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Lloyd_Christmas said:
Anyone else been stuck with jury duty where they summon over 150 people and it takes multiple days to question them all so you're stuck sitting around a lot...or just me? I'm on day #2 and they should be interrogating me soon. I won't tell any VN secrets.
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Tell the DA you are good friends with Vol Swag Andy Bowser. That should get you dismissed from your civil duties
 
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gainesvol82 said:
The soldiers definitely take their job/commitment to their country seriously. Pretty sure the OP was criticizing the scumbag M.I.C. leaders who certainly do, and especially did in the past, look at our infantry as cannon fodder. Now we have drones and soldier technology coming online that limits the need for infantry engagements.

But WW2, Korea, Nam and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars of the 2000's definitely had a certain amount of acceptable "collateral damage" aka cannon fodder in the form of US soldiers and civilians in Iraq/Afghanistan. Doesn't take anything away from our patriotic heroes and the sacrifices they made to call out the scum that leapt at the opportunity to put them in those positions in order to make a profit in the name of "Freedom", much of which never materialized or was given up on before the job was done.
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Even after several explanations and being informed that I didn't even say it to the poster that had lost a friend, or at the time he said it...he still wants to clutch his pearls.

My grandfather was a WW2 combat vet. My uncle was a Korean vet. My father was a Vietnam vet. My cousin was a vet-turned-police officer, who ended up committing suicide. My brother is a police officer who found our cousin after he killed himself, and is still in therapy over it. Anyone who questions my respect for our vets and others who serve us doesn't know me. Anyone who will read my explanations of the post in question and still work that hard to fabricate an argument and fake outrage isn't worth another response.

Apologies to anyone else who may have misunderstood and gotten offended (I'm looking at you, @drvenner ).
 
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gainesvol82 said:
It's absolutely ridiculous and 100% about money for a country with the resources and oil/natural gas production capabilities to spend over 20 years actively fighting wars to protect our ability to use up and keep prices relatively low on Middle Eastern oil. Plus the additional 30+ years of meddling in the region.

Ì get that liberals make it as hard as possible now to drill in the U.S. but they weren't doing that much pre 2000's and TX, Gulf of Mexico and responsible drilling domestically in many areas, but especially AK, along with coal, nuclear power plants and the natural gas from TX & LA produce plenty to power our country.

There are also plenty of South American countries we could improve relations with who produce large amounts of oil (Venezuela) and we could use our leverage to improve lives of the people in those countries, unlike our futile or non-existant attempts inbthe M.E.

Only reason to care so much about M.E. oil and buy outside of the Western Hemisphere is the "use up theirs, save ours" philosophy that science is making look sillier by the year and as a reason to have military assets close to Israel.
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It's more insidious than that. The US moved off of the gold standard and to a fiat economy, where the central banks 'print' our currency from nothing, loan the money to our government, who take our wealth as taxes to pay back the central banks. Thus, putting us, our children and our grandchildren into perpetual debt. This is propped up by forcing the world to exchange on the petrodollar--i.e. buy in. So, the US, on behalf of the central banks, go to war to enforce regimes that will continue that ponzy scheme.

And as far as Latin America, most of their instability over the past 75 years or so has been the US/CIA interfering and propping up their dictator of choice at any given time.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
It's more insidious than that. The US moved off of the gold standard and to a fiat economy, where the central banks 'print' our currency from nothing, loan the money to our government, who take our wealth as taxes to pay back the central banks. Thus, putting us, our children and our grandchildren into perpetual debt. This is propped up by forcing the world to exchange on the petrodollar--i.e. buy in. So, the US, on behalf of the central banks, go to war to enforce regimes that will continue that ponzy scheme.

And as far as Latin America, most of their instability over the past 75 years or so has been the US/CIA interfering and propping up their dictator of choice at any given time.
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ConwayFitty said:
Yeah I don't think there's a team in the SEC that escapes the regular season without a loss. Even if they do their reward is to get to play an extra game before the playoffs.
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There's little chance. Honestly Georgia would be only one. Missouri, maybe because they literally powder puff, sans Bammer.
 
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Lloyd_Christmas said:
Anyone else been stuck with jury duty where they summon over 150 people and it takes multiple days to question them all so you're stuck sitting around a lot...or just me? I'm on day #2 and they should be interrogating me soon. I won't tell any VN secrets.
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yep... bad news is if you get sent home they still keep you in the pool until the end of that court session and can recall you if needed at any time. Oh and you will get a check for about $11 for your two days of time
 
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Looking at Miami U's Adidas DM jerseys, remind me Nederland's football club jersey. Seem to keep things simpler, and clean looking.

That said our Dark Mode knocks everyone's out of the water.

 
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