Yesterday several of our military readers were around, including Major John, RTO Trainer and Sgt. Ted. Major John dumps this intel from Iraq:
Hi all. I am tired. I guess that about sums it up. I am about to start another day helping the totally defeated Iraqi 14th Division figure out what to do with all the captured JAM personnel and equipment…heh.
The highlight of that thread, though, in response to the absurd report on military suicides and what it reveals about sick left-wing wishful thinking, was cynn’s affording those guys an opportunity to disabuse her of all kinds of odd ideas. My favorite bit, from RTO was:
Coyness? You haven’t got a clue. You couldn’t get a clue if you covered youself in clue musk and stood in a field full of horny, lusty clues, during clue mating season.
I’m not in this to be loved. My job is to defend and it’s more than a little condecending to have people who would have us give up aon that job, claim to be doing it in defense of us.
Seriously, we just don’t need that kind of help.
w00t! Instalanche! (h/t Karl)
Comment by Slartibartfast on 4/23 @ 8:40 am #
I love that bit. It’s gotten around so much on the innerwebs, tho, that it’s hard to tell where it started.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/23 @ 8:47 am #
I believe it’s a riff on a quote from Blackadder:
Comment by MayBee on 4/23 @ 9:10 am #
I hadn’t read that thread, and I’m sorry I did now. I’m always happy to see Major John, but cynn’s “you work for me” business was just so….uncomfortable.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/23 @ 9:33 am #
I liked the way she said she was a “civic servant”, rather than a “civil servant”.
Comment by thor on 4/23 @ 10:00 am #
I picked some wild flowers and blue bonnets. Cynn so needs me.
Comment by Techie on 4/23 @ 10:14 am #
I wonder if she pulls that card when she’s pulled over by the cops.
“Officer, you aren’t giving me a ticket for speeding. Remember, you work for me! I pay your salary!”
Comment by Slartibartfast on 4/23 @ 10:41 am #
I’m betting I pay more of Major John’s salary than cynn does, so I outrank.
Using cynngularly fuzzy logic, I mean.
Comment by maggie katzen on 4/23 @ 11:11 am #
yeah, it’s a Blackadder bit. RTO was sad he forgot “doing the clue mating dance.” at the end there.
Comment by tim maguire on 4/23 @ 11:35 am #
Whait a minute! If cynn is a civic (sic) servant, then RTO doesn’t work for her. They both work for us!
Comment by McGehee on 4/23 @ 11:41 am #
And you all work for me.
<evil, maniacal cackle>
Comment by Slartibartfast on 4/23 @ 11:51 am #
Plus, I make nifty things that go boom in the night.
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 4/23 @ 11:56 am #
I had to drop my own comment in that thread, just because cynn (who normally doesn’t go that far off the rails) was so transparently obtuse about what she was promoting. The idea that people in the military “work” for the populace implies some kind of childish smurf-village mindset that when we aren’t defending the country’s civilians, we’re fixing their homes and mowing their lawns. Just because people are paid with taxes doesn’t mean that they are completely beholden to us, just accountable for their actions in the course of doing their jobs(which adults should be, anyway, regardless of who is paying them).
Comment by Major John on 4/23 @ 12:49 pm #
I work for my chain of command. That goes up to the President, my current CinC. When I go back into the Guard, it will be the Governor of my State.
Congress sets rules and budgets.
I thought it was simple. My job is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States (and Illinois)against all enemies foreign and domestic. And I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed above me.
Unless cynn is an LTC or higher, I don’t work for her. Maybe she’s an USD or DSA?
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 4/23 @ 12:50 pm #
- At some point the Left is bound to run out of angles for covering their coward asses, and paranoia over being drafted. Then they can just shrug and go back to pretending the war/military doesn’t exist.
Comment by JD on 4/23 @ 12:53 pm #
Hola! Major John. Godspeed. Surely, Lt. Bird is right around the corner, no?
Comment by PCachu on 4/23 @ 1:12 pm #
Unless cynn is an LTC or higher, I don’t work for her. Maybe she’s an USD or DSA?
…not making USDA joke, not making USDA joke, not making USDA joke…
Comment by Cave Bear on 4/23 @ 1:36 pm #
Well, I’m just glad the redoubtable Major John is doing well and that he and his crew are having continued success in imparting attitude adjustments to the jihadi terror scum.
Comment by thor on 4/23 @ 2:10 pm #
The is a day of healing for Our Lady of Perpetual Concern. She will not be taking you snark today. Can’t you people allow cynn’s heart to mend in peace!
