No school was ever in session. The National Guard is NOT a police force, it doesn't receive the same kind of training. A bunch of dogs can do crowd control, how well is the point. It is not a professional force.

Hah. Do you know anyone who is ACTUALLY in the military or do you just post non-nonsensical links to prove arguments? Nothing in that link says that the National Guard is in anyway a comparably trained and professional force to the regular Army. It's random stats about the composition of force and who was deployed.

All the good news from Gustave...

At first this was kinda awesome...

OH WOW, THEY ADDED EXERCISE. So its a seminar combined with intensive pilates. You forget I know actual National Guardsman. Calling them professional soldiers is a dis-service to actual soldiers.

He used to be the clickbait generator at Gawker until the beginning of this year. Like, he would find all the viral crap that got 3,000,000 views a day so that everyone else could write stuff.

Nice. Did you see his interview on the Daily Show? Rather fun stuff.

Isn't Whisper Neetzan Zimmerman's gig?

Why do public funds have to go to subsidize rich people? I like how you make this about rich white people (the most oppressed people on earth!) rather than how San Antonio is spending tons of money wooing a team that doesn't need it.

Jerry, goddamn it. How many times have we had this talk with him?

And you are pretending a weekend seminar is the same thing as actual police work.

Still better than Atlanta traffic...

How are people who train once a month and otherwise work in offices not "amateur soldiers?" Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy, these services have their people in full time, all day long, day after day. In the National Guard you get to go home. Yes, in Iraq and Afghanistan they were called up, but hardly does that make…

The PMCs were staffed by ex NYPD and LAPD officers who trained the Afghan police. I know. One of the guys I work with now WAS with of those contractors. He did logistics for the whole company.

Which would work, if it wasn't already done. Each one of those ads sounds like "our products have great value!" which reduces them to whatever the price tag is. The goal is to get people to part with more money for products of different marketed quality. "This shampoo will make you smell nice" doesn't sound as…

Indeed.

Soldiers are not trained to be police. National Guardsmen are just amateur soldiers who train once or a few times a month. They aren't a solution to this problem any more than additional cops are.

Do you really think that is how it would play out though? That the National Guard, which is mostly white and also includes quite a few cops itself, would really just point their guns at the cops?

Wow, I've never seen so much bullshit in one post. To your last post: you do realize you can still light diesel with a match, right? So can JP-8? That it is more resistant to spark and can be lit by compression does not mean it isn't flammable. In the Marines, when you are on latrine duty in theatre, the standard…

What the fuck is wrong with you? Again how is a National Guard unit going to improve the situation?