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Boo-Yah
Amidst all the excellent news items I’ve read (so far) this week — fedgov departments closed, useless people fired, lawbreakers under investigation etc. — I think this one gave me the greatest pleasure:
The U.S. Army recently announced it shattered previous recruiting records, with December 2024 being the most productive December in 15 years.
The branch reported it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers every day that month, Army officials announced Tuesday on social media.
In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS.
Putting that into perspective:
During the last fiscal year (2024), the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers. That makes 25% of its target. This shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476,000 to 466,000. Army officials project that active end strength could shrink by as much as 20,000 soldiers by September, down to 445,000.
It just shows you that under the right leadership, Americans want to serve their country.
Re-Directing The Dollars
Something struck me when I was reading this fine report about the closure of the dreadful USAID department, and it relates to budget priorities. Consider this little litany of silliness:
Now just in cash terms, those items alone account for about $7.5million, being sent to furriners.
The question: Wouldn’t those dollars have been better spent by sending them to those folks in North Carolina blown out of their homes by tropical storm Helene?
And the corollary question: Wouldn’t those “hundreds of thousands of meals” been more appreciated by those same North Carolinians, many of whom, months after the storm, are still living in TENTS?
Let’s put all this into concrete terms that people can understand.
The problem with being such a wealthy country is that sometimes we’re blase about sums of money that seem trivial in the grand scheme of things; $7.5million doesn’t seem like a lot of money compared to other budgetary expenditures, and indeed it isn’t at a macro level.
But let’s convert that “macro” to “micro”. Giving $75,000 dollars each to a hundred families in desperate need of assistance — American families, let me remind you — has the potential to turn their lives around completely. And that’s worth a lot more than a ticket to an LGBTOSTFU opera in Colombia.
Stop pissing money away on foreigners and start looking after American taxpayers.
Fun And Games, Africa Style
To the surprise of absolutely no African nor anyone who knows anything at all about the Dark Continent, this happened in the Congo — a.k.a. the Balkans of Africa:
Hundreds of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels sparked chaos by storming into the Congolese city of Goma, it has emerged.
The atrocity took place during a mass jail break from the Munzenze jail last week, as M23 fighters clashed with the Congolese army during deadly gun battles.
According to the UN, female inmates were butchered in their wing in the notoriously overcrowded prison after men forced their way in and went on a rampage.
In this latest round of inter-tribal warfare, I understand that many UN peacekeeping troops were also killed. Now as much as I detest the United Nations as an organization, it seems to me that the UN should, finally, admit defeat when it comes to les affaires d’Afrique, and get the hell out of the way so that these assholes can carry on slaughtering each other until the last one standing kills himself.
Letting Africa sink, to coin a phrase.
Needless to say, it’s absolutely no place for the U.S. to get involved, whether financially or (gawd forbid) militarily.
Quote Of The Day
“USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress.” — some Socialist politician
Challenge accepted.
Simple Solution
Apparently these miserable folks are having their lives ruined by a bunch of pigs:
A group of rogue pigs have been causing chaos in a quiet village for months, according to locals, by digging up gardens and causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The animals have been raiding properties after escaping from a nearby farm.
Although they are regularly rounded up and returned, the escapes keep happening — with more members of the intrepid herd breaking out and heading for the gardens.
Of course, there’s a simple answer to this pressing problem:
or even:
But wait… I forgot that this is Britishland, where this kind of remedy is apparently frowned upon, and pigs are more important than private property.
And if the above pictures didn’t make you drool, we can’t be friends.