I have found my future wife. I’m totally in love with this chick. Her name is Kira Davis She is awesome in every way. So instead of blogging why I love her, I encourage you to listen to her.

Oh… and if she’s already spoken for, I nominate her for President. I don’t care which party.

Supporters of the “conscience clause” measure said it protects the religious rights of private agencies, many of them faith-based, that contract with the state to provide adoption and foster care services. The legislation is based on regulations adopted by the Virginia Board of Social Services in December. Converting those regulations into law would ensure that a future administration could not change them without legislative approval.

The legislature’s Democratic minority vehemently opposed the legislation, saying the intent is clearly to make it tougher for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Virginians to form families.

That is exactly what the bill is intended to do. There’s no denying that. It makes it legal for private agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples based on their religious and moral beliefs, and frankly as ridiculous as I find said beliefs vis-a-vis stable, loving, gay couples adopting children, I do agree that compelling these organizations to go against said beliefs by government force is wrong. If a private agency honestly believes that disqualifying a stable gay couple from placement through their agency, (especially since these couples are apparently more likely to take in an older disabled child, who is ostensibly more difficult to place) is morally correct, so be it. It’s private. As long as my tax dollars don’t go to support stupidity, private organizations can be as stupid as they want to be.

If said prejudice results in a child being placed in a substandard “straight” home over a more appropriate, more stable “same-sex” home, the government should stop dealing with said agency and shouldn’t allow the adoption until the best home can be found. Period. The welfare of the child should be first and foremost. But let ignorants be ignorant. Let them act based on their beliefs and prejudices.  Just don’t let them avoid the logical consequences should their actions prevent the best outcome for the child involved.

As far as I know, the legislation still prohibits government discrimination against gay couples, and any court, as a government agency, would be prohibited from preventing a gay couple from adopting a child based on this standard.

So let them act on their prejudices. It will be their loss in the long run.

Rick the Frothy Mixture™ Santorum in 1990: I don’t want to return to Reagan-Bush.

Rick the Hypocritical Dildo™ Santorum in 2012 (trying to compare himself to Ronald Reagan):   Ronald Reagan told the truth. He didn’t sugarcoat it. He went out and called it the way it was. He went out and promoted the values of our country.

Having said that, let me proceed to the core message of this blog post.

One of the things I really hate on both sides of the political aisle – be it conservative or liberal – is this tendency to invoke the USSR and Stalin/Lenin when things don’t go their way.  Bear in mind, these people, for the most part, have grown up in the United States, never having known the actual horror of totalitarianism, never having known the USSR, Stalin, Lenin, Khruschev, Brezhnev or any of the other monkeys who made living in that communist dictatorship hell.  They toss around words and phrases such as “Stalinist tactics,” “censorship,” and “Soviet” in an attempt to make themselves victims and elicit some sort of sympathy without truly understanding what they mean.

Prime example is this Joe Newby character.

Joe Newby is a conservative fan of Mark Levin. Mark Levin is a radio talk show host, author, conservative commentator and lawyer. I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of Mark Levin. I agree with a lot of his points about the economy, but he’s a bit too much of a social conservative for my taste.  He’s rude to callers who dare to voice even the slightest disagreement with his rants, he insults them, doesn’t allow them to get a word in edgewise, and hangs up on them. The only people who are allowed to speak to His Greatness are ones whose tongues are so far up his ass, they lick the back of his teeth.  Additionally, as a former broadcaster, his voice is like nails on a chalkboard to my ears, especially when he gets angry and starts to squeal like an angry sow.

All of this is beside the point. I know how to change the channel on my car radio, so when Levin comes on WMAL in the evenings, I merely tune out and listen to something else.

But back to Joe Newby. A recent article of his whines and complains about Mark Levin being taken off the air at a Toledo radio station WSPD, ostensibly for “disagreeing with Ron Paul.” I’d like to address this article, because of the sheer ridiculous rhetoric, lack of understanding of true principles of liberty, and complete constitutional retardery emanating from this douche.

Supporters of Ron Paul like to say they support freedom and the Constitution.  That is, unless someone disagrees with Ron Paul – then all bets are off.

