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[moonraven]

CS: You can't even keep my sex straight. No wonder you missed the point.

Okay--here's the point: Read every letter very c a r e f u l l y so you don't miss it again. I infiltrated the army because I wanted to get the story that 60 Minutes couldn't get. I entered under the CASP--Civilian Acquired Skills Program--and the home unit was a Washington State National Guard Unit. Once in Fort McClellan it became clear to me that the program--designed to recruit women at higher noncom ranks than the normal recruitment, and which was part of the process of phasing out the WAC--was a crock. That was also the hypothesis behind 60 Minutes' sending Mike Wallace to the other CASP base in South Carolina--where he didn't get the story because they just let him see women marching.

When I told the Colonel that the program was a crock, that I was both a writer and a pacifist, that I was expecting to use her typewriter to write a statement of Conscientious Objection and refusal to lead my platoon into the field for "war games", I was offered the major's commission as a BRIBE to keep my mouth shut. The Army can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants--it does not have to follow its own procedures--as it is accountable to no one. Your inability to grasp that makes me continue to suspect that you were never in the military--or if you were, you never got past E-3--aka dewaxing baracks floors with razor blades.

[Boy Wonder]

Yawn!

[stillnosheep]

...they are making it extremely difficult to follow the threads.

Champion the wonderdog: You demonstrate all the natural wit, charm and intelligence of your friend Statecapitalist Womble. Are you lost?

[Stephen Jones]

Use Firefox as your default browser, and set it to not accept graphics from third party sites; the avatars will magically disappear.

[stillnosheep]

I don't mind sensibly sized Avatars; it's the idiots who try to compensate for their lack of articulacy by having having huge Avatars that get my goat. But thanks for the tip.

[dmb]

The avatars that annoy me are the ones that make you have to scroll to the right just in order to read a sentence.

[stillnosheep]

Yup, those are the ones that I'm talking about.

[Captain Yossarian]

[nawlinsgurl]

I cried in 2000 when I saw the Rolling Stone article of the all the people Bush had executed in "his" state.

If he gets re-elected, I will stay in Japan for four years and hopefully be safe.

[mesmerod]

things that annoy me:

people who make lame statements about staying out of the usa if a certain candidate is elected president. grow up.

[Jeffrey]

I'm moving to Brazil next year with my Brazillian wife and I can hardly wait. I do feel like a rat fleeing a sinking ship so to speek, though I am exaggerating. I hear alot of people blaming Bush for the threat level in the U.S. now a days, but if I'm not mistaken, not many of you were complaining about him BEFORE the 9/11 attacks, and we still got attacked! what i'm getting at, is that those people hated us for a long time before the Iraq war and always will-no matter who is Pres.
Brazillians have their own problems and dont have to worry about middle east terrorists attacking them. Everybody seems to just leave them alone and forget about them. One of the reasons for this is that they dont rely on mid-east oil for fuel. When you pull up to a gas pump in Brazill, you have a choice of gasoline (most expensive), natural gas, alcohol, or diesel. What choice do we have? Gasoline or diesel. So when you hear people whining that Bush is only after the oil, or the signs that read NO BLOOD FOR OIL, well, if they are right then who do you think he is selling it to (ultimately)? Thats right, you and me. If we didn't depend on the mid-east for our oil needs, then we wouldn't have to care what goes on over there. I'm not defending Bush of supporting him. I'm just stating the cold hard truth as I see it. No individual leader is responsible. WE are the catalyst for change. We elect our leaders and then blame them for our mistakes. Think about that everytime you put gas in your car.

[stillnosheep]

Choosing not to live in a country because you have no wish to live under, or pay taxes to, a certain regime sounds fair enough to me.

My EFL tutor gave (in the University EFL newesletter) 'not wishing to live in Thatcher's Britain' as his reason for moving into Tefl. And he was a superb Tutor; and very grown up.

[JosephP]

I agree with you stillnosheep.

[moonraven]

I am back in the US for a month. The cultural schizophrenia here is intense. Saturday night after we re-watched the MMoore film we dialed over to news and the big flap here in Washington State was searching passengers on the ferries--as if terrorists were regular commuters from Bainbridge Island to Seattle. They interviewed some of the regular ferry users, who were the most inarticulate group of people one could imagine and who said they were actually all for the searches because they didn't want any terrorists to slip through. Poor, confused bits of protoplasm trying to make it--they don't realize that the terrorists are in the White House....

[AsiaTraveller]