From the AOL newsfeed:
(Sept. 28) – Fewer than two-thirds of the former soldiers being reactivated for duty in Iraq and elsewhere have reported on time, prompting the Army to threaten some with punishment for desertion.
The former soldiers, part of what is known as the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), are being recalled to fill shortages in skills needed for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of the 1,662 ready reservists ordered to report to Fort Jackson, S.C., by Sept. 22, only 1,038 had done so, the Army said Monday.
“The numbers did not look good,” said Lt. Col. Burton Masters, a spokesman for the Army’s Human Resources Command.
As an example of the challenges they faced, Masters held up a note from one Private Avon which simply read, “I’m not stupid, I’m not expendable, and I’m not going.”
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>I think Private Avon not only hates America, he hates humanity as a species. Just sayin’.
I want to say i love america, but having worked wal-mart customer service 1-800# I do find myself hating humanity.
Not the people on here, just everybody else.
I blame retail! 😉
“There will be no peace as long as Kirk lives!”
-Klingon Ambassador to George W at a recent mid east peace talk
“I’m not stupid, I’m not expendable, and I’m not going.”
I’m going to make a button that says that. Everyone needs a button that says that.
What the daily show isn’t biased, they ridicule everyone equally!
He’s pres Zap Brannigan.
Yeah, but Zap has charisma.
He’s (obviously) the Troy McClure of the future, and knows how to blow things up and get away with it.
Bush tries, but everybody notices. 🙂
Are you actually trying to infer that the BBC and CNN which have a long history of being unbiased and trust-worthy news agencies are somehow in the same league as FOX
Yes.
Hi people, I’m going off on some tangents here, so anyway, regarding the venerable PADs comment about Isreal and its sixty year struggle, I know that a point was being illustrated but it came across as a bit one-sided, to the detriment of the Palestinians, whom have had atrocities visited upon them, as well as being the manufacturers of such atrocities.
The whole Isreal affair has been vaguely wrought, as have much of the affairs of the whole region, in no small part due to centuries of meddlings from the likes of Europe, and more recently America.
Even further from the point, though I currently dwell in far flung Oceania, or more precisely, Australia (Where, by the by, I am no great fan of Bush’s lap-dog, the accountant sans charisma, John Howard, who has just been re-elected, boo-hiss:)), I have lived at various points in Eire and the UK, and have a mixture of English and Irish and Catholic and Protestent in my family.
The UKs history with Northern Ireland, not good, also another seemingly everlasting mess an ex-power-that-be has burdened countless of civilians, let alone themselves, with.
I’m not intelligent enough to provide a solution to that one, especially as the whole scene is so linked with the criminal underworld.
Controversial point 1: Umpteenth generation American-Oirish of sometimes discernible wealth and position who donate money to organisations, that at the end of the day, goes towards Irish people killing Irish people, as opposed to relising any romantic notions and justified passions of their forefathers…it is not a great thing.
I was in Dublin about five years ago, after spending some months working in beautiful Co. Kerry (Go there, I was around abouts the Ring of Kerry, Dingle Bay area, near a home of Daniel O’Connell, the liberator, it’s dead nice! Not to be confused of anywhere that Daniel O’Donnell may live, who is a fluffy jumpered, elevator-musak singing icon of grannies all over the place, he is a weapon of mass coma-induction, which isn’t very clever, but hey!), and it had changed a great deal for the better in regards to the standard of living and oppurtunities, but was, it seemed a less warm and a more cynical place, and I was having a quiet afternoon drink in a bar when this ten-gallon hatted American tourist came in and was loudly proclaiming his “oirishness” for all to hear, he bought a drink, regalled the bar-staff with stories of his ancestry and tipped kindly and left with a smile on his face, and one of the bar-staff turned to an obvious regular and called the fella a,”plastic paddy”, a term I only learnt on that stay, and heard more than once, usually in reference to Americans, and usually refering to the kind who try and be more Irish than the Irish, whilst having the virtue of multiple credit cards with all that that entails!
I thought that was a bit harsh really, but is there a point to what I’m saying, well I am being convoluted, simplistic and vague all at the same time, but at this point lets assume (for the sake of my own head) that constructive help, a true understanding of the locale AS IT IS HERE AND NOW, and its people, all its people, is a lot more repected deep down than lots of flash and thunder, though by no means is this this an anti-America rant, like all countries previously meantioned, all have their good and bad points and America has a lot more exposed to scrutiny being as it is, at the minute, “the power that be”.
Controversial point to: Sorry guys, as a kid Blakes 7 always disappointed me, though the finally is something that I still remember, so it had some impact, anyone recall Space 1999, I swear there is a song by the band muse that reminds me of the opening credits every time I hear it, its called New Born and is on their Origin of Symmetry album, I love it, if they ever do a Space 1999 film, which I very much doubt, that would be the perfect opening score!!
Blah, blah, blah….