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November 22, 2004
The Weekly Idiot Award Returns
The following comes from a 'progressive' newspaper oddly enough called the Capital Times. For the first time in Weekly Idiot Award history we've got a tie. Although more than 75 idiots were eligible, University of Wisconsin student Ashok Kumar and university employee John Peck take away the (dis)honors: Four UW students were arrested Thursday after they went into the Army Recruiting Station near campus and demanded that the office be shut down. (Emphasis mine.) Now that's what I call progress! posted by Dennis on 11.22.04 at 07:55 AM
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They give them an education if they die? Clearly these students have watched a bit much Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You know, THIS is why I was terrified Kerry would win -- the seventies ethos is in the air and I was afraid we were in for Son of Carter -- now even stranger and with more killer rabbits. Portia · November 22, 2004 02:00 PM "Commies: dead but too dumb to lie down." Steven Malcolm Anderson (Cato theElder) the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · November 22, 2004 05:23 PM Think of all who died just so these mental midgets would have the right to make fools of themselves. If no one had ever joined the military, there would be no freedom of speech or assembly. The irony of this fact apparently escapes them. Incredibly, they're still in college, yet they already have all the answers and the wisdom of the world. Think how smart they'd be if they ever grew up, moved out of their parents' basements, and were forced to actually fend for themselves in the real world. It boggles the mind. B52vet · November 23, 2004 12:32 AM Hmm. Yes, my father was "poor" when he joined the Armed Forces - as he grew up in a large family, that was inescapable. And yes, he did join them to pay for college. BUT - and this is very important - he was going to join the Air Force regardless. He just bumped up his enlistment a few years so that *they* would pay for his education. I somehow doubt that the quality of recruits has dropped sharply in the intervening years. (Draftees, of course, being an aberration.) I know that they are ADULTS capable of making their own decisions, not infantilized zombies mindlessly carrying out orders. B. Durbin · November 23, 2004 01:42 AM |
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Aw geez... not only have ponchos come back from the 70's we also get this "close down the evil military on campus" crappola, too!
Um... not all enlistees are "poor". At this very moment, my daughter Heather is out to breakfast with two of her friends, identical twin brothers who are leaving later today for boot camp with the Navy. They are slated later to train to become SEALs.
They come from a rather wealthy family, too.