coastie88

coastie88

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4 weeks ago @ Big Government - Friday Free-For-All: B... · 0 replies · 0 points

uh, why?

5 weeks ago @ Big Government - Monday Open Thread: Pe... · 0 replies · +2 points

The first speaker with a (bad) facelift...

8 weeks ago @ Big Government - Friday Free For All: L... · 0 replies · +2 points

Ayn Rand called the Libertarians the "hippies" of the right...

15 weeks ago @ Big Government - Friday Free-For-All · 0 replies · +2 points

My Grandfather served on ocean tugs in the South Pacific. After the war he commissioned in the Air Force. I too, grew to love the sea and am now studying to me Merchant Marine Officer at the Texas Maritime Academy.
In World War II, per capita, more merchant sailors were lost than in any other service.

Service Number serving War Dead Percent Ratio
Merchant Marine 243,000 9,521 3.90% 1 in 26
Marines 669,108 19,733 2.94% 1 in 34
Army 11,268,000 234,874 2.08% 1 in 48
Navy 4,183,466 36,958 0.88% 1 in 114
Coast Guard 242,093 574 0.24% 1 in 421
Total 16,576,667 295,790 1.78% 1 in 56

The Merchant Marines are the supply line of the Armed Forces as well as the lifeblood of the modern global economy. Not until recently were Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII granted VA benefits... Our role in the world is largely invisible.

8 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - REVIEW: Cameron's 'Ava... · 0 replies · +3 points

Team America did that very well. Stone and Parker seemed to thoroughly enjoy killing all of the Film Actors Guild actors at the end of the movie. Thanks FAG!

11 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - The PETA Standard: For... · 2 replies · 0 points

Isn't Uggs short for ugly?

15 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - 4 Simple Rules For Run... · 1 reply · +2 points

Not sure if arteo is going to catch on...

16 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Paranormal Activity' ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I saw this movie last night and I was bored out of my mind... My friends (the girls and one of the boyfriends) were absolutely terrified, but I found the movie to be laughable at best. I want my money back...

21 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Open Thread Friday · 0 replies · +1 points

I was just arriving to my 8th grade US History class when I heard about what had happened only minutes before. As I walked into the classroom, the television was on and the word "Terrorism" was written on the wall. A plane had hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I lived in suburban Washington DC. Classmates of mine who had military parents were genuinely worried. The events that were unfolding before my eyes on the cathode ray tube had yet to register with me.
Montgomery County Schools had sent all students home early and in a rush, fear another attack like the one that occurred less than 40 miles away at the Pentagon. I came home to my mother who held me like she never has before or since.
Then the towers fell. And there was a report of a plane crashing in Pennsylvania. Were there more attacks about to happen? I had just watched three thousand people die on Fox News.
I had only seen my father cry once before.
Then it hit me. My thirteen year old mind had just figured out what was going on. Someone hated this country enough to kill thousands of people, innocent people. People who were just busy living their lives, going to work. People who had families. People who could have accomplished great things. They were taken from us because a man in cave said so.
I vowed to never let this happen again. This day, eight years set me on the path I am on.
When I graduated high school I decided to attend the United States Coast Guard Academy. I am no longer with the Coast Guard. God had other plans for me. But I love this country and my desire to defend it has not yet subsided.
Today it pains me to see the state of political debate. On one side there are those who are ashamed of this great nation and insist on establishing a soft tyranny upon us. On the other stand the people. Only time will tell who will win. But I refuse to believe that this nation will fall from grace so quickly. May the people take back control.
May God always Bless the united States of America. May the sacrifice of the those three thousand souls not be in vein.

34 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - ‘NewsBusted’ 6/16/... · 3 replies · +2 points

While I often find the NewsBusted segments clever, they are not often very funny. Not a big fan of work that is conservative just to be conservative. Just even handed funny is all I need. The canned laughter also ruins it in my opinion.