Clint Eastwood's heart may have been in the right place, when he accepted the invitation to speak at the Republican National Convention, Thursday (Aug. 30), but his mind was clearly somewhere else. Possibly at home with his daughters telling a story about "the good old days," because from the sounds of it, that's exactly what he thought he was doing.
Rather than firing up the crowd for Mitt Romney's acceptance speech, Eastwood confused and amused all while his chair (holding an invisible President Obama) taunted him in the distance.
The 82-year-old stopped in the middle of his speech several times, and turned to hold an intimate conversation with the chair, eliciting more nervous laughter from the audience. At one point, he slammed Obama for being a lawyer, apparently forgetting that Romney also went to Harvard Law School.
"I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be presidents anyway. I think it's maybe time for, maybe a uh, business man, how about that? A stellar business man. Quote on quote 'a stellar businessman,'" Eastwood rambled.
Although he was met with cheers (again, from utter confusion), veteran news anchor Brian Williams was powerless against the looming awkwardness and broke into a short but heartfelt chuckle just before offering commentary on the speech. "I'm reminded that he starred in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and I think people will find parts of all three to talk about," Williams said.
After that speech one thing is clear: Mr. Eastwood has no idea where he is, or what's going on in America.
I thought he was hilarious. Needless to say, there are some sore loser-type liberals who just can't stand the thought that are some conservatives in the Hollywood bunch.
I just can't wait for these lefties to gush over the pronouncements of Biden! I'm sure they will be very unbiased. *gag*
Eastwood hit it out of the park. His talking to Obama was great. Obama has some explaining to do.
Eastwood looks like he won't even live to vote for Romney.Too bad. OTT it was just another lecture by a multimillionaire armchair quarterback.
I was glad to hear he was against the war though. Did you know he also is pro choice and pro gay marriage? Pronouncements he made when he was a little more lucid a few months back.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
"You're just pissed that we conservatives have eastwood while you libs are stuck with pee wee herman"
"I like Clint. I didn't agree with his enforcement, but he put on a good warm up skit for Willard that played better at the convention than anywhere else.
I like his films. He's free to like whomever he wants to politically.
"After that speech one thing is clear: Mr. Eastwood has no idea where he is, or what's going on in America. Also, he looked pretty sleepy."
There's a big difference in critisizing this mans life, and living it yourself. Lets see you muster over 60yrs of movie and tv entertainment under your belt, and mayor of a city...then, if you live that long, at 82yrs, stand before millions in this world, and give a perfect, flawless speech that everyones going to love...try it, then talk! PISHER!
"A friend will calm you down when you are angry, but a best friend will skip beside you with a baseball bat singing, "someone's gonna get it"
A new NBC/WSJ poll out Tuesday shows President Barack Obama with a four-point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. But as is often the case with polls, some of the more interesting numbers were in the details. For example? Romney snagged zero percent of African-American voters.
Among key demographics, the poll noted that Obama had a lead over Romney. The most stark being when it came to African Americans: 94 percent to 0 percent. Via NBC:
Looking inside the numbers, Obama continues to lead Romney among key parts of his political base, including African Americans (94 percent to 0 percent), Latinos (by a 2-to-1 margin), voters under 35-years-old (52 percent to 41 percent) and women (51 percent to 41 percent).
His lead among those groups isnt surprising, but hard for the number zero not to catch a persons attention."
What Eastwoood SHOULD have done was wheel a coat rack out on the stage with a empty suit,and then tell the crowd that Obama wanted to hang around,and address the empty suit.
DAYUM! What kind of half-assed consultants are these idiots hiring when I can come up with better ideas?
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What Eastwoood SHOULD have done was wheel a coat rack out on the stage with a empty suit,and then tell the crowd that Obama wanted to hang around,and address the empty suit.
DAYUM! What kind of half-assed consultants are these idiots hiring when I can come up with better ideas?
