It is really sad when the CJCS is not sure if warfighters on the front lines of the Global War on Terror will be able to get paid on time or not. 

It is unclear if the United States will be able to pay troops on time in the event of a debt default, the top U.S. military officer told troops in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pentagon officials were working hard to plan for a potential default but cautioned that the circumstances were extraordinary.

“So I honestly can’t answer that question,” he told troops at Kandahar air base in southern Afghanistan, as several expressed anxiety over budget wrangling in Washington.

Potentially suspending pay to U.S. forces waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is an extremely sensitive subject in the United States and Mullen acknowledged that many troops lived paycheck to paycheck.

“So if paychecks were to stop, it would have a devastating impact,” Mullen said, answering questions from troops.

“I’d like to give you a better answer than that right now, I just honestly don’t know,” he said.

 

Devastating impact is an understatement. It will cause a huge issue in morale among all soldiers and especially the families.

Not that I fly that often, but when I do, I won’t be using Delta…

Update:  It appears that Delta is looking into the situation, and some of the blame looks to be on the Army.  If the Soldiers’ orders had them flying coach, then their orders should have reflected that only three bags were authorized (even though it’s a real SOB hauling that much gear around in just three bags).

Delta’s response is here: http://blog.delta.com/2011/06/07/military-travel-baggage-policies-our-thoughts/

So Whoopi Goldberg decided she’d play the race card (again).  Well, Whoopti-Doo!  Whoopi, honey, it’s been over-played.  By you, by Janeane Garafolo, by Chris “Tingles” Matthews and by every other liberal that can’t defend the President’s actions and policies with facts or logic.

Stop calling me racist.  It’s old, and it’s trite.  Stop trying to tell me that I don’t know what it’s like to be discriminated against because of my race.  I’ve been discriminated against not only because of my race (both of them) but because of my gender as well.  Piss off, liberals.  You’ve discriminated more against me than any WASP, then turn around and tell me I’m the racist because I abhor the direction the President is taking the country.  You’re going to have to collectively find a new rebuttal.

Today is Diversity Thursday over at CDR Salamander’s place, so I thought I’d join in some of his fun.  I’m half Caucasian and half Filipino.  I was adopted and raised by Mk 1 Mod 0 white parents.  In the course of my life I’ve been referred to as “the Chinaman” and “Ho Chi Minh” by white and black peers, ostracized by Filipino shipmates for being mixed race, and even told that I wasn’t a “real part of the family” by a cousin.  When I was in college, I spent a few years in AFROTC.   A female Captain, who happened to be OSI by trade, made some inquiries after asking me why I hadn’t applied for a scholarship when, in her view, I would have been a shoe-in for one (at first she didn’t believe me when I told her I had).  She later informed me that I hadn’t received one because “you aren’t a black female”.  Evidently, being an Eagle Scout that graduated in the top ten percent of his high school class while taking honors courses and scoring a 32 on the ACT didn’t stand up to the qualifications of having been born with breasts, a vagina, and darker skin.  I’m guessing that’s what happened to the NROTC scholly I applied for, as well.  I’m not touting myself as the reincarnation of Georgie Patton here, but when we select people for leadership and advancement based on “diversity” criteria and not actual ability we have no reason to wonder why things are screwed up.

Let me leave you with one thought to ponder: if the President was Herman Cain or Allen West, what would you hear from the left? They’re already saying it…UNCLE TOM!

But we’re the racists. Liberals, you can kiss my (half) brown…

I could not believe it when I heard him say the words. I was amazed that he admitted that he was in over his head. If you load the video below and then move it up to the 4:28 mark, you will hear what I am talking about. This is from his recent interview with 60 minutes.

“when your campaigning, I think you are liberated to say things without thinking about how am I going to practically implement this”

Yes those were his words. So what he really was saying was that while campaigning you can say whatever you want, make whatever promises you want and not worry about how you will live up to those promises.

America, do you now believe that you were fed a line of BS. He just admitted it. He just admitted that he didn’t know how he was going to do things, he was just promising whatever. This is the guy you put into office and why all of his opponents were screaming that he had NO EXPERIENCE, was NOT QUALIFIED, was NOT FIT to be President of the United States. Good Job! Your ignorance have put us all in peril for at least four years, and our kids to suffer for years to come.

