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View Article  Bloomberg suggests that McCain voluntarily acknowledged being an air pirate?
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Thu 21 Aug 2008 06:37 PM EDT


Le Van Lua, the first North Vietnamese that Lieutenant Commander John McCain encountered in 1967, says he greeted the American aviator with the biggest kitchen knife he could find. He'd like to welcome McCain back as president of the United States. He isn't alone. Former prisoner of war McCain has some unlikely supporters in Vietnam, a country he bombed 23 times. Like Le, many Vietnamese are cheering for the self-confessed "air pirate"'...

Uh huh...the beatings and the tortures he endured at the hands of those animals over his five years of captivity had nothing to do with obtaining that "confession", right, Bloomie? It's all the same, right? -Roland

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View Article  Old enough to vote, serve in the military ... and drink?
by Roland, the Gunslinger on Thu 21 Aug 2008 05:12 PM EDT


A lot of college students feel pressured to binge drink, says University of California, Berkeley, student Joseph Bui. The 20-year-old says he is bombarded by images of college students partying with kegs and cases of beer...The debate over the legal drinking age usually comes down to this: If you're old enough to serve on a jury, die for your country and decide who should be president, are you old enough to drink?

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