A Joke! A Joke!

Trip to Rome: 2,000 Audience with the Pope: 1,000 to charity Seeing His Holiness slap Hillary: Priceless That was brilliant.

You guys should be supporting Hillary since you are going to end of with a democrat anyway and she's the most hawkish. You want to stay in Iraq? Vote for Hillary. I know it will be a little embarrassing for you to take orders from a woman, but hey, you do it at home every day. You should be used to it by now.

Friends, did you know that Cliff serves on the board of directors of an anti-bullying foundation? Oh, the humanity!

Cliff - your bigotry of soft expectations knows no limits, does it? Heh. When I was commissioned, the commander of my ROTC region was... a woman. When I relinquished command, I relinquished to... a woman. Oddly enough, I didn't think anything about it. And, in a twist of fate, and the way HQ units work... she became my... commander. When I ran the Fort Sill simulation center, I took orders from... a woman. When I was the plans, operations and training officer for the WMD Response Task Force - West, my boss was... a woman. In my first task as a beltway bandit after I retired, I worked for... a woman. In the third and fourth tasks as a beltway bandit, I worked for... a woman. All of those women had input into my efficiency reports. In the military jobs, all of them had some form of legal authority over me. Do tell me, aside from demonstrating a near-breathtaking ignorance and stereotypical bigotry, what *is* your point? Do you really have nothing better to do? And "take this down"? I do that a lot, do I? That's why you're banned, right, and have sneak in under aliases and stuff. Oh, wait. You don't. Despite the somewhat pointed requests I've received to do exactly that. I don't remove stuff often, and that usually for being egregiously off-topic or patently offensive. I don't ban people often, either. Two that I can think of. And one of those was someone who was stalking my wife. But again, Cliff. You're just an annoyance, with little substance and one of the most smugly smarmy schticks it's been my misfortune to run across. And to top it off, you're not even amusing. Owen and Alan, my other somewhat regular dissenters are better informed, less smug, write better, and are funny. You, sir, are just... tediously tendentious, and clearly unable to understand that as you have nothing new to offer in the way of argument, you should just remain silent, and be thought a fool, rather than hit those keys and remove all doubt. Ah, wait. I get it. You are soooooooooooo clever! You are providing an object lesson via allegory about Iraq! Since, by your lights, a majority of people in Iraq and in the US, believe we should leave, yet have not - you are going to hang around here, even though a clear majority of people find your presence tiresome and disruptive. You win. US out of Iraq now! Disarm the Armed Forces and convert all the warships to Disaster Relief Ships and turn the Navy over to the UN for whatever purpose they deem fit! Crush all AF fighter a/c, and turn over control of remaining transport assets to the UN (with their AF crews, now UNAF crews) to the UN for whatever purposes they deem fit. Cliff for President! Okay. Will you just go away now?

Oh, and all - I recommend we just ignore Cliff. Perhaps he'll get bored and go away. Cliff, you used up all your chances to actually engage. Go back to your bubble at OneUtah and have a good 'ol time, 'kay? I'll just continue to use this space to extend my reach having policy discussions with DoD, VA, and Members of Congress and the White House staff. Yes, when the White House changes hands next time 'round, that access will go away. The rest won't. I get stuff done, Cliff, stuff that has precious little to do with the war, but everything to do making life better for people. Through this space, I have earned enough credit to get access and get heard. So you may think this place is full of evil, venal, and unethical people, but it works for me. And you really lost your option of stone-throwing last month, dude.

*flicks flea named C-something-or-other off shoulder before LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY*

"So while I accept the IDEA of the quote, I refute the predicate that liberal are tribal." Bwahahahha! So, that's your admission that you are a conservative subversive? [For folks who haven't used Google yet this morning, note the use of "we" in the quote I posted a few comments back. Provenance is everything.] Sorry John, but consider this my version of AFSister's response.

I love you, Armorer.

I was just going to say that I laughed so hard the family was afraid I'd have apoplexy.

So, JoA, when ice-breaking, did you do a quick calculation like the Vickers gunner in Cryptonomicon, and point the weapon 'way up into the air so that the bullets would come down almost vertically on the pond, or did you just point the piece at the pond in confidence the yer property is big enough, and trespassers are rare enough, that ricochets are no problem. Hmm, I wouldn't trespass there... Really, one should try to be reasonably sure that everything he shoots comes to rest on his side of the property line, unless actually at violent bloody war with the neighbors. This also applies to nukular weppun fallout, or should. Dang Frogs, with their Tahiti nukes