Semper Cry

.... ok, Marines don't actually cry - they have their tear ducts removed during basic training....

So I will cry for them (in a manly sort of way)
and for the rest of the armed services.

You may be asking yourself, 'self, what the hell is this nutbag talking about this time?' Consider the following....

Exhibit A -
Political correctness and the Hasan debacle. It is readily apparent to all but the most insanely liberal of fringe, brain dead lunatics that the Amy allowed a substandard performing and dangerous soldier to promoted through the ranks because of his status as a 'protected minority'. Efforts to point out Hasan's obvious deficiencies and concerning behavior were halted for fear of backlash. The 'stick' of an EO (equal opportunity) complaint - even a warrantless one was obviously a much greater motivator than the 'carrot' of doing the right thing. The Army placed a higher premium on 'diversity' than little things like 'honor, integrity and ultimately, the lives of the soldiers under its command. And yet even after this abject failure, Gen. Casey defends this pitiful excuse for a policy, fearing diversity as a greater casualty than the lives of soldiers.... a pathetic embarrassment..

Exhibit B -
4 Blackwater security guards are tortured, mutilated, murdered and strung up on a bridge. A team of SEALs is tasked with hunting down and capturing the mastermind. They are successful (as if there were to be any other alternative). There were not songs of glory to greet them, no round of drinks to be bought, no medals to be awarded, not even an 'attaboy'. Instead, they awarded non-judicial punishment. Why? Because the perpetrator had a bloody lip. A bloody f*ing lip and they get the 'captain's mast'.... Now these commandos gave 'the mast' 'the finger' and the punishment will be decided by court's martial. Yet again, we are more concerned with our enemies than our soldiers. Enemies that would hack of our heads and hang our bodies from bridges... and we are prosecuting our soldiers over a bloody lip.... This is a national embarrassment...

Apparently, our armed services has been infected with the same virulent strain of butt-stupid, self-destructive, 'progressive' insanity that has plagued the rest of our society. Hopefully, this infection is still in the treatable stage - because if it rots our military to the bone, our cannot stand.

Meh.
Must be the turkey hangover
Maybe I'm just cranky

or maybe I'm just tired of the stupidity.

I'll re-read this in a few days when the tryptophan levels have leveled out and see how I feel then.

An Incontinent Truth

......and it appears to be a 'number 2' at that.

It's been a rough week for Al Gore and the rest of the 'Global Warming' warming community.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/24/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling/

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/24/ed-begley-jr-loses-it-on-fox-news/

(and watching Ed Bagley melt down is absolutely beautiful)

Don't feel too bad for Al though, the soon to be 'Carbon Billionaire' still has the time and resources to hunt ManBearPig all he wants... (Southpark reference.....classic)

Some Incontinent Truths are these..

• Many of the same scientists who claim the sky is falling visa vie 'Global Warming' also warned us of 'Global Cooling' in the 70s

• Many of the same scientists warned us that our own population growth would destroy us and that we had to seriously consider decreasing the birth rate

• After the age of Katrina, we were warned that we were in for ever increasing, ever strengthening hurricanes....hmmmm...don't hear about that too much anymore do we?

• Al Gore, like Dr. Phil, is a colossal douchebag

• An Inconvenient Truth, the gospel of Global Warming is the factual equivalent of a Michael Moore film.... without a fat slob with a baseball hat (and they BOTH won an Academy Award.... who knew?)

• So all those warming periods that occurred between ice ages were caused by what exactly?

• This, like Al Gore's ego, could go on forever....

Global Warming has been and always will be more about the redistribution of wealth than actual care or concern about the environment (Copenhagen anyone?). Followers of the movement have reached a fanatical religious zeal, suggesting deniers be 'strangled in their beds' or be tried for 'high crimes against humanity' (and that's from people in our government)... sure, we can have a civilized discussion here...

Undeniably, there has been lots of research supporting claims of Global Warming - but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Research needs funding. When those who are doing the funding have an agenda of their own, it is hard to get good science (think of the tobacco industry funding a health study of the effects of smoking on the human cardiovascular system..... that make sense, right?)

Pure science, devoid of agenda or coercion needs to be performed. Lengthy, exacting, research- but that is unlikely to happen. Until then, all we can do is follow the money and see where it leads us.

Apparently, right into the pocket of Al Gore....
douchebag....

Mare's Eat Oats and Goat's Eat Boats and Other Random Thoughts

Despite my best efforts, my tiny brain is more incapable of stringing together coherent thoughts than usual - so I have decided to go with a 'stream of consciousness' approach today.

Were I still a child, my mother would make me go climb trees for a few hours and come back and try again when I was exhausted - sadly, now one cannot climb trees as environmentalists would claim that the tree would be damaged, or it's feelings hurt or some idiocy - and even if you could escape their notice legal liability would prevent it... as one might fall and sue someone... That aside, if said act were performed and witnessed, Child Protective Services would be called...... after all, such activity is dangerous....
yet I digress.....

• Blue Dogs roll over and play dead....or at least brain dead anyway. Although one of them got a bone for her troubles ....a BIG one. To secure her vote, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was presented with a $300 million incentive from Harry Reid (and reportedly, a belly-rub as well)... Hmmm.... maybe 'brain dead' is only secondarily accurate following 'morally bankrupt' -and here I thought that "Blue Dogs" were supposed to be fiscally conservative? - then again, George W. Bush touted himself as a fiscal conservative..... so I suppose this particular betrayal of principals shouldn't be much of a surprise.
  

• If it is true that the larger the government, the smaller the individual - then I am feeling pretty damn puny. Damn puny indeed....

• I have come to the conclusion that the government is like Michael Moore. Government continues to expand at an exponential rate, much like Moore's waistline and performs about as well as Moore running a marathon. So why the hell do we keep feeding him cheeseburgers?

• It has been said that when you rob Peter to pay Paul, that you can always count on Paul's vote - but why does Peter not get pissed? Say that 3 times fast...

• If the Constitution were a 'living, breathing document' as many progressives insist, it would be so damn fat it would need a scooter to get around in.

• If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, would it still be taxed?

• 237 or 44% of congress are millionaires, you can't throw a rock in Washington without hitting a lawyer (and subsequently, get sued) and yet we wonder why our laws are so out of step with reality...

• and just in case i forgot to mention it, Dr. Phil is a colossal douchebag.

May the gods of clarity smile upon me next week so that my ramblings may take on some form of consistency....