By The Courage to Resist website that champions US Army deserters like this liar here, has taken on the soldier mom story that was exposed here at the ROK Drop as being yet another leftist anti-military information operation:
“I currently don’t have a family care plan, but they told me they did not care and for me to get ready to go to Afghanistan,” explained Oakland, California native Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old soldier based at Hunter Army Airfield outside of Savannah, Georgia.
As I spoke to Alexis on the phone, I believed if I found her a civilian lawyer to work with the military, a reasonable resolution would be quickly found. Unlike most service members Courage to Resist assists, Alexis was not refusing to deploy. She was not looking to speak out against war. She was simply asking for more time to find someone to care for her 11-month old son Kamani. Within a few days, however, the Army had tossed Alexis in the stockade and turned Kamani over to the Chatham County (Georgia) foster care system. [Courage to Resist]
Judging by this statement, was it Courage to Resist that put SPC Hutchinson in contact with anti-military lawyer Rai Sue Sussman? Sussman is quoted in the article as claiming that the military was trying to send her to Afghanistan to be court martialed, which is once again utter nonsense. The Army doesn’t send people with failed family care plans to war zones to be court martialed. The reason Hutchinson was arrested because she went AWOL instead of showing up at the deployment with her child.
Anyway here is some more details about this case published on the website:
That is the reason why Angelique contacted her daughter’s commanders last month to tell them that she could not be the long-term care provider for the infant as originally planned. She explained that they needed more time to find another family member or close friend to care for the boy while his mother is deployed to Afghanistan for a year. They initially received an extension, but that was revoked a couple of weeks later. Major Gallagher, of Alexis’ unit, later told Ms. Sussman that he did not believe this was a real family crisis, and that Alexis’ “mother should have been able to take care of the baby”
I looked up “Major Gallagher” on AKO and found out that he is the rear detachment commander for her unit over at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. So he is the person that is directly in charge of her right now since she didn’t deploy and is part of the rear detachment. Here is more background information from another C.T.R. posting:
In anticipation of going overseas Specialist Hutchinson flew to California and left her son with her mother Angelique Hughes of Oakland, as per her Army family care plan. However, after a week of caring for the child Specialist Hutchinson’s mother realized that she was unable to take care of Kamani on top of her other duties to her special-needs daughter, her ailing mother, and her ailing sister. In late October Angelique Hughes informed Hutchinson and her commander, Captain Gassant, that she was not able to care for her daughter’s baby after all. The Army gave Specialist Hutchinson an extension of time to find someone else to care for her son, and in the meantime her mother brought Kamani back to Georgia. However just a few days before Specialist Hutchinson was scheduled to deploy she was told that she would not get the extended time after all and would have to deploy, even though there was no one to care for her child. [Courage to Resist]
For someone like myself that has dealt with deployments and family care plans of soldiers, from what I am reading here there is definitely more to this story, however it didn’t take long for C.T.R to throw out the racism card:
A few conservative websites have taken notice of growing public outrage over this case. Some have attacked Alexis because she is young black woman who got pregnant soon after basic training, yet she choose to remain the Army! Another blames her because Kamani’s father is not a part of their lives.
The Army is definitely not doing a good job at fighting the information war on this issue because they are letting all these far left anti-military groups frame the issue. The Army should be getting their side of the story out. What I suspect is happening right now is that her rear detachment commander Major Gallagher is busy getting her chapter paper work together to get her out of the military. After this is done the Army will probably will release a statement while in the mean time the anti-military leftists will continue to control the news cycle.
5:07 am on November 25th, 2009 1
This has turned into yet another get it “Political Right” situation. WTF is our military turning into…A Left Wing Organization???
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Why, YES. It often is.
