My parents and brothers got the turd sandwich. I GOT THE TURD WRAP.
How am I supposed to get to an Army recruitment center quickly without needing parents to drive me? Oh and also happen to have parents that aren't exactly supportive of my decision to join. It's a long walk/runJay wrote:
You don't need a license to join the army, they send you to driving school.War Man wrote:
I need a Driver's License, I only recently got into driving school this year and got my Permit.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
why aren't you in the Army right now?
I need to complete my schooling as I started slacking in 2005 and I have paid the price for that.
My parents aren't supportive of me joining the military as a grunt, especially because Obama is the President. Being homeschooled, you essentially need your parents' support. In order to make what would be my home school diploma count as a high school diploma instead of a GED(making it easier for me to make it), I need to take a parental supervised test and a couple other things.
Cuts in defense spending doesn't exactly make it easier to get into the military, one of my reasons for voting for Romney among other reasons is he'll increase defense spending.
I was just proving that I have my own thoughts and am an independent thinker.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
How are either of those anything to be particularly proud of?War Man wrote:
My parents and brothers voted for Rick Santorum in the Republican Primaries in Wisconsin. I VOTED FOR ROMNEY.
Romney will increase defense fund.Jay wrote:
In what real way is Romney different from Obama?War Man wrote:
If you seriously think I am not thinking independently, you are mistaken. My parents and brothers voted for Rick Santorum in the Republican Primaries in Wisconsin. I VOTED FOR ROMNEY.13urnzz wrote:
I WANT YOU TO VOTE FOR WHOMEVER YOUR PARENTS HAVE DICTATED YOU VOTE FOR
Romney will fight for allowing us to drill oil and natural gas on our own soil on areas we currently are not allowed to. Making us closer to energy independence. Also creating more jobs in the process that way.
Romney will not fucking sue states for things such as tougher illegal immigration enforcement.
Romney will help make it easier on business owners, allowing them to create more jobs.
Romney will decrease tax tates.
Romney is successful businessman that has helped turn things around in things he managed.
I could go on and on, but that should be clear enough to show that there is a fricken difference. Romney isn't perfect, but then again, no one is.
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The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
Romney can also export jobs to India and Mexico.
i'm still not convinced war man is a real person.
real people have independent thoughts.
real people have independent thoughts.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Yeah presidents make all the decisions and laws right and congress just sits on their ass all day.
presidents dont do anything
except amas on reddit
except amas on reddit
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George Bush was great for America, so why wouldn't Romney be too?
At least the inevitable Bushisms were entertaining to anticipate.
The wars and the lies weren't exactly funny though.
Fuck Israel
Seeing as that is your best example at independent thought - because you've used it about five times now in as many threads - you should probably go take a long walk off a short pier.War Man wrote:
I was just proving that I have my own thoughts and am an independent thinker.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
How are either of those anything to be particularly proud of?War Man wrote:
My parents and brothers voted for Rick Santorum in the Republican Primaries in Wisconsin. I VOTED FOR ROMNEY.
Honestly, you present as having some form of mental deficiency. And I'm not even trying to be offensive, it's actually true.
War Man wrote:
1) Romney will increase defense fund.
2) Romney will fight for allowing us to drill oil and natural gas on our own soil on areas we currently are not allowed to. Making us closer to energy independence. Also creating more jobs in the process that way.
3) Romney will not fucking sue states for things such as tougher illegal immigration enforcement.
4) Romney will help make it easier on business owners, allowing them to create more jobs.
5) Romney will decrease tax tates.
6) Romney is successful businessman that has helped turn things around in things he managed.
I could go on and on, but that should be clear enough to show that there is a fricken difference. Romney isn't perfect, but then again, no one is.
1) Defense spending has spiked, and maintained higher levels under Obama as a percentage of GDP than under any president since FDR, including Bush and Reagan.
2) Domestic crude oil production has also spiked under Obama.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- … o-latinos/
3) More illegals have been deported under Obama than under any other US president in history.
4) Ok. By doing what?
5) Taxes are already not high enough to support current spending levels.
6) Ok.
Obama is Bush is Romney.
