Interesting Items DeCA Alex Gimarc Monday April 1, 2013 Interesting Items 4/01 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. DeCA 2. Freezing 3. Cyprus 4. Homo Wars 5. Stomping 1. DeCA. DeCA is the DoD acronym for the Defense Commissary Agency, the outfit that controls on-base commissaries. Due to the sequester they have taken about a $130 million hit to a $1.371 billion FY 2013 budget. As a result, they laid off all trainee cashiers, put a nationwide hiring freeze on, with new hires controlled at the DoD level, and cut back on staffing at individual stores. The end result of all these machinations, at least here in Anchorage is a checkout line wrapping halfway around the store even when it was not particularly busy due to half the normal checkout ladies working. The staff was frantic at not being able to help their customers and not being able to do anything about it. I have just under 40 years experience with the military commissary system, and have been through two military drawdowns post-Vietnam in the 1970s and post-Cold War. Both times the real DoD budget was cut by roughly a third. We did less with less. It was pretty uncomfortable, but that is what this nation does after we finish a war. This is the first time in my experience that anyone has ever screwed around with the on-base commissary system. As far as I am concerned, it is intentional, specifically intended to inflict as much discomfort on families of active duty military, retirees, veterans, and on-base employees as humanly possible. And it is working. This administration and their political appointees in DoD are going after everyone associated with the military- past and present – in order to make some smarmy little political point. So far, they have gone after tuition assistance, the commissary system. Next up is disability pay for retirees. This is what we get when we elect a Marxist and his Chicago-based political machine. Enjoy the ride. 2. Freezing. Great Britain has had a pretty tough winter this year. This is the third cold one in a row and the results of their concerted move toward renewable energy (wind) and regulatory obstruction of coal and nuclear energy is having its predictable results – very, very expensive energy at a time when they need a lot of it in order to stay alive. In fact, energy in Great Britain is now so expensive that British papers are reporting people freezing to death at a rate of about one death every five minutes. Due to the expense of energy, pensioners, usually the elderly on fixed incomes, are forced to make the choice between eating and keeping warm. When there isn’t enough money to go around, something has to give, and in this case, it is human life. This is completely unnecessary, as energy can and should be cheap, robust in generation and distribution, and abundant. This is what happens when we put the environmentalists in charge of our energy choices. This is the future the Obama administration has in mind for us. It is why they are busily locking up all coal and coal fired electrical generation in a rats’ nest of new rules, regulations and emissions standards. The only thing saving us is the energy boom on privately held and state held lands that the Obama greens have not yet figured out how to shut down. Read the story out of Great Britain here: http://www.express.co.uk/news/ uk/387544/Snow-chaos-How-big- freeze-is-killing-one-person- every-five-minutes 3. Cyprus. Zero Hedge reports that the very rich may have managed to get their money out of the two Cypriot banks targeted by the EU and the IMF for theft of private savings accounts. The two banks had branch offices open in London and Russia which were not closed by Cyprus government authorities and Zero Hedge believes that the very rich account holders were able to quietly pull their money out of the banks in the two weeks since the banking crisis hit. Everyone left will lose a reported 60% of their life savings to these thieving vermin. It is important to remember what is happening here. This is an all-out assault on private property. People who have savings accounts in these banks do not in any way hold pieces of the actual bank. They are not shareholders or owners. They are customers for banking services. Their accounts are also insured against loss. Normally when a business goes under, the business and its shareholders and bond holders take the financial hit. They also share profits when the enterprise is making money. But this time around, the EU and the IMF are going after private property – the individual savings of banking customers – in return for bailout loans. And the game appears to be spreading to Spain and Italy. Expect congressional democrats and the Obama administration to try to do the same thing with savings and investment accounts here in the US as soon as they can figure out how to pull the trigger. 4. Homo Wars. Last week the SCOTUS heard two gay rights cases. The first was California’s Prop 8, the ballot initiative that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The second was a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. In the runup to the hearings, we were treated to a nationwide full court political press by the media, activists and cowardly democrat politicians all in support of the SCOTUS tossing out both measures. Prop 8 was most disturbing, as it was tossed as unconstitutional after a Ninth Circus judge, who happened to be a homosexual living in a long term partnership, managed to get himself appointed to sit in judgment over it. He acted as an advocate rather than a judge and at a very minimum should have recused himself from the proceedings. As I understand the arguments before the SCOTUS last week, nobody on either side acquitted themselves very well. We have on the SCOTUS, four judges – a pair of Obama appointees and a pair of Clinton appointees that are ready, willing and able, to make law on both topics. The other five are all over the place, mostly not wanting to play. Opinion should be rendered in early summer. As a political topic, homosexual marriage may be a loser for conservatives, as the culture – due primarily to the indoctrination efforts of the government schools – particularly among the young appears to be changing. I say appears because I cannot separate the advocacy campaign in support of this from what is not. Democrats are falling all over themselves coming out in support of gay marriage, something they held at arm’s length as recently as four years ago. Republicans in general are doing their level best to keep their collective heads down, hoping the entire issue goes away. Before we toss many tens of thousands of human history out the window, perhaps we ought to have a real discussion about what we are changing and why. Democrats, pandering as always are simply fishing for campaign donations, which they will get from the newest members of the democrat plantation – homosexual activists. Republicans simply don’t want to get beat about the head and shoulders by the media – simple pain avoidance. When this changes, and as of this writing, it looks like it will, we will be faced with some very important questions. First among them will be what happens to the children? One of the things that fall out of normalization of homosexual marriage is that gay couples will be able to adopt and raise children. There is no data out there demonstrating that this is a positive development for anyone involved. Indeed, there is data that demonstrates gay men are about 100 times as likely to commit sexual abuse on young boys as those who are not. Is this a positive place to put youngsters? I would submit that it is not. Unfortunately, the momentum behind this societal change is such that this is going to take place and harm large numbers of kids before sanity prevails once again. But what is the minor cost of protecting a generation of children from sexual abuse when we can embrace the glorious future of gay rights? 5, Stomping. - A professor at Florida Atlantic University decided to celebrate the runup to Easter and Holy Week with an in-class exercise requiring his students to write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper and stomp on it. The class was “Intercultural Communications.” The exercise came out of the textbook. And in his spare time, the Prof, one Deandre Poole is also the Vice Chairman of the Palm Beach County Democrat Party. One student protested the exercise and was immediately kicked out of the class, suspended from the school and is reportedly now being investigated by FAU for threatening behavior toward the professor. Not unexpectedly, there was a huge outcry against the Prof and FAU. The university did the standard non-apology apology and then when that didn’t work, went into full CYA / groveling mode. The Prof went out on leave for a bit. Florida Governor Rick Scott got involved with a very public demand that FAU explain precisely why insulting all Christians is a positive learning objective being paid for by public funds. As of this writing, the festivities continue. There were a couple reports that the student was going to be allowed to complete classwork under the tutelage of a different Prof. But the stories of an investigation and retaliation by the FAU administration persist. Should they not back off, I predict that this student will end up with all college bills paid by virtue of a very expensive lawsuit win against both the Prof and FAU. Sadly, there was only a single student that stood up to this petty tyrant. And he is a petty tyrant, a cowardly one at that. Note that he did not use the word “Mohammad” or “Koran” in the exercise. I wonder why. (/sarc) We are in a time of Christian bashing, where it is perfectly acceptable to say anything and do anything to Christians. And I believe we are up to it. Is the left up our response, for there will be a response. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. 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