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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]His reference to my military background being “thin” when I spent three straight years doing counterinsurgency work also shows a lack of depth. [/quote]

I have noticed that those who have served–in any capacity–have the utmost respect for their brethren who have also been there. (A lot of us civvies do, too, although we certainly can’t know what servicemen/women have faced in the same way.) It is degrading and disrespectful for Casca to belittle anyone else’s service or sacrifice, which supports the suspicion we all have that he is a poser.

And sorry, what is PTSD? (Can never figure out the military acronyms…)

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]His reference to my military background being “thin” when I spent three straight years doing counterinsurgency work also shows a lack of depth. [/quote]

I have noticed that those who have served–in any capacity–have the utmost respect for their brethren who have also been there. (A lot of us civvies do, too, although we certainly can’t know what servicemen/women have faced in the same way.) It is degrading and disrespectful for Casca to belittle anyone else’s service or sacrifice, which supports the suspicion we all have that he is a poser.

And sorry, what is PTSD? (Can never figure out the military acronyms…)

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So, as another middle-aged, child-rearing, suburb living, car driving liberal (I don’t run my own business but my husband does–does that count?), I don’t have any problem with Walmart making a profit. And I believe they fulfill a much needed role in providing goods to low income people that they would not be able to afford otherwise. But do they have to be so greedy with their profits? I mean, if your top level execs are making multi-millions, would it hurt to offer at least moderate health care coverage for your workers? Other benefits? How many mansions in the Alps does one CEO need, anyway?

I have only stepped foot–grugingly–into Walmart on a handful of occasions and I certainly agree that it’s not a pleasant shopping environment. The stores are chaos and the parking lot even worse–people seem to lose their minds and manners driving to Walmart. There is no sense of “pride” in workers at a Walmart (that would encourage them to straighten up shelves, etc.) because they get the merest of compensation. If you pay at the bottom of the market and give no other incentives to workers (benefits), then they will do the bare minimum to get that paycheck. Ask for help? Are you kidding–they don’t want to talk to another rude, demanding, self-interested customer. There’s nothing in it for them…

Randomly enough, by contrast, I walked into a Best Buy the other day, which was doing decent business, and was greeted sincerely by a cashier as I walked in. The department that I found myself lost in had a person stocking shelves who stopped what she was doing and asked me if I needed help. She walked me across the store to find the item I was searching for. My kids were with me and she offered to cut a balloon down for each of them from a display nearby that sent them both into heaven.

I know someone that works for Best Buy so I know they have a nice benefits package, good pay scale, good sales training and they really reward hard work, dedication and a customer service mentality. They are also making a hefty profit. So why is rampant unchecked capitalism better than sizeable profit with a heart?

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So, as another middle-aged, child-rearing, suburb living, car driving liberal (I don’t run my own business but my husband does–does that count?), I don’t have any problem with Walmart making a profit. And I believe they fulfill a much needed role in providing goods to low income people that they would not be able to afford otherwise. But do they have to be so greedy with their profits? I mean, if your top level execs are making multi-millions, would it hurt to offer at least moderate health care coverage for your workers? Other benefits? How many mansions in the Alps does one CEO need, anyway?

I have only stepped foot–grugingly–into Walmart on a handful of occasions and I certainly agree that it’s not a pleasant shopping environment. The stores are chaos and the parking lot even worse–people seem to lose their minds and manners driving to Walmart. There is no sense of “pride” in workers at a Walmart (that would encourage them to straighten up shelves, etc.) because they get the merest of compensation. If you pay at the bottom of the market and give no other incentives to workers (benefits), then they will do the bare minimum to get that paycheck. Ask for help? Are you kidding–they don’t want to talk to another rude, demanding, self-interested customer. There’s nothing in it for them…

Randomly enough, by contrast, I walked into a Best Buy the other day, which was doing decent business, and was greeted sincerely by a cashier as I walked in. The department that I found myself lost in had a person stocking shelves who stopped what she was doing and asked me if I needed help. She walked me across the store to find the item I was searching for. My kids were with me and she offered to cut a balloon down for each of them from a display nearby that sent them both into heaven.

I know someone that works for Best Buy so I know they have a nice benefits package, good pay scale, good sales training and they really reward hard work, dedication and a customer service mentality. They are also making a hefty profit. So why is rampant unchecked capitalism better than sizeable profit with a heart?

[Shadowfax]

So, as another middle-aged, child-rearing, suburb living, car driving liberal (I don’t run my own business but my husband does–does that count?), I don’t have any problem with Walmart making a profit. And I believe they fulfill a much needed role in providing goods to low income people that they would not be able to afford otherwise. But do they have to be so greedy with their profits? I mean, if your top level execs are making multi-millions, would it hurt to offer at least moderate health care coverage for your workers? Other benefits? How many mansions in the Alps does one CEO need, anyway?

