1 I love my country. God Bless these men.

2 Let the open threadiness begin. Mornin', y'all.

3 **First**
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Is that what I'm supposed to say?
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4 Instead of "de-bleated" goats, we should use the OWS protestors . . . .
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Make them useful to society and all. . .
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5 First, let me second the first comment.

6 Last I heard all the men in Iraq will be home by Christmas?  Let Armagedion begin in Iraq in the new year...what a cluster.

7 Damn straight!!  You don't bring a knife to a gun fight. 
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You bring 11 of your best buddies . . .
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And Air Support . .
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8 #6 . . . . Who cares. 
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When I was over there in '91 I said we should just annex the oil fields and make it the 51st State - "Texico"
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Let the rest slide back into the Stone Age . . .
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9 "We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and weÂ’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them." The world has never seen a greater country. American exceptionalism is our currency. May our next president understand it.

10 I love my country. God Bless these men. Posted by: USA at October 22, 2011 09:06 AM (6Cjut) And Women.

11 ACOGs for everyone!  Not much close social work there?

12 Yep...home for, uhh Christmas...and umm, your welcome!

13 #10 . . . .
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And what does it get us?  Bumpkis.  I read an article about an interview with an Israeli General.  He said that the USA is the ONLY country (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Kicks a countries ass, then gives them their land back".
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That goes over well in the movies, but is it any wonder we're not respected around the world?  We've PWND the Iraqi oil fields TWICE in the last 20 years and given them back TWICE.  And gas is over $3 per gallon.

14 With all of our bantering back and forth about our less-than-stellar choices for a presidential candidate, please remember one thing - Barack Obama is the one and only player in the game who doesn't believe that for one second, and never has. Posted by: Soap MacTavish at October 22, 2011 09:24 AM (vbh31) That's for sure, except maybe for Ron Paul who is just bat shit crazy

15 God bless our troops! That being said, let's give our lawyers something to do. Every soldier and their families,living or not, shall be able to place a lien on Iraq. We shouldn't let Iraq off the hook for nothing. Iraq is a rich oil country!

16 From Gateway Pundit: "A man performs a call to prayer [at OWS] before a Friday prayer session held by people affiliated with the Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter and the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York. The prayer service was organized by the radical CAIR organization. The women were forced to sit in back." Of course they were.

17 The women were forced to sit in back." Of course they were. Posted by: USA at October 22, 2011 09:36 AM (6Cjut) Well I must admit that my wife always wants to sit in the back in Temple because it is easier to sneak out when the Rabbi starts to drone on and on, but I digress

18 I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned that Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but I'd like to say that Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

19 Ron Paul who is just bat shit crazy

Yea, that's true, but I do think a little American Isolationism will do the world a lot of good.

20 Yea, that's true, but I do think a little American Isolationism will do the world a lot of good. Posted by: Paladin at October 22, 2011 09:40 AM (WGGwF) I don't.

21 I don't mean "a lot of good" as in everything will be better. They will be at each other throats, begging for someone to stop the madness...madness is what they deserve. 

22 I don't mean "a lot of good" as in everything will be better. They will be at each other throats, begging for someone to stop the madness...madness is what they deserve. Posted by: Paladin at October 22, 2011 09:45 AM (WGGwF) OK yeah maybe, but a little isolationism is sometimes a hard thing to reverse

23 Hey, anyone from New York City a good place to park your car if you're from out of town and want to bike along the Hudson river in Manhattan?

24 Anyone from NYC KNOW a good place to park, I mean?

25 Does anybody have a clue what our troops are supposed to accomplish in Uganda? (There's a sentence I never thought I'd write.) Is this supposed to convince middle America that Obama is an alpha male who leads troops? Does anybody in Congress care enough to call him out on this bullshit?

