Well there goes the military

The house voted late last night 234-194 in favor of repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which will pave the way for openly homosexual people to serve in the military.  This came after the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 16-12 in favor of the repeal earlier on Thursday.

There aren't words for the total disdain and disgust I feel forwards the radical liberals in our government right now.  It's bad enough for them to run over ordinary citizens with their far-left agendas and pass bills like the stimulus packages and healthcare.  But this is taking it way too far.  Now Congress is meddling in the internal business of the military.  The Pentagon specifically requested that Congress until they were done with internal surveying and polling military officials to see if they wanted this type of legislation.  Congress (read: bleeding heart, radical liberal democrats) refused to honor the sovereignty of the military and pressed on.

So much for Generals and senior Pentagon officials running our armed forces.  The last thing our soldiers need is to deal with all the drama this bleeding heart hogwash is going to create.  "Don't ask, don't tell" has served its purpose wonderfully in the 17 years since it was enacted.  Now we'll have to deal with countless claims of harassment and discrimination from poor homosexuals who weren't treated "properly".

Opening the door to the volatility and instability that adding the question of sexual orientation will create is unacceptable.  Our soldiers shouldn't have to bear the burden of wondering, or of feeling constant awkwardness and unwanted sexual tension....especially, at this critical time in history, where the military is already under the extreme stress of a long-term conflict.  I wonder how many gay men have to get beaten to a bloody mess on the floor of a Marine Corps barracks before our liberal Congress realizes that sticking their nose in the internal affairs of the military was a bad idea.

This has disaster written all over it.

You Think You Know How the Story Goes...

A new twist on the classic parable:

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY? Be responsible, and make wise decisions!

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AND NOW... THE MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid announce in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for new legislation and an immediate tax hike on the ant to force him to pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading, "under-privileged" friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant then disappeared into the snow, never to be seen again.

Soon there after, the grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of illegal immigrant cockroaches who terrorize the once peaceful and prosperous neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses, bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY? Don't be a grasshopper. Be careful who you vote for in 2010!