You mentioned how the military is falling short on it's recruitment goals.
This topic gets me somewhat upset because our military is not willing to
combat the obesity problem. One of the reasons I get upset about this is
because by their standards, I am considered to be obese and I wanted to get
into the service. Time and time again, I have been told I was too fat and
with recent statistics showing that over half of the American population is
considered to be obese. The military doesn't take the time to mention the
potential candidates that they turn away because they are too fat. They have
the means and the power to combat this problem but yet they choose to ignore
it flat out. So many otherwise qualified people would join up for the
military if they would be willing to consider working with the obesity
problem and instilling the proper habits necessary to keeping the weight
off. Most Americans don't have access for one reason or another to the type
of assistance need to be on a proper nutritious diet and if you asked anyone
off the street, not many could tell you what a good diet really is let alone
explain one. This problem, is one the military would do well to combat
because they have the ways and the means. Obesity is killing more Americans
than Osama and his cronies ever will. I love our military and the people
that serve in it. I know that most of them don't make policies and
procedures, they just follow it, but in times like this It just makes me
sick to have to listen to "We fell short of our recruitment goals" because
the part they don't tell you is that that they had to turn away the poor fat
slob that they have to go put their lives on the line for. Most service
people would rather trash talk the poor fat slob instead of put him to work.
They haven't stopped to consider the reason that maybe they are poor and
fat is because the military said no to them? It just makes me sick to listen
to it. We know what the problem is and we have the solution to fix and
address the problem but yet we let it persist and we just stand there doing
nothing about it. People don't learn discipline on their own, they learn
habits. Discipline needs to be taught. How can the populace be sympathetic
to that when most just don't want to hear it? If the military wants to boost
recruitment goals and morale among the troops, giving the people that they
said no to a chance, I believe that many of them would make excellent
service members. It would open up a whole new pool of potential candidates
to draw from and it would drastically impact the looming healthcare problem
into the favor of the American people.
Iron Mike
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From: "dperich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:31 AM
Subject: [RR] Gas is ranging from $2.11 to $2.40 here
Gas is ranging from $2.11 to $2.40 here for 87 octane. Depends on the
station you go to.
We did Dutch Oven cooking in Rangers this evening. Made blueberry muffins
in the oven and the boys made baked apples in foil pouches over the coals.
I preheated the Dutch Oven in my oven at home and wrapped it in foil and a
large towel and a cardboard box to preheat it to save time. I had all the
ingredients pre-mixed too. We started the Kingsford inside a stack of three
large coffee cans to make a chimney (bottoms cut out). The heat roars up
through there and turns the charcoal white in no time. The muffins came out
perfect, even if they were done right when it was time to leave. All the
boys had plenty of time to eat their baked apples though.
As for whether the war is "needless" or not, it's all a matter of who you
think the enemy is and what his objective is.
Some think the enemy is restricted to a rag-tag group called AlQueda and its
leader, Osama bin Laden. That's all. Those folks also tend to think that
the objective of "Terrorists" is to induce terror--to upset our routines--to
simply take away the ability to participate in American daily life without
fear. Supposedly, if they win, that's what we loose... Apparently, they
think that's all we loose.
I believe this opinion is the result of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is a
secular and atheistic idea that says that everyone is basically good and
equal. It assumes that all religions and philosophies are equal in value
and no one's "truth" is superior to anyone else's. Egalitarianism is the
tool that secular thinkers use like God and Christian thinkers use
"Unconditional Love". The difference is that egalitarianism denies that
anyone can possess a truth that is any better than anyone else's truth and
freedom is allowing everyone to wallow in their different opposing "truths"
as long as they don't proselytize. Christianity's "unconditional love" has
one truth that sets us free and we are commissioned to inform everyone of
it.
Most in this forum agree with me that we've got a lot more to lose than our
sense of security and we agree that the enemy's objective is much more
ambitious than inducing fear or getting us out of Iraq and Israel out of
"occupied territories". You can't determine the objective of Radical Islam
(RA) by looking up the definition of "terror" or "terrorism" in the
dictionary. After all, they don't even call themselves terrorists. That's a
label we gave them. They call themselves Jihadists. "Terrorists" may mean
to frighten--- but Jihadists mean to rule the world.
It would be silly and foolish to try to discuss what paths we should take so
that the world might avoid the Tribulation and Armageddon. In fact, the
problems are looming so large that the Tribulation and Armageddon are
starting to look like a tool to fix the world's problems rather than the
evidence that the "fix" has failed.
Silly fool that I am, I think there is the possibility we struck too hard
and too soon.
"Nip it in the bud", you say, before the terrorists gain more strength.
Just as Lance Armstrong let an opponent pass him on the flat ground and then
gained back the lead in the mountains, we have to pace ourselves. The
military is already falling short on recruitment for several months. Did we
try too hard to hang on to the lead early on at any cost?
I don't know.
-Dave Perich
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