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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 09:47 PM Original message |
National Guard radio ad heard today: "Protect your community after a tornado! Go to college!" |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. SURPRISE!!!! |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. You mean what the Nat'l Guard is SUPPOSED to be? |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 09:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Exactly. The ad would have been accurate in, say, 1999. |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Still, just as likely to find yourself in Kosovo or Bosnia |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Actually, the Nat'l Guard has always been deployed in wartime |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Indeed, but this isn't a declared war |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Zactly... |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I got ya |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. I considered the Guard myself as a younger man. |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I did too... |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. Oh, I thought if we went to college, we would help protect the community from natural disasters... |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. Protect Exxon. Make millions for Bush and Cheney. Bomb civilians. |
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