A Retired Senior NCOs View of Dont Ask Dont Tell Repeal

Survey of soldiersborders on 'fraud'
The methods used in a survey that some U.S. Military leaders have cited to support their plan to allow Homosexuals to live their sexual choices openly and remain in the ranks "border on Fraud," according to a critic who spoke with WND. Others also are raising tough questions about the survey size, data sampling and research methodology used to generate the Pentagon's study that endorsed Repeal of the military's long practice of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." That was a policy imposed in 1993 that es...

Vice President "Bite Me" Takes Credit For Bush Tax Cuts He Wants To Repeal In Two Years
Vice President "Bite Me," aka Joe "Plugs" Biden, wrote a message the other day and wants my address so that Barack Hussein Obama can send me a thank you note, via his DNC Astroturf organization, "Organizing For America" (aka Astroturfing for Obama). Text below: There's more whoppers in this e-mail than you'd find in a Burger King. Friend -- I've been in Washington for almost 40 years. I've seen a lot of Congresses come and go. But I can't remember a group of lawmakers who accomplished more than...

Enter the rabbit
As I look into my crystal ball for 2011, I wish I could say that I see a tall, dark, handsome stranger. In fact, I can safely predict that there will not be another war. How do I know? Because according to the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit. So all quiet on the Eastern front after the turbulent year of the tiger. At least I hope so. For me, 2011 should be the year when the American People wake up to the fact that their fate and that of China are intimately linked. It remains to ...

NC Lawmaker Lashes Out At Burr For DADT Repeal Vote: Homosexuals Are Sexual Predators
NC Lawmaker Lashes Out At Burr For DADT Repeal Vote: ‘Homosexuals Are Sexual Predators’ During his re-election bid this past November, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) said that he supported the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and expressed concern about “changing the accommodations for Troops if the policy changed.” But following the Pentagon’s review of the ban and the Testimony of Military leadership, Burr ultimately voted for final passage of repeal, even as...

Bachmanns Michigan visit a prelude to a presidential bid?
When President Obama signed a historic Repeal of the Military’s ban on Openly Gay and Lesbian servicemembers Wednesday morning, he paved the way for a full Repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. A gay Minnesota army reserve officer spoke with the Minnesota Independent about the issues involved in the repeal, the struggles faced by gay and Lesbian Soldiers as they waited for Obama and Congress to act on their promise to repeal, and the stereotypes that Conservatives continue to spread...

Obamas R&R;: Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Yahoo! Buzz A Marine base where young men are trained for war might not sound like an inviting place for President Barack Obama and his family to relax. But the First Family has spent many hours of their Hawaiian Vacation at the picturesque Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the windward Kaneohe Bay. The commander in chief has visited the base daily since his arrival just before Christmas, working out at its gym, taking his young daughters bowling, and palling around with friends on the base’s c...

Poll: Most Americans Support Health Law Or Want To Make It More Progressive
One of the major rallying cries of the Republican Party and the wider Conservative Movement has been to Repeal the recently passed Health Care law. To justify this demand, these Conservatives claim that Americans want the law to be repealed and that they think it goes too far in expanding the government and would prefer a Free Market approach to Health Care (which has no history of working anywhere at anytime). Last week, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe made this claim in on op-ed published...

Mama Said Knock You Out
In “ObamaCare knockout,” Michael Walsh writes that “America awaits GOP’s punch:” So the time to deal a body blow to ObamaCare is now. Since all spending bills must originate in the House, it will be up to the Republican majority there to first defund it, then to Repeal it. Indeed, if they play their cards just right, ObamaCare can be the wedge issue that finally exposes liberal do-goodism for what it really is: coercion with a smiley face, cloaked in the false man...

China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'
© AP China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction', the defence minister said on Wednesday in remarks that threaten to overshadow a visit to Beijing by his US counterpart next month. "In the coming five years, our Military will push forward preparations for Military conflict in every strategic direction," said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed Newspapers in China. "We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the horses...

Congress, The Military, Corporations: The Collusive Alliance That Fuels America's Wars
As the bleeding continues to sap the economic strength of America and the future grows ever bleaker, we are hearing the voices of "Fiscal Responsibility" putting forth their negative messages of how to address and solve our problems. Just listen to this latest example of this type of thinking on what should be done to solve our fiscal problems. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, generally referred to as "Dr. No", the spending hawk, warned recently that America would experience "apocalyptic pain" ...

WaPokeep ROTC out of our precious Ivies
Because, you know, its all about war and stuff. The Washington Post rolled out  what I consider an inevitable op/ed today about keeping ROTC off the campuses of Ivy League schools who banned it when DADT was in effect.  Colman McCarthy, a former Post columnist who directs the Center for Teaching Peace claims that ROTC is essentially an anti-intellectual endeavor which can be opposed on moral grounds: It should not be forgotten that schools have legitimate and moral reasons for keeping ...

The 10 Gayest Political Stories of 2010
Ring ceremony: Reid and Choi 2010 was one of the gayest political years ever. Here's our take on the 10 gayest stories we reported on — throughout the five boroughs, the nation, and the world. In inverse order: 10. Gay love reunites the Bush v. Gore adversaries. Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything, right? In modern American politics, that was nowhere more apparent than in Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case which ultimately decided who would become the 43rd president. So...

WaPokeep ROTC out of our precious Ivies
Because, you know, its all about war and stuff. The Washington Post rolled out  what I consider an inevitable op/ed today about keeping ROTC off the campuses of Ivy League schools who banned it when DADT was in effect.  Colman McCarthy, a former Post columnist who directs the Center for Teaching Peace claims that ROTC is essentially an anti-intellectual endeavor which can be opposed on moral grounds: It should not be forgotten that schools have legitimate and moral reasons for keeping ...

