Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Kerry thing in the news

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> On 11/2/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Jerry Gamblin wrote:
> > You know what they say about the Heritage Foundation:  "If Heritage says
> > it, it must be true!"  Er, wait, that wasn't it.  I meant to say "If
> > Heritage says it, it must be promoting a conservative political agenda."
> > There, that's it.  Here's their web page:
> >
> > http://www.heritage.org/about/
> >
> > Yes, I don't trust their "research."
>
> Can you provide any counter research that proves what Kerry said is 
> true? I would like to see it or is this your patented "All my links are 
> factual but not yours" stance again?

That hasn't been my stance, but I would think that DoD provides some 
statistics somewhere.  OK, I just did this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=military+demographics

And if you go to the first web page that comes up, it is a PDF file from 
the US Army.  If you go to page 3, you will see that 40% of active and 
reserve personnel are minorities in fiscal year 2004, and those two gropus 
account for 2/3 of the US Army.  With 26% minorities in the Guard, we can 
compute that 35.6% are minority.  This means that minorities are 
over-represented in our volunteer Army because fewer than 75.1% of 
Americans are white according to the US Census of 2000.  Take the first 
link here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=census+race+2000

I'm sure that you could easily find more information (and you could have 
found that information if you wanted it).  I know you well enough to know 
that you have some interest in facts, but you prefer to play political 
games with these things and to make wild accusations against me or against 
Democrat politicians.  C'est la vie.

Mike

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