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December 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I see there is alot of talk about this chick, but the truth of the matter is that she didnt want to deploy with us. When we left that day she knew what was going on and did not want to go. The mother who took is the one with the family care plan refused to take care of her own grandchild. What the fuck is that! She has her very own daycare and can not take care of her grandchild. We left all our kids to come here because its our duty as soldiers. People always trying to side with bullshit. The Army gave her that family care plan before any of this started about a year ago and she played games like its a joke. I should post this shit everywhere, “
fucking bullshitsoldier that can not man up and take the sand out herclitand drive on Hooah!!!Reply
5:49 am on November 25th, 2009 2
Failure to apply latex can be corrected with a little RU-486.
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8:09 am on November 25th, 2009 3
Failure to apply RU-486 can be corrected with a little hammer.
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8:25 am on November 25th, 2009 4
I wonder if her drill sergeant got her pregnant? lol
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Often it is the (First Line Supervisior).
Squad Leader or Platoon Sergeant Maby even the Platoon Leader
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9:38 pm on November 25th, 2009 5
“Since Courage to Resist helped break news of this outrage–which has now been covered by NPR, AP, USA Today, and The NY Times—two dozen very generous and caring individuals and couples from across the country have come forward with offers to care for Kamani. Alexis and her family want to share their gratitude for this generosity”
However, she doesn’t want “Kamani” to be away from where she grew up.
Yep, she’s ready for a quick discharge. And it will be for the good of the service. She will return home to live with mom, and mom will have to take care of both of them in the future, with no additional income.
Classic losers. Sorry for her and her mom, but they made their own bed.
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Didn’t someone once say, “It takes a village to raise a child?”
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November 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I hit send too soon.
She is from Oakland, California. The Village People are right across the Bay in San Francisco. They may be a little old and tired these days but maybe they can help other.
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3:04 am on November 26th, 2009 6
As more of this story comes out, coupled with the media’s dancing around certain aspects, I am starting to get the picture.
She has no family plan because she doesn’t want to have a family plan.
Her leadership worked with her until they realized she wasn’t even trying. Then they gave her an ultimatum. I suspect someone may have said some inappropriate things out of frustration… and that has become the focus.
The focus has been shifted away from a girl that got knocked up by God-knows-who just after basic, passed the expense onto the Army and the extra work onto those around her, made a family plan to full out the blank paperwork rather than actually plan for the care of her child… and is now publicly adding conditions to the child’s care to insure that there really is no workable family plan except for her to stay in the rear with her kid.
…which is not at all a bad thing in itself…
…except the Army can’t work that way… and she is in the Army.
I say there has been too much focus on this. Chapter her out, forget about her and move on.
There is a high probability she will wind up on public assistance… but, at least, she won’t be in everybody’s way in the military.
Before the Usual Gang of Scolds jump my case over this, be aware that I speak in probabilities… new information may come up that shows me to be wrong in my opinion of the situation.
…but, as of now, this scenario seems to fit the known facts.
except that she
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7:32 pm on November 30th, 2009 7
Wow… just wow.
Nothing of that new information changes the basic facts one bit.
Her getting “knocked up” while in the Army => Irrelevant, there is no regulation, UCMJ action, or ANYTHING that has bearing on that. For all you people know she got knocked up while home on vacation, or during her first few weeks in the unit. None of that is the Army’s business, the Army may not encourage sexual relations but it can not interfere with a citizen’s desire to have sex.
Her not receiving any time to fix her family care program => this has been now shown to be true. She asked her unit, they said yes, then later canceled. They canceled her extensions BEFORE the unit deployed, so in effect she had NO extra time. The specifics of the cancellation are unknown, but regardless of the situation an extension was warranted and the US Military will not deploy a single server member when they have dependents to care for and no one to care for them. So SOMEONE in her chain of command did the wrong thing in revoking it. They were going against Army policy when they revoked it, their fault not hers.
