Remember the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, Mike Nifong? Recall that a new word was introduced into the lexicon, “Nifonged“?

Nifonged describes the railroading or harming of a person with no justifiable cause, except for one’s own gain.

There is another term that will be added shortly: Walthered. Here is my initial definition.

Walthered describes the railroading or harming of families with small children with no justifiable cause, except to cover up one’s own incompetency.

Barbara Walther, the podunk West Texas judge that has been slapped down twice for her illegal order allowing the Texas DFPS to snatch up 460 children, threw a temper tantrum and walked out of court yesterday rather than sign an agreement that was reached between CPS and lawyers for the parents and children of the FLDS.

A state district judge who had been ordered by two higher courts to send children from a polygamist sect back home refused Friday to sign an order that would have started the process of reuniting them with their parents.

The judge’s unexpected move came after four hours of legal wrangling where it appeared some of the children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) would be going home as early as Monday.

Attorneys left the courtroom scratching their heads over Judge Barbara Walther’s abrupt end of the hearing.

What happened? First, she took the agreement that had been hammered out and added her own little thoughts to it.

The sticking points centered on restrictions Walther added to an order that had been agreed upon among attorneys for Child Protective Services, the parents and the children.

Instead, Walther added additional restrictions, including restricting the parents’ movements and giving CPS 24-hour access to the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, where more than 400 children were taken from after an April 3 raid.

When the lawyers for the children objected, pointing out that two courts have ruled that she removed the children for no reason and therefore she should not add restrictions to an agreement already worked out, she banged her gavel and called a recess so that she could review it again.

“I will take a look at the order and see if I can sign it,” Walther said before declaring a recess.

When she returned, Walther said she would only agree to sign it if all 38 mothers involved in the lawsuit also signed it.

“If you provide me with an order signed by all of your clients, I will sign it,” Walther said before leaving the bench.

Roughly a minute later, as baffled attorneys discussed her decision, a bailiff ordered everyone to vacate the courtroom.

So she walks back into court and says, fine, have all 38 mothers on the original order sign this and I’ll sign it too. Then she banged her gavel again and walked out.

Knowing full well that is going to take days because of her own incompetence - these 38 mothers are spread to the four corners of the state of Texas. And Texas isn’t Rhode Island.

That “essentially incarcerates the children and the mothers of our children for another 48 hours,” said Laura Shockley, a Dallas attorney, moments after startled lawyers filed out of the Tom Green County Courthouse.

You’re correct, Ms. Shockley. You’ve been Walthered.

And it looks like some of the people from Eldorado, where this stupidity started, are getting tired of it too.

Many here cheered the raids, but on Friday residents were fuming. “I absolutely don’t agree with what they do,” Curtis Phillips, 33, said of the FLDS as he worked the register at the town’s feed and mercantile store. “But blowing in that ranch like cowboys and taking all those kids — that was just stupid. That’s why people like me don’t trust the government.”

Curtis Griffin, 45, owner of the local fuel depot, counts many FLDS members as customers. He blamed Sheriff David Doran, who is up for reelection, for mischaracterizing the entire sect as pedophiles.

“I said from the word go, if there’s sex with underage girls, nail their butt,” said Griffin. “But nail the right people. We’re going to wind up with a $30-million bill here in this little county because these people didn’t have their ducks in a row.”

(h/t to Grits commenter kbp for the Walthered idea)

Where in the world?

The man who played Hedley Lamarr in “Blazing Saddles” is dead.

More at Hot Air.

HOW-COULD-I-FORGET UPDATE: A colleague reminds me that Korman also played Count de Monet in “History of the World: Part I.”

According to Politico’s Jonathan Martin, it’s right here baby!

Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.

In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit to portray McClellan as a classic Washington opportunist.

“There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,” Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.”

Michael Marshall, Dole’s spokesman and colleague at the Alston Bird law firm, confirms the message came from the former senator and presidential candidate.   ”Yes, it is authentic,” Marshall wrote in an email.