I've heard the Eastwood asked for the chair at the last minute and unexpectedly.
In what capacity? I recall he was a captain and was involved in filming/training films? I'm not begrudging his service just trying to remember what he did.
In what capacity? I recall he was a captain and was involved in filming/training films? I'm not begrudging his service just trying to remember what he did.
Making movies in Hollywood don't count.
Just like John Wayne.
And the implication from Reagan in context was that he did something like Guadalcanal.
I'm not so sure all of them were made in Hollywood. Some may have been made in England.
Not that it matters. What matters is he volunteered to serve in the army,put on a uniform,and did what he was told to do.
Which is more than YOU have ever done.
Just like John Wayne.
Not even remotely like John Wayne. John Wayne was a punk and a poser that owed his whole career to being 4F so he couldn't get drafted,and thus being available to play movie roles that would have gone to other actors if they hadn't been wearing uniforms. People like Clark Gable who volunteered and flew a bunch of combat missions as a bomber pilot over Germany. Which was probably the most dangerous job in the US Army during WW-2.
And the implication from Reagan in context was that he did something like Guadalcanal.
An outright LIE. Reagan was VERY public about only making training films during WW-2.
Here's the Sine Quo Non:
Would he have qualified for Full VA benefits?
Yes. He WAS qualified to receive the same VA benefits as any other serving soldier if he had suffered any sort of disabling injury while doing his duty as a officer in the Army.
He didn't do this part-time. His full-time job was as a Army officer assigned to a training command.
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Winging it....Just like Dirty Harry....or is that Clint.....I get confused as I get older.....BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
""Make my day?" Really, Clint? You have spent a good portion of your life trying to play down the 'Dirty Harry' image and suddenly all you can come up with to inspire America is an over-used cliche from one of the sequels you made strictly for the money? Then again, what better way to work this crowd than by quoting a racist, sexist, Magnum-packing psycho-vigilante like Harry Callahan?
You told me to go do your footwork/Stepin Fetchit.
No,I told you to do your OWN footwork,slave.
This ain't your family you are dealing with so you can't get away with the nonsense you get away with when dealing with double-digit IQ relatives who think you are clever because the first number of your IQ score is a 7.
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I get confused as I get older.....BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And you were born confused.
Sweet jesus fcuking christ I got you nailed.
I left that in to see if you would use it.
You did.....Thanx......;}
"Make my day?" Really, Clint? You have spent a good portion of your life trying to play down the 'Dirty Harry' image and suddenly all you can come up with to inspire America is an over-used cliche from one of the sequels you made strictly for the money? Then again, what better way to work this crowd than by quoting a racist, sexist, Magnum-packing psycho-vigilante like Harry Callahan?
Right now, I'm trying to get you to Source your info, which I doubt.
I know you are confused,but since you think I work for you,where is my back pay for last year? The agreement was for 100 k a year and to date I haven't received a nickel from you.
And explain how a race is going Zero % for a POTUS Candidate.
Since I'm not the candidate WHY do you think I am obligated to explain that?
I will,though. Two words,"Black Racism".
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He was a great American and he loved this country.
Sure,he just didn't love America enough to put HIS ass on the line.
He didn't like commies like Obama.
He just didn't dislike them enough to put on a uniform to fight them. He MUCH preferred the Hollywood fights,where the bullets were all blanks and the fights all staged.
You are jealous of him.
ROFLMAO!
Good one!
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Clint's gag-writers needed to mine the Eastwood oeuvre for better material. Instead of traipsing down the fundamental "make my day" or "lucky punk" path, why not channel the Man with No Name and remind Mitt that, "Two-hundred-thousand-dollars a year is a lot of money. You're going to have to earn it." Clint also blew a golden opportunity to pay tribute to The Gauntlet's Ben Shockley and tip his hat to George W. Bush simply by squinting and hissing, "I didn't do jack shit."
