American Presidents in Uniform since WWII.
Friday, April 06, 2012
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BEN AND BAWB'S BLOG- A blog of two brothers: published writers, gun nuts, former soldiers, and recovering Republicrats both. From the purple mountain majesties of Montana comes Bawb, bitterly clinging to God and his guns. From the fruited plain of Iowa comes Ben, a patriot Walter Mitty. Wielding the sacred power of the written word the way a three-year-old might wield his daddy's shotgun, these are their musings.*
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I am surprised that even Jummah managed to put on the uniform, I thought he would have been too useless to do anything of the sort. I have a new respect for him.
I have a deep regret that out of all the people who served in Vietnam, there was not one who got to the top job. On the other hand, looking at McCain and Kerry, it is probably a good thing.
Jimmah was actually stationed on a nuclear submarine where apparently a radiation leak caused his teeth to mutate to huge proportions and OBVIOUSLY turned his brain to mush.
But as President he was engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a giant swimming killer rabbit with, and I quote, "nasty big pointy teeth."
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/950/what-was-the-deal-with-jimmy-carter-and-the-killer-rabbit
Perhaps it was something left over from "The Year of the Angry Rabbit."
I have recollections of the book which was essentially a brilliant satire on nearly every aspect of Aussie politics, corporate welfare, and given the way things were at the time, didn't seem that much over the top.
I watched "Night of the Lepus" on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I can only assume that the movie isn't as good as the book.
I haven't seen the movie but I gather that Hollywood missed the point and just made a movie about giant killer rabbits. There was much more to it including a lot of sub plots such as when the infected rabbits escaped the PM ordered a nuclear strike on the property and as he detested the owner, left him there when it happened.
His reason for appointing the incompetent general was that he had got every decision wrong since 1940 and was due to come out with something correct.
One section that would appeal to you was the decision to conscript everyone over 50 into the army to fight the rabbits, in which it was said, "After successfully avoiding military service for their whole lives until they felt safe enough to advocate conscription they suddenly found themselves .....
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