They shifted the focus to in the military to offense, and anyone on the defensive side, like the missile people, had very limited career possibilities. After years as an elite field, the nuclear force was relegated to a bottom rung support field and the morale left with the prestige.
It is hard for me to accept the amount of fear people seem to feel about a few thousand religious whackoes, after being stationed at the bottom of the Fulda Gap in Frankfurt looking at millions of Soviet and Eastern bloc troops with nuclear weapons. We had ‘terrorists’ trying to blow us up, and occasionally succeeding on a limited scale, but it was annoying, not terrifying. We certainly didn’t expend military resources on what was obviously a civilian police matter.
They can’t do it, Shirt, because facts have a ‘liberal bias’. If you looks at the facts concerning crime in the US, the increasing threat is from police departments, not criminals. Native Americans, I’m sure, would like to take their ‘country’ back, but I don’t think Rand Paul would be in favor of that. The Christianists are disappearing as they have alienated the majority of the young people, and the core is dying out. The fastest growing group is ‘none’ on the question of religion, as people get fed up with the hate messages they hear.
Paul et al. only have ‘dog whistles’ left, and the group that can hear and react to them is diminishing rapidly.
Yeah, that song was certainly a big winner for McLean, and now it has secured the rest of his life with this sale.
]]>I want specifics. Who has the country? What are they doing with it that you don’t like? Give me names. I’m sick and tired of “them” or the “poors” getting the blame.
Don McLean was asked once what American Pie meant and his reply was “It means I don’t have to work anymore.”
]]>Maybe it’s for the best that the US and Russian nuclear forces are falling apart, given the horror that would arise if they were actually used. On the other hand the problem with that, is that the weapons are nowhere near being secured. A buncha nuns splashed blood on the walls of one of those silos and had to wait a couple of hours for Air Force security personnel to show up to arrest them. If they’d been terrorists instead…
]]>Almost everything they have in a silo is beyond its ‘use by’ date, by decades. I wouldn’t want to be in the area if they attempted to launch given the fuels they used. It would probably do nothing, but with their QC it could blow and set off the warhead at the same time.
I have nothing against libertarians as long as they stop using the facilities, like public roads that were paid for collectively, and never call the police or fire department.
People are free to be just as stupid as they want in private, but they don’t get to impose their stupid on other people. If you want to sell to the public, it has to be to all of the public. You can refuse to sell to individuals, but you can’t refuse to sell to entire classes of people and still pretend you are operating a legitimate business in the public sphere. There are private schools, and private clubs that discriminate, but they can’t expect to receive the public benefits that are given to businesses open to the public.
]]>As for Rand Paul, I love the fact that he thinks the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was a bad idea because people ought to have the right to discriminate based on race, handicap, or ethnic origin. Yeah, Rand, we got a name for folks who defend bigots, and it ain’t a nice one, just sayin’.
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