The organization sponsoring her is very anti-military and using this as a launch point to attack the military. => well no f*cking sh1t. God I wouldn’t of ever guessed that an organization that was anti-military would ever dream of making this into a political circus for its own ends. And who would of ever though that a soldier being screwed by their command would ever enlist the assistance of an organization who has mastered working against the US Military. Its just the logical thing to do and therefor obviously shouldn’t be done. Now I’m becoming convinced that many of the people on have/were in the Army too long and become institutionalized. To the point that logic no longer is being applied. Ontop of that, she has every right to go speak to whomever she wants about her problems. She is still a citizen of the US and retains most of her 1st amendment rights. Their are limitations on that while serving but they are not removed, nor are you prevented from speaking about your personal problems provided they don’t concern classified matters nor attack your chain of command.
As for kicking her out, units and commanders can NOT just say “hey your making my life difficult, I’m gonna kick you of the Army with no benefits”. They need a reason, she has to have proven record of misconduct to qualify for the “patterns of misconduct” clause. And the family discharge needs to be agreed to by HER, a command can’t say “you are a single parent and are causing us problems, we’re kicking you out”. And with this organization involved imagine the headlines, “Army Unit discriminating against single mom’s”, “Army tries to quiet whistle blower”, “Army Commander wants to discharge single mom for XYZ”. Talk about a general having a bad day, that kind of media attention gets stars relieved.
As for the dozens of people offering to take care of her children … their f*cking strangers for christ sake. Would any of YOU give your young children / infants into the care of some stranger that volunteered after hearing about you on the news? I sure as hell wouldn’t. So she’s still back in the same situation of finding someone the TRUSTS to care for her child.
The absolute best outcome for all involved is she gets a compassionate reassignment to a unit far far removed from her current one. Whichever dumb a$$ leader that decided to cancel her extension gets either a) relieved, or b) reassigned ASAP. And the hopefully we hear absolutely nothing about either of the above things happening because the media blitz goes away.
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November 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Never been in the military ,eh?
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November 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
How do you think that? I served over eight and a half years and ETS’d as a SSG. Deeply enjoyed my time while serving but decided to start my engineering career twelve years early. And that ETS was within the past few years.
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November 30th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Just wondering, your comments don’t seem to reflect that. However, thats not a bad thing. Maybe we both need more information.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I take an “innocent until proven guilty” stance to most everything. The people on this board jumped on this girl, without even knowing the full details of the situation. They presumed she was all sorts of wrong without once thinking to looking the situation from a fair objective point of view. I have a very big problem with that as its the root cause of many miscommunications, misunderstandings and prejudice.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
He still doesn’t sound like he served. SSG served 8.5 years and got out — to start his engineering career? With a degree in engineering, why stay in so long as an enlisted. Go OCS as soon as you learn what enlisted is about. That doesn’t take eight years.
True, info is not complete. But if you have been in for more than a couple of years, some things start to repeat. Part of being a soldier is being able to understand the situation.
The reason many of us jumped on this soldier (not girl) is because we have seen this many times during our service.
The fact that you call her a “girl”, causes me to question your statement of 8.5 years of service.
As to getting pregnant in the service. There is no regulation. But there is common sense.
If you served for long with females, you saw them get pregnant. Not all were married. There are females that will get pregnant for other reasons than stupidity. The most obvious is that you can’t live in the barracks with a baby. You have to move out. Apartments are larger you know, and sometimes much better. You also get a pay “raise” when you have a “dependent”. BAQ Separate rats.
If that sounds terrible for a female to do, I agree. But that is the system. Not difficult to understand, if you have been in a few years and seen it over and over again.
As to who the babydaddy is, you should be able to make a good guess, based on your 8.5 years enlisted. If you can’t, you must have been the Commander’s driver most of those years.
“Institutionalized”, a very INTERESTING word for someone to use who served for 8.5 years. The military IS an institution. BASIC is designed to instill a certain mind set. Although it often doesn’t take in the PC army of today.
Why did you get out after 8.5 years? Didn’t like serving? Didn’t want to be a Lieutenant? Didn’t like the idea of getting a pension after 20+ years as an officer getting some hands on? You really needed a mentor.
