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dmackto · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:11 am Post subject: Selective Service Lottery Letter?

I just had a rather hysterical AIM conversation with a young man who lives near Berkley saying his friends are getting lottery letters.

Anyone have any idea what it is?

Could he be talking about something that actually came from some gov. office or is someone trying to freak out all the 20 year olds?
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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:15 am Post subject:

I'd bet my last buck that he's gotten something cooked up by the Rock the Vote crowd! It's fraud, and it's voter intimidation.

ProudbrotherofUSSoldier · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:16 am Post subject:

I have heard this before it is a false story and if he and his friends are getting lottery letters they are fake just more scare tatics thanks to the Democratic Party
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Slednfool · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am Post subject:

dmackto · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:21 am Post subject:

The conversation, names were changed to protect the not so innocent and I had to do a little creative editing to clean up the language.

Kimmymac · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:21 am Post subject:

I wish I would get a lottery letter. I would actually love to go, if I can take my sleep number bed and a few other small personal effects. Bath salts, foot scrubbies, and the lilac infused eye mask. Maybe just one or two other things. No more than would fill half a C-130.

There is no lottery letter. Tell him to stop dropping LSD, he is having flashbacks from before he was born. Confused

God, they just wish they could have a reason to burn something. His bra, her draft card...

Deb, stay away from those internet crazies.
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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:30 am Post subject:

I'm about half-way serious here... You've heard of the "litmus test" for judicial appointments, right? Well, I think there should be a "draft test" for voters. Anyone who believes that the draft is an issue is telling us about their maturity, their sense of duty, and where they get their news from.

dmackto · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:31 am Post subject:

I've known this kid for quiet a while. I'm some what of a den mother to a group of guys I used to play a game online with. This one and another one have been upset with me lately because I don't think Bush = the devil.

He is a tad nuts and very obnoxious at times but thats besides the point. What concerns me is that apparently someone is sending out mail that looks real enough to fool a bunch of college kids. That seems illegal and should be investigated.
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Woodrow · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:34 am Post subject:

Human "mushrooms", and they can procreate.

LewWaters · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:36 am Post subject:

Dmackto, here is a copy of the email that is being sent out to scare College age students;

Kimmymac · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:37 am Post subject:

But ankler? Why sugah, where ever would the Democrat party be without the Ignorant Teenage Vote?

Why, it would have to rely on the Whining Hypochondriac Vote.
Or the Something for Nothing GimmeGimme Vote.
Or the Perpetually Pi$$ed At Everything Vote.
Or the Habitually Misinformed Vote.
Or the No Man Since 1971 Angry Fat Broad Menopausal Mean Vote.
Or the Just Plain Scared of Stuff Vote.

In other words, they would have to rely solely on their base.
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Kimmymac · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:38 am Post subject:

Dmack: ask him to fax you the letter.
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reconflyer · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:

I had to tell a young lady tonight that females are not even in the selective service plan. She didn't know, she thought she was going to be drafted.

What cheeses me off the most about this, even though I would never support a draft, is the reluctance in many of these slackers to serve...

The kids we are training today, the bright, motivated, energized kids, the one carrying all the water of their slacker peers,

THESE KIDS ARE THE REASON WE NEVER WANT A DRAFT AGAIN!

They are not cannon fodder, they are smart, technoligically inclined, computer saavy, patriotic and if any thing a little soft at times, but they kick-ass as has been seen time and time again.

The last thing we want is some @#$%nut like this guy you were IM'ing to even get near a recruit depot.

How many hours of a sergeant's time would we be willing to waste on that waste of flesh?

reconflyer
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Roon · PO2 Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Lilburn, GA

He might have a difficult time reading this, it has some three syllable words in it, but you might want to tell him to go to http://www.sss.gov/ and read for himself. Although I didn't see Puck, Pucking or Pucker anywhere in there, so it may not make sense to him.

I think it would have been wise for the Bush-Cheney campaign to take out full page ads in college newspapers telling the truth about the draft (that is if the faculty advisors would allow ads from Bush-Cheney.)

I do agree, should be a type of IQ test for voting. I turned 18 about the same time the vote was given to 18 year olds. I chose not to vote because I felt that I'd only be voting for who Mom & Dad thought was best, not doing research myself. Now my daughter who is almost 21 will be voting for the first time, by absentee ballot. I looked at the ballot and said, she's not capable of doing this correctly and maybe I should do it for her. If she isn't capable of doing it correctly, should she be voting? But I had faith in her and sent it to her, along with a photo filled out by me showing her how to mark her own ballot.

dmackto · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:43 am Post subject:

LOL you guys are great...

I sent an email to sss.gov and to the governator so if there is an actual letter that looks like its coming from a legit source out there perhaps they will track it down.

I would not put it past moveon.org or rock the vote or whoever to try and make a return address look like a government agency.
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