Military Retirees Get Screwed… Friday, Feb 24 2012 

They can’t balance a budget. They slash the military’s budget. They go after the retirees to pay for the things that they were promised would be there after they did their 20 years, or better. It’s bad enough that they want to hike fees, but to do it by as much as 78% is criminal.

The Veterans did what was asked, now the government reneges on the deal. Typical.

From the Army Times:

Tricare costs would jump in budget plan
By Patricia Kime – Staff writer

Pentagon officials will continue pressing in 2013 for significantly higher Tricare fees for military retirees, including older retirees covered by Tricare for Life, as well as higher drug co-pays for all Tricare beneficiaries.

The Defense Department’s proposed 2013 budget calls for annual enrollment fees for retirees in Tricare Prime to rise next year by 30 percent to 78 percent, from the current $460 or $520 for families to between $600 and $820, depending on military retirement income.

“Working-age retirees” — those younger than 65 — also would pay annual enrollment fees for Tricare Standard and Extra: $70 for an individual and $140 for a family. These would be the first enrollment fees for Standard and Extra in Tricare history.

Deductibles for Standard and Extra also would rise by $10 for individuals and $20 for families.

via Tricare costs would jump in budget plan – Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Army Times.

Female Military Pioneer Running for Congress… Thursday, Feb 23 2012 

She’s running for Gabriel Giffords’ seat. I hope she gets it. Arizona needs a good conservative and they’d get a military pioneer in the process. She’s pro-Second Amendment, wants to secure the border, reduce the debt, believes in states’ rights, and places a high priority on national defense.

Female Military Pioneer Running for Congress
By Elise Cooper

Colonel Martha McSally, a Republican candidate running for Gabby Giffords’ former congressional seat, has an interesting and highly decorated past. In January 1995, she became the first woman in U.S. history to fly a combat aircraft into enemy territory when she flew her initial mission into Iraq to help enforce the United Nations’ “no-fly zone.” She was part of the team that helped plan and execute the U.S. air operations over Afghanistan shortly after 9/11.

In July 2004, McSally took command of the 354th Fighter Squadron, becoming the first woman in U.S. history to command a combat aviation unit. While defending her country she has received numerous honors, including being recognized by the University of Arizona and “Women Who Lead,” in addition to receiving the Tucson YWCA Women on the Move Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Center on Women in Policing. American Thinker interviewed her about her fascinating career and why she decided to run for the seat previously held by Congresswoman Giffords.

Her no-nonsense attitude came across loud and clear while she described her uphill battle with the Pentagon. In 1995, McSally became aware of the U.S. military policy requiring U.S. servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia to wear the Muslim garment called an abaya, a black head-to-toe robe that signifies women’s subordination to men. They had to wear it over their uniform while on duty as well as off duty. In 2000, it became personal when McSally was deployed to Saudi Arabia and was told that either she must submit to it or be charged with insubordination.

via Articles: Female Military Pioneer Running for Congress.

This Video Says it All… Tuesday, Feb 7 2012 

This video from CAGW says it all when it comes to the tax and spend culture we are currently living through. It will only get worse if we don’t stop the madness now.

Makers vs. Moochers… Monday, Feb 6 2012 

Yeah, let’s keep taking from the makers and give to the moochers. That’s a great plan for prosperity! NOT!

We, as a nation, cannot continue to let this happen. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer producers and more and more moochers. It may already be too late to right this sinking ship.

It’s takers versus makers and these days the takers are winning

By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds

“Fifty thousand for what you didn’t plant, for what didn’t grow. That’s modern farming — reap what you don’t sow.”That’s a line from a song about farm subsidies, “Farming The Government,” by the Nebraska Guitar Militia.

But these days it applies to more and more of the U.S. economy, as Charles Sykes points out in his new book, A Nation Of Moochers: America’s Addiction To Getting Something For Nothing.The problem, Sykes points out, is that you can’t run an economy like that. If you tried to hold a series of potluck dinners where a majority brought nothing to the table, but felt entitled to eat their fill, it would probably work out badly. Yet that’s essentially what we’re doing.

