White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail

[EL the Famous]

They have their place.

 

not in my america. i find them degrading to women.

[Guest Jules]

not in my america. i find them degrading to women.

you're not looking at them correctly.

[myboyblue]

not in my america. i find them degrading to women.

as well as the person responsible for airbrushing.

[EL the Famous]

you're not looking at them correctly.

 

Any reason I give to you will not satisfy you, and I don't really care. To be honest, I've gotten past the point of trying to explain my beliefs in anything more than superficial terms on message boards. Mostly because I don't have many concrete ones. My views are subject to change, and I don't like to dig myself a hole that I'll have to try to explain my way out of.

 

i fully condone airbrushing.

[Guest Jules]

Any reason I give to you will not satisfy you, and I don't really care. To be honest, I've gotten past the point of trying to explain my beliefs in anything more than superficial terms on message boards. Mostly because I don't have many concrete ones. My views are subject to change, and I don't like to dig myself a hole that I'll have to try to explain my way out of.

 

i fully condone airbrushing.

Thank you for at least trying to explain yourself. I can respect that.

 

and, ditto on the airbrushing

[JUDE]

[EL the Famous]

'the court is a bunch of shaved pussies'

[Guest Cousin Tupelo]

you've come a long way in the last day or so.

I think the discussion came a long way in the last day or two. But then it quickly de-evolved.

[EL the Famous]

I think the discussion came a long way in the last day or two. But then it quickly de-evolved.

 

it de-evolved before it hit the second page. if you don't mind me asking, why don't you like shaved pussy? how do you look at yourself in the miroor?

[ms. yvon]

*cough* woman in the room *cough*

 

 

please stop talking about beavers, pussies, tits and ass.

 

 

thanks.

[sweetheart-mine]

*cough* woman in the room *cough*

 

 

please stop talking about beavers, pussies, tits and ass.

 

 

thanks.

thank you. one good thing came of it, though. i'm much better educated about the sensibility, if we can call it that, of a few posters, one of whom really surprised me.

[Guest Jules]

thank you. one good thing came of it, though. i'm much better educated about the sensibility, if we can call it that, of a few posters, one of whom really surprised me.

Why do you hate America?

[bjorn_skurj]

don't be too sure. mccain said we would need another draft only if world war III occurs. now imagine a president mccain. what do you think will occur if we're in afghanistan and iraq, and then attack iran? the result (including the draft) isn't a certainty, but it is a possibility. like kidsmoke, i am old enough to remember vietnam, the draft, and especially the lottery system that works under the draft. believe me, you wouldn't like it.

Reinstating the draft would be political suicide for anyone who votes for it. Short of a nuclear terrorist attack in U.S. soil, I don't see it happening.

[sweetheart-mine]

Reinstating the draft would be political suicide for anyone who votes for it. Short of a nuclear terrorist attack in U.S. soil, I don't see it happening.

i'm sure you're right, though it's too bad. the policy changes that would result from reinstating the draft would be a big step in a better direction.

[Good Old Neon]

I

[Edie]

Reinstating the draft might have the desired effect of fewer wars. That's Rangel's position -- and it's also driven by the fact that the army is primarily made up of racial minorities and poor people. The draft would bring in more sons/daughters of rich white folks -- thus limiting our seemingly endless desire to go to war.

 

Oh and for the record, beavers are nice.

[Analogman]

Selective Service System

[Guest Cousin Tupelo]

Reinstating the draft might have the desired effect of fewer wars. That's Rangel's position -- and it's also driven by the fact that the army is primarily made up of racial minorities and poor people. The draft would bring in more sons/daughters of rich white folks -- thus limiting our seemingly endless desire to go to war.

 

Oh and for the record, beavers are nice.

In theory, but there had always seemed to be plenty of wiggle room for those with the means to get around the draft -- not quite the Civil War days of paying someone to go in your place, but ways nonetheless.

[bjorn_skurj]

Selective Service System

Having that in place is one thing. Actually utilizing it is another. The political price to pay would be enormous.

[Edie]

In theory, but there had always seemed to be plenty of wiggle room for those with the means to get around the draft -- not quite the Civil War days of paying someone to go in your place, but ways nonetheless.

 

My great grandfather did that. Paid $300 to sit it out

[sweetheart-mine]

Reinstating the draft might have the desired effect of fewer wars. That's Rangel's position -- and it's also driven by the fact that the army is primarily made up of racial minorities and poor people. The draft would bring in more sons/daughters of rich white folks -- thus limiting our seemingly endless desire to go to war.

exactly. and i didn't know of rangel's position. if only it wouldn't be political suicide for him to get louder about this, but of course it would be.

[Guest Cousin Tupelo]

Selective Service System

An interesting blurb on their home page:

 

ATTENTION, UNDOCUMENTED MALES & IMMIGRANT SERVICING GROUPS!

 

If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service. It

[Edie]

We may not let you in the country, but if you are here by some fluke then we will surely want to put you in our army!

[Good Old Neon]

I don

[Guest Cousin Tupelo]

I don