“In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you,” Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate.  “No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years”

Heh; there’s more, read the whole thing.

This year’s presidential election might be remembered as the one with the most “faith” injected into it, although “faith” seems to have no place in the pastors that are being featured at the end of it. Everyone is familiar by now with Obama’s mentor and spiritual advisor Jeremiah Wright’s rantings.

A new name has recently surfaced, spewing much the same venom as Wright, even from the same pulpit as Wright. Fr. Michael Pfleger has gotten into the game, also on Obama’s team.

Not willing to leave Obama hanging in the wind, the media tried to pin John Hagee’s rants on John McCain, even though McCain had never sat in a pew at Mr. Hagee’s church. Worked for about a minute, until McCain thoroughly rebuked the words and dismissed Mr. Hagee’s endorsement.

Now, we have another dufus priest getting into the game, I suppose in an attempt to level the playing field. His name is Monsignor James Lisante and here is how he “prays”.

“Please Lord, tell Senator Obama that maybe change is a good thing,” prayed Lisante. “And maybe he should think about changing his favorite preacher.”

“I know a lot more of us would be comfortable with his judgment skills if he hadn’t sat for twenty years through those words, often by his preacher of division, bigotry and honestly half truths, without a word of objection from Senator Obama. That is until the media brought it up, now he doesn’t want have any part of the guy. I’m willing to be his new preacher.”

Somehow, that prayer doesn’t remind me of this.

A quick search tells me that Monsignor Lisante is the pastor of Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish in West Hempstead, N.Y. He even has his own website, where he can place lots of pictures of himself with celebrities.

Is this what we are reduced to? Pastors condemning our country and mocking prayer? What would happen if pastors, of all faiths, started to apply their professed faith to themselves?

After losing two court battles, you’d think that Texas CPS officials would be humbled and comply with the spirit of the court’s decision - return the children of the FLDS to their parents, post haste. If you think that, you’ve never dealt with this agency and the arrogance that comes with thinking that they know best.

Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Families and Protective Services, which had asked the court to rule in its favor, said the agency was “disappointed but we understand and respect the court’s decision and will take immediate steps to comply. Child Protective Services has one purpose in this case - to protect the children.

“Our goal is to reunite families whenever we can do so, and make sure the children will be safe,” Meisner said. “We will continue to prepare for the prompt and orderly reunification of these children with their families.”

In other words, we are going to do what we are going to do, on our timetable, on our terms, so blow off. They also said,

In an official statement, CPS officials indicated that they will comply with the ruling.

“We will continue to prepare for the prompt and orderly reunification of these children with their families,” the statement said. “We also will work with the district court to ensure the safety of the children and that all of our actions conform with the decision of the Texas Supreme Court.”

That would be the same district court, lorded over by Judge Barbara Walther, that created this mess in the first place and has been an active cheerleader for CPS’s actions, encouraging and allowing them to present totally irrelevant evidence in court for the sole purpose of enhancing their case in the press and general public by appealing to emotions. You think she’s going to release these children now? Without tying them up in knots at every opportunity? Not a chance.

Joe Spurlock, a law professor at Texas Wesleyan University and a former Tarrant County family court judge, said Child Protective Services could still try, case by case, to block some of the children from returning home.

“The court says it’s not over; it’s not dismissed,” Spurlock said Thursday. “They’re just saying you don’t have the evidence you should have. I think it’s as murky as it can be, and the lawyers who are representing the kids and the mothers are doing a good job for their clients. CPS has to come forward with their evidence. How they get it? I don’t know.”

So, as much as I’d like to think that justice has prevailed, it hasn’t, yet. The only way that justice will have prevailed is for those children to be back home with their families this weekend. Think that’s going to happen? Don’t hold your breath.

Who let da snakes out?

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New age philosophy! False gods! Violence on the walls! Slaves in the cotton fields! Scandalous, I tell you.

