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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Gunslinger on March 06, 2006, 10:30:57 AM
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This just in from the supreme court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that universities that get federal funds must allow military recruiters on campus, even if their law schools oppose the Pentagon's policy prohibiting openly gays and lesbians from serving.
The high court upheld as constitutional a federal law dating back to 1994 that allows the government to withhold money from universities that deny military recruiters the same access to campuses given to other employers.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-03-06T151203Z_01_N06257716_RTRUKOC_0_US-COURT-MILITARY.xml&rpc=22
Now the whole Gays in the military aside (because that's a different issue in and of itself.....I'm glad this ruling came out the way it did. Prohibiting recruiters from doing their job because you don't like the pentagon's policy is dumb IMHO.
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You know I figured this case would be a slam dunk. What a waste of resources arguing something so blantly stupid.
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Are there any hippies around still? I thought that was Vietnam era jargon.
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Originally posted by Curval
Are there any hippies around still? I thought that was Vietnam era jargon.
YEs they are still around. Well the ones that have not sold out thier ideals and are the new socialists.
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Army recruites work in universities?
I thought they get you drunk in a pub and sign you up.
oh well, things change. Progress I guess.
Bozon
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Originally posted by bozon
Army recruites work in universities?
I thought they get you drunk in a pub and sign you up.
oh well, things change. Progress I guess.
Bozon
Naw the Army gets their fresh meat by forging highschool diplomas. The Marines get their guys in the bar. They sign up for 4 years active duty and a one night stand. :D
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Originally posted by Mister ED
YEs they are still around. Well the ones that have not sold out thier ideals and are the new socialists.
We have a name for the younger ones today, "the Entitlement Generation".
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
We have a name for the younger ones today, "the Entitlement Generation".
This just proves you know nothing about hippies. They were never about entitlement, in fact they were extremely libertarian. Communes didn't subsist on welfare.
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Originally posted by Curval
Are there any hippies around still? I thought that was Vietnam era jargon.
It was Curval..most of the guys on this board wouldnt know a real live hippy unless he stole thier last hostess cupcake.
MT is right on this one, most of them were for free enterprise without government intervention.
shamus
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Originally posted by Shamus
MT is right on this one, most of them were for free enterprise without government intervention.
Is lazs a hippie then? ;)
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Originally posted by Curval
Is lazs a hippie then? ;)
You know how reformed smokers are dont you?
shamus
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Originally posted by Curval
Are there any hippies around still? I thought that was Vietnam era jargon.
Yup, now they are the professors
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Lets see here............... if military recruiters are in colleges now, trying to get peopel to join the Army, wouldn't a college student have the common sense to either join the military or not join the military and go to a recruiting office if they wanted to join?
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College students? Common sense?
Didn't you watch Platoon?;)
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Originally posted by Curval
Are there any hippies around still? I thought that was Vietnam era jargon.
Well, I did get a haircut :)
culero
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Originally posted by culero
Well, I did get a haircut :)
culero
I cut them all.
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laz makes a good point,
college students should by then have the common sense if they want to join the military or not.
Lets face it though joining the military today is NOTHING AT ALL like joining it in 1968. It is a profesional military. Statistically you have a greater chance of getting killed driving in the US than you do serving in the military and getting killed in Iraq.
There's many reasons to join the military but to deny people the oppertunity because you disagree with their policies is highly fascist to me.
Why not let people make their own decisions based on personal responsibility.........that seems highly libertarian to me.
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Originally posted by Shamus
It was Curval..most of the guys on this board wouldnt know a real live hippy unless he stole thier last hostess cupcake.
shamus
Interesting fact. After 9/11 most of my ex-hippie tree huggers all bought handguns and employed me the ex-military guy to teach them and thier families how to sue them.
On the other hand, when I posted on a pro-military forum. A current US Marine Captain called me:
"A dope smoking, ear toting, baby killing dinosaur." He also said if me or my type ever ended up in his unit, he would section eight the lot of us.
The topic was the use of tamahawks in the modern military. I still have mine. He thought it appaulling a soildier would carry such an item.
Funny how" times they are a changin" Bob Dylan
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
that seems highly libertarian to me.
Seems to me that a highly libertarian government wouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars on colleges.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I cut them all.
I let a girlfriend do that to me once. It was kinda fun while it was happening, but a few days later the itching was awful. Once it grew back out I never did that again :)
culero
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Originally posted by culero
I let a girlfriend do that to me once. It was kinda fun while it was happening, but a few days later the itching was awful. Once it grew back out I never did that again :)
culero
TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!!
:eek:
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I spent some time passed out on communes back when. hippies often misstook bikers for kin.
hippies were socialists not libertarians. they had no idea what they wanted but it sure wasn't a lack of government or rules... they had as many rules as anyone. They didn't want anyone telling them what to do but they sure didn't mind telling others what to do.
maybe some of the confusion comes from the fact that even tho they shared everything... it was not mandatory as such... you would just be shunned and eventually thrown out if you did not... they also had leaders and I was there once during one of their bizzare courts (made even more weird by the acid I guess)
They didn't have a police force so they would just all get together like good little commies and tell someone to leave who wasn't acting in a socialist manner. The only people immune from this were, like all socialists... the politicos... the leaders... they didn't do much and had all the property (such as it was)
There were a lot of types of communes but they all had a socialist thread running through em. If there was any libertarianism it was a strange brand of it.... any real libertarian woulda owned the whole place in a week.
lazs
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as for recruiters on campus.... hey... campus is a government industry and as such... you deserve to have all the government they can shove at you.... if the students are being conned by recruiters...
imagine the crap they are buying from their worthless as human beings professors.
lazs
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Originally posted by Mister ED
Interesting fact. After 9/11 most of my ex-hippie tree huggers all bought handguns and employed me the ex-military guy to teach them and thier families how to sue them.
On the other hand, when I posted on a pro-military forum. A current US Marine Captain called me:
"A dope smoking, ear toting, baby killing dinosaur." He also said if me or my type ever ended up in his unit, he would section eight the lot of us.
The topic was the use of tamahawks in the modern military. I still have mine. He thought it appaulling a soildier would carry such an item.
Funny how" times they are a changin" Bob Dylan
Funny when I was in the SF I made about 30, 15 in long, 2 in wide, Knuckle duster and leadball with Spike, Knifes. they weighed 2 and half pounds, and could shear a 1" steel cable. We told folks that they were for cutting parachute suspension lines. :D
Gunns
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every hippie I seen in communes was afraid of weapons.
lazs