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149. One Word: Truman
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  -"If a wartime situation made it necessary for you to share an open-bay shower with a gay..." Bluebear  Jul-10-10 03:02 PM   #0 
  - you struck on the truth  lazarus   Jul-10-10 03:06 PM   #1 
  - They ignore the fact that they ALL already shower with gay people  Cronus Protagonist   Jul-10-10 03:06 PM   #2 
  - there you go  Capn Sunshine   Jul-10-10 06:26 PM   #80 
  - Didn't any of these people have gym in high-school?  alphafemale   Jul-10-10 03:07 PM   #3 
  - That is an easy question.  RandomThoughts   Jul-10-10 03:07 PM   #4 
  - Sharing a shower  jaksavage   Jul-10-10 03:07 PM   # 
  - I don't really want anybody looking at me while I shower,  Kali   Jul-10-10 03:07 PM   #5 
  - There are no straight people  izquierdista   Jul-10-10 03:08 PM   #6 
  - I guess the Pentagon just wants to go on record for being backasswards  Jamastiene   Jul-10-10 03:08 PM   #7 
  - Open showers are usually a hot button issue for homophobes.  Gormy Cuss   Jul-10-10 05:46 PM   #48 
     - That's because someone pointed at them and laughed when they  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 07:32 PM   #138 
  - I, a grandma of 4, showered with a nun only a mere 4 years ago when we  CTyankee   Jul-10-10 03:13 PM   #8 
  - "If a wartime situation made it necessary for you to bunk next to an African American..."  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 03:15 PM   #9 
  - That might explain my tan while in the Navy during the Viet Nam war  RC   Jul-10-10 03:58 PM   #24 
  - "someone you believe to be" African American.  uppityperson   Jul-10-10 06:16 PM   #61 
  - Stuff like that did happen, back in the day...  JHB   Jul-10-10 09:10 PM   #157 
  - There ya go. Done. No big deal. It's what a REAL commander-in-chief does.  bobbolink   Jul-10-10 08:43 PM   #150 
  - Obama's process is similar to what Truman did but faster.  Radical Activist   Jul-11-10 04:53 PM   #172 
  - "Something else" -- Take a shower, hope there's hot water for all . . .  Journeyman   Jul-10-10 03:15 PM   #10 
  - I assume there is no problem with women and men sharing the showers at the same time?  stray cat   Jul-10-10 03:17 PM   #11 
  - What are you suggesting?  tekisui   Jul-10-10 03:23 PM   #14 
  - Apparently you assume that military showers are hotbeds of sexual activity,  foxfeet   Jul-10-10 03:43 PM   #17 
  - I think society makes it a problem.  mmonk   Jul-10-10 03:47 PM   #18 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 04:06 PM   #26 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 04:15 PM   #27 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 04:16 PM   #28 
  - hahahaha  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 04:19 PM   #30 
  - And here we go  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 04:18 PM   #29 
  - and, as usual.  KG   Jul-10-10 04:26 PM   #33 
  - Is it ridiculous? I dont think so. Unisex showers would save alot of money.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:14 PM   #125 
  - There's no reason for there to be. In a large group house I lived  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 07:36 PM   #139 
  - I think those who can't control themselves are the ones promoting the fear  fascisthunter   Jul-10-10 07:37 PM   #140 
  - Why would gay people have a problem with that, stray cat?  Forkboy   Jul-11-10 07:26 PM   #176 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 03:18 PM   #12 
  - This is the same crap I heard in 1993.  terrya   Jul-10-10 03:22 PM   #13 
  - Now, now! The Prez can't possibly know that Rick Warren wrote that survey.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 05:46 PM   #47 
  - Yeah, Strom Thurmond sure had a lot of room to talk  Sebastian Doyle   Jul-10-10 06:04 PM   #55 
  - I would guess that he wore a hood.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:14 PM   #58 
  - I remember homophobe Sam Nunn on that submarine asking  jonnyblitz   Jul-10-10 09:04 PM   #155 
     - Yes, I remember the role of Sam Nunn and Colin Powell in that travesty.  QC   Jul-10-10 10:10 PM   #159 
  - Would be really funny if under Something Else - 98% of them wrote in  BR_Parkway   Jul-10-10 03:27 PM   #15 
  - We have the link now. Will all the questions in the survey be posted  Obamanaut   Jul-10-10 03:28 PM   #16 
  - You already posted this. It got locked last time  NYC Liberal   Jul-10-10 03:47 PM   #19 
  - I blinked when I saw this too.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 04:24 PM   #32 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 05:41 PM   #46 
  - Bluebear isn't breaking rules  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 04:27 PM   #34 
  - +1  Karmadillo   Jul-10-10 05:24 PM   #40 
  - +2  Starry Messenger   Jul-10-10 05:36 PM   #43 
