We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:04:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification This is sooo awful (and fulla pictures) that to spare the faint-of-heart (and dial-up customers) I've put it in the Flash Traffic/Extended entry... continuing the theme of pink weaponry...... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:17:54 -0600 JTG, I knew that..... I didn't think it was anything else. :-) And thanks for the welcome back too! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68798 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68798 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:07:07 -0600 Good to see you here again, Sanger! I was just trying to kid you about being too much of a grown-up for silly internet arguments. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68784 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68784 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:23:32 -0600 Well, thanks Boq. I haven't been all the way gone, just in hiding--occasionally lurking, etc. Figured this was a good piece to play whack-a-mole target... And JTG, I didn't mean to kill stuff, but you know I've never been the party type. I haven't been drunk--no kidding--since 1978 and my wife of almost 3 decades has never even seen me with a buzz. On that score, I think I fail miserably in the manly-man stereo-typical husband department. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68768 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68768 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:40:43 -0600 Yaaaay! Sanger's back. I do miss your didactics, we all do. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68761 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68761 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:25:31 -0600 Exactly... none. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68760 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68760 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:05:26 -0600 Do you have any idea how much damage this tank would suffer if I let it just roll right over you? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68755 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68755 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:59:38 -0600 Dang, Sanger, you thread-killer, you! I mean, you've answered all questions with remarks which are pretty much un-answerable, at least if we're being rational and honest. You should drink moar before commenting. Believe me, the Armorer won't let you get _too_ far out of line! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68753 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68753 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:51:14 -0600 "I mean, a really manly guy can wear drag and everyone knows it's a joke." Which is why the AF wanted 'em black, eh.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68752 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68752 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:42:18 -0600 Well Hello all... Easing into this again. The Pink sweater on the tank looks cool, but I think the purpose was just another example of dumb-in-action. As well have a black-crayon-over watercolor-etching-day to protest the war. The only people who pay any mind to that silly stuff are other people who think just like the nitwits who knitted the thing. I mean really, whose mind is that supposed to change? What message can one possbly take away besides "Here there be oddballs!"? You know, with all the kids who undergo Chemo and could use a cool homemade stocking cap, or all the amputees who could use a gayly colored limb-sock to cover the bandage over the suppurating stump, one would think that people who really care about people would find a better use for their time than knitting a sock for a damn tank! Of course, given the quote that went with the project, I guess I shouldn't be surprised: "For me, the tank is a symbol of stepping over other people’s borders. When it is covered in pink, it becomes completely unarmed and it loses it’s authority." Oh yeah, I like that: "unarmed." Right, as if that WWII tank was doing anything but sitting in the courtyard keeping the flagstones dry. I'd like to see them throw that over an Abrams in Iraq. It'd be kaBOOM!!! and then, "Awww, look at all the pretty pink fluff floating around." heh. What I'd like to know is where people get the ideas for this stuff. Really. I would like to know how it is that after people decide they want to do something like protest a war, for example, their drive and ambition turns into a little chaotic spark of idiocy and, worse, they get other people to follow right along. . . . dum-da-dum. On one hand, I think people do this stuff because they want to do something, but being powerless and inexperienced, they cannot imagine their way into successful protest, so they fritter away their energy on trivial or inane activities like knitting tank-socks rather than actually doing something. On the other hand, it is entirely possble they are just 'tards with too much time on their hands, and this was just another cool reason for the blue-hair club to get together. Feh! BTW, I think it was the SAS who first used pink on their land rovers in Africa. Well, maybe not first, but I'm pretty sure the off-the-boat color of the SAS LRs was pink. V/R http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68751 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68751 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:20:46 -0600 I mean, a really manly guy can wear drag and everyone knows it's a joke. That was John's point when he was playing MSM Reportage Person...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68748 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68748 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:32:30 -0600 Don't forget the pink B-24s which went to Ploesti! (my favorite bombing raid in history; the guys who survived to be captured gained lotsa weight in captivity, and once it was found that some of them were Rotarians, they were invited to address the Ploesti Rotary Club.) The Romanians were hedging their bets about who was gonna win, even then. Oh! The F-117, I think it's called, you know, the airplane that's all planes and angles, was originally going to be painted pink, I've read. Makes it harder to see in the daylight. The AF objected, and insisted on black paint, which is good at night, not so much in the daytime. Methinks they protest too much? I mean, a really manly guy can wear drag and everyone knows it's a joke. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68747 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68747 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:46:07 -0600 Just proving the adage about tankers... can't even train 'em to tie their own shoes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68741 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68741 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:07:13 -0600 no laces, those are straps on the boots.... (newbie) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68734 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68734 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:15:29 -0600 Where's the lace? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68718 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68718 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:38:40 -0600 now that is just all so wrong, on so many different levels.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68716 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68716 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:08:55 -0600 Mountbatten Pink.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68715 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68715 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:01:51 -0600 Didn't the SAS field Jeeps in North Africa with this eye blaring color. During daylight, it hurts everyone's retinas; but at night, it apparently absorbs light very well. Great night-time camouflage I believe that it was Mountbatten who first mixed Battleship Grey with Red Color to achieve this effect. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68714 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/today_is_be_mean_to_tankers_day.html#comment-68714 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:57:51 -0600