Sister Toldjah!
3/22/2008 - 8:30 am

Hey ya’ll - it’ll be a light blogging weekend here as, like many of you, I will be spending time with la familia celebrating Easter.

Travel safe, and enjoy those chocoloate Easter bunnies :)

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  1. Here’s a story that I’m sure our wonderfully unbiased, watchdog media is all over. I kid, of course:

    U.S. Army Isn’t Broken After All, Military Experts Say

    In December 2006 former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell warned, “The active Army is about broken.”

    Army Maj. Gen. Bob Scales, the former head of the Army War College, agreed. He wrote in an editorial in the Washington Times on March 30:

    “If you haven’t heard the news, I’m afraid your Army is broken, a victim of too many missions for too few soldiers for too long. … Today, anecdotal evidence of collapse is all around.”

    Remember all the cries of “our Army is broken” after this one. I believe Murtha even chimed in with the same words. Apparently, shockingly, they were WRONG:

    But now, one year later, Scales has done an about-face. He says that he was wrong. Despite all the predictions of imminent collapse, the U.S. Army and the combat brigades have proven to be surprisingly resilient.

    What? The greatest fighting forces on earth are actually resilient, professional, and willing to carry on in even the toughest conditions?!

    Who’da thunk it?

    According to Army statistics obtained exclusively by FOX News, 70 percent of soldiers eligible to re-enlist in 2006 did so — a re-enlistment rate higher than before Sept. 11, 2001. For the past 10 years, the enlisted retention rates of the Army have exceeded 100 percent. As of last Nov. 13, Army re-enlistment was 137 percent of its stated goal.

    Again, seeing as how our media jumped all over stories like this when then news was bad, I’m sure they will be plastering these statistics all over page 1, right?

    Oh, my sides.

    Comment by NC Cop @ 3/22/2008 - 9:47 am

  2. No chocolate bunnies here. Only catnip mousies! :d

    Comment by Tango @ 3/22/2008 - 10:03 am

  3. Eggs goldenrod and peeps are the tradition here!

    Comment by Severian @ 3/22/2008 - 10:37 am

  4. Happy Easter, Sis! **== :d

    Sorry - I ate all the chocolate!

    Comment by benning @ 3/23/2008 - 10:06 am

  5. HAPPY EASTER DEAR!!! I hope and pray that your day is wonderful. That your time with your family is most excellent. That this day will be restful, and give you some peace. You deserve it so much. - Lorica

    Comment by Lorica @ 3/23/2008 - 11:18 am

  6. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said she “misspoke” last week when saying she had landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996.

    Link

    I think normal people call that LYING.

    ‘Mispoke’……at least they didn’t say she was joking.

    Comment by sanity @ 3/24/2008 - 7:46 pm

  7. Great minds think alike - I was blogging about this at the same time you were posting your comment, sanity :)

    Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 3/24/2008 - 7:51 pm

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