Category Archives: Military
Repealing DADT
After reading Robb Allen’s post on repealing DADT, I got thinking about my own views. I hadn’t given it much thought because I found President Obama’s timing a little odd. He knows that the policies of the Democratic leadership will cost the party dearly come November and I see the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell being used as more of a smoke screen than actual policy change to further civil rights and legal equality.
Should gays be allowed to openly serve in the military? Yes.
Should they receive special treatment (separate showers/barracks, etc.)? No.
Should special laws be passed so that there are equal numbers of black, white, hispanic, asian, gay, straight, bi-sexual, transgendered officers? No.
Should every person sworn into America’s armed forces be man/woman enough to be able to fight next to a brother/sister in arms regardless of whether they are gay, straight, Mormon, Catholic or Muslim? Yes.
Bigotry and prejudice take many forms but they all boil down to the same thing – a person’s insecurity with themselves.
A Double Take
When I first read this headline on CNN, Obama promises justice for Christmas terror plotters, I thought, “Wait, he’s going to extend them U.S. Constitutional rights and then give them a get-out-of-jail-free card, just like the others?” Then I read the article and it looks like the war is going to spread to Yemen. Oh, and we’re going to spend billions “training and equipping their security forces.” I wonder how his followers will take this news?
Oh, and one more thing. We all get to be groped when by the TSA now! And of course, the 4th Amendment doesn’t apply because these searches are “reasonable.” Riiiiiiight. And, a new directive also gives airlines the discretion to take other measures to prevent people from secretly assembling or igniting bombs on aircraft. Those measures include prohibiting people from keeping pillows or blankets, or children, or hands on their laps during the final hour of a flight.
My Inner Terrorist
Stories like this bring out my inner terrorist!
Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community’s homeowner association.In a five-paragraph letter to Barfoot that he received yesterday, Barfoot is being ordered to remove a flagpole from his yard. The decorated veteran of three wars, now 90 years old, raises the American flag every morning on the pole, then lowers and folds the flag at dusk each day in a three-corner military fashion.
In a priority mail letter, the Coates & Davenport law firm in Richmond is ordering Barfoot to remove the pole by 5 p.m. Friday or face “legal action being brought to enforce the Covenants and Restrictions against you.” The letter states that Barfoot will be subject to paying all legal fees and costs in any successful legal proceeding pursued by the homeowner association’s board.
Each of the HOA board members that raised a stink about this should be flogged, and all of the attorneys involved in this need to be dragged out into the street and beat to death with baseball bats!
H/T – Marko
Chris Matthews is an Ass Hat
So, because the West Point graduates don’t cream their shorts over the president the way that Chris Matthews does, then West Point is an “enemy camp“?
Obama's Surge
Okay, so former President Bush sends an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq and the Left freaked, claiming that the surge wouldn’t and, to this day, didn’t work. I wonder how they’ll react to Obama’s surge that won’t be called a surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan?
WTF Moment of the Day
So, you’re approached by a man dressed in robes, wearing a beard and a funny hat. You don’t understand him because he has an accent (and you’re a stupid American who won’t try to understand him). So what do you do?
If your answer was “grab a tire iron and beat the Greek Orthodox priest because you think he’s a Muslim terrorist who is going to blow you up,” then you’re just as stupid as this Marine Reservist in Palm Harbor, Florida.
H/T – Gregory Morris
Take That, John Stewart
It will never cease to amaze me how high-minded the left can get. So, apparently a couple of days ago, during a heated debate on The Daily Show, John Stewart said that he thinks Harry Truman is a war criminal for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even going so far as to say Truman was temporarily insane when he dropped the bomb. Please, please watch this rebuttle.
Helping The Economy?
I thought that Barry was attempting to fix the economy?
Effective immediately DOD Surplus, LLC, will be implementing new requirements for mutilation of fired shell casings. The new DRMS requirement calls for DOD Surplus personnel to witness the mutilation of the property and sign the Certificate of Destruction. Mutilation of the property can be done at the DRMO, if permitted by the Government, or it may be mutilated at a site chosen by the buyer. Mutilation means that the property will be destroyed to the extent prevents its reuse or reconstruction. DOD Surplus personnel will determine when property has been sufficiently mutilated to meet the requirements of the Government.
What does this have to do with the economy, you ask? Michael Bane explains it.
Georgia Arms was remanufacturing more than one million rounds of .223 ammunition monthly; selling that ammo on the civilian market to resellers and to government agencies all over the country.Tomorrow, Georgia Arms will start sending cancellation notices for .223 ammunition to law enforcement agencies across the United States. Haynie says he may have to layoff half of his sixty-person workforce.
That is the perfect way to help the economy – remove a product form the market and cause people to lose their jobs. More here for those who still don’t understand.
You're Likely To Lose Something…
when you get in bed with The Bear. I wonder how Putin is going to exploit his latest tool? If you’ve been reading long, I’ve been against the Bush missile project in Eastern Europe. So I’m glad to see it stopping, potentially, but we’ll see how Putin uses this to his advantage.
