Happy Veteran's Day from Salon.com

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

If you don't watch your step my friend, I will bust your eyeballs out and skullfuck you.

I'd like to see that.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by icenine

On a lighter note I got a free cup of coffee at Starbuck's yesterday. I may have crossed the line by asking for a venti but was told the free ones only came in the tall size. That was cool with me. I left a dollar tip.

It just kills me that people do not mind me paying only about $435 a year for full health insurance yet do not want to the government to pay theirs or they hate Obamacare.

Just $435? Wow can I join cause we are lucky to come in under $12,000.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Just $435? Wow can I join cause we are lucky to come in under $12,000.

I'm assuming it's VA. Many of us have abandoned the VA and happily pay our Medicare premium and supplement premiums, or our Medicare Advantage premiums so that we have some choice in our care. Too many friends and relatives in the VA end up having to take cases to the Patient Advocate's Office when the VA docs decide they won't take what would, in the real world of health care, be a preferred course of treatment or surgery.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Just $435? Wow can I join cause we are lucky to come in under $12,000.

Yeah, there have been plenty of times that I have cursed myself for getting out after 4, instead of staying for 20.

[donquixote99]

I'd assume it's an employeer plan, the kind made available to retired management, and (mostly in the past) to the rank and file of firms that valued their employees.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I'd assume it's an employeer plan, the kind made available to retired management, and (mostly in the past) to the rank and file of firms that valued their employees.

It's Tricare.

http://www.military.com/benefits/tri...-retirees.html

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

It just kills me that people do not mind me paying only about $435 a year for full health insurance yet do not want to the government to pay theirs or they hate Obamacare.

Make no mistake, the right is going after your Military Retirement benefits.

And Whelly and his ilk will be shilling for them.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I completely agree with their sentiment:

"Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism..."

As opposed to being a liberal sentiment, I'd suggest it's a objective observation.

That statement is dead on. America is becoming a militatized police state. And I'm a Bagger, just ask TJ.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Howabout it Whelly, you a Vet?

Still no answer from Whelly.

Must be an oversight so I'll remind me.

Howabout it Whelly?

Tell us some war stories.

I'm sure you have some good ones.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Yeah, there have been plenty of times that I have cursed myself for getting out after 4, instead of staying for 20.

You - n - me both, Brother.

The private sector sucks ass, big time and it's getting worse by the day.

Dave