This is a little OT but interesting nonetheless. last night I went to Wal-Mart for some damned reason. On the way out I spoke to the greeter as I've known him awhile. He works there part-time to help his kid with college. He happens to be black. As we spoke he asked the customers who were leaving who they were voting for. If a white person replied "McCain" he , in a roundabout way, asked if they were racist. He started going on a rant that caused a near-riot. He was not expelled from the store or fired, just told to shut up. But put something like that out in the parking lot and magnify it ...and put it happening simultaneously in several cities...not that it has anything to do with this deployment but it did make me realize what could happen.
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