Daily Archives: March 6, 2008

Cowards

Update 03/07/08:

According to the Associated Press:

There’s apparently no link between the bombing of an Army recruiting station in New York’s Times Square and letters sent to Congress saying “We did it,” law enforcement officials said Friday.

It was an “incredibly unbelievable coincidence.” Plus, it would have been fantastic mail service, too!

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It takes a really “brave” person to bomb a military recruiting office station at 3:40 a.m. It takes an idiot to do it in an area that is surrounded by surveillance cameras, and then write letters to members of Congress saying, “We did it.” Of course only really smart people would stick a photo of themselves in that letter showing them at the scene of the bombing. If that wasn’t enough to get caught, maybe an idiot would add a few pages of their “political manifesto” against the war, just to let members of Congress think they were from the educated side of the fence.

You can bet the fruitcakes who bombed the military recruiting office in New York City will soon be caught.

The military personnel working in this office have probably already dodged a few bombs and bullets in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. They damned sure don’t deserve to be worried about their safety while serving a tour of duty in a military recruiting office.

The people who blew up this office don’t understand that the people working there just follow the orders that are given to them that flow down through the chain of command. They follow the orders to best of their abilities. That’s what a military person does, and mostly for little pay and with many days away from their families and friends. They sacrifice their lives for you and me, and they do all this even for the brainless ones.

Since we’re dealing with dim-witted people, they probably thought the war in Iraq was being coordinated and commanded through this military recruiting office in Times Square. I can already hear them explain their rational, “Like, wow dude, it’s like the largest city in America, man, they must be in charge of the military, man.”

Duh!

Mouthpiece, Waiting, and Security

New Mouthpiece

It looks like Montana’s junior Senator, Jon Tester, has hired a new Communications Director. His name is Patrick Devlin. He starts Monday. So from the bloggers of Montana, at least a few of us, welcome Mr. Devlin.

According to the Tester press release, Mr. Devlin “attended” Carroll College in Helena for an unspecified amount of time and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1989. Since the press release did not state that he was born in Montana, I’m guessing he was not.

A friend reminded me that maybe the reason Tester could not find a Montanan to be his communications guy or gal, was because Max Baucus had hired them all for his campaign.

Anyway, it looks like Washington is still looking like Washington, instead of more like Montana, as promised by Tester.

Still waiting

Since it’s been about a month since my last post about this, I thought I would let my readers know that I’m still waiting for Sen. Tester to fulfill his campaign promise by having a “Montana” judge conduct an “ethics audit” of his “Federal” U.S. Senate office every year. It’s been over a year.

Security

Speaking of Sen. Tester, he’s ask Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who is Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, to hold a hearing in Montana this summer about northern border security. That is a good move to do all we can to ensure America is protected.

This would also be a great opportunity for Sen. Lieberman to hold a fundraiser in Montana for Sen. John McCain. Lieberman has endorsed McCain for President.

Tester was quoted in this article saying, “Whether it’s making sure we have enough people to staff the Port of Sweetgrass, or getting better radar coverage to detect small planes that can currently fly across unnoticed, we have no room to fail.”

I agree that we have no room to fail in protecting our country. Then why did Sen. Tester vote against reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)? The bill provides intelligence professionals with the tools they need to keep America safe from terrorists. Yes, we have no room to fail.

By the way, Sen. Lieberman voted for reauthorization of FISA.