Dinner with Ahmadinejad

[BT]

In some cases, people would send their kids to study abroad (like Joe Lieberman's son). In others, I imagine there would be churches that required several years of missionary service that kids could belong to.

I'm guessing there is not a clear understanding of what no deferment, no exemptions means.

If your number is drawn plan to be gone a couple of years. End of story.

[Mr_Perceptive]

In some cases, people would send their kids to study abroad (like Joe Lieberman's son). In others, I imagine there would be churches that required several years of missionary service that kids could belong to.

I'm guessing there is not a clear understanding of what no deferment, no exemptions means.

If your number is drawn plan to be gone a couple of years. End of story.

Amen!

[Xavier_Onassis]

If there are no deferments at all, then the way to beat the system is to fail the physical and mental tests. With the internet at hand, the ways to do this will be all over the place.

But this is an entirely moot point. There won't be a draft. Not for Iraq & Afghanistan.
It would mean that Blackwater & all the private mercenary companies would be thrown out of fat, juicy contracts, so the GOP won't back it, and it's friggin involuntary servitude, so the Democrats won't either.

That would leave, like, Joe Lieberman?

[Mr_Perceptive]

Look, it is not rocket science. Your number gets called. You take a physical, barring any issues like religious objections and such, you go wherever you're told or you go to jail. Simple. No college deferments, no "I don't wanna go" or "I don't want my baby to go". Your parents income status means zip. You go or take the consequences.

[kimba1]

what about folks who can`t kill like me
I already stated I`m will ing to serve just not in that way.
am I going to jail?

[Mr_Perceptive]

Wanna be a medic?

[Xavier_Onassis]

This continues to be a totally moot point.

There will be no draft.

[kimba1]

I will do any job that does not require me to take a life
I used to kill pigeons with my bare hands,but now I can barely get rid of the mice in my own home.
as i get older I`m just can`t bare the thought of taking any kind of life anymore.
don`t get me wrong I still eat meat.
ok I`m starting to eat less and less
but the thought doesn`t give me joy.
I won`t even touch pigeons anymore.
insects are still fair game for now

[Amianthus]

insects are still fair game for now

And many of them can be good eatin'

[Xavier_Onassis]

What bugs, arachnids, arthopods and other creepy crawly, yet delicious, critters have you snacked on recently?

[Amianthus]

What bugs, arachnids, arthopods and other creepy crawly, yet delicious, critters have you snacked on recently?

Hell, I eat arthropods nearly daily. I love shrimp, crab, crawfish, etc.

Been a while since I had any arachnids or insects - other than what everyone ingests from packaged foods. Also, fresh fruit nearly always has insect life within it (much of it microscopic). Where do you think fruit flys come from? They emerge from the fruit after it sits in your house for a few days.

Next year, I'm taking a trip to central America and Mexico, I expect to eat ants, caterpillars, and grasshoppers on the trip. I always eat local delicacies while traveling.

[kimba1]

i love eating crawdads
I`m more than willing to eat insects
but can`t find any commercials grade stuff
I won`t eat the yard stuff
no telling what those have eaten
but I`ve eaten at least a ton of all kinds of snails
san jose has a whole mess of asian buffets that serve snails
and I`ve eaten both kinds escargot(french and italian)
Italian is better of course.
and I rarely turn down oysters
prefer steamed ,better texture to me
alaskin kind crab is probly the only thing I won`t eat
I just don`t like the taste
either flavourless or too salty
shame it has alot of meat
too bad I`m too poor to ever try those catsize lobster
they look deliscious.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I can agree with you about crabs. I don't like the flavor of any of them that I have tried.

Lobster is okay in a bisque. Not too bad in the traditional boiled recipe.

Langostino al mojo de ajo is much better. Hard to find, except on the W. Coast of Mexico.

I am very fond of shrimp.

I have eaten grasshoppers in Mexico, but they don't have any flavor, unless you consider "crunchy" a flavor.

[Amianthus]

I can agree with you about crabs. I don't like the flavor of any of them that I have tried.

Lobster is okay in a bisque. Not too bad in the traditional boiled recipe.

I love the taste of crabs. Any variety. Lobster is rather tasteless, it tends to take on the flavor of what it's cooked in.

[kimba1]

In love langostino
i use it on eggs
littlen lobster tails
people think they are
In get them at trader joes
but they might of ran out by now
the really good stuff tend to stop being sold
like baskin and robbins apple pie ice cream
my most favorite food
which they stop making over 20 years ago
and almost all my other favorite tend to be discontinued.
too good to last