Comments on: Are Army Recruits Poor and Dumb? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shrimplate http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html/comment-page-1#comment-3977 shrimplate Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:09:47 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html#comment-3977 <p>I am not sure that zip codes are a meaningful way to establish the demographic trend that you certainly mean these to infer.</p> <p>There are rich and poor people, good students and bad, in many zip codes, no? </p> <p>Whatever. You have your views, and it would be unhopeful to suspect that any number of facts or figures will sway you. I suspect, however, that these days the truly rich are woefully under-represented amongst those in Iraq.</p> <p>Rather than zip-codes, perhaps you should peruse the ranks of the fallen.</p> I am not sure that zip codes are a meaningful way to establish the demographic trend that you certainly mean these to infer.

There are rich and poor people, good students and bad, in many zip codes, no?

Whatever. You have your views, and it would be unhopeful to suspect that any number of facts or figures will sway you. I suspect, however, that these days the truly rich are woefully under-represented amongst those in Iraq.

Rather than zip-codes, perhaps you should peruse the ranks of the fallen.

]]> By: Jim Collins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html/comment-page-1#comment-3976 Jim Collins Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:18:35 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html#comment-3976 <p>My Father used to have a saying "Engage brain before opening mouth.". I think that the engage mechanism might be busted in Mr. Kerry's case.</p> My Father used to have a saying “Engage brain before opening mouth.”. I think that the engage mechanism might be busted in Mr. Kerry’s case.

]]> By: Matthew Brown http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html/comment-page-1#comment-3975 Matthew Brown Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:13:54 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html#comment-3975 <p>I'm not sure Democrats think the guy is fit to be president anymore - though they did in 2004. I think a lot of it is that Kerry managed to present himself as the offends-nobody candidate in the primaries and got through because he ended up the consensus choice that everyone could hold their nose and select. Only too late did people realize that offends-nobody candidates become appeals-to-nobody candidates.</p> I’m not sure Democrats think the guy is fit to be president anymore – though they did in 2004. I think a lot of it is that Kerry managed to present himself as the offends-nobody candidate in the primaries and got through because he ended up the consensus choice that everyone could hold their nose and select. Only too late did people realize that offends-nobody candidates become appeals-to-nobody candidates.

]]> By: Teri Pittman http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html/comment-page-1#comment-3974 Teri Pittman Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:29:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html#comment-3974 <p>John Kerry thinks that we are still drafting folks and that a student deferrment will keep you out of the service. I cannot for the life of me understand why the Democrats think that man is fit to be President. </p> John Kerry thinks that we are still drafting folks and that a student deferrment will keep you out of the service. I cannot for the life of me understand why the Democrats think that man is fit to be President.

]]> By: DannyNoonan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html/comment-page-1#comment-3973 DannyNoonan Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:40:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/are_army_recrui.html#comment-3973 <p>Are you suggesting the poor is an adequate proxy for "don't do well in school"?</p> Are you suggesting the poor is an adequate proxy for “don’t do well in school”?

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