Eleanor Clift Takes Issue With Volunteer Army

“But I think what we’re coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army,” Clift said, according to a transcript of “The McLaughlin Group” program.

“And it doesn’t have a nice ring to it. We call it ‘volunteers,’ but we’re basically paying people to serve their country. And if you’re going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you’re going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up - more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses - and I think it’s appropriate.” NewsMax

Hmm. If Eleanor doesn’t like the government compensating our soldiers for their commitment then I wonder what she proposes. The only other option I can think of is one of the following:
1) No army at all
2) Reinstate the draft

The Moon must be full because the moonbats are howling like crazy!

The “F-word” IS NOT NEWS PEOPLE

With all the serious issues out there to discuss there is NO good reason why this even makes a headline at WorldNetDaily

[Shepard]Smith, who was reporting via telephone from the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, noted that people were still drinking and gambling at video-game machines as the hurricane was approaching.

When he asked one man what he was doing there at the hotel, the man responded, “None of your f—ing business.”

Gee, thanks WND. Ask me if I care perhaps?

It’s a damn word people!

We have so many words that mean the same thing as “swear” words that are not considered vulgar. For example the “S-word” means the same as poop, doody, crap and a variety of other words that are all deemed as acceptable. But OH NO! Our ears will bleed if we hear one of the forbidden words!

Get over it. This isn’t even news. It was an off hand remark.

Question President Bush - How Do We Know?

Struggling to pacify his party’s warring wings, President Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas. People smuggled in after then would be deported. - FOX News

The question is, how do we know when they got here IF they came here undocumented and illegally in the first place?

Hmm?

What are you going to do? Ask them?

Border Agent: “Excuse me Mr. Illegal Alien but did you arrive in the United States before or after February 2004?”
Criminal Alien: (referring to his handbook published by the government of Mexico) “Why officer I was most certainly here before February 2004.”

Senator Kennedy Stumps For Unconstitutional Spending

I know, it’s not really news right? According to FOX News Chappaquiddick Fats said:

“We need our Republican colleagues to join us in giving education the high priority that it deserves at the national level,” said Kennedy, the senior Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees education.

Once again I issue the challenge to ANY liberal, lefty socialist in the mold of Senator Kennedy to point me to the section of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to spend one solitary penny on “education”.

In case you are too lazy to look it up I will even print it here for you:

Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marquee and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Anyone? Come on lefties defend your claims! The floor is yours!

Because to tell you the truth, Senator Kennedy’s excuse doesn’t quite cut it:

“No less than our national security and competitive standing in the world are at risk.”

Yawn. Sorry Teddy, but you cannot start couching your claims in “national security” because you can use that blanket excuse for anything which is NOT what this section of the Constitution was meant to do.

Quote of the Day

“There is no right to steal somebody else’s property for personal gain. That is not a right that is recognized in any civilized society and we ought not to recognize it in ours,” - California State Sen. Tom McClintock speaking about San Diego’s attempts to confiscate private property for private developers

Didn’t Hear Much From the Anti War Left on Recruitment in July

The reason? “The Army recruited the most new members, more than 8,000, 9 percent above its July goal. The Marines recruited more than 3,600 members, 103 percent of their goal; and the Air Force, almost 2,100, 101 percent of its goal. The Navy added more than 4,700 new sailors to its ranks, just 41 short of its July goal.” (Department of Defense)

Now, let’s also remember some thing else. These are just “goals”. These are not “We must hit these levels or we have no military” levels. Some bean counter comes up with these numbers and we all know that bean counters and bosses often set goals well above actually attainable levels.

If the army recruits 80,000 new soldiers a year that is over half of the current number of soldiers we have in Iraq. And we haven’t even counted the Marines, Navy and Air Force with those numbers. And that shows a problem of some sort? Wow, because it seems to me that it shows that we can do a pretty darn good job of maintaining our armed forces AND the military presence in Iraq as well.

So before you fall for the left wing psychobabble about how we can’t recruit enough people to fight “Bush’s War” look at the actual numbers and not the interpretation of those numbers.

Cindy Sheehan - COWARD!

Cindy Sheehan demands a lot of things, but when it comes to requests from others (especially those that oppose her) she has a habit of not granting their requests.

As the “You Don’t Speak For Me Cindy” Tour rolled into Crawford containing family of soldiers currently deployed and that have died in the War on Terror Cindy refused to meet with the group’s leader indicating “she would only meet with those who had lost a family member in the war.” (WorldNetDaily)

Uh but Cindy isn’t it YOU that are demanding a meeting with President Bush? He hasn’t lost a family member in the war has he?