26 Hey, anyone from New York City a good place to park your car if you're from out of town and want to bike along the Hudson river in Manhattan? Posted by: CoolCzech at October 22, 2011 09:51 AM (niZvt) ? Not sure. Maybe in NJ at the Ferry and take the ferry over

27 Does anybody have a clue what our troops are supposed to accomplish in Uganda? (There's a sentence I never thought I'd write.) Is this supposed to convince middle America that Obama is an alpha male who leads troops? Does anybody in Congress care enough to call him out on this bullshit? Posted by: 141Driver at October 22, 2011 09:52 AM (fCaFf) There is one Terrorist rebel leader there who has been going around kidnapping kids to act as soldiers and killing Christians. I think our "Special Forces" advisors are suppose to help find and kill him

28 Anyone from NYC KNOW a good place to park, I mean?

Posted by: CoolCzech at October 22, 2011 09:51 AM (niZvt)

Hell, you can't find parking in Raleigh, NC or Columbia, SC without paying an arm or a leg at a parking garage. I wouldn't take a car to NYC on a bet.

29

Young people making a difference?!?  Hmmm, then the sight of the OWS crowd mixing with a "Jobs & Justice" march probably doesn't count.  But, the confusion and hilarity that resulted was entertaining nonetheless ... http://bit.ly/rokkMG

30
OK yeah maybe, but a little isolationism is sometimes a hard thing to reverse.

This.  I think we might find it quite pleasant.  Others, not so much, and there is a great deal of potential suffering should we withdraw.

31 morning all
hmm, double posted open thread?
is that a first?

32 but, but, but..... what happened to all that smart power we were going to use in the mid-east? Al-Sadr is laughing his ass off right now. I feel sorry for the average good guy/girl in Iraq.

33 Oh, the other one is Top Headline Comments, never mind

34

I had a very vivid dream last night that Marco Rubio declared as candidate for president.  Scoured the internet this morning only to be dissapointed.  Maybe I can dream of Allen West tonight.

35 What kind of stupid bint leaves her husband and 4 kids to join a bunch of hippies?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan /she_plans_to_stray_awhile_opuo0dDOjE39dfRDdUZ1sM
If I was her husband I would be filing for divorce and making sure the kids knew why mommy abandoned them.  I would also make it clear that when it gets cold she cannot come home. I would also take all the money out of any joint accounts as well.

But I am a little vindictive.

36

 38....Maybe I can dream of Allen West tonight.

Perry/West 2012  .....My dream ticket. It would be righteous to have a pair of Veterans watching over us.....and our troops.

 

37

Posted by: Deathknyte at October 22, 2011 10:05 AM (P3S6/)

I saw her on F&F this morning.  Stupid scrunt.  Her husband is a banker too. 

38 What catch phrase functioned as the spoon full of sugar helping the McCain '08 ballot go down with a vote?

Rx: COUNTRY FIRST!

#16 That damned bat shit crazy US Constitution?!

Defending that US Constitution is what makes our military personnel so venerable. Recognize which potus candidate gets far more of their support than any other.

39 Posted by: Osama bin Truck Monkey, TEArrorist Son of a Bitch at October 22, 2011 10:09 AM (jucos)

Very stupid.  Makes you wonder how she snagged her husband in the first place?  She must have been a looker 15-20 years ago.

I feel sorry for the husband and kids.  Especially the kids, you know how their classmates are going to react.

The dumber ones will be "Your mom took off to wallstreet? THAT IS SO COOL! Wish my mom would do that."  While the kid just thinks about how much they would rather have their pre-occupy life back.   Except maybe the 17 year old, he might try to leverage some nookie out of it.

40

The Occutards are apparently going concentrate more efforts on WalMart.

The organizers of these douches are intent on getting someone bloody 'for the cause', aren't they.

41 The Occutards are apparently going concentrate more efforts on WalMart.

Because... that's where the 1% shops?  This is getting dumb

42 REBEL'S WITHOUT A CAUSE! 

43
re: the photo

Where's the drummer?

44

Chemjeff.......WalMart has managed to stay Non-Union. ....Which is probably why the organizers have turned their sites on it.

WalMart is also a symbol of  'evil capitalism'. All that stuff should just be distributed for free, don't cha know.

