Everything in Moderation . . . including Humanity!!

Barack Hussein Obama: The Audacity of Eloquence

2007-01-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

Does Barack Obama offer anything else besides his uncanny ability for eloquent speech? Will his past affiliation to the Muslim religion become his biggest vulnerability? Will post 9-11 America be able to consider a Presidential Candidate who used to proclaim himself a Muslim?

"...his teacher at the school sent a note home to his mother that Obama made trouble by making faces while the class was studying the Koran" -- "Audacity of Hope"
Obama

...ON THE IRRELEVANT INSIGHT MAGAZINE FIASCO

WHO CARES IF IT WAS OR WASN'T A MADRASSA OR WHETHER HE WAS A MUSLIM OR NOT ..the mere affiliation to Islam, at anytime in his life, is damaging enough! I'm sorry, but the reality is, when it it comes to American Politics, Barac's ethnic heritage IS a vulnerability ....and Obama more than anyone else is aware of this.

Having an affiliation to the muslim religion shouldn't be a problem...but it is!! ...especially in a world where the muslim religion, albeit a fanatical part, has the capacity to reach children like
this!!

CHILD ABUSE
To some, this is the status quo, the quintessential stereotype of Islam, especially on the right... to others on the left, this is a small group within the muslim population who are fanatical ...whichever it is...the mere existence of it alone gives the WHOLE muslim faith a bad name and any affiliation to it the appropriate misnomered stereotype.

...CAVEATS ON FANATICISM AND THE BIRTH OF MALEVOLENCE
You know what's funny, and people never seem to address this, but the one overwhelming difference between the christian fanatic and the islamic fanatic is the latters ardent fervor for killing. For example, you don't see christian fanatics beheading non-believers or performing 12th century rituals like clitorectamies, stonings, and ahh yes lets not forget bride burning...one of many honor killings. If you don't believe me..look at my other posts!

We are lucky to live in a world where our main concern is weekend BBQs and the occasional grey anatomy cohort of gay bashing.
Globalization has made this world so small, people who thought they were poor can now clearly see (with the help of technology) the amenities of the western world in High Definition... They must wonder how such opulent lives exist while they are so accustomed to so little ..like going to the bathroom without toilet paper...something we take for granted every single day! You think I'm joking!!!!.., but try traveling somewhere else besides Europe and good hygiene easily becomes a luxury. I can only say these things from experience after frequenting third world countries. In particular, I can't help, but remember that one amazonian indigenous man in Peru who told me how happy he was until he encountered TV!! Ignorance is bliss!

..OK , granted i have seen Christian fanatics profess violence, commit murder (e.g. victims in the gay population), etc. ..but there is a distinct difference between government sanctioned execution of gay citizens and the occasional ILLEGAL hate crime committed in this country. If you profess your homosexuality, this muslim government (click on the link) will hang you!

A Babble of Political Incorrectness
Imagine if our government was a religious theocracy, some may think we are headed that way, but such an argument only sways attention away from what is happening RIGHT NOW!!! ...where children are raised to hate us along with any form of westernization. Why do liberals always avoid this issue. I was somewhat of a moderate myself ...that is before 9-11, but after other humanbeings of obvious middle eastern decent..and of obvious islamic predisposition attacked this country, I changed ...I told myself: why wouldn't you do everything in your power to separate yourself as far away as humanly possible from what those people stood for?

The obvious paradox is exemplified by the fact that not all Islamic people are of middle eastern decent and vice versa and yes, go ahead and include all the other exceptions. I see now how horrible and logical it was to to put the Japanese into interment camps. Despite this issue, i guess at the very least ....when i hear of the fervency in which liberals condemn our government, I can't help but say to myself : "Wow, I just heard Al Zahari say the EXACT SAME thing you said about President Bush". Does this make liberals exactly like our enemies???..., perhaps not exactly...but liberals always seem to conveniently overlook the extreme fundamentalism behind the Islamic paradigm.

