April 2013 Archives

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta requested Jeremy Goulet's military records be reviewed inferring that, if the military had done their job, Goulet would not have been free to kill two Santa Cruz, CA police detectives.

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer jumped into the fray stating Goulet had slipped through the system of military justice which has consistently failed to prevent sexual assault within its own ranks.  Moreover, the Defense Department estimates there were 19,000 cases of sexual assault in the military during 2011.  These figures, if accurate, indicate there were 52.06 sexual assaults per day or 2.17 per hour which means a military person could be subject to some form of sexual assault during the time it takes to read this article.

First it's a "Fiscal Cliff" and now it's called a "Sequester" whereby predetermined budgetary cuts are made resulting in massive unemployment and the end of all this mythical prosperity we have experienced during the past few years!  No matter how this fiscal problem is defined, this nation has borrowed more than 16 trillion dollars of which $1.327 trillion was charged against our national credit card during the fiscal year ending in 2012.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has complained to Congress that huge cuts in the military budget will jeopardize the current military mission in the Middle East involving thousands of our friends and neighbors.  It would appear he has a point; except, well there is this recent McClatchy Newspaper editorial pointing out there are more than 2,000 Abrams tanks sitting idle at the Sierra Army Depot near Reno Nevada at a cost of $8 million per tank.  Moreover, Congress wants the army to build 280 more even though the Army says it has more than enough these tanks; instead, the military is pushing for development of a next generation tank.  The Abrams is vulnerable to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other modern weapons thus rendering it to a multi-million dollar coffin.