Confessions: Week of February 28, 2011

Yes. We were at Huachuca for 6 months. The post is really, really tiny. Almost no one is actually posted there. It's mostly people going through various schools and the instructors.

We lived off post in a furnished apartment for Tom's per diem, so I can't tell you anything about housing.

I confess that the overwhelming number of political posts popping up in my Facebook feed lately is annoying the crap out of me and that you shouldn't read any further if you might get easily offended. (Also, I have to add the obligatory reminder that this isn't a debate board, so if you don't agree with my opinion, that's fine, and you're free to express yours, but everyone has to be all nice about it and not argue and stuff.)

I confess it annoys me so much because 90% of them are people flying off the handle about things they haven't actually read and/or thought about.

I confess that I'm sick of hearing people talk about the "stupid Southerners in Georgia" and the proposed law that supposedly proposes the death penalty as a viable punishment for a woman who suffers a natural miscarriage. First, I don't vote in Georgia, but I live here, I'm a Republican, and since I'm a first generation Yankee (meaning born north of the Mason-Dixon line), I identify as a Southerner. I am neither stupid or extremist. Second, read the darn thing. It's obvious that the proposed law is meant to open the door to punishment for anyone who takes measures to cause a miscarriage. I believe it is worded as "human intervention" or something of the sort. This is a good thing