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Monday, February 28, 2005

Freaking white Supremacists

Ok maybe I cannot spell supremacists, but this has to be one of the most f-ed up stories I have ever heard of.

Militantpundit posted @ 10:02 PM




Last day of the month

For all of you in recruiting out there, Happy Mission day!

I have a new recruiter. He is not from the area. What does this mean to us? Well, not only does he not really know how to recruit yet, I have to teach him the lay of the land too. I am not too terribly happy about that, but I am not from the area either, so the guy that trained me had to deal with the same thing.

I did not get to think about too much today in the way of blogging. Hell, I did not even go out for lunch today. It was two sandwiches and a diet coke for me.

Did you ever just hit a point in your life where your tastes just change on a dime? I am a moderator on a major car website. I was a board member of a local car club. I was an adenine for a small website. Then, from December to I would guess February 1, my tastes changed. No longer was I even remotely interested in Car Clubs anymore. I still love cars. I just hate the idea of clubs now. To put it in engineering/ car terms I was the propulsion/ engine of the club. Others were the steering to what I did. It became a pain in the ass when I became the propulsion and the steering. I do not have any experience in the corporate world, but I really hope it is not like my experience with this car club. Backstabbing, setting people up for failure, placing too much pressure on someone for no reason. If it is, I may not want to get into the real world.

I made this observation to one of my ex-board members and he put the blame directly on one member. I tend to agree with him. It made me really concentrate more on my leadership and leading tactics. The military would call me a "coach" mentor/leader. I like showing you how to do the job, yet remain the system expert and you always know where to go when you have questions. Ask a lot of questions and demand high quality. This is usually good, but really bad on your junior people that are not so junior. I have a junior guy now in my office; so it will not be such a big deal to him. However, in 6-10 months, he will need a new leadership style from me.

The new guy is older than me, but has less rank than I do. The weird part is that he came in the military the same age that I am now as a matter of fact. I do not really know how to take that one. It makes me feel good that I move up the latter so fast, but It put me in a predicament that the military does not do that often. Oh well, I am not complaining.

Tonight is payday for me. I hope that I am able to pay off a big deal to me this week. Maybe I can. I feel like the little engine that could... I think I can... I think I can...

Wish me luck!

Militantpundit posted @ 8:35 PM




Sunday, February 27, 2005

A little miffed

So I go out on a hunt for blogs. I find the Illinipundit, which I like. He is another downstater, which makes me feel good. For all of you non-Illinoisans, Illinois is more than Chicago. For you Chicagoans, Illinois is more than your freaking city. We are all tired of paying for it. You could annex, we would be happy.

/minirant

Anyway, I go through about 100 blogs... more than half of them are in other languages, and most are freaking ADS! what the hell? Can anyone pull these things? There has to be some sort of moderation on this website.

By now, the Oscars have just turned into background noise. I am still waiting for another political Rant!

Militantpundit posted @ 9:20 PM




Star Jones freaking sucks!

So here I am all broken hearted, I came to see the Oscar Pre-Game and all I saw was Attention Whore Camera Hound Star Jones filling my TV. I wanted to see Hillary Swank being too skinny and all of the others who need tans and a cheeseburger... but what did I get? Hambone Star Jones.

The new under 5 sec Caddy commercials suck, but the cars look like they might be bad ass. An M5 contender, in speed alone from a Domestic car. I must say that I am impressed. I feel for the asshats that drive them in the SCCA though. Come on people, get a real sports car. Not a 4-door caddy.

Robin Williams is now on... I guess that the news got this one wrong too. I love it when the News gets things wrong. It makes my day. Is Shark Tale going to pick up the Oscar? I sure hope not. I think that Shrek Dos should pick this one up. Wow... The incredibles... Who would'a thunk it. Not I said the fly. Boy, Brad Bird looks like a wiener... and sounds like one too.

The furkids got to spend the day at the Dog park. They are both sacked out right now, snoring and kicking. The new dog park has a big mud hole in it right now. The boy ended up having a ton of mud on him after running through the hole to get the Frisbee. There were 3 other Border Collie owners there as well. I had a good time talking to them. It makes me feel good to see Border owners that actually take their pups out and lets them romp around. Two of the owners were playing Frisbee golf with their pups. I never understood Frisbee golf. At least here. The wind is pretty hellish at most times. I like to think of myself as an aspiring golfer. But the wind definitely plays a role in that. The Militantwife is not happy about the golf thing. She is happy with getting the kids out to the dog park as much as we can. They are getting a little spazzy at home lately.

Beyonce singing french... is there not anything that we cannot Americanize?

Will Chris Rock do any more politics?? IF so... I will be here!

Militantpundit posted @ 7:49 PM




Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Lets play a familiar song... Social security!

Today was a long day of driving trying to put people in the Military. I started thinking about this whole Social Security problem that people of my age face in the not-so-distant future. I hear a lot of people that are the "airheads" (politicians that care about being on air than in the trenches of policy) of the Congress talking about social security like it ok and nothing needs to be done about it. I for one, do not believe them and I am here to prove them wrong with their own words.

#1-Here is a link to a 1997 report chaired by Dr. Edward Gramlich, of the Federal Reserve Board. Basically he said that there were issues with the way Social Security was ran and the way that the Baby Boomers were going to do when they hit the retirement ranks. Very dry, even the executive report was very dry. This report basically mirrors what President Bush is saying present day.