45

What a coincidence, I'm going to be concentrating my efforts on WalMart too. Need a case of Mason jars. 

46 Before WalMart we had department stores, but they were called Neiman-Marcus, Macy's, etc. - higher-end stores, only accessible to the rich or upper-middle-class.  WalMart took the idea of the department store and democratized it for the masses. That is why almost everyone can afford the luxuries of the past.  Stupid idiot protestors.

47
news from MA:

Scott Brown is demanding (well, politely recommending) the firing of NOAA.

The head of NOAA, who I thought was a weather service for boats and planes, is killing the fishing industry (or fisheries, or whatever) in Massachusetts with silly enviro-centric-regulations.

Related: mentioned on Sean Hannity this week was the mayor of Rochester, MA, a coastal town, is not too happy with her president. Her town is dying because of Obama's regs.

48

Posted by: SiM at October 22, 2011 10:32 AM (1rflU)

What makes you think they don't understand it?  They want us to live in caves, so as to protect Mother Gaia

49

Ha Ha Mrs. D actually thought Wisconsin's mascot is a honey badger.

50 Meanwhile, the Left is celebrating Obama's "ending of the Iraq War," even though in fact the war ended effectively with American victory due to George W.'s Surge. They don't dwell on the fact W. expected to pull out combat troops by the end of this year, to begin with. WHATEVER success Obama can claim in ANYTHING is effectively just the simple act of carrying through on W.'s policies. Of course, BEING Obama, he can't press Iraq to accept a status of forces agreement that would prevent American troops from being subject to amputations or lashings, so he bugs out altogether, leaving the place vulnerable to Iranian domination. Way to go, Barry! Nuance, Man... Nuance!!

51
Where's the Conservative Republican in the Debate?
by  Roger Hedgecock

"and withdraw overseas American troops.  The bloodbath that would follow is unimaginable."

The bloodbath that would follow?!

Think twice. The bloodbath of interventionism seen as the so-called Arab Spring. Where are the Middle Eastern minority populations? DEAD via genocide, and whoever survived being exiled with no place of refuge. Where is rule of law following the so-called Arab Spring bloodbaths?

Consider the bloodbath of interventionism in Iraq since the US invasion, only getting worse as Iraq orders US troops out, no thanks to Obama. Thank neoconservative politics via GWBush for that invasion, occupation, futile "nation building" another Islamic theocracy, and for signing the treaty arbitrary date of all US troops' withdrawal -- with no US benefits for all our sacrifice in lives, blood and taxes (not to mention whatever honor/reputation) --nothing to show for our sacrifices beyond losses in human rights. There are no oil contracts not to mention no permanent US Military Installation to thwart Iran's aggressions. Those were promised in the GWBush-Cheney-Rumsfeld initial propaganda preparating for his US Iraqi invasion. That entire episode has been a bloodbath. And Afghanistan as well, all US efforts and sacrifices to prop up the most corrupt and abusive of human rights government imaginable, and we know corruption all too well in Obama's administration.

American interventions in Muslim countries have worsened the plights of minority populations to the point of their genocide through newly US installed government bloodbaths.

It's so difficult to see, Not. Convoluted rationale does not make logic. If it matters, support the Constitution when you vote. America First '12.

52

Fuck the union.

Damn straight.

53 Before WalMart we had department stores, but they were called Neiman-Marcus, Macy's, etc. - higher-end stores, only accessible to the rich or upper-middle-class.

Bullshit.
Sears and Roebuck plus catalogue shopping
Montgomery Wards
JC Penneys
Grants
FedMart
Smittys

54
Obama's radio address today: I'm bringing home the troops and soldiers. If you don't pass my stupid jobs bill, they'll be destitute and I'll say that you hate the military.

55 #62 Obama must officially denounce his DHS Napolitano's first memo naming veterans as threats to US national security, being enemies of Statism.

56

56.....Fuck the unions.

Here here.  .....Unions and the over-regulation & taxation that's been ennacted by the Dems they have supported, are why we have lost so much manufacturing in this country.

