Another enigmatic program for what reason? I get the premise, but where is it going to be funded from, who's going to run it and how's it going to really function?
A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. And it would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time.
Why am I not seeing the cheeto-eating brigades of Chickenhawks flocking from Mommy's basement to join that organization?
Given their penchant for putting self before service, I doubt that many of them will be rushing down to join a "Civilian Reserve Corps" that has all the clarity of purpose that only the 1600 Crew can bring to a mission. For some reason, this just makes me think of a future veteran corps of Walter Sobchaks ("The Big Lebowski" if you've seen the movie, you get the reference, right?) sitting around talking about their experiences in whatever their version of "The Nam" is 20 years from now, because they escaped (or were forced) from Mom's basement and their pointless lives to do something worthwhile. As if.
Gee, maybe he'll talk about fighting AIDS in Africa too. Oh, wait, he did.
The SOTU was pretty much of a yawner tonight. After all, the rubber-assed rubber-stamp republicans were not applauding every bit of jingoistic drivel that popped from Preznit Horse Fluffer's gob this evening. But this comment caught my ear, and I had to go back and check the transcript:
... and that will leave border agents free to chase down drug smugglers, and criminals ...
Interesting, because many hard-core republicans have been lobbying Beloved Leader to pardon two Border Patrol agents who were convicted of chasing down and shooting a Mexican drug runner in the ass.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., introduced a bill to pardon the agents, joining a growing group of supporters of the men, including Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Ted Poe, R-Texas.
"There's a compelling case that this was an extreme injustice," Hunter told FOXNews.com.
Yeah, interesting. I wonder if that's a signal to his right-wing base that he's going to do them a favor if they STFU on some of the issues he's about to tackle with immigration.
Nasty nepotistic bitch has an op-ed in the Washington Post today, and makes the most irrelevant set of Chickenhawk arguments ever. And then caps it off with the Hollywood-Rambo-Chuck Norris argument for continuing to fight in Iraq:
Our soldiers will win if we let them.
No, really, she says that.
Gee, do I hear the siren call of the Friday-night-shit-faced Legionnaire whose entire term of service was spent painting blivets at NAS Nowhere or East Buttfuck Army Base?
Liz Cheney and her entire goddamn hypocritcal family from her draft-dodging father, to her loud-mouthed scold of a bitch mother to her self-hating lesbian sister to her own bad nepotistic self (how do you get to be an Asst Secretary of State? Have Daddy run the man who runs the State Department, that's how) ought to bend over and kiss the asses of every man and woman who has had to go and serve tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In public. At high noon. Times Square works for me.
The last person in the world that needs to be running their over-paid and spoiled-ass yap right now, after having to watch our country get brought down by her family and La Famiglia Bush for six long years is a self-serving little rich, self-entitled WASP princess.
Her daddy's protege, Dickless George tonight proposed adding 92,000 Marines and Soldiers to the active duty rolls. Given the enlistment age is somewhat higher than it used to be in the Army, and she was one of Crashcart's many deferments, I'd reckon she's right at the outer limit of the age of enlistment. So perhaps she should be in the first 100 of the 92,000 to sign up.
But she won't because like every other scumbag republican of the Dick Cheney family, she'll bluster and bellyache and be nowhere to be found when it's time for the rubber to hit the road. See Five-Deferment Daddy Dick for a reference.
"I did everything to win, but someone didn't let us win."
-John Rambo, fictional character, American Icon of sorts
From a Rambo First Blood script I found out here on the InterTubes. Sort of proves my point, I think. In a perverse and sad way.
