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“You would have to knock on more than 150 doors in most American
neighborhoods to find a household with a family member in the military.”
Richard Stengal (TIME -11-21-2011)
The less than 1% that carry the burden.
Is that the product of an all volunteer military?
I left you some questions on the other open thread, Big Dog.
An atheist wants to be a military chaplain. Wouldn’t that be the easiest job in the World?
I know the above picture wasn’t taken in the Northern Virginia area….there are no left over campaign signs along the edge of the road. Ugh! There needs to be some accountability on the candidates part for getting the signs removed after the election.
@pokie, is he/she recruiting?
@Tyndall, PW still has them also. There are a crop of Gordy ones at no man’s land at Sudley Manor and Williamson. Grrrrrrr.
Have some free time?
Read this: http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441
“Whats the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere.”
Warning! Severe Time Sink! I couldn’t stop reading. Its amazing what people encounter while walking about in the woods. And this is just primarily out in the North West. Just think if the rest of the country was responding….
Moon, et.al.:
I don’t know if I’m breaking protocol over here (I’ve never done this before) but I want to put a link to my story about the Education Forward committee. It’s th most important thing going on in the City and the papers just aren’t covering it! http://harrover.com/wordpress/?p=1550
If I’m breaking the rules, just drop my post and I’ll understand!…:)
Sure Andy. Do what you need to do.
We consider you a friend and your blog a blog friend.
Anything we can do to help?
I would be very happy if you could shake up a front page story. I’m just trying to get feedback. I know it’s a lot to ask but the WaPo and messenger have both skipped covering it. I’ve submitted a blog post to Patch…thanks for your help guys!
Cargosquid..
Two hours of reading messages….that is the coolest message thread. Now I want to go wander in the woods!
Are you sure about that? @ Tyndall
@SlowpokeRodriguez
Might be an easy job in terms of ministry to the flock, but a heck of the time dealing with the rest of the Chaplains Corps. In the Army, around 65% of the Chaplains across the Active Duty, National Guard and Army Reserve are Evangelical Christian faiths. The atheist probably would not get invited to many coffee talks, that’s for sure!
@Tyndall
I had that EXACT reaction! I don’t hunt or hike, and now I want to go wander in the woods.
@Ray Beverage
I think that he would get invited to ALL of the evangelical coffee talks, if you know what I mean……they would look at it as their duty and a challenge.
60 Minutes found at least one area where Congress seems to act in a bi-partisan manner.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323527/congress-trading-stock-on-inside-information/
@Morris Davis
We just watched that show also. Reminded me a lot of our local board and their developer pals. Wall Street greed is real but we need to focus more on politician greed and betrayal. Who is really surprised when a hedge fund manager or CEO is caught? Problem is that congress exempts themselves from insider trading and other laws we must all obey, as the 60 Minutes story said, and Corey Stewart takes a bribe and calls it a campaign contribution.
@Cargosquid
Got a good point there, Cargo! Made me think of an discussion between a Roman Catholic Priest and Evangelical Lutheran Priest I overheard one time. I was trying to figure out who was trying to convert who 🙂
Big Dog, within the City of Manassas, Stengal might have an easier time. In number of Veterans, we have around 11% of our population….and those are just the Veterans. Toss in the Active Duty, National Guard or Reserve, plus the DoD Civil Service, and the number goes up from there (don’t have one, but bet our percentage goes up to around 15% when adding all together). Then of course, would be the number who have or had a family member either immediate household or greater family who served/still serving.
I like that 11% Veterans number though….Virginia has 13% across the Commonwealth, and nice to see our little 10 square miles has a pretty close percentage and comparision.
Does government regulation really kill jobs?
Economists say overall effect minimal
By Jia Lynn Yang,
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that very few layoffs are caused principally by tougher rules.
Whenever a firm lays off workers, the bureau asks executives the biggest reason for the job cuts.
In 2010, 0.3 percent of the people who lost their jobs in layoffs were let go because of “government regulations/intervention.” By comparison, 25 percent were laid off because of a drop in business demand.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/does-government-regulation-really-kill-jobs-economists-say-overall-effect-minimal/2011/10/19/gIQALRF5IN_story.html
Regulation doesn’t kill jobs.
