Make believe you're 18 or 19, barely out of Army basic training, and you're sleeping in a barracks somewhere in the dark of night. Suddenly, the room erupts in gunfire and before you can barely open your eyes several of your fellow soldiers fall to the floor, dead. You panic in the darkness, unprepared even to make sense of the bloody rampage happening all around you until you, too, are shot dead by somebody or some bodies unseen. None of this should have happened, for you were 100 percent in the company of your fellows, supposedly protected by sentries outside. What could possibly have gone wrong?
This is exactly the scenario that came to mind when I heard Senator Richard "Dick" Durbin make an absurdly dangerous suggestion -- that the United States government should take a percentage of ILLEGAL aliens (the folks who violated our borders, and that's a crime) and put them in our understaffed military. What?!
For one thing, Senator "Dick" -- whom I believe made an interesting comment about U.S. Marines years ago, though I've no way to look that up at the moment -- would know, or maybe he does, that the reason our military is so short of soldiers is the Biden administration's cult-like efforts to make men and women gender-interchangeable, and the more trans the better. Frankly, anybody with common sense realizes that the contract one signs to endure military rules means one's life will be "woke" beyond words, and few want to put up with this phony nonsense. Yes, this certainly leaves the military short on recruits, and it's no mystery -- even though the government is fond of blaming drug use and obesity for the absence of a well-staffed fighting force.
The truth is, right now most of the border-jumpers from nations all over the world are primarily single, military-age males, and that's creepy enough. But for Durbin to make this outrageous gesture?! Let Senator Dick take a few dozen of these unknown qualities home to sleep in his house for a few weeks and see what happens. Military recruits? No way. Illegal people with no obligation, no ties to American values or laws. Promise automatic citizenship to people whose mindsets are totally unknown to us? Dick, Dick, Dick -- are you nuts? Who wants their kid joining the military with serious questions about who can trust whom? Does one really want to trust national security with young males who may have been criminals where they came from?
So much just seems crazy. I'm writing this late at night, probably to be uploaded in the morning, and all along the way I have a TV on in the background. The sheer number of pharmaceutical commercials featuring people at play or fuzzy animals being cute whilst the narrators, almost as an afterthought, run down the obligatory list of potential side-effects, cause me to wonder why every rotten drug-pushing commercial on the screen isn't forced to display a huge skull and crossbones image as potential contraindications are read aloud.
Republicans straight out of the can: You folks never seem to get it. The abortion issue is not yours to hold up as a winner during the election season. Your deep-seated beliefs are appreciated and laudable, but when it comes down to getting votes, you may as well just hand pretty much any political office over to the Democrats. Watch for the same old same old in the coming months.
Oh, NO thanks a lot, too, for Republicans defeating any new chance of having the government release anything deep and crucial about UFOs (UAPs) last week. They made Sen. Charles Schumer look like a knight in freedom armor for sinking his and his fellows' intended sorta-kinda-disclosure legislation.
Winter weather seems to be on the move, and during these months my blogging appearances can be hit-or-miss, so if I'm absent for an extended period of time (thus pleasing some of you) it doesn't mean I'm dead. Then again, it doesn't mean I'm not. Yet, I do so hope to be up and about when a televised celebrity groundhog sees its shadow and announces six more weeks of winter. I have a woodchuck who lives nearby, but mine only goes underground and hibernates all winter, providing no reliable forecast services whatsoever. I will assume that TV groundhogs possess lucrative contracts.
