NEWS: Time to Die for No Reason, Hippy

If only wealthy people go to college then why the hell am I still paying off loans seven years after graduation?

It's not that only rich kids go to college.

It's that, typically it has been the wealthy that could afford to use college attendance specifically as a dodge.

Possibly not.
But from his facial expression, it still looks more like he's making an inside joke. Especially since there don't seem to be pictures of any more service members doing the same, and there most certainly have been ample opportunities.

my guess is draft = massive rioting.

You're assuming he likes his kids...

Fixed.

Let's ask quagmirething.

Hm, IDF, Swiss Military, I know they're not based on the draft, but rather required service. But anyway...

In the event of a draft, I'm joining the Merchant Marines. Yay, tourist boats in Hawaii.

This is claiming to be the same signal (female in the background)


My husband says he doesn't remember that from his survival school, and he isn't the type to forget things.

Her finger seems to be struck in a very deliberative manner--very unnatural. I have no evidence whatsoever, but this type of thing wouldn't surprise me for a second. I mean they're military. I'm sure they have some little inside thing. And no offense, but just 'cause your husband isn't aware of it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Anthropologists call it "weapons of the weak"--which would be ironic in this case.

I'm sure it is a very deliberate signal. I was just relating a bit of personal information along with it.

*edited to add*

I guess I felt the need to add in that my husband didn't learn it in survival school because that is where this signal is supposed to be taught. And he got quite a bit more training than your average soldier because of the jobs that he did when he was active duty. I would have thought that it would be one of those things that were taught to every soldier. *shrug*

I like this one a bit better:

Hawaiin Good Luck Sign

cool

I spelled hawaiian wrong, though.

I quit, I tell you. Quit!

Also as for your open rebellion idea the ones most likely to disagree with the current government are also the ones MOST likely to hate guns and want gun control so yeah that open rebellion idea of yours would end something like Tienamen SQ but faster.

lol...it's OK. Sometimes I prefer the "alternate" spelling.

It's funny to hear so many people bitching about the government. We live in a country where voter turnout is abomindally low and truth is the system is controlled by special interest groups because they are the ones who are most involved. Most folks are to apathetic to do anything other then bitch about it. I personally don't think a draft would be such a bad thing. There are a lot of reasons why it would be good for younger Americans to undergo some sort of service. Being so short of servicemen as we are though it's a shame that we waste a valuable resource by keeping half a million americans who have done nothing other than nonviolently posess or sell contraband locked up in prisons so we can make work for prison guards, cops, and court personnel. We should allow offenders whose only crimes are contraband based to have their sentences commuted if they enlist. This should also apply to parolees.

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I think for me lefty there would be a solid 15; with some ink.....

Perhaps not.

Libertarians don't exactly love Bush, either.

Excellent. I use that one a lot for Hawaiian traffic.

On topic: I have a ten-year-old. Thinking about a draft makes me queasy. I can't imagine how mothers of teenagers feel.

Not really.

It's more that the vast majority of groups who both dislike the current government and are well-armed enough to possibly overthrow that government are filled with psychotic ultraconservative fucktards who blather on about "ZOG" and "the coming race war".

Not exactly the kind of folks I'd like to see take power anywhere.