  - Thank you. I thought I was doing a service by posting the correct question  Bluebear   Jul-10-10 06:15 PM   #60 
  - I thought you were, too  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:21 PM   #70 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 06:58 PM   #108 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 06:50 PM   #101 
     - Considering that the FIRST poster in this thread is a DU mod (!!),  Occulus   Jul-10-10 07:05 PM   #113 
     - +1  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:09 PM   #117 
     - It wasn't a lie -- calling a poster a liar is against DU rules  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:09 PM   #116 
     - self delete  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:11 PM   #120 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 05:40 PM   #45 
  - I'm not calling anyone out. I am replying to an OP, discussing the OP.  NYC Liberal   Jul-10-10 06:53 PM   #107 
     - Ok. Can't talk to you.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 07:07 PM   #114 
        - Glad to you know you admit you're wrong.  NYC Liberal   Jul-10-10 07:22 PM   #130 
           - I was right. Gotta be martian.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 07:25 PM   #131 
  - posted with the correct quote here.  uppityperson   Jul-10-10 06:18 PM   #63 
  - For a change.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:19 PM   #66 
  - Are you accusing the OP of habitually posting misinformation?  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:24 PM   #76 
     - Seems just habitual snarking.  uppityperson   Jul-10-10 06:27 PM   #81 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 06:29 PM   #84 
        - This doesn't even make any sense  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:31 PM   #85 
           - The point is not to make sense.  QC   Jul-10-10 06:32 PM   #87 
           - I figured that out and am no longer playing  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:41 PM   #90 
              - I hope you have your thigh high  Jamastiene   Jul-10-10 06:53 PM   #106 
                 - Leather ones  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:12 PM   #123 
           - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 06:33 PM   #88 
              - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Jul-10-10 06:44 PM   #96 
  - XO  Bluebear   Jul-10-10 06:21 PM   #71 
  - looks like you are attempting to get it locked  fascisthunter   Jul-10-10 07:40 PM   #143 
  - poor baby  Skittles   Jul-11-10 07:29 PM   #179 
     - Oh the poor, poor OP.  NYC Liberal   Jul-12-10 10:20 AM   #182 
  - I don't know, but do you really believe that the President of  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 03:48 PM   #20 
  - It was cowardly to commission the survey in the first place  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 05:57 PM   #51 
  - I disagree. This survey was a military thing. I suspect that  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 06:48 PM   #100 
     - OK.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:59 PM   #109 
        - Obama's personal beliefs are not his public policy. Thats the point.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:10 PM   #118 
        - DADT will end on his watch...probably in 2011.  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 07:30 PM   #136 
           - Where is Obama's denunciation of it? I'll give him until Monday to denounce it.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 09:05 PM   #156 
              - Be sure to let him know about your deadline. I don't think  MineralMan   Jul-11-10 08:15 AM   #166 
  - He obviously didn't, but that doesnt tamp down the raging fear  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:20 PM   #68 
  - It's very frustrating. No President can or ever has micromanaged things  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 06:50 PM   #102 
     - Oh, no. See THIS president is responsible for everything from the sunrise to molecular cohesion.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:52 PM   #104 
  - Fair point. And when something is put in direct quotes  Radical Activist   Jul-11-10 05:03 PM   #174 
  - wartime situation?  northzax   Jul-10-10 03:48 PM   #21 
  - or maybe he was just not that in to you  left is right   Jul-10-10 06:01 PM   #53 
  - The president is "fiercely advocating" on your behalf, Bluebear  Rage for Order   Jul-10-10 03:54 PM   #22 
  - My freshman dorm was segregated by floor and we all had communal showers, four at a time. Somehow  Brickbat   Jul-10-10 03:55 PM   #23 
  - I lived in a dorm with coed communal showers as a sophmore and junior.  Gormy Cuss   Jul-10-10 06:03 PM   #54 
  - k/r  Solly Mack   Jul-10-10 04:01 PM   #25 
  - It's common knowledge that homosexuality is a waterborne ...  jdp349   Jul-10-10 04:21 PM   #31 