If the ex-mayor wants to toss back a few Coor's with his buddies in Carmel, that's one thing. You want me to come out and say it, Clint? You need to be more like Marty and keep your nose out of politics! You know what you should do? Try a little more directing and a little less prop-comedy and you won't come off looking like a doddering old coot on national TV! You understand, you wacko? You're cracking up!
You're paid to pretend. Stay the hell out of politics. The same goes for Clooney, Streisand, Redford, and any number of liberal celebs likely to make an un-billed cameo at the upcoming DNC. If we learned anything from Ronald Reagan, it's that acting and politics don't mix.
Reagan, who spent World War II in Hollywood but lived to boast to the .... it clear that he thinks that if history swallows the idea of Reagan as great president, his ...
Wearing a uniform and Pretend don't count. How would YOU know?
1....sign up for military
2....put on uniform
3....serve in combat position.
4....get full VA.
That's the book.
No,it's not.
Unless you are reading imaginary books in addition to talking with imaginary friends.
Reagan did not do WWII.
Yes,he did. The whole damn war. The problem is you are so ignorant you don't know what serving in wartime means. Or even serving and earning VA benefits,as far as that goes.
The majority of vets,including the ones in VA hospitals, never spent a single minute in combat.
I even worked with a 100 percent service-connected disabled veteran at the Norfolk Naval Yard back in the 80's that didn't even serve long enough to get out of basic training,yet he was retired from the army as a private. He had a heart attack in basic training and retired on a medical discharge. Served less than a month and never left South Carolina or even shot a rifle.
You really are a ignorant fool.
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ohn wayne was in this 30's when wwII started. That isn't the usual enlistment age.
That's true,but it is also true he was still of draft age,and dodged the draft by claiming a old college football injury that never seemed to bother him at any other time.
It is also true that other actors his age and even older were volunteering for active duty status as bomber pilots,and in a couple of cases as armor officers in front line tank units.
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you don't know what serving in wartime means. Or even serving and earning VA benefits,as far as that goes. The majority of vets,including the ones in VA hospitals, never spent a single minute in combat.
Yes....Yes I do.....;}
But enough about me.
Deny that Combat Arena and Full VA Benefits are neither here nor there.
COMBAT ARENA key words.....;}
Ok,I deny it.
You are either lying or a ignorant fool for stating your claims. I will allow you to choose.
You are obviously a liar when you claim military experience.
Here is a tip for you. Blowing sailors doesn't count as military experience.
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"The reason I write so little about the presidential election is that it's the ultimate expression of the CNN-ization of American politics: a tawdry, uber-contrived reality show that has less to do with political reality than the average rant one hears at any randomly chosen corner bar or family dinner. That does not mean the outcome is irrelevant, only that the process is suffocatingly dumb and deceitful, generating the desire to turn away and hope that it's over as quickly as possible."
If Earth could sing with a female voice. Her strength would be evident, though her tone might waver.
Could she withhold judgment against one of her own, through all weve done to her, and our brethren?
We lived in her bosom from which we were born for two million years not forsaking our home.
Then we became something different from all we had known, and in the gasp of a breath we destroyed it all.
Can you blame her for judging us, considering what weve done? She gave us every chance to turn it around.
Now were all done and shes endured our abuse, including pillage, plunder, and rape without any excuse.
All she can sing in that mournful tone is sorrow for the power she unleashed, through us and thus dispassionately onto herself, destroyed by one of her own.
She must ponder how our hubris overwhelmed our humility in concluding about our recent selves: They didnt like it here.
Deny that Combat Arena and Full VA Benefits are neither here nor there.
COMBAT ARENA key words.....;}
Ok,I deny it.
John M McClelland VA Little Rock.
