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Yes Cassy, the actions of one persons is indicative of the group at whole.

Never mind the details of the fund drive, why should anyone person or group be allowed to solicit donations at a polling place?

By the way, Army desertion is up 42% this year over last and up 80% since 2003. The best way to support the troops is to get them home.

Source? And 42% of what?

Barney,
What part of the prior permission escapes you?

Now, up 42% sounds really big, doesn't it? But when you start with a small number, it doesn't take much to increase it by a big looking percentage.
Something like 7 out of 1000 up to 9 out of 1000, say.
But trust a serial prevaricator like Barney to spin small increases into something that sounds impressive.
Probably does the same thing on dates when the lights go out...

Just a heads up folks...
Be sure to allow for some scrutiny
http://www.tagworld.com/davidbowers/PostDetail.aspx?id=fe365a7d-1623-467c-8995-85c7d9fad166

"According to the Army, about nine in every 1,000 soldiers deserted in fiscal year 2007 (which ended Sept. 30), compared to nearly seven per 1,000 a year earlier. Overall, 4,698 soldiers deserted this year, compared to 3,301 last year. "

Source CBS news

So you see the 9 out of every 1,000 is a big deal scuzzy when you are talking about a base 500,000.

Is there a place we can send money to to donate to that boy scout troop?

All Services Meet Recruitment Goals ... Every active-duty and reserve branch of the military met its accession goals in October, permitting recruiters across the board to begin fiscal year 2008 in the plus column. ... The Army brought in 4,564 recruits, 64 more than needed for October for a rate of 101 percent. The Marine Corps netted 2,788 new people, 68 more than goal for 102 percent.

And some will de-volunteer themselves. I'd pretty much be willing to bet they'll be looking over their shoulders the rest of their lives, waiting to be caught... by a military that is just as glad to see them gone.

I guess it'd be a lot better to have a draft and considerably higher numbers of deserters.

By the way, what happens if they get tired of being deserters?

Despite the continued increase in Army desertions, however, an Associated Press examination of Pentagon figures this year showed that the military does little to find those who bolt, and rarely prosecutes the ones they find. Some are allowed to simply return to their units, while most are given less-than-honorable discharges.

Here we go again. I thought we put this "make all AWOL soldiers deserters" bending statistics garbage to bed months ago. Is NG and BG's short term memory that bad, or do they think our's is?

Someone needs to make contact with a lot of these loons, with a baseball bat to the head.

baghdad barney:

By the way, Army desertion is up 42% this year over last and up 80% since 2003. The best way to support the troops is to get them home.

And so...

There's bad apples on every tree. Just look at congress. That aside, the Army makes it too easy to desert:

Despite the continued increase in desertions, however, an Associated Press examination of Pentagon figures earlier this year showed that the military does little to find those who bolt, and rarely prosecutes the ones they get. Some are allowed to simply return to their units, while most are given less-than-honorable discharges.

I didn't think so.

But maybe this will help in keeping a few potential yellow-bellies from fleeing north.

I agree with the valuable lesson. They are learning early about intolerance and the fascist tyranny labeled malapropos as political correctness.

Pathetic. Some people here don't deserve to be here--pure accident of birth. Venezuela, Iran, Russia would do them better.

Isn't it lovely how liberals do everything they can to make us lose wars?

500,000-4698.hmmm.., not a big deal.

Barney the incredible buffoon: "Yes Cassy, the actions of one persons is indicative of the group at whole."

Never mind the details of the fund drive, why should anyone person or group be allowed to solicit donations at a polling place?"

hmmmmmm, lets see who else was "soliciting" at the polling places without any problem. From the Boston Herald: "At the same polling station that was the scene of the complaint, on the same bulletin board where the Scouts had posted their flier were about 75 other fliers. According to Patterson they included those "promoting Get Out of Iraq, Campus Green, College Democrats of America." The only one removed belonged to "those evil Boy Scouts collecting things for the troops," he added."

Face it Barney, lefties hate the troops. Always have, always will. Keep up your lying lefty ways however. You aren't fooling anyone with your transparent, Freshman-level "Rules for Radicals" hijinks.

Moron.

"That aside, the Army makes it too easy to desert:" marc

According to marc it is the pentagon's fault that so many active duty army personnel are deserting.

Marc, why does the army hate the army?:

It's getting much harder to fool people, which really sucks for the left. They've unknowingly depended for years on a lack of accurate reporting about their events and aims, poor communication and coordination between folks on the right, and negligent recording of their thoughts and words... and excesses. After all, if you can control what's known about an event, you essentially shape the event - right?

But the internet doesn't forget - and it's getting easier and easier to disseminate information about things they'd much rather keep quiet. For instance, the University of Delaware's residential indoctrination is certainly something that they didn't want widely known. You can pull up accurate quotes of candidate opinions, and contrast what they said THEN with what they're saying NOW.

You can get information from a newspaper halfway across the country... and find out what happened, and what people think of it.

Boston Daily Blog - Boston Magazine

This is how the idea that those who are against the war are also somehow against the troops gets started. Good for you, Cambridge. You've managed to teach a group of kids that ideology trumps empathy every time. Well, if you want to eliminate war what better way to do it than eliminate the troops? And since you can't simply march them off a cliff (think of the ecological damage, though it might be justifiable as PC since that was a way the Amerinds used to hunt buffalo, and what was good enough then should be good enough now) it'd be best to try to deprive them of creature comforts so they'll get out of the military.

So when the Boy Scouts wanted to get stuff for the troops - it was for the troops' own long-term good that they were refused.

But who would think that people would believe Boy Scouts over an election commissioner? Or accounts by students in a dorm over the word of the Dean?

Don't they know better than to Question Authority?

Dammit. I hate losing blockquotes that way.

Let's try again...

Boston Daily Blog - Boston Magazine... This is how the idea that those who are against the war are also somehow against the troops gets started. Good for you, Cambridge. You've managed to teach a group of kids that ideology trumps empathy every time.

Well, if you want to eliminate war what better way to do it than eliminate the troops? And since you can't simply march them off a cliff (think of the ecological damage, though it might be justifiable as PC since that was a way the Amerinds used to hunt buffalo, and what was good enough then should be good enough now) it'd be best to try to deprive them of creature comforts so they'll get out of the military.

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Sorry about that.

Baghdad barney:

"Marc, why does the army hate the army?:" Child-like logic is comical.

But not from an alleged adult such as your self.

One of the comments in the Wicked site linked above in this post was from an anonymous poll worker who seems to have the real skinny on the events that transpired. I'd recommend following the link [never got permission] and scrolling down to the comments near the bottom. It supports contentions that this is more than buffoonery, but evil workings of a person with delusions of grandeur.

Hey Barney, if CBS was the source you best check if the info came in from a Kinko's fax machine.

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