Now let me say this: I’ve personally gotten into heated debates with rabid Ron Paul supporters. I know first hand just how obnoxious and frothing they can get. But this claim that all support for the Constitution goes out the window when someone disagrees with Ron Paul is not just stupid, but disingenuous. The most rabid of his supporters skew polls, flood any negative articles about Dr. Paul with flaming rhetoric and generally revert to some form of “if you don’t support Ron Paul, you’re a totalitarian asshole, who doesn’t understand the Constitution” meme when confronted with any dissent.  Does that make them anti-freedom and anti-Constitution? No. But Joe Newby’s understanding of the Constitution is remarkably shallow.

Earlier in the week, conservative talk show host Mark Levin was removed from Toledo’s WSPD for disagreeing with Ron Paul, after being part of that station’s lineup for more than five years.

Levin addressed the situation by first acknowledging all the program directors, managers and executives of the more than 250 radio stations that carry his program.

He explains that one of the hosts at WSPD is Brian Wilson – a man who also happens to be the program director.

“He is also a contributor of articles to a website of a gentleman named Lew Rockwell, who is a former chief of staff and newsletter editor to Ron Paul,” Levin said, adding that “this host slash PD is very close to the Paul people.”

Levin said he has been extremely critical of Ron Paul and have “gotten into it with some of his folks.”

If by “gotten into it” means called Paul a “crackpot,” calling his followers “the biggest assholes there are” and comparing them to Marxists, then sure.

So Levin insults Ron Paul and his supporters continuously on the air, knowing that his PD is a friend and a supporter, and then is surprised when his contract isn’t renewed, right?

Personally, I see no problem with this. Levin is entitled to his opinion, and the program director is entitled to either keep or get rid of his show. That is that little thing called “freedom.” You certainly have the right to voice your views, but not to avoid the consequences of your words.

But apparently, to Levin sycophants like Newby, who want to portray poor Mark Levin as a victim of those evil, dictatorial Ron Paul supporters, that is just Marxist and Soviet in nature.

But when it came time to renew his contract with the station, Wilson decided to cancel Levin because of his political views, a tactic similar to that used in the former Soviet Union.

Since Joe Newby obviously has shit for brains, let me issue a little correction.

In the former Soviet Union, Mark Levin would never have been allowed to utter anything resembling criticism of the regime, like he does on the radio every night.

In the former Soviet Union, there were no privately owned broadcasting outlets. They were all state owned, and neither Brian Wilson, nor Mark Levin would have been allowed to air their views – or any views critical of the state – on the air.

In the former Soviet Union, the government-controlled media would have shut Mark Levin up – not a PD working for a privately-owned (or corporately owned) radio station.

Levin was taken off the air for biting the hand that fed him, so to speak. For all intents and purposes, he insulted his boss’ views, and like in any free society, that boss had the right to take action if he so chose. In other words, they both made free choices – and Levin faced the consequences of said choice.  Believe me when I tell you that in the former Soviet Union, those choices would not have existed.

But to Newby, facing the consequences of one’s words  and actions is something akin to Stalinism. He believes that his idol, Mark Levin has the right to speak his mind, but his employer doesn’t have the right to fire him based on that speech, even though he is the one providing Levin with the medium to broadcast those thoughts and paying him to do so.

And then there’s Levin himself, who’s not above invoking the festering carcass of Stalin to make himself out to be a victim in all this.

Levin said that his team received a note from Wilson basically saying that unless Levin apologized for comments made about Paul and some of his supporters and changes his attitudes, he would not be renewed.

“It’s one thing to drop a program and to add a program, and everything in between.  It’s quite another to try and censor a program,” Levin said, in order to control what he says on the air.  Levin said that rather than wait the 90 days, “we quit,” and excoriated Wilson for using “Stalinist tactics.” [emphasis mine]

Stalinist, eh?

You mean like complimenting Ron Paul’s son Senator Rand Paul for being rational and astute in March 2011…

“…there is a lot that is sensible, particularly on the Rand Paul side of the family when it comes to the Constitution, and economics and so forth.”

…and then threatening, yes THREATENING to work to defeat Rand Paul in Kentucky, despite admitting that the Senator has it together when it comes to the Constitution and economics, if Ron Paul runs as a third party candidate.

“If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million votes, which is relatively insignificant in the big scheme of things, I will do everything in my power to defeat his son in Kentucky. I will do everything in my power to defeat his son Rand Paul in Kentucky,” Mark Levin said on his radio program tonight.

