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Sep 14, 2018 10:31:40   #
Kevyn wrote:
Oh boy another crackpot right wing nutter who learned how to copy and paste the crap written by marginally literate crackpot nutters. Just the sort of garbage OPP needs. Here is a word of advice Capt. jackass, post your own thoughts not someone else’s garbage.


LOL LOL LOL LOL
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Sep 14, 2018 10:29:51   #
moldyoldy wrote:
We built the ACA, and you are dismantling it brick by brick.
We had regulations to protect us from greedy bankers and
to help keep water and air clean. GOP, we don't need that.
We have public education.
DeVos wants it all private so only the rich can get educated.

Trump put people in charge who h**e the agencies they run.


There is no provision in the Constitution regarding health care. Congress run by the left created bad health care and Congress anew can uncreate it. Don't cry, it will all work out.
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Sep 14, 2018 10:23:27   #
An Epidemic of Teenage G****r Confusion

We’ve all seen teenagers—especially girls—adopt new fashions en masse. Their friends are doing it, so they do too. It’s true of music, clothes, those ridiculous, furry Ugg boots… But lately, fashion-conscious teens are changing much more than their clothes.

The Economist recently reported a flood of adolescent girls seeking treatment for g****r dysphoria over the last eight years. In 2009, less than half—41 percent—of teens walking through the doors of g****r clinics in the U.K. were female. But by 2017, that number jumped to almost 70 percent.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/09/01/why-are-so-many-teenage-girls-appearing-in-g****r clinics

Now, if g****r dysphoria—feeling yourself to be the opposite g****r from your biological sex—were actually something innate to the human condition as t***s activists claim, we’d expect these numbers to remain consistent and roughly balanced between boys and girls. But they’re not. According to Dr. Lisa Littman, who teaches behavioral and social sciences at Brown University, t*********r identity, like Ugg boots, has become a trend.
According to Littman, droves of adolescents, with no prior history of g****r confusion, are suddenly announcing they’re t*********r after “immersing themselves in niche websites,” or “after similar announcements from friends.”

Littman surveyed 256 parents of children who experienced what she terms “rapid-onset g****r dysphoria.” The results were astonishing: 87 percent of teenagers who suddenly came out as t*********r did so after spending a great deal more time than usual online or after “cluster outbreaks” of g****r dysphoria among their friends.
To put it simply, these kids wanted to t***sition because “everyone’s doing it.”

Littman describes v***l g****r confusion as a “social and peer contagion.” In some teenage circles, particularly among girls, it’s reaching epidemic proportions. In a third of the peer groups she researched, half or more of the individuals involved came out as t*********r. To put this in perspective, less than one percent of Americans aged 18-24 identify as t***s.
In fact, g****r-t***sition is not only fashionable, “Most children,” says the Economist, “who came out became more popular as a result.”
Littman believes adolescents are embracing the idea they are the opposite g****r as a coping mechanism for unrelated issues. And the numbers back this claim up. Almost two-thirds of those Littman studied had previously been diagnosed with other psychiatric or developmental disorders, and nearly half had experienced trauma or tried to harm themselves—all before expressing any g****r dysphoric feelings.

Unsurprisingly, Littman’s research has come under fire. T*********r activists are comparing her sources to—yes, wait for it—the KKK. This despite the fact that 88 percent of parents Littman surveyed believe that t*********r people deserve equal rights. Caving to pressure, Brown University removed the press release about her research from its website, claiming it requires “further expert assessment.”
Even so, the idea that teenagers are willing to try on t*********r identities like trendy shoes is well-supported. Study after study shows that the vast majority of g****r dysphoric minors will eventually change their minds and, if left alone, will not continue to identify as t*********r into adulthood.

But to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And t*********r ideology today will gladly sacrifice a teen’s true health on the altar of life-altering decisions like hormone therapy and even g****r reassignment surgery.

We must support our own teens in understanding who they are. They must know that their identity lies not in the latest mixed-up g****r ideology or in keeping up with their friends’ fashion choices, but only in the God Who created us male and female.

