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Governmental Malpractice

3.16.07 @ 12:01AM

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Now to be fair, Congress has rectified this recently to a small degree -- right now if you are disabled by at least 50%, you eventually do get all your retirement pay. However by far, most veterans are not that severely injured and only rate a 40% disabled rating so they continue to lose that amount of their pension each month.

Please consider writing something about this in the future, it would be a great help to those of us working to get it changed. By the way, ONLY military veterans are treated this way. If you retire from say, the postal service or the FBI, you get your full pension.

Wonder how many of your readers are completely unaware of this?

Thanks!
-- M.L. Schwartzberg
LT USN (Ret)
Submarines
Columbus, Nebraska

The Professor hates the Army -- what else is new? Could we give the Army a week or two to correct the problem? This article is just a rehash of all the news of the past weeks. And, his point would be what?
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

THE LIBERAL HEGEMON
Re: James Bowman's Rules for Disengagement:

To describe Mr. Schlesinger as an "unabashed liberal partisan" is to blissfully ignore the folly of the many years of disingenuous and dangerous advice, that elites, like Mr. Schlesinger, have and are espousing in their attempt to lead America towards its destruction. It is beyond comprehension that a man of his intellect could be so fundamentally wrong, in so many ways, for so many decades, when it came to appreciating what was vital and necessary for the security of America.

The absurdity of his blind partisanship towards Democrats and liberals came to its ultimate degradation when he came to the defense of Bill Clinton. You may recall that it was Schlesinger who gave the Democrats and the liberal media their talking points, with his bizarre description of Clinton's perverse assignation with a woman staffer half his age, by his blithe explanation of Clinton's repeated lies as an innocent act, that being, a "gentleman does not discuss his discrete affairs", or language close to this. I believe it was this disgraceful attempt of a defense that caused the once notorious liberal writer and now war defender, Christopher Hitchens, to explode on TV as he described Schlesinger as a "bow tied popinjay", or words to that effect. And yet, the recently departed Schlesinger is venerated today more than ever.

If there was ever a more dangerous example of the liberal hermetically sealed hegemony at its perverse and most dangerous, this is it. And it continues with their views on Iraq, global warming and America's future. America's future is dangerously precarious with each day of these folks being in power; yet the Bush Administration continues to cower and kowtow to them. Go figure, I'm clueless.
-- A. DiPentima

MATTERS OF FAITH
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Resent or Repent? and the letters under "Our Sunday Visitors" in Reader Mail's Tuning Out:

In reading the letters under the above topic, I was amazed at the amount of opinions that were stated. Truth carries weight, not opinion. Consider two opposing opinions; one can be wrong and one can be correct, both can be wrong, but both can not be correct. No one quoted book, chapter and verse. One came close though (it was 70 times 7)

How can we know truth? By study and logic. Is the Bible true or is it not? If it is not true then why even belong to a "church"? It would make zero sense. But if it is true then we had better follow it to its fullest.

Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait (very narrow) gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

The word "many", (Greek meaning "polus" = many, much, large numbers) implies there are many "Christian" people who "think" (tzeteo) they will enter the gate but will not be permitted to enter. Why? They did not keep the commandments of Jesus. It's that simple.

Jhn 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

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