For instance, if Islamic fundamentalists were to successfully overthrow this country and the liberals were to make a last ditch effort for their lives by decreeing their admonishment for President Bush in exchange for their lives, they would still succumb to be-headings like the rest of us !!! ....Whereas if this country was to stay just the way it is, their admonishment would be protected by their 1st amendment rights. The next question would be: is it feasible to think that they could conquer the united states? Does preemption prove itself if nothing occurs? Why didnt truman go after china the way he went after japan when he had the chance? ...would vietnam and korea still have happened?? ...probably not. I guess a proxy war is what America does best when liberals keep aggression at bay...Alas, i'm all for it i guess....because in the end more people will die..which coincides with my appeasement of curbing human overpopulation.....so yay! GO LIBERALS! ..my ideal is a conservative one..my reality is the result of liberalism.

.....i mean just grasping ....comprehending ...pondering the potential enormity of the aforementioned scenario as an actual reality and it almost seems like a joke ...but perhaps, for just one second, for the sake of argument, navigate yourself into that mindset and decide: Is it better that our troops die in Iraq alongside iraqi civilians or here next to innocent American civilians (e.g. your parents!...siblings!!!) (and if you dont agree with the whole iraq thing, just blatantly pick any middle eastern country of your choice..they ALL have at least one person wanting to kill us...and it only takes one!) .....if death was to be your only choice, which death would you choose? I dunno call me selfish but i've come to the quick and prudent conclusion that i would want the battle to be on foreign soil. And personally, i feel we should kill them first before giving them ANY opportunity to take over the United
States of America

Boycotting American Food!!!

MEDIA
I find it funny when the same people who hold ABC news in such high regard vilify it when their news stories don't coincide with their own personal beliefs..don't get me wrong ..I have never believed the potholed news spewing out of ABC ..or for that matter any network news ...but it is so hysterical to see the liberals eat each other up like this.

...ON OBAMA AND HIS CHILDHOOD
That's fine if you studied the Koran as a child or went to an indonesian "public" school to study math, science...and the koran....be proud of that fact...it shouldnt be a factor, but in today's America it is a factor. Alas, I do not see Barack Hussein Obama really winning any race outside of california and new york.

CREATED BY A SCHOOL TEACHER!!!!!

2006-04-26T18:26:00.000-07:00

Like many governments, the US tries to protect its citizens from quackery and scam. We license medical service providers, regulate clinical drug testing, and enforce disclosures of medical risks. Indeed, societies need these processes to properly assess the efficacy and dangers of new medical technologies. But when the vast majority of our population lacks a basic understanding of scientific principles, the medical safeguards fail. Con men exploit the scientifically illiterate by appealling to their hope for miracle cures, while overcoming their skepticism with confusing and intimidating jargon.

Today's blog post is inspired by one particularly egregious example of highly scalable theft -- a phenomenally successful product called Airborne, that is the number one selling cold and flu remedy in many large drug retailers. Allegedly, sales have topped $100 million after several consecutive years of doubling revenues.

The pill itself is nothing but some vitamins, some commercially tired herbs and the electrolytes you get from a swish of Gatorade. But Airborne's success springs from a remarkably shrewd and sinister campaign that employs a number of diversions to mislead the public without blatantly violating any laws. Essentially, the clever marketing messages and packaging suggest that Airborne cures the common cold, without ever actually saying so.

- Finally someone else who noticed this "quackery" ...Please read the rest here.
Thanks David, you are an inspiration!!

Hey Mike Luckovich, it is OK to ask WHY, but be prepared to hear the answer!

2006-04-19T13:48:00.000-07:00

....so that you can live in a world where you can ask that very question....without being killed for asking it.

There is no civility in a Islamofacist world...a world which will become a local reality if you don't kill them first.

I hope the libs, tethered to their ideals, don't get too upset. I actually like Mike.