Last week in California a law was passed where one's driver licenses have an X g****r so one can claim they are neither male or female!!!!!

Has the human spices come to the end of its development? Is it down hill from now on?
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Sep 14, 2018 09:58:07   #
IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS SYSTEM WAS SOMEWHAT
R****D AND YOU COULDN'T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, Obama's former National Security Adviser.

CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.

ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney

ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama's former Deputy Press Secretary

ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama's former Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood

CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton's Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.

Believe me! This is Huge and is a 'partial' list since the same incestuous relationship holds true for NBC/MSNBC and most media outlets. Trump has been right all along ...
F**e News is generated by this incestuous relationship.

Ya think there might be a little bias in the news? Ya Think?


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Sep 14, 2018 09:27:58   #
"Obama, it was you."

* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner -"I am one of you."

* It was you who on ABC News referenced -"My Muslim faith."

* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.

* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict-"I will stand with the Muslims."

* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that -"I am a Muslim."

* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.

* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning Christianity and professing Marxism.

* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us had to pay.

* It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.

* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'Holy' Qur'an.

* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denouncing and apologizing for the United States Of America.

* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.

* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House..

* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ before you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have never requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.

* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.

* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security positions.

* It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.

* It was you, who as an Illinois Senator spoke in favor of infanticide.

* It was you who was the first President not to provide a Christmas Greeting from the White House and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.

* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.

* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood k**ler as an Islamic terrorist.

* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific persecution and executions of women throughout the Muslim culture but yet submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.

* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.

* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.

* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.

* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.

* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.

* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.

* It is you who vacations in Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid criticism for not participating in seasonal White House religious events.

* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted by your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.

* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

* It was you who said our country is not a Christian nation.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:33:07   #
nwtk2007 wrote:
Wow. In my own r****t way, I just thought it was bizarre to elect a president with the name Husein so soon after a terror attack by Muslims working for a Muslim terror organization.


Americans have very short memories, say 30 days at best.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:30:42   #
old marine wrote:
You have a very short memory. I told you I don't gamble, smore or curse. I leave that for the sinners to do.

Anyway several posters have already said you don't pay when you lose.


Losers never pay up!
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Sep 13, 2018 15:27:38   #
woodguru wrote:
I think a bit more globally than who is defending me as pertains to the boots on the ground...

I look at the politics of why we are exposing soldiers and putting them in harm's way, but more often than not I'm looking at why soldiers are where they are and not that they are putting their lives in jeopardy but that someone else is jeopardizing their lives for all the wrong reasons.

Is a soldier in Syria that's defending a Conoco refinery defending the country or our country's interests? I'd say hell no, they are defending an oil company's property and revenues, and this is a place that I'd say that that oil company can pay for mercenaries, private security forces, to defend it's property. In Afghanistan do you want your son marching in poppy fields protecting opium and heroin? I have friends that knew that their mission protecting those poppy fields was pure BS, there is no way they are willing to die for that cause. One friend was saying they constantly questioned why a C-130 with cluster bombs wasn't dropped on these fields, or torch them with flame throwers.
I think a bit more globally than who is defending ... (show quote)


There is no oil in Afghanistan, our job there should only be to prevent gropes from forming another 911. We should not be rebuilding there phone system or electric grid.
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Sep 13, 2018 15:21:57   #
bahmer wrote:
I believe that he is nothing more than a disgruntled black man angry at the whole world for perceived wrongs committed against his race. Most of those wrongs were self inflicted over the years by the said b****s because they have taken the easy money and destroyed their own families because of it. Before LBJ the b****s were one of the most religious of all races here in America and after LBJ and the great society their divorce rate climbed and the fatherless homes increased along with drug use as well. Now they are blaming cops for the ills that they brought upon themselves and they have no remedies aside from taking a knee during the National Anthem as if this will do anything for them.
I believe that he is nothing more than a disgruntl... (show quote)


Vey good,
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Sep 13, 2018 13:00:24   #
The Russians can't even spell Trump. The c****e left did the whole deal and tried to push it on the Russians.
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Sep 13, 2018 12:55:50   #
moldyoldy wrote:
Looks like we have a brand new Russian troll who just signed on for a day.


