Wrench of VA posted the following:

"The simple fact is that there are not enough men to make the military run. My community -- Naval intelligence -- is dominated by women. Many of our IA deployments go to women. Does that mean, since we're in "combat" that we're hauling missiles and shooting M-16s? Not necessarily; Hell, most of the time we're working from an AC building with other intel members. The argument for women in the military is not that we're not different, or that other countries do it; the argument is that our young men simply haven't stepped up to the plate since Vietnam, but the need for bodies hasn't changed."

Good post, but with the first line of this statement: "The simple fact is that there are not enough men to make the military run."

And, that is all the more reason that we need to return to the policy of "mandatory draft" beginning at age 18.  Not only would this get many teens off the streets and out of jails, but it would lower unemployment rates. The highest unemployment rate currently is among teens. And, with a draft, we would not have the problem of "not enough men to make the military run."  And, if women want all this equality in the military and elsewhere, I have no problem with that, with equal access, they will also have Equal Responsibility and Will be included in the Draft. And, if they become pregnant while on duty in combat or elsewhere and are unable to carry out their duties and responsibilities, they be treated the same as any other soldier who purposely injures himself therefore making himself unable or unfit to serve in military operations. Case Closed. I am all for Equality in all areas, including being responsible for successes and failures and when violations are committed, be able to accept the consequences without whining or crying "Sexism".

We must take our Counry Back, one Community, One City, One County, One State at a time.  I have a personal aim of Voting Out Every Local Politician in my county, and state.  Local politicians and state politicians have become just as Un Responsive to We, the People, as have the National Politicans.

We have to Remember that all Politics is Local. How can we rein in the Feds if we cannot even Effect Our Local School Boards who do the Feds Bidding at the Local Level.  I have been and continue to Urge Parents To Go To Their Local Schools and Demand that Their Children Only Be Taught How To Read, Write, and Do Arithmetic and how to Use Reason and Logic And Civic Responsibility and for the Schools to Uphold Traditional Community Values, Traditions, Customs and Beliefs of the Local Communities and not Teach the San Francisco Style Morality and Politics that are now Being Mandated by a Subversive U.S. Department of Education and the National Teacher Unions. Any teacher who Refuses to Do Their Jobs based on Community Standards, then that teacher is to be ousted along with Principals and School Boards who Refuse to Uphold Local Community Standards.  We now have Public School Teachers starting out in Elementary Schools who are Teaching our Children to Sing the Praises of Obama and Other Liberal Drivel.  This is the exact same things that Hitler Demanded in Nazi Germany and what Chariman Mao Demanded in Public Schools in Communist China, and we have folks in the Obama Administration who have openly Praised Chairman Mao, and Obama has Bill Ayers as an Ad Hoc Advisor on Early Childhood Education, and of course we all know that BIll Ayers is a Domestic Terrorist who has Actively Blown up Federal Buildings in an effort to Overthrow the U.S. Government. By the Way, Ayers teaches Early Childhoold Education (Brainwashing) at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.  Case Closed. Take your children back and take their schools back.

A dumbed down and brainwashed citizenry Elected Obama. Case Closed.

I had a professor at Auburn University years ago who made the following statment that I have never forgotten, and it sums up what is wrong in the USA Today.

His statment was as follows, and by the way the class was Called Social Problems:

"Anytime that the Federal Government creates an agency, department, commission or bureau to deal with a "perceived" social or other problem, the problem is guaranteed Never To Improve or Be Eliminated, and in fact, the "perceived" social or other problem is "guaranteed to worsen and to grow in size" as the Agency, Department, Commission, or Bureau grows in Size, Power, Expenditures, etc. and Becomes it's Own Empire. And, for the Empire to Grow, the Empire has to Recruit and Create New Victims and Problems To Solve In Order To Justify It's Own Growth in Size, Expenditures, and Power.  And like all Empires, they Seek Growth and Power, and like all Empires, the Empires Grow To Become Despotic and will Do Anything They Can To Insure Their Own Power and Growth and Survival as an Empire.  And, like all Despotic Empires, the Despots who oversee the Empire will Fight, Lie, Cheat and Steal to protect their Empire Status."