I am not too worried about the relatively small number of active-duty and reserves, as a percentage of our population. Our force structure is much different than it has been in previous decades. We’ve opted for a smaller, better trained, better equipped force, rather than the old strategy of “quantity has a quality all its own” it really comes down to manpower requirements, and due to defense cuts, these requirements will be fewer still. I don’t think it’s a matter of young people not wanting to serve. It’s a matter of the military only needing so many recruits each year to maintain the current force structure. Fewer ships means fewer baotspaces. Fewer infantry regiments means fewer troops, fewer support elements, etc. I spoke to a couple of recruiters not long ago. They aren’t having much trouble finding interested young people, especially in this economy. The only real problem is finding enough physically and mentally qualified. They said it seems like every kid is either over weight, or has some diagnosed physical or learning disability requiring a waiver. Even with this, they are still “making mission”, finding enough to fill the needs. Theplanned drawdowns will make the needs fewer still.
“In mid-September 2008, Bachus (that would be Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama), then a ranking member on the House Financial Services, met with then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and lawmakers about the imminent collapse of the global economy, CBS reported.
At the same time, Bachus bought options funds, betting markets would go down, CBS said. He also traded General Electric stock, and roughly a third of GE’s business is in financial services, CBS reported.”
If any of us did that it would be a black-letter felony.
Bachus should not be exempt from the same consequences you or I would have.
Not it matters much, but the name is BAUCUS. However, Bachus might be OK, since there’s a UTube strip from 12/13/09 where he appears giving a speech while drunk.
Sorry – that should be 12/23/09
He had probably been to a Christmas party!
The TIME article spoke to the disconnect between the heavy burden
of the 1% of Americans in the active military and the rest of the country.
Survey after survey show resolving the Afghan and Iraq conflicts ranked
below a half dozen domestic issues. Too many Americans have placed
them on their mental back burners. Korea and Viet Nam took center stage
for all Americans as did, of course, WWI and WWII. This, no doubt,
has many causes including the end of the draft, but when our
fellow Americans are in a combat zone – they should also always be front and
center in the thoughts of our nation.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/national-geographic-photo-contest-2011/100187/
Wow.
@punchak
Actually, it is Bachus. Spencer Bachus is a republican congressman from Alabama. Max Baucus is a democratic Senator from Montana.
And it was Senator Baucus (D) who was accused of allegedly giving a senate speech while drunk about health care reform.
@Clinton S. Long
Thanks for the info. The names sound alike. Didn’t know abt Spencer.
http://www.varight.com/news/virginia-political-blog-rankings-for-11-13-2011/
FYI -For what it is worth. (Have observed Moonhowlings normally has more
comments posted than some other local blogs listed higher on this list ,but not sure
how or if that factors into the formula.)
Looks like Newt is this month’s Republcan flavor of the month:
A new national poll released today shows former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich vaulting into a virtual tie with front-runner Mitt Romney
over the last month in the Republican presidential race.
The same survey indicates businessman and former talk show host
Herman Cain’s numbers falling during the same period. Cain has been
mired in controversy for the past two weeks over allegations from
four women that he sexually harassed them in the late 1990s them
when he was head of the National Restaurant Association.
According the the CNN/ORC International poll, 24% of Republicans or
GOP-leaning independents say Romney, the former Massachusetts
governor who is making his second presidential run, is their most
likely choice for the party’s nomination. While Romney’s numbers
have remained fairly steady, Gingrich surged 14 percentage points in
popularity, up to 22%, since October. That 2-point difference is
well within the poll’s sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percent.
At the same time, Cain has fallen 11 percentage points from 25% in
October to 14% now. The poll was conducted from Friday through
Sunday, well after the news of the Cain controversy broke.
Obama kills 1,000,000 jobs. Just to appease his environmental base before the election.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/11/harper-tells-obama-canada-will-sell-oil-to-asia-since-administration-delayed-pipeline-obama-loses-another-1-million-us-jobs/
“Canada’s prime minister says he made it clear in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama that Canada will step up its efforts to sell oil to Asia since the Obama administration delayed a decision on an oil pipeline.”
So, along with the thousands of jobs lost in the Gulf because of his moratorium and the near loss of thousands of jobs because the EPA wanted to shut down 1/3 of the power plants with new regs……
Obama’s war on domestic energy production is succeeding.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/what-reagan-did-for-hollywood/248391/
Ronald Reagan, once a Democrat and an admired Labor Union leader!
@Big Dog
That’s not fair, he apologized for that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2DeQtVyJM
@Big Dog
Those pictures are amazing, Big Dog. Hard to even come close.
@Cargosquid
cargo – that article is full of bull crap. There is not 1 million jobs tied to the Keystone project. Do not believe everything you read on a blog.
Ask the Republican Governor of Nebraska why he is against the project. If Obama approved the project, the same talking heads would be complaining that Obama was approving the project just to get the jobs (about 20k construction jobs).
And, the oil will not end up in China (not necessarily) – as the Canadian’s are not going to build a pipeline to China, they may end up building it to the the West Coast, where tankers will take the oil to any refinery in the world – including US refineries.