LIBERAL SCUM : the result of what toils within America's most popular mental disorder

2006-04-16T02:40:00.000-07:00

Click On PICTURE FOR more liberal blindness and correctness...I guess leaks in the government and local gas prices are more important than preventing an Islamofacist world from entering our country

Yes, you rant about America's imperialism, and our horrible president...your liberal pacifism knows no bounds ...where turning the other cheek in blatant disregard to human suffering is better than fighting and facing the reality ...ok i'll stop...but C'MON!! this is like something out of the jim crow era! How can you just sit there... eating your tofu, hugging a tree, wasting your time coming up with new cynical quips mirroring your disdain for the President ... and just sit idly by ..while you protest your anti-military/anti-gun liberal agenda against this reality!!

Man in Iran has wife executed for hitting him after he lost their daughter in a gambling match..oh it gets better...

liberals in America cry, "the man has rights!!" "..we should not intervene in delicate matters of the iranian culture..." and if we do intervene?? An unnamed liberal news anchor responds"this is the long arm of America's imperialization if we DO intervene!"

ahhh yes the familiar protect-the victims-rights-at-whatever-cost mentality and in this case, the victim is the man! This liberal mentality is carried over locally in our own society albeit a smaller scale.

oh here is a good one...Soldier court-martialled after killing enemy combatant with a bomb strapped to his chest, but because the insurgent didn't attack first, preemptive attack was not deemed "appropriate"...I heard about this locally the other day: man shoots gang member in back after gang member allegedly rapes his wife- man goes to jail because he shot the gang member in the back . Or the more recent: Mother of gang member sues peace officer after son was shot car jacking a couple in broad daylight!. The liberal agenda prevails everytime..I swear I live in the most backwards state in the union!!

WHAT THE LIBERAL PRESS WILL NOT SHOW YOU!!! <----CLICK HERE

This is ridiculous .....and liberals think preemption is a bad idea compared to this, where President Bush is soooo baaaad compared to this….where notions of imperialism and mishandled prisoners at Gitmo pales in comparison to this.....sorry my fellow liberal scum Americans ..it does not.

IRAN : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.

I'm sorry, but PEACE should NOT prevail against a place where things like this are common.

Man is sentenced to death for DRINKING WINE!! ...third offense so he is sentenced to death

Yes, I am all about curbing human overpopulation...but I have my preferences...and people who run a country with Islamofascist ideals should die first and then the peace loving liberals who do nothing to stop them should be next.

If this is what they do to their own people try to fathom what they would do to your family.

"Evil only prevails when good people do nothing."

-Holocaust survivor KTVU News San Francisco

GOODBYE EMMA!!! ( My very own acrimonious dialogue with America's most famous anarchist.)

2006-03-27T16:26:00.000-08:00

May your deportation from America, your disilusionment in Communist Russia thereafter, and your bolshevik socialist utopian ideals be your eternal punishment.

May you learn that free speech with responsibility is better than no free speech at all as you witnessed in Communist Russia, where Sasha Birkman's bolshevik marxist ideals exploded in your face. Where true freedoms were an illusion and any attempt to change the status quo meant death in your iconic left winged peace driven socalist world. At least in America I can disagree with you all night long and not be killed for it ..ironically as they do in most of the middle east or in your case Communist Russia.

May the rebirth of the Palmer Raids be something my generation can also experience.

.....so we can deport the people who incite violence as welll....

As the Dutch say, "GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY IF YOU DON'T SPEAK MY LANGUAGE OR LEARN MY CULTURE!!"

2006-03-27T16:04:00.000-08:00

First, I don't really agree with the liberal culture exhibited by the Dutch, but despite what I think, if I decide to move to the Netherlands, I need to take a test which forces me to understand and accept the Dutch culture and more importantly know their language. There is something refreshing about a country attempting to protect its sovereignty, liberal or conservative.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11842116/

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

--Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

I'd Like to thank LOU DOBBS on CNN for this quote. I don't particularly see eye to eye with him on most political issues, but on this I do.