  - ...so if you wear shower shoes you won't catch it...problem solved...nt  old mark   Jul-10-10 04:28 PM   #35 
  - Well, most straight guys think all women can't wait to screw them  Love Bug   Jul-10-10 04:59 PM   #36 
  - All them there queers like my body! Ain't showered in tenty yeers cuz of them queers!  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:47 PM   #98 
  - I dunno. I always assumed that no woman would ever want that.  MineralMan   Jul-10-10 07:41 PM   #144 
  - The real objection must be  treestar   Jul-10-10 07:42 PM   #145 
  - Oh, for crying in a bucket...... have we not come any further than this?  bobbolink   Jul-10-10 05:06 PM   #37 
  - Complete lunacy IMO  JNelson6563   Jul-10-10 05:17 PM   #38 
  - I saw this a whole different way  pipi_k   Jul-10-10 05:23 PM   #39 
  - The fuck would I care? You're 100% correct  Redstone   Jul-10-10 05:29 PM   #41 
  - How is this situation different from many health clubs?  undeterred   Jul-10-10 05:31 PM   #42 
  - Evidently our fighting forces are more delicate than health club members!  Bluebear   Jul-10-10 06:13 PM   #57 
  - The ultimate fighting force! The protectors of liberty, and American values,  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 05:38 PM   #44 
  - I know quite a few straight men that check out other guy's weenies.  haele   Jul-10-10 05:46 PM   #49 
     - He said pecking order!  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:23 PM   #73 
        - Pecker order? n/t  QC   Jul-10-10 06:23 PM   #75 
        - LOL! I'm reverting back to 17 years old!  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:27 PM   #82 
        - I'm female, and that's the first thing I thought of, too  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:42 PM   #92 
        - You're welcome -  haele   Jul-10-10 11:11 PM   #161 
           - Actually I was a gay soldier, so I had more than enough  Touchdown   Jul-11-10 03:38 AM   #164 
  - I have never seen this question asked  Angry Dragon   Jul-10-10 05:55 PM   #50 
  - Just for you as a public service: Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?  Bluebear   Jul-10-10 06:26 PM   #79 
     - Copied BTL.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:42 PM   #91 
     - Thank you for your blunt and informative answer Bluebear  Angry Dragon   Jul-10-10 06:51 PM   #103 
  - Where's the option to "take my shower and go about my business"? nt  hvn_nbr_2   Jul-10-10 06:01 PM   #52 
  - So, group showering after gym class in 6th grade was a "wartime necessity"?  Trillo   Jul-10-10 06:06 PM   #56 
  - Unrecced down to +4 -- appalling  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:14 PM   #59 
  - If Bush were at the helm the rec's would go through the ceiling.  Bluebear   Jul-10-10 06:17 PM   #62 
  - Yup  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:18 PM   #64 
  - Yeah, but Obama's bus tires crush our heads with love and hope.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:20 PM   #67 
  - Thankfully, he's not.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:23 PM   #74 
     - They are supposed to fight to NOT throw anyone under the bus  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:26 PM   #78 
        - The proverbial bus sure has alot of fictional victims.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:35 PM   #89 
           - You guys have just been really, really busy.  donco6   Jul-10-10 06:42 PM   #93 
              - "You" guys? I thought Democrats were "us". Was I mistaken?  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:47 PM   #99 
                 - You threw Carlos down here yourselves.  donco6   Jul-10-10 06:53 PM   #105 
                    - Again, who is "you"? I thought "we" were Democrats, ne?  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:02 PM   #112 
                       - You . . . as in you.  donco6   Jul-10-10 07:07 PM   #115 
                       - *I* personally threw someone under this mythical bus?  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:11 PM   #121 
                       - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 07:10 PM   #119 
                          - I show up on threads that are a hate fest on our Democratic president  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:16 PM   #127 
                             - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 07:26 PM   #132 
                                - It's funny how one mans "personal beliefs" are someone else's "bigotries" isnt it.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:28 PM   #135 
                                   - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 07:30 PM   #137 
  - Oops. Forgot to add my rec.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 06:19 PM   #65 
  - Appalling, but hardly surprising. n/t  QC   Jul-10-10 06:21 PM   #69 
