Is there anyone or anything you actually hate?

Irwin said:
How about the military industrial complex that influences government policies so they can profit from them?

There's plenty to hate about war -- especially unnecessary wars, and that we didn't learn our lesson from Vietnam, as evidenced by our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. War is a big, money making enterprise. Some of our military interventions during the past 100 or so years were to protect corporate interests in third-world countries so they could exploit their resources.

That was the case in Central America. We destroyed those countries' governments and created the unrest that exists there today, which is why so many people from that area are coming to the U.S. The eagle is coming home to roost, so to speak.
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I sure do agree about the money grubbing actions of greedy industrialists.
You know, after 9/11 and we invaded Iraq and guys were rushing to volunteer I thought, "Here we go again." :mad:
 
Irwin said:
How about the military industrial complex that influences government policies so they can profit from them?

There's plenty to hate about war -- especially unnecessary wars, and that we didn't learn our lesson from Vietnam, as evidenced by our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. War is a big, money making enterprise. Some of our military interventions during the past 100 or so years were to protect corporate interests in third-world countries so they could exploit their resources.

That was the case in Central America. We destroyed those countries' governments and created the unrest that exists there today, which is why so many people from that area are coming to the U.S. The eagle is coming home to roost, so to speak.
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Yep, as A.G. Riddle put it in the book The Atlantis Gene, "[Every war is] always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils." I think that the men and women who enlist or respond to being drafted and serve in wars do it for brave, honest reasons such as freeing slaves, liberating concentration camps, etc., but the big shots running the wars? Not so much.
 

I suddenly remembered a guy, one of the spoiled rich brats, in high school who kicked me right between the legs while we were playing basketball in PE. I recall crumpling to the ground in agony only able to utter, "YOU . . . !!!" The damn coach did nothing but send me to crawl out of the way. I've hated that guy to this very day along with the useless coach. Yes, I carry a grudge.

Hey, Craig! Your face, my fist anytime, you coward.:mad:
 
SetWave said:
I suddenly remembered a guy, one of the spoiled rich brats, in high school who kicked me right between the legs while we were playing basketball in PE. I recall crumpling to the ground in agony only able to utter, "YOU . . . !!!" The damn coach did nothing but send me to crawl out of the way. I've hated that guy to this very day along with the useless coach. Yes, I carry a grudge.

Hey, Craig! Your face, my fist anytime, you coward.:mad:
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It's so sad, @SetWave that many of us went thru some tough times (I attended a very racially segregated high school). So you can imagine... being Mexican American at the wrong time and place. But, I made it.
 
PamfromTx said:
It's so sad, @SetWave that many of us went thru some tough times (I attended a very racially segregated high school). So you can imagine... being Mexican American at the wrong time and place. But, I made it.
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He was just one of the spoiled rich brats.

We had many fights between the Mexican/American girls and Caucasians. It got really brutal.

The hotrod guys and surfers were also fighting and my mom even considered keeping me home. Naturally, I took autoshop :rolleyes: and one day the guy with the hottest car in school came up to me (UH OH!) and said, "Hey! You're alright for a surfer." Whew.
 

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