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ThoughtCriminal

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3. A couple of weeks ago a former Marine co-worker

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 01:59 AM

Jan 2015

was complaining that over 30 Marines had been killed the week before in Afghanistan and "There was nothing about it in the MSM", but he only knew about it through his connection to "informed sources".

Apparently, his connected informed sources consisted of a Facebook jpeg that has been circulated for the past couple of years and is actually referring to the well-covered Chinook helicopter crash in 2011 that claimed the lives of 31 Marines.

There's something every week that kicks his outrage button: U.N. resolutions that don't exist, Executive Orders that do not remotely resemble what his Facebook friends claim, Stalinist USSR was more free than Americans are today. He will believe anything that confirms his extreme ideology. Anything. Oh, and Snopes and all the other fact checking sites are just part of the leftist conspiracy.

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Obama To Disband the Marine Corps [View all] FourScore Jan 2015 OP

Obama's just perfect: A right-of-center reasonable man Ron Green Jan 2015 #1

You question why Holder would be involved in restructuring the military ? lunasun Jan 2015 #2

A couple of weeks ago a former Marine co-worker ThoughtCriminal Jan 2015 #3

I love the "We're less free than North Korea/the Soviet Union/Nazi Germany/etc" line. NYC Liberal Jan 2015 #7

And that's not all. Obama is going to change the Constitution so he can run for a 3rd term progree Jan 2015 #4

I thought he was just going to cancel the election and stay in power. Jim Lane Jan 2015 #15

Maybe Hillary wants to get rid of the Marines -- they rejected her and said try the Army, progree Jan 2015 #5

Executive Orders as Kingly Command Beartracks Jan 2015 #6

make up your damn minds! SCantiGOP Jan 2015 #17

Cognitive dissonance, thy name is Republican. n/t Beartracks Jan 2015 #18

In addition to Obama being a secret muslim... Xolodno Jan 2015 #8

Even if he did, I dont think I would have a problem with it. ncjustice80 Jan 2015 #9

Clinton was going to hand control to the UN Matrosov Jan 2015 #10

It is almost normal for people to delude themselves into believing what they want to believe. Kaleva Jan 2015 #11

K & R Scurrilous Jan 2015 #12

I say if the Army, Navy and Air Force can have bands... pinboy3niner Jan 2015 #13

It's not just the right-wing. Archae Jan 2015 #14

*scrolls around* oo, Truman did MisterP Jan 2015 #16

Anyone with half a brain would knows that the USMC is part of the US Navy ChosenUnWisely Jan 2015 #19

Geeze, anybody who watches NCIS knows this. mnhtnbb Jan 2015 #20

WTF does some TV show have to do with this? ChosenUnWisely Jan 2015 #22

Negative. The Navy and the Marine Corps are co-equally Naval Services Recursion Jan 2015 #23

In practice today you are correct but legally and constitutionally you are incorrect ChosenUnWisely Jan 2015 #25

Right, and the "Navy" as allowed by the Constitution encompasses more than the specific "US Navy" Recursion Jan 2015 #31

Um, Dude. The USMC was founded in 1775 by the second constitutional convention. msanthrope Jan 2015 #38

People have been predicting the Corps' demise since 1775 Recursion Jan 2015 #21

This is more than just absurd and funny.. its dangerous and a threat to our nation. DCBob Jan 2015 #24

But, why, why why are they never held accountable except by Jon Stewart, Laffy Kat Jan 2015 #26

That beats my co-worker who is suspicious of gas prices falling underpants Jan 2015 #27

You do know Obama has banned by executive decree all protest in front of federal buildings, didn't Douglas Carpenter Jan 2015 #28

Major Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, is credited to have stopped a coup in 1932. John1956PA Jan 2015 #29

First they came for my guns. Then they came for my doughnuts, and I had no defense. Semper Pie! WinkyDink Jan 2015 #30

Michelle Obama is going to force us to eat those scary vegetable things! Nooo!!! chrisa Jan 2015 #32

That's why Bush41 was better! He hates broccoli! WinkyDink Jan 2015 #33

R U Sure I thought it was combining the Air Force & Army again.... Historic NY Jan 2015 #34

I had to laugh OnionPatch Jan 2015 #35

You laugh now. But ... dawg Jan 2015 #36

This: treestar Jan 2015 #37