High Suicide Rate for Military Women

True to form, CNN breathlessly reports a slight rise in suicides among Army personnel. Implying of course, a larger problem. But they fail to see the real story within the story:

"According to a Pentagon report released last summer, the overall suicide rate for the United States was 13.4 per 100,000 people in 2006.
For all men ages 17 to 45, it was 21.1 per 100,000 people, compared with 17.8 for men in the Army.
And it was 5.46 per 100,000 for all women, compared with an Army rate of 11.3 women soldiers per 100,000."

So what this is really telling us is that the suicide rate for military men is lower than in the male population at large, while the suicide rate for military women is more than double that of the general female population.

What does that mean? I think it means exactly what most people think but may not want to admit. Women, as a general proposition, are simply not wired to thrive in a profession which depends on an aggressive (testosterone laden) culture for its success. That culture is alien to most women; especially in a combat theatre.

Pelosi Slanders Military; Credits Our Enemy

Having a Speaker from the most Anti-American district in the most Anti-American city means you get statements like this:

"Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the
political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen.
Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge
didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the
goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians."

So the surge is a failure, but any success we may have had is due to the "goodwill" of our enemies. Is the fact that Iran is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of our troops goodwill?

Is their support for their terrorist proxy Hezbollah goodwill? I guess it is since she also visited terrorist sponsor Syria over the strenuous objections of the White House and State Department.

These actions give aid and comfort to our enemies, demoralize our troops and allies and contribute directly to US deaths. Nancy Pelosi's words and actions betrays her country's efforts. That makes her a traitor. There's no other way to put it.

Fighting the Enviro-Tyrants

Finally an oil company exec has the stones to fight back over the global warming hoax that's being used as an excuse to destroy liberty and free enterprise while increasing government power over every aspect of our lives.

Exxon Mobil chief Rex Tillerson said:

"My view is that this is so extraordinarily important to people the world
over, that to not have a debate on it is irresponsible," he said. "To suggest
that we know everything we need to know about these issues is
irresponsible.

"And I will take all the criticism that comes with it. Anybody that
tells you that they got this figured out is not being truthful. There are too
many complexities around climate science for anybody to fully understand all of
the causes and effects and consequences of what you may chose to do to attempt
to affect that. We have to let scientists to continue their investigative work,
unencumbered by political influences. This is too important to be cute with
it."

Congressman Ed Markey(lawyer, non scientist) is proving the point with his proposal to create a massive new tax and government revenue stream out of (literally) thin air.

"Markey said the measure would generate $8 trillion through the auctioning of
emissions allowances to polluters...Markey’s bill would not give polluters free
emission allowances, but instead immediately put a price on emissions in an
auction...“The business community that has been polluting has to accept the
responsibility that this is a price that has been paid for by the society as a
whole,” Markey said."

Replace the words "business community" with " American individual" because that's who is going to pay for this colossal transfer of wealth and power to the government. And what exactly is this price that society has paid anyway?

Additionally, The Heritage Foundation has done an analysis of the huge costs that will follow with passage of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Bill:

"The study, produced by Heritage's Center for Data Analysis (CDA), forecasts
severe consequences—including crushing energy costs, millions of jobs lost and
falling household income—if Congress enacts the so-called Lieberman-Warner bill."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." P. J. O'Rourke

Who's a Nitwit?

Mike Barnicle is yet another dinosaur media member who's whistling past the graveyard as he lashes out at bloggers.

"these nitwits at home with their computers, these bloggers, who [snorts] think they're part of the news media, can then accuse us of being soft on this candidate or that candidate."

This self proclaimed gatekeeper of news reporting should be the last person to condescend to others as to what constitutes legitimate reporting:


"In 1998, Barnicle was forced to resign from the Boston
Globe amid questions about the sources of two of his columns. The first
column, dated August 2, 1998, allegedly contained unattributed material from the
1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.[1]

Review of previous Barnicle columns by the Globe revealed another
possible fabrication in an October 8, 1995 piece. The column recounted the story
of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a
black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to
recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000 USD. When the Globe
could not locate the people in the story, Barnicle said he did not obtain the
story from any of the parents, but from a nurse, yet did not produce the name of
the nurse. When editors could not find a death that matched that of the child's
in the piece, Barnicle was asked to resign."

If this is the standards of Mike Barnicle's dying media, then I don't want any part of it. And if we're so insignificant, then why mention us at all. Doth protesteth too much Mike.

Barack Potatoe Obama?

Give Obama the Dan Quayle treatment:

"Imagine that John McCain named a young running mate to campaign with him, and this national rookie suggested America had 58 states, repeatedly used the wrong names for the cities he was visiting, and honored a Memorial Day crowd by acknowledging the “fallen heroes” who were present, somehow alive and standing in the audience. How long would it take for the national media to see another Dan Quayle caricature? Let’s raise the stakes. What if it was the GOP presidential candidate making these thoroughly ridiculous comments? This scenario is very real, except it isn’t McCain. It’s the other fellow."

More Opposition to Environmental Tyranny

Vaclav Klaus has added his name to numerous others that have asked for a debate concerning man made global warming. More important, Klaus has lived under communist totalitarianism and sees it rearing its ugly head in the environmental movement. That's obvious to a lot, but not enough to discredit this hoax for what it is: another attempt to control every aspect of our lives by dictators and tyrants carrying a green flag instead of a hammer & sickle.

Al Gore keeps telling us the debate is over but many respected scientists and frankly anyone with a minimal amount of critical thinking skills remain skeptical at best. Al calls them "flat earthers" and chides the media for giving them any time at all. If that's the case; if the skeptics argument is as ridiculous as belief in a flat earth, then Al and his minions should be jumping at the chance to put the whole thing to rest and clear the way for his agenda. If his argument is so airtight, then why not shut us all up once and for all?

Well he can't, that's why. His entire "theory" rests entirely on emotional appeal, speculation and the complete dismissal of any contrary evidence. That's not how science works, but it is the way of demagogic politics, which is exactly what this is.

It's also why Gore has recently embarked on a $300 million dollar P.R. campaign to promote this nonsense rather than engage in definitive debate for free. One would think that after his Oscar winning movie that's been force fed to school children worldwide and a Nobel prize, his point would be made. Apparently not. But rather than take on his opponents directly, he'll spend millions to convince others to shut them up, with force if necessary. Sound familiar? It certainly does to Vaclav Klaus.

Another Oil Company Show Trial

It's becoming clear that Democrats are hellbent on destroying the US economy with their latest round of demagoguery, as they once again call oil execs on the carpet while doing absolutely nothing but stand in the way of increased domestic production. This is all to divert blame from themselves and appease their kook base with anti-free enterprise rhetoric

"Where is the corporate conscience?" Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked the top executives of the five largest U.S. oil companies.

How does this jerk walk around with those big brass ones clanging around? Where is his conscience in refusing to allow more drilling and exploration within our own borders while mandating that we burn 25% of our corn. By now Durbin and his cronies must know the difference between profit and profit margin, but they pretend they don't. It's more important to score points with the economic morons back home than think about the country's security and future. What's going on here is nothing less than criminal malfeasance.

Speaking of crimes, National Review makes the point that congress is violating the very law it passed last week whereby they are trying to criminalize OPEC. That law, which I'm sure has been the source of much amusement in Ryadh, says in part:

"It shall be illegal and a violation of this Act . . . to limit the production or
distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product . . . or to
otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for oil, natural gas, or any
petroleum product when such action, combination, or collective action has a
direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply,
price, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or other petroleum product in the
United States."

That's exactly what congress is doing right now.