And per Korean Combat Vet.....;}
Sample of a Source, SP:
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ATTENTION ALL VETERANS! - VA Salt Lake City Health Care System www.saltlakecity.va.gov/A...ON_ALL_VETERANS.aspCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Aug 14, 2012 Veterans and Military Personnel get in FREE on Tuesday, ... We will be located on the Utah State Fair Grounds right next to the Rodeo Arena- just look for ... combat Veterans, VA claims, and women Veterans health benefits, ...
Rachel Natelson, Esq. - House Committee on Veterans' Affairs democrats.veterans.house....stimony.aspx?TID...Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Full Committee Hearing ... While the claims process imposes a toll on all veterans seeking benefits, ... [5] This disparity stems largely from the difficulties of substantiating experiences of military sexual assault, especially in a combat arena. # [PDF]
That's the name of a VA hospital and a Civil War General,not somebody you are quoting.
And per Korean Combat Vet.....;}
WHAT "Korean War Combat vet"?
Do you have any idea how stupid you look trying to argue with me on this subject? I have been going to VA hospitals since 1970. Just how big could your brain fart be that it makes you think you know more about this subject than I do?
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Disability compensation is a benefit paid to a veteran because of injuries or diseases that happened while on active duty, or were made worse by active military service. It is also paid to certain veterans disabled from VA health care. The benefits are tax-free.
Who Is Eligible?
You may be eligible for disability compensation if you have a service-related disability and you were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions.
Tell us all where the words "combat arena" are mentioned,dipshit.
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1. Wakulla BOCC - Veterans Services www.mywakulla.com/departments/Public.../veteransservices_SP.aspCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Florida's Military Combat Duty Grant Programs ... While each county has specific eligibility requirements for their grant program, the common ... year; and (3) Military service in a combat zone (Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf arena). ... criteria AND have at least one VA rated injury determined to have been combat-related: ...
A cursory search....and be sure that Florida didn't set the criteria.....;}
Note your peeps ain't backin' your play here, soldier....;}
Wakulla BOCC - Veterans Services www.mywakulla.com/departments/Public.../veteransservices_SP.aspCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Florida's Military Combat Duty Grant Programs .
First off,it would be REALLY helpful if you would provide a link that works.
Secondly,this appears to be a STATE PROGRAM specifically targeted at combat zone veterans. This is NOT a Veterans Administration program,and even then it says the different counties have their own requriements.
Your problem is you confuse insanity with fact.
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What are all those phrases about 'qualifications' 'VA' 'combat zone injuries' all about......;}
They are about STATE benefits given as grants to combat veterans.
Which has NOTHING to do with how the Veterans Administration works,or how benefits are paid to veterans or what benefits are given to what veterans.
The FACT is that a PEACETIME veteran that was permanently injured in a car accident off-base in any state in the union can be granted up to 100 percent disability from the accident,and receive the SAME benefits in pay and care that a combat veteran in wartime gets from being 100 percent disabled.
That IS the law.
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It is recognized that military veterans are returned from combat zones and ... the combat arena, hospital or medical facility, the date of return from combat and/or ... # [PDF] America's Women Veterans www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/.../Final_Womens_Report_3_2_12_v_7.pd... You +1'd this publicly. Undo File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics. Prepared by: National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics. Contributors: Maribel Aponte ...
[DOC] CRSC Overview https://www.hrc.army.mil/.../CRSC_Overview_Video__Transcription.... You +1'd this publicly. Undo File Format: Microsoft Word - Quick View Combat Related Special Compensation is a full concurrent receipt program. ... The key to this program is that you receive a VA waiver and VA pay and your ... confused with full concurrent receipt is concurrent retirement and disability payments. .... once again, I emphasize those such things that are in a combat zone that are ...
On one hand, Reagan never went overseas during WWII, spending his time in uniform making films for the army. On the other hand, he lied so smoothly about his participation in the war, freely putting himself in war movie scenarios.
--President Reagan, in a moment of truthfulness, describes his academic record to Barbara Walters, November .... I was in uniform four years myself. ... Reagan spent World War II making Army training films at Hal Roach Studios in Hollywood.
