Americans Favor Bush Over Obama

nitro harley said:

Hey Darth.

Count to ten and simmer down just a bit. I am not going to get too deep here but our military is made up of all high school or collage grads. We haven't really looked at enlisting drop outs sense the draft and that ended back in the seventies. And they are all retired by now.

For the record.

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Darth Vapour said:

Actually for the record

According to a new report, three-quarters of young people ages 17-24 are ineligible to enlist in the military because they have either failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record or are physically unfit.

Approximately one out of four young American adults lacks a high school diploma. And, while students who receive a general equivalency degree (GED) can sometimes receive a waiver of the graduation requirement, most do not score well enough on the military’s entrance exam to qualify. Additionally, about 30 percent of potential recruits with high school diplomas do not pass the entrance exam.

One in 10 young adults is prevented from enlisting by a conviction for a felony or serious misdemeanor.

Obesity is the third major factor identified by the report as preventing enlistment with an estimated 27 percent of young Americans identified as being too overweight to join the military. As the rate of obesity among American adults has more than doubled over the past four decades, America’s youth suffer from an obesity epidemic. Experts expect weight issues to prevent more potential recruits from enlisting in the coming years.

All told, these factors mean that, for 75 percent of young American adults, military service is not a career option. For many, military service also is a way to receive critical job training and reimbursement for college expenses.

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Darth Vapour said:

A pair of Russian warplanes that made at least three high-speed passes over a U.S. aircraft carrier stationed in the Sea of Japan in October constituted a much more serious threat than the Pentagon has admitted and were easily in a position to destroy the ship if the planes had had hostile intentions, say Navy personnel.

According to reports, a Russian air force Su-24 “Fencer” accompanied by a Su-27 “Flanker” made unopposed passes over the USS Kitty Hawk on Oct. 9, as the carrier was being refueled.

Russian fighters and reconnaissance planes made a second attempt to get close to the carrier on Nov. 9 — a repeat performance for which the Pentagon, as well as eyewitnesses aboard ship, said the carrier was prepared. But it was the first incident in October that caused alarm.

Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said during a regularly scheduled press briefing Nov. 30 that the Russian fighters were detected on radar well in advance of their high-speed passes. Naval officers aboard ship who spoke of the incident on the condition of anonymity agreed.

However, at the time the carrier’s combat information center alerted the ship’s commander, Capt. Allen G. Myers, that the Russian fighters were inbound, none of the carrier’s fighters were airborne. The ship carries 85 aircraft, according to Navy figures, and has a crew of over 5,500.

Witnesses said Myers immediately ordered the launch of alert fighters, but the ship’s scheduled fighter squadron was on “Alert-30” status — a minimum launch time of 30 minutes where pilots are “in the ready room” but are not sitting in cockpits waiting to be launched.

Bacon told reporters only that there “may have been a slight delay” in getting the interceptors in the air, explaining that because the Kitty Hawk was taking on fuel, it was not sailing fast enough to launch its aircraft.

One naval officer onboard the ship said, “40 minutes after the CO [commanding officer] called away the alerts,” the Russian planes “made a 500-knot, 200-foot pass directly over the tower” of the carrier.

Before the Kitty Hawk could get a single plane airborne, the Russian fighters made two more passes. Worse, witnesses said, the first plane off the deck was an EA-6B Prowler — a plane used primarily for electronic jamming of an enemy’s radar and air defenses, not a fighter capable of intercepting another warplane.

The EA-6B “ended up in a one-versus-one with a Flanker just in front of the ship,” one witness said. “The Flanker was all over his a.... He was screaming for help when finally an F/A-18 Hornet from our sister squadron got off the deck and made the intercept. It was too late.”

Naval personnel noted that “the entire crew watched overhead as the Russians made a mockery of our feeble attempt of intercepting them.”

The Clinton administration downplayed the incident .... The BBC, however, said that it was evident by the photographs taken by the Russian jets that there was “panic aboard” when the planes made their over-flights.