This is how thoroughly irrational and backwards Levin and his supporters are. Apparently spouting off nationally about your boss’ views and his friends and political allies and reaping the consequences of your boss’ decision to discontinue your employment is “Stalinist.” But threatening to use your considerable media resources to defeat the SON of a politician with whom you disagree – merely because you dislike his dad, and having publicly admitted the son is actually a good politician (yes, I know – an oxymoron) is perfectly OK.

Being fired from a job, because you continuously insulted your boss is totalitarian, but using your extensive media contacts and outreach to exact revenge upon an innocent man because of who his father happens to be is somehow moral and right. Because, gosh… Ron Paul threatens the status quo, so we must sacrifice Rand Paul for the good of the country.

Which one sounds more totalitarian?

These men grew up in a free country. They grew up in a nation where the government is prevented by the Law of the Land from infringing upon your rights. They have enjoyed those rights since childhood. They have opportunities to broadcast their views. They have media to publish their judgments and beliefs, and they do so without government interference or the fear that they will be silenced by government force.

They have no concept of what it’s like to live under a totalitarian regime, where the state controls all media, where their voices would be silenced by government force, where they would be jailed or killed for speaking out against those in power.

And yet, they have the gall to sit in front of their mikes and computers and assail the very system of freedom that protects their right to be pernicious warts on a national level. They purport to support freedom, and yet they smear others’ right to logically react to their words.

They want their freedom to spew, but don’t like it when they have to confront the fallout of said spew. They want their right to say what they want, but don’t want others to have the right to react as they see fit. Their freedom to speak their minds is sacrosanct, but their employer’s freedom to dismiss them as a result is not.

Mark Levin apparently thinks he has the right to that job, no matter what he happens to say on the air, without consequences. And his employer’s decision to terminate him based on those words is “Soviet” in nature.

It makes it clear that despite being a constitutional lawyer, Levin not only has very little respect for the rights protected by said Constitution, but also doesn’t understand the nature of the freedom it protects.

As for Newby, the fact that he parrots Levin’s petulant claim about the program director using “Soviet tactics,” when he ended the station’s association with Levin’s show, shows him to be an uninformed buffoon who wouldn’t know freedom if it jumped up and licked his shriveled nutsack.

For two people who have never lived under the Soviet regime, who have never been censored by the government (and no, an employer’s decision to take Levin off the air because of his views is not censorship, it’s the exercise of the employer’s right to run his station as he sees fit – his property rights), and have spent their lives taking advantage of the rights and freedoms this nation strives to protect, these two are sure quick to toss out the “Soviet tactics” accusation when confronted with the unpleasant reality of having to sow what they reap.

UPDATE: So Joey boy was whoring his ridiculous article on the Spokane Examiner Facebook page. I decided to go over there and confront him about his assclownery. I told him, in essence that he had no clue about what Stalinism was, and no idea what the Soviet tactics he claims were used in the firing of Levin actually were. I encouraged him to keep writing, because it showed everyone what kind of jackass he truly is.

Joey replied with the usual deflection of “you don’t know what I’ve been through!”  He then proceeded to claim that he was merely quoting Levin when using the “Stalinism” quote.  So I pointed Joey boy to his own words: But when it came time to renew his contract with the station, Wilson decided to cancel Levin because of his political views, a tactic similar to that used in the former Soviet Union.

Whoops!

Caught with pants down!

Now you didn’t expect me not to call Joey Boy out on his lies, did you?

I did, and guess what happened next!

He deleted both my comments, and barred me from commenting on that page again!

I note with no small amount of irony that when confronted with his own ignorance and lies, Joey boy simply erased my posts and prevented me from commenting again.  By his and Levin’s standards, I should now be claiming that they’re using “Soviet tactics” against me!

After all, I have a right to my opinion, and it doesn’t matter that it’s a medium owned and managed by someone else! Right?

No?

It’s Newby’s page? But… but… but…

Exactly.

So when you arrogantly ignore the duly elected representatives of the American people as they investigate your numerous lies and obfuscations in the ” Fast and Furious” investigation, don’t be surprised if you are held in contempt of Congress.

On Tuesday Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents and other information about Operation Fast and Furious.

In a Jan. 31 letter, Issa had threatened Holder with such a move if he failed to provide all the subpoenaed documents relating to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal by Feb. 9. That deadline has come and gone, and Holder’s Department of Justice still hasn’t provided most of those documents. Issa’s subpoena dates back to Oct. 12, 2011.

