SCOTUS Rules on Military Recruiters

[skiddriver]

Caveman,

Other than your avatar, do you have any military affiliation?

Yep, he's a retired USMC senior SNCO, hence the all gold EGA. The heart of the Corps my friend, and don't forget it.

 

[Occam's Razor]

Yep, he's a retired USMC senior SNCO, hence the all gold EGA. The heart of the Corps my friend, and don't forget it.

What a coincidence! I wore a silver and gold EGA for over 20-years! I retired as a senior officer. The brains of the Corps, my friend...and it's ok if you forget it, I'll still love you.

S/F

On topic: The Supreme Court made the right call. Military recruiters should have access to campuses that receive federal dollars. Looks like the system worked, and we can relax.

 

[skiddriver]

What a coincidence! I wore a silver and gold EGA for over 20-years! I retired as a senior officer.

An even bigger coincidence, so did I. S/F

 

[Mamma]

Northshore,
Why all the hostility? "Put up or Shut Up?" "Stuff it?" If what you say about your 24 years in the military are true, then I think you have to give your son a spanking for getting on your computer while you were mowing the lawn. He made you sound like an idiot. If it was you, you should have taken advantage of your 24 years and received a little education. Just Google it and you will find many more. I will be waiting for the apology.

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/060303
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/26/america/web.0226talib.full.php
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=19882
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/jcpp_20060304.html

 

[NorthShore]

Three of the four links you provide are not from reputable news sources. None of them allege that his admission was out of charachter for Yale, which like many schools of it's kind provide admission to a wide variety of non traditional students.

Sorry that my little education is only a MS with dual majors in aeronautical engineering and public administration. I'll try and do better next life.

 

[Pistlpetet]

Do you have any other military service, or education credentials to try to impress us umeducated folk?

Reference my previous post.

 

[Flyerjosh]

Sorry that my little education is only a MS with dual majors in aeronautical engineering and public administration. I'll try and do better next life.

My (insert anatomical object here) is bigger than yours... yada yada yada... this is what drives me nutz about the typical flightinfo thread. No ability to discuss the topic without people falling into childish "playground" antics.

 

[schoolio]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187006,00.html

Yale's Disgrace Monday, March 06, 2006
By John Gibson

The fact that the former spokesman for the Taliban is now an honored student at Yale University — honored as in he was admitted even though completely unqualified — is an out and out outrage.
This is a guy who was once the spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan — the very same regime that hosted and protected Usama bin Laden while he was hatching the 9/11 plot.
His name is Rahmatullah Hashemi. He is now 27 years old, and he's been given a cushy free pass into Yale because he is some kind of star in the academic world. A real catch. You have to squeeze your brain a bit to imagine the Yale bigwigs whooping it up that they scored an actual Taliban official to be a Yalie, but evidently they did.
Rahmatullah told The New York Times: "In some ways I'm the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale."
That is Yale's disgrace. This is a university that is the alma mater of the last three presidents. How could Yale actually want a terrorist spokesman on its campus? What is wrong with those people?

And by the way, the Taliban spokesman is taking a spot that some young American might have had. So if you know a kid who didn't get into Yale this year, you probably shouldn't bring up the fact his or her spot went to a Taliban terrorist mouthpiece.
Did Rahmatullah blow up the World Trade Center? No, probably not.
But look at the news Monday. We're talking about the rise of the Taliban again in rural Afghanistan. We're still killing the Taliban if we have half a chance. And Yale lets this one have a prized spot on the campus of one of the two or three top universities in the country?
I must ask again: What were they thinking?
Oh right, we don't sniff over what applicants think to decide whether they can be students at our best schools. We're not the thought police. Right.
But do we look at the applicant's record? How does the Yale archaeology department regard the new student who once represented the Taliban on a tour of America to justify the destruction of the centuries-old Buddhist statues carved into the side of a mountain? Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians screamed in agony as the Taliban shelled the ancient statues. And now he's a student in their midst?
This is the academic world gone completely insane — almost as if they contacted mad cow disease, an illness that chews holes in the brain.
Mr. Taliban should go home. Yale should send him back now. Absent a certificate from a major deprogramming institute, he has no place anywhere in America, least of all on the campus of one of this country's most prestigious universities.
By the way, think any fellow students had a parent or relative killed in the World Trade Center by Taliban protected jihadis sent by bin Laden? If there are such students at Yale — and there damn well should be — should they have to quietly endure the presence of an apparatchik of the machine that plotted and executed their loved ones' most horrible demise?
Yale should do what it encourages its students to do: think.

 

[Huggyu2]

NorthShore,
Did you take any classes on "tact" while in the Army?

 

[El-Rushbo]

NorthShore,
Educational credentials are no substitute for maturity and tact. I think this is where most feel you are lacking.

And yes, Yale has admitted a former Taliban member with a 4th grade equivalent education. Ever seen that Geico commercial with the cavemen at the nice resturaunt?...."Yea, next time try to do a little research."