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1. about 14 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   If you had about $1,000-$2,000 to spare in 1968 you could get dental braces which would get you a 4-F classification. The Army will still reject you today if you have anything more than a retainer.

2. about 17 hours ago on Jen Sorensen

   I would bet at MOST 2% of the American public would be able to locate the Ukraine on an outline map. Really no change as I remember a survey in 1968 and 2/3 of those survey could not locate Vietnam.

3. about 19 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   “Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws (formally known as conscription laws) of one’s nation.1 Illegal draft evasion is said to have characterized every military conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries.2 Such evasion is generally considered to be a criminal offense,1 and laws against it go back thousands of years.3”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_evasion

   Dodging is not fleeing or hiding it is just getting out of the way as in dodge ball you want to get out of the way not flee/hide-the Brooklyn Dodgers got their name from Brooklynites who would dodge the street cars.

   As for draft dodgers see Phil Ochs’s Draft Dodger Rag:CHORUSSarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleenAnd I always carry a purseI got eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my asthma’s getting worseYes, think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid auntBesides, I ain’t no fool, I’m a-goin’ to schoolAnd I’m working in a DEE-fense planthttps://genius.com/14032757

4. about 20 hours ago on Rob Rogers

   I love seeing trump say quid pro quo – just like a 4th grader who has learned a big word and loves to show off by using it at every opportunity.

5. about 20 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   There is a difference between a draft dodger and a draft evader. A draft dodger used legal means such as a student deferment, being a primary care giver to an minor, invalid , employed in a defense plant, National Guard or having a genuine disqualifying medical condition.A draft evader use illegal means such as leaving the country or claiming a bogus medical condition.

6. about 21 hours ago on Steve Breen

   Currently the average employer provided policy is $20k with the employer “paying” (actual just withholding the employee’s compensation) $15k and the employee paying $5k. The employer is no more paying the premium than than they are paying the employees income tax when they withhold it. That $15k is part of the worker’s pay!Gee, an orange face with white circles around the eyes, who does that remind you of?

7. 7 days ago on Jeff Danziger

   LBJ’s preferred a kiss once on each cheek and twice on the center.

8. 9 days ago on Zack Hill

   Actually you do the math-if she is about 40 then she was born in 1980 and would’ve been in high school 1995-98and would have been no stranger to the internet.

9. 10 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   In Austin you can not use plastic bags only paper bags or bins/barrels -city has a separate compose,recycling and trash pick-ups

10. 11 days ago on Doonesbury

    Everyone wants tort reform and hates lawyers until they need them.If the anesthesiologist is careless and over sedates your 10 year old during his tonsils operation and he is brain damages I doubt you will be happy with a tort reform limited settlement.