This is the dilemma we now find ourselves in in this nation.  We have a Despotic Federal Government Empire that Congressmen/women use to Control, Regulate, and Tax the Servants of the Empire. Those servants are We, The People who are Forced To Fund Through Taxes these despotic empires.  We will never release the Chains of a Despotic And Tyrannical Federal Government Bureaucracy until We Begin the Dismantling Of Every U.S. Government Department, Agency, Commission or Bureau, and you can bet, these Despots Will Not Go without a Fight as they Fight to Save Their Own Empires."

This statement by an Intellectually Honest Professor over 3 decades ago is more true today than it was even then.  Numerous new Departments, Agencies, Commissions and Bureaus have been Created since then, and the current congress and President are creating even more of these tyrannical Empire Departments as we speak.  Wake up America!!  The time to Fight Is Now.  Let these Scoundrels in DC know that We, the People, have had enough of this Tyranny.

Benjamin, you made some good points about education.  But, the education system that has been created with Federal Interventions has been destroyed for all: blacks, whites, and others regardless of socio-economic status.

Our public edcuation system, as it exists today, has, in the vast majority of cases, dumbed down and brainwashed the entire population of children who are exposed to the system, regardless of race or socio-economic status.

It has likely impacted poor blacks and whites most as the vast majority of poor blacks and whites are single parent homes, or no-parent homes and their caretakers are either on total welfare and live in public housing, and most of the large pockets of these poor, welfare recipients live in large metro areas where Socialist Governments usually prevail.

In days past, even segregated black schools did a good job of educating their youth.  I graduated high school in 1966, and most black kids I knew who graduated from all black schools were well educated in academic skills and had good family values, a work ethic and love of God and Country.  Crime was almost unknown amongst the youth, black or white, and kids killing kids, black or white was literally unheard of.  Even the kids who dropped out of schools at age 16, black or white, already had acquired good enough academic skills and work ethic to go to work and make a life for him or herself or to pursue vocational training and apprenticeships.

While desegregation was a good thing, the way that it was handled and the resulting federal mandates, has consistently and exponentially had a detrimental effect on all kids involved in the Dumbing Down and Brainwashing that took place and is still taking place.

Public Education is a Local and State Responsibility, the Feds have no Right To be Involved Period.  Local schools should and would reflect the communities values, customs, beliefs and traditions, and not the Values, Customs, Beliefs and Traditions of Perverts and Subversives From San Francisco, or other Metro City Socialist and Subversive places such as that.  Putting school back under Local Control would mean a better and more effective education system for all. Lowering the Standards over and over has produced teachers who have teaching certificates and college educations, who do not have basic 6th grade reading, writing and arithmetic skills and cannot teach something they cannot do themselves.

Benjamin, you made some good points about education.  But, the education system that has been created with Federal Interventions has been destroyed for all: blacks, whites, and others regardless of socio-economic status.

Our public edcuation system, as it exists today, has, in the vast majority of cases, dumbed down and brainwashed the entire population of children who are exposed to the system, regardless of race or socio-economic status.

It has likely impacted poor blacks and whites most as the vast majority of poor blacks and whites are single parent homes, or no-parent homes and their caretakers are either on total welfare and live in public housing, and most of the large pockets of these poor, welfare recipients live in large metro areas where Socialist Governments usually prevail.

In days past, even segregated black schools did a good job of educating their youth.  I graduated high school in 1966, and most black kids I knew who graduated from all black schools were well educated in academic skills and had good family values, a work ethic and love of God and Country.  Crime was almost unknown amongst the youth, black or white, and kids killing kids, black or white was literally unheard of.  Even the kids who dropped out of schools at age 16, black or white, already had acquired good enough academic skills and work ethic to go to work and make a life for him or herself or to pursue vocational training and apprenticeships.

While desegregation was a good thing, the way that it was handled and the resulting federal mandates, has consistently and exponentially had a detrimental effect on all kids involved in the Dumbing Down and Brainwashing that took place and is still taking place.

Public Education is a Local and State Responsibility, the Feds have no Right To be Involved Period.  Local schools should and would reflect the communities values, customs, beliefs and traditions, and not the Values, Customs, Beliefs and Traditions of Perverts and Subversives From San Francisco, or other Metro City Socialist and Subversive places such as that.  Putting school back under Local Control would mean a better and more effective education system for all. Lowering the Standards over and over has produced teachers who have teaching certificates and college educations, who do not have basic 6th grade reading, writing and arithmetic skills and cannot teach something they cannot do themselves.

Playing the race card is a last ditch effort for Lilly and for every other liberal democrat.