I have only stepped foot–grugingly–into Walmart on a handful of occasions and I certainly agree that it’s not a pleasant shopping environment. The stores are chaos and the parking lot even worse–people seem to lose their minds and manners driving to Walmart. There is no sense of “pride” in workers at a Walmart (that would encourage them to straighten up shelves, etc.) because they get the merest of compensation. If you pay at the bottom of the market and give no other incentives to workers (benefits), then they will do the bare minimum to get that paycheck. Ask for help? Are you kidding–they don’t want to talk to another rude, demanding, self-interested customer. There’s nothing in it for them…

Randomly enough, by contrast, I walked into a Best Buy the other day, which was doing decent business, and was greeted sincerely by a cashier as I walked in. The department that I found myself lost in had a person stocking shelves who stopped what she was doing and asked me if I needed help. She walked me across the store to find the item I was searching for. My kids were with me and she offered to cut a balloon down for each of them from a display nearby that sent them both into heaven.

I know someone that works for Best Buy so I know they have a nice benefits package, good pay scale, good sales training and they really reward hard work, dedication and a customer service mentality. They are also making a hefty profit. So why is rampant unchecked capitalism better than sizeable profit with a heart?

[Shadowfax]

So, as another middle-aged, child-rearing, suburb living, car driving liberal (I don’t run my own business but my husband does–does that count?), I don’t have any problem with Walmart making a profit. And I believe they fulfill a much needed role in providing goods to low income people that they would not be able to afford otherwise. But do they have to be so greedy with their profits? I mean, if your top level execs are making multi-millions, would it hurt to offer at least moderate health care coverage for your workers? Other benefits? How many mansions in the Alps does one CEO need, anyway?

I have only stepped foot–grugingly–into Walmart on a handful of occasions and I certainly agree that it’s not a pleasant shopping environment. The stores are chaos and the parking lot even worse–people seem to lose their minds and manners driving to Walmart. There is no sense of “pride” in workers at a Walmart (that would encourage them to straighten up shelves, etc.) because they get the merest of compensation. If you pay at the bottom of the market and give no other incentives to workers (benefits), then they will do the bare minimum to get that paycheck. Ask for help? Are you kidding–they don’t want to talk to another rude, demanding, self-interested customer. There’s nothing in it for them…

Randomly enough, by contrast, I walked into a Best Buy the other day, which was doing decent business, and was greeted sincerely by a cashier as I walked in. The department that I found myself lost in had a person stocking shelves who stopped what she was doing and asked me if I needed help. She walked me across the store to find the item I was searching for. My kids were with me and she offered to cut a balloon down for each of them from a display nearby that sent them both into heaven.

I know someone that works for Best Buy so I know they have a nice benefits package, good pay scale, good sales training and they really reward hard work, dedication and a customer service mentality. They are also making a hefty profit. So why is rampant unchecked capitalism better than sizeable profit with a heart?

[Shadowfax]

So, as another middle-aged, child-rearing, suburb living, car driving liberal (I don’t run my own business but my husband does–does that count?), I don’t have any problem with Walmart making a profit. And I believe they fulfill a much needed role in providing goods to low income people that they would not be able to afford otherwise. But do they have to be so greedy with their profits? I mean, if your top level execs are making multi-millions, would it hurt to offer at least moderate health care coverage for your workers? Other benefits? How many mansions in the Alps does one CEO need, anyway?

I have only stepped foot–grugingly–into Walmart on a handful of occasions and I certainly agree that it’s not a pleasant shopping environment. The stores are chaos and the parking lot even worse–people seem to lose their minds and manners driving to Walmart. There is no sense of “pride” in workers at a Walmart (that would encourage them to straighten up shelves, etc.) because they get the merest of compensation. If you pay at the bottom of the market and give no other incentives to workers (benefits), then they will do the bare minimum to get that paycheck. Ask for help? Are you kidding–they don’t want to talk to another rude, demanding, self-interested customer. There’s nothing in it for them…

Randomly enough, by contrast, I walked into a Best Buy the other day, which was doing decent business, and was greeted sincerely by a cashier as I walked in. The department that I found myself lost in had a person stocking shelves who stopped what she was doing and asked me if I needed help. She walked me across the store to find the item I was searching for. My kids were with me and she offered to cut a balloon down for each of them from a display nearby that sent them both into heaven.

I know someone that works for Best Buy so I know they have a nice benefits package, good pay scale, good sales training and they really reward hard work, dedication and a customer service mentality. They are also making a hefty profit. So why is rampant unchecked capitalism better than sizeable profit with a heart?