The unfortunate schism between the Military and Non-military

2006-02-27T04:14:00.000-08:00

Why do the intellectual elitists and the liberal fanatics in this country always seem to have a tendency to taboo the military? (notice I separate the two) Don't they see how much more effective their military would be if they just partook in its infrastrucure. Don't they notice the HUGE divide in perspective between the people in the military and the people in our society who are not necessarily anti-military, but are using their intelligence for other endeavors...and conveniently have no problem criticizing the military, but again at the same time do nothing to improve it. This divide has become smaller since 9/11 and eventually will become even smaller when we leave Iraq and the terrorists attack US soil. I guess we need to wait until they attack us again so their quality of life will become more directly interrupted.

Iranian Dreams

2006-02-18T23:12:00.000-08:00

Iranian_Dreams
Originally uploaded by divermike.

Up to him that will be Israel, Europe, and the US...ah anything but Islam.

DEFINE IRONY

2006-02-15T13:53:00.000-08:00

The liberals don't understand the irony of honor killings in light of the whole abu ghraib fiasco so let's see if they can discover the irony in this photo!

The U.S. Population grows at a rate of one person every 12 seconds. WHO CARES ABOUT THE COST OF WAR IN IRAQ!!

2006-01-13T13:20:00.000-08:00

The median quality of life on this planet is directly proportional to the rate of global overpopulation. I am reminded by this every time I step out of my house and face the massive amount of congestion on the freeway, at the supermarket, at the DMV ...all of which did not exist for me 10 years ago..and if this hasn't reached you yet, don't worry...it will.

MORE PEACE = MORE PEOPLE = MORE WAR = MORE PEACE = MORE PEOPLE = MORE WAR

2006-01-11T16:21:00.000-08:00

Thankfully President Bush is aggressive. The solution seems so simple and yet people want to complicate the simple endeavor of attacking a population who has attacked us on more than one occasion with political apathy and peace!…here is how simple it is: the people responsible for attacking the united states on 9-11 are coincidentally of middle eastern decent , so is it at ALL REMOTELY FEASBLE to create a strategy of retaliation based on this irrefutable evidence ...this of course is sooo politically incorrect, but factually realistic and cannot be IGNORED or DISPUTED = hmmm how can we effectively deploy our military to reflect this undisputed type of information. why couldn't bush just say "we need go to the middle east and take military residence in as many places as possible to prevent any kind of operational or strategic outlets for terrorism to begin." Period. Oh..and while we're there let's hit two birds with one stone..and also solidify our endeavors for oil..(if you don't like it or if you condem this, DON'T DRIVE, you should THANK PRESIDENT BUSH for giving you more of something you need every single day, EVEN IF YOU DON'T WANT IT!!) ..If this ignites more terrorism or is an inconvenience to the Iraqi people it won’t compare to the years of accumulated resentment already residing in the region and it won’t compare to the amount of terrorism created if we do nothing. GEEEZZZ!! HOW SIMPLE IS THAT..and if your contention is war will breed even more terrorism ..then let me stamp out any misinformation with a simple tally -- when 9-11 occurred we were not at war with Iraq nor anyone else!!...so lets tally up the points...AT WAR:zero attacks against the US -- NO WAR:one attack against the US....geez even if we are attacked while at war we are still tied according to the tally!! So a contention that war will breed more terrorism locally in the US is at present moot. As far as suffering in Iraq-- Let me present a hypothetical example …if you only had two choices…would you rather inconvenience yourself with the responsibility of cleaning up a dirty bomb at your local stadium that may or may not have killed your sister who was at the Walgreens across the street or with the inconvenience of an Iraqi family who doesn’t have electricity once again because an IED destroyed the generator next door along with an American humvee and their eldest son. These are both two horrible humanitarian scenarios ..but you can only pick one…if it had to occur which would you pick as your reality??? ….your priority thus becomes more biased ..as an American it should lie first with your family and friends who happen to reside here in this country …and although still a priority, the suffering of the Iraqi people should be put into perspective...this lack of reality hitting home needs to affect us again locally before liberals jump on the "better safe than sorry" bandwagon. I guess 9-11 was not enough suffering for them ..the Iraqi people I guess, take more of a precedence...

