Thursday, February 28, 2013

Memo to Cleveland: your grandstanding waste of time won't work.

Look, we know if this was a serious effort, you certainly wouldn't be the point on it... an actual grown up would.

Second, since there isn't going to be any money out of the Senate, why are you wasting your time with this garbage?

You are actually moronic enough to believe that the rest of the state would support jacking up our already sky-high gas tax to pay for this garbage?

Here's a clue, idiot-stick: we don't want this.  The people of your district don't want this: the people of this state don't want this.

Why you're wasting our time, effort and energy... not to mention our money on a lame effort like this is beyond me... but then, you're a democrat, so wasting our money is something you're good at.

As expected, RINO Jaime Herrera, our local Cowardwoman, sold us all out and voted against her caucus on the scam "Violence Against Women Act."

It's tough when your representation in the United States House of Representatives is a coward.  It's even tougher when her concern begins and ends at the tip of her nose.

In her latest sell out, Ridgefield Barbie voted with the democrats (So what else is new?) to sell us out.... again... on the corruption of the so-called "Violence Against Women Act," a mishmash of gender based advantages that now has every perverted sexual practice known to man thrown under the protection of the Federal government... or at least it will when that empty-suited idiot in the White House signs it.

Herrera, who has done precisely dick to rate being in Congress, is the Federal version of Marc Boldt.  Like Boldt, she all too frequently votes against GOP principles and then proceeds to lie whenever the mood strikes.

Far too much of a coward to hold town hall meetings or give us her position on "women in combat," she has been utterly worthless in addressing the scam of the CRC, having done absolutely nothing to either stop that scam or hold any of the corrupt scum involved in it accountable.

It's been 5 months since the election that was supposed to provide her with the guidance she was seeking on the loot rail scam, AND SHE HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO CHANGE ANY OF IT.

She continues to avoid open town hall meetings in favor of very controlled and small "coffees" particularly with those who are possessed of a checkbook they likely will aim in her direction.

She is, in fact, the very worst politics has to offer and I am, frankly, ashamed that this self-aggrandizing moron "represents" the people of SW Washington in Congress since, based on the record, she's clearly only interested in representing herself at our expense, as we are but another notch on her gunbelt on the ladder to her political ignominy.

Herrera voted against the GOP alternative and then voted for the democrat bill.

It's as if the equality that many women seek is of the situational variety... as if violence against women, or gays or any of the other oddballs out there is somehow more important then violence against men.

It's isn't.

Violence is violence.  Socialism is socialism.  And this slimeball's vote makes me even more ashamed of her than I already was... and I didn't believe that to be possible until today.

Despicable.

Congress reacts to Obama's video-game medal idiocy: bi-partisan bill to drop precedence.

*"Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Demote Pentagon's New Medal'*

 DV6-(Photo is what DV's thinks the medal should look like)

 WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are lashing out at the Pentagon’s creation of the Distinguished Warfare Medal - intended to honor the contributions of drone pilots and cyber warriors who haven’t set foot on the battlefield - by introducing legislation that would ban it from being rated on par with or above the Purple Heart.

 A trio of veterans serving in Congress, Reps. Duncan Hunter, D-Calif., Tom Rooney, R- Fl., and Tim Murphy, R-Pa., introduced the bill on Wednesday, in response to what has been a public outcry against the creation of the medal, which was announced on Feb. 13. 

“Combat valor awards have a deep and significant meaning to those who serve in America’s military,” said Hunter, a former Marine, in a statement. “These awards represent not just actions, but also the courage and sacrifice that derive from experiences while in harm’s way. And those engaged in direct combat put their lives on the line, accepting extraordinary personal risk.”

According to Pentagon officials, the medal, which ranks immediately below the Distinguished Flying Cross, was intended to recognize “extraordinary achievements that directly impact on combat operations, but do not involve acts of valor or physical risks that combat entails.”

But that has led to public outrage over it from groups such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Military Order of the Purple Heart, which have expressed fears that it cheapens the significance of other combat medals that are awarded at risk of physical harm, injury or loss of life.

 Rooney, an Army veteran, urged the Pentagon to reconsider its ranking of the new medal, which would be ranked above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, in a letter to military top brass earlier this month. And the number of petitions demanding a change have continued to grow online on the White House’s “We the People” website. However, Pentagon officials have not said they would reconsider the medal’s placement.

 Rooney said in a statement on the new bill that he and other veterans “had grave concerns” about the ranking of the medal.

“There is no greater sacrifice than risking your own life to save another on the battlefield,” he said, “and the order of precedence should appropriately reflect the reverence we hold for those willing to make that sacrifice.”

Murphy, a Navy veteran, said he strongly believed from his personal experiences of serving with “combat-wounded veterans at Walter Reed (Army Medical Center), that their Purple Heart should and must rank above the Distinguished Warfare Medal.”

"If the Pentagon will not reconsider the decision to rank this medal above the Purple Heart, the House will take action,” he said.

 By Joyce Tsai 
 Stars and Stripes
 Published: February 27, 201As we all know, the empty-suited moron in the White House has done more to damage the US Military than the kamikazes did in WW2.

His latest stupidity?

The video game medal, aka, the "Distinguished Warfare Medal," moronically rated ABOVE the Bronze Star with Combat "V" device.
  
Distinguished Warfare Medal

The Distinguished Warfare Medal, which could go to servicemembers who never set foot in a combat zone, but launch drone strikes or cyberattacks that kill or disable an enemy.




 
Dysfunctional Veteran's take on what the medal SHOULD look like. ^

Nice looking medal that should not have ANY higher rating than any medal that can get the "V" device.


There is no "Valor" in playing with a joy stick and pushing some buttons.  To rate this video game medal higher is rank, pogue, stupidity.

And here's the thing: some in Congress already know that.


Lawmakers introduce bill to demote Pentagon's new medal


By Joyce Tsai
Stars and Stripes
Published: February 27, 2013

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DOD's memo and award criteria for the Distinguished Warfare Medal
 
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are lashing out at the Pentagon’s creation of the Distinguished Warfare Medal - intended to honor the contributions of drone pilots and cyber warriors who haven’t set foot on the battlefield - by introducing legislation that would ban it from being rated on par with or above the Purple Heart.

A trio of veterans serving in Congress, Reps. Duncan Hunter, D-Calif., Tom Rooney, R- Fl., and Tim Murphy, R-Pa., introduced the bill on Wednesday, in response to what has been a public outcry against the creation of the medal, which was announced on Feb. 13.

“Combat valor awards have a deep and significant meaning to those who serve in America’s military,” said Hunter, a former Marine, in a statement. “These awards represent not just actions, but also the courage and sacrifice that derive from experiences while in harm’s way. And those engaged in direct combat put their lives on the line, accepting extraordinary personal risk.”
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