On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:11:08 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:01:48 -0400, blake murphy
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >if *** people want to do something crazy like get married or join the
>> >army, let 'em knock themselves out, i say.
>>
>> Now that you bring it up... the army has lowered standards to the
>> point where they're enlisting criminals (convicted felons) now, but
>> still draws the line at openly *** people. How dumb is that?
>
>It is interesting that you talk about them lowering standards but excluding gays. Does that mean that
>gays are substandard and should be included with the other substandard types?
>
>FWIW, there used to be minimum height and weight standards for police officers here. About 20 years ago
>they dropped those standards to facilitate employment equity. The argument was members of some groups
>had hard time meeting those standards, specifically women and orientals, and also that it was no longer
>necessary for police to have to rely on brawn and brute strength to deal with people. Shortly after
>that policy change I had to attend police college for a three week course and I had first hand exposure
>to the new recruits. There were a lot of women and a lot of orientals in the police cadet program who
>would not have met the old standards, but all the white and black men were big guys. It seems that the
>new lower(?) standards only applied to those previously excluded groups and if you were a white or
>black male you still had to meet the old standards.
>

were any of the white guys overweight?

your pal,
blake
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