And as a counter point to the slanted crap on the front page of the Post, the folks over at the Heritage Foundation have published a more holistic view of the Army’s recruiting numbers. Be sure to look at the numbers on income. They directly contrast what the Post is reporting. Imagine that.
And while you are there check this out. It seems there are still some good dads out there despite what you might have been led to believe by other sources of media.
Have a great weekend.
I’ve gotten hooked on Certs Powerful Mints this week. Back on Monday I saw a pack when buying a cup of C-store coffee and bought them. It was the first time I’d seen the classic roll of mints since I moved up here to Yankee held territory. Since then I’ve been through about four rolls. Am I addicted? Did I just take the first of the 12 steps?
A couple of interesting notes in the morning press this Friday.
The first is the ‘girlcott’ of Abercrombie & Fitch. A group of high school girls from Allegheny County (that’s in Pennsylvania in case you were wondering) are protesting a new line of girls t-shirts. With slogans like “Available for Parties†and “With These Who Needs Brains†the shirts are degrading to women, young ones more so. Some people are going to say that A & F is the winner here since the girls are getting them tons of free press, to include the TODAY show on NBC. I say that any time young girls decide to take a stand against bad stereotypes they come out the winners. The shirts might be cute at first, but when you stop to consider what they are really saying, what girl/woman with a shred of dignity would want to wear one?
The Examiner (the other free morning paper) ran an op-ed piece today about football at George Mason University. Kind of funny since the school was primarily a commuter school until the last few years and doesn’t have a team. The push is on for them to add I-AA football, with no scholarships, to the sports program. It’s a money based issue on both sides. Fans and alumni are saying they’d give the school more bucks to see a football team fielded. The school is saying the return on investment isn’t worth it. I’d have to agree. Despite being a big fan of football I was at Arkansas State University when we went from AA to A football. That was twenty years ago and they still aren’t seeing the big dollars that were promised. GMU has better things to do with their money than try to create a football program from scratch.
And finally, the Post has pissed me off again. No big surprise there right? They are running with an article that shows most of the new recruits for the Army are coming from the South. That’s nothing really earth shattering to those of us that have been around the block a couple of times. The Post insists that the reason the rural and Southern kids are joining is due to the lack of jobs at home and “presumably many for whom military service is a choice of last resort.†They wait until the second page of the article to give more than a passing mention that wealthy kids are joining too, or that some kids are actually patriotic. They start the article with lots of numbers and statistics knowing the average reader won’t make it past the first paragraph. If they do, well then Ann Scott Tyson can beat them over the head with her clear bias. This is the kind of ‘reporting’ that keeps the Post from being a first class paper.
Disagree with the Army and the way we do business all you want. We have no problem with that. Just quit trying to present your opinions as news, or as the facts.
And that’s long enough for a Friday morning.
More later.
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