There could of course be other reasons.
Oh, and she is “all sorts of wrong”. If she were all sorts of right, we wouldn’t be here.
Where is LEMMY when I need him. A list of the “wrongs” please. I’m too institutionlized to do it.
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December 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
First let me start by saying “Thank You” for leaving the Army. You are obviously a member of the “me, me, me” generation that replaced the “smarter soldier” generation. The woman has a bastard. Bastard carries a negative connotation for a reason in any society. There is only one virgin birth that I know of and I know for a fact how this woman became pregnant, if you don’t know – your father either failed you or you were too involved in your PSP that day in the car. I have spent much more time than 8.5 years experiencing the worthlessness of women (I can hold in one hand those women who were worth having around) in the Army. Don’t worry, I know of a lot of men who don’t belong in the Army either.
I and others don’t need to wait for the whole story to evolve – simply because we are not stupid. This woman joined the US Army during a time of war. She raised her hand and repeated the oath of enlistment given to her by an officer just like millions before her. But she lied when she swore to the oath. You can look up the oath of enlistment yourself, heck you a BIG ENGINEER.
You say the Army can’t just kick her out, that’s something someone with 8.5 years would say.
This soldier missed movement and there is no excuse.
I’m wondering what benefits you are mentioning. She was a cook who lied, took enormous amounts of time off from work because of the bastard. She received the same pay as a male soldier who had the same job, but did all the work while she tended to the care of the bastard. How did her caring for the bastard benefit the US Army or America? The male E4 cook who deployed to Iraq benefited the US Army and his nation.
I wish you luck with your engineer profession. I have little respect for engineers, so you needn’t gloat. I have a lot of friends who are engineers and if they wrote a book about their job and experiences, no one would read it.
This soldier failed to meet her commitment to her nation, just accept it.
Again, thank you for getting out of the Army.
My dad once told me “son, you can’t argue with an idiot” so I’ll stop here.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 am
Amazing, lots of stretch’s of truth and grasping for straws. No you won’t get more details out of my service, no amount of insulting or Ad Hominem attacks will change that.
Suffice to say, I can invest enough in the 12 years due to salary differences that I actually end up in a more financially secure position. Soldiers that say the full 20 as enlisted or more due so for three reasons. First being that they truly love and enjoy their service to the US, second is that they have family obligations that require the security of the US Military. Final is that they are insecure or otherwise unable to succeed post service.
And yes most of the posters here jumped without any actual knowledge of the situation. They saw a black single mother make a stupid decision rather then take a chance at having her kid taken away. Calling her a “welfare queen” amongst other names reveals the inability to see this situation in an objective light. Being able to objectively see and evaluate situations is a requirement for any sane or logical decision making.
As for her missing movement, yes that is a violation. Of course you can’t kick a soldier out for a single violation, trust me I tried. You must be able to demonstrate several violations over a period of time, known as a pattern of misconduct. The most they can do is simple non-judicial UCMJ, but at this point doing such would be career suicide. And it is known that ~someone~ in her command told her she would have to make deployment and they would put her kid in foster / state care. Regardless of what else happened, that alone pretty much destroys any credibility the command has. Now if only that leader, whomever they are, did the right thing and followed appropriate policy / procedure regardless of how they personally felt. If they felt she was deliberately trying to get out of deployment then there are appropriate methods to deal with that. Lying to a soldier isn’t one of them.
On the point of institutionalization, it is a double edged sword. It trains an individual to follow a specific pattern in response to specific stimuli. Waking up at a specific time everyday, repeating a specific action when being shot at, performing a critical task in a specific sequence without missing one. Those are all good side effects, the bad ones happen once you’ve been institutionalized too long. Then your very thinking patterns become set, everything becomes a rule or pattern. You repeat the same behavioral patterns every day. Your very life becomes behavioral. Just like your body your mind requires exercise. As you think less and less about your daily actions, parts of your mind start to shutdown and you basically get stupider. This happens to many civilians who live dull lives and refuse to do any form of mental exercise.