Unions have fucked themselves. ....And the rest of us too.

 

57 Posted by: SiM at October 22, 2011 10:48 AM

and we know how that played out...
Jimmah Carter: "Never Again!"

58

Posted by: didn't take long at October 22, 2011 10:47 AM (lpWVn)

eh I suppose so

59

Not good news - US national killed by shark in Western OZ

This is the third fatality in a few months over there along the south coast around Perth

Other news from Down Under - thanks for exporting #OccupyWhatever - couldn't you have just been happy sending us Maccas, iPhones and Starbucks???

Oh well, that's globalisation..

 

60

Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter

why thank you! so are de wimmins

61 My God bless and protect these young people. No finer example of answering a call to service exists within their generation.

62 An easy way to end the occupy movement once and for all. It does require a sound truck and a Slayer CD...

63 I just got robocalled by phucking Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. I had to listen to an excrutiatingly long paranoid warning about the UN taking our guns away and then wait through an asinine poll about whether I thought it was okay for the UN to take our guns away before I could finally speak to a human being and get taken off their robocall lists.

I support the NRA, but when they robocall me with paranoid nonsense on the one morning I get to sleep in, it's not endearing.

64

We are witnessing the product of our public school system which has long been run by the left and truly teaches Marxism. If you have children consider charter schools.

Oh,bullshit. I know I'll get torched but this thing about public schools being commie madrassas is way overstated. Blame the media. colleges and parents but come on. And charter $chool$ are no better--your kid is a profit item. Encourage homeschooling if anything.

65 Every time I watch one of the videos of  Gaddafi getting killing by these baying animals, I get sort of sick.  Not that he deserved anything better.

Lowest common denominator?

Posted by: Billy Bob, the guy who drinks in SC

The ethnic Arabs of the Middle East represent a kind of "cargo cult" culture.  When they have enough oil money, they can import all the gadgets and trinkets of the technology developed in the West (or developed world, take your pick), but have little of nothing of their own to contribute. They originate nothing, and import the appearance of being of the same civilization as that of the West.

 What you see is the veneer of "Western" sensibilities stripped away, and the true face of the tribal Middle - Easterner.  This is what they are - an  eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Me and my cousin against you, the outsider. Islam reinforces this culture, that's why it was created, because the ethnic Arab (for example, the heroic Prophet Mohammed)  was afraid that Christianity and Judaism would actually begin to civilize and change their culture. And it will remain the same until they throw off their medieval beliefs (or actually pre-medieval), or they sink into total chaos which they inflict on themselves.

No matter what seeps in from the outside, they remain what they are.  And those few that believe otherwise usually end up dead or emigrate to the "West", and get out of those crazy places, or become one of the ruling oligarch elites that actually run those hell-holes.

66 Once we leave Iraq (and eventually Afghanistan) I am hoping the Middle East will degenerate into a free for all with all of these nutjobs being too busy killing each other to try and kill us.

67

Occupy? You betcha buddy! Occupy a nice comfortable seat on an airplane out of that dung heap! Return home to a very, very grateful nation full of moo-rons/moo-ron-etes and only step away from here again in the face of clear aggression. Oh, and before you leave the stench and grit there, please take the opportunity to turn every piece of gear that you intend to leave behind into a pile of worthless slag. Leave nothing behind in working order. Nothing, not even a shovel. Don't allow those ungrateful pukes, or their Iranian masters, to ever turn even the kitchen utensils against us.

68 68

Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter

why thank you! so are de wimmins

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And thank you, too. ....I don't think it can be said enough, that conservative men are just hotter.

They are our husbands, our brothers, our fathers and our cousins....our neighbors and our guys down the street. The ones who turn off the lights at night and watch over us. ......They are the ones who do the right things when no one is watching. ....They are the ones who have the backbone to stand up for what is right, even when they know that they will have to take it on the chin for it.

They are our reluctant heroes.....who do it because there is no one else stepping up to do it, not because they want the accolades afterward.

