Concrete Nikes

Sometimes even I hate the right-wing media machine.

It came out today that one of the things discussed for debt reduction is the military budget. Of course came the predictable nashing of teeth beating of chests.

What can the argument be that military funding is off the table? As far as I can tell, people who make this argument are pushing one of two theories. First, the military is efficient to the point where it operates without waste. Second, that even if there is waste, to eliminate it would somehow make them combat ineffective.

Nonsense. While the military is the military, it is also government. It is also bureaucracy. Millions and billions of dollars of waste and fraud and grist go hand in hand with those things. The defense budget should be looked over and have the fat cut from it, just like every other part of the national budget.

One thing these teeth nashers are right about though is that the GOP shouldn't agree to this just for the hell of it. If we are going to cut the military then we're going to cut food stamps, welfare, research grants, NEA grants, social security, MediCade/Care, foreign aid and every other thing that this country spends its money on.

If all of these things don't get cut then don't cut the defense either. If some strange sequence of events leads to real budget slashing then the defense budget will have to be on the block as well of course. No trading on faith alone.

Not That Shocking, I Guess

I another gesture to signify that the United States now has no problem with dictators, the United States and Cuban military forces held joint exercises sometime last week at the Guantanamo Naval Base.

The exercises were to practice and gauge emergency response times in the event of natural disasters. I would venture to say that because Cuba is a dank communist hell hole and Guantanamo was built by Americans, any natural disaster would devastate all of Cuba except Guantanamo. That's besides the point though.

The real issue is that, apparently, I still can't buy a premium Cuban cigar legally but Cuban helicopters can fly all around our naval bases pretending to run some stupid disaster drill while spying on our military.

Am I insane? Does anything makes sense in this government anymore? Why are we running dills with communists? Why do we still have an embargo if we are this buddy buddy with the Flying Castro Brothers? Are we closing Club Gitmo for terroroists so we can give it to communists? Who the hell knows anymore.

This revelation is just another sick reminder about how stupid the embargo is, if we really want regime change in Cuba, fine. Do it the old fashioned way with exploding cigars, aids infested prostitutes or just a good old fashioned carpet bombing or bullet to the head. Otherwise, open the boarders, open the casinos and lets turn Havana into East Tiajuana. FYI, The prostitute one may not be real, i just like to think the C.I.A. can think that far outside the box.

Our whole foreign policy initiative is a complete sham. We play footsie all day with left wing nutjobs in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Russia, China, North Korea but we tell our long time allies the Bits and Jews to go F themselves. Diplomatically of course.

The only question left is whether or nor Obama does this intentionally as part of some left wing master plan or if Obama, Clinton, Emmanuel, etc. are just incompetent jackasses.

I could believe either at this point.



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