THIS COULD BE YOU IF YOU DON'T PARTAKE IN SOME KIND OF AGRESSIVENESS

Endeavors of the proletariat and the aristocracy: Torture, Nuclear Holocaust, and presence in the Middle East

2006-01-11T16:18:00.000-08:00

First , mark my words , if the US permanently leaves Iraq we will see Iran take over the weakened leaderless Iraq and create a Syrian or Iranian Persian state and THEN we will most definitely see nuclear weapons here at home. Our ideas of democracy succeeded in creating a German state where we made sure war would cease to ever exist again in Europe. Again, our implementation of democracy and continued presence continues to succeed in Japan as well. Little do people know the Japanese were more willing to die than any Al Qaeda fundamentalist. Also, don't forget, South Korea was an impoverished country with an unsustainable economy until our democratic endeavors there helped make them a more capable economic super power. Rumsfeld just returned from South Korea giving them a long awaited opportunity to take over their own defenses. I also sincerely hope Bolton and Rice succeed in there recent efforts to tighten the ropes with Syria and Iran as they successfully did with North Korea. Also, the UN remains incompetent regarding the recent security council suggestions, but I think Russia and France will come around soon enough. Frankly, I think we should invade Syria after their regime changes next year and burn the bodies of Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, as they do with our own soldiers, but that is just my own lowly opinion. When I saw McCain stand up in congress the other day trying to ratify that torture bill and said we “cannot become our enemy we are Americans, we are better than that”, I was utterly mortified because it is that exact same mentality which contributes to the loss of American lives and more importantly the lose of war….when are people going to stop being so touchy feely about war or I guess I should defend this more eloquently: how can one logically make something soo barbaric, morose, and un-humanitarian ..hmmm SUCH AS WAR into something humanitarian ..its very nature is the opposite....WAR IS death.. WAR IS inhumanity ...and then very regally and civilly impose rules to something that has no rules…do you actually think for one minute that a plain clothed terrorist dressed as a doctor in an ambulance gives a damn about the Geneva Conventions. Do you think we cared about the rules of war when we bombed Japan with nuclear weapons. Yes killing people sucks ..but if you don’t have the heart to kill them they will kill you

…..its so funny the British exhibited the EXACT same sentiments as Sen. McCain and lost during the American revolution.....aahhh yes I can see them now (the British during the revolutionary war) saying things like….."those unruly American militiamen have no honor they don’t fight the way we do..like gentlemen.. lined up with precisive columned order (The British preferred to fight in the traditional Continental style throughout the rev.war…more humanitarian ..more civilized I guess)...the british would complain "they come behind us with guerrilla warfare tactics acquired from those nasty native American Indians and kill us like dogs they wont face us like true gentleman!!!".

Thankfully, the Colonial Resistance during the 1700s was a huge success because we did the opposite of what humanitarian critics beseech from our current Administration. At the time, the British state was the ultimate super power and they underestimated the Americans’ NON-HUMANITARIAN resolve. I guess I look at the worst possible scenario: which is Al Qaeda conquering the united states...and I say Yes, we are Americans, and we should "hold ourselves to a higher standard" , but do so with an apprehensive sense of pride because if our enemy is willing to do things financially and militarily that we are not willing to do... all of us will see nuclear weapons on our soil and we will lose. I would rather have no job, no medical insurance, high tuition, no retirement, failing schools, and no police department or fire department (insert your local govt prob here) than have our country conquered and run by a fanatical Islamic nation. -- As Reagan once said, “like communism, Islamic radicalism will also fall.”

IN MEMORY OF RICHARD MAY

2006-01-07T13:38:00.000-08:00

Another officer was shot and killed today in the infamous area of East Palo Alto, CA. I went to the funeral and the whole thing affected me on a very deep level. I was very sad to see his family and since I personally know some police officers the whole thing kinda irked me. I was so angry, but at least this whole situation just helps me reiterate this blog.......there are just too many people in this world and when people do die, it's always the wrong person.