Our American readers will now perhaps argue that this humiliating incident happened 15 years ago and such a thing is no longer possible nowadays. But most readers of Russia Insider remember the events of April 2014 when the ultra-modern destroyer USS Donald Cook was paralyzed by a single SU-24.

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skunkd0c said:

i like that you mention the Chinese and the Russians no one wants to have to deal with those guys lol
pick on the 3rd world a-rabs instead .. easy pickings

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UncleBuck said:

palruf is not budging so far. even got them to say that it's "buyer beware" and that i should not do business with them.

yeah, like that's gonna stop me from calling a dozen and a half more times today!

the best part is to quote directly from their brochure, "a durable covering for roofing".

yeah, so much for that.

they are aware that i will be calling them endlessly until this is sorted out.

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ginwilly said:

I think both the west and east use the middle east as proxy wars. It seems we arm one side while they arm the other. My tinfoil hat tells me it's about economics(oil).

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Darth Vapour said:

would you budge ?? if you owned that company one thing is manufacturers defect other is a act of god .. i mean possibly they could give you a 30 percent discount if you wanted another one maybe ,, Even then they do not have to

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Darth Vapour said:

i understand bro durable coverings and hurricanes are another story right lol just saying
a car manufacturer claims to have the safest car on the road yet i get into a accident are they to blame ?

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UncleBuck said:

“Part of the problem is the Kurds aren’t getting enough arms. The Kurds are the best fighters. The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they’re being siphoned off and they’re not getting what they need. I think any arms coming from us or coming from any European countries ought to go directly to the Kurds. I would draw new lines for Kurdistan and I would promise them a country, I think they would fight like hell if we promised them a country."

- non-interventionist rend pawl

"If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress. I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily."

- non-interventionist rend pawl

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Darth Vapour said:

who made ISIS

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Darth Vapour said:

Nitro i am keeping a open mind here not bashing nothing just opening eyes like comparing a grade 12 grad level student to a equivalent student in germany which would be grade 8 who do you think is smarter ??? i would place my bets on the german student
there much more disciplined there fore smarter and not worrying to get home to watch the jetsons , or play there PS3 games lol

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Darth Vapour said:

but hey its no lie even Bill Gates said it culling of the people is a good thing
That this is the desire of the global controllers is no secret. It's not debated. This is what today's politicians, bureaucrats and even some misinformed activists of the "environmental" movement wish to achieve -- the reduction of world population to under one billion people. To them, humanity is seen as a threat to the planet and even to itself.

From one point of view, this analysis may actually be correct. It's difficult to see how today's mindless masses of dumbed-down consumers -- steeped in video games, television and junk food -- can offer any meaningful contributions to the future of human civilization. So, from the point of view of the global controllers, "culling the herd" of humanity is actually a good thing. It makes humanity stronger, they say, in much the same way that culling the weaklings from a herd of wild animals improves the aggregate gene pool of the targeted species as a whole.

The globalists argue that today's human gene pool is stalled. The weak and the stupid reproduce just as much as everybody else -- if not more so. The human gene pool is actually devolving, they say, and the only way to bring it back to a point where we have a species capable of reaching for the stars is to eliminate those who aren't smart enough to deserve a spot in the human gene pool.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036756_depopulation_agenda_eugenics_survivor.html#ixzz3cEsXdBFg

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Darth Vapour said:

Nitro comparing how you were brought up then and how most are brought up today is totally different lets have a look here

Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, single motherhood is now becoming the new “norm”.

This prevalence is due in part to the growing trend of children born outside marriage — a societal trend that was virtually unheard of decades ago.

About 4 out 10 children were born to unwed mothers.1 Nearly two-thirds are born to mothers under the age of 30.2

Of all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority.

According to U.S. Census Bureau,3 out of about 12 million single parent families in 2014, more than 80% were headed by single mothers.

Today 1 in 4 children under the age of 18 — a total of about 17.4 million — are being raised without a father4 and nearly half (45%) live below the poverty line.5

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