That's the point that many people miss.  Obama was handpicked by the Liberal Democrat and Media Establishment because of his race. The Liberal Democrats knew that their Power Grab and Headlong Rush into Socialism would be Decried by Decent Americans, and they knew with Obama as President, when their policies were challenged, that they Could Pull Out The Old Race Card as a Last Defense.  What these idiots have not figured out yet, is that nobody is Playing Race or Behaving Like Racists except the Liberal Democrats themselves, who are, in fact, Racist. And, when Libs speak of Racism, they automatically assume that Racism is always White on Black Racism, when, in Fact, most Racism today is Racism by Blacks who are Racist and hate whites.  Listen to Jeremiah Wright and the Black Panthers and Black Muslims, and Louis Farakhan teach and preach their hatred for Whites, and then look at Obama.  Obama sat in Racist Jeremiah Wright's church and listened to Hate Speech for over 40 years and he is good buddies with Farakhan, Black Panthers and Black Muslims. We have a problem with Racism in this country, but it is not White on Black Racism, it is the other way around. But, of course, blacks believe they are justified and Entitled to be Racist, because they are Victims.

You can lay Fort Hood and all the other nonsense that is going on in this country on the laps of both political parties for the past 40 or so years who have put political ambitions and their own aspirations above principles by pandering to every lunatic fringe in the country.  The lunatic fringes protest and lobby, and congressional leaders and presidents have caved to their lunatic demands and all this has lead to the many factions we now have in this country.

Political Correctness and Cultural Diversity was born out of this lunacy as politicians were too gutless to say, "We are all Americans, so stop with all these demands at division."

The Gay Rights movement, for example, began to equate their plight with the Civil Rights Movement.  The Illegal Aliens have the audacity to have demonstrations and burn U.S. Flags while flying Mexican Flags and Demanding Equal Rights before ever doing one thing Legal in the nation to begin with. Instead of Arresting and Deporting these Lunatics who were on our soil illegally and demonstrating for Equal Rights in a land that they disrespect every law we have the moment they step across the border illegally.

And, the government and MSM refuses to even report on all the outrageous crimes these Peace Loving Peasants looking for a better life commit once they come here.

This Cultural Diversity and Politicl Correctness is destroying our nation, and the politicians and MSM and Hollywood keep participating in the cover up of crimes, including this latest Terrorist Attack at Fort Hood, Texas. 

But get this clear, from now on we have a new battle cry as we take this nation back:  "Remember Fort Hood";  This will go along with Remember "The Arkansas Army Recruiting Shooter";  "Remember the DC Beltway Terrorist"; "Remember 9-11"; "Remember Obama's Apology Tour";  "Remember LaRaza";  "Remember the Congressional Black Caucus Tour to Cuba";  "Remember Revolution Muslim, a homegrown terrorist gang in New York City";

We patriots have a lot to remember and we have a lot to fight for. We are fighting for the Preservation and Protection of Our Sacred Nation and it's very sovereignty.  All you hyphenated-Americans can either get with the Program and be Law Abiding and Respectful citizens and thank your sorry butts you live in this great nation, where even you lunatics are free to be lunatics, or pack your sorry butts up and go join the enemy On Their Soil and Get off U.S. Soil. And, I do not care if you are a Homegrown Ingrate or a recent Immigrant, You can get out or shut up and get real and thank God that you live in the greatest country on earth.

We are the United States of America. We have a Culture and we have our own customs, values, beliefs, traditions and language.
Different cultures from around the world have, in the past been very grateful to come here where they were able to be free and to pursue happiness. Our country provides the system of government that makes this possible. That is why we called it "The Melting Pot." When you melt a bunch of different metals together, you have a blend of all the metals and that metal is Americans.  In the past, folks from Italy, England, Ireland, France, and other places risked their lives to come here and were proud to Be Americans, and did not go around with this Cultural Diversity Nonsense with hyphenated names. They were Americans, not Italian-Americans.  Of course, Italians and others had their culture and created neighborhoods that were ethnic, but they still Called Themselves Americans First, and they learned the language, customs, values, traditions and prospered.

We have immigration policies and throughout our history we have allowed people to immigrate to this nation.  Up until the past 40 or so years ago, we pretty much upheld our immigration laws and people who wanted to flee the oppression of their Mother or Father Nations, were willing to do what was necessary to come here legally, and then to follow the process for citizenship which included Learning The Language, Learning some of our nations history, customs, values and traditions and worked toward assimilating to this country's values, traditions, customs, etc. and were given the freedom to pursue happiness, to get a job and pay their own way.