Gay Rights Activists' Outlook Somber, As Euphoria Over DADT Repeal Subsides
New Haven -- The long-awaited Repeal of the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy marked a modern day Civil Rights milestone. But while Activists and like-minded pols at first celebrated an achievement long in the offing, that cheeriness has quickly been replaced by political somberness. Whereas conventional wisdom holds that legislative victories beget future ones, there was no clear sense that the president's signing of DADT's Repeal would have such a Domino Effect. The battle over the mil...

Expert: Open homosexuality in military being 'rushed'
Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly said "gay" advocates are "rushing" Defense Secretary Robert Gates to implement the Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy before he is able to certify properly that permitting open Homosexuality will not harm the military. "It's like Nancy Pelosi saying we have to pass this Health Care bill so people can find out what's in it," Donnelly told WND. According to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010," President Obama, the defen...

Tactical arms control remains issue
WASHINGTON — What to do about Russia’s overwhelming advantage in tactical Nuclear Weapons was among the toughest issues that emerged from the Senate debate on the new Nuclear Treaty. Although American Public Opinion was not a factor in the New START debate — polls showed overwhelming support for the arms-reduction agreement — questions about President Obama’s toughness toward Moscow were repeatedly raised, previewing a likely GOP issue in the 2012 election. Talking...

Navy hopes to please all with ship plan
The U.S. Navy on Wednesday announced what its Top Officials hope will be a Solomonic answer to a thorny problem: How do you execute a major, multi-billion dollar weapons program in today’s climate of deadlock, while at the same time pleasing as many interests as possible in the defense industry and on the Hill? The Navy has tried to do it by halving work on a series of new warships, called littoral combat ships, between two competing vendors, preempting what officials feared might have ...

Staying at DoD
Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, is resigning his tenured professorship at the Harvard Kennedy School to stay on at the Defense Department. Carter, the top Pentagon procurement official, confirmed the news first reported by Aviation Week. Harvard is famously strict about enforcing a two-year-leave-of-absence rule for tenured faculty to serve in public service positions, the Harvard Crimson reports. Carter, a trained physicist and former ...

Busy With Afghanistan, the U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars
-- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Feb. 1, 2010 Just after a cold, rainy dawn, a U.S. Army battalion under the command of Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith took up positions along a low Korean ridgeline with orders to stop the enemy tank columns racing toward them. The Americans were lightly armed draftees assigned to peacetime occupation duties in Japan. They'd never trained for major combat. But they wore the uniform of the Most Powerful nation on earth. They expected a short skirmish: When the ene...

CIA Spy Chief in Pakistan Still a Secret
The name of the CIA’s spy chief in Pakistan is ... still a secret, according to the United States government. The agent fled Pakistan last week after he was named in a Lawsuit which accused him of killing civilians with drone strikes. The Lawsuit was filed by the family of some people apparently killed by strikes and also names CIA Chief Leon Panetta and Defense Secretary Robert Gates as codefendants. Now that the spook’s name is in the public record it is appearing almost everywhere...

Top Ten Morning Bells of 2010
On Monday, we brought you the Top Ten Heritage Charts of 2010. Yesterday, we featured the Top Ten Heritage Papers of 2010. Continuing our Top Ten in 2010 series, today, we rank the year’s Top Ten Morning Bells. Once again, all posts are ranked by pageviews with the 10th most popular post on top, and the most popular post at the bottom. 10. White House Admits ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate is a Tax 9. Welcome to the Obama Dependency Economy 8. Surviving the Obama Assault on the Rule of ...

Center For American Progress' Neera Tanden On Obama: "Washington Will Not Determine His Success" In 2011.
ABC News' Amy Walter reports: When President Obama returns from Vacation next week he’ll get his first taste of life with a bigger and more emboldened Republican Congress eager to Repeal much of the Legislation passed over the last two years. On ABC News' Top Line today, Center for American Progress’ Neera Tanden argues that the President shouldn’t get too caught up in what is happening on the Hill but should instead “get out of Washington, because Washington will not dete

Grafenwohr has record December snowfall
U.S. Air Force Capt. Shaun Wallace of the 7th Weather Squadron said 38.7 inches of snow have been recorded in December topping the highest recorded Snowfall in the area of 32 inches. According to Wallace, the area saw five major blizzards during the month and several smaller snowfalls. The Bad Weather forced U.S. Army officials to close bases at one stage and order several two-hour work and school delays. The shocking story of a baby sitter rapist and a rumor about overweight Troops losing campa...

Ski clubs and base ski events, Dec. 30 and beyond
STUTTGART OUTDOOR RECREATION: Day trips: Jan. 22, Lech, Austria; Jan. 29, Lermoos, Austria; Feb. 5, Oberstdorf/Nebelhorn, Germany; Feb. 12, Liechtenstein; Feb. 26, Kitzbühel, Austria, all $60 ($50 if booked a week ahead); includes transport but not lift tickets or equipment rental. Weekend trips: Jan. 14-17, Chamonix, France, $599 includes lodging, some meals and equipment rental. Call 0711 15-2774 or DSN 431-2774. The shocking story of a baby sitter rapist and a rumor about overweight troo...

Holiday Illuminations
ITOMAN PEACEFUL ILLUMINATION: Ends Jan. 3, 6-10 p.m.; 243,000 lights designed by Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Students, and includes Concerts and live performances until Dec. 31, and a countdown Dec. 31; at Itoman Kanko Noen; 200 yen adults (includes a crystal glass), Children free; Heiwa-no Hikari Committee; 098-840-8135. The shocking story of a baby sitter rapist and a rumor about overweight Troops losing campaign medals also among the top items this year. For reporters in Afghanista...