Do they never learn?

So I hear the Powers That Be are considering bringing back the draft. Are they so out of touch with reality they think it'll be any more popular or work any better than the last time we were in a vastly unpopular war?

I do hope nobody decides to prattle to me about patriotism. My great grandfather was in WW1, my grandfather Irving was in a tank at D-Day, my father was in Thailand the day I was born, and I myself would have been a United States Marine (no, I'm not kidding) if that blessed football game my senior year hadn't occured and perforce turned my left kneecap partially into kindling.

I love America. But what galloping neo-conservatism is turning the "United" States into is rather an unpleasant place.

And another thing..

I patently refuse to be a good little sheep baa baa baa and blindly accept what the gummint spoon feeds (Heck with that - shoves down my throat) me with nary a peep.

I am intelligent, I am emotional, and I was will by God rant against what I perceive to be injustices and outright stupidity. When the gummint does something right, I'll let the world know about that, too. This is, last time I checked, America. We can do that.

Most importantly, I will vote.

I do think RAH's magnificent pronounciamento about no rational decision having occured in the Oval Orifice in the last (at the time) 50 years was spot on.

So come on, all ye conservatives. Issue forth, all ye liberals. Raise up your voices and be heard, because this is STILL one mother of a country to live in. Hallelujia.(sp?)

One thing should be noted

No matter my feelings about the war itself, the first dumb sonofabitch I see calling these troops babykillers is going to get a whole can of Missouri whoopass opened all over 'em, and that's the bottom line, because "Stone Doc" said so!

(fx- crashing glass)

I'd move to Canada in a heartbeat, but..

I refuse to let morons like this take over the country.

If you want a truly amusing take on it by a truly cool guy, go here. Dan rocks my socks.

My life has not been wasted. *sniff*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm