My daddy was in the navy. He volunteered. The recruiters in southern WV told him that if he didn’t enlist voluntarily he’d be drafted into the army and go on the front line with all the other hillbillies.

So I guess what I mean to say is that, like most issues, it’s nuanced.

I always have good feelings for the people who volunteer to serve in the Armed Forces, but they have nothing to do with the politics of war. It’s those high-level decision makers that I have a problem with. Why should I lump the soldiers in with them?

I second the dogs and fire for Bill Maher.

KinKine you are the smart one but isn’t democracy the right to free speech, freedom of expression, the right to assemble and all that jazz? I know that it is a government for the people by the people but I was always under the impression that the bill of rights and most of the constitution was concerned with making sure that the things needed for people to be able to actually define their ruling body were sacrosanct.

I was under the impression that the reason we continue the war in the middle east was because we wanted to safe guard that idea of democracy, bring it to the poor Iraqis. It seems kind of like a slippery slope, or perhaps it is the fact that I was awake in history class once, but it kind of familiar that trampling on the rights of people to express themselves in the name of bringing to some other people the right to express themselves is a bit hypocritical. Kind of like slave owners writing about all men being equal and all that.

Personally I could give a shit that you bought a five dollar magnet, or whatever. Mostly I just think that the person inside the vehicle is so sheep like that major facets of their individual can be expressed by a mass produced piece of plastic. I would even go so far as to say I didn’t give a shit that you married a soldier. It was your half a heart to give away. We should make stickers that say, ‘half my mortgage is in Vegas’ or something it would move me about as much.

Most of the people who I have met volunteered to go to war. The soldiers I know train hard and want to be there where the bullets are flying. To them it is fun. Saying I support them but not the war is like saying I support the Klan member but not the Klan. Stein had every right to his opinion and to express it. I couldn’t even really say he was wrong. I do think you need to know what a hawk is as a basic intelligence meter.

bill maher is still a smarmy douche bag who should be lit on fire and eaten by dogs.