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Navy: Men Have “Duty” To Protect Women From Themselves
8 Jul 2010 
11:29 am
This is so incandescently idiotic – on so many levels – that I don’t even know what to say about it. Sometimes the stupid is just overpowering:
The U.S. Navy wants commanders to “feel very uncomfortable” about sexual assaults, happening at a rate of more than one a day, military officials said.
“My goal is to make every single commander that has a sexual assault occur at their command feel very uncomfortable and wonder, ‘Why is this happening in my command?’” Vice Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert said in a speech …
Selective Outrage and the Catholic Church
3 Apr 2010 1:01 pm
The temptation to look for scapegoats is a human failing, too. Those who hate the military gleefully seize on every crime committed by a soldier, sailor or Marine as evidence that war causes crime, as though it were unheard of for civilians to rape, murder or steal. Those who hate religion seize on crimes committed by the faithful as evidence that religion causes pedophilia, as though child abuse were the exclusive province of the Catholic church.
Never mind that civilians and atheists commit crimes too.
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Our Commander in Chief Doesn’t “Get” the Military
8 Nov 2009 1:27 pm
“What Vice President Cheney calls ‘dithering,’ President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public,” said Gibbs. “I think we’ve all seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.”
~White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Life is full of mysteries, but chief among them in this Marine wife’s mind at the moment is, “Just how stupid does this White House think we are?” If the events of the past few months have shown us anything, it’s that Barack Obama has little …
The “Myth” of American Heroism
7 Nov 2009 1:20 pm
How bizarre is it when the number two link on Google for Brian Chontosh, a bona fide war hero and recipient of the Navy Cross, goes to a site devoted to “debunking” urban myths?
Is the idea that a Marine officer could perform acts of heroism so outlandish that it requires debunking? If so, there’s little doubt why so many Americans might doubt such tales. Every day we’re force fed a distorted, dishonest narrative that magnifies every misdeed and sweeps acts of heroism under the rug. This, we are given to …
“This Doesn’t Define Me”
31 Oct 2009 2:22 pm
There are many kinds of courage.
We hear most about the bravery of battle, when the adrenaline is pumping and soldiers are fighting just to stay alive. But we rarely hear about the incredible courage and strength needed to sit up for the first time despite searing pain, to stand, to take those few wobbly steps…
… or, against all odds, to run again.
Meet some wounded vets who have not only recovered from severe combat injuries, but who have gone on to things most of us only dream of doing. In …
Transparency We Can’t Believe In!
31 Oct 2009 10:56 am
It’s… transparency like you’ve never seen! The White House blog gushes:
We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would — for the first time in history — begin posting all White House visitor records under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. As part of that initiative, we also offered to look back at the records created before the announcement of the policy and answer specific requests for visitor records created earlier in the year.
They may have a point, if by transparency like you’ve …
When Chicago Style Politics Backfires
24 Oct 2009 6:08 pm
Oh-oh:
“One thing I can tell you: They can go out and chase me and chase the Chamber and put stuff in the newspaper. It only . . . drives more and more support. . . . You think we are going to blink because a couple of people are out shooting at us? Tell ‘em to put their damn helmets on.”
Them’s fighting words, all the more so when delivered in the feisty, New York accent of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. The 71-year-old was recruited 12 years ago …
The Judgment to Lead
18 Oct 2009 11:13 pm
It is now more than 76 days after General McChrystal submitted an assessment of what was needed to carry out the “comprehensive new strategy” President Obama announced in March. McChrystal’s assessment was delayed at the request of the administration and the General was warned not to include a request for more troops until the President was “ready” to consider it. Obama’s Chief of Staff is quick to affix the blame for this delay where it belongs – squarely on George Bush’s shoulders:
One of President Obama’s top advisers said …
Organic Tuscan Kale a Core Ethical, Moral Obligation
19 Sep 2009 11:20 am
Good morning, dangerously unhinged wingnuts.
As you all marinate in your unearned race, class and gender privileges on this fine Saturday morning, your First Lady is hardly working to make sure all Americans – not just the selfish rich – have equal access to pesticide-free comestibles:
Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?
Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H …
Debbie Spend-it-now is selling America’s future to the Chinese
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