KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 You have no idea how nice the world we live in is, until you have to go away from it for awhile.Man, it's good to be back. I'll be talking to you guys again soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Where have you been, if I may ask.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 I been on a little cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Baratheon Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 How many enemy combatants did the ship kill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 zero. And your motive for asking that question is noted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Baratheon Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 What motive would that be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cathy Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Happy to hear your back safe and sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 Cathy, you are a jewel. And I assure you it has nothing to do with your status as "Frank's niece". You're just a great lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Welcome home. And welcome home to all our sailors and Marines.--Brantthank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 Thanks brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyau Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 . . .First off... hello again!. . .Welcome back.Hear, hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDS Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 How many enemy combatants did the ship kill?Probably not enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Baratheon Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 How many enemy combatants did the ship kill?Probably not enough. Questionable return on a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDS Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 How many enemy combatants did the ship kill?Probably not enough. Questionable return on a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer investment.Less questionable than at least 100 other examples that quickly come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 RB:A MEU ARG is a crisis response force, trained to respond to a variety of specific contingencies. To assume that there was no return on that investment because there were not enough crises that needed responding to is like saying you wasted money on your insurance policy because you didn't crash your car frequently enough.But I knew you were going to insinuate that the lack of actionable crises we faced out there somehow lessens the legitimacy of what the MEU ARG does in general, and what I do in particular. That's the motive I knew was behind the question. Not that I need to convince you of the value of having a MEU ARG our there, but you'd be surprised at the influence on world politics that our very presence has. People tend to behave differently when the cops are on the sidewalk in front of heir house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KacyRay Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 . . .First off... hello again!. . .Welcome back.Hear, hear!Thanks Stephen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 RB, you should know that the OL Swat unit is on site, and they haven't done any swatting for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Baratheon Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 RB:A MEU ARG is a crisis response force, trained to respond to a variety of specific contingencies. To assume that there was no return on that investment because there were not enough crises that needed responding to is like saying you wasted money on your insurance policy because you didn't crash your car frequently enough.But I knew you were going to insinuate that the lack of actionable crises we faced out there somehow lessens the legitimacy of what the MEU ARG does in general, and what I do in particular. That's the motive I knew was behind the question. Not that I need to convince you of the value of having a MEU ARG our there, but you'd be surprised at the influence on world politics that our very presence has. People tend to behave differently when the cops are on the sidewalk in front of heir house.Kacy,The United States should be World Police now? Not a very libertarian position. Strange to hear you, of all people, using it as a justification of massive taxpayer expenditures.Your explanation is precisely what somebody who is rationalizing his income would say when confronted with a values contradiction. That fact alone should get you asking some hard questions.Your most frustrating quality, to those who know you and value intellectual honesty, is that you are never willing to consider those hard questions. To hear you tell it, you're always doing exactly what you're supposed to be. Sorry, but I have a hard time believing anyone is that lucky or good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Kacy,I just saw this.Welcome to the homeland!I'm glad you're back and I'm glad you're safe.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 I been on a little cruise.That is quite an adventure you and the ship's company had. Home again, home again jigiddy jog. Safe and sound. That is good.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Home Is the SailorHome is the sailor, home from sea: Her far-borne canvas furledThe ship pours shining on the quay The plunder of the world.Home is the hunter from the hill: Fast in the boundless snareAll flesh lies taken at his will And every fowl of air.'Tis evening on the moorland free, The starlit wave is still:Home is the sailor from the sea, The hunter from the hill.A.E. Housman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Great poem, a favourite. Most apt, Adam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 "Welcome to the homeland."The United States is not any God-damned "homeland!" The "homeland" is a Bush statist verbal monstrosity visited upon us by that stupid response to 9/11 which has destroyed American freedoms and traduced what it used to feel like to be an American. "Land of the free," my ass!--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Now THAT (as self-appointed honorary American) is exactly how I have felt for a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 LEST WE FORGET!http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57611631/almanac-vietnam-veterans-memorial/The dedication ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, D.C., November 10, 1982. (Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Fund)(CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 10th, 1982, 31 years ago today . . . the day the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington was opened to the public.Intended as a non-political tribute to those who died fighting a highly controversial war, the Memorial was initially caught up in controversy itself.Out of more than a thousand submissions, an independent panel chose a design by an unknown 21-year-old architecture student named Maya Lin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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