• February 13, 2012

military

Everybody is talking about the exciting new military recruitment video from four years ago featuring Navy jerks insulting/being gays. Here is the CBS News report on this “don’t ask” tragedy: And here is a bonus news video of like a gazillion birds dying in Arkansas because the nation is poisonous:

A sad new study makes that whole “DREAM Act” defeat a little more tragic: More than 80% of Americans trying to join the Army can’t meet the very low minimum requirements. The first 75% gets immediately disqualified “because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school.” That second pool is [...]

Despite Republican attempts to stick in a last-minute defense appropriations amendment that would kill the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal, President Obama finally signed it into law today, hooray. But while this simple measure to make this country more fair and equal was a no-brainer for most Americans, it was not for John McCain, who [...]

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s favorite lifelong bachelor and former military prosecutor, is always reliably against homosexuals having any basic human rights in America because Lindsey’s a Republican, y’all. Anyway, famous outer-of-self-hating-queers Mike Rogers says he’s got pictures of one of Lindsey’s boy toys leaving Lindsey’s house. This would be SHOCKING because come on, everybody knows [...]

Hooray, John McCain’s insane Obama-spite mission to keep gay soldiers from admitting they’re gay soldiers is over, because the cloture vote has succeeded on the latest attempt at repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It is absolutely ridiculous that it took this long for members of our armed forces to attain basic human rights, but [...]

Julian Assange is very important, you guys, because he runs a website that compiles government documents some people find interesting, but if you handed them to pro skateboarder Tony Hawk, he would probably say, “Boring. I don’t want read this.” In his latest WikiLeaking, he revealed documents that show that U.S. diplomats are only capable [...]

Why can’t the U.S. military stop every single one of its soldiers from sending sensitive documents to Wikileaks? Because Sarah Palin is not currently commander-in-chief, of course. She, UNLIKE OBAMA, knows how to sue blogs.

If Afghans had electricity, televisions, or video cameras that were not trained on people exploding in piles of rocks, they would now also have their own Punk’d. According to “a Western diplomat,” some random guy let the America and its coalition friends know that he was Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, a very important Taliban leader. [...]

Yesterday, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta for putting himself in the line of fire to save two comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan in October 2007. But however much courage it took to do that, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer just cannot get over how gay [...]

Officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming could not communicate with or monitor the status of 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles for a while on Saturday. That’s a comforting thing to know, right? Look: sometimes our nukes, like rebellious teenagers, get angry at their military officers and won’t talk to them or tell [...]

Republican congressional candidate Sean Bielat has a simple logic problem for you here: If men shorter than 5’2″ can’t serve in military combat, why should gays get to? “I don’t see anybody protesting. Where are the people standing in front of the White House, the short guys standing in front of the White House? You [...]

THE SYSTEM WORKS! America can sleep soundly tonight knowing that our nation’s servicemen do not want to have sex with each other — at least not for a few more months. The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal bill before the Senate failed its cloture vote this afternoon 56-43. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln voted against [...]

Oh man, when John Bolton finds out about this he is going to jizz red, white & blue: Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — and added that the last-resort step should be taken [...]

Sure, Christine O’Donnell thinks the females of Middle Earth are a vital part of military action. But what about for less important fighting forces, such as the U.S. military? “By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense,” O’Donnell has said. Hmm. It seems women may only serve amongst the [...]

There are so few heroes for the young people to look up to these days, what with Lindsay Lohan serving time and more and more Republicans opting for sex scandals involving consensual, heterosexual intercourse and so forth. So who should your children admire? They should admire Major General Jerry R. Curry, the army-man who knows [...]