Honestly at this point in time I believe Lemmy is really just trying to cause a stir on the boards, knowing that the more bigoted / charged their comments are the more agitated response they can provoke.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I will wait for additional information as there are too many assumptions being made on her side to lead to any fair conclusions.
As for her missing her deployment, she was found and arrested 10 days later. It would be normal for anyone AWOL for 10 days to be jailed at least until further information was available.
The child was in child care for two days, the grandmother now has the child again. Alexis is restricted to the post. Probobly until the investigation is complete.
” some superior alledgedly said she would have to deploy or they would put the child in foster care”. Commander? 1st Sgt, section supervisor, friend with one more stripe? Next door neighbor? Guy down the block who works in maintenence?
On the other hand civilians often must make these choices as well all around the country every day. (The baby sitter didn’t show up and if I don’t go to work I’ll get fired. If I get fired I can’t make the house payment. So the kids get left behind. The neighbors report a child walking the neighborhood alone and lost and the mother is arrested and the child placed in foster care.) Happens every day.
Somehow you find the “military” is to fault for her not having a viable child care plan. “The command is at fault”, “someone told her they would send the child to foster care”.
Institutionalization. Being trained for combat, to make instantainious decisions in matters of life and death, do require significant training. I have never met a military person who’s mind has shut down and got stupider, because of it. Well perhaps one, but he was only in for 8.5 years.
Other than that the military as an institution is very well respected and is known for its equal opportunity for many people. It often provides a much broader overall knowledge of the world and how it works than many provincial Univerity professors ever experience or understand. Other institutional organizations such as ACORN could learn much from the military.
Other than that these comments are peoples opinions. Just like yours. I find many of them very much on the spot as far as assumptions and experience. This is not a jury, only an opinion blog. To each his or her own.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Its known that her command granted her an extension then revoked it immediately prior to her deployment. You can’t really debate that point at all. She ~DID~ have a valid family care plan, the same one many soldiers have “give hid to significant other”. The parent said they would take care of the crumb snatcher. She did execute her family care plan and continued preparing for deployment, then her mother canceled her commitment.
Everything stated above is known fact. And it points a very ugly finger at someone inside her chain of command (what I was referring to when I said command and you know it). The comment that they would put her kid in child protective services if she showed up with it just adds insult to injury. Especially to someone who most likely wouldn’t of known that the US Army wouldn’t of actually done that.
I don’t find fault with the “military” and you guys need to stop making straw man and personal attack arguments. They just serve to make the antagonist look less capable with each one made. The military is a large fairly well functioning organization. Most of the time things work like their supposed to, if they didn’t then it would fall apart. But sometimes people in leadership positions make very large mistakes. And sometimes those mistakes are completely bone headed, like trying to tell a SPC that her kid would be put in CPS while canceling her extension in an effort to motivate her to find a new caregiver.
In the absolute worst case scenario, the one you are all assuming, that she was enacting this elaborate scheme to get out of deployment, the leadership is still very wrong. The fact they gave an extension, then canceled it last minute, then mentioned they would put the kid in CPS if she showed up with it, is enough to boot a commander somewhere. If she wasn’t trying to evade deployment, like she’s been saying the entire time, then the command is REALLY in the wrong for how they treated this situation.
You mention that all these guys are somehow valid? Are you smoking dope? This is not the USSR, the DPRK, or China. In the Unites States of America you are innocent until proven guilty and the burden of proof lies on the accuser not the accused. The military legal system also follows this rule, although often by a stretch. If you or anyone else can not see the logic in that then your too far jaded to even come close to objective discussion. In which case this debate is effectively over.
