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Sand kittens ...
So..ummm...er...the Republican party must be monolithic and all agree on all the planks? So that then they can be made fun of for being single minded?
Sounds like the creator of the pic needs to take their own advice :)
:haha: I knew if I didn't add that disclosure I was going to help someone's post count :up:
What's 'cray'? :o
Slang for crazy. That would be awesome if it were true. Well, it might be true but I'm too lazy to spend time finding out.
its a typo, 99% of these facebook quotes are fake. there are sites that allow you to change just about any aspect of a post so you can screenshot, and help something go viralQuote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, but I found that montage strangely emotional.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Are any of these numbers true?
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Sorta. The US military has about 1.5 million active duty troops, and another 1.5 million reservists. So of current active duty troops, that does work out to approximately 0.5%. However, of total Americans who have at some point served in the military, the number is quite a bit higher. For most of the 20th century it was a significant portion (perhaps a majority?) of the adult male population, though I imagine it's a bit lower now that WWII veterans are mostly dead or dying. As the veterans from other draft-based wars (albeit smaller ones) such as Vietnam and Korea die off, it will probably decrease to a much smaller percentage of the population (10% at most?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Furthermore, I find it incredibly unlikely that only 1% of active duty troops see combat. That would work out to only 15k troops; depending on your definition of combat, that's highly unlikely given our deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade. Even if you mean 'fired upon or who fire their weapons in a non-training situation' I would imagine it would be closer to hundreds of thousands, though I don't have hard data on that.
In terms of suicides, I've seen stats that are roughly comparable to high teens of suicide per day for veterans. If we're comparing apples to apples, of course, there's about one suicide among active duty troops every day. That works out to approximately 25 suicides per 100k population per year, well above the US average of about 12. But if you restrict it to young males, I would imagine the numbers would be closer (the US average for males of all ages is about 19). The suicide rate for veterans is supposed to be substantially higher than average for the US as well; unsurprising given the rates of TBIs and PTSD among veterans and active duty soldiers alike.
Ah, the famous Scout Sniper flag. Good at shooting people, not so good at PR.
Maybe they just wanted Hugo Boss uniforms?Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
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See, I had no idea about Hugo Boss' role in supplying SS uniforms et al until you mentioned it. Seems like they're not too repentant about it either. Good thing I'm way too cheap to buy their clothes anyways.
A Sturmbannführer SS put a US man on the moon. It's not easy being a "moral" man!Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
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Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust
Isaac motherfuckers. Hurricane Isaac.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Next week is going to be very interesting.