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Rus: As I pointed out to Dukehorn, his unwillingness to discuss his own background is interesting. Generally one finds that there isn’t one; rather you are dealing with someone whose entire bed of knowledge is built upon books and not real world experience.
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I suspect he is a teenage boy who’s read a few too many passages of Mein Kampf and will probably shoot up an entire high school campus before he’s gunned down himself. I think the only people who CAN advocate such practices (torture) are those who are seriously depraved (no empathic response) or have never seen suffering and see torture as some sort of heroic “ends justify the means” mechanism.

Some reporter recently staged a stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded. The guy didn’t last 3 seconds before he was spluttering to be let go. If Casca even spent time in the same room as a torture victim, he’d probably wet his pants, assuming he doesn’t fall under the depraved catetory. I smell a poser….it must be the ass cancer stench.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Rus: As I pointed out to Dukehorn, his unwillingness to discuss his own background is interesting. Generally one finds that there isn’t one; rather you are dealing with someone whose entire bed of knowledge is built upon books and not real world experience.
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I suspect he is a teenage boy who’s read a few too many passages of Mein Kampf and will probably shoot up an entire high school campus before he’s gunned down himself. I think the only people who CAN advocate such practices (torture) are those who are seriously depraved (no empathic response) or have never seen suffering and see torture as some sort of heroic “ends justify the means” mechanism.

Some reporter recently staged a stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded. The guy didn’t last 3 seconds before he was spluttering to be let go. If Casca even spent time in the same room as a torture victim, he’d probably wet his pants, assuming he doesn’t fall under the depraved catetory. I smell a poser….it must be the ass cancer stench.

[Shadowfax]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Rus: As I pointed out to Dukehorn, his unwillingness to discuss his own background is interesting. Generally one finds that there isn’t one; rather you are dealing with someone whose entire bed of knowledge is built upon books and not real world experience.
[/quote]

I suspect he is a teenage boy who’s read a few too many passages of Mein Kampf and will probably shoot up an entire high school campus before he’s gunned down himself. I think the only people who CAN advocate such practices (torture) are those who are seriously depraved (no empathic response) or have never seen suffering and see torture as some sort of heroic “ends justify the means” mechanism.

Some reporter recently staged a stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded. The guy didn’t last 3 seconds before he was spluttering to be let go. If Casca even spent time in the same room as a torture victim, he’d probably wet his pants, assuming he doesn’t fall under the depraved catetory. I smell a poser….it must be the ass cancer stench.

[Shadowfax]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Rus: As I pointed out to Dukehorn, his unwillingness to discuss his own background is interesting. Generally one finds that there isn’t one; rather you are dealing with someone whose entire bed of knowledge is built upon books and not real world experience.
[/quote]

I suspect he is a teenage boy who’s read a few too many passages of Mein Kampf and will probably shoot up an entire high school campus before he’s gunned down himself. I think the only people who CAN advocate such practices (torture) are those who are seriously depraved (no empathic response) or have never seen suffering and see torture as some sort of heroic “ends justify the means” mechanism.

Some reporter recently staged a stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded. The guy didn’t last 3 seconds before he was spluttering to be let go. If Casca even spent time in the same room as a torture victim, he’d probably wet his pants, assuming he doesn’t fall under the depraved catetory. I smell a poser….it must be the ass cancer stench.

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Rus: As I pointed out to Dukehorn, his unwillingness to discuss his own background is interesting. Generally one finds that there isn’t one; rather you are dealing with someone whose entire bed of knowledge is built upon books and not real world experience.
[/quote]

I suspect he is a teenage boy who’s read a few too many passages of Mein Kampf and will probably shoot up an entire high school campus before he’s gunned down himself. I think the only people who CAN advocate such practices (torture) are those who are seriously depraved (no empathic response) or have never seen suffering and see torture as some sort of heroic “ends justify the means” mechanism.

Some reporter recently staged a stunt where he allowed himself to be waterboarded. The guy didn’t last 3 seconds before he was spluttering to be let go. If Casca even spent time in the same room as a torture victim, he’d probably wet his pants, assuming he doesn’t fall under the depraved catetory. I smell a poser….it must be the ass cancer stench.

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[quote=Casca]Some are intentionally obtuse. I won’t accuse you of that. Get a dictionary, then take your time to reread my posts, and you may get something from them. You clearly lack comprehension when digesting at the rapid rate.[/quote]

Does this sound like Surveyor to anyone else?

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[quote=Casca]Some are intentionally obtuse. I won’t accuse you of that. Get a dictionary, then take your time to reread my posts, and you may get something from them. You clearly lack comprehension when digesting at the rapid rate.[/quote]

Does this sound like Surveyor to anyone else?

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[quote=Casca]Some are intentionally obtuse. I won’t accuse you of that. Get a dictionary, then take your time to reread my posts, and you may get something from them. You clearly lack comprehension when digesting at the rapid rate.[/quote]

Does this sound like Surveyor to anyone else?

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