In today’s America, government benefits flow to large numbers of people who are encouraged to vote for politicians who’ll keep them coming. The benefits are paid for by other people who, being less numerous, can’t muster enough votes to put this to a stop.

Over time, this causes the economy to do worse, pushing more people into the moocher class and further strengthening the politicians whose position depends on robbing Peter to pay Paul. Because, as they say, if you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can be pretty sure of getting Paul’s vote.

But the damage goes deeper. Sykes writes, “In contemporary America, we now have two parallel cultures: An anachronistic culture of independence and responsibility, and the emerging moocher culture.

via It’s takers versus makers and these days the takers are winning | Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Columnists | Washington Examiner.

Sr. DOJ Officials Smacked Down with Report from Issa and Grassley on Fast and Furious… Thursday, Feb 2 2012 

A damning report released by Issa and Grassley on Fast and Furious. Senior DOJ officials take a hit on this one.

Report released by Issa and Grassley on Fast and Furious

Republican lawmakers Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released a new report suggesting top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious.

Are We Living in a Post-Constitutional Country? Wednesday, Jan 18 2012 

Mark Levin is definately on to something here. I believe that America is lost. The only way back is to stop liberalism in its tracks and repeal the many laws that violate the Constitution. Otherwise, we may see another 1775.

Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’

(CNSNews.com) – In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.”

The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given rights, and individual liberty that inspired the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

via EXCLUSIVE—Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’ | CNSnews.com.

SOPA Blackout… Wednesday, Jan 18 2012 

This would fundamentally change the Internet if it passes.

Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills

By JENNA WORTHAM
Published: January 17, 2012

With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment — a political coming of age for a relatively young and disorganized industry that has largely steered clear of lobbying and other political games in Washington.

Wikipedia is black today.

Here’s a screen shot:

WordPress is getting into the act as well.

Here’s a screen shot of the “Freshly Pressed” page:

Google has blacked out their logo:

 

Wikipedia to Join SOPA Blackout Tomorrow… Tuesday, Jan 17 2012 

This should send a clear message. Will the knuckleheads in D.C. get it? That’s the real question here. I suppose if 1/5 of the people affected by this piss and moan to Congress, maybe, just maybe they’ll get the message.

Via Hot Air:

Wikipedia to join SOPA blackout tomorrow

In protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, Wikipedia will go dark tomorrow. From 5 a.m. GMT tomorrow to 5 a.m. GMT Thursday, the English version of the website will be inaccessible to anyone around the globe. Instead, an explanatory letter will greet visitors and urge Wikipedia fans to contact Congress to express disapproval of the anti-piracy act. Wikipedia is the sixth-most visited site in the world, and it’s estimated 100 million English-speaking users will be affected.

Wikipedia’s participation is a definite boost to the Reddit-led anti-SOPA blackout, which, up to this point, had secured only the participation of lesser-known sites. Still, the decision by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to actively join the strike didn’t inspire other Internet bigwigs to follow. In fact, it just led to jeering. Twitter chief Dick Costolo, for example, tweeted, “That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.”

via Wikipedia to join SOPA blackout tomorrow Update: Google to post anti-SOPA notice on homepage « Hot Air.

Medicare and Fraud… Tuesday, Jan 10 2012 

It’s rampant. It isn’t going anywhere. It’s part of the reason why this country is so in debt. Did I mention that? I’m quite sure I have. Yet the left wants this fraud to continue unabated. The right won’t touch it because they don’t want to scare granny, or put a lot of pressure on the providers for fear of losing even more of them.

At any rate, here’s Cato Institute’s take on it:

Big Government… Tuesday, Jan 10 2012 

Some people are too fucking stupid to figure this out, so, I will keep harping on it until I can’t harp on it anymore.

Right now, 47% of this nation is sucking off the big government tit by not paying one dime in taxes, while the rest of us have to support that shit.

There is no war on poverty. No. It’s a war on the rest of us that have to pay for it.

Watch this:

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