Outside the Beltway wants to know why members of the press aren’t knowledgeable about their subjects. In this case, it’s about commissioned officers “re-enlisting.” I don’t know, OTB, but lack of basic understanding about the military certainly is a problem. For mainstream media, it seems every servicemember is a “soldier,” and every officer above O-3 is described as “senior.” I wonder how many times Wesley Clark re-enlisted.
GOG IS BACK: One of the original members of our Gang of Generals has lost his job at CBS. MG (Retired) John Batiste was removed from his “military analyst” job for political activism. Nonetheless, Batiste remains on radar for his buffoonery. GoG member Paul Eaton has a cameo in the offending activism: a TV ad.
MAN BITES DOG O’ THE DAY: Michelle Malkin notes an SFGate article on a legal immigrant suing San Francisco’s police commissioner for failing to deal with illegal migrants. That ought to end well. The City, of course, is a “sanctuary” for illegals, as well as the homeless, the mentally ill, wasteful and clueless politicians, and bay windows.
REYNOLDS ALUMINIUM UPDATE: If it’s kooky, it’s Kucinich! Impish Dem climbs aboard Bush impeachment train, surprised to find only three other passengers.
ABC BLOG APPARENTLY RUN BY SNARKY TEENAGER: An ABC blog is deleting comments. That’s nothing new. Most of my readers’ comments are deleted out of hand. I must say, I sure do have a large fanbase in the pharmaceutical industry.
A MINUTE FOR PELOSI: If it’s a day of the week ending in “day,” then Pelosi must have done something wrong. This time she’s working a deal that would purportedly help hubby’s rental property a scant mile away. A mile’s a long way for Pelosi, who denies any link — but then again, it would be a long way away for a Speaker who’s still crawling.
FORGOTTEN RECENT NEWS: Read somewhere that one in two Mexicans have family members in the US. Where did I read that, and why don’t I care?
The ace reporters at the El Paso Times have sussed out something important. Undocumented immigrants in the border town are poor because they lack, you know citizenship, naturalization papers, or visas that would get them a better education. But what EPT doesn’t realize is that plenty of Americans are still stuck on stupid even with a sheepskin between their paws. All that said, “thousands of Mexican children” are attending US public schools, the paper screamed back on April 29th. Well, OK, it didn’t scream. No one would care if the “brown ones” (that’s Bush the First talking, not me) were taking up desk space learning (or more likely, not learning, the three Rs, but the rub comes when the city is trying to float a $230 million education bond to, believe it or not, build new schools to handle growth. We’re such a magnanimous country. “Give me your tired, your poor, your coyotes and drug runners, and your illiterate kids who are evidence of a failed/nonexistent Mexican education system.”
OUT OF TIME: I’m not even beginning to get ready to deal with Al Sharpton right now. I have to unstop a toilet, which is preferable to thinking about that ugly little bigot.
ANOTHER USA VS. BORDER PATROL AGENT STORY: How far back in time do you need to go to start seeing a pattern? One gets weary of reading of yet another agent crucified to satisfy the political and financial agendas of NGOs, bureaucrats and lawyers. If you believe the agent and not the federal lawyer, that is. Either one could be the crumb bum.
WEEKEND AT CASTRO’s: Like a resurrected corpse, Michael Moore made it back into the light of day. He jetted off to Cuba to check out their world-class medical system, which is free for everyone, as everyone who is free knows. Sadly, the unfilmed truth is more painful. It ain’t free and it’s not available to everyone. I hear there’s a new show coming out: “Who Wants to Correct a Millionaire?”