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
lol pwned
Romney put my state into massive amounts of debt that we are still paying offWar Man wrote:
How am I supposed to get to an Army recruitment center quickly without needing parents to drive me? Oh and also happen to have parents that aren't exactly supportive of my decision to join. It's a long walk/runJay wrote:
You don't need a license to join the army, they send you to driving school.War Man wrote:
I need a Driver's License, I only recently got into driving school this year and got my Permit.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
why aren't you in the Army right now?
I need to complete my schooling as I started slacking in 2005 and I have paid the price for that.
My parents aren't supportive of me joining the military as a grunt, especially because Obama is the President. Being homeschooled, you essentially need your parents' support. In order to make what would be my home school diploma count as a high school diploma instead of a GED(making it easier for me to make it), I need to take a parental supervised test and a couple other things.
Cuts in defense spending doesn't exactly make it easier to get into the military, one of my reasons for voting for Romney among other reasons is he'll increase defense spending.I was just proving that I have my own thoughts and am an independent thinker.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
How are either of those anything to be particularly proud of?War Man wrote:
My parents and brothers voted for Rick Santorum in the Republican Primaries in Wisconsin. I VOTED FOR ROMNEY.Romney will increase defense fund.Jay wrote:
In what real way is Romney different from Obama?War Man wrote:
If you seriously think I am not thinking independently, you are mistaken. My parents and brothers voted for Rick Santorum in the Republican Primaries in Wisconsin. I VOTED FOR ROMNEY.
Romney will fight for allowing us to drill oil and natural gas on our own soil on areas we currently are not allowed to. Making us closer to energy independence. Also creating more jobs in the process that way.
Romney will not fucking sue states for things such as tougher illegal immigration enforcement.
Romney will help make it easier on business owners, allowing them to create more jobs.
Romney will decrease tax tates.
Romney is successful businessman that has helped turn things around in things he managed.
I could go on and on, but that should be clear enough to show that there is a fricken difference. Romney isn't perfect, but then again, no one is.
Romney's company frequently buys up prospering companies, gains majority shareholder, guts them and then steals their profits.
Romney is going to decrease tax rates for the rich (not the middle class, and most certainly not for the poor.)
Romney is a successful businessman because Romney is a ruthless busninessman.
He is against gay marriage (like it or not, you shouldn't judge others on how they live their lives.)
Romney cost my state thousands of jobs when he was governor.
We could go on and on about you being a misinformed little teenaged twat, but I doubt any of us will get anywhere.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
at least the global community somewhat likes Obama.Jaekus wrote:
lol pwned
Because they're morons fed by a biased media. Lol at Nobel Peace Prize.Cybargs wrote:
at least the global community somewhat likes Obama.Jaekus wrote:
lol pwned
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
hey at least people like him and he's pretty much bush 2.0 in terms of policy, even to the point of extending several bush policies yet nobody gave a fuck because he's 1. black 2. democrat.Jay wrote:
Because they're morons fed by a biased media. Lol at Nobel Peace Prize.Cybargs wrote:
at least the global community somewhat likes Obama.Jaekus wrote:
lol pwned
He done knows how to speak good too.
as a general rule he's implemented the bush doctrine with more competence than bush himself - read: didn't start any land wars - tbf.Cybargs wrote:
hey at least people like him and he's pretty much bush 2.0 in terms of policy, even to the point of extending several bush policies yet nobody gave a fuck because he's 1. black 2. democrat.Jay wrote:
Because they're morons fed by a biased media. Lol at Nobel Peace Prize.Cybargs wrote:
at least the global community somewhat likes Obama.
edit: that's not necessarily a good thing, but i think just writing it off as "he's a black dem president who's good at pr" doesn't quite cut it at the diplomatic level
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The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
There is an inherent hostility towards the Republican Party in the international media. Any Democratic president will automatically be viewed more positively.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
You act like an "inherent hostility" is just a default-bias, although in reality what you don't realise is that international media view your own domestic politics as a bit of a circus act. All of the television stunts and histrionics and petty debates and internecine squabbles over nothing. There's hardly an international conspiracy to 'discredit' the Republican party. Honestly, I don't think people outside of your shores really care all that much between the two: they are two minor variations on the same Yankee theme to us. If there is any "inherent hostility" against Republicans, it is only because the only big impact they have had on the outside world in recent memory is Neocon unilateralism. Bush hardly being the best PR man himself to assuage international concerns over this disastrous foreign policy. That has hit your international reputation and standing, not any political or doctrinal disagreement with the Republican party (though I'm sure many non-US citizens do have plenty of those, too).
