Comments on: Weekend open thread

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:51:43 +0000

Great minds think alike – I was blogging about this at the same time you were posting your comment, sanity

By: sanity

sanity — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:46:08 +0000

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.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:18:46 +0000

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

By: benning

benning — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:06:14 +0000

Happy Easter, Sis!

Sorry – I ate all the chocolate!

By: Don Surber » Blog Archive » Closed thread

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Closed thread — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:36:10 +0000

[...] I notice a lot of bloggers on the weekend extend to their commenters a post on which they can post any comment they want. My blog is not like that. If you want an open thread, visit Sister Toldjah. [...]

By: Severian

Severian — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:37:56 +0000

Eggs goldenrod and peeps are the tradition here!

By: Tango

Tango — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:03:19 +0000

No chocolate bunnies here. Only catnip mousies!

By: NC Cop

NC Cop — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:47:13 +0000

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.