To me.....this is sheer hotness.  So, I am just a gal who thinks that giving them their due, is long overdue. Which is why I will continue to proclaim what they themselves will not.....that conservative men are just hotter.

69

cheer-leaders!

cheer-leaders!

ooga booga!

70

Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at October 22

hey guys I don't know if she's a new 'ette but with this nice post let's give her a grace period before you try to get her post pics and stuff. at least until the ONT

71

 Firing line vs drum circle.

72 hey guys I don't know if she's a new 'ette but with this nice post let's give her a grace period before you try to get her post pics and stuff. at least until the ONT

She's not new, been around for a while now.

73 82 Looks like the ol' "Hey! I'm a nice guy!" trick to me! The ol' "Don't pay any attention to these GOONS!" trick! Nice try!!

74 "Welcome To Delaware - The Finland of Car Manufacturers"

75

I DO have a few minutes before the games start. I COULD critique a cheerleader picture, if you wanted me to do that... just sayin'.

76
Posted by: USS Diversity

tits or gtfo

77 sim i think you may be on to something there.......

78

IRAN DEFEATS UNITED STATES - EXPELS US FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

The Shiites in Iraq under Iranian "Fiery Cleric" Moqtadar al-Sadr have ousted the United States under the weak Marxist President Barry Obama.  As Obama has allowed Iran to kill US troops and create uprisings in all of the countries of so-called "Arab Spring" with impunity, the United States has fallen from the powerful position that it took decades and vast sums of Blood and Treasure to achieve.  From the First Impotent President Jimmy Carter, to the Great Coward Bill Clinton, (who was personally so frightened of Al Qaeda that he used every excuse to not kill him when given the chance multiple times) the US has still enjoyed a degree of power in the region and protected the Saudi Arabian oil suppy, thanks to the unstoppable efforts of the CIA and military - until now.  But The Great Destroyer has achieved with one stroke of the pen what decades of wars, assassinations, oil embargoes, multiple inflations, multiple recessions, and terrorism have failed to do: the total defeat of the United States in the battle to stabilize the Middle East, and the end of US power in the region.  Congratulations to the new rulers of the Middle East: IRAN.  The Iranians now seek to bring about the Final Nuclear Holocaust during which the Twelfth Imam from the 11th Century will reappear and destroy all Infidels. 

79
memo to Rick Perry:

it's height, not heigth

length, width, heighth height

80 God Bless Our Troops.  God Speed to Them.

USA!  USA! USA!



ps - martin bashir is a racist.

81 O/T: any good podcast recommendations?
not necessarily politically-oriented podcasts, just in general

82 Billy Joel had a fitting song for all the OWS commies;

Billy Joel - Angry Young Man

83

D.C. cheerleaders:
http://tinyurl.com/3v5ldkz

84

More cheerleaders! This time from Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/3onay99z

85
heard on the news:

--Bloomberg hinting that eviction is coming soon
--37% agree with occupiers

86

Brothers don't do hockey.

Then you really won't do this:
http://tinyurl.com/43lf4xx

87

Posted by: FireHorse at October 22, 2011 12:15 PM (XFU/t)

HAHA

I'd like to do a little bit of "icing" on her menorah

88 memo to Rick Perry:

it's height, not heigth

length, width, heighth height

Posted by: soothsayer at October 22, 2011 11:59 AM (sqkOB)

In which dialect? I have heard heighth from time to time all my life. It is an older use, I believe - IIRC, if is in at least one old hymn.

89 That's for sure, except maybe for Ron Paul who is just bat shit crazy

He may be crazy, but he's our crazy.

And I have no doubt he loves America even if he's a little too isolationist for my taste.  He's certainly no America hating leftist scum.

90
yeah I hear heighth a lot, too

And it's always from southerners.

91 106
yeah I hear heighth a lot, too

And it's always from southerners.