Yeah!
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Sep 13, 2018 12:25:23   #
Just a reminder of who the man elected twice as President "really is",
and how easy it was to turn the keys of the Kingdom over to a radical
l*****t Muslim sympathizer. We and our children may not outlive the
problems this man has brought upon this once great nation.


Anyone of these 'coincidences' when taken singularly appears to not
mean much, but when taken as a whole, a computer would blow a circuit
if you asked it to calculate the odds that they have occurred by
chance alone.

Obama just happened to know 60's far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers,

whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers,

who just happened to be a close friend of Obama's c*******t mentor
Frank Marshall Davis,

who just happened to work at the c*******t-sympathizing Chicago
Defender with Vernon Jarrett,

who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born
l*****t Valerie Jarrett,

who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House adviser,

and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company,

which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago,

which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state
legislature,

and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing which
eventually just happened to require demolition.

Not to mention that this is the property that would have been the
grounds that hosted the Olympics, had Obama's efforts been successful.

Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago,
and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Mrs.
Obama),

who just happened to have worked at the Sidney Austin law firm,

where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work,

and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.

Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers,

with whom she just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco
marina,

along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to
Khalid al-Mansour,

and Warden al-Mansour,

who just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party Founders Huey
Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan

and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince,

who just happened to donate cash to Harvard,

for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of
recommendation from Percy Sutton,

who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X,

who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya,

who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.,

who just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya.

Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of
Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute,

which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk,

who just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X,

who just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam,
which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan,

who just happens to live very close to Obama's Chicago mansion,

which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of
William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,

who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and
Natasha Obama,

whose presumed parents just happened to have no concern exposing their
daughters to bomb-making c*******ts.

After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he
just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates,

Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation,

an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and
radical agitator Saul "the Red" Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals,

who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton's thesis
at Wellesley College,

and Obama's $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a
grant from the Woods Fund,

which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just
happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison,

whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers,

whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the
Woods Fund, along with Obama.

Obama also worked on v***r r**********n drives in Chicago in the 1980s
and just happened to work with l*****t political groups like the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International
(SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson,

who just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage
the U.S. war effort, and

who just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism,

which just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke,

and which just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a
former SDS activist and later public relations consultant,

who just happened to be a long-time friend of Obama's political
hatchet man, David Axelrod.

Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator

who just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and
who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew and anti-American sermons,

which Obama just happened never to hear because he just happened to
miss church only on the days when Wright was at his "most
enthusiastic,"

and Obama just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the
church because it was too radical, and

just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile
anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime
achievement award.

Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama just happened
to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book
about race relations,

which he just happened to fail to write, while using the cash to
vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle,

and despite his record of non-writing, he just happened to receive a
second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and

he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father,

which just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers,

who just happened to trample on an American f**g for the cover
photograph of the popular Chicago Magazine,

which Obama just happened never to see even though it appeared on
newsstands throughout the city.

Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland,

which just happened to specialize in negotiating state government
contracts to develop low-income housing, and

which just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his
firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and

the law firm's Judson Miner just happened to have been a classmate of
Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.

In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit
against Citibank for denying mortgages to b****s (Buycks-Roberson v.
Citibank Federal Savings Bank),

and the lawsuit just happened to result in banks being blackmailed
into approving
subprime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which just happened to
spread nationwide,

and which just happened to contribute to the collapse of the housing bubble,

which just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008
p**********l e******n.

In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the "New Party,

which just happened to promote Marxism, and

Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist

who just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.

In late 1999 Obama purportedly engaged in cocaine-snorting in the back
of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair,

who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young,

who just happened to be the choir director of Obama's Chicago church

and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama,

and Young just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007,

just weeks after Larry Bland, another member of the church just
happened to be murdered,

and both murders just happened to have never been solved.