If I had to choose a member of this administration that I consider the most appalling, racist, repugnant, lying sack of malodorous excrement, I would have to say it’s Attorney General Eric Holder. And that’s saying a lot in a town where politicians hide cold, hard cash in the freezer, regularly fail to pay taxes, drunkely crash their vehicles into police barricades and assault children (yes, I’m referring to you, Jim Moran!)

This is a guy who accused Americans of being cowards when it comes to discussing racial issues, while running a Justice Department that ostensibly favors black defendants over white victims.

This is a government official who is a terrorist coddling, terrorist pardoning, race baiting, criminal pardoning (as long as they’re Obama supporters), Second Amendment hating corruptocrat.

This is an Attorney General who lied repeatedly in the Fast and Furious investigation, and who finally gave a definition of “lying” so similar to Bill Clinton’s definition of “is,” I had to look closely to see if Holder was wearing a Bill Clinton mask during the hearing.

And now he shows his contempt not just for Congress, but for the American people for whom he works, who pay his salary and to whom he’s supposed to be accountable.

Not that the arrogant bastard cares.

Subpoenas? He don’t need no stinkin’ subpoenas. He’s Eric Holder, dammit!

Someone please run this crooked reprobate out of town! I’m sick and tired of reading about his continued disregard for America and Americans.

About a week ago, a guy named Tommy Jordan made a YouTube video to his daughter Hannah.

Apparently, Hanna had a bit of a problem with the chores she was asked to do, and posted her displeasure on Facebook, making a considerable effort to hide the whiny post from her parents.

Tommy Jordan is an IT professional, and there was no hiding the post, so when he saw it, he made a video just for her.

It would behoove you to watch this video, but should you decide not to, Tommy Jordan told Hannah exactly why her petulant, puerile complaint about having to provide a modicum of help around the house was invalid, why it was inappropriate, and why he was going to ground her.  He then proceeded to shoot her laptop with his .45.

The video went viral in mere days, with kudos pouring in from all over the country.

After all, it’s about time someone showed our entitled little brats that their possessions are not an entitlement, that they do have responsibilities to live up to and that as long as they live in their parents’ homes and their parents purchase their stuff, they have the right to ask them to help around the house.

Well, apparently, some people don’t think so.  According to a follow-up story, Tommy Jordan got a visit from the authorities, because some sniveling, interfering excuses for whining sub-human creatures decided to call the police and dispatch Child Protective Services to Mr. Jordan’s home.

The former Marine wrote on his Facebook page that Child Protective Services officials came to his home in Stanly Co. on Saturday and interviewed him and his daughter — separately — after viewers of the video called with concerns about his actions.

He said the police also stopped by.

“The police by the way said ‘Kudos, sir,’ ” Jordan wrote. “I actually had a “thank you” from an entire detectives squad. And another police officer is using it in a positive manner in his presentation for the school system. How’s about those apples? Didn’t expect THAT when you called the cops did you?”

Didn’t quite turn out as the blubbering shitslurpers hoped, now did it?

So here’s my open letter to them.

Dear Kvetching Malcontents -

It has come to my attention that you have soiled your collective diapers over Tommy Jordan’s video in which he shoots his defiant kid’s laptop. Some of you lost bowel and bladder control so severely, that you felt the need to contact the authorities and voice your whining displeasure at this man’s actions and demand that law enforcement and child protective services visit his home!

You. Are. What’s. Wrong. With. This. Society.

You don’t understand that as a parent he has a right to discipline his child.

You can’t comprehend that the disrespectful rant she posted on her Facebook is a slap in the face to the very people who make it possible for her to HAVE a Facebook account, let alone access to the Internet, a home, clothes, a cell phone and every other thing she possesses with their hard work.

You shit yourselves at the thought of a parent actually doing what’s right, because you’re either too stupid or too cowardly to do it yourselves.

Get this straight, you sanctimonious dildoes – kids need discipline. They need structure. And yes, sometimes they need to be shocked into remembering to be humble, grateful and responsible!

He is not her friend. He is her parent. He has an obligation to teach her right from wrong. And until she goes to work and earns her own way, he has the absolute right to take away anything he has given her.

You inadequate, miserable failures are the same types who insist that teachers never yell at your precious munchkins, even if they act like disrespectful assclowns in class.

