Comments on: Overheard in SF: the draft http://ryanblock.com/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/ Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:44:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mitch http://ryanblock.com/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16219 mitch Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:24:04 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/archive/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16219 Have you seen the Japanes movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/" rel="nofollow">Battle Royale</a>? Sounds like what these guys would like to see. Have you seen the Japanes movie Battle Royale? Sounds like what these guys would like to see.

]]> By: Chris Grant http://ryanblock.com/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16098 Chris Grant Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:53:40 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/archive/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16098 Fly off the handle? You know what your problem is, Ryan? No discipline! A couple months in the Corps oughta straighten you right out! TEN-HUT! Fly off the handle? You know what your problem is, Ryan? No discipline! A couple months in the Corps oughta straighten you right out! TEN-HUT!

]]> By: Rob La Gesse http://ryanblock.com/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16029 Rob La Gesse Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:05:24 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/archive/2007/02/overheard-in-sf-the-draft/#comment-16029 Oddly enough, I mentioned the draft in a blog post today: http://lagesse.org/index.php/2007/02/14/army-giving-more-waivers-in-recruiting/ Of course, I was making the OPPOSITE argument the fat-asses in the flower show were making - we do NOT need the bottom feeders in society in our Miltary. We need the brightest people we can get. Right now just under 12% of all of the Army volunteers are getting in with waivers for serious crimes. And we wonder why we have things like prisoner abuse, or rapes happening at the hands of our troops. We have these problems because these are the people we are depending on to represent us on foreign soil. Rob Oddly enough, I mentioned the draft in a blog post today: http://lagesse.org/index.php/2007/02/14/army-giving-more-waivers-in-recruiting/

Of course, I was making the OPPOSITE argument the fat-asses in the flower show were making – we do NOT need the bottom feeders in society in our Miltary. We need the brightest people we can get.

Right now just under 12% of all of the Army volunteers are getting in with waivers for serious crimes. And we wonder why we have things like prisoner abuse, or rapes happening at the hands of our troops. We have these problems because these are the people we are depending on to represent us on foreign soil.

Rob

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