Posted by: soothsayer at October 22, 2011 12:19 PM (sqkOB)

You haven't been on a college campus lately, have you

92 re: Heighth (which I hear and say sometimes, but I've never seen spelled out) "until the end of the seventeenth century, highth or heighth were its standard spellings. The word was formed in Old English from high, plus -th, the exact analogue of width, breadth, and length. If word history were the only consideration, we all ought still to be using highth. The reason why we donÂ’t comes down to dialect pronunciation in parts of Northern England in Middle English times"

93
I'm on a campus a lot.

In Cambridge, MA. We don't have a lot of southerners here. But I heard "heighth" a lot when I lived in KY.

I also hear it a lot when politicians from the South are speaking.

94 108 re: Heighth (which I hear and say sometimes, but I've never seen spelled out)

"until the end of the seventeenth century, highth or heighth were its standard spellings. The word was formed in Old English from high, plus -th, the exact analogue of width, breadth, and length. If word history were the only consideration, we all ought still to be using highth.
The reason why we donÂ’t comes down to dialect pronunciation in parts of Northern England in Middle English times"

Posted by: t-bird at October 22, 2011 12:23 PM (FcR7P)

Really? I always thought that the northern English dialect was the most conservative.

95 Beat SC!

and God Bless America!

96 eh - I hear a great deal of ignorant English pronunciations of all types from college campuses

97 "Length, width and heighth" isn't as annoying as the ESPN commentators who keep calling Louisville "Lowellville."

98
tear, as in rip

In the south, this word is pronounced with two syllables. Tay-er.

But the rest of the country says it in one syllable. Yes, in the dictionary it has both pronunciations. But it's ragtime.

99
I'll bet I'm the only in MA who can say Louisville the right way. It took me two years, but I can do it.

100
it's not Loo-ey-vill

it's more like Loo-ah-vil

101
remember this a-hole?

"We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’"

fmr Sen. George Voinovich, asshole from Ohio
2009

102 "...I hear a great deal of ignorancet English pronunciations of all types from college campuses."

Posted by: chemjeff at October 22, 2011 12:30 PM (s7mIC)

FIFY

103 chemjeff, here is a website devoted to Richard Feynman lectures. He was quite a character, and ridiculously brilliant. Lots of stuff to browse through.
 
It's a nice change of pace.

104 Posted by: soothsayer at October 22, 2011 12:33 PM (sqkOB)

Loo-ville?

105 Middle aged folks serve in the mil, too. Give the oldbies some love. Might help with all that joint and back pain. Poor things.

106 In the south, this word is pronounced with two syllables. Tay-er.

I grew up in GA in the 50s and never heard it pronounced like that. What we said sounded like "tair".

107

Another cheerleader pic --

This one's young but very cute:
http://tinyurl.com/3n7ojv4

 

108

Such mixed emotions...

I am glad our troops are coming home.. or at least going somewhere else...

But one of the most disheartening things you can do to a Soldier, or in my case Sailor, is to have them fight for a cause... win... and then due to politics, make the win meainingless.

I truly hope this is NOT the case in Iraq... and I really hope that someday the Kurds, who will soon get hammered from the Turks in the North, and not supported by the rest of the Sunnis and Shiite, will forgive us.

/SALUTE to the troops, you once more did what was required of you in an exemplary manner...

109 Well we couldn't stay forever but it would have been nice to have a President who didn't use the military solely for political purposes.

110 jjzzzackson-vvilll, Florida ( and Texas )

In Cali, so many people have been stoned for so long that they;ve reduced speech down to monosyllabic mutterings.

Try being a Safeway cashier in Kali-for-neeeuh:  Most of your customers are wasted

111 Those guys in the photo are 2nd Infantry Div, if no one noted it up-thread

112
...but then again, I'm a southerner and what the fuck do we know?

You and your kind are sinking the GOP.

113 Hey, that's my platoon! Where did you get that pic?

114 Nation building Islamic Theocracies is not doing good.

115 You really make it seem so uderstandable with your presentation but I find this topic before really hard to understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me.

116 I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.

117
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121 Totally . Flippin . Awesome.  I love our military!

122 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.