Press #3 for Arabic

Any time we needed a good personnel drop score on an ORI we would put two cases of cold beer on the A. Kept you suckers from steering toward the bus at the edge of the drop zone. Reason I never wanted to jump was y'all always jumped 10% more than you needed operational on the ground - I need better odds than that lol.

Any time we needed a good personnel drop score on an ORI we would put two cases of cold beer on the A. Kept you suckers from steering toward the bus at the edge of the drop zone. Reason I never wanted to jump was y'all always jumped 10% more than you needed operational on the ground - I need better odds than that lol. Originally Posted by SkyDriver

For the D-Day drops that number was more like 35%.
It's down to 10% mainly because of the improvements in technology. GPS and low-light gear are huge as well as pre-mission intel. You guys do a lot better job of delivery too. 5 miles off at night in 1944 was still in the ball park.

Never thought that i would hear stuff like the here. The big tent GOP is getting smaller by the minute. I'm not Muslim neither Mexican American nor do i speak any foreign language but i do believe that this hatred you have will in the end consume you

they have no intention of blending into our culture. Originally Posted by SkyDriver

I find a huge lack of culture in the US...no offense, just my opinion...

And why is it so important everyone "blend in"? Seems a bit narrow-minded and boring to me.

I find a huge lack of culture in the US...no offense, just my opinion...

And why is it so important everyone "blend in"? Seems a bit narrow-minded and boring to me. Originally Posted by Valerie

And Limeys are particularly proud of the diversity they have allowed in Ulster over the years.

I am not as bad as my S. Ga. buddy with 4 AR15's and 5000 rounds of ammo, but things are changing. Originally Posted by SkyDriver

What's wrong with having a few legal weapons and enough ammo for each?
^_^

Your buddy might want to check this out.
I'm seriously thinking of this property.
http://www.missilebases.com/parismissouri

I'm not paranoid about being over-run. I just think it's f'n awesome!

Heya bt ;-)

I was scheduled to go to the air assault school when we got back, but a pinched nerve and some bullshit means it's not going to happen.

Funny how so many who have come to the US try to maintain their culture here, but so many over there try to emulate us. The guys I had some contact with were friendly enough, had a decent grasp of english, and didn't mind taking orders from a female. Although one tried to make me his third wife (he was negotiating with my squad leader. wtf?) For the most part they were "normal" from an american point of view.

Heya bt ;-) Originally Posted by lilred_robin

Back at ya!

I was trying really hard not to be a post ho again.. but I have too many damn opinions to keep to myself ^_^

I must right the wrongs on the internetz. aaaaggghhh!

Something about this thread gives me the warm and fuzzy.

For the first time in a long time, I feel like I should not post. That says alot.
I do have mixed feelings, that is something I am not proud of at all.

I do believe all people are created equal. However lots of people take advantage of the system. Period. Press three for Arabic, well as I said before, all people are created equal, but well, why is it press three for Arabic. I have worked all over the world as a civie chick. I did my best to speak their languages in their country, that is just respect, I followed their laws, so I would not be kicked out.


It would be nice to actually call the customer service, and not repeat myself 10 tens times because they could not understand anything I said and then they get frustrated with me. There goes that mixed feelings again.

I would like to walk into a store that is prominently Mexican, and we understand each other and I do not feel like an outsider. Mixed feelings again.

I would like to walk into my apartment rental office and the lady actual speaks English when I arrive when talking to someone, verse switching up to Spanish.

Everybody has a right to be here, how people adjust or what have you, in the the U.S is well, I don't know. People should at least try. Im open-minded. As I said I visited another country, im going to do my best to adjust and speak the language, learn the culture. Not everybody thinks like that, so in the meantime I adjust and go on about my business.

I have been to many places all over the world, seen lots of things, makes one eyes open wide, and teaches you.

Its not an alien takeover. Just America becoming more of a melt-ing pot......nothing wrong with that. If it is an alien takeover, im thinking nobody is safe anyway.