Why even HAve a separate designation in VA for Combat Zone Arena?
Why ask me? YOU are the one that brought his up.
What I KNOW is that the Veterans Administration has no such designation.
The VA DOES distinguish between service-connected claims and non-service- connected claims,though. Vets get paid compensation for and give free medical treatment for service-connected injuries or illnesses,and people with non- service-connected illnesses or injuries don't receive free medical treatment. Yes,they are treated at VA Hospitals,but the VA sends their insurance company or Medicaid the bill.
AND.....here is the important part,so pay attention,....a veteran can have a service-connected illness or injury that never heard a shot fired and got injured or sick while at the 2 week summer training camp for reserve or national guard troops. It only matters that you were on active duty at the time,NOT where you were.
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Plus 45 percent of returning vets are putting in for VA benefits.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
I'm in the VA system and I'm here to tell you it is underfunded and overwhelmed. It is just going to get worse with the vets coming back, way way worse if Willard gets into the WH and turns the neocon lice on his coat tails lose on the world with our war machine.
He isn't the ideal candidate but he can hopefully do some good for the economy.
You have to admit that Obama has been a terrible President.
The debt needs to be cut and maybe Romney can do that. That would at least help a little bit.
I think Romney was raised here and loves this country. Even if you think Obama was born here his formative years were in foreign countries. He doesn't think like a typical American and I honestly think he is hostile towards us.
Noting how Reporting PTSD and Rape are completely frowned upon by the military.
You have been watching too many reruns of JAG.
PTSD claims are the reason the VA claims are skyrocketing. Why? Because the fluffie left has been demanding the DoD and VA treat PTSD the same as loosing an arm or leg. The DoD and VA are so scared of the left that all a Troop needs to do is say he is having problems and they get the claim.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Soem of us are just more equal than others, eh......;}
Of course. Look up the differences in definitions between the words "earned" and "unearned". Don't bother looking in your old Soviet dictionary.
Maybe your therapist should be the one that explains this to you,but I'm going to give it a shot anyhow. People are NOT all equal. The jobs people work are not of equal value to society. The efforts and risks that people take to help preserve this country were not equal efforts and risks,and the people who put forth more effort and took more risks are deserving of more rewards.
Here is another shocker for you,comrade. When you hear the phrase "We are all created equal...",this means in the eye of the law",not when it comes to personal worth or ability.
There are good reasons Pee Wee Herman doesn't play for the NBA or the NFL,and they have nothing to do with him being white.
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PTSD claims are the reason the VA claims are skyrocketing. Why? Because the fluffie left has been demanding the DoD and VA treat PTSD the same as loosing an arm or leg. The DoD and VA are so scared of the left that all a Troop needs to do is say he is having problems and they get the claim.
Are you saying that the soldiers who are over their putting their lives on the line so the world may actually fulfill your religious revelational delusions are sissies? You are quite a piece of work.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Are you saying that the soldiers who are over their putting their lives on the line so the world may actually fulfill your religious revelational delusions are sissies? You are quite a piece of work.
I speak from experiencing 4 combat tours in that region. PTSD IS a wound but the numbers claiming the wound are far too many to be credible. Like all wounds some deal with them better than others. Many are seeing the financial benefits of claiming something they are adequately dealing with. There are others who need more help that don't ask for it. Those are the ones that should be considered for disability.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
PTSD claims are the reason the VA claims are skyrocketing. Why? Because the fluffie left has been demanding the DoD and VA treat PTSD the same as loosing an arm or leg.
There is another reason they are skyrocketing,too. The VA system really pushed vets to make PTSD claims. My best GUESS for this is almost all the WW-2 and Korean War vets have already died off,and there just aren't enough VN era and newer vets to keep the current system fully staffed and operational. Fewer patients=fewer doctors needed,which equals smaller future budgets.
