Know who I wish would check into the poshest Retirement Lodge in Elderabuse, Arizona? John McCain...

[Rand_Rover]

@Lobohan

Read it again. The President, the Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs have to certify that it won’t affect readiness.

I’m not sure how to ask the same thing for a third time, but I’ll try. Your cite indicates that a Pentagon study will be done. But it doesn’t say that the Pentagon study must make a finding regarding whether DADT repeal affects readiness.

[Zakalwe]

@Rand_Rover

I’m not sure how to ask the same thing for a third time, but I’ll try. Your cite indicates that a Pentagon study will be done. But it doesn’t say that the Pentagon study must make a finding regarding whether DADT repeal affects readiness.

You are a fucking idiot. THE PRESIDENT, THE DEFENSE SECRETARY, AND THE CHIEF OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF MUST ALL CERTIFY THAT IT DOESN’T AFFECT READINESS OR IT DOESN’T BECOME LAW.

Is that clear enough, COUNSELOR?

Gotta wonder about a “lawyer” who can’t read a fucking law and understand it.

[Lobohan]

@Rand_Rover

I’m not sure how to ask the same thing for a third time, but I’ll try. Your cite indicates that a Pentagon study will be done. But it doesn’t say that the Pentagon study must make a finding regarding whether DADT repeal affects readiness.

I think I see what you’re missing, here is another cite:

From: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/white-house-supports-dont-askdont-tell-repeal-with-compromise-timeline.html

The amendment states that the repeal won’t take place until after:

• the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group finishes its study on implementing the change;

• the President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff send Congress a written certification signed by all three of them stating that they’ve all considered the recommendations, the Pentagon has prepared the necessary policies and regulations to implement it, and that the new policy is “consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the Armed Forces.”

Is this more clear?

[Boyo_Jim]

You had me at Wasilla Kraken.

[Rand_Rover]

@Lobohan

I think I see what you’re missing, here is another cite:

From: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/white-house-supports-dont-askdont-tell-repeal-with-compromise-timeline.html
Is this more clear?

Yes, thanks.

[Northern_Piper]

@BlankSlate

I think it’s time for a mandatory retirement age across the federal gummint, including the supreme court. Maybe 70 or 75.

Both senators from Hawaii are 85 and both from Utah are 76, for chrissakes.

The Republican voters in Utah are working on the problem: Utah Senator Bennett Loses Republican Party Renomination Bid.

Hmm - at age 76, and having served three Senate terms, he’s only the “junior” Senator from Utah.

[jayjay]

@Northern_Piper

Hmm - at age 76, and having served three Senate terms, he’s only the “junior” Senator from Utah.

Well, the other one is Hatchasaurus rex, whose birth in the shadows of the dawn of time was unwitnessed by man.
It should be noted that repeal of DADT does not automatically allow homosexuals to serve in the military. All it does is push things back to the pre-1993 status quo, where the bar to service was an executive/military policy rather than statute. If the repeal goes through, the ball moves back into the President’s/Pentagon’s court, and some of us don’t really have the most optimistic view of what happens next, given the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that’s been going on.

[Slithy_Tove]

A hijack, and a show-offy one at that, but something I noticed this Memorial Day IRT DADT:

Prominent among the music played on Memorial Day is **Samuel Barber’s **Adagio for Strings, by dint of its use in Oliver Stone’s Platoon. Barber himself had served in the army air force in WWII, when national defense overrode the level of scrutiny we somehow feel the need to now impose during the War on Terrorism.

“Now Private Barber, we aren’t asking any specific questions about your private life. DoD guidelines prohibit this. What we do need to know is why the repeated three-note theme evoking rocking chairs in your Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is almost identical to the same three-note repetition in your barracks-mate’s, Private Menotti’s, Sebastian. This similarity pretty much waives both of your rights of 'don’t tell,” doesn’t it, private?"

Next topic: what was really going on in Betsy Ross’ sewing circle?

[Sampiro]

@Slithy_Tove

Prominent among the music played on Memorial Day is **Samuel Barber’s **Adagio for Strings, by dint of its use in Oliver Stone’s Platoon. Barber himself had served in the army air force in WWII, when national defense overrode the level of scrutiny we somehow feel the need to now impose during the War on Terrorism.

Also played by the BBC Orchestra four days after 9-11 as a tribute to those who died.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

I finally see it. John McCain is Al Davis minus the tracksuit.

@Boyo_Jim

You had me at Wasilla Kraken.

Me too… and you always will.

[Gyrate]

Hijack:

@Sampiro

Also played by the BBC Orchestra four days after 9-11 as a tribute to those who died.

I was there! Also, I am amused that one of the “video responses” is called “Was 9/11 Orchestrated?” Well, only for strings…

Back on topic - perhaps we should just periodically let off unexpected loud bangs in the Senate. That ought to clear out the ones with bad hearts…