In 2008, Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and
just happened to be arrested immediately after the event,

based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who
just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.

In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid
Khalidi, who just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic
of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights,

and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas just happened to

have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona,

and just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters.

Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event,
which William Ayers just happened to also attend,

and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the
Arab American Action Network,

to which Obama just happened to have funneled cash while serving on
the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers,

and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot
secure a return of their land, Israel "will never see a day of peace,"

and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children's dance
whose performances just happened to include simulated beheadings with
f**e swords, and stomping on American, Israeli and British f**gs, and

Obama allegedly told the audience that "Israel has no God-given right
to occupy Palestine"
and there has been "genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis."

The Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just happens to
refuse to make it public.

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate,
front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race
after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull's sealed
divorce records unsealed,

which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could
face popular Republican Jack Ryan,

whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to
become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race,

which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the
U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to
decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.

What fools we are!
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Sep 13, 2018 11:34:10   #
Bad Bob wrote:
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/09/12/new-polls-show-republicans-are-facing-disaster-in-the-midterms.html

Three new polls released this morning could spell doom for the GOP in November’s e******ns. These polls continue the rash of bad news that has come out recently for Republican candidates.
Today’s polls deal with two major factors that are known to influence the outcomes of midterm e******ns:
The generic congressional b****t, and
V**ers’ opinions of the sitting president.
On the second point, not only are Trump’s approval ratings among the lowest in recorded history, but there are other issues revealed by these polls.
For example, The Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 61 percent of v**ers think the administration is chaotic, while just 32 percent believe it is running well. This poll was done after the New York Times anonymous op-ed and Bob Woodward’s bombshell new book. Both of these documents describe a president and a White House that are out of control. They also detail the efforts by White House staff to fight against the president’s destructive impulses in order to protect the country.
A new Quinnipiac poll also shows that Americans now generally trust the media much more than the president. Trump has asked his followers to believe what he says instead of the “f**e news media” but that appeal no longer is working for most v**ers.
Sports


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Wed, Sep 12th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
New Polls Show Republicans Are Facing Disaster in the Midterms

Three new polls released this morning could spell doom for the GOP in November’s e******ns. These polls continue the rash of bad news that has come out recently for Republican candidates.
Today’s polls deal with two major factors that are known to influence the outcomes of midterm e******ns:
The generic congressional b****t, and
V**ers’ opinions of the sitting president.
On the second point, not only are Trump’s approval ratings among the lowest in recorded history, but there are other issues revealed by these polls.
For example, The Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 61 percent of v**ers think the administration is chaotic, while just 32 percent believe it is running well. This poll was done after the New York Times anonymous op-ed and Bob Woodward’s bombshell new book. Both of these documents describe a president and a White House that are out of control. They also detail the efforts by White House staff to fight against the president’s destructive impulses in order to protect the country.
A new Quinnipiac poll also shows that Americans now generally trust the media much more than the president. Trump has asked his followers to believe what he says instead of the “f**e news media” but that appeal no longer is working for most v**ers.

The poll, released today, shows that 54 percent of v**ers trust the media compared with just 30 percent for the president. Like his approval rating, this is an all-time low for Donald Trump.
Although Republicans trust Trump more than the media, almost nobody else does, and this is bad news as Trump-supporting GOP candidates head down the home stretch toward the e******ns that will determine which party is in control of Congress.
With respect to the first factor listed above, the generic congressional b****t, both the Quinnipiac poll and a new NPR/Marist poll give the Democrats very strong double-digit leads.
This is extremely important, because political experts say that Democrats must hold a six percentage point lead in the generic b****t to win back control of the House (due to GOP gerrymandering).
But, if the Democrats win the midterm e******ns by double digits, then that puts control of the U.S. Senate in play for them also. And that’s what appears to be happening right now.
The NPR Poll found that 50 percent of v**ers are likely to v**e for a Democrat in their congressional district, while just 38 percent say they are likely to v**e for a Republican. This corresponds closely with the Quinnipiac Poll that gave Democrats a 14-point edge on the generic House b****t.
In short, the bad news for the GOP just keeps getting worse. As Donald Trump’s approval continues to plunge downward, this trend is likely to continue between now and e******n day. Republican ---MORE---
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/09/12/new-polls-... (show quote)


LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
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Sep 13, 2018 11:32:38   #
Before my son became a Marine, I never thought much about who was defending me. Now when I read of the war on terrorism or the coming conflict in Iraq, it cuts to my heart. When I see a picture of a member of our military who has been k**led, I read his or her name very carefully. Sometimes I cry.