I never once put in for PTSD benefits,not even when it first became trendy to be a "war vic-tum and tragic figure". None the less,the VA INSISTED I had PTSD based ENTIRELY on my unit and job assignment in VN. I was told that "Anybody that did what you did must have PTSD." I told them that was bullshit and practically nobody I served with that is still alive has ever suffered from PTSD. None of this kept them from awarding me 20 or 30 percent service-connected disability based on PTSD. I WILL admit to reaching across a desk there once and grabbing a VA clerk by the throat and dragging him closer to make sure I had his full attention,but that was wholly justified. As I explained to them,"I have no anger management problems and have had no anger management problems until I started coming here and dealing with YOU MF'ers. Everywhere else I'm just fine".
So I ended up with a service-connected PTSD disability award I didn't put in for and don't think I deserve. No big deal because I was already getting paid 100 percent service-connected disability before that award,so there is no additional money or drain on the system involved. IMHO,it was just a think to keep a shrink on staff and drawing his check.
And from talking to younger vets,asking a vet if he or she wanted to put in for PTSD is now as common as saying "good morning!" to them.
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Are you saying that the soldiers who are over their putting their lives on the line so the world may actually fulfill your religious revelational delusions are sissies? You are quite a piece of work.
90 percent of the soldiers all over "there",wherever "there" is are no more putting their lives at risk than you are sitting at home in front of your computer.
And I personally know a man who was a telephone repairman in the army in Germany that never left Germany that is now receiving PTSD benefits. How was his life at increased risk in any way due to his service,and WHAT was so traumatic about serving in Germany that caused him to have emotional problems?
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And from talking to younger vets,asking a vet if he or she wanted to put in for PTSD is now as common as saying "good morning!" to them.
Another reason is: they might want them in the system because they WILL be doing longitudinal studies, probably on the effects of spent uranium and other toxins they have been exposed to on the battlefield.
It's all good because the research leads to bigger and better protection, and weaponry.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
And I personally know a man who was a telephone repairman in the army in Germany that never left Germany that is now receiving PTSD benefits. How was his life at increased risk in any way due to his service,and WHAT was so traumatic about serving in Germany that caused him to have emotional problems?
Oh I don't know.... maybe everytime we had a minor crisis here he went on full alert over there.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
And from talking to younger vets,asking a vet if he or she wanted to put in for PTSD is now as common as saying "good morning!" to them.
One Warrant I have now told me it was "a wink and nod". He was more concerned about his service and combat related physical situation. Like his metal spine, bad hip, etc. That was a fight to get on paper as percentages.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Another reason is: they might want them in the system because they WILL be doing longitudinal studies, probably on the effects of spent uranium and other toxins they have been exposed to on the battlefield.
It's all good because the research leads to bigger and better protection, and weaponry.
Fat chance of that happening. They will never research toxins or 3rd world industrial waste. If they did they would have a bigger problem on their hands. Plus bad air and water exposure does not equal PTSD. Look more towards defects in children and cancer. I was blowing out black snot for weeks after rolling through the burning Kuwaiti oil fields in 91. Somehow that keeps falling off my medical records and I have to keep putting it back in.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Another reason is: they might want them in the system because they WILL be doing longitudinal studies, probably on the effects of spent uranium and other toxins they have been exposed to on the battlefield.
You may be right. I hadn't even considered that aspect.
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Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Somehow that keeps falling off my medical records and I have to keep putting it back in
I've had that very same problem with my Agent Orange hospital records. The VA even sent me to the Oschler Cancer Clinic in New Orleans for a week of tests,and for some odd reason there was not even a mention of them sending me there in my VA records,much less the reports. So I made copies of my set and hand-carried them to the VA hospital to insert into my records,and damned if THEY weren't missing the next time I went there.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
I speak from experiencing 4 combat tours in that region. PTSD IS a wound but the numbers claiming the wound are far too many to be credible. Like all wounds some deal with them better than others.