“When she showed it to me, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” said Hansell, who added that the mural presents a new age idea of peace and unity that could be confusing to Christian students. Hansell said she’d also like a more positive image of African Americans. “It doesn’t even represent even a fingernail of the faith here in Bastrop County and what (residents) believe.”

Among the images on the mural are an Aztec sun, ancient Egypt’s King Tutankhamen, Buddha and Shiva, a Hindu deity, dancing on a demon of ignorance.

Oh, my gosh! It will corrupt the students! We know that peace and unity are confusing to all Christians!

What, you might ask, in the heck am I talking about? A mural. A mural that is on the wall of Bastrop High School. A mural that has been on the wall of Bastrop High School since 2003. A mural that has been on the wall of Bastrop High School since 2003 with nary a peep from anyone that it might be harmful to their eyes or morals. And then….along comes Lauren Hansell.

To point out the sins of this mural. And to insist that it be removed. And you know what the funniest thing about this is?

Bastrop resident Lauren Hansell, who made the original complaint, homeschools her children but visits the school on Fridays to pray with students at the flagpole.

Good grief. Get a life.

BENZION ADDS–Here is the mural that, apparently, contains the power to destroy the faith of those who follow Jesus.

I am Art; FEAR ME!

You, on your way to the flagpole–feel your faith decline!
Bow down to the images of these Pagan Gods!

In today’s editorial about school safety, the editors of the Houston Chronicle lazily rewrite paragraphs from the New York Times. In many cases, phrases are simply lifted wholesale:

Times:

Mr. de la Pomerai was attending a long-planned international conference on school safety in Islamabad even as armies of rescuers were clawing at the remains of collapsed schools in China’s Sichuan province.

Chron:

Just a day after the Sichuan disaster, a long-planned international conference on school safety took place in Islamabad, Pakistan, attended by agencies involved in the massive reconstruction efforts in areas of Pakistan devastated by an earthquake in 2005.

Times:

After the Pakistan quake, he joined a growing international coalition of engineers, safety and community activists, earthquake experts and disaster agency officials trying to transform schools from death traps into havens when disaster strikes.

Chron:

After the Pakistan earthquake, reports The New York Times, an international coalition of engineers, earthquake experts, activists and disaster agencies joined forces.

Times:

The movement really began in California in 1933, when 70 schools collapsed around Los Angeles in the so-called Long Beach earthquake and a mob sought to lynch a city school-building inspector. It was after hours when the quake occurred, and the inspector escaped the mob. But a month later the legislature passed what is now called the Field Act, a school earthquake-safety law with strict standards and penalties, requiring careful design and independently inspected construction.

Chron:

The first stirrings of activism in school safety began in California in 1933 with the “Long Beach” earthquake, in which 70 Los Angeles-area schools collapsed. A month later the state Legislature passed the Field Act, a strict school earthquake safety law.

Times:

Since then, no student or teacher has been hurt during a quake in schools built in accordance with the act.

Chron:

Since then, no student or teacher has been hurt during a quake in a school built under the Field Act’s terms.

Times:

And the cost of repairing damage to those schools has ranged from 10 to 100 times below repair costs for other schools

Chron:

Technology and cost are not major issues, experts say, but savings — over and above lives — are significant, with repairs running 10 to 100 times less, reports the Times, than in unimproved buildings.

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and voila! It’s an editorial.

As we noted here, 7 year old Tanner Monk was mauled to death by pit bulls. Maybe, just maybe, the arrests of the owners of these beasts will give pause to other irresponsible owners because the penalty is steep.

Both Smith and Watson are charged with a dog attack resulting in death, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. The law went into effect in September 2007.

Perhaps Kelley Siegler would consider prosecuting these two numbskulls.

Over the holiday weekend I saw 107 year old Frank Buckles, the last surviving World War I Veteran in the United States, interviewed on one of the nightly news broadcasts. I made a mental note to post a link to this and completely forgot. I am ashamed.