You brainless maggots are the same types who demand that children not be allowed to fail in class, because it scars their little egos.

You unctuous fucknozzles are the ones who think your spawn’s feelings are more important than discipline, personal responsibility, hard work and achievements.

You. Are. The. Problem.

Obviously you pusillanimous jackholes can’t even stomach the sight of a gun, so you got piously appalled, and you called the police on this man, even though he did absolutely nothing illegal, and was well within his right to do so.

You wasted law enforcement time and resources forcing them to investigate a man who did exactly what a good parent should do. He taught his child a lesson – something to which you pathetic, petty losers are obviously oblivious.

I guarantee you one thing: this man’s daughter will grow up to be a responsible, hard-working, respectful human being.

If God and Goddess forbid you assnuggets ever breed, yours will grow up to be whining, self-entitled assholes who think the world owes them.

I know the kind of people I want in this world. So please do me a favor and take yourselves out of the gene pool. I have a rusty butter knife available for your use.

In an interview with Ebony magazine, Jackson explained, “I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them … That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me.”

Jackson then went on to drop the N-word several times when discussing Obama, telling the mag, “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ‘cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”

Now I wonder: what would happen if someone like Mel Gibson said in an interview that he only voted for a politician because he was white?

I wonder how quickly the entire Congressional Black Caucus would submit a bill condemning him.

I wonder how fast Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be on a plane to Hollywood demanding a public mea culpa?

And how quickly would the national dialogue turn toward racism and its evils.

But since it’s Samuel L. Jackson admitting in a public venue that he’s a racist fuck, I guess it’s OK.  He’s black, you know.

But it’s more than that.

How many others voted for Barack Obama because he’s black? How many voted for him because he was a good looking guy, while McCain looked like a cranky geriatric zombie? How many are going to vote for Romney, because he just looks… presidential.

While Jackson’s admission bothers me on a very fundamental, human level – I have visceral reactions to racism, no matter what color maw it spews from – it also bothers me, because of the sheer ignorance of the admission! He didn’t care about Obama’s abilities, views or leadership skills. He cast a vote for the leader of the most powerful nation in the world based on nothing of substance – the amount of melanin in his skin.

How many Americans did exactly the same thing?

Didn’t work, did it? The conference was a dead as I have ever seen it… it just looked… OLD. As a conservative friend of mine from the Sunshine State put it, “Nothing, but nothing, good comes out of the Republican Party of Florida.” Cardenas, the hack who used to run it, has borne that out with his behavior as chair of ACU. As for Chris Malagisi, who is practically the avatar of Douchebag Conservatism, I’m personally hoping he gets canned as director of CPAC, especially after he was practically rubbing his slimy little hands together over the exclusion of liberty Republicans. The guy takes every single opportunity to disparage traditional conservatives, as we “paleoconservatives” prefer to be called, and libertarians, that he’s able to in the media.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer couple of guys. This should serve as a rebuke to the hidebound members of the ACU board who voted to support this move, which began with the famous “uninvitation” of GOProud and the John Birch Society, shortly after Cardenas and Malagisi were brought in. Your brand of politics is old. It’s dying, and it has its genesis in collectivist principles and ideas. Liberty and free markets DO breed free people. We don’t need clowns like Santorum moralizing and bringing Big Government into our bedrooms and our hospitals. I think Santorum’s candidacy may hopefully be the last gasp of the social “conservatives” as a leading constituency in our party. Real conservatives understand that trying to enforce any sort of social mores through government is counter to our first principles, and is ultimately counterproductive. Props to Fox News’ Bernie Goldberg and Margaret Hoover for helping stand up to these people.

You have two choices, ACU. Embrace the growing liberty movement in the Republican party, and help us return the party to the true conservative principles of Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater, or be left behind to waste away in utter irrelevance. Your call. Firing Malagisi tomorrow would be a good start… Just sayin’!

Now, normally I have nothing but respect for military spouses.

They’re the ones waiting at home, scared to death that their significant other may not make it home from yet another deployment.

They’re the ones running the house, paying the bills, taking care of the kids, making repairs, and keeping it together while many times holding out a full-time job or two.

They’re the ones who send the care packages, organize get-togethers for other spouses and keep the home fires burning.

They’re proud of what their spouse has chosen to do, and they are heroes for the support and love they offer the service member.

This one? Not so much.

