Comments on: You Know, Education, If You Make The Most Of It…. http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:48:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sirkowski http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/#comment-1862 sirkowski Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make-the-most-of-it/#comment-1862 If you don't like, why don't you start your own cartoon? Good luck with that. e_e If you don’t like, why don’t you start your own cartoon?

Good luck with that. e_e

]]> By: jumkey http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/#comment-1863 jumkey Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make-the-most-of-it/#comment-1863 AGAIN. The military is just fodder for your bigotry. You and Wordsmith don't care about "service" or valor or sacrifice or patriotism or America or the soldiers that serve. It's sad that you never had to sacrifice for your freedom - you just might appreciate it if you had. AGAIN.

The military is just fodder for your bigotry.

You and Wordsmith don’t care about “service” or valor or sacrifice or patriotism or America or the soldiers that serve.

It’s sad that you never had to sacrifice for your freedom – you just might appreciate it if you had.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/#comment-1864 Lisa Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make-the-most-of-it/#comment-1864 PS. The war <strong>is</strong> going bad. Really. I know the troops are working really hard to keep it together, but alas, it is going bad. I am not saying that in the future it might not go good. However, right now it is going bad. Really bad. That is not the MSM. It is just going bad. PS. The war is going bad. Really. I know the troops are working really hard to keep it together, but alas, it is going bad.

I am not saying that in the future it might not go good. However, right now it is going bad. Really bad. That is not the MSM. It is just going bad.

]]> By: Gayle http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/#comment-1865 Gayle Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make-the-most-of-it/#comment-1865 Dang! I couldn't even watch all of it. My husband is a Vietnam Vet retired Warrant Officer 3 with 20 years service to our country. He wasn't raised poor. He came from an upper middle-class family, graduated at the top of his class, and UCLA granted him a full scholarship. He also had an offer to work for the Bank of America. He refused and joined the Army instead, as a Private. Many people in this country fight for the right of Americans to remain free. They are patriots, pure and simple! This sort of crap makes kids believe that it's okay to put down the military and it makes my blood boil! Thanks for letting me rant. I'll never watch the Simpsons again! Dang! I couldn’t even watch all of it. My husband is a Vietnam Vet retired Warrant Officer 3 with 20 years service to our country. He wasn’t raised poor. He came from an upper middle-class family, graduated at the top of his class, and UCLA granted him a full scholarship. He also had an offer to work for the Bank of America. He refused and joined the Army instead, as a Private. Many people in this country fight for the right of Americans to remain free. They are patriots, pure and simple! This sort of crap makes kids believe that it’s okay to put down the military and it makes my blood boil!

Thanks for letting me rant. I’ll never watch the Simpsons again!

]]> By: earwig http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make/#comment-1866 earwig Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/13/you-know-education-if-you-make-the-most-of-it/#comment-1866 The scene that sets the premise for all this isn't in that clip. In it, we see a knight-robot transformer pulling a sword from a Tolkien-esque and taking out all sorts of threats, in what is one of the funniest satires of those Marine-dragonslayer ads I've ever seen. Point is, the recruiters aren't selling the job on its philosophical merits. They're marketing it to youth who feel they have little power in their lives as a way to get some, by appealing to their love for fantasy danger. That, and the specific targeting of low-income, low-ed candidates, is what's being mocked. Rightly so. The scene that sets the premise for all this isn’t in that clip. In it, we see a knight-robot transformer pulling a sword from a Tolkien-esque and taking out all sorts of threats, in what is one of the funniest satires of those Marine-dragonslayer ads I’ve ever seen.

Point is, the recruiters aren’t selling the job on its philosophical merits. They’re marketing it to youth who feel they have little power in their lives as a way to get some, by appealing to their love for fantasy danger.

That, and the specific targeting of low-income, low-ed candidates, is what’s being mocked. Rightly so.

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