What's wrong with having a few legal weapons and enough ammo for each?
^_^

Your buddy might want to check this out.
I'm seriously thinking of this property.
http://www.missilebases.com/parismissouri

I'm not paranoid about being over-run. I just think it's f'n awesome! Originally Posted by lilred_robin

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see link for photos referenced in article:

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4259/28/



HOW UNCLEAN WAS MY VALLEY
Steyn on Culture
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Take a look at this photograph. It appeared in The Toronto Star’s education section on Saturday:

It’s the scene every Friday at the cafeteria of Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. That’s not a private academy, it’s a public school funded by taxpayers. And yet, oddly enough, what’s going on is a prayer service – oh, relax, it’s not Anglican or anything improper like that; it’s Muslim Friday prayers, and the Toronto District School Board says don’t worry, it’s just for convenience: They put the cafeteria at the local imams’ disposal because otherwise the kids would have to troop off to the local mosque and then they’d be late for Lesbian History class or whatever subject is scheduled for Friday afternoon.
The picture is taken from the back of the cafeteria. In the distance are the boys. They’re male, so they get to sit up front at prayers. Behind them are the girls. They’re female, so they have to sit behind the boys because they’re second-class citizens – not in the whole of Canada, not formally, not yet, but in the cafeteria of a middle school run by the Toronto District School Board they most certainly are.
And the third row? The ones with their backs to us in the foreground of the picture? Well, let the Star’s caption writer explain:
At Valley Park Middle School, Muslim students participate in the Friday prayer service. Menstruating girls, at the very back, do not take part.
Oh. As Kathy Shaidle says:
Yep, that’s part of the caption of the Toronto Star photo.
Yes, the country is Canada and the year is 2011.
Just so. Not some exotic photojournalism essay from an upcountry village in Krappistan. But a typical Friday at a middle school in the largest city in Canada. I forget which brand of tampon used to advertise itself with the pitch "Now with new [whatever] you can go horse-riding, water-ski-ing, ballet dancing, whatever you want to do", but perhaps they can just add the tag: "But not participate in Friday prayers at an Ontario public school."
Some Canadians will look at this picture and react as Miss Shaidle did, or Tasha Kheiriddin in The National Post:
Is this the Middle Ages? Have I stumbled into a time warp, where “unclean” women must be prevented from “defiling” other persons? It’s bad enough that the girls at Valley Park have to enter the cafeteria from the back, while the boys enter from the front, but does the entire school have the right to know they are menstruating?
But a lot of Canadians will glance at the picture and think, “Aw, diversity, ain’t it a beautiful thing?” – no different from the Sikh Mountie in Prince William’s escort. And even if they read the caption and get to the bit about a Toronto public school separating menstruating girls from the rest of the student body and feel their multiculti pieties wobbling just a bit, they can no longer quite articulate on what basis they’re supposed to object to it. Indeed, thanks to the likes of Ontario “Human Rights” Commission chief commissar Barbara Hall, the very words in which they might object to it have been all but criminalized.
Islam understands the reality of Commissar Hall’s “social justice”: You give ’em an inch, and they’ll take the rest. Following a 1988 cease-and-desist court judgment against the Lord’s Prayer in public school, the Ontario Education Act forbids “any person to conduct religious exercises or to provide instruction that includes religious indoctrination in a particular religion or religious belief in a school.” That seems clear enough. If somebody at Valley Park stood up in the cafeteria and started in with “Our Father, which art in Heaven”, the full weight of the School Board would come crashing down on them. Fortunately, Valley Park is 80-90 per cent Muslim, so there are no takers for the Lord’s Prayer. And, when it comes to the prayers they do want to say, the local Islamic enforcers go ahead secure in the knowledge that the diversity pansies aren’t going to do a thing about it.
Nobody would know a thing about the “mosqueteria” story were it not for the blogger Blazing Cat Fur, whom I was honoured to say a word for in Ottawa a few months back. He broke this story and then saw it get picked up without credit by the Toronto media. He does that a lot. Currently, he’s featuring the thoughts of Jawed Anwar, the editor of The Muslim, a publication for Greater Toronto Area Muslims, and of Dr Bilal Philips, a “Canadian religious scholar” who was born in Jamaica but grew up in Toronto and has many prestigious degrees not only from Saudi Arabia but also from the University of Wales, where he completed a PhD in “Islamic Theology”. Dr Philips is in favour of death for homosexuals and, as one Canadian to another, Mr Anwar was anxious to explain to his readers that that’s nothing to get alarmed about:
Although, there is no clear-cut verse in Qur’an that categorically suggests killing of homosexuals, sayings of Prophet Muhammad suggests three types of sentences, and among that one is death. Bilal Philips is suggesting, based on his opinion on the Qur’anic/Prophetic principles of society. He is not advising the Islamic judiciary to kill any gay person they found, but what he is “suggesting” is judicial punishment of death sentence for those who confess or are seen “performing homosexual acts” by “four reliable witnesses without any doubt.”
The essence of Islamic laws is to protect the life of human beings. And it happens that sometimes killing of a person can save thousands and sometimes millions of lives. The Islamic judiciary can punish a person with death sentence to save others’ lives.
Okay, great, thanks. Glad you cleared that up. Two eminent “Canadian” Muslims are openly discussing the conditions under which homosexuals should be executed – and doing so in the cheerful knowledge that Commissar Hall, so determined to slap down my “Islamophobia”, isn’t going to do a thing about their “homophobia”. She’s more likely to accept a complaint from another “Canadian”, Mohammad Baghery, who accuses Michael Coren of the crime of “making fun of Muslims”. (Barbara Hall's incoherent thoughts can be heard here: appropriately enough, she sounds like the robot voice that instructs you to buckle your seatbelt.)
Imagine if you're a soi-disant moderate Muslim, genuinely so. You came to Canada because Yemen's a dump, and you don't want to waste your life there. And your daughter loves it, and wants to be Canadian, and be just like the other girls in her street. And then she goes to Valley Park Middle School: What if she doesn't feel it's a religious obligation to attend Friday prayers (as some Muslims argue)? Think there's much chance of being able to opt out easily at Valley Park? What if she wants to dress as she wishes to rather than as the Wahhabi/Salafist imam orders? What if she doesn't want to tell the creepy perve imam whether she's menstruating or not? What, in other words, is her chance of being able to attend Valley Park as a regular Canadian schoolgirl?
I've had cause to mention before Phyllis Chesler's photographs of Cairo University's evolving dress code over the last half-century. Here's how the female students looked in 1978:

In 1978, the female students in Cairo looked little different from the female students at the University of Toronto, or Kingston. Now the schoolgirls of Toronto look no different from Cairo. Ms Chesler's pictures are a story of transformation, but that transformation is not confined to the Middle East. For snapshots of Canada's own particular transformation, one might take Berton père et fils. Until his death in 2004, Pierre Berton was the great popularizer of Canadian history, a man whose best-known soundbite was that "a Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe". It wasn't true even then, but it spoke to an agreed national myth. His son, Paul Berton, became the somnolent editor of The London Free Press, who used what little energy he had to protect the tender sensibilities of his city's fast-growing and belligerently assertive Muslim community. His successor is even more protective. From Pierre Berton to Paul Berton is also a story of transformation: A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe in a niqab?
If you didn’t know it before that Valley Park photograph, you should now: “Diversity” is where nations go to die. If local Mennonites or Amish were segregating the sexes and making them enter by different doors for religious services in a Toronto grade-school cafeteria, Canadian feminists would howl them down in outrage. But when Muslims do it they fall as silent as their body-bagged sisters in Kandahar. If you’re wondering how Valley Park’s catchment district got to be 80-90 per cent Muslim is nothing flat, well, Islam is currently the biggest supplier of new Canadians, as it is of new Britons and new Europeans. Not many western statistics agencies keep tabs on religion, but the Vienna Institute of Demography, for example, calculates that by 2050 a majority of Austrians under 15 will be Muslim. 2050 isn’t that far away. It’s as far from today as 2011 is from 1972: The future shows up faster than you think.
A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else: First it’s Jews, already fleeing Malmo in Sweden. Then it’s homosexuals, already under siege from gay-bashing in Amsterdam, “the most tolerant city in Europe”. Then it’s uncovered women, already targeted for rape in Oslo and other Continental cities. And, if you don’t any longer have any Jews or (officially) any gays or (increasingly) uncovered women, there are always just Christians in general, from Egypt to Pakistan.
More space for Islam means less space for everything else, and in the end less space for you.
Mohammad Baghery is not Canadian. Jawed Anwar is not Canadian. Dr Bilal Philips is not Canadian. The men who separate boys from girls and menstruating girls from non-menstruating girls every Friday at Valley Park Middle School are not Canadian. Perhaps, were we a different kind of society, they would over time become Canadian. But, because they don’t have to, they won’t. Because they look at the witless “Pride” parade and the diversity blather and Barbara Hall and Bernie Farber and Co handing each other Mutual Backslap Awards all year long, and Mohammad and Jawed and Bilal understand that they’re what comes after Canada. This year it’s maybe just one mosqueteria. Next year, two or three more. Half a decade on, who knows? South of the border? The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, for reasons that are unclear, already has a taxpayer-funded “Muslim Community Affairs Unit”. But don’t worry, your small town in Minnesota will be getting one soon enough. As this Salafist lady told the woman from The New York Times, demonstrating how she gradually adopted full-face covering:
It just takes time… You get used to it.
Look at that picture from Valley Park: Toronto’s already used to it.