What is the true purpose of the pipeline – as proposed, it will eventually work its way down to Texas refineries, and from there, we will ship the Gasoline, Heating oil and Diesel to the highest bidder.
FYI
According to the Post, Mrs Gloria Cain, wife of THE Cain, is scheduled to be on Greta Van
Susteren’s program, “On the Record” tonight on Fox News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57324556-503544/herman-cain-stumbles-badly-on-libya-question/?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel
Sure hope someone takes another look at Huntsman…..
Oh boy – this excuse sure didn’t work for the air traffic controllers….
Cain’s campaign told CBS News that the video is being taken out of context, and that Cain was answering 30 or 40 minutes pf questions in a sleep-deprived state. The campaign said Cain simply took a while to recall the issue, and did not say anything that is inaccurate.
@punchak
It is easy to make the mistake. Spencer Bachus is not well known. Max Baucus is better known.
@Pat.Herve
So all of the jobs indirectly tied to the Keystone pipeline don’t count? And the pipeline, if routed to the west coast, will be mainly sold to China. Do you expect the tankers to come from the Pacific through the Canal to Texas? Yep….that’s going to be sooo much safer than a pipeline.
If he had agreed to the deal for the jobs, those talking heads would have applauded…well, at least the ones actually worried about the economy. Of course, he didn’t say he was rejecting it. That’s what makes this so hypocritical. He voted “present” hoping to push this off until after the election. Now, Canada is tell him that they’ve got to get their contracts filled sooooo….never mind.
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/301122
Plus, May municipal elections in Manassas.
Mayor Parrish and Coucilmembers Bass, Way and Wolfe are up.
” Councilmembers”!
Will be interesting to follow Haymarket’s annexation plans as it seeks to
“expand tax resources” and “obtain land for industrial and commercial use”.
– Haymarket is a Town so the land would remain in Prince William County,
but also become part of Haymarket.
– The annexation might benefit Haymarket, but not sure what it would do
for the land owners except add another layer of taxes.
– Had thought any annexation would start with a petition from a majority of
the landowners seeking a jurisdiction change not a “we want/need that” from
a governing body.
– Apparently some Haymarket councilmembers think this will be a slam dunk.
I’m not so sure.
I haven’t followed it that closesly, Big Dog. Lots of other stuff going on here.
“– Apparently some Haymarket councilmembers think this will be a slam dunk.
I’m not so sure.”
I’m pretty sure it won’t be. As part of annexation, the town would have to pay the county for any public property belonging to the county, which includes the public works infrastructure. Does the Town have this kind of cash? Will it float the bonds required to raise the cash?
“As part of annexation, the town would have to pay the county for any public property belonging to the county, which includes the public works infrastructure.”
That is not correct, in fact, the county owns several parcels in the existing town.
Can anyone explain what the “Occupy” groups want?
What do they hope to accomplish?
It seems to be an ad hoc group acting out various frustrations and
juvenile angst mixed with “hey, everybody – LOOK AT US!”.
The Tea Party at least had enough brains to organize and vote for what
they wanted – not sure the Occupy crowd has that. Which may be a really
good thing.
I received a flyer today from Congressman Gerry Connolly saying “my door is always open” and he and his staff are “always available to assist Northern Virginia residents.” Next week is 2 year since I was notified I was fired by the Congressional Research Service for writing an op-ed. I emailed Zack Fields (legislative assistant) and Collin Davenport (Prince William County director) at Congressman Connolly’s office when the problem first arose asking for assistance. I followed up with more emails in the weeks leading up to my termination in January 2010 and I mailed a packet of information to my congressman’s office during the 6 months that followed when I was on the rolls of unemployed disabled veterans in Congressman Connolly’s district. To this day I’ve never had so much as the courtesy of a form letter response. Perhaps by the standards of Congress and Rep. Connolly doing absolutely nothing is considered “assistance.” I hope in 2012 his door is still open and the voters assist him out.
@Morris Davis
I wonder if he extends that offer to people who aren’t in his district?
I will trade you Wolf for Connolly. Did you try Wolf? Just tell him since we are friends we swapped.
Scalia and Thomas dined with healthcare law challengers the day the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/14/news/la-pn-scalia-thomas-20111114
So….Kagan was the solicitor that promoted ObamaCare.
Level playing field.
not really. 2 is not equal to 1.
Additionally, no one is woeing Kagan. I dont think she was the solicitor that promoted Health care reform since she worked for the executive branch and it came out of the legislative branch.
They shouldn’t have been there. She will recuse herself if need be.