In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way. John was headstrong, and he seemed to understand these stern, clean men with straight backs and flawless uniforms. I did not. I live in the Volvo-driving, higher education-worshiping North Shore of Boston I write novels for a living. I have never served in the military.

It had been hard enough sending my two older children off to Georgetown and New York University. John 's enlisting was unexpected, so deeply unsettling. I did not relish the prospect of answering the question, "So where is John going to college?" from the parents who were itching to tell me all about how their son or daughter was going to Harvard. At the private high school John attended, no other students were going into the military.

"But aren't the Marines terribly Southern?" (Says a lot about open-mindedness in the Northeast) asked one perplexed mother while standing next to me at the brunch following graduation. "What a waste, he was such a good student," said another parent. One parent (a professor at a nearby and rather famous university) spoke up at a school meeting and suggested that the school should, carefully evaluate what went wrong."

When John graduated from three months of boot camp on Parris Island, 3000 parents and friends were on the parade deck stands. We parents and our Marines not only were of many races but also were representative of many economic classes. Many were poor. Some arrived crammed in the backs of pickups, others by bus. John told me that a lot of parents could not afford the trip.

We in the audience were white and Native American. We were Hispanic, Arab, and African American, and Asian. We were former Marines wearing the scars of battle or at least baseball caps emblazoned with battles' names. We were Southern w****s from Nashville and skinheads from New Jersey, black kids from Cleveland wearing ghetto rags and white ex-cons with ham-hock forearms defaced by jailhouse tattoos. We would not have been mistaken for the educated and well-heeled parents gathered on the lawns of John's private school a half-year before.

After graduation one new Marine told John, "Before I was a Marine, if I had ever seen you on my block I would've probably k**led you just because you were standing there." This was a serious statement from one of John 's good friends, a black ex-gang member from Detroit who, as John said, "would die for me now, just like I'd die for him."

My son has connected me to my country in a way that I was too selfish and insular to experience before. I feel closer to the waitress at our local diner than to some of my oldest friends. She has two sons in the Corps. They are facing the same dangers as my boy. When the guy who fixes my car asks me how John is doing, I know he means it. His younger brother is in the Navy.

Why were I and the other parents at my son's private school so surprised by his choice? During World War II, the sons and daughters of the most powerful and educated families did their bit. If the idea of the immorality of the Vietnam War was the only reason those lucky enough to go to college dodged the draft, why did we not encourage our children to volunteer for military service once that war was done?

Have we wealthy and educated Americans all become pacifists? Is the world a safe place? Or have we just gotten used to having somebody else defend us? What is the future of our democracy when the sons and daughters of the janitors at our elite universities are far more likely to be put in harm's way than are any of the students whose dorms their parents clean?

I feel shame because it took my son's joining the Marine Corps to make me take notice of who is defending me. I feel hope because perhaps my son is part of a future "greatest generation." As the storm clouds of war gather, at least I know that I can look the men and women in uniform in the eye. My son is one of them. He is the best I have to offer. John is my heart.

Faith is not about everything turning out OK; Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out."

Oh, how I wish so many of our younger generations could read this article. It makes me so sad to hear the way they talk with no respect for what their fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers experienced so they can live in freedom. Freedom has been replaced with Free-Dumb

Ending the draft was a big mistake. It divided our country. The elite no longer serve and make fun of those who do serve.
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Sep 13, 2018 11:29:40   #
How countries go from rich is poor.

https://ourtripguide.com/news/10-poor-countries-that-were-super-wealthy-in-the-past/11/
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