All week RantWoman has been receiving exhortations to contact her Senators about decorations on the Defense Authorization Act.
First, RantWoman is supposed to support the DREAM act with its promise to youth whose parents brought them as children / illegal immigrants. The youth are to be offered citizenship in connection with military service or college education. RantWoman thinks our country needs all the bright motivated bicultural and variably bilingual young people it can get and RantWoman thinks the DREAM act is a wonderful part of comprehensive immigration form. RantWoman just cannot under any circumstances blindly exhort her Senators to glibly and unthinkingly endorse the Defense Authorixzation act no matter WHAT parts she likes.
Call RantWoman a cynic, but she almost reflexively suspects that the DREAM act is probably cover for a whole bunch of things RantWoman under no circumstances wants anything to do with. Here is a countervailing view:
http://blog.sojo.net/2010/09/21/our-dreams-deferred-our-hearts-emboldened/
Ditto for the proposed demise of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, also dangling off the DoD authorization. RantWoman suggests putting either the phrase Arabic linguist or Maj. Margaret Witt into the search engine of one's choice for all kinds of illustrations of the absurdity of this policy. RantWoman does not have high expectations that the generals RantWoman wrote of last week will see the absurdity of their concerns about troops morale any more than they do about drones. RantWoman is just saying.... probably just enjoying the sond of her own voice preaching to the choir.
RantWoman favors demands: get our legislators to actually legislate and not just kick partisan footballs back and forth!
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