Apparently, it upsets the little spoiled Princess that the wives of National Guard members in Vermont have the unmitigated gall to call themselves Army wives. Apparently, they just don’t measure up, you see!

The Vermont National Guard is just that, they are State Militia. The Hubs is a federal soldier. The National Guard spouses around here like to refer to themselves as ‘Army Wives’. They aren’t. I respect their significant others for the things that they do, but they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, soldiers. That being said, the Hubs is not a Marine, he is not a Sailor, he is not an Airman. He is a Soldier. A dog is not a cat, it’ll never meow.

When you try to explain this to a Guard spouse, they get defensive, and often times throw a huge fit.

My husband is a soldier, he got deployed, just like yours!

I agree, your husband got deployed just like mine, but when he came home, he got to go back to a normal civilian life. When my husband got home, he still had to put on his ACUs and go to work, as a soldier.

I agree, your husband got deployed, just like mine, but when he came home, he knew he wouldn’t get deployed again for at least another four years, in which time he probably wouldn’t have re-upped his contract. When my husband got home, he knew he could turn around and get deployed again. Period.

My husband is a soldier, he has to go to drill!

Yup. One weekend a month, two weeks a year.

Now, having spent four years as an active duty Soldier, and four years in the Virginia Army National Guard, I must take issue with Precious Cupcake and her petty arrogance.

Just who the bleeding, snorkeling fuck does she think she is?

We all wear the same Army uniform. The patches might vary, but we all still serve. We go to the same Basic Combat Training course and the same Advanced Individual Training. True, some of us go back to regular lives and jobs after training, but to denigrate that as something less than a Soldier?

Oh, I don’t fucking think so!

On active duty I worked a regular job – in uniform, but still.  I worked my 8.5 hours, I got four-day holiday weekends, I went home at the end of the day, put on civvies and lived my life.  Yes, I am proud of my service.  I was a Soldier then, and I remained a Soldier when I entered the Guard.

I deployed more with the Guard than I did with active Army. There was no four-year break. I had nine months between being sent to New Orleans post-Katrina (with two days’ notice, by the way) and my year-long deployment with KFOR-8.  And if you somehow think the New Orleans deployment was a picnic, you try dealing with a panicked, upset populace, securing evacuation sites that contain sex offenders, gang-bangers, the mentally ill, and small children, who not only lost homes, but their parents. And try sleeping in your Humvee in 105 degree heat, mold from the hurricane, bloated corpses in the streets, fetid carcasses of dead animals and remnants of broken lives.

But I digress…

Four year break between deployments, my aching ass!

One weekend a month? Really? Sometimes it’s a four-day weekend. Sometimes it’s a three-day weekend. Guardsmen miss work, and lose money when they do, because they don’t get active duty pay even for extended drills, no housing allowance, no cost of living allowance, nothing.

Guardsmen do more with less every day. We learn to do with what we have. Many times our equipment is substandard, and we bring our own just so we can complete our mission.  Yeah, I’ve done that – without complaint or reservation.  Mission comes first. Always.

Oh, and by the way, when “Hubs” comes back from deployment, he has a steady, secure job. Many Guardsmen (despite existing regulations to ensure they always come home to employment) lose their positions.  No regulation specifies they have to return to the SAME job.

And by the way, some of the most competent, experienced, combat-tested Soldiers I have met have been National Guard.   In 2008, President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to its 121st National Guard recipient. But I guess those men weren’t Soldiers either.

That “State Militia” fought and won the Revolutionary War. But I guess they weren’t Soldiers.

That “State Militia” stormed the beaches of Normandy – Why don’t you look up the 29th Infantry Division’s history sometime, Cupcake, before you spew your ignorance?

Why don’t you look up how many National Guard members died in Vietnam.  How many lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many came home maimed? And you have the unmitigated gall to impugn them while posting photos of your pregnant ass wearing the uniform you couldn’t possibly hope to merit and defiling it with pretty pink bows, you pustulent twunt?

These men and women leave jobs, families, homes and, in some cases, healthy salaries to serve their nation. They aren’t Soldiers?

And by the way, you blibbering jabbertwat – Soldier is capitalized for a reason. One that you probably couldn’t hope to comprehend.

And as far as “Hubs” is concerned, I’ll quote The Sniper here.  “…if her husband didn’t get any PTSD while deployed it means he went to Kuwait and did his tours from the PX or he was a fuggin REMF.”

