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When I lived in New Hampshire, we used to do this with the primaries. With a little money in the pot to make it interesting.
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The winner was the one with the least total deviations, so your call for Alan Cranston was as important as for (say) Gary Hart.
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I never won (and neither did my candidates).
frankskeffingtonsays
…while going to Deerfield Academy or UNC? I think Howie’s around 55, which put him at the end of the Vietman era…ya, but like Cheney he had other priorities other than joining the marines.
According to a bio from his speaker’s bureau, he joined the Herald at age 25 after working for another paper in NC. He would have finished undergrad about 1974, by which time I don’t think they were sending draftees to the winding-down war. Not an unusual story at all, but it does sort of limit his credibility on the Marine versus moonbat front.
rajsays
It was 1971 that effectively ended the draft. Recall the lottery (I certainly do, I lived through it). It was the draft lottery that–ended the draft.
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Let’s understand something. Howie Carr is selling your ears to advertisers. He’s the filling between the advertisers. If you actually do a time analysis, most of his program was advertising. We download a talk radio program (not Howie’s, but the stats won’t be different) and of each hour segment the hour program is actually 40 minutes program, a bit of news and the rest commercials.
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Several years ago, we noted that we could drive the entire stretch from our gym to the house with the radio tuned to Howie–8 minutes–and we would not hear one word from Howie or any of his pathetic sidekicks.
Several years ago, we noted that we could drive the entire stretch from our gym to the house with the radio tuned to Howie–8 minutes–and we would not hear one word from Howie or any of his pathetic sidekicks.
I was born in 1953 and had a high lottery number. 1952 was ripe for the pickings. He could have gone to Vietnam at age 18 (1970) or 19 (1971) and he would have been in the thick of things.
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Semper Fi!
lizziecsays
If his birthday listed on Wikipedia (January 17, 1952) is correct, then he would have had a lottery number of 9. He certainly would have been in the thick of things for the draft.
Was there still an unconditional deferment for being a full-time undergraduate at that time? As I understand it, for someone in that position to have given up college to go to Nam would have been an act of superpatriotism relative to most MA students. Anyone know whether Howie had recorded opinions on the war at the time?
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PS: Had I been seven years older than I am and had that choice, I would have picked college as well. As someone said once, the only morally unambiguous choices were to volunteer or become a CO and face the consequences. Nearly everyone was somewhere between.
Marzilli 38
Murphy 29
Donnelly 20
Natale 13
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When I lived in New Hampshire, we used to do this with the primaries. With a little money in the pot to make it interesting.
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The winner was the one with the least total deviations, so your call for Alan Cranston was as important as for (say) Gary Hart.
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I never won (and neither did my candidates).
…while going to Deerfield Academy or UNC? I think Howie’s around 55, which put him at the end of the Vietman era…ya, but like Cheney he had other priorities other than joining the marines.
According to a bio from his speaker’s bureau, he joined the Herald at age 25 after working for another paper in NC. He would have finished undergrad about 1974, by which time I don’t think they were sending draftees to the winding-down war. Not an unusual story at all, but it does sort of limit his credibility on the Marine versus moonbat front.
It was 1971 that effectively ended the draft. Recall the lottery (I certainly do, I lived through it). It was the draft lottery that–ended the draft.
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Let’s understand something. Howie Carr is selling your ears to advertisers. He’s the filling between the advertisers. If you actually do a time analysis, most of his program was advertising. We download a talk radio program (not Howie’s, but the stats won’t be different) and of each hour segment the hour program is actually 40 minutes program, a bit of news and the rest commercials.
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Several years ago, we noted that we could drive the entire stretch from our gym to the house with the radio tuned to Howie–8 minutes–and we would not hear one word from Howie or any of his pathetic sidekicks.
This makes the show almost tolerable.
I was born in 1953 and had a high lottery number. 1952 was ripe for the pickings. He could have gone to Vietnam at age 18 (1970) or 19 (1971) and he would have been in the thick of things.
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Semper Fi!
If his birthday listed on Wikipedia (January 17, 1952) is correct, then he would have had a lottery number of 9. He certainly would have been in the thick of things for the draft.
Was there still an unconditional deferment for being a full-time undergraduate at that time? As I understand it, for someone in that position to have given up college to go to Nam would have been an act of superpatriotism relative to most MA students. Anyone know whether Howie had recorded opinions on the war at the time?
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PS: Had I been seven years older than I am and had that choice, I would have picked college as well. As someone said once, the only morally unambiguous choices were to volunteer or become a CO and face the consequences. Nearly everyone was somewhere between.
Our governor has endorsed Jim Marzilli. Read it here.
Donnelly, Marzilli, Murphy – anyone of the three can win and it will be close between them