,,,,, FYI -- ****''''s have been fighting in wars since the beginning of time, including in our own armed forces.


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Posted by j-whitman


Please excuse drivelphobe, his boyfriend broke up with him last night. And only 4 days before he was planning to enlist to fight in the next round of "Bush Wars 2008" (tm).

[j-whitman]

drivelphobe,,,,, FYI -- ****''s have been fighting in wars since the beginning of time, including in our own armed forces.

[mitch0927]

From the posts I have been reading on here, all I see are people finding some reason to bash one thing or another, with all sorts of "I know more than you" attitudes. It''s sad to read these, because most of you have never been in a situation where you depended on a person to "Watch your Back" in combat. There is someone on here that has written "I couldn%u2019t care less about homosexuals" and " regardless of whom you bonk with"....if you''re going to spout off with you ideals, I would recommend taking a writing course, you know, like an eighth grade level, because you just look stupid. If you want to get your point across, then I suggest you proof read before you post.

[wfbdem]

This business of allowing queers in the service has got to stop. These people are fornicators of same gender indivduals and that''''s all they think about. They average hundreds of encounters per year. How nice. The service is just like picnic grounds for them, sneaking around lusting and coveting, making every normal soldier ineasy and furious. What a morale builder. I think volunteers should rethink their applications until the military stops signing up ***.

Posted by drivelphobe

You are right. They should be restricted to men''s bathrooms in airports, so the republican senators can get their "Craig" on. Or maybe the Whitehouse, with Talon "News". Do you think Rove was giving or taking?

[jn122736]

Aside from strictly moral issue(g ays)s, when two people of opposite sexual-orientation share the same foxhole sexual harassment will abound, be they h eterosexual man and woman, or two people of the same ***. And BTW, it will not always be the man harassing the woman.