Hoo-Rah

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is pretty simple. It says, 'Raise an army.' It says absolutely nothing about race, color, creed, sexual orientation. You all joined for a reason: to serve. To protect our nation, right? How dare we, then, exclude a group of people who want to do the same thing you do right now, something that is honorable and noble? Right? Get over it. We're magnificent, we're going to continue to be. Let's just move on, treat everybody with firmness, fairness, dignity, compassion and respect. Let's be Marines.

Command Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Michael Barrett, during a trip to South Korea.

What surprises me most is that Barrett is advisor of enlisted men to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, the service commander who was most vocal in his concerns about letting gays serve openly in the military. Amos has done an admirable job of following the lead of the Commander in Chief, and ignoring the constant spinning of the Congress. He's been so complete in preparing his service to acknowledge these men and women clearly qualified to serve I'd like to think that Admiral Mullen's moral suasion was part of his turnabout.

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The Ultimare Foaldown of Ultimane Despony:

I want to run America like a Business!

And since I want to run America like a business, just as Mitt Romney promises, I will first take a look at those books. Since America is a government of the people, I'll direct my accounting department to assess who are the marginal producers of economic benefit. Since the government's economic income is taxes, it is taxpayers who produce this business's country's economic vitality. Those people who consume more of America's funds than they produce would be escorted out of America, by armed security if necessary, just like a business.

Especially one of Mitt Romeny's businesses.