This pathetic dependapotamus isn’t fit to wipe the asses of the courageous men and women of the National Guard. While the pregnasaurus sits around and disparages their service, they bleed and die in Afghanistan. While she disrespects the uniform by wearing it as a cutesy maternity prop, they wear it as a badge of honor and commitment to their state and their country.  While she whines about how Guardsmen shouldn’t pose as real Soldiers, and “Hubs” plays used car salesman to potential recruits, thousands of National Guard members are defending her freedom to be an oozing wart.

Her pathetic little rant is a spit in the face of every man and woman who sacrificed everything to serve.

And the comments by “Hubs” defending her disrespect of the uniform and her right to spew ignorance show him to be no better than she is.

So on behalf of every National Guard Soldier who has made that sacrifice, here’s a hearty FUCK YOU to both of them.

A BIT OF UPDATINESS: She’s removed every single comment (all of them happened to be negative) from her site. After spewing about her right to denigrate others on her blog, she apparently doesn’t feel her words should have consequences. She’s a pathetic little coward too.

AND YET MORE UPDATINESS:

So someone (not me) contacted the Vermont recruiting command where “Hubs” works, and apparently corrective action has been taken. From the recruiting command’s Facebook page:

In response to your concern, I would truly like to say this is not the command climate that we pursue nor agree with. We respect and honor all military personnel with whom we serve that has stood and swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We are all brothers and sisters in arms. We believe that all are equal and all share the burden of defending the freedoms of the citizens of this country. The families of the defenders of freedom serve and sacrifice their lives in some ways more than those of us who wear the uniform.

In response to this blog and this Soldier. You are correct about wives not being under the prevue of the command. I assure you that the Soldier in question is. There has been a face to face counseling session with this Soldier as to the responsibilities of the freedoms and rights that our Constitution has so given to this Nation.

We apologize for the actions that one person has brought it up on himself, and we want to ensure you that this is NOT the actions or the climate of this command.

The debates would allow the voters to cast an informed vote about who should represent the GOP in the Congressional race against Gerry Connolly this year. It’s an opportunity to clarify positions and to help the voters make a an educated choice.

The first of these debates will take place tomorrow night, but apparently we’re only going to see one candidate there.

Ken Vaughn.

Chris Perkins decided to bow out two days before the forum, because apparently the debate format was not to his liking.

He hasn’t even secured the nomination, and he’s already acting like an entitled brat. That’s my assessment of Chris Perkins’ decision to bail from the scheduled debate. Apparently the Colonel didn’t like the format proposed by the event organizers, so he withdrew from the forum that was supposed to help voters decide for whom to vote in the June primaries.  That strikes me as a bit odd for someone who really hasn’t put forward any solid or detailed plan, who appears unclear about issues of importance and who is facing an opponent with a solid fiscal foundation and concrete views.

But nonetheless, according to an email we have received from the Vaughn campaign, Chris Perkins is apparently backing out of the debate.

Both candidates had previously agreed to an event scheduled for 7 pm Wednesday, February 8, at Kings Park Library. But Vaughn’s opponent, Chris Perkins, decided to withdraw over the format proposed by the event organizers. The forum is still scheduled and Mr. Vaughn will answer all of the panelists’ questions regardless of whether or not his opponent chooses to attend.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but forum organizers certainly don’t have an obligation to conform to candidates’ whims when considering the format of the venue they are sponsoring. And while it’s a free country, and Chris Perkins certainly has the right to back out if he so wishes, it strikes me odd that he would choose to do so because the format of the debate is not to his liking.  To me it’s the equivalent of throwing a hissy fit, taking your ball and going home in a huff. I would think that someone who wants to serve the people of the 11th district would honor the opportunity to make his views heard and clarify his positions on issues. And I would think that someone who was an SF Soldier, and who has ostensibly deployed to places with conditions much worse than this debate, would suck it up and drive on even if he didn’t like the format.

Oh well.

And if anyone from the Perkins campaign would like to explain the rationale, I’m all ears… or eyes, in this case.

If any of the Perkins supporters who showed such bravado when casting stones at Ken Vaughn would like to explain why the voters should throw their support to a candidate who won’t bother attending a debate because the format is not to his liking, please do.

In any case, Ken Vaughn will be there to answer questions. I hope the voters of Virginia’s 11th district at least come and hear him out… and make their vote an informed one.