John H. wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:10:10 -0500, HK wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:28:13 -0500, HK wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:57:58 -0500, "Bill Kearney"
wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote:

...and get smart enough to drill for the oil in our back yard, before
China
does.
Ah, no. Better to drain the foreign reserves dry before hitting our own.
We know what we've got here and when the crunch comes it'd be far better to
have our own to fall back on while the rest of the world panics.
OK, as long as we quit making bull**** posts like this:

"Norway has what the sick world needs, a metanoia, a conversion, a
reappraisal of our whole attitude towards life, accompanied by a
fundamental change in the climate in which people and things are
appraised. We need to radically change our culture to reject the
dehumanization of man so implicit in what "drives" our society in this
country today."
As if you had even the slightest idea what I meant.
Not much in the way of intellectual prowess is needed to figure out what
you mean, Harry.

Oh, I dunno. I was intellectual enough to figure out that the Army was a
dumb deal for a career.

No one commented about your prowess. Did you misread that somewhere?

I am sure many people have found the military to be an excellent
opportunity, and did not view it as a dumb deal. I wonder how the
military stacks up against the "Job Corps" in "provide(ing) unskilled,
undisciplined kids with a few decent life skills and preliminary job
skills so they know the importance of showing up for work on time,
sober, and with an attitude conducive to work."

My extremely uneducated guess is there is no comparison, and the kids
finishing their military training and their tour, far exceed the
capabilities of similar kids finishing a Job Corps program.