If you took a moment to read my comment you’d notice that I started with the pro’s of institutionalization. The ability to enact a set of instructions without needing to consciously think about them is invaluable. Unfortunately the moment that cross’s over into your everyday thinking is when problems start to arise. I’ve seen it happen to damn near every senior I’ve met. It typically starts to set in at 10 years, then gradually gets worse. Its because humans are creatures of habit, we like to create daily habits and routines, all people do this and it does make you stupider. The military just creates a situation where it can get worse, similar to how office workers often gain weight through lack of daily activity. It takes a conscious effort to exercise both your body and your mind.
And please, keep the personal attacks and insinuations to a minimum. I haven’t insulted you, you don’t need to attempt to justify your argument through insulting me. That is a logical fallacy known as Ad Hominem.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Nah, I don’t buy your argument.
As far as perssonal attacks, I believe your statement that:
” the bad ones (side effects) happen once you’ve been institutionalized too long. Then your very thinking patterns become set, everything becomes a rule or pattern. You repeat the same behavioral patterns every day. Your very life becomes behavioral. Just like your body your mind requires exercise. As you think less and less about your daily actions, parts of your mind start to shutdown and you basically get stupider ”
I spent 20 years in the military. Your target subject was those in the military. You have even clarified it to those with 10 or more years in the military. (Of course that would have left you out).
Limit the personal attacks? I only responded to yours. Which seemed to apply. I thought that was a very dumb statement on your part. Otherwise my comments were on target.
Do not make something appear to be someone elses fault when you instigated the issue.
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
The effects of institutionalization are a well documented and studied thing. The effects show up in anyone who does the exact same things by rote day in and day out for extended periods of time.
Now tell me that the US Military doesn’t fit that. Also I didn’t say it happened to everyone, its entirely plausible for someone to mentally challenge themselves during their off time. Special Forces are an interesting example because their missions involved constantly rethinking how they do things. I’ve yet to meet a SF guy who had their brain locked.
As for my argument, what part can’t you understand? The part where the command revoked her extension, or the part where they said they would put her kid in CPS. How about the part where she said she wasn’t trying to get out of deployment and just needed time to find a new caregiver? Her only negative is that she did a boneheaded thing (not showing up for deployment). Her reasoning is that she was afraid they would put her kid in CPS, because well they SAID they would.
So far many logical fallacies have been used in place blame / fault on the soldier in question, including but not limited to Ad Hominem, Burden of Proof, Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Ridicule, False Dilemma, Hasty Generalization, Guilt by Association, Straw Man, Genetic Fallacy, Post Hoc, Questionable Cause and Composition.
Of course I don’t expect completely logical debate material from a web forum, but at least people can attempt to not to look the complete fool.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
LOL, you keep using the phrase “ad hominem”, yet I don’t think you understand its meaning. You really need to look it up.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Someone, anyone to include THEOTHERGUY please explain to me how this soldier added value to the U.S. Army. Use all the information you can find, call her on the phone, call her commander, first line supervisor, co-workers, customers of the dining facilities she worked at. What has she done that warrants the U.S. Army retaining her?
I do agree with theotherguy on one great point he himself may have overlooked, complacency within society. When the county hands out cheese and peanut-butter on thursdays the same take home the cheese and peanut-butter every week. Recidivism rates for prison populations have remained constant throughout history. Women with bastard children are predominantly among the lowest socioeconomic class. Those are just facts. I don’t apologize for writing the cold hard facts. Too often in today’s society to include the US Army, discussion of difficult problems are watered down so as to make the presenter seem more intelligent and articulate. Unfortunately true meanings of conversation are lost in the vernacular chosen to make something “nicer”. Whether or not this woman likes it or anyone for that matter, life is filled with choices that don’t always result in reward.
In my world, a trophy is only presented to the winner and the person who doesn’t get the trophy is called a loser. This woman didn’t win so what does that make her?
