Toads. Nature's canaries.

[conuly]

Remind me not to go to Germany anytime soon. I just may explode.

Since a one-liner is hardly appropriate, I thought I'd continue with my depressing theme: The terror threat is high. Either we're all in danger, or the government realized it hadn't yet exceeded its budget for fear-mongering. I'm sure that all will be revealed shortly.

And oh, look! The Last Thing We Need Is A Draft. When people start talking like that, I get that nasty praeter itio feeling. I know that's not quite appropriate, but it sure seems like it is. "Oh, we won't draft" (everybody starts thinking about drafts). "Oh, we really wouldn't want a draft" (people remember they were thinking about the draft). "Oh, that's the last thing we need...." (people start worrying about the poor soldiers, and paying even more money to avoid a draft). "Oh dear. Guess we have to draft!"

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[stejcruetekie.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, I have no objection to some kind of "mandatory service" for *all* youths post-high school. Aka 18-20 or so. Quite a few countries have this, and I think it would do quite a bit of good for our society, as well as provide plentiful and cheap labor for various public projects, aka the depression era Works program (I'm forgetting the exact name of it).

It would have to allow choosing between military and non-military options for me to support it, of course.