But... uh... I'm really, really, really, really... a moron...
You have to have been with me to understand the drama play itself out the way it did this morning.
I'm in my hotel room early this morning, and Stephen Baldwin calls me two hours earlier than he was supposed to. Evidently his flight back from Iraq was way ahead of schedule and his body had no idea of what timezone he was in. Since we hadn't caught up in several days I felt it was important enough to get up and chat with him a bit about the end of his trip.
He talks for some length about a new passion in his heart coming back from Iraq.
The new passion is seeing to it that our soldiers, returning from the front lines are getting all the help they need, medically, emotionally, financially. He had packed an HD camera with him and we are slated to begin breaking down the footage in the near future. But some emotional stuff is in there.
Some of them from the hospital in Germany (you know the one Barack Obama had promised to visit and then found himself too busy making speeches to 200,000 rock concert goers to make the time...).
Some of them he interviewed from the forward operating bases in Iraq. One fellow with a thick Australian accent who had both legs missing, telling Stephen, "ah it's not so bad..." As you can imagine these experiences touched Baldwin pretty deeply.
He then began to tell me about something he had just been given a lot more detail on. The rate of attempted suicides by military service men and women who come back to the states without the support they need.
Stephen and I are dedicating in the months to come some fairly significant resources by way of time, money, and manpower to doing something about this and raising awareness in new ways.
So I get off the phone and go back to my normal morning of surfing.
Remembering that it was just two days ago that our Department of Homeland Security
slandered veterans returning home from duty as potential terrorists, I see the headline this morning where Sec. Napolitano mumbled some half-hearted, dim-bulbed, response admitting that "to the degree" that some were offended by it some mysterious "apology is owed."
What an enormously arrogant <censored> this excuse for a Homeland Secretary this "person" is. (I'm really trying to measure my words here.)
She then went on to act as though the service men and women returning from the frontlines are partly to blame for the assessment unloading this whing-dinger:
"The last thing I want to do is offend or castigate all veterans. To the contrary, let's meet and clear the air," she said.
Sorry Secretary Napolitano, but you're an agent of warped mentality, and you should be fired.
Call the White House, and demand Napolitano's removal from her position. She castigated decent human beings in that unbelievable report this week, sliming equally: pro-life Christians, pro-family voters who believe in marriage, gun owners, and military men and women.
Unlike the feces throwing animals in California that ransacked that state when they lost the Constitutional initiative on redefining marriage, there has never once been a systematic attack by traditional marriage folks. Or the pro-life community. Or the overwhelming numbers of 2nd Amendment supporters.
Napolitano is a disgrace. She presumes herself better than 90% of the American public. And she needs to be humbled by being shown the door...
Now, Mr. President...
The good people of this nation deserve much better!