We have a unique opportunity to bear witness to living history. Let us not squander this history.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America’s involvement in the First World War and 4,734,990 are gone. He is feeling fine, thank you for asking.

The eyes of the last doughboy are still sharp enough for him to be a keen reader, and his voice is still deep and strong at age 107. He must have been a fine broth of a boy when, at 16, persistence paid off and he found, in Oklahoma City, an Army recruiter who believed, or pretended to, the fibs he had unavailingly told to Marine and Navy recruiters in Kansas about being 18. He grew up on a Missouri farm, not far from where two eminent generals were born — John “Black Jack” Pershing and Omar Bradley.

“Boys in the country,” says Buckles, “read the papers,” so he was eager to get into the fight over there. He was told that the quickest way was to train for casualty retrieval and ambulance operations. Soon he was headed for England aboard the passenger ship Carpathia, which was celebrated for having, five years earlier, rescued survivors from the Titanic.

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Buckles is reading David McCullough’s “1776.” That date is just 18 years more distant from his birth than today is.

Amazing!

Short answer: No. Are they more secure than they were January 19, 2001? I believe all evidence points to the affirmative. For your consideration:

In 2000 there were approximately 9000 border patrol agents. By the time Bush leaves office that number is projected to double to 18,000. Apprehensions and deportations are up. Illegal crossings are down.

The ever-expanding Val Verde County jail is filled with would-be yardmen and maids, immigrants awaiting deportation. They’ve been caught in a law enforcement dragnet known as “Operation Streamline,” a zero tolerance program that began here and has since spread both east and west along the Mexican border.

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In all of 2007, 22,920 people were apprehended in the Del Rio sector, many of whom passed through the Val Verde jail. In 1974, the oldest year-end figures available, almost twice that many, or 44,806, were caught. They don’t count how many get through, but officials believe fewer captures mean fewer illegal crossings.

“Catch and release” is no longer the norm:

Now the buzz phrase is “catch and detain,” meaning virtually everybody who gets caught is sent to federal court or returned home immediately.

The result has been a logistical and financial burden for the U.S. Department of Justice, which must add attorneys and staff to bring charges against those being held. U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently called the burden “staggering.”

Detention facilities have been constructed:

Along with it has come an almost insatiable demand for jail space.

Eight years ago, for example, the Val Verde Correctional Facility had only 180 beds. This year, after completing its second 600-bed expansion, the maximum security jail has room for 1,425 prisoners, an increase of almost 800 percent.

While the state prisoner population has remained flat at about 70 to 80 a day on average, the numbers serving time for immigration and drug offenses have skyrocketed, officials say.

“If it wasn’t for federal prisoners we wouldn’t need any of this. It just wouldn’t be necessary,” Jernigan said during a recent tour of the massive facility he oversees in Del Rio. “This is a federal court city and there’s a need to house federal prisoners here.”

Two brand new prisons specializing in federal detainees are also rising up along the Texas-Mexico border south of here — a 654-bed unit being erected in Eagle Pass and a 1,500-bed jail nearing completion in Laredo.

Like the Val Verde lock-up, the privately-run facilities belong to the Geo Group, Inc., formerly known as Wackenhut, which last year experienced its strongest financial performance ever, the company said.

Even the largest jail for illegal immigrants, the Willacy County Detention Center, was too small to accommodate federal demands. Located in Raymondville, Texas — nicknamed “prisonville” — it’s expanding capacity from 2,000 to 3,000 beds this year, officials say.

Do a Google Yahoo search of “immigration raids” and you’ll find hundreds of stories demonstrating federal officials are attacking the problem from that direction as well.

New border fencing, while progressing painfully slow, has been demonstrated to be very effective.

In my opinion, more has been done to secure the border during the last seven years than the previous 40 years combined. Is the border secure? Of course not. Is Bush responsible for the gains made? Not all of them, and many of the improvements were made with you the voters dragging him (and Congress) kicking and screaming. But to say that the border is less secure since he took office is intellectually dishonest.

