A friend posted this photo on Facebook this morning, along with the text which I’ve pasted below exactly as written.
“If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying. This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately.
When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned up a bit), "Screw the ACLU." GOD Bless Our Warriors. Send the ACLU to Afghanistan!”
I couldn’t put it any better than the commandant did, and absolutely agree that the ACLU’s relocation to Afghanistan would be a good thing for all of us. Although I could suggest another place, even hotter. But before they go, I’ve got a question for them. Exactly how comfortable would they be in their causes and biased demands if folks like those who join the marines, putting their lives on the line daily, weren’t there to insure and protect those rights for them?
Now, having led off with the finest, bravest individuals our nation has to offer, I’ll move on to the other extreme with some examples of the scum of the earth, addressed in an article from Fox News.com titled, “The year of the cad?”
The text points out that South Carolina Republican, Mark Sanford, was elected to Congress in a May 2013 special election -- four years after acknowledging an extra-marital affair while governor.
And now New York Democrat, Anthony Weiner, “who resigned from Congress in 2011 after tweeting seminude pictures of himself, has joined the New York City gubernatorial race, leading a large field by 4 percentage points, according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC NY/Marist College poll.”
Then there’s also Democrat, Elliott Spitzer, forced from office in 2008 after revelations he was a frequent customer of a high-end call-girl service.”
Now, I’m no prude by any stretch, nor naïve either and been around long enough to rarely be shocked by anything folks do. Furthermore, as long as they leave me alone, I couldn’t care less about what they do with others, sexually or otherwise. So, if they’re kinky, voyeurs, perverts, deviates or worse that’s their problem to deal with, not mine.
However, in governance there's something called public trust. There are also the responsibilities of representing other's, presenting an image reflecting the values, judgments, ideals and expectations of those constituents. Therefore, elected positions should be won by the finest among us. But, on the other hand, if the three colossal failures listed above are the best that have an interest in running for office, it has to be the dirtiest, sleaziest, most worthless occupation on earth.
Which brings me to my next subject, Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, whom I wrote up yesterday.
According to Fox News.com: “The leadership vacancy created by [Napolitano's] resignation is the latest and greatest blow to a department where one-third of the heads of key agencies and divisions have been filled with acting officials or remained vacant for months.
Her departure, slated for September, will create the 15th hole in the department's 45 leadership positions. Napolitano's chief of staff and the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are leaving this month.
The pattern of putting acting officials in leadership positions at the Homeland Security Department-- sometimes replacing acting officials with other acting officials -- has been going on for months. This swath of vacancies raises questions about how a department depleted of permanent leadership could implement changes, particularly as Congress considers overhauling the nation's immigration system.”
So, here we have Democrats trying to ram a poorly drafted, weak immigration bill down the nation’s throat, promising that sometime in the future illegal immigration will be curtailed. Yet their Homeland Security department presently has no effective leadership at all and is obviously a subject they care nothing about whatsoever, while they lie through their teeth about how they plan to fix it quickly.
And mentioning absence of leadership brings us to U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, “who took 62 out-of-town trips in fiscal year 2011 at a cost of at least $1.45 million, according to a set of disclosures sent to Bloomberg News.”
Travel included a trip to Las Vegas, marked business and personal, costing $46,358. Nine other trips, including visits to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Miami, were labeled “personal,” and cost a combined $169,502. He took an $83,002 flight to Krakow, Poland to attend the G-6 summit.
Flight costs for seven trips, including journeys to China, Hawaii and Brussels, weren’t provided.
Furthermore, “As attorney general, Holder is a “required use” official who is compelled by executive order to use government aircraft for all travel while in office due to “security and communications needs,” according to a February 2013 U.S. Government Accountability Office report. For personal trips, Holder is required to reimburse the government for the equivalent commercial coach fare, which is often much less than the total trip costs, the GAO said.”
As I read the preceding, absorbing that the attorney general spent almost a million and a half dollars on travel in a single year, I had to wonder how someone heading the Justice Department in DC did all that travel and why. Especially when the destinations included Las Vegas, Martha’s Vineyard, Miami, China, Hawaii, Brussels and Poland.
But then I realized that much like the other stories I covered today, so much of leadership quality is established by example. Therefore, if the guy at the very top of the administration ducks decision-making and avoids responsibility by constantly travelling to other places, I guess its no wonder that other incompetent’s in his cabinet do the exact same thing.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
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