Why Ask Why?

 

1. (1):  There are still such folk as idealists and those who take duty seriously.
   (2):  SHHHH!  Don’t give the shysters any other ideas!
   (3):  Should we defer to Teddy’s insight into this question?
   (4):  Why did the Bolsheviks call their despotisms “people’s states” and their wars of conquest “revolutions?” All pigs smell the same to me (no offense, Oink).
   (5):  Someone who is rich, famous and ignorant at the same time is usually bellicosely self-conscious about it, and tries to hide it under whatever “wisdom” seems most convenient at the moment.
   (6):  On the whole, the whales will save themselves if we leave them alone.  As for the spotted owl, the only significant thing about it seems to be its spots.
   (7):  Folk who stick together, and who cling to their values and ways, tend to frighten other folk who would prefer to blithely degenerate into decadence--and especially folk who have done just that.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       09/30/2005  at  11:33 AM  



2. "lack of moral fiber...”

   The Muslims have had a lack of moral fiber for ~1400 years.  They’re just a little koranstipated, that’s all.

   Posted by toast       09/30/2005  at  08:04 PM  



3. Why ask why? Try Bud Dry. 

   Posted by Macker       09/30/2005  at  08:36 PM  



4. $1142 ??!!! Per Month? Santa Clause

   Damn! I got, like, $99 per month and the END of my hitch.  And I was an E-5—Sergeant!
   And that was $99 in Confederate money! circa 1865
   The South will rise again!  ( floats)

   Posted by Oink       09/30/2005  at  08:44 PM  



5. Oink, I feel your pain. When I enlisted in 1974 as an E-1 I received the grand sum of $438 per month. My dad enlisted in 1941 and was paid $50 per month. Today’s kids are spoiled.

   

   Posted by The Skipper       09/30/2005  at  09:51 PM  



6. Cap’n: Your Dad must have been an officer.  I thought a Private got paid around $17 in WW2.  But cigarettes were 10 cents per carton at the PX—said my Father. I remember that my pay seemed sufficient.  I racked up some good savings while in VNam.  And that good ole “Combat Pay” ... Hot Damn! $50 per month!!!  It came to about 25 cents per bullet aimed in my general direction. Helluva deal!

   Posted by Oink       09/30/2005  at  10:19 PM  



7. Oink: Nope, Dad was an enlisted grunt. According to him, he started out at $25 per month and by the end of the war was getting a total of $50 by transferring to the Army Air Corps (which became the USAF in 1948) and getting combat pay and flight pay, half of which he sent home to his dad. He still had enough left over to get ripped drunk after each mission and buy cigarettes. As a tail gunner over Germany in WWII, his “bullets aimed at him per dollar paid” ratio was quite one-sided.

   He retired as an E-9 Chief Master Sergeant (USAF) thirty years later in 1971, after a career as Aircraft Mechanic that went from props to jets and three wars. During the 1950’s, as a Tech Sergeant, Dad made about $300 per month and supported a family of four. Of course, gasoline was only .20 cents per gallon and cigarettes were only .25 per pack back then.

   Posted by The Skipper       09/30/2005  at  11:25 PM  



8. Skipper: That computes—base pay + flight pay + combat pay = a fortune $$$

   I’ve got six pence, jolly jolly six pence
   I’ve got six pence to last me all my life.
   I’ve got two pence to spend and two pence to lend
   And two pence to send home to my wife, poor wife.
   Chorus:
   No cares have I to grieve me
   No pretty girls to deceive me
   I’m happy as a lark, believe me
   As we go rolling, rolling home
   Rolling home (half drunk!), rolling home (half drunk!)
   By the light of the silvery moon.
   Happy is the day when the army gets its pay,
   As we go rolling, rolling home.

   Posted by Oink       09/30/2005  at  11:32 PM  



9. I was walking away from the pay table with a princely $32-35 twice a month as an E-2 in 1967. I don’t recall what my pay was after that.

   Posted by StinKerr       09/30/2005  at  11:56 PM  



10. AND the chow was JUST LIKE MOM USED TO MAKE !!

    Except, of course, that Mom never in hers ...

    Posted by Oink       10/01/2005  at  09:13 AM  

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