It is the very freedoms and capitalist system that allowed Obama to obtain success , he could not have done this anywhere else in the world, yet he despises the system that afforded him the success.Screw all the ingrates that make all their money here off the capitalist system then after, try and tear it down.No wonder the suspension of religion in their minds must accompany this attitude.

I find a huge lack of culture in the US...no offense, just my opinion...

And why is it so important everyone "blend in"? Seems a bit narrow-minded and boring to me. Originally Posted by Valerie

There is actually a lot of different cultures celebrated and flourishing in the country across the pond. There are also communities that have completely assimilated into an "American" culture.

Depending on the time of year or your location, you can experience cultures from around the world. Anything from Mardi Gras which isn't French, but Creole. There are Bavarian and German beer and/or food festivals, there are entire communities that keep their country of origins traditions alive, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cech, Japanese, et.al.

Some of us like to experience them in different ways. The American culture is one that typically respects the traditions of each others cultures. There are the fringe xenophobes, but in general we respect each others' want to be an US citizen and we celebrate with them.

There are also those, like the terrorists who flew into the WTC, who used guile/Taqiyahh to persuade the communities they lived in that they were one of us when they were most definatley not. There is nothing wrong with celebrating ones culture, but there needs to be a blended culture that accepts everyone regardless of demographic where we can build trust with our neighbors.

Even some in the EU and Australia believe multiculturalism as failed, because some cultures refuse to assimilate into a multicultural society. Sharia law is incompatible with some laws in the UK and other countries. Would British law be ok with honor killings which is a Sharia edict?

The Mexicans want to turn the USA into a shit hole like Mexico, the Arabs want to convert every one to 'Islam', and the Liberal Democrats are willing to let them do it because they are future Democrat Votes.". Originally Posted by Jackie S

While you are at it, please add to your list the Baptists that want to make me give up alchohol because they think it's wrong (even while they sip theirs), the Creationists that want to overturn science, and the other "acceptable" religeous fanatics that most of "you" think acceptable.

Sorry, the only difference between the extremists of any religeon is what nake they call their loving god as they slaughter and opress those who don't believe. Hate is just as wrong when spoken in Arabic, Cambodian, or with a Southern Drawl.