Thanks to some a fellow milblogger, Taco Bell, I am able to share this editorial with you. If you read nothing else today, I highly suggest reading this one. This guys appears to have had everything going for him. He punched all the right blocks and had a very respectable career. Yet he walked away from it all, because of the American voter.

I had chosen, freely, to place my life between those that would do harm to the U.S. and those whom I would protect: her citizens. I had always believed in the best of America and the people of her lands; that despite occasional missteps there was a general “rightness” to our way. I lived that belief for 22 years, leading and following warriors into combat. I’m certainly no war hero; my brothers in arms have seen far more combat, more intense and personal than I. But I have become acquainted with death in a way that I hope you never do. My last tour, on the ground in Iraq was where my heart started to be hardened towards you, the electorate, and culminated in this letter, written two days before our elections. And here’s why.

Read the editorial contribution in its entirety at:
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article_dbcfb820-e9f6-11df-9f3f-001cc4c002e0.html

I am a member of VFW and let me tell you after reading the link below I was petty upset. Several vets I know who are members of the VFW are talking about canceling their memberships and even burning their membership cards.

Personally I don’t think that is what will get the VFW national leadership’s attention. I think it will be when their individual chapters stand up to national and let them know that these actions will not be tolerated.

I mean they are supporting Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Charles Schumer for goodness sake. Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/10/burn-your-vfw-cards-vote-vets-runs-vfw-pac.html

The GOP civil war is rather interesting to view from the sidelines. Karl Rove first came out against the tea party success, being the old school Republican stalwart that he is. Then by all appearances, took an on-air drubbing by Rush Limbaugh….and conveniently softened his position.

The problem I have with O’Donnell and others of her ilk is that her platform appears short on substantive solutions for energizing the economy and long on social issues and vague generalizations like ‘taking our country back’ . How are you going to take our country back if you cannot explain from what and to where? Being a Victorian moralist and anti-condom for AIDS ridden regions is nutty, but I could give her a pass in that she probably wouldn’t have an effect on programs such as that. But when she states:

“it was a misconception that you, quote unquote, can’t legislate morality.”

The reality of that statement is that if you don’t legislate one morality then you are legislating somebody else’s morality,” she said. “So you can’t get around legislating morality.”

Does she not understand the concept that legislating a moral point of view that takes away from some citizens freedom of action is not equal to legislation that doesn’t?

The fact that Sarah Palin is advising her to only speak through Fox news and that she apparently won’t debate Chris Coons without receiving the questions beforehand further detracts from what luster she has.

Oh crap, there I went….I used a word that had ‘lust’ in it…..

I simply don’t understand some candidates. Now after a clip from Bill Maher’s old show Politically Incorrect surfaced, showing CoD admitting that ‘she dabbled in witchcraft’….she cancels her Sunday talk show appearances. And ironically speaking on Hannity’s show, she claims she will conduct no further national media interviews. Man up Christy!

Do these people simply think that ‘who else is the right going to vote for…I don’t have to work at this anymore?’

H/T to my boy Prophet for the link on this one.

So I read the article below and thought to myself “self, I wonder how this will end up turning out, but I am sure it won’t be good”.

UMM has interests beyond the building of mosques. One of them deals with children’s activities – violence-based children’s activities.

Jawala Scouts or the Jawala Scout Youth Leadership Program, an Islamic paramilitary boys group, was incorporated in Philadelphia in August 2005.

Read the whole story at….

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/13/philadelphia’s-islamist-boy-scouts/

When it comes to being tough on criminals and giving them the proper justice they deserve after carrying out horrific crimes. Bravo Utah, you are giving Texas a run for its money.

A death row inmate who had used a gun to fatally shoot two men suffered the same fate Friday morning as he was executed by a team of marksmen — the first time Utah used the firing squad to carry out a death sentence in 14 years.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/17/utah-man-facing-firing-squad-execution-early-friday-moved-observation-cell