What we have to deal with: Recent News
So far, I doing decently on holding the fort till SSG Hatley gets back. I haven't had a break during daytime in at least 2 weeks though, and it certainly makes me think twice about being a supply sgt.
What's in the news lately:
Lawmakers bribing other lawmakers to vote for the latest Iraq War supplement bill (which forces the army to mostly pull out of Iraq by next summer, regardless of what the army has to say about it) by putting in billions of subsidies...
Unless you can tell me how funding the construction of Peanut storehouses has a ***n thing to do with funding the soldiers, sailors, and airmen serving in a war zone half-way around the world, I think the word describing this would be "repulsive".
Not to say that neither party is innocent of putting unrelated and unnecessary funding in every bill in the past 10 years, it's just that no one seems capable of stopping it. We have been reduced to the point where it's not unethical to sneak a "rider" in the next farm bill about funding for the "Electrical Engineer Museum and Hall of Fame"(ironically and seriously enough, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Engineers may have the lobbying power to pull that off).
In other news, thousands of anti-war protesters in Portland, Oregon circled around an effigy of an American soldier, where they then set it on fire, along with the American Flag. My guess is they couldn't find any crosses to burn, so they had to settle with an imitation of us. Frankly, it looks to me as just another form of bigotry, no less than a neo-nazi rally.
I know many of you former Vietnam veterans have sworn to protect us from the hate that you hate to deal with when you came home from war. Don't let us down, don't let these hate-filled scum take over our country. God knows we have to deal with it from over here.
http://www.ktvz.com/story.cfm?nav=oregon&storyID=18920
It makes me sick.
So far, I doing decently on holding the fort till SSG Hatley gets back. I haven't had a break during daytime in at least 2 weeks though, and it certainly makes me think twice about being a supply sgt.
What's in the news lately:
Lawmakers bribing other lawmakers to vote for the latest Iraq War supplement bill (which forces the army to mostly pull out of Iraq by next summer, regardless of what the army has to say about it) by putting in billions of subsidies...
Unless you can tell me how funding the construction of Peanut storehouses has a ***n thing to do with funding the soldiers, sailors, and airmen serving in a war zone half-way around the world, I think the word describing this would be "repulsive".
Not to say that neither party is innocent of putting unrelated and unnecessary funding in every bill in the past 10 years, it's just that no one seems capable of stopping it. We have been reduced to the point where it's not unethical to sneak a "rider" in the next farm bill about funding for the "Electrical Engineer Museum and Hall of Fame"(ironically and seriously enough, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Engineers may have the lobbying power to pull that off).
In other news, thousands of anti-war protesters in Portland, Oregon circled around an effigy of an American soldier, where they then set it on fire, along with the American Flag. My guess is they couldn't find any crosses to burn, so they had to settle with an imitation of us. Frankly, it looks to me as just another form of bigotry, no less than a neo-nazi rally.
I know many of you former Vietnam veterans have sworn to protect us from the hate that you hate to deal with when you came home from war. Don't let us down, don't let these hate-filled scum take over our country. God knows we have to deal with it from over here.
http://www.ktvz.com/story.cfm?nav=oregon&storyID=18920
It makes me sick.
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