Category: Geezer Alert!

Disclaimer: I don’t watch ‘reality’  TV as a rule so my appraisal has little real value. YMMV

Stars Earn Stripes

NBC has announced a new reality show called Stars Earn Stripes, where “nine celebrities from music, sports and Hollywood will be paired with trainers at a top-notch, secret training facility” and “will face weekly challenges such as hostage-rescue exercises or placing a laser target atop a mountain.”

It’s likely I won’t recognize most of these ‘stars’, but the idea is intriguing.

So many scenarios that would be fun to watch come to mind: MREs or catering? Self applied Camo make-up or make-up artists?  Tailored uniforms or off the shelf? Tough NCOs or fitness coaches?

The set-up:  Current day from down south: Bill would punish attacks on military, disabled vets

Jim Craig, of Monroe, told legislators Wednesday that he received a cruel homecoming upon his return from the Vietnam War roughly 40 years ago.

“I had several people take a swing at me. I was spit on,” Craig said to the Louisiana House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice, in support of legislation to toughen penalties against people who physically attack servicemen and disabled veterans.

The panel advanced House Bill 18 by state Rep. Jay Morris, R-Monroe, to subject the attackers to at least a year behind bars.

Morris said whether a victim is a member of the military or a disabled veteran should be a factor in determining sentences, just as it is when the victim is a police officer. “Members of the armed forces are equally deserving of some form of a little extra benefit,” he said.

Seems to me an attempt to define a sort of ‘hate’ crime?

And from a few years ago at a place I used to blog: Veterans as an Ethnic Minority.

Read it if you like; it does set up a premise, but I’ll cut to the final bit.

Then I observe the hedonistic slackers around me, those who do not, and will not serve. Those with no self-discipline or any willingness even to wipe their own lardbutts. Who demand, but do not give, who seek to cash in on the colors of their hides or their choice of sexual oddity, who worship only the Eternal ME. I say to myself, these are NOT my people.

I do not care what the color of your skin, or of your uniform. If you served honorably, you are my brother or sister. By the Grace of God and the US Congress, I am a Veteran-American. And proud. And you WILL NOT make me hide in the closet.

I think Rurik hit the nail on the head…    Most annoying is that it fits now maybe more than it did in ’06? OWS anyone?

However, my exit question is: As true as this notion might be; is it the way YOU view your service?

Personally, even though I agree mostly… I don’t exactly feel like a victim?

This one was on my agenda before The Cheney heart transplant issue arose.

Thomas Malthus proposed that humanity will reach a point where the human population reaches an unsustainable number.

So here is the question: Who gets to decide what the population should be? AND who gets to live!

Toss in folks like ELF and others with a rather vague, but similar, position and you have one view?

Not gonna offer my opinion… Yet.

 

 

May make a series of these… I suspect that many of you folks have these sort of  questions as well?

I’ve been having some WTF moments (surprise?) . Maybe it because I’m just simple minded, and nuance is lost on me?

You get to decide!

I’m gonna try to phrase MY questions as simply as possible.

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In a time when the imposition of Sharia Law seems imminent in many places why isn’t the LGBT community doing everything in their power to combat that fact?  Even basic women’s rights are under threat.

Imagine Ms. Fluke in Iran?

I consider such as willful ignorance, what say YOU?

Aside: This series, if continued, will be based on your response. It doesn’t exactly fit at TAH, but it seems suitable for a Sunday.

Hard to explore the depths here. It IS just a commercial.

Thank Frankie Cee. Sorta?

I think cars are mundane stuff. This, however, had me fighting back tears.