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Saturday, August 13, 2005

I'm back... pukin' rowdy!

Sorry for the lame comeback (from Varsity Blues, for those of you who care). The way of recruiting has been kicking me in the teeth and various other appendages for the past couple of weeks.

I must say that S. Douglas Smith needs a serious ass kicking... again. I have been on this guys ass in the past, and this time it is no exception. This position (USAREC PAO) damn near needs to be a Cabinet Level Appointment so they get someone with at least a miniscule amount of intelligence about what he says and how it affects the recruiters he works for.

This article (un:mikeunruh@hotmail.com pw: fredderf567 thanks bugmenot.com) uses his own words against us in the field. His words are used as battlecries for the Opt-out campaigns all across the country. I am getting a little tired of school administrators bowing to political pressure from their friends from the political left to push recruiting farther and farther outside the school campus.

Right now, most schools are no problem. They understand that we have a job to do and we work well with the office staff and the guidance staff. People usually understand, when we contact them, that we are doing our job and usually treat us with some speck of respect. If I call a young lady 6 times in a year, I am not really doing my job well.
Aileen Brousseau was dumbfounded when military recruiters called her house six times last year to speak to her daughter Maeze, a junior at Coral Reef Senior High.

The woman wants it to be so horrible. 6 times. 30 seconds a phone call, assuming a typical conversation. 3 minutes of her life taken up. That is 1/175,200 of a year folks.

Brousseau believes schools should be for education, period. ''This [opt-out] clause is perverse,'' she said. ``It has nothing to do with education. . . . The kids should not be hassled.''
weird. Opt-out (defn)- to remove information from a certain list. Perverse- obstinate in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted. The grand rewrite: This removal of information of a list (recruiter school list) is not right or reasonable. I love catching people with their own words.

My brain is still seeing various DD forms in my sleep at present. I will post more. I promise.

Militantpundit posted @ 8:44 PM







Glad you are back.

Posted by Blogger loboinok @ 9:00 AM, August 29, 2005  


Did you dissappear again?

Posted by Blogger Politics of a Patriot @ 6:55 AM, September 24, 2005  


Technical point: To "catch" the writer, you changed a crucial word (clause --> opt-out) thus changing the sentance structure entirely.

Best you can do?

Posted by Blogger JS @ 8:07 AM, November 23, 2005  


but I bet that lady loves the freedoms the military provides

Posted by Blogger Vulture 6 @ 1:32 PM, June 16, 2006  


Haha, first time I've seen your blog!

It's "Puke 'n rally", btw. I'm a huge Varsity Blues fan, and I have a serial-quoter for a husband, so that's the only reason I know. :)

Your blog is cute. I give it "A 10... a 10... a fucking 10!" lol

Posted by Blogger Megan @ 9:28 AM, May 25, 2007  


hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous @ 4:00 PM, March 29, 2009  


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