Also, you have to bear in mind we are much more comfortable with a mainstream liberal press and intelligentsia over here in Europe (liberal in the true sense, not the bastardized pejorative you Americans have made it into). So when we see a party trying to gain a voting foothold based on anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, intelligent design, etc. - any of these red herrings that come up in non-news about the political race - we naturally recoil in horror. The same with free-market economics and the worship of 'big business'; it's not a dislike of the Republican party qua political organisation, it's a gut-level reaction against policies and news-snippets that shock the most basic, fundamental liberal tendency which we take as a given here in Europe.
Also, you have to bear in mind we are much more comfortable with a mainstream liberal press and intelligentsia over here in Europe (liberal in the true sense, not the bastardized pejorative you Americans have made it into). So when we see a party trying to gain a voting foothold based on anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, intelligent design, etc. - any of these red herrings that come up in non-news about the political race - we naturally recoil in horror. The same with free-market economics and the worship of 'big business'; it's not a dislike of the Republican party qua political organisation, it's a gut-level reaction against policies and news-snippets that shock the most basic, fundamental liberal tendency which we take as a given here in Europe.
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I think it's a bit of ego as well. You're much more likely to hear an American liberal say something like 'they do this in Europe, we should do it too'. They're much more likely to look outside the country for ideas whereas Republicans are more likely to look back at the nations past and pull ideas from there. How many times have you read on this very forum a foreigner commenting on American politics and policies and saying 'you guys are dumb, we do x here and it's great'. They'll naturally get a better reaction from someone that calls them self a liberal, so it's natural to look more favorably on the person that appears to be willing to listen.aynrandroolz wrote:
You act like an "inherent hostility" is just a default-bias, although in reality what you don't realise is that international media view your own domestic politics as a bit of a circus act. All of the television stunts and histrionics and petty debates and internecine squabbles over nothing. There's hardly an international conspiracy to 'discredit' the Republican party. Honestly, I don't think people outside of your shores really care all that much between the two: they are two minor variations on the same Yankee theme to us. If there is any "inherent hostility" against Republicans, it is only because the only big impact they have had on the outside world in recent memory is Neocon unilateralism. Bush hardly being the best PR man himself to assuage international concerns over this disastrous foreign policy. That has hit your international reputation and standing, not any political or doctrinal disagreement with the Republican party (though I'm sure many non-US citizens do have plenty of those, too).
Also, you have to bear in mind we are much more comfortable with a mainstream liberal press and intelligentsia over here in Europe (liberal in the true sense, not the bastardized pejorative you Americans have made it into). So when we see a party trying to gain a voting foothold based on anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, intelligent design, etc. - any of these red herrings that come up in non-news about the political race - we naturally recoil in horror. The same with free-market economics and the worship of 'big business'; it's not a dislike of the Republican party qua political organisation, it's a gut-level reaction against policies and news-snippets that shock the most basic, fundamental liberal tendency which we take as a given here in Europe.
That said, I don't view that as classical liberalism. It's as mindless and closed minded to only be willing to look outside as it is to look within for ideas. American liberals just seem to have an overwhelming desire to fit in and conform to what's 'normal' in the rest of the world. There's nothing brave or intellectual about that, but there is bravery in standing up and saying 'fuck you, we like how we are'... except the people most likely to say that are the moral crusaders who don't actually like the country and want to change it into their own moralist utopia... It's a loss whichever way you turn honestly.
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
CC-Marley wrote:
Ah the good old ASVAB. Was a fun day at MEPS. IIRC I got an 88.
How the hell do you get a 60?Jay wrote:
I got a 94. I think my brother scored in the 60s
I got an AFQT of 99 on 2 hours of sleep.
The computerized adaptive test is easier, if you know the material.
It'll just give you a short few successively harder questions, rather than having to daze out answering a million dumb easy questions.
Took the paper "scantron" ASVAB probably a dozen times from 1992-1993, as part of a test group for new version(s) of the test.
I dunno, but apparently that's a high enough score to be a corpsman. Lord knows I wouldn't wanna depend on him to save my life.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
corpsman? more like corpseman with his ASVABJay wrote:
I dunno, but apparently that's a high enough score to be a corpsman. Lord knows I wouldn't wanna depend on him to save my life.