#2- 10/27/98- a report was introduced by John Breaux (D-LA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) that listed Social Security reforms and retirement security enhancements. S 2313 and HR4256 were the two bills that tried to make part of social security (2% of the 12.4% Social Security tax-it makes sense to me 2% of your income, not 2% of 12%) into... well basically the Thrift Savings Plan that the Militant Pundit puts money into and most federal Employees follow my lead. As you can see, both of these bills were lost in committee. If you notice... this all happened right around the time of the impeachment buildup (Jan 7,1999 was the start of the trial- right about this time the judiciary Committee was investigating him hardcore.)

#3- President Bush was talking Social Security reform infront of a Joint Session of Congress February 28, 2001 stating:

Seven years from now, the baby boom generation will begin to claim Social Security benefits. Every one in this chamber knows that Social Security is not prepared to fully fund their retirement. And we only have a couple of years to get prepared. Without reform, this country will one day awaken to a stark choice: either a drastic rise in payroll taxes or a radical cut in retirement benefits. There is a better way. This spring I will form a presidential commission to reform Social Security. The commission will make its recommendations by next fall. Reform should be based on these principles: It must preserve the benefits of all current retirees and those nearing retirement. It must return Social Security to sound financial footing. And it must offer personal savings accounts to younger workers who want them. (Applause.) Social Security now offers workers a return of less than 2 percent on the money they pay into the system. To save the system, we must increase that by allowing younger workers to make safe, sound investments that yield a higher rate of return. Ownership, access to wealth and independence should not be the privilege of the few. They are the hope of every American, and we must make them the foundation of Social Security. (Applause.)
So here we are. Bush is taking on the same talking points from the Previous administration. Well then the times changed, we stopped talking about Social Security and started talking about Enduring Freedom and placing bombs on time on target.
In 2002, your friendly Militant Pundit has found Bill Clinton Supporting, in a way, changing Social Security. He even comes out and says to turn 1 or 2 percent away from the SSA and to the TSP! Holy Crap what a concept!
The next point I'd like to make is that I think we have to face honestly some long term reform issues. Maybe there ought to be a special commission the Democrats put together with people beyond our elected officials. When I left office, there was enough money to keep Social Security going till 2053, enough money to keep Medicare going tail 2027, through half the life of the baby boomers. I don't know what the latest numbers are going to show but they won't be good. If we don't modify the tax cut to have more tax cuts now but we reinstate fiscal responsibility over the long run, we're going to be in real trouble there. So, what's our option? If you don't like privatizing Social Security and I don't like it very much, but you want to do something to try to increase the rate of return, what are your options? Well one thing you could do is to give people one or two percent of the payroll tax, with the same options that Federal employees have with their retirement accounts; where you have three mutual funds that almost always perform as well or better than the market and a fourth option to buy government bonds, so you get the guaranteed social security return and a hundred percent safety just like you have with Social Security. Wow. I found that little Gem at the Massage Parlor's (AKA Clinton Library) website here. It was delivered 12/3/02 to the Democratic Leadership Council. Ok, I must admit, he is pushing for raising taxes, but at least he is saying that something needs to be done.
#4-Here is a long list of Democrat senators/reps saying that reforming Social Security is a good thing. These free republic guys get more money for research than I do...
More later...

Militantpundit posted @ 9:32 PM




Monday, February 21, 2005

Working on President's Day

Why is there a holiday that most people do not get off? If we are going to have a holiday, then damn lets have it off.

It was a slow news day today. About the worst news that came out today was the news about some Moonbat Teacher that had his students write up letters to the soldiers and Marines (Big Difference, If you hear someone say Soldier talking about a Marine- correct them).

Where this guy went wrong is that he decided not to read the letters that the kids sent. If he did read the letters, then this asshat needs to be fired. Period.

If I got a box of letters saying how I was blowing up Mosques or killing civilians, I am sure I would be pissed. This Marine needs to find 20 of his buddies and write back to these kids and their faculity. Hell send a couple of pictures of what they are really doing. I would even suggest that the Marine Recruiters show up as well and let the kids know what is really going on. I am sure that people will say "they are just kids". I reply to that by saying that if kids can be exposed to Moonbattery, they can be exposed to the real world.

Militantpundit posted @ 8:58 PM




Sunday, February 20, 2005

First one

Trying out this for the first time.

Today is the first day I found the list from Paris Hilton's Cell. Why should we really care about this woman anymore? Why did we in the first place? Ok She is remotely hot (that is debatable), and she parties like a rock star. So what? Why did she become Fox's darling daughter enough so they would give her a show? I respected News Corp before that decision, then simple life 2 took us down another rung towards TV hell, and now we are at the firey gates with Simple Life 3. I never wanted to call Vin Diesel before today, but the taught did run through my mind to tell him to get a better Agent. That man must have been going through attention deficit disorder when he agreed to his new movie.

As to what this blog is about. I am in recruiting for one of the armed forces in Illinois. I have been doing it a while and I have been in the Military for a little over 7 years. I have seen alot in my day and I see alot more each day that I am out here. I plan on commenting on Illinois Politics that I see are getting out of hand, and let me tell you it happens. I am also going to comment on any military articles that I see out there. Sometimes there might be something else that I want to get on my soapbox about, so there you go. I hope you enjoy coming into my world.

Militantpundit posted @ 7:45 PM




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