In the past 40 years, our country has been heading down the road to socialism, and with this a new wave of Marxists in this country that has started Labeling Groups as Victims and Started Nonsense such as Cultural Diversity based on race, ethnicity, gender and even sexual preference. These Liberal Ideas and Policies have now Divided the Nation Up Into Diverse Groups and now we have a divisionist nation of folks who Want to Be Asian Americans, African Americans, Italian Americans, Russian Americans.  ALERT:  We just had a Muslim-American of ARAB-Decent who chose his Loyalty to his Lunatic Religion and Beliefs above his Loyalty to the United States of America and to the Constitution He Swore to Defend, and he Placed his lunatic Culturally Diverse Religion and Heritage above his Oath to Defend this nation against all Enemies, foreign and domestic. 

It is time for all Americans to Just be Grateful and Happy as Hell that they are Americans, and if their Loyalties are to Africa, Asia, Russia, Jordon, Ireland, England, Canada, Mexico, etc., Then Go to That Land and Call yourself an African, A Mexican, A Palestinian, or whatever, but if you are going to stay here, Call Yourself An American and Accept the Culture, Traditions, Values, Language and Customs and stop Dividing Yourself Up Into Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural groups.  You loons are being duped by the Marxists in charge of this country into the Old Divide and Conquer Mentality, because as long as we are all divided, we have no power. The people in Power Know This, and that is why they seem to Cater to Multi-Culturalism and all these Alphabet Soup Names for Americans. Wake up, Become Americans and Love This Nation and Be Grateful, but if you want to Change It to Your Cultural Liking, then go back to the Culture in the Nation You Think Your Believe in and stop Trying to Change This Country into a Mirror Image of the Third World Dictatorships which Many come from.

We are the United States of America. We have a Culture and we have our own customs, values, beliefs, traditions and language.
Different cultures from around the world have, in the past been very grateful to come here where they were able to be free and to pursue happiness. Our country provides the system of government that makes this possible. That is why we called it "The Melting Pot." When you melt a bunch of different metals together, you have a blend of all the metals and that metal is Americans.  In the past, folks from Italy, England, Ireland, France, and other places risked their lives to come here and were proud to Be Americans, and did not go around with this Cultural Diversity Nonsense with hyphenated names. They were Americans, not Italian-Americans.  Of course, Italians and others had their culture and created neighborhoods that were ethnic, but they still Called Themselves Americans First, and they learned the language, customs, values, traditions and prospered.

We have immigration policies and throughout our history we have allowed people to immigrate to this nation.  Up until the past 40 or so years ago, we pretty much upheld our immigration laws and people who wanted to flee the oppression of their Mother or Father Nations, were willing to do what was necessary to come here legally, and then to follow the process for citizenship which included Learning The Language, Learning some of our nations history, customs, values and traditions and worked toward assimilating to this country's values, traditions, customs, etc. and were given the freedom to pursue happiness, to get a job and pay their own way.

In the past 40 years, our country has been heading down the road to socialism, and with this a new wave of Marxists in this country that has started Labeling Groups as Victims and Started Nonsense such as Cultural Diversity based on race, ethnicity, gender and even sexual preference. These Liberal Ideas and Policies have now Divided the Nation Up Into Diverse Groups and now we have a divisionist nation of folks who Want to Be Asian Americans, African Americans, Italian Americans, Russian Americans.  ALERT:  We just had a Muslim-American of ARAB-Decent who chose his Loyalty to his Lunatic Religion and Beliefs above his Loyalty to the United States of America and to the Constitution He Swore to Defend, and he Placed his lunatic Culturally Diverse Religion and Heritage above his Oath to Defend this nation against all Enemies, foreign and domestic. 

It is time for all Americans to Just be Grateful and Happy as Hell that they are Americans, and if their Loyalties are to Africa, Asia, Russia, Jordon, Ireland, England, Canada, Mexico, etc., Then Go to That Land and Call yourself an African, A Mexican, A Palestinian, or whatever, but if you are going to stay here, Call Yourself An American and Accept the Culture, Traditions, Values, Language and Customs and stop Dividing Yourself Up Into Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural groups.  You loons are being duped by the Marxists in charge of this country into the Old Divide and Conquer Mentality, because as long as we are all divided, we have no power. The people in Power Know This, and that is why they seem to Cater to Multi-Culturalism and all these Alphabet Soup Names for Americans. Wake up, Become Americans and Love This Nation and Be Grateful, but if you want to Change It to Your Cultural Liking, then go back to the Culture in the Nation You Think Your Believe in and stop Trying to Change This Country into a Mirror Image of the Third World Dictatorships which Many come from.