Comment by Karl on 4/23 @ 2:20 pm #
Good to hear from Maj. John!
Good to get an Insta-lanche!
Comment by Brian on 4/23 @ 2:26 pm #
Clearly, liberals want to treat our military as yet another victim group. I, on the other hand, don’t see them as victims. I see them as bad ass mofos who will kick the ass of any and all comers if they dare threaten my country’s security.
Thanks to all the fine men and women of the military for keeping us safe from the world’s scum.
Comment by Vercingetorix on 4/23 @ 2:34 pm #
Military people still pay taxes. They’re self-employed!
Comment by Patrick S Lasswell on 4/23 @ 2:52 pm #
This winter a Marine from Oregon killed himself and was buried with full military honors. The Marines chose to honor the fallen one because they accepted the responsibility for missing the signs. In death that Marine served his fellows to remain vigilant and leave none behind.
The most relevant part to remember is that this suicide was rare, rare enough to draw comment, rare enough to be shocking. Cynn needs to at least try on some clue musk at Nordstrom’s.
Comment by McGehee on 4/23 @ 3:04 pm #
Verc! Where the bloody blue blistering blazes have you been!?
Comment by Merovign on 4/23 @ 3:24 pm #
I personally hope that cynn was just blasted on $2/bottle high-alky wine. When she saves up enough from working on Hondas (civic service, get it? HAAAAAA!), she can get some of that $5/bottle stuff and improve her mood.
And as for Black Adder: “cynn, your brain is like the three-headed purple-spotted man-eating haddock-fish-beast of Aberdeen.”
“How is that?”
“It doesn’t exist.”
Comment by roy in nipomo on 4/23 @ 5:58 pm #
Comment by McGehee:
And you all work for me.
And when I retire and draw Social Security, everyone who works will work for me (you don’t have to do what I say, just keep sending money!)
Comment by RTO Trainer on 4/23 @ 6:05 pm #
Roy, That’s what my grandmother tells me.
Comment by McGehee on 4/23 @ 7:00 pm #
Been writing, brother.
I had a blog, GeoPoliticalReview, when I went back to college (after the Corps). There is just so much work that goes into blogging; I thought I could do better to polish off a novel (err, now up to three!). So I quit that, would comment here and there, but then I needed to buckle down and go to work. My buddy and blog-partner, Jeff, he actually started writing creatively too; he just finished his rough draft.
I still check in every once in a while here, but just lurk. Sadly, PW’s Troll Quotient (TQ) has lapsed the last year or so: without troll bashing, the intra-webs is just no fun :(.
Anyways, I’ll up my posting frequency for a bit and when I sell, I’ll let you guys know (so you can bash me, cuz no self-respecting auteur would be caught dead hanging with you bunch of reprobates ;).
Comment by Vercingetorix on 4/23 @ 7:02 pm #
Um, what the? That above comment by McGehee was me, responding back to McGehee. Back to heavy drinking…
[Been writing, brother.
I had a blog, GeoPoliticalReview, when I went back to college (after the Corps). There is just so much work that goes into blogging; I thought I could do better to polish off a novel (err, now up to three!). So I quit that, would comment here and there, but then I needed to buckle down and go to work. My buddy and blog-partner, Jeff, he actually started writing creatively too; he just finished his rough draft.
I still check in every once in a while here, but just lurk. Sadly, PW’s Troll Quotient (TQ) has lapsed the last year or so: without troll bashing, the intra-webs is just no fun :(.
Anyways, I’ll up my posting frequency for a bit and when I sell, I’ll let you guys know (so you can bash me, cuz no self-respecting auteur would be caught dead hanging with you bunch of reprobates ;).]
Comment by SGT Ted on 4/23 @ 10:18 pm #
Hey Roy. I grew up near you.
Comment by Major John on 4/23 @ 10:27 pm #
JD, I am going to have my packet sent to the September LTC board – no worries. Allah willing and the wadi don’t rise, I’ll get selected and posted in January. Then I can sit on my porch in a rocking chair, drink mint juleps and call myself “cuh-nell” in a fake Kentucky accent…
Comment by McGehee on 4/24 @ 5:35 am #
Jeez, be more careful next time — you want people to figure out we’re the same guy?
Comment by Vercingetorix on 4/24 @ 3:27 pm #
heh
Comment by JD on 4/24 @ 3:45 pm #
Verc – Missed ya’ buddy.
MJ – huah
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