| Bin Laden raid records secretly purged Posted: 10 Jul 2013 03:35 AM PDT |
| Commissaries close... Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:47 PM PDT All gave some, some gave all - and the families, well tough luck. FORT LEE, Va. (May 28, 2013) -- When furloughs are implemented, most military commissaries will close one day a week on Mondays, said the director and chief executive officer of the Defense Commissary Agency. Between July 8 and Sept. 30, 2013, there will be eleven additional days commissaries are closed, days they are not normally closed. The Monday closures are in addition to any day stores are routinely closed. For instance, there are 148 stores now that routinely close on Mondays. For those stores, they would also be closed the next normal day of operation. Other than the furlough day, there are no other changes planned for store operation hours. The announcement comes as the Defense Commissary Agency, or DeCA, follows Department of Defense protocols related to the automatic federal government budget reductions, known as sequestration.... blah blah blah blah blah and finish reading Commissaries plan for Monday furloughs 
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| "Living on the frontier" Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:41 PM PDT
Daniel Greenfield writes a sad commentary of a struggling middle class America in strict survival mode. The example used is the Zimmerman/Martin case and as he puts it, what once was "mainly an urban story" is now an "everywhere" story. It is hard to see America turning this around but then my crystal ball has never worked worth a damn to begin with, and the Phoenix did rise from the ashes of its own destruction.
The Zimmerman case is about many things, but it isn't about George Zimmerman, a Hispanic Obama supporter who campaigned against police brutality only to find himself plucked up by the hand of Big Brother to play the villainous white racist in the latest episode of liberal political reality television. Zimmerman is the latest Bernie Goetz; another wholly unlikely cult figure who currently campaigns for vegetarian lunches in public schools and squirrel rescue. It's not that the two men had anything particularly in common. Unlike Goetz, it is very unlikely that Zimmerman jumped the gun, so to speak, but they both fill a similar niche. They represent the embattled lower half of the middle class. To understand the Zimmerman case, you have to live in a neighborhood that has just enough property values to keep you paying the mortgage and just enough proximity to dangerous territories to make you feel like you're living on the frontier. The chain of events doesn't make much sense to the elites, which is one reason why they assume that the explanation must be racism There weren't a lot of New Yorker readers cheering as Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey stalked the subways and parks of the city blowing away hoods. The perfect target audience for the Death Wish movies or for Goetz saying "You don't look too bad, here's another" was that bottom half of the middle class that didn't have enough money to leave the city and didn't have enough liberalism to accept the violence as their just due. But the case isn't about race either. It's about a struggling middle class in a precarious economy trying to hang on to what it has. And it's about a culture of dropouts from the economy who celebrate thuggery and then pretend to be the victims. It's doubtful that anyone in Zimmerman's neighborhood who weathered multiple break-ins has much sympathy for the Martin family. And that's one reason that the prosecution hasn't found any useful witnesses. If Trayvon Martin had been the clean cut innocent kid that the media tried to pretend he is, the reaction might have been different. But he wasn't. The gap between Martin and Zimmerman wasn't race, in other circumstances most liberals would have called both men members of minority groups, it was aspiration. Continue Wrong Side of the Street "I have died a thousand deaths, each time rising from the ashes with more fire and less naivety...." Author unknown. 
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| GODette Pelosi - "We have parted the seas, thee shall be liberated!" Posted: 08 Jul 2013 11:54 PM PDT |
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