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Monday, January 07, 2008 |
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The Day Has Come |
Ohio State- 24 LSU- 17
****UPDATE****
I now commence eating my words. Congrats LSU, enjoy it while you have it cause we`re coming back next year. |
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 |
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My Endorsement |
Brace yourselves folks cause I am about to endorse the future-winning candidate for president. Now I know milbloggers usually don’t give their endorsement for their future Commander in Chief, and when they do it really doesn’t matter that much, but I am here to tell you that my endorsement pretty much guarantees that the specific candidate will win.
What does a T.F. Boggs endorsement mean for a presidential candidate? For starters it means that my legions of readers will vote the same way I will garnering the specific candidate at least 25 new votes. And at the very least it provides that candidate with all the motivation they could possibly need to offer me a spot in their cabinet come January 2009.
Seriously though I thought I might explain who I think I’ll be voting for at this juncture of the race and why. So who am I voting for, or rather, who do I hope I can vote for?
Rudy Giuliani.
Why I would like to vote for him will take a little longer.
In light of current events that I find important i.e. war on Islamofascism, leaks at every level of government, appointing new Supreme Court judges etc., I base my decision on Giuliani because I think he will be best able to handle those problems. Also unlike Bush I think he will be able to fend off the naysayers and haters at the same time- a la MSM stiffs and democratic congressmen.
Giuliani has the managerial experience needed to be president and also has the proven track record of cleaning up New York. I believe he could do with the CIA and State Department as he did with New York. To think that someone like Obama could be our next president scares the business out of me. Why people think that someone with no experience running a company, or even a state for that matter, could possibly be the biggest CEO of the greatest nation on the earth is beyond me. Rudy has proven that he can handle stress, catastrophe, the Mob, and millions of people under his care.
I am also completely unexcited about any other candidate save Romney who I would have to warm up to a bit more. Considering what I find important these days I don’t think any other candidate would handle them to my liking besides Rudy. Huckabee is a fraud, McCain isn’t a republican, Ron Paul is insane, and I don’t think Fred Thompson has a chance. As for the democrat candidates could someone please (seriously) explain to me what is different about them and any European socialist?
Of course I could go on about why I want to vote for Rudy but that would probably get boring. Also my vote is completely contingent upon his getting the nomination but I think he will eventually. Sure there are things I don’t like about Rudy i.e. his stance on abortion and gun control but I think he will do the best job of the available candidates in all the other areas I deem important.
And for those who say they could never vote for a pro-choice candidate I only have to say that if you don’t you are voting for the other guy any way so you might as well take the lesser of two evils. After all God is a forgiving God isn’t he?
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
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I voted in the primary. |
...via absentee ballot, about 30 seconds before my wife informed me that my candidate had dropped out that day.
So now I`m supporting Great Cthulhu for 2008. I`m tired of settling for the lesser evil. Ph`nglui mglw`nafh Cthulhu R`lyeh wgah`nagl fhtagn!
I could possibly be talked into voting for Romney or Giuliani, however.
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 |
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IRR Here I Come |
Next month I will attend my final Reserve drill weekend and I am having mixed emotions about it. On the one hand I am excited about ending the military chapter in my life and moving on to full time civilian life. I am ready to see what life is like free of restraints and commitments that will land me in jail if I don’t fulfill them.
On the other hand I am somewhat sad about finishing up with what has been the best period of my life. I have been thinking lately what my life would be like right now if I had never joined the military. Frankly it scares me to think that way. I am not sure how I would have turned out if I hadn’t had the experiences I did up until this point.
I also don’t want to think about having to watch the world change with me on the sidelines. I feel like as long as I am still in the military I am giving myself the option to hop into the arena of world events should I get the feeling to, or rather, more appropriately considering my history, should Uncle Sam get the feeling for me. Finishing up my commitment to the military doesn’t mean just freedom, it means consigning myself to making a difference in this world in some other fashion.
I have several ideas about what my future might be like, but what I have realized lately is that they are all shaped in one way or another on who I have become as a result of my military service. Now that I am relegating that service to my past in what way can I have an immediate impact for good in this world? I know some people will say things like being a teacher has a great impact upon the future leaders of our country, or that I should try mentoring others or something equally as passé but I already understand that and am choosing to aim higher.
My saving grace in all of this is the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR). When soldiers sign up for service most contracts contain two years in the IRR after their initial enlistment time is up (for me that initial time was six years). In the IRR I am still on the books for the military but I have no real responsibilities besides having to make myself available should world war three happen (or world war five if you are a fan of Podhoretz). However, in the IRR I allow myself the choice of continued training and the possibility of more deployments should I choose to volunteer. Some soldiers even make a career out of the IRR which for me is a tempting thought.
As long as I am in the IRR I feel like I have the potential to affect change in this world. Whether I actually do is up to me. Maybe this is just my way of clinging to something that I am just not ready to let go of yet. Maybe its just a way that I continue to fool myself that I am something more than just a pawn in this world. Who knows? But what I do know is that I have two more years in the IRR in order to figure things out before I have to make my final decision.
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