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raghorn

raghorn

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I tried to send you an email on 7/17, don't know if it got through. I used the address you have listed in your profile.
 
I never saw it, Raghorn. The address is munk49@yahoo.com or even
munk@ttc-cmc.net

I'm going to get paranoid. EVer since 9-11 i've had email trouble. I voted for Bush and argued with the 'blame America' crowd on the Civil Liberites forum on About.com for months. My only mistake besides being an outspoken non apologist for the individual right to bear arms was getting on the FBI web site and asking them what Wahabbi Islam was.

Bummer man. Munk the watched.

munk
 
Originally posted by munk
My only mistake besides being an outspoken non apologist for the individual right to bear arms was getting on the FBI web site and asking them what Wahabbi Islam was.
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LOL! :D :eek:
 
I asked nicely...and am pretty naive..I couldn't find anything on Wahabbi at first..tried Cato..these govt sites seemed helpful, they had a lot of data you wouldn't think they'd offer, including some declassified stuff. But I didn't stop there, I also asked the same questions of Interpool, (sic?) and the CIA.

I ought to write a book called, "How to get noticed by your Government"

munk
 
crisp black suits and a pair of sunglasses...:D
 
I asked a engineer/rocket scientist once about the CIA and FBI.
"When I was in college, none of us wanted to go into the federal government...we wouldn't have thought of joining the CIA or the FBI. Only the dumbest wanted to do that." I said.

He laughed aloud. "It's still that way."

This anecdote is offered with no disparagement towards any one in those fields today. Hopefully, with the renewed national spirit exceptional people are in Govenment service.

munk
 
Originally posted by munk
I asked a engineer/rocket scientist once about the CIA and FBI.
"When I was in college, none of us wanted to go into the federal government...we wouldn't have thought of joining the CIA or the FBI. Only the dumbest wanted to do that." I said.
He laughed aloud. "It's still that way."
This anecdote is offered with no disparagement towards any one in those fields today.

Hopefully, with the renewed national spirit exceptional people are in Govenment service.

munk
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Even before the renewed national spirit we've had exceptional people in Government Service.
All one has to do is too look at our volunteer military!!!! The Absolute Best in the World!!!!
IMO of course.:D
And of course one has to consider that sometimes even the really exceptional people have their hands tied in protocol and are under the yoke of the unexceptional.
I believe that all of us here would agree that Sarge is one of the exceptional ones as are the men directly under him.
Hopefully Sarge has the most experienced officers over him that cares about him and his men as much as Sarge himself does.

What? Was it sometime around '69 or so that a 2nd louie that had just arrived in Nam had a life expectancy of 30 seconds?:rolleyes:
The smart ones listened to their Top and paid attention so they might just live long enough to get back home in one piece or lived long enough to make a decent officer that still listened to his Top.
When I was in MOS training at Ft Hood in '65 we had an excellent CO. A First Louie that had been an enlisted man for 13 years.
He knew his $hit and was fair with everyone and expected the same from his command.
He wasn't hard to get along with at all, neither was Top.:D
 
Yvsa, your post reminds me of those people who think themselves singular, special, and haven't realized that God put an awful lot of talent everywhere. I was in my late twenties before I figured that out. I know people who never have.

Hey! but as another anecdotal story, the Civil Service did not accept my brother. They would not take him. His crime? He had scored perfectly on the SAT and the Civil Service exam. Their own internal studies showed such people did not remain in the Civil Service and would become bored and leave. His scores made him eligable for managerial positions, but without the experience they would not give him, he could not have those positions. What happened? He had to wait a year and re-apply. This reassured them and to this day he is a mole in the labrynith of the IRS...

That all volunteer military was the best thing this country could have done.

munk
 
Originally posted by munk
Yvsa, your post reminds me of those people who think themselves singular, special, and haven't realized that God put an awful lot of talent everywhere.

I was in my late twenties before I figured that out. I know people who never have.

munk
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Munk, would you clarify this a bit? I agree I am singular in many ways and of course, special, but then IMO everyone is. But I know more than most that Unelanvhi or God has put an incredible amount of talent everywhere.
These forums alone make that pretty damned obvious.:)
 
Yeah, I wondered if I wrote it right; your post reminded me there are talented people everywhere, including the Govt, and that I really can't stereotype even them.

But I'd like to!

munk
 
What is also amazing is finding a hidden talent for something inside yourself. Once you have experienced that a few times, then you know that others have that too. Then, help another find their hidden talents...
 
Right Pen. If God had placed most of the talent in the thousand faces we see in Hollywood and on the radio the species would never have got this far.

it really is everywhere.

munk
 
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