***Thank You Richard May for protecting us***

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WHEN IN AMERICA DO AS THE AMERICANS DO

2005-12-30T03:47:00.000-08:00

Do you really want to know the actual reason why Rome fell…??

WELL HERE IT IS...because the amount of Romans that made up the general population became so large and unmanageable...that politically the leaders whose job it was to bring the roman empire successfully into the next century could not help the people progress any further.

Instead, no matter what was politically propositioned to the public, the population became sooo large and soooo politically diverse that at the very least, there was always one group trying to stop them...so what happens when rulers of a country become completely powerless or at least hindered politically?? ....well of course you may prevent unwanted societal regressions or perhaps even ignite a revolution, which is fine and dandy, but also very unstable and temporary due to the nature political revolutions. Conversely, the other outcome is possibly a stagnate political stale mate, halting any sort of significant political progression -just more of the same ..whether it be republican or democrat. Now our current administration is far away from an actual revolution, but we do seem to be suffering from some sort of lack in progression or political momentum. If you have a political state without progression, then you have a country that cannot sustain itself or at the very least goes into political upheaval which is perhaps the natural result of any garden variety superpower. It seems like whichever president we elect, there is always someone trying to stop what he is doing. I agree with all of our checks and balances to thwart absolute power, but there also must be some middle ground we can all agree upon.

Putting the BOLTON "stamp of approval" on the UN

2005-11-18T04:43:00.000-08:00

thanx Partisan Pundit-

UN extends mandate of Iraq troops <---CLICK LINK

The United Nations has extended the mandate of the US-led multinational forces in Iraq for another year.

US ambassador to the UN John Bolton praised the decision, saying: "The unanimous adoption of this resolution is a vivid demonstration of broad international support for a federal, democratic, pluralistic and unified Iraq."

And more contracts for Haliburton!!! YAY!!

Hey. Lefty friends. Read it again. U-N M-A-N-D-A-T-E. As in, UNITED NATIONS. Or did Bush talk all fancy, use big words, and hoodwink the UN just like he did the US Congress.

HAHAA-thank you PARTISAN PUNDIT------------------------------------------

IN RESPONSE TO BILL O'RIELLY ON SAN FRANCISCO

2005-11-12T11:02:00.000-08:00

Come on people, let's put this whole thing into a little perspective. If you thought what Bill said was so offensive, and it may have truly been offensive, then why didn't you make such a hoopla when the professor at Colorado state mentioned how all the victims of 9/11 were just Nazis "little Ikemans" or when Al Franken/Michael Moore say something just as offensive. Personally, comparing the victims of 9/11 to Nazis is faaaaaar more offensive to me than someone saying Al queda should bomb Coit tower. Moreover, I've heard far worse seep out of the lips of Al Franken. So why the big deal?? Is it because I live in the bay area? Hmmm.

Somehow it is OK to call innocent victims of 9-11 who simply were going to work to support their families as “Little Ikemans”

The media in the Bay Area(San Francisco) has a tendency to vilify Bill O'reilly. Coincidentally, the people of the bay area who limit their viewing and only watch non cable TV are unfortunately naive enough to see one excerpt of bill's show and immediately pass absolute judgment without even seeing the whole show .. In fact, what they actually see is an exacerbated jovial tone taken out of context and replayed on the media for all to see. Initially, I was even taken aback by the statement until I watched the whole show in its entirety....little do they know that if they actually watch the bill o’reilly show with more regularity they would agree with 90% OF WHAT HE SAYS..(ok..probably not)....as for me, I just tack this on to the other 10%. Unfortunately, they only see one view and have no other input for impartial comparison, hence disfiguring their perspective. To them, CBS,NBC,ABC and other network television outlets are the holy grail for news worthiness.