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December 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Dont know why, but there is no “reply” option for the post(s) i want to reply to, so had to click on the nearest one available (a post by someone who admitted to a closed mind)
Theotherguy:
“As for my argument, what part can’t you understand? ”
The pertinent question is whether they Want to understand.
You’re absolutely right about the tendency to damn the facts and jump to conclusions. I think people have to believe they’re infallible to do that. Ad hominem substitutes for facts because thats the logic that works best for them on sites that regularly disparge those who have differing opinions than theirs.
Cheers
The part where the command revoked her extension, or the part where they said they would put her kid in CPS. How about the part where she said she wasn’t trying to get out of deployment and just needed time to find a new caregiver? Her only negative is that she did a boneheaded thing (not showing up for deployment). Her reasoning is that she was afraid they would put her kid in CPS, because well they SAID they would.
So far many logical fallacies have been used in place blame / fault on the soldier in question, including but not limited to Ad Hominem, Burden of Proof, Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Ridicule, False Dilemma, Hasty Generalization, Guilt by Association, Straw Man, Genetic Fallacy, Post Hoc, Questionable Cause and Composition.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
The reply option is at the original comment. Just click on it and yours will be added to the others.
By the way you also need to look up the meaning of “ad hominen”, not to mention repeating what “THEOTHERGUY” said almost verbatem without even reading the other posts.
Did “THEOTHERGUY” call you and say he needed your support in his debate?
9:29 pm on December 2nd, 2009 8
If i could find the way to reply to posts with blue backgrounds (like my prior post appears on my screen) or to edit my post, i would do that.
I wanted to edit my last post to delete everything under “cheers” but dont know why those commands aren’t available. Is it a firefox browser issue?
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
Mike, I hope you are in your mid-twenties. Here is why: Eventually in your life, you begin to see patterns. Darwinist would argue that this is what allows animals to extend their lives because they can “learn from these patterns”. I am not a plant, so I hope to classified as part of the animal kingdom. As such, I have the ability to learn eg. Boiling water is not a pleasant feeling on the skin, if I shoot a gun and the bullet hits someone in the center of their head, they will die. Learning these small lessons of life have aided in my survival. Another important aspect of my success and survival in life has two general rules: learning from others mistakes and FOLLOWING RULES OF SOCIETY.
In case you didn’t know: a stove burner will burn you, If you jump in front of a train, you will be killed. Though I’ve never experienced either, I know the results. I admit some elder people are freaks of nature as they are simply unintelligent, people do slip through. I understand that, but I would do a disservice to society if I didn’t point them out to others.
Banana’s
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1:15 am on February 12th, 2010 9
It seems the comment section here frequently cuts through the bullshyt and grasps the fundamental truth of most situations long before the rest of the world even understands something is amiss.
As a bonus, there are just enough whining idealists, indignant losers and agenda-driven apologists hell-bent on defending the indefensible here to keep things interesting. You know who you are.
So…
Once again, ROK Drop out-analyzed the “professional” media.
““The investigation revealed evidence, from both other Soldiers and from Private Hutchinson herself, that she didn’t intend to deploy to Afghanistan with her unit and deliberately sought ways out of the deployment,” the release said.
Hutchinson admitted to lying about the circumstances, officials said. The decision to administratively separate her from the service, rather than seek a court-martial, eliminates the possibility of jail time for the incident. ”
The situation was pretty clear from the beginning… and it’s nice to get confirmation.
The only loose end is the incredibly large and deliberate information vacuum concerning her baby-daddy…
…if it was even remotely possible to spin her as anything less than the lazy ghetto slut she appears to be, the media would be banging pots and pans and yelling, “Deadbeat Dad!” over this…
…so, their silence speaks rather loudly, after all.
I sure would like to know the truth, though… THAT story is probably lots more interesting than just another lying malingerer being loudly adopted and quietly dropped by left-wing do-gooders desperate to shoehorn the clear form of reality into their misshapen agendas.
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February 12th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Amen.
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