The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.
–Lynn Lavner
CNN.com - Army dismisses gay Arabic linguist - Jul 27, 2006
But the GAO also noted that nearly 800 dismissed gay or lesbian service members had critical abilities, including 300 with important language skills. Fifty-five were proficient in Arabic, including Copas, a graduate of the Defense Language Institute in California.
Discharging and replacing them has cost the Pentagon nearly $369 million, according to the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Do these morons not think that in this day and time we might really need ANYONE who can translate Arabic???
“Cost the Pentagon nearly $369 million???” No, Mary. It costs me and every other American taxpayer $369,000,000!
“Which one of you are gay?”
“Well, you are not gay are you?”
“Have you ever engaged in homosexual activity or conduct?”
“It is unfair. It is unjust,” he said. “Even with the policy we have, it should never have happened.”
So what exactly about “Don’t ask. Don’t tell.” are these military morons unable to grasp? This whole affair reeks of the idiocy of our politics and the missing morals of those people in power in our government and military.
I remember visiting Uncle Bill and Aunt Betty Jo at their lakehouse on Lake Gaston. I was probably 5-7 years old. My cousin, Dan, taught me how to catch brim with just a line, a hook and a little bit of bread. We fished in the boathouse and caught probably 15-20 of them and had them on a stringer. It was late in the evening when we left them in the water, on the stringer, tied to the dock in the boathouse. The next morning, either my uncle or my father showed us a “magic trick.” The brim were all gone! (well, except for some, uh, scraps…) He said the catfish had eaten them during the night. I suppose it’s just as well, ’cause I’m sure we weren’t going to eat them. Today, I’d let them go.
I also remember my uncle showing my cousin how to hold a catfish and not get stung by it. I don’t think I held one.
Another memory is of my father swimming in the lake while wearing funky Hawaiian print swimtrunks. They had little bits of yellow in the design. He got startled when something started nibbling at him. Then he realized it was brim nibbling at the yellow spots on his mostly dark swimsuit. It was funny.
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I vaguely remember, with less than a glimpse of an image, being in the YMCA swimming pool with my mother when I was very, very young. I remember her holding me and showing me how to take a big breath and hold it just before we briefly went underwater.
