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Old March 3rd 05, 03:46 PM
Jim Oberg
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Sorry, the beret thing must have temporarilly diminished my rationality...
but as for alt.stark.raving.loonies, lighten up!


"Dale" wrote in message
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Jim,
Could you please not include "alt.conspiracy" and

"alt.stark.raving.loonies"
when initiating posts to the sci.space groups? I clicked "reply to all"

and
just assumed the post would only go to, well, the more rational regions of
usenet.

My fault, though- I should have been more careful.

I hope you don't consider us all to be in the same boat...

Dale



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Old March 3rd 05, 06:01 PM
Cecil Trotter
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Rand Simberg wrote:


Yup. Instituted during the Clinton administration (by Shalikashvili,
I believe) with much unhappiness from the Special Forces. The idea
was to make everyone feel "special."


And none of the regular Army I've talked to are very happy with their
new headgear either.

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Old March 3rd 05, 06:03 PM
Rand Simberg
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:19:22 GMT, in a place far, far away, Douglas
Berry made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Bruce Gagnon has long been known as an anti-nuke whiner at Cape Canaveral,
where his name is mispronounced 'Bruce Gag-Me'. Seems he's getting on the
call-Bushies-all-nazis meme pretty enthusiastically. And his photograph on
his website shows him wearing a BERET -- enough said!!


The standard headgear of the United States Army is the beret, moron.


Yup. Instituted during the Clinton administration (by Shalikashvili,
I believe) with much unhappiness from the Special Forces. The idea
was to make everyone feel "special."
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Old March 3rd 05, 06:05 PM
Rand Simberg
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:02:58 -0000, in a place far, far away, "Paul
Blay" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Atheist and Christian alike talk too much about god.


I think there's a difference between people who don't
believe in God and those that BELIEVE in there being
no God.

Some of the latter can do a pretty fair impression of
religious extremists.


Yes, what Megan McArdle calls EAs (Evangelical Atheists).

http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005194.html
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Old March 3rd 05, 06:54 PM
Ami Silberman
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"Paul Blay" wrote in message
...

I think there's a difference between people who don't
believe in God and those that BELIEVE in there being no God.

Some of the latter can do a pretty fair impression of religious
extremists.

On the other hand, there are those of us atheists who don't believe in a
deity pretty much the way many people who never go to religious services
still believe in God.


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Old March 3rd 05, 07:48 PM
Eric Chomko
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Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On 3 Mar 2005 09:01:21 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Cecil
: Trotter" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
: such a way as to indicate that:

: Yup. Instituted during the Clinton administration (by Shalikashvili,
: I believe) with much unhappiness from the Special Forces. The idea
: was to make everyone feel "special."
:
: And none of the regular Army I've talked to are very happy with their
: new headgear either.

: There was also the little issue that they ended up being manufactured
: in China...

But isn't China our most favored nation WRT trade? Who did THAT?

Eric
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Old March 3rd 05, 07:52 PM
Douglas Berry
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:19:18 GMT, Fred J. McCall
drained his beer, leaned back in the
alt.conspiracy beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
(Rand Simberg) wrote:


:On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:19:22 GMT, in a place far, far away, Douglas
:Berry made the phosphor on my
:monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

:The standard headgear of the United States Army is the beret, moron.
:
:Yup. Instituted during the Clinton administration (by Shalikashvili,
:I believe) with much unhappiness from the Special Forces. The idea
:was to make everyone feel "special."

And so now no one is. sigh


Well, the Special Forces still have their green berets, airborne still
wears maroon, and my beloved Rangers switched to a tan beret when the
rest of the Army went to black. So certain units still have a
distinctive look.

To be honest, I don't mind the berets, as long as someone teaches the
troops how to wear them. (Hint one: cut out the lining.) Anything is
better than the overseas cap I had to wear when in non-Airborne units
(aka the "**** cap")

--

Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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Old March 3rd 05, 08:54 PM
Pat Flannery
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Jim Oberg wrote:

And his photograph on
his website shows him wearing a BERET -- enough said!!



Hey, some of our finest elite military units wear berets. The idea for
elite U.S. forces wearing berets came from the British SAS and commandos
in W.W.II, IIRC.

Pat
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Old March 3rd 05, 09:05 PM
Pat Flannery
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Dale wrote:

Hasn't the U.S. Army been wearing berets for quite some time now?

Berets- they aren't just for guys named "Marion" anymore



Marion Morrison wore one in the movie "The Green Berets", as you point out.
Of course, this guy wore one also:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9710/17/cuba.che/che.large.jpg
You have to admit that Che had the revolutionary look nailed 100%; this
guy could have caused Jane Fonda to have multiple orgasms by simply
coming within a hundred miles of her.
(Cut to image of Jane writhing in ecstasy on a south Florida beach.) :-P

Pat
 




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