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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 week, 6 days ago
    Where were the protests when 28 million Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese were being murdered by Pol Pot?
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 week, 5 days ago
      There were not "paid for" Protests back in those days . . .
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      • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 week, 5 days ago
        When the alternative was to go into the meat grinder of southeast Asia, yeah there was more than enough motivation to go out and protest.

        I believe the draft ended in 72 or 73, Before then, while I was not yet of draft age, the big protests were happening in the city. Without a car, I was forbade by my parents from hoping the train and joining fray.
        Because back then, the Boston cops didn't hesitate busting heads with billy clubs. I think Kevin White was the mayor then.
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        • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 week, 5 days ago
          I avoided the draft in 71 and was assigned stateside with School Command, (All the on post schools in the USA) and got out in 73 . . . The draft ended at that time, good thing, my number was next.
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          • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 week, 5 days ago
            Funny thing. I grew up in a blue collar working class area. Folks working hand-to-mouth. All my older siblings and their pears volunteered for 'Nam. Never understood it. None of it. They knew it was a meat grinder. They knew it was wrong. They knew it was all for not. Yet they went voluntarily. And they all came back. (that I know of). A miracle if you ask me.
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          • Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 5 days ago
            I was in college but was brainwashed enough that I decided not to ask for a deferment on that basis.
            I was lucky to get a high draft lottery number and was not drafted.
            It was a close call for me. Many friends were not as fortunate including my current business partner who signed on with the Air Force. He was only overrun by the VC twice while serving in Viet Nam, and survived with only some hearing loss from working on jet engines.
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  • Posted by kddr22 1 week, 6 days ago
    If their signs told the truth, next to sheeple priceless.
    Thanks.
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    • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 week, 6 days ago
      Trying to think which campus... the one where the administration building was occupied and cleared out by the cops... anywho, about 300 were arrested, half were students (who will not be allowed to finish the semester), the other half were illegal aliens (aka Crimaleins) paid protestors. Some have supplied evidence (presumably for a lighter sentence) that the money was coming from a George Soros foundation.

      Isn't that special?
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 week, 6 days ago
    A fine story board this week, OUC. Sums it all up. Hard to pick the ones I like the best, but leading with the Bill Murray is a great start - get ready, here it comes again. Then closing the whole circus with the last one delivers a final message of truth. I suppose the Pali history museum could have had a camel and a tent, but a blank wall nails it, too. The word goop flowing out of the teacher's lounge professor is about right - the cartoonist probably could have gone on, but the space is limited, LOL. Oh, the found brain is way too big for that guy - someone else must have lost it. Thanks, OUC, for another fine start to my day!
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 week, 6 days ago
    The "Accurate Signs" should have included...
    Bomb Us First!
    Nothing to Live For!
    Paid for by Stupid Parents!

    And My Favorite for College Campuses:
    Abolish Slavery...
    But indebt your students for life, so they live like serfs after they are brainwashed into thinking they are superior!
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 week, 6 days ago
    That Museum Photo:

    Notice how it was not so much a Black & White Issue... But more of "Shades of Gray"... And how the shadows were somehow as obvious as the other subjects.

    I am totally blown away!
    At one level... Losing such valuable art... And being able to explain the literacy problem in a single photo... [end heavy sarcasm]
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