On Mar 1, 12:42 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> > On Feb 29, 10:38 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> >>> I think it is my social class and age that keeps me from being
> >>> drafted.
> >> So, now I'm with the invalids,
> >> And cannot go and fight, sir!
> >> The doctor told me so, you know,
> >> Of course it must be right, sir!
> >> (the Invalids March, 1863)
>
> >> BTW, they take healthy ones up to age 65 now, you know.  One of the
> >> benefits of the Rummy Years.
>
> > As I said, my social class. There were substitutes in 1863, so I see
> > no reason why we can't have them in 2008.
>
> So, despite posting from a southern state (albeit, one filled with
> Yankee Scum to a level worse than Godless Atlanta), you do not subscribe
> to the southern gentleman's view of social class responsibility and
> military officership?  A southern lawyer without The Citadel, Duke ROTC,
> ROTC in a state university, or one of the military academies listed in
> his resume?  What would John Grisham make of that?
>
> So that makes you ... a carpetbagger?

I suppose. I don't have much time to pretend that it's still 1862. I
leave that to the civil war re-enactors.

> Interestingly enough, there are a number of major legal and business
> corporations in which that would be considered adequate justification to
> not hire or not promote.

What part do you find to be the most interesting?

- Kevin