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You make that statement and I almost believe you. However, if you honestly think this is Varrus' rational, well, I'll be polite and say you are deluding yourself.

I don't care what his rationale is, I just don't think we should ban stupidity. Words are just words, and even the most reviled among them can be really funny, depending on the context. I find Varus an amusing context.

I'll tell you what, numbchuck. I'll make you a deal. You get to pick and choose who is serving in the military and I'll pick and choose who gets these rights people like you crone about that people like ME fight for.

A) I would assume that the combination of "I don't think" and "there seems to me" in that paragraph to lead a reasonably observant individual to conclude that I was merely opining, not suggesting some reliable conclusion on the matter.

B) I know for a fact that there are people in the military whose performance would be negatively impacted by the knowledge that they were serving with homosexuals, though I admittedly do not know what portion of those in service feel this way, and I do not wish to imply any majority in this case.

C) It is my opinion that an immediate repeal of DADT without any regard whatsoever for the consequences of such action would be ill-advised. Furthermore, I don't give a flying @#%^ about public opinion on the matter, as the only thing that matters is the service men and women (and their families) who have to deal with the issue. Your opinion, like my own, means absolutely nothing to them. To imply otherwise is downright stupid.

And if the linked article is any indication...



... it seems like Mr. Gates and I agree.

Edited, May 10th 2010 4:52pm by BrownDuck

I would think that constantly kicking out fully able-bodied individuals out of the military does a heck of a lot more damage to the military than having a few uncomfortable service members around.

Draxyle,

And by constantly you mean less than .0000001%

So for every person kicked out there are 10,000,000 not?

Are you using that Canadian Worker math again?

The error is the same as the range in this case. It's all just plus or minus, come on.

I don't think they make us look bad, I think they make most of us look like enlightened mother f'uckers by comparison and, to be honest, some of us could use that boost.

Friar,



But without us you'd be overrun by our hostile neighbors to the north.


By your own standards Obama is a racisthttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x108584 , intolerant (i.e. teabagger comment), goon (any politician coming out of Chicago fits this bill) and bent on the destruction of this great nation to boot. But i'm the bad guy because I distinguish between a thug n*** and regular hard working black american. I know why don't you give welfare cases more of the hardworking americans money that'll solve everything.


And you really don't need our help looking bad, you're doing a pretty good job of that by yourself.

It can be argued that the full integration of blacks into the military actually helped the Civil Rights movement. My mother was a WAC before women were integrated into the regular Army, and she was raised with borderline racist views in her childhood (growing up as a white in Detroit.) However, after she survived basic training and six years in an integrated military, she said that she shed any lingering racist tendencies - after living through the Army, you come to respect ability and rank far more than you do what color a person's skin is.

(My mother always said she didn't care what color a guy I married, so long as he was Catholic. She was disappointed in my husband's lack of religion but approved of the doctor bit so wasn't too upset.)

Just to clarify a few things, so if you can't stop making assumptions in general, at least you'll stop making assumptions about me.


1) I'm not a Democrat and did not vote for Obama, so stop putting me in the same box.
3) I favor a strong military and gun ownership and have a distaste for abortion
3) My father was a military officer who taught me to judge a person on the content of their character, regardless of color.
4) I have a Korean brother and sister, so I think I can safely discuss race issues since I had to deal with them.
5) The fact that you default to calling an unpleasant black person a "thug ni**a" just drives home that you opperate out of hate.
5) I work on staff at a homeless shelter and can tell you point blank that the men who are here are here almost always due to layoffs. underemployment or low wages. They are not here to "suck off the system". They want to work.

It's crystal clear that long ago you were taught to hate anyone who was different. I'm sorry. I sympathize, I really do. Growing up in such a stunted intellectual and emotional environment was no doubt detrimental to your growth as a decent human being.

You can change, but you have to want to. The fact that you have not means you choose to be an evil, negative prick. I request that at you next Klan gathering, when the cross is about to be torched, you lash yourself to it.


XOXO,

Bijou

I think this bears repeating -

<3 Bijou.