Spoke with a friend of mine last night who's been there several times. He will do all in his power to avoid PTSD diagnosis for the following reasons:
He may lose his security clearance
He may lose his right to own weapons privately
He may not be able to work as a defense contractor again
There might be one or two more...but these three I remember.
IMHO,this one is the biggie. I have no doubt at all in my mind that in the near future the government will be using PTSD disability as an excuse to confiscate privately held weapons and bar people from buying or possessing new ones.
ESPECIALLY if/when riots/anarchy breaks out and Martial Law is declared. Maybe I am biased,but in MY opinion the one thing they fear more than anything else is a few million armed veterans standing up to a new police state and stopping their abuses. PTSD diagnoses will allow them the excuse the need to start rounding up "mentally unstable people with firearms."
And given how small the modern percentage of the population it is that has military experience and backgrounds,the majority of the population will go along with this because they just don't know any better.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Oh I don't know.... maybe everytime we had a minor crisis here he went on full alert over there.
Telephone repairmen NEVER go into combat. They aren't even issued rifles if they are serving in combat zones. Yeah,like every other soldier in the army they are theoretically "issued" a rifle,but the truth is it stays locked up in the company arms room and they see it once a year when they are required to go to the rifle range to qualify with it and then clean it before locking it away again.
For a brief time in VN I was assigned to a conventional army unit because I had physical injuries that prevented me from working as a SF soldier on a team,and I became the company armorer. The company commander,the 1st SGT,and I were the only three soldiers in that whole company that had weapons. The rifles were all locked up in arms racks,the ammunition for those weapons was all locked away in a ammo bunker buried underground between a couple of barracks,and I was the only one with the keys.
This was in a army base just outside the city of Nha Trang in Viet Nam in 1968.
I even heard stories of a 101st ABN Division Fire Base getting over ran by the NVA because other than the guys on guard duty on the perimeter nobody on the base was armed. Once the NVA broke through the perimeter they pretty much ran free with nobody and nothing to stop them until armed troops could be moved in.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Of course I do. True PTSD on a debilitating level is rare,but I have seen it. In every instance it was an individual who had been in a command decision who had lost a lot of the people in his command and even some of his personal friends due to the orders he had given. Not that they were bad orders or even unnecessary orders,but they none the less resulted in the loss of life of people they were responsible for and cared for. It's pretty damn rare for individuals to suffer from PTSD for killing an enemy that was trying to kill him and his friends,though.
I'm just not buying into the dumb-ass description given.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
37 But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" 39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them." 41 These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.(John chapter 12)
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
37 But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" 39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them." 41 These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.(John chapter 12)
And then there's your Masters....;}
#2075. To: A K A Stone (#2071)
I wonder what Clinton did with the money. ;)
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...;}
Gave it to the Top 400....
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...;}
No difference at the Top between psychopaths....
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....
But you can be Damn sure that the Trillions weren't given to the Bottom 99%.....
I see you are hiding from The Light. When you are serious about getting better and want healing you can ping me and I would be more than happy to help show you the Way. If you seek the Lord, you will find Him; if you call upon His Name, He will answer. If you surrender to Him you will never be disappointed again.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
I see you are hiding from The Light. When you are serious about getting better and want healing you can ping me and I would be more than happy to help show you the Way. If you seek the Lord, you will find Him; if you call upon His Name, He will answer. If you surrender to Him you will never be disappointed again.
You sound like one of those God impersonators that the Bible warns about. Isn't that a sin?
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Where GOOD is Known to Exist Only because Evil hasn't Completely Taken over.
One would think that if God really wanted to win the war he would stop inflicting disease on his most ardent soldiers.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You sound like one of those God impersonators that the Bible warns about. Isn't that a sin?
Presenting what the Bible says unfiltered? How is that impersonating. It is the Blood of Jesus Christ that saves.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
One would think that if God really wanted to win the war he would stop inflicting disease on his most ardent soldiers.
