Thanks, JMJ

I apologize to our good host, though, and thank you for calling me out. I should have just left it alone. It’s not my place to personally attack people.

JMJ

A number of Soldiers are concerned about the potential of gays in the military, but I am against don’t ask don’t tell and for allowing them. They serve openly in the British Army, and I worked with them for a while - no problems.

I am not qualified to speak for the Army, but the Soldiers are quite flexible - yes, there are some concerns about the perception that the Constitution is being neglected, but most of the people I’ve discussed this with have a wait and see attitude. People who have the greatest problems with the current CINC are those about my age and experience - I hate the direction we seem to be going with foreign policy - I don’t like the apology tours, and I don’t like showing weaknesses to the Arabs, Communists, or French…but in reality, our CINC is in a tough spot. With the global economy and terrorism as such, he may be able to open doors with his apology tour, gain support from other countries, and lose support here, or he could maintain a tougher stance of isolationism, gain support here and lose a bigger battle in the world… I don’t care whether we make Islamofascists, commies, or the French mad, but I, too, have patience…

I guess I could have answered your question much more concisely: some like him; some don’t. All support our CINC!!

The lady plainly, flat out, repeatedly from a prepaired script, over the years has said that Latina women and their experiences allow them to make better decisions than white males.
But noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
When confronted with the obvious we are always subjected to these ridiculous PR campaigns that get launched everytime after stupid statements like Sotomayors come out that insult the intelligence of even the most mindless dolts out there. After another 2 weeks of this crap we’ll all be convinced amd brainwashed that she either “mispoke”, was having a bad day, doesnt feel that way anymore” or that its a “vast right wing conspiracy” and that all those speechs were taken out of context or the conservative dominated media has changed all the wording in all her speechs. Okay, I made the last one up.
To top if off I havent even begun to touch on her decision over the Ricci case that has unequivocally blatant preferential racism painted all over it from head to toe, beginning to end.

Would my years of dealing with drug lords and smuggling and dealing make me a better judge when it came to those kind of cases ? Sure, but the law is the law and no matter how much insight I have to a particular demographic or issue that is how decisions should be judged on.
As much as my street sense tells me the guys a punk I still have to judge him according to whats tangible and legal.

Again I remind you that getting personal and name calling is ill-mannered. Don’t be so quick to dismiss REWHBLCAIN as all the things you called him. Remember when I dismissed Jon Stewart and the Galofalo woman? You jumped on me like a toad on a bug. To quote, “Who cares what other people think? YOU SHOULD. a closed minded fool listens only to what he wants to hear. Every body’s opinion matters.”

Eagle, Jers makes a good point about the military mind-set. Any insight would be welcome.

Toma

Rather than CNN, though, I would suggest the NewsHour or tuning in to NPR when you can. It shouldn’t be so much about which “side” or the other, but simply getting good information. Besides, CNN is not representative of any “side,” really. They just try to get ratings as best (worst?) they can by presenting “both sides” of whatever’s the useless sensational story of the day, for whatever that’s worth, which isn’t much, as in life there are rarely only two sides of anything. (Remember when Jon Stewart destroyed Crossfire? Just for that I consider him an American hero!)

I mean, hey, I do the “two-sides” thing too. I catch CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, etc. But when I want unfiltered information, I go straight to the source - CSPAN, published reports from sources, etc - or to the most unbiased sources, like the NewsHour, disipline publications, etc.

Say, how’s the military these days? The rank and file always seemed pretty ambivilent about whatever civilian administration was in charge at any given time. Have times changed in that regard? (God, I hope not!) I fear this ridiculous partisanship we’ve seen over the past thirty years may be seeping into some dangerous cracks. Is this fear unfounded?

Thanks, JMJ

Well, Eagle, about half of it I already knew, but anyone with five minutes on their hands could look this stuff up. And I don’t recall her reacting to that picture (perhaps I’m mistaken?). I think that was some other group. I didn’t think the picture was all that bad either. But it does get to some hypocrisy on the left when it comes to sensitivity. Just as what she said about latinas being better judges, so to speak, would have been considered outrageous had it been a white man saying that about white men. Fair enough. And while I don’t think she was being all that serious, nor do I think Bill Frist was all that serious when he made that comment about Strom Thurman, and look what happened to him. There’s plenty of hypocrisy to go around. But that doesn’t make it okay. Either Sotomayor was a “token” pick or she wasn’t - we’ll never know. The point is that it doesn’t matter, as she’s certainly qualified - and certainly at least as if not more qualified than the other allegedly “token” pick in recent history, Clarence Thomas. Two hypocrisies do not make a sincerity.

JMJ