Make sure you keep watching American Idol or Dancing with the Stars

Because, nobody would ever want you to look at this.
Why would they want you to see THIS when they can ream burger ads down your throat and then weight loss ads after that? 

Why would you want to know about the 'reality of war' when you can just watch the 'reality of Jersey Shore'?
Why DJ Paulie and that Snooky...  they have the best tans!



Brief Interruption:  Not brought to you by McDonalds or Jenny Craig.

(Seriously folks.  Let's take some of the money spend on blowing up other countries and rebuilding them at the cost of taxpayers in the USA, and use it to fix the fucking potholes that plague the streets here.  My car is beat up from slamming the fucking potholes in every fucking city I drive through!  But, that doesn't matter, because we need to catch the terrorists and build roads in Iraq.)

(Oh, how about 'pressing 1 for English' and getting India?  Seriously. 
Do I have to rant and go on and on again?
Apparently, because NOBODY GETS IT YET.)


Here sits a son, with his mother. They're hugging.  You can see this guy of 22 years old has half a head.
Yep.  That's right.  Only HALF A HEAD LEFT.  Now his mother has to hug her child who had a whole head before signing up for the military.  He's back, and he's alive, minus half his head. 

And every time I meet young guys in the club who are joining the military for college, I ask them why.
WHY?!

Why, would you want to kill other people you know nothing about, or kill yourself, or kill your mom when she has to bury you?

The most popular reasons they give me are

"I need money for college."

"I can't get a job."

"I don't want to be a loser."

"I want to do something with my life."

"My dad was in the military."

"I just did it cause it sounded good."

Now, to me, these reasons that are factual don't sound like mature reasons.
Of course at 19 or 20 how mature can you be?  (shame on the recruiters here-)
If this is what I'm hearing more than once on more than one occasion, it's got to be fact.

When I get some of these guys, I usually give them a free dance on top of the one they are buying, because
I know I may never see them again, and if I do, they might be in a wheelchair, or on the news because they
died in a country that hates America for occupying their country. 

You see how that makes so much sense now?  And if you can't-- let me break it down for you.

PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION.

And this is not my formula, it has been used by many, many others before me, so let's just take a gander, shall we?

Problem:
People cannot get jobs after graduating high school, therefore going to college is not an option because they can't pay for it.  They also can't afford a place to live, hence that job thing again!

All our jobs have been outsourced to India and other countries that will work for shit money instead of hiring someone here and having to pay them a bit more than minimum wage.  God forbid you actually treat your workers better than average.  Well, they do-- but only if you work for AIG and other places that produce ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

These same people who can't get jobs or go to college find a 'hero' when a military man walks up to them and promises them the world, travel, college, money, and a place to live!  Just sign your life away on the dotted line.
Oh, and if you die, your mom gets a FREE FLAG!

 I think you can see where the REACTION AND SOLUTION PART slithered in.......





This is not a rant against hardworking soldiers.
These soldiers follow a chain of command.
They are the worker ants and cannot ever question authority.
How convenient considering all the wars we are fighting right now are questionable!

So, the next time someone approaches you about joining the military, and doing the right thing, think about this guy, who probably will spend the rest of his life drooling on his mother.  He might never get married.  He might never do anything,  he might never even get to jerk off ever again with that extensive brain damage.

Remember to question every authority you can before you sign up to fight a war that is expensive in money, but expensive in life as well.  The war in Iraq is indeed questionable.  The war in Afghanistan is questionable.
The amount of money spend at the cost of our country, and the cost of the average solder who is going to go there and come back all fucked up being mind or body or both.  With some legs blown off from an IUD,
or some nasty disease, or just suicidal.  Remember, you are the worker ant.  You have no say.  You will do what you are told when you are told, for the benefit of who ever is in charge and whatever agenda they may have.  That is all.  Is this man a hero?  Does he feel like one?  Will we ever know?  What does his mother say to herself every time she looks at him?

Probably that she should have never let him sign up.  As a mother, that's what I'd say.


If nobody was around to fight, there would be no war.

I know oil is expensive, but do we really have to pay in blood?



I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

 
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover  


 The politicians create wars, and the military fights them.  Nobody wins.

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