Talk amongst yourselves.

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Hey there, LST readers and members, how’s about we help out Williamson County DA John Bradley?

“The public needs to know that a dangerous killer is being considered for early release,” Bradley said in the statement. “We can never be too vigilant when it comes to someone like James Clary.”

What did James Clary do?

The men were accused convicted of kidnapping a University of Texas student as she walked on campus, robbing her and raping her in the back seat of her own car as the men took turns driving toward a secluded farm road near Hutto. Once there, they bound 23-year-old Rosalind Robison’s hands and made her kneel on the ground.

I helped out Ms. Mixon, the writer of that post by striking out accused and replacing it with convicted. Habit.

So, how can you help? Send a letter. C’mon, it doesn’t cost much and won’t take much time out of your busy day.

Protest letters should be addressed to Board of Pardons and Parole, PO Box 13401, Austin, TX 78711. Be sure to include the TDCJ-ID number for James Otis Clary: 00406109.

What shoud you say? Whatever floats your boat. I said, “Please keep this repeat offender away from my daughter, who is currently attending UT. Thank you.”

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is in the news for writing a memoir that apparently trashes his former friend boss. He even goes so far as to conclude that President Bush deludes himself because he overheard one side of a phone call.

“‘The media won’t let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,’ I heard Bush say. ‘You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.’”

“I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?” McClellan wrote. “How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn’t make a lot of sense.”

Bush, according to McClellan, “isn’t the kind of person to flat-out lie.”

“So I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It’s the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true,” McClellan wrote. “And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious — political convenience.”

If I were a cynic, I’d say that Mr. McClellan’s newfound clairvoyance was a matter of convenience - of the quick cash variety.

The current White House spokesperson had this to say:

“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement. “For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew.”

I’ll bet that they didn’t know he was a foreign policy expert either:

In a surprisingly harsh assessment from the man who was at that time the loyal public voice of the White House, McClellan called the Iraq war a “serious strategic blunder.”

“The Iraq war was not necessary,” he concludes.

From being hated by the press because of his incompetence to being revered by the press for reinforcing their Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Time for Karl Rove to fire up his patented Weather Machine and send a tornado McClellan’s way.

As you may have seen, voters in the City of Galveston ousted two incumbents and elected four outsiders in the recent City Council election. One of the newly elected council members asked his staff to research the creation of a civilian review board for the police department. Bad move on his part.

Less than 24 hours after Woods requested the review board’s creation, police officer John Bertolino, a past union president, submitted a public information request for Woods’ personnel files and documentation about delinquent city taxes and legal judgments against him.

The officer was even on-duty when he made the request. Officer Bertolino makes no apologies.

The association will publicize whatever it finds, Bertolino said.

“If Tarris Woods is going to be a rogue council member and anti-police, it wouldn’t take a whole lot to do a recall election,” Bertolino said.

An elected official gets harassed by an on-duty police officer because he dared to think about creating a civilian review board. And some wonder why the police are getting a bad reputation?

Woods has asked for information about where Bertolino was supposed to be patrolling when he stopped by city hall to file his request. Woods also wants to know the rules governing police officers’ participation in political matters or conducting personal business while on duty.

Doesn’t Mr. Woods know that Officer Bertolino was protecting the police from civilian review? Why patrol the projects when you can go down to City Hall and bully a council member?

Cal Thomas nails it:

Mr. Obama thinks he can negotiate with evil and transform evil into something else. Initially his foreign policy platform was a naive pledge to meet “unconditionally” with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba and other nations dominated by dictators. In recent days he has changed his tune somewhat. He would still meet with the heads of these mini evil empires without preconditions, but “there must be careful preparation. We will set a clear agenda.”

