When pushed, call people names. I grew out of that in the 1st grade.

How about you?

and now we need to show him the door. I see you blew your cover and now it’s time for banning.

Everything you wrote is wrong.

And I like your earlier “don’t answer census” comment. Is that a joke? You do realize that, even though there is some talk about a few people on our side not answering the census for misguided reasons, we actually have a HIGHER return rate than your side does? Which means (and I DO have to spell it out to your evidently ignorant mind) we will have a statistically better chance to to electorally own your ass. I’ll see you in November – and in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.

Pelosi has never been the Majority Leader, so she’ll hardly have a chance to “remain” as such. Her constituents are San Francisco voters (which a lot of actual “teabaggin’ freaks” call ‘home’), so she might retain a House seat but she will not likely retain the Speaker gaval.

All of what you say concerning the character and fiber of Americans was likely true in 1941, and it would be great if it were true now, But, look around, it is not.

The difference is an immense demographic shift, a total loss of public morality, the feminization of a formerly virile culture, and an the final effects of a system of education that inculcates timidity.

Please dont take this as defeatism. We can win. But except at a pep rally, it is a far more dangerous mistake to overestimate your own power than to underestimate your enemies.

Put another way, the fighting caste on which you rely is still here, but it has already been almost fatally damaged. What was a majority is now a distinct minority.

You tend to ignore also the problem we have in being leaderless or “led” by posturing fops like Mitch. Our own officer corps is on the golf course and has lost the ability or the authority to command.

The leadership of the American Revolution was nothing less than extraordinary in culture, background, cunning, literate, and perpetually determine. But of greatest importance, they esteemed personal, physical bravery, and would face death in battle as a natural obligation of their class.

Ours officers in WWII were of the same mettle, but something was lost along the way. The notion that the highest calling was to lead in combat faded and has all but vanished.

But in many ways, I think you are correct. The flaw in your thesis is that you seem to feel it is enough that the foot soldiers are ready. But you fail to see that they have no Captains.

As to the visible leadership of the enemy, here again what you say is true. They are a pitiful lot. But they are pawns, mere skirmishers and totally expendible.

No, would that your confidence was well founded, but we have not even begun to understand the relentless beast we pretend to fight.

Small arms waved by a leaderless mass is nothing but an invitation to mass slaughter by effectively led and properly equipped formations.

Your trust in the militia is commendable but one I cannot share. Too much is at stake.

steiff

Thank you for doing the research on this topic. It’s a good thing to deal with facts, and you have presented those facts on this matter.

…here and in your other comments. This was the impression I had from the websites I saw, but given I’d never heard of this before, I wasn’t sure if that impression was accurate. That makes a lot more sense.

To help my understanding:
1) Why does the excerpt of the bill you reference say “Establishing” a Ready Reserve Corp when, according to you and others, there is one already in existence? Is that just legal jargon?
2) If there is indeed an existing Ready Reserve Corp, can they be pressed into involuntary service as Dan’s excerpt above seems to indicate? If so, is that a change from exisiting policy?
3) Is there any restriction on how the President can appoint members of this Corp? In other words, is it voluntary or can he institute a kind of draft if a health care emergency is declared?

The provisions are inherently noxious on serveral points.

I’ll start with one and finish my work on corecting your myopia later and in full.

For openers, as you must surely know, the fact the relevant provision do not amend Title 10 is totally immaterial.

Any amendment to any part of the U.S. Code carries the force of law throughout the entire code and what Title is ammended is strickly a clerical matter AND NOT ONE DAMN THING ELSE.

If you still dont understand take a quick look at 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 and note, dear sir, that IT IS NOT AN AMENDMENT TO TITLE 28. Yet it is one of the most potent causes of action (and remedies) jurisdictionally availaible in both federal and state court.

Don’t try your sort of distortion on folks who may know federal law and how it is made, plus service in combat, a hell of a lot better than you. You aren’t misleading me, and I am going to make certain you don’t mislead anyone else.

More to follow. Count on it.

Judge Napolitano is very smart, but not on this subject. I watched the video, and it’s a hoot if you already know something about the subject.

