http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:18:57 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2940 As others have pointed out, registering is not a draft. I'm old enough to remember the draft ... registering is certianly the draft. And there won't be a draft. Some 4 million people turn 18 years each year ... there are only 1.4 million people in the military ... enough people volunteer every year that we certainly don't need a draft ... and given the nature of modern warfare, I wouldn't expect us to need bodies just to send to a meat grinder like in wars past. If a war gets that bad, we'll have more to worry about than a draft. 2940@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 22:18:57 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2939 Buying a BeeGees record doesn't make you Disco Stu. 2939@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:05:36 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2938 Registration is not draft - buying a cemetary plot is not death. 2938@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:00:26 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2937 Also, this is because they interviewed a guy on As It Happens (CBC Radio) about how he was sueing because his son had to register for the draft, but his daughter didn't. Yes, he's a lawyer. So yes, you have a draft, and if you have a sprog with a dangle, he has to register for it. 2937@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:45:45 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2936 Well, if you have to register to be inducted into the military when your ass turns 18, sounds like a draft to me. Whether or not they use your ass like Funkadelic, sounds kind of imaterial. 2936@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:39:04 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/21/191208.php#comment-2934 Actually, we pretty specifically do not HAVE A draft, although some wish we did. We have a volunteer military. 2934@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:25:02 EST