This leads to an important question: On what basis does a free nation negotiate with nations that are not free? Does Mr. Obama expect leaders who got where they are by undemocratic, even violent, means to embrace press freedom, religious liberty, political pluralism and rights for women? What would evil leaders demand of him? Any concession given to dictators, who are not known for keeping their promises, would surely result in the United States being taken less seriously and contribute to undermining our national security.

Mr. Obama’s “strategy” for dealing with evil is the progeny of a secular age that sees everything bad as curable through counseling, good intentions masquerading as wishful thinking and/or pharmaceutical intervention.

Come to think of it, didn’t Osama, Saddam, Nasrallah, Ahmanijedad and Kim Jong-Il all grow up in homes covered with lead paint?

Let me ’splain you about WWII!

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In an outrageous display of placing personal ambition above common decency, the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas walked all over the graves of the men and women that gave their all for our country. On a day that was designed to give us pause and to honor those men and women, Lt. Col. Rick Noriega chose to draw attention away from them and to himself.

Texas needs two senators fighting for our veterans and our families. It is reprehensible that Cornyn supports keeping our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but refuses to provide for our soldiers once they return home. As a public servant, as a soldier and as a Texan, I am ashamed of Cornyn’s continued efforts to deny our troops the benefits they earned defending the United States.

I noted here that it would be a rough weekend for Sen. Cornyn and that Rick Noriega’s character was seriously in question. Even I did not, however, think that he would stoop so low on Memorial Day. In my naiveté, I thought that a man that has fought alongside those that sacrificed all would, at the very least, spend the day with the families of those men and women or perhaps attend a quiet memorial or just sit and hold his son Ricky, reflecting on the loss of so many.

I was wrong. They say that there is no honor among thieves and it must be true as well for ambitious, characterless politicians.

Just to be certain that people didn’t miss his grandstanding op-ed in the Chron, his campaign was working on Memorial Day, sending out emails, “highlighting” his attack upon Sen. Cornyn and linking to the Chron.

To read the entire piece, please click here. Once you’ve read the Op-Ed, be sure to forward the link to all of your friends and family.

Have a safe and happy holiday.

Sincerely,

Mark Bell
Campaign Manager
Rick Noriega for Texas

Not a word about the meaning of Memorial Day or why we should remember those that sacrificed. Sad, really.

Sen. Cornyn wasn’t alone in being attacked on Memorial Day. The New York Times shamelessly attacked President Bush in an editorial so over the top that it had this statement:

This page strongly supports a larger, sturdier military.

That the New York Times would make a statement like that given their history, both past and present, is laughable. Utterly laughable. That’s like Jane Fonda telling us that she supports the troops.

The editorial was so over the top that the White House felt compelled to issue a retort.

In today’s editorial, “Mr. Bush and the GI Bill”, the New York Times irresponsibly distorts President Bush’s strong commitment to strengthening and expanding support for America’s service members and their families.

Replacing “the New York Times” with “Rick Noriega” and “President Bush’s” with “Sen. Cornyn’s” we get this:

Rick Noriega irresponsibly distorts Sen. Cornyn’s strong commitment to strengthening and expanding support for America’s service members and their families.

Even sadder than the attacks on Memorial Day is the lefty blogesphere’s embrace of them.

I’ll agree with our rightwing friends on one count. His character is, indeed, showing. Just maybe not quite the way they want to frame it.

Hard to believe that walking on the graves of those that sacrificed for our country is now viewed as a sign of good character by the left. I suppose it isn’t hard to believe though - they’ve been doing it for years. The lefty blogger also says this:

The party that denied there was ever a recruiting struggle on the part of the armed forces are now concerned about retention?

Even a cursory knowledge of the HR field will tell you that retention is far better than recruiting. Not only does it maintain a stable workforce, it maximizes the huge investment in training that is provided. Making for a safer military.

Apparently, the left doesn’t really care about that. They have a headline grabbing talking point. Yippee.

Continental pilot startled by encounter with ‘rocket’

Would y’all quit shooting rockets at airplanes?

Someone needs their own strategy!