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SleepingFox discovered 20 months ago- "Obscure towns like Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire and Thermopolis, Wyoming, dominate the listings rather than the big cities."
- reesmeister rated 12 months ago
- Interesting article from the Financial Times. The last paragraph's poll statistics are unbelievable.
- xroadie rated 12 months ago
- But, but... I thought the services were filled with ignorant minorities, looking for a gig and someone to pay for their edj-i-cayshun
- SpaceMonkeyZero rated 12 months ago
- This goes against everything Charlie Rangel and Jesse Jackson say when they claim only minorities are dying in Iraq. Race Baiters should be marginalized and ignored by the media.
- Alde rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "But a breakdown of their ethnicity and states of origins shows they are overwhelmingly white and from small towns in the interior states of mid-America and the South." This article misses the study by the Heritage Foundation (http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/wm1263.cfm) that pointed out that the volunteer military is generally representative of the populace, skewing towards upper middle class white males. These people sign up because it is an honor to serve ones country. When there is no longer honor in serving ones country, don't expect to have that country exist much longer.
- andabien rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "'Nothing could better illustrate the alienation of America's armed forces from the college-going Americans for whom the Iraq war has meant tax cuts, SUVs and nice holidays. ...a military sociologist at Northwestern University, says the divorce between the social origins of most US army personnel and the character of the population as a whole is greater than ever." COMMENT: This is, of course, true, and we already knew it, didn't we? I am from a middle-class, liberal and educated community, and the war in Iraq has little to do with my actual life. I might as well be hearing about a war in Africa. I am truly sorry for those young dedicated men and women who trusted themselves to our country, and got screwed and killed for their efforts. However, we already know this is the situation. John Kerry got loudly chastised for inadvertently speaking the truth about our soldiers. They are not educated enough to really know what's going on. On the other hand, they all have free will, and they made their choices and now they have to live with the results of those choices. These are the people who elected George Bush, twice. If they prefer to ignore greater realities out there, and simply trust their government, this is what happens. I wish they would wake up, and quit signing up. Maybe Congress would have been less gung-ho to go to war if it was their children who would be sent to the front.
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