  - Oh my. This could be the end of Western Civilization.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:22 PM   #72 
     - You just did it again -- and, sorry if advocating for GLBT rights deserves sarcasm  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:27 PM   #83 
     - What is more ridiculous is the notion that Obama sat down and penned that survey himself.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 06:44 PM   #95 
        - I see no one saying any such thing but you.  Bluenorthwest   Jul-10-10 07:18 PM   #128 
           - This very OP insinuates it.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 07:27 PM   #133 
              - Sorry but it does not. It says exactly what it says.  Bluenorthwest   Jul-10-10 07:37 PM   #141 
                 - "Again, nice dignified survey, Mr. President and the pentagon."  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 08:00 PM   #146 
                    - He's the Commander in Chief  Bluenorthwest   Jul-10-10 08:32 PM   #147 
                       - The CIC doesnt control everything that goes on throughout the day.  KonaKane   Jul-10-10 08:34 PM   #148 
                       - One Word: Truman  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 08:40 PM   #149 
     - Good riddance.  Bluebear   Jul-12-10 11:22 PM   #187 
  - Unfuckingbelievable. :/  SalmonChantedEvening   Jul-10-10 06:25 PM   #77 
  - Recommended.  stevedeshazer   Jul-10-10 06:31 PM   #86 
  - Yay!  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 06:43 PM   #94 
  - K&R  Forkboy   Jul-10-10 06:45 PM   #97 
  - Man or a woman?  grahamhgreen   Jul-10-10 07:00 PM   #110 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-10-10 07:00 PM   #111 
  - I know what I smell at 6pm.  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 07:12 PM   #124 
     - I'm smelling spaghetti -- yum!  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:14 PM   #126 
        - I just finished some!  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 07:18 PM   #129 
           - hahahaha -- for real?  LostinVA   Jul-10-10 07:28 PM   #134 
              - Yep!  Touchdown   Jul-10-10 07:38 PM   #142 
                 - You shouldn't be a bachelor :)  Bluebear   Jul-12-10 04:21 PM   #186 
                    - ...  Touchdown   Jul-13-10 12:56 AM   #188 
  - It is really so disgusting.  Bluenorthwest   Jul-10-10 07:11 PM   #122 
  - You often wonder about the mentality of the people who create these surveys?  Rosa Luxemburg   Jul-10-10 08:48 PM   #151 
  - If I was wounded in a fox hole...  Omaha Steve   Jul-10-10 08:51 PM   #152 
  - There are no bigger sissies...  JHB   Jul-10-10 08:54 PM   #153 
  - my guess is if you showered in gym class, you probably showered with a gay person  havocmom   Jul-10-10 08:56 PM   #154 
  - Oh FFS!  Prophet 451   Jul-10-10 09:39 PM   #158 
  - And for more than 10 years, too!  Bluebear   Jul-11-10 01:39 AM   #162 
  - When/if DADT is repealed here...  terrya   Jul-11-10 09:51 AM   #169 
  - If DADT is repealed, surely there'd be no need for *believing* someone to be gay.  Turborama   Jul-10-10 10:29 PM   #160 
  - Asking soldiers just how icky and gross the queerbaits are is certainly a valid  Touchdown   Jul-11-10 03:54 AM   #165 
  - There is no protection against discrimination in the current "agreement"  LostinVA   Jul-11-10 09:42 AM   #167 
  - Well "belief" is all someone needs. All the best witch-hunts have them.  Safetykitten   Jul-11-10 01:45 AM   #163 
  - +  Bluebear   Jul-11-10 07:24 PM   #175 
  - "How did things get this way? "  Forkboy   Jul-11-10 07:27 PM   #177 
  - If the possiblilty of showering with a gay would freak someone out so much...  terrya   Jul-11-10 09:48 AM   #168 
  - If the thought of showering with gays is repugnant to you, then my advice  NorthCarolina   Jul-11-10 09:56 AM   #170 
  - oops.  Radical Activist   Jul-11-10 05:01 PM   #173 
  - "President Obama said he’d continue to push Congress and the military to overturn DADT"  Radical Activist   Jul-11-10 04:45 PM   #171 
  - I can hardly wait.  Forkboy   Jul-11-10 07:28 PM   #178 
     - There are few things more worrisome than Obama's pledge of support for an issue.  QC   Jul-12-10 10:15 AM   #181 
        - .  Bluebear   Jul-12-10 03:00 PM   #185 
  - Fucking ridiculous.  cwydro   Jul-11-10 07:32 PM   #180 
  - Why does the average sad sack think he in danger from gay soldiers hitting on him?  Generic Other   Jul-12-10 11:02 AM   #183 
  - I'm gonna say it: The Survey Writer has gay sex on the brain. Tap, tap, tap, IYKWIM.  WinkyDink   Jul-12-10 11:05 AM   #184 
  - ... and is like 90 years old, and probably worked on that "Boys Beware" film in the 60s  Touchdown   Jul-13-10 01:00 AM   #189 
  - I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to be fearful of/from in this scenario.  Rex   Jul-13-10 01:13 AM   #190 
 

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