9/11 and especially the anthrax attack made everyone realize that we don’t have any excess capacity for a public health response to a large event. This legislation is meant to help alleviate the problem of, for example, current ‘active duty’ Public Health Service officers being on frequent call for ‘deployment’ to emergencies, e.g., Katrina, etc. They even go on the Navy hospital ships on their now-routine cruises to provide health care and show the flag. Rather than have their primary mission go un-done while the active duty folks are gone, these extra folks, the ready reserve, could be called upon.

And, as said elsewhere, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines don’t walk around armed unless they’re military police, etc. Especially health care folks – lucky to get time at the range at all, where one gets hold of the ammo and weapon on the firing line, not before.

Fla Mom

Here again streiff either avoids, bypasses, or simply misses the point.

The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) is a quasi-military organization with powers not unlike those accorded the Armed Forces under conditions of martial law. In a major health emergency, say in those arising from a foreign power’s biological or chemical attack on the United States, the powers of the USPHS and the Armed Forces are in large measure indistinguishable and coextensive.

That is why the original author who brought the matter to the attention of this site saw with instinctive clarity what this purportedly minor matter actually portends and recognized its underlying statist purpose.

So, what difference does it make that the USPHS ready reserve corps is by legislative slight of hand changed fundamentally? Jack Savage, through his questions to streitt, hits or hints at the crux of the issue.

First, the USPHS commissioned officers of the Regular Corps cannot be commissioned (and appointed as such) except by the advise and with the consent of the United States Senate. In the Ready Reserve Corps a “commissioned” officer need only be appointed DIRECTLY by the President.

No big deal. Well it is a very big deal and the linchpen to recognizing why this seemingly minor change was buried in a bill approaching 3000 pages in length.

This change alone allows Obama to rule at whim the USPHS — WITH NO REAL CHECK ON ITS COMPOSITION OR UTILIZATION.

In the Armed Forces, every officer knows that his commission depends on the prior approval of the Senate and that all significant promotions hinge on repeated Senate consent — eac step of the way. Now their may be those of you who think this factor is merely pro-forma and has no bearing on an military officer’s career. If so, you are flat wrong. I suspect there are several on this site who have seen more than one Senator look in detail at a promotion list or been required to examine a list and report back to a Senator. Trust me, it is done regularly, and if one name or other pops up, why then the entire list is held up until the nominee or nominees are striken.

So that power is taken away from the Senate, and I doubt that one single Republican Senator understood that the power was being stripped.

What does it mean? To get the point nailed home, it means Hussein CAN appoint whomever he choses to the USPHS Reserve Corps (yes, including SEIU thugs) without facing the check of the Senate AND those so appointed will automatically be integrated into the Regular Corps AS IF THEY HAD BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE BUT WITHOUT BEING CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.

I hesitate to insult the participants on this site with further unnecessary detail.
If the implications of that change are not crystal clear, I am wasting breath.

Now there is the further matter of giving the President the power to call up the whole lot for ANY EMERGENCY, and I will address that soon enough.

Finally, for this installment, for those who have not yet made the connection,
consider all this in light of Hussein’s elimination of our country’s nuclear deterrent in the small matter of our very numerous foreign enemies who do not have atomic weapons but would like to inflict on us mass causualties.

More to follow. Count on it, streitt.

Maybe you’d better define what you mean by “paramilitary?”

What exactly do you mean by that?

Dan,

Before you start quoting Judge N., you might take some time to listen to him.

He’s pretty far out there on the Libertarian view on many issues near and dear to conservatives. I’m going to be lazy here and not dig up quotes, but go read what he’s had to say about enhance interrogations, Military trials for terrorists captured in the field and bunch of other stuff.

The good Judge worships too much at the altar of the law and not common sense, which is sometimes neither a liberal sin or a conservative sin, but one of people, mostly lawyers, who are too concerned with the rules of the game and making sure the rules are followed and not what the objective is. The question of what is justice gets lost in the noise created by lawyers….

I’m more of a Judge Roy Bean sort of law West of the Pecos sort; speedy and fair trial followed by a equally swift hanging.