With England starting to bail out of Iraq and Bush banging the Iran War drum, what's a parent to do when the draft board comes a-calling?
Canada's conservative Stephen Harper is unlikely to offer safe haven to your nineteen-year-old.
And the military is desperate for new recruits:
...the Army has found itself recklessly expanding the granting of "moral waivers," which let people convicted of serious misdemeanors and even some felonies enlist in its ranks.
Last year, such waivers were granted to 8,129 men and women — or more than one out of every 10 new Army recruits. That number is up 65 percent since 2003, the year President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq. In the last three years, more than 125,000 moral waivers have been granted by America's four military services.
Most of last year's Army waivers were for serious misdemeanors, like aggravated assault, robbery, burglary and vehicular homicide. But around 900 — double the number in 2003 — were for felonies.
Even so, there's one kind of person they don't want watching their backs in the trenches. Mitt Romney, for one, seems to think outed gays are too immoral for those waivers:
We're in the middle of a conflict. Now is not the time for a change in that regard, and I don't have a policy posture as to allowing gays in the military to serve there openly.
Clearly, it's time to reverse-engineer Ted Haggard's cure, and turn our kids as gay as a baby's giggle.
Which would you prefer for your son— a Purple Heart or a purple man-bag?
I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go crank up the "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" CD and then take the young-uns out to a charming little bistro and hope they'll be gay enough when the time comes.
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yup--
i've spread the word that i'll claim to be anyone's lover to get them out.
God bless you, amberglow
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people ask me why i use the nym "dyke"
and i'm not joking when i tell them it's because the Corps would've sent me a letter demanding my return long ago, were it not for the fact that i am a muff diver.
/goes back to vigorously licking titties/
Vigorously licking...
... like your life depended on it.
It's pr0n day at Correntewire!
Come to think of it, so to speak, maybe there should be a National Pr0n Day. We keep hearing what a robust industry it is, and the business of America is business.
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"Robust"
Snicker.
And I particularly like the polymorphous perversity implied by the question: "Who put the bust in robust?"
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
They have a way of dealing with you people in Maryland...
The legislature is right on top of these heinous matters:
They're only a toy, but they're also unpleasant to look at, said Bragunier, worried what his 2-year-old girl might think someday.
"My daughter's going to see this," he said. "She's going to ask what this is. I don't want to be put in that spot. I don't think I ever want to be in that spot."
Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr., R-Washington/Allegany, agreed.
This week, he filed a bill for Maryland to ban the toys and others like them.
The bill prohibits any "model, sign, sticker or other item" that shows uncovered human or animal genitals, as well as human buttocks or female breasts, from motor vehicles.
Myers sees his bill as a legislative public service.
It's so nice to have a suitable comment thread to drop these items into, rather than have to pollute the extremely serious front page with discussions of rubber bull scrotums.
Attention: Bill Griffith
If there were ever a phrase that Zippy the Pinhead should repeat over and over, it's "rubber bull scrotums."
Or is it "scrota"?
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A story for National Pr0n Day
The "money quote" is "I had the sword extended. But that was all."
Given that they gave the swordsman's name and town, it shouldn't be too difficult for other nosy neighbors to figure out who the guy with the risqué video is.
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