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Surprising Medical Conditions That'll Disqualify You From Service
Qualifying medically to join the military is an extensive process. While there are many conditions that will be obvious, there are also many that are not often considered or known.
Mark TurnerPublished 7 years ago in ServeThe Hour Glass
As the sands of time flow downward the sea of change continues to ebb. It ebbs not with grace but with a velocity of a coming tsunami. The world that I once knew when I was young is unrecognizable now. Back at a time when memories were made has kept my compass almost on the straight and narrow. I lived through times of hardships and woe, experienced joy and adulation and through it all never have I seen what our world has come to today. Sure, there are scientific breakthroughs and technological marvels that have made an impact but, yet the world keeps shifting toward a more ominous outcome. Our world is more convoluted, complex and dangerous now.
Dr. WilliamsPublished 7 years ago in The SwampThe Link Between Starvation Wages and High Crime
I belong to a Facebook group whose members, according to the group's name, are there to improve the city where we all reside. Recently, someone posted a poll asking members to vote on the causes of our current spike in criminal activity. Here are the top three responses:
Angie StillPublished 7 years ago in The SwampGuide to American Political Parties
Politics. It’s what makes America… America. Even if you're not crazy about politics, or perhaps hate the topic, you hear it almost everywhere you go. It’s one of the main conversation topics that almost always end up becoming an argument, because everyone has a different view on how the country should be. But not everyone is right and not everyone is wrong — that is where politics come in.
Jacqueline HanikehPublished 7 years ago in The SwampTop 6 Crime Drama TV Shows
Crime drama shows have become very popular in the last couple years, although the genre at times can become very exhausting. Here are a couple of the best crime drama shows that you can watch right now without having to wait for the next episode to come out, 'cause honestly nobody watches one episode of a TV show anymore.
Getting Over It: Brexit & The Mythmaking Saboteurs
Much of the last 2 years in politics has been unpredictable and surprising. Brexit has started the UK on a radical journey that looks to be messy, bumpy, and hard to forecast. But there are a few things we can be relatively sure of. The kind of Brexit we get very much depends on how debates are settled in the UK. Brexit produces the need for a vast number of debates because it will effect every pocket of governance, business and the economy. Sweeping changes with far reaching repercussions are to be introduced; touching on the border arrangements in Northern Ireland, regional funding, devolved powers, regulatory environments and the bodies that maintain them, post-Brexit trade policy, immigration systems & policies and thousands of laws and regulations.
Dan DutchisonPublished 7 years ago in The SwampGreat Pre-Deployment Gifts for Military Families
Going overseas is tough on the soldier and those closest to them, so celebrating them before they leave is always a great idea. Having a party and giving them some great pre-deployment gifts is a good way to send off the bravest among us.
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Psychopath That Felt
Jeffrey Dahmer, The Milwaukee Cannibal, was a diagnosed psychopath responsible for the death and mutilation of a total of 17 young men and boys between 1988-1991. What makes him a fascinating serial killer is that he displayed both "organised" and "unorganised" tendencies: that is, in loose terms, that at some times he could control the impulse to kill, while others he couldn't.