Job loss

Drudge is running a report that employers cut 20,000 jobs in January, i.e. there are an additional 20,000 unemployed people milling about – yet with an ADDITIONAL 20,000 unemployed, the jobless rate fell from 10% to 9.7%. Wow, I wonder if that math works in Vegas. I lost $20,000 bucks at Blackjack, yet my bank account mysteriously grew from $20,000 to $25,000 bucks. Hell I’ll just keep gambling.

The report also noted that:

"The Labor Department said the economy shed 150,000 jobs in December, compared to 85,000 previously reported, but November was revised to a gain of 64,000, up from 4,000. Annual benchmark revisions to payrolls data showed the economy has purged 8.4 million jobs since the start of the recession in December 2007."


Hmmmmmm, if all of these figures are going to undergo radical revision over a three month period, why not just issue a quarterly report and save everyone all the angst?

Don’t ask don’t tell


The other big item in the news theses days is the Dope’s initiative to do away with “Don’t ask don’t tell (DADT).” I’m a dinosaur, but I can’t see this being a good idea. Unless there has been a huge sea change (and who knows maybe there has been) in the mind set of the average service member, such a change will adversely affect unit cohesion and recruitment.

The Dope’s two top advisors on military matters have promised to conduct a year long study looking into the feasibility of doing away with DADT. There are two problems with that whole picture. One; during testimony before the Senate, both Adm Mullen and Sec Def Gates intimated that they supported the Dope’s policy change. Guess what? That has the same affect on the study as The Dope, his light skinned Negro AG and his dolt press secretary stating that KSM was guilty and would be hung before a judge, jury or attorneys had been chosen.

Such statements taint everything. What career minded civil or military person isn’t going to be able to read that very clear and bold hand writing on that wall? They will go through the motions, waste millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours “studying” the issue. Then guess what? They will come to the conclusion that the Dope, Sec Def and Chairman were absolutely correct - the time has come to dump DADT. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first line of the report read, “You are a genius!”

The second problem is more serious. If the “study” to dump DADT is conducted in the same manner as the report on the Ft. Hood shooter was conducted, everyone involved with it should be jailed. The Ft. Hood report was a white wash, a cover up and completely irresponsible. The people involved with that report were more interested in political correctness than to identifying asinine Army policies, a culture of political correctness and holding people accountable.

No doubt, the conclusions on DADT will be written before the first meeting. Then the committees will be sent out to gather information that supports the pre-determined conclusions. Those who support the pre-determined conclusions most vigorously will be promoted. Anyone who raises a red flag or objects too strenuously will be labeled a Neanderthal and cashiered to the most remote post available.