Posted on 21 December 2010. Tags: Civilian Society, Discipline, Disservice, Free Time, Individuality, Legislators, Liberals, Luxuries, Military Life, Morality, Personal Belief, Promise, Reinstatement, Sexual Preference, Soldier, Uniformed Services, Vices, Vow
Those legislators who view allowing behavior to be the new definition of what it means to be a soldier should vow reinstatement of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. Those in the military who decide to “out” themselves will be discharged in 2012. Period. One’s behavior, be it sexual preference, or various vices are luxuries [...]
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Posted on 16 November 2009. Tags: Cellular Telephone, Cigarettes, College Football, Dear Sirs, Extracurricular Interests, Gold Tooth, Health Care Crisis, Health Insurance, Jackson Ms Newspaper, Letter To The Editor, Medicaid, Mississippian, New Gold, Nurses, Purchase Health Insurance, Quality Hospitals, Ringtone, Seventh Generation, Tennis Shoes, Vices
“During my last night’s shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
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