Labor Day 2009

As I look back on my negligent blogging it is fairly obvious that I've not kept up with my thoughts. I still keep a diary and I love to write my thoughts about the day and how I'm feeling on any particular topic, but of late - well let's be honest - for a long time, I've been distracted.

It is not as if I'm not distracted today, but today I found some time that I could set aside and just write my thoughts out for people to read - if they want to. Labor Day is today, but I worked on the radio Friday night and yesterday so I didn't have the long weekend that I yearned for, but what I do have coming up is a few weeks where I will do nothing. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are sneaking up on me and I have some big plans that I'm keeping top secret (or at least secret). Needless to say, though, I'm looking forward to the High Holy days.

Yesterday during my radio program, and on Friday as well, the topic was all about Van Jones. If you don't know who Van Jones is, or was, he is the guy that quit the Obama Administration as a Czar for "green jobs." Whatever those are. Would someone define green jobs for me because all I heard him talk about was ways that Americans would lose jobs and nothing for how they would be created.

Friday night I was on the air and his letter to President Obama came out around midnight. I was already done, but I got to talk about it last night and I have one question for the president: Are you insane? WHY would you distract all that you want to do by bringing a self-described Communist into your Administration? Why in the world would you not at least google the guy so you could find out that he actually thinks that we attacked ourselves on September 11, 2001? Who is doing the vetting at the White House? This guy would not make it into the Armed Forces (like too many people serving in DC or in positions of power in the country today), but he made it into the White House.

President Obama, what were you thinking?

So he resigned and instead of saying "good" the bad guy is gone - Howard Dean and David Axelrod go on television to talk about the great loss to the American people because a Communist is no longer wandering the halls of the White House. How is the loss of an ACORN supporter and Commie a loss to the American people? Isn't it bad enough that we are losing our freedoms every single day of the week - they should have stayed quiet. The President does not have a lot of good people surrounding him. But Van Jones is gone now - now all that we have left are people who think we have to ban hunting, kill the unborn for population control and forcefully, if necessary, sterilize people that we do not want to reproduce.

Oy gevalt that is a scary thought.

Meanwhile, I was in DC recently and had a pretty good time. I was around people who were making their way up the ladder of the government and I made some acquaintances there that I'd like to keep. I think that the best people were there and then again there were some people who were awful, just awful. I know a wonderful woman named Christine who is a Senior Executive Service person working for the Department of Defense. She is the epitome of service and then I know people, who I shall not name, who work for the Department of Defense who are the worst of the worst. Their work ethic is that if they show up they are outstanding and if they do something wrong or bad that they should run to people and complain that it had something to do with their race or something silly. The worst offices in all of government are so-called Equal Opportunity Offices who actually advertise how people can complain.

What kind of crap is that? Who advertises how to make a complaint. It is as if government is so far removed from real life that instead of just sucking up the fact that they are colossal failures in what they do they have an office to go to in order to shelter them from that fact. The one good thing that came out of my attending this training (and it is not yet over) is that I was awarded the Combat Correspondent MOS from the USMC. While I was on active duty in the military I earned three MOS's and now I have a 4th. This one actually means the most and I will make the most of it. I'd like to go back to work in Iraq and I reported from there during the first elections and thought it was amazing.

Speaking of Iraq (an odd transition to Afghanistan) - I'm never again going to use anything provided to my station from the AP. The very fact that they would show the picture of a dying Marine after his parents asked them not to is beyond anything I could imagine. What is wrong with these people? I have to say that I would not care if the woman who snapped that photo ended up on the new bin Laden video that we are expecting to come out when Obama talks to Congress about health care. What a disaster that is (Afghanistan and health care). But I do have a question.

What is the President doing to find our missing (captive) soldier in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister of Israel speaks about the IDF missing soldiers every opportunity he gets. Barack Obama never spoke the name of our missing soldier. Israel went to war for Gilad Shalit, but we've barely busted down doors to find our man. What has happened to the war on terror? Have we gone so soft that we won't even acknowledge that one of our own is captive by people who would have no problem taking off his head and putting the video on YouTube for the enjoyment of the Arab world?

Shameful. Carpet bomb where we think he is and if he dies he dies a hero. If he is found alive the bombers are heroes. The PM of Britain wants to have a conference about Afghanistan. Can you imagine that happening during WWII? We'd all be speaking German. I'm sorry - there are some people who should not be in power during war and I think we see who should not be in power today.

Before I'm done ranting and get back to working on some things, I saw that Congress has a 7% approval rating - the poll came out today. This is a time that regular people, flawed people, should run for Congress and we should back them. It is insane that we keep returning the same people to the place the is running more and more of our lives. If you'd be a good candidate I think you should consider it. You'll lose your privacy (I've lost mine and somehow made it through) and you'll end up with Wikipedia writing things about you that are completely untrue, but in the end we will have good people in Congress. Can we ask for anything more?

I don't think so.

Happy Labor Day.