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Subject: A Rose by Any Other Name ....

With Barack Obama, we live in a kinder, gentler world. For example:
  • We no longer have to struggle with that awful "terrorism" of the ugly Bush years, having replaced it with the much more acceptable "man-made disaster".

  • With terrorism out of the picture, there is no more "war on terror", only benign "overseas contingency operations".

  • His government doesn't use force to "outlaw" business activities. Instead, they gently "reform" them.

  • And remember, you don't have "swine flu", you've just got a mild case of the "H1N1".

So when mandatory national service is introduced, I suspect that it will be called something not quite so crass. I'm expecting that the administration will make us all feel really good about getting to participate in the exciting, new, energy-saving, revenue neutral, field of "open source employment"!

Coming soon to a selective service office near you.
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