We are the United States of America. We have a Culture and we have our own customs, values, beliefs, traditions and language.
Different cultures from around the world have, in the past been very grateful to come here where they were able to be free and to pursue happiness. Our country provides the system of government that makes this possible. That is why we called it "The Melting Pot." When you melt a bunch of different metals together, you have a blend of all the metals and that metal is Americans.  In the past, folks from Italy, England, Ireland, France, and other places risked their lives to come here and were proud to Be Americans, and did not go around with this Cultural Diversity Nonsense with hyphenated names. They were Americans, not Italian-Americans.  Of course, Italians and others had their culture and created neighborhoods that were ethnic, but they still Called Themselves Americans First, and they learned the language, customs, values, traditions and prospered.

We have immigration policies and throughout our history we have allowed people to immigrate to this nation.  Up until the past 40 or so years ago, we pretty much upheld our immigration laws and people who wanted to flee the oppression of their Mother or Father Nations, were willing to do what was necessary to come here legally, and then to follow the process for citizenship which included Learning The Language, Learning some of our nations history, customs, values and traditions and worked toward assimilating to this country's values, traditions, customs, etc. and were given the freedom to pursue happiness, to get a job and pay their own way.

In the past 40 years, our country has been heading down the road to socialism, and with this a new wave of Marxists in this country that has started Labeling Groups as Victims and Started Nonsense such as Cultural Diversity based on race, ethnicity, gender and even sexual preference. These Liberal Ideas and Policies have now Divided the Nation Up Into Diverse Groups and now we have a divisionist nation of folks who Want to Be Asian Americans, African Americans, Italian Americans, Russian Americans.  ALERT:  We just had a Muslim-American of ARAB-Decent who chose his Loyalty to his Lunatic Religion and Beliefs above his Loyalty to the United States of America and to the Constitution He Swore to Defend, and he Placed his lunatic Culturally Diverse Religion and Heritage above his Oath to Defend this nation against all Enemies, foreign and domestic. 

It is time for all Americans to Just be Grateful and Happy as Hell that they are Americans, and if their Loyalties are to Africa, Asia, Russia, Jordon, Ireland, England, Canada, Mexico, etc., Then Go to That Land and Call yourself an African, A Mexican, A Palestinian, or whatever, but if you are going to stay here, Call Yourself An American and Accept the Culture, Traditions, Values, Language and Customs and stop Dividing Yourself Up Into Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural groups.  You loons are being duped by the Marxists in charge of this country into the Old Divide and Conquer Mentality, because as long as we are all divided, we have no power. The people in Power Know This, and that is why they seem to Cater to Multi-Culturalism and all these Alphabet Soup Names for Americans. Wake up, Become Americans and Love This Nation and Be Grateful, but if you want to Change It to Your Cultural Liking, then go back to the Culture in the Nation You Think Your Believe in and stop Trying to Change This Country into a Mirror Image of the Third World Dictatorships which Many come from.

Did any of you listen to Obama's speech at Fort Hood when he said that "Fort Hood located in the great state of Texas, which is Part of The Greater Community".  What to hell does he mean by the Greater Community. This Greater Community is the United States of America Mr. Obama. Obama, have you already forgotten that you were Elected President of the United States of America, and not the President of the Greater Community.  I realize that you see yourself as omnipotent and onmniscient and Emperor of the World, but Mr. Obama, we have not yet allowed you to Hand Over Our U.S. Sovereignty to the One World Communist Utopia which you aspire to do and plan to do. And, Mr. Obama, We The People, will never allow you to do this.  You have forgotten in your deluded thinking that We are the United States of America, and the vast Majority of U.S. citizens are proud of that fact. Mr. Obama, you are a complete disgrace to this great nation, and you are going to go down in history as a traitor and hopefully, you, eventually will stand trial for treason.  Your performance to date, is disgraceful, and I would greatly appreciate it if you Would Offer no More Apologies to the World for Our Past. The only apology in order for you Mr. Obama is an Apology To the Citizens of this nation and past generations of great Americans who you have Personally Degraded and Disgraced.