"Stars and Stripes" headline (a "you've got to be effing kidding" moment)

[lebkuchen]

See big red box

http://www.estripes.com/

[madrchsod]

1. ?

really odd isn`t it...

[lebkuchen]

3. Condi and Allison Barber must've talked about ratcheting up the propaganda

machine. I thought it was already going full-throttle.

The Bushies have "Jeff Gannon"'s throughout the military communication system--paper, radio, TV. They've got it covered...all but the letters section.

[turbo_satan]

2. Holy crap!

You're right. You've got to be fucking kidding me.

[lebkuchen]

4. And THAT is how I know Stripes is on the "take"

They also send viruses to those whose views they don't appreciate. I now only send them a Yahoo/hotmail address, whenever I complain.

[stillcool]

5. If this is more of that...

paid-for-puff-news..they really need some better writers.

[lebkuchen]

6. All Stripes writers aren't plants

But they do have them.

[regnaD kciN]

7. And, while you're at it, catch THIS news story...

Coinless slot machines — popular in stateside gambling meccas such as Atlantic City, N.J., and Las Vegas — are now coming to overseas U.S. Navy bases, say Morale, Welfare and Recreation officials, in hopes of fattening MWR budgets.

Yep...let's find a way to fatten the Navy's budget out of the pockets of the enlisted personnel! :grr:

[lebkuchen]

9. The DoD introduces gum into the formation--to fight tooth decay

(one wonders what experimental drug is in this new product), only to promote gambling addiction behind the scenes.

pathetic

[Catch22Dem]

12. Hey, I liked the slot machines at the NCO club

I was old enough, responsible enough, and if I wanted to play, I played. If you complain about slots in one place you gotta complain about them everywhere!

[lebkuchen]

13. I knew a few "responsible" professionals who couldn't pay their rent

because of the slot machines, and they were getting an LQA~!

[Catch22Dem]

17. You can't blame the machines though

I mean, I know plenty of people who have a serious alcohol problem, but that shouldn't mean I can't have a drink when I want. I know people who drive recklessly, doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to use a car to get to work. I'm just saying we can't tailor everything to suit those among us who behave the worst.

[lebkuchen]

20. The military has enough problems dealing with huge phone bills

and other over-extensions among the troops than to have to take on
an(other) addiction that can easily be averted.

I don't advocate telephone removal, but when it's abused, the COs have been known to curtail service.

Slot machines are not a necessity. The O'clubs are hoping to entice those w/addictions, and they make out "like bandits."

We could always blame the person w/the addiction, I suppose.

[Catch22Dem]

21. I just don't think I should have things taken away from ME

Because of other peoples addictions. If we do that, where does it stop?

[lebkuchen]

23. That's how the NRA feels

and it's addicted to guns.

[Catch22Dem]

27. So we're comparing games to guns

I think we're done here.

[drhilarius]

8. From the article:

" '...while they were shoving the broomstick up my ass and sticking my face in pig shit, I wished I had a camera, because it was times like these, and friends like these,that I would always want to remember and cherish.'"

(satire alert).

[lebkuchen]

10. show me a more obvious propaganda piece than this

the never-ending quest

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. "Then I let them photo shop my head onto

a patriotic american sports shirt and sell me to the American people."

[walldude]

15. Didn't even attempt to hide the bad PS job

it looks like a freakin caricature...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

18. ok so im not going crazy.

thanks.

[billybob537]

14. This is how

we treat our friends?

[wtmusic]

16. give the man three televisions and two refrigerators

and he'll say anything.

[Dances with Cats]

19. Brothers, huh?

didn't Cain kill Abel?

[Hubert Flottz]

22. What no picture of the Fuhrer and crusty Dick???

I went into a VA office a few months back and there of the wall as big as a life sized picture of Adolf Hitler, was a big glossy picture of the AWOL pretender pResident! I'll bet if George Patton came back he'd SLAP every Repig in Washington for being cowards and shirkers of their duties. I don't think George Patton would approve of Shrubs 299 days a year on vacations, while the nation is at war with the "Evil Doers" and Terra-ists.

Just get me some socks and shirts that don't fit, to add to my collection and forget the propaganda photos...PLEASE!

[semillama]

24. Did they change it?

I'm not sure what you are talking about. I don't see a big red box at the link.

[SoCalDem]

25. I see no big red box when I click the link

:shrug:

[Marr]

26. Me neither.

Could use a little explanation.