No. What this really is is just another lame attempt by Cindy Sheehan to avoid confrontation with someone that opposes her. The crowd contained many that had lost loved ones in the War on Terror but yet Cindy where were you? Possibly she is too busy sipping the Kool-Aid and claiming to channel the thoughts of her dead son in an attempt to justify her own lunacy.

WHOA! Another Skewed Poll from AP-IPSOS

Knowing troops sways war opinions

Published Saturday, August 27, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - People with friends or relatives serving in Iraq are more likely than others to have positive views of a generally unpopular war, an AP-Ipsos poll found.

Some of those surveyed said their relationships with troops helped them learn more about what?s going on in Iraq beyond the violence. Others said their opinions of the war were shaped by a sense of loyalty to those in harm?s way….

Further down “Those who know someone serving in Iraq were more likely to approve of the Bush administration?s conduct of the war - 44 percent, compared with 37 percent overall.”

So, what does this tell us about the “anti-war” crowd? Yep … you got that right … they DON’T HAVE A CLUE!

And once again we see that AP-Ipsos has weighted this poll as well. The top line results tell the story:

2d.
Total Republican: 37
Total Democrat: 50

DEAR FREAKING GOD! How many times are they going to get away with this? It wasn’t that long ago that it was pointed out how another poll was similarly skewed.

NARAL Doesn’t Learn From Mistakes

When I wrote NARAL Thinks Americans Are Too Stupid … about how this pathetic pro-abortion/murder group thought that we Americans were literally too idiotic to understand their last anti-John Roberts ad I really thought that NARAL would keep their collective mouths shut for a while. Especially after how Factcheck.org (who is not always right by the way) destroyed their accusations worse than the the Japanese destroyed the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

But, it appears that as usual I give liberals far too much credit because NARAL is back and making the same arguments AGAIN! What does the NEW and IMPROVED NARAL ad claim? According to the Washington Times it “points out that he co-wrote a government memo saying the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion was wrongly decided.”

And THIS is NARAL’s BIG plan? Dear God they are dumber than I thought!

How many times must we go through this with idiots that cannot even pass a simple biology class?

“In biology, a lifeform has traditionally been considered to be a member of a population whose members can exhibit all the following phenomena at least once during their existence:

1. Growth
2. Metabolism, consuming, transforming and storing energy/mass; growing by absorbing and reorganizing mass; excreting waste
3. Motion, either moving itself, or having internal motion
4. Reproduction, the ability to create entities that are similar to, yet seperate from, itself
5. Response to stimuli - the ability to measure properties of its surrounding environment, and act upon certain conditions.” -Wikipedia

Please note that the human embryo is ALIVE and it has HUMAN DNA which means … stick with me on this HUGE (sarcasm intended) leap of faith … that the embryo is HUMAN LIFE!

And what does the Declaration of Independence say that governments are instituted to protect? Why “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” of course!

So, yeah it clearly WAS wrongly decided. But I doubt you will ever hear NARAL talk about the Declaration of Independence and our constitution in context. Instead you will only hear them talk about some fictitious “right” of a mother to murder her child. Because it is from that “right” that isn’t a right that they derive their power and lots of money each year. They wont give that up without a fight!

A Soldier Speaks!

‘Wonderful time to be a soldier‘

TODAY’S COLUMNIST
By Joe Roche
August 26, 2005

I’m very proud to be a soldier of the U.S. Army because of the war on terror and our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m not alone either. I’m surrounded by soldiers who are re-enlisting and volunteering to go to units that are deploying. In fact, despite all the negative news and protests, I see everyday that our military is actually doing very well.

This is quite obvious, except for the fact that most of the media seems asphyxiated with defeatism. The message from most journalists would lead you to believe that we soldiers are getting out, that no one is joining anew and that we want to stop fighting. This simply isn’t true.

Yes, recruitment is lower, but the caliber of those who are signing up and the rates of re-enlistment are both extremely high. All 10 of our major combat divisions are ahead of expectations for retention of soldiers. In my unit, there are soldiers who specifically went active duty from the reserves because they want to go to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Before September 11, a lot of soldiers were happy to just enjoy the benefits. Since that day, those soldiers have left. That is fine and not the disaster that defeatist reports are making it seem. Such soldiers were never the types to want to go on long deployments and face combat. Yes, they were heroes for signing up and being in a job that could go that direction, but they had other priorities that made their service contingent on enjoying the benefits rather than serving in war.

(read the rest of the article in The Washington Times)

This line: “Before September 11, a lot of soldiers were happy to just enjoy the benefits. Since that day, those soldiers have left. That is fine and not the disaster that defeatist reports are making it seem. Such soldiers were never the types to want to go on long deployments and face combat. Yes, they were heroes for signing up and being in a job that could go that direction, but they had other priorities that made their service contingent on enjoying the benefits rather than serving in war.” reminds me of Thomas Paine “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”