A hollow argument. Metal is forged. Trees are pruned to produce more fruit. Pick up the Josh Hamilton book and have a look at a down and out crackhead and what he has become since surrendering to Christ.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Until you flush them out....they just can't stand holding it in.....;}
What is to hold in. The Great Commission is to proclaim the Gospel, not hide it. Why would someone with a lamp hide it under the bed or closet?
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Have you read the Scriptures? I ask because in the Words of Christ we are to pass on the Good News.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
I ask because in the Words of Christ we are to pass on the Good News.
And Not take Head Shots....;}
but killing for the state doesn't bother baptists.
Your religion bends over for power everytime.....;}
"Even the venal plutocrats of the Gilded Age realized that they ultimately owed their fortunes to the labor of the coal miner, the seamstress, the ironworker and the farmer, and that it was only through their good graces and the limited application of violence that they were allowed to keep their gains.
Todays plutocrats think their fortunes spring ex nihilo from their own greatness as they ship jobs to slave wage countries and gamble in the stock market.
The fact that so fewer of us have outlets to sell our labor power is a matter of concern. But it has nothing to do with laziness; the capitalistic system is breaking down. And the ruling class berates the unemployed masses for their own indolence.
Have you read the Scriptures? I ask because in the Words of Christ we are to pass on the Good News.
The scriptures often contradict each other. Evidently God didn't do such a good job of infusing KJs scribes with His Holy Spirit. But when God admitted he made a mistake with the flooding of the earth it became known that God was not infallible.
But because of KJ we now associate Christ and God with being "kings". And once KJ had that idea infused among his subjects he knew his own job was safe. And "the devine right of kings" became the law of the land.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Your religion bends over for power everytime.....;}
Funny how so often preachers and priests went from leading the labor strikes in the past to being spokes persons for the bosses in the present.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
The little Obama toad says there are contradictions in Gods word. Name them toad. From your mind not some cut and paste.
I already named the big one. God makes mistakes.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
So you admit they now mainly stick up for the powerful and mighty. Too bad you are neither.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Stop looking in the mirror. The Bible is rife with inconsistencies. And God makes mistakes, He even admitted it.
Stop sharing your borderline behaviors with Boris. What's with conservatives and their obsessive need to express frustration via sexual remarks about gentalia. That's why your so called movement is going down the tubes, as even God should be tired of it by now.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
You and Ferret Mike would make a good couple. He is the witch and you can be his little toad that follows him around. You are attracted to the Ferret aren't you?
Could you attempt to name some contradictions please?
Admitting you have never read the Bible is not a good thing Stone. Borderline, means borderline psychotic. Which fits you to a Tee. Keep lying and making stuff up and then please call yourself a conservative.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Mad Dog calls him Pebbles. I think that's appropriate and funny.
I'm about ready to call him Vinny, as it usually gets a reference.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
Todays plutocrats think their fortunes spring ex nihilo from their own greatness as they ship jobs to slave wage countries and gamble in the stock market.
The fact that so fewer of us have outlets to sell our labor power is a matter of concern. But it has nothing to do with laziness; the capitalistic system is breaking down. And the ruling class berates the unemployed masses for their own indolence.
Dude you really need to back off the illegal stims and downers.
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
The scriptures often contradict each other. Evidently God didn't do such a good job of infusing KJs scribes with His Holy Spirit. But when God admitted he made a mistake with the flooding of the earth it became known that God was not infallible.
Show me the perceived contradictions. Where in Scriptures do you get God "admitted he made a mistake?"
"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.) Psalm 139:16
I have one or two books here on perceived contradictions in the Holy Scripture. Would you like to have their names? I am sure you would like reading them.It is amazing how easily these "contradictions" are explained by someone who does know the Holy Bible.
You are absolutely correct. If you can't support your assertions, it is best to be as vaque as possible. Of course, it is best to say things that can be supported.