Yes, I agree, ultimately all these comments are bad and yes, they all come full circle, but then why don't they equally share the same media attention (especially in the liberal Bay AREA!! ..maybe I just answered my question). Well I guess when I say lack of perspective, I should say lack of reputable media sources. It may be really hard for some to attain any perspective when all they read is CNN on the internet, or listen to KRON 4, KTVU, NBC11 CBS 5,etc. (these are all local news channels where I live - CBS channel 5 is the worst of them all) or Time Magazine, or newspapers like the Argus ( my gf lives in Fremont, CA and I have a whole blog dedicated to the impropriety of the ARGUS newspaper) all of which are heavily biased.....and if you think these examples belong to the epitome of ethical journalism or are the end all for all that is sacred truth and factual, then you are in for a big surprise.

So Bill, please don't apologize for anything. The military should recruit in High Schools! People respond to me by saying " well you had a way out they didn't recruit at your High School ( I went to a private HS), but they recruit more heavily in impoverished neighborhoods where they don't have a way out" (REMEMBER THE WORDS "WAY OUT"... I will discuss this later)

Ok let me defend this point. First, my HS was heavily recruited by the military, granted it wasn't the traditional army or marines. But I remember West point, the naval academy @anapolis, and the Air Force Academy @colorado springs were at my HS every week in the months of sept., oct., and nov. and it wasn't like they had a gun to our heads telling us we needed to join. As for impoverished neighborhoods, the HS kids in oakland, fremont, concord, richmond, pittsburg (the east bay in the bay area is more impoverished the rest of the bay area) all have the exact same choice I do when a recruiter goes into their neighborhood. But yes, to the typical liberal outsider, it may seem like these poor, downtrodden black/mexican/asian(<---insert your growing CA majority here) children could either join the detriment of the (no way out) US military or sling crack and be in a gang for a living ..so they don't have the same choice. And yes, this may very well be true in some circumstances, but let us add a more biased view. The Military has helped more people who sling crack for a living than any other profession in the united states. And guess what, if your parents sling crack, you most likely will also have the short lived profession of slinging crack. So by all means, the military is a nice alternative to turn your life around. I know I am being a little cynical but here is the cold hard truth...there will always be impoverished neighborhoods in this world, and there is nothing you nor I can do to completely eliminate them. There will always be the rich and there will always be the poor. And to be completely politically incorrect, the harshness of being poor may harden an individual making them a prime candidate for the military (among other professions). Is this exploitation? suuure ..and so be it..be thankful ...why? Because there are only two types of people in this world : the exploitee and the exploiter..the have and the have nots.

So in essence, the military should have a more positive connotation associated with it than "the no way out-so-lets-go join the military" option. The military should be viewed as a more viable and serious career option ..FOR THE RIGHT PERSON. I personally know many people from impoverished neighborhoods that i've met in college who have used the military as a springboard to further the quality of their lives and their careers and most attribute their extreme success to their experiences in the military. In the same manner, I also have met people who served in the military and have a sort of disdain for the military and their lives are mediocre at best. So I guess its hard to say, how people will turn out after their stint in the military, but who am I or you to say whether or not a recruiter from the military or from a non-reputable college can or cannot go to your HS for recruiting purposes. If it were me, and I was a military recruiter..I would do what a boxing promoter does. Go to the poorest harshest most gang infested neighborhoods and check out their boxing gyms. A boxing promoter finds his best fighters where the population of tough hardened individuals is the highest ..just ask Mike Tyson where he came from before he became the (former) undisputed boxing champion. In the same manner, the military should recruit in these locations.

If you step waaaay back and I mean look at the real big picture here..(sometimes it's hard for liberals to think outside of the box...their lust for peace and their dangerous reverence for anything humanitarian clouds their judgement) ...this whole scenario also serves as a form of societal equilibrium: as long as the military recruits more and more hardened "wannabee" criminal youths who enjoy slinging crack, the less crime society will endure...and if any part of society should be expendable, it should be criminals who have a tendancy for violence..and to make this incredibly simple for our liberal readers : a soldier's first priority in war is to kill other people...since that is the type of person we need in the military why not preference people who are already in the business of wanting to kill. They fail to realize war is death and this death, although tragic, helps prevent longterm unnecessary suffering. This sounds a little inhumane and direct, but reality usually is..