"Reaction has been swift and strong to the decision we told you about Thursday by the city of Berkeley, California — to declare Marine Corps recruiters "uninvited and unwelcome guests."

Republican Senator Jim Demint is drafting legislation to strip Berkeley of all its federal earmarks in the current budget — about $2 million worth.

Demint says — "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money."

An official in the office of Marine Commandant General James Conway says there are no plans to move the recruiting office out of Berkeley."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327765,00.html

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GOOD.



Thats really good news.

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"Peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Keep that faith,keep your courage,stick together, stay strong,do not yield,do not flinch,stand up,we're Americans,we'll never surrender they will"
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"If the substance of life is information, transmitted through genes, then society and culture are essentially immense information transmission systems, and the city, a huge external memory storage device."

Purists are intolerably dull-thinkers.

You're all high and mighty because you sit in the comfort you love bought by the sweat of those you despise...thus letting everyone see that you're really nothing but a fool

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McCain/Palin 2008
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"Peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Keep that faith,keep your courage,stick together, stay strong,do not yield,do not flinch,stand up,we're Americans,we'll never surrender they will"
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

I wonder if Berkeley is on planet Earth. Can't they conceive of what would happen to them if there was no military?

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"If the substance of life is information, transmitted through genes, then society and culture are essentially immense information transmission systems, and the city, a huge external memory storage device."

Purists are intolerably dull-thinkers.

But Gene, YOU were the one who diminished your own friends and family by calling them (in your earlier post) an "Imperial Army." Do you honestly believe the United States is actively engaged in Imperialism?

Did they not serve honorably as a volunteer?

Or is it that you view them as dupes of the Imperialist state?

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I was responding to the tone of your post as well as the issue at the same time....
I should have made that more specific as I was thinking at the time you may take it wrong as being aimed soley at you when it was not...totally

Otherwise don't be so sensitive.

Shrug...

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"We make war that we may live in peace"
"Peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Keep that faith,keep your courage,stick together, stay strong,do not yield,do not flinch,stand up,we're Americans,we'll never surrender they will"
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

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"If the substance of life is information, transmitted through genes, then society and culture are essentially immense information transmission systems, and the city, a huge external memory storage device."

Purists are intolerably dull-thinkers.

Ha ha - on behalf of the City of Berkeley, I have two things to say to that weasel DeMint:

a) what federal money??? You federal clowns still owe the city of Berkeley six and a half million dollars, that you haven't even paid yet!!!

b) you can take that 2 million, and stuff it right where the sun don't shine. We don't need your stinkin' money! We'll do without you federal weasels! We're don' just fine, and we'll thank you to keep your grubby little noses out of our politics!!!

c) You wanna use our city for ideological indoctrination? Fine. You convince our city officials that it's in the best interests of the People of the United States, and then we can talk. Till then, go take a flyin' leap at the moon. We're not interested in your perceptions.