For your Thursday reading delectation
Bookworm on Jan 05 2012 at 12:29 pm | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Do you ever find boring the consistently high quality of submissions found at the Watcher’s Council? I thought so. Neither do I.
Council Submissions
- The Noisy Room – 2011 – Turning Our Backs on the Gods of the Copybook Headings
- Simply Jews – Hugo Chavez Reflects
- The Right Planet – Agony In The Garden
- Joshuapundit-A Bridge Too Far: CAIR Versus Bare Naked Islam
- The Political Commentator – Is it the Obama administration or Iran in charge of U.S. foreign policy?
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Civilization Continues to Crumble
- Bookworm Room – A tour de force post taking us from Google interviews, to self-esteem, to dancing men
- Rhymes With Right – Where Non-Discrimination Principles And Aiding Students Conflict
- The Glittering Eye -The American Ant Tribe
- VA Right - Why the Iowa Caucus Is (Almost!) Irrelevant
- The Razor – Israelis Stand Up to the Haredi
- The Mellow Jihadi – I Gotta Move to Texas
- Right Truth – Taliban to Gitmo: Bye-Bye!
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Kick It
- New Zeal – Communist Party Targets Veterans for Recruitment: How Will Their Skills be Used?
Honorable Mentions
- The Grouch – A Caucus? A Primary? A Mess?
- Crazy Bald Guy – The Idiocy of Iowa
- Knowledge Creates Power – The Race for the White House 2012… Perhaps Not All Horses to the Gates
- The Independent Sentinel/strong> – How An Online University Pays For A Football Bowl & Scams Vets With Federal Dollars
- Capitalist Preservation – The fallacy of the minimum wage: Part One
Non-Council Submissions
- Daily Mail/Dominic Sandbrook –The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory submitted by The Noisy Room
- Confessions of a Closet Republican – After Christmas Day Bombings Boko Haram Tells Nigerian Christians They Have 3 Days To Get Out submitted by Simply Jews
- Palestinian Media Watch – In newest Zayzafuna, “Palestine” still replaces all of Israel submitted by The Right Planet
- Gates Of Vienna – Driving Out The Infidel submitted by Joshuapundit
- Sultan Knish -The Year We Lost Afghanistan, Etc. submitted by The Political Commentator
- The First Street Journal The Muslim Brotherhood Wins With an Assist submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Jon’s Deep Thoughts-Military Intelligence is an oxymoron? I think not. submitted by Bookworm Room
- Wolf Howling – Obama Signs On To Silencing Criticism Of Islam submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Alex Knapp/Outside The Beltway – Ron Paul Versus The Fourteenth Amendment submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Pajamas Media – Video: #OWS Loons Try to Disrupt Romney Speech in Iowa, and Fail submitted by VA Right
- National Review Online –Repo Men submitted by The Razor
- Seraphic Secret –Rise of the Killer Drone submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Small Wars Journal – Thinking the Unthinkable about Napalm and Flamethrowers submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Liberty’s Spirit -Big Tent Mythos submitted by Right Truth
- Powerline – Keynes Was Right–About the Jews? submitted by The Watcher
- Jay Cost – Still Romney’s Race To Lose submitted by The Watcher
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Re: Obama cuts military spending by $487 billion over 10 years, a cut of about 8% according to the WSJ.
I fear that those are REAL cuts as opposed to NOMINAL Washington “cuts”, i.e. reductions in the rate of announced spending growth.
1) Open Question: Can anybody verify that they are real cuts? If so…
2) Rhetorical Question, delivered with resignation: Why are real military cuts described as leading to a “leaner”, more “efficient” military that does not compromise the mission, WHEREAS merely slowing the rate of growth of entitlement spending is denounced as draconian spending cuts?
3) Rhetorical Question II, delivered with real outrage: How come the entitlements don’t extend to those who most deserve it, the men and women of our Armed Services? From another WSJ article at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577030221768840762.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0 Opening quote:
“This holiday season, the Air Force has “separated” (that is, fired) 157 officers on the eve of their retirement, including pilots flying dangerous missions, to avoid paying their pensions. According to Department of Defense Instructions, those within six years of their 20-year retirement (with no disciplinary blemishes on their record) have the option to remain in service. Nevertheless, the Air Force is committing terminations of airmen a few years away from retirement en masse, citing budget constraints.”
SO HOW COME NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT “BALANCING THE BUDGET ON THE BACKS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL?”
4) Finally, an Observation: Even apart from Obama’s socialism, these cuts were perfectly predictable from an historical perspective. Niall Ferguson gave a brilliant overview in May 2010 entitled “Fiscal Crises and Imperial Collapses”. See http://www.iie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=152
Thank you. I will now step off my soapbox.
I told you guys he was going to cut the military to the bone and reroute the money to his goons, his own pockets, and his lackey’s bank accounts.
When you lose so many experienced people from the payrolls, they are going to flood the markets and cut out the jobs lower qualified people will have, pushing unemployment, real one, up. After 4 years, you will find that the next time you need to win a war, there won’t be anyone around who knows a thing about actually fighting, because you fired their REPLACEMENTS years ago.
Intentional, engineered, collapse, chaos, destruction, and crisis, producing glorified Leftist power and unmitigated wealth (for them). This is what happens when you don’t kill evil.