I guess I'm going to have to say Fuck you for once.

I know, not nice. :-(

There are things I learn from the younger generation: I knew what STFU means. I did not know that FOCUS means Fuck Off Cause Uer Stupid.

Fuck, I have the word in my next book title: "Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck"

Which, I hope will indicate that I do not give a fuck about table manners (in the picky advice sense), probably don't have very beautiful ones, and don't include them in the book (except for what to do when you do as I did and knock an entire glass of wine on your hostess at a dinner party).

(I did this when she asked me, "So, I hear you write books on manners?" Yes. Clearly not table manners!)

Maybe not what we were expecting at 8:00 this partic-a-lar morning.

Shitfuck America.

New rule, fuckers:

NO UNIFORM DECORATIONS FOR DUTY WITHOUT MORTAL HAZARD.

Y'know, the deployment of violent force in the United States is not all that we'd want it to be.

Balko link: The registration names crack my shit up.

The Pope just a-Pope'n the best he Pope's how. Crack!

"Three years after receiving and unsuccessfully challenging a C+ in a course critical to her master's degree, Megan Thode did the reasonable thing and sued Lehigh University, her alma mater —

which she attended for free, because her father works there —

for $1.3 million, the amount she claims the poor grade will cost her career earnings. "

NO UNIFORM DECORATIONS FOR DUTY WITHOUT MORTAL HAZARD. -- Crid [CridComment at gmail] at February 13, 2013 10:41 AM

Crid,

Fornicate you and the equine you arrived upon.

Do you have any clue how the medal awards programs affect the promotions of both the enlisted and officer corps of all branches of the military?

Do you realize that there are many people behind each shooter that need the points for promotion?

The best way to understand this is a salesman in a large SW company goes out and sells your company's SW to all the companies that he can. Behind that salesman he has the installers and implementers. After that there is the help desk and developers. None of them ever has sold the product. But they all deserve some credit for keeping the customer happy and not buying a competing SW product.

That you are saying that the support staff should be fucking peons. I repeat:

Fornicate you and the equine you arrived upon.

> Do you have any clue how the medal awards
> programs affect the promotions of

Do you remember whose workin' for who?

Endless personal & careerist ambitions ambitions are killing this country. And others. Quite literally.

Bend over and blow yourself.

Sorry about the spellling... I'd just woken up.

Y'know, Jimppers, it'd been close to fifty years since I'd figured out that a military uniform represented a bunch of values which needed to be judged independently, as there'd be some which I didn't share. Bay of Pigs, y'know? 'Nam, My Lai... All that.

But from today to the grave, seeing a chest full of ribbons or a collar drooping with metal will always bring a twinge of active disdain.

And nothing puts a spring in the step on the way to work like a fresh resentment... Won't you be my Valentine?

Call me distracted, but I don't think that entitlement interests belong at the forefront of our concern here. We have many other considerations... Beyond worrying, that, y'know, the Executive shouldn't have unhindered power to kill anyone he wants, including Americans, as if he were really good at a video games.

Sorry, soldier: the career machinery of the military may be due for some overhaul. There are plenty of enormous organizations that manage personel without issuing medals. When killing is a mundane bureaucratic process, you should expect that bureaucratic economies of scale will be applied... THIS IS ONE REASON KILLING SHOULD NOT BE REMOTE AND PROCEDURAL.

Thirteen hours later, I'm still pissed off.

Not supriseing, you always came across high strung and hormonal

Misspellings; failed punctuation; bitterness.

Y'know, Jimppers, it'd been close to fifty years since I'd figured out that a military uniform represented a bunch of values which needed to be judged independently, as there'd be some which I didn't share. Bay of Pigs, y'know? 'Nam, My Lai... All that. -- Crid [CridComment at gmail] at February 14, 2013 6:16 AM

You missed Abu Ghraib, Pat Tillman, the Fort Hood shooting, the soldier shooting over burning the Koran, and many others.

Thank you for pointing out how flawed our soldiers and fellow human beings are. But I bet if you review the number of incidents you want to name, they will still be a small percentage of the total numbers of soldiers with their boots on the ground.

> they will still be a small percentage of the
> total numbers of soldiers with their boots on
> the ground.

Nonetheless, they're well-being isn't the purpose of the American enterprise. It's the other way around, which is how they can accrue honor.

Dude, medals are traditional, not holy.

Does anyone remember Casca? The crazyshit blog commenter who'd had his mind deformed by a lifetime of writing memos provisioning toilet paper and Fort Fuckmyback?

THEIR well-being. Always one spelling error before dawn.

Duzzenmadder.... I'm really good at this, and right about everything.

Dyslexia(passed chromes spell check, its a blog not a literary dissertation, and its not bitterness, its toying with assholes - you just make it so damn easy crid

10 punctuation failures.

Yes, yes, my grammar sucks.

But unlike you I'm not a reactionary moron so narcissistic as to be unable to admit when I am wrong. And while I cant spell to save my life, I do understand the meaning of words better than you do