Prime's Worm Hole : Mullin Argues Mediocrity over Meritocracy

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Mullin Argues Mediocrity over Meritocracy

Admiral Michael Mullen (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) is clearly on board with the egalitarian politburo that now passes for military leadership in America.

Military members who have a problem with a change in policy to allow gays to serve openly may find themselves looking for a new job, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Thursday.
Mullen told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that the military is based on meritocracy, "what you do, not who you are." He said if Congress changes the don't ask, don't tell policy then the U.S. military will comply.
And if some people have a problem with that, they may not want to join the service.
"Should repeal occur, some soldiers and Marines may want separate shower facilities. Some may ask for different berthing. Some may even quit the service," Mullen said. "We'll deal with that."
Mullen added that "there is no gray area" in the debate when it comes to standards of conduct in the military.

"We treat each other with respect or we find another place to work. Period," he said.

Listening to the man speak and reviewing his words makes it plain to me where his loyalties and allegiances truly lie and they obviously don't lie with true service or commitment to this nation.

We treat each other with respect? Or we find another place to work? Really admiral, is that your best defense for an indefensible and detrimental policy that you have to know will harm this nation's military?

Here is a clue admiral Mullen. The United States military services, are not 'just some place to work.' They are each an honored corps of individuals, who have sworn allegiance to this nation and they have sworn an oath to protect it. So maybe it's just me admiral? But I believe that somehow that makes it a wee bit different than simply a job.

Somehow? I believe that as it concerns homosexuals serving openly in the military? That there are going to be a lot of Americans that are as you say admiral..."going to have a problem with that." And as a result, not only are we going to lose good people to this grandiose egalitarian ruse, but we will no longer be able to recruit those who otherwise might have chosen a military career. Or at least they might have chosen one tour of duty in support of their country.

You are right on one count admiral....there are no gray areas in the military, but the creation of "gay areas" in the military and flag officers supporting it, will certainly spell the degradation of over two centuries of honored service by those who have gone before. And here is another clue admiral. There were and have always been homosexuals in the American military during its entire history. They difference being? They just never sought to fulfill some individual need to wear their sexuality on their sleeve and have it supported by the commander in chief and the joint chiefs, as if it were some badge of exclusivity or honor.

Yes admiral, there will be more than a few now who will opt to quite military service. And their numbers will be matched and surpassed by those who will now refuse to consider military service as an option under these circumstances. And yes, you will deal with it in the limited time that you have left, spent further disgracing your uniform as no more than a plebe to your egalitarian masters.

Meanwhile, all you have accomplished is to become a co-conspirator to those who are further tearing down this country. In my day, we were taught that regardless of our feelings for the man, what we were saluting was the uniform.

I believe those times have changed admiral. When there are those who can so willingly besmirch their uniform, by failing to stand for duty, honor and country? Then I for one believe they deserve no salutes. Nor does the uniform that they have intentionally disgraced by their actions.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.