A Forum for Grinches and Ho-Ho-Hoes

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I'm suspicious, because I think the history of training is pretty history-lite. My father was at Command and General Staff in the 70s, and the training was very good. And reading my grandfather's letters during WWII, his training went well beyond the "mailing list" they were talking about. He had training in tactical maneuvers over different terrain, and could write technically about deploying forces in complex maneuvers.

Also, stuff like suggesting the junior officers are internet saavy while the seniors aren't is kind of silly. Most of the people I know are mid-level officers, colonels and majors, and they are as internet saavy as the people who post here. I do think the army today is ready to give officers in the field some higher levels of indepence that the Pentagon might like, but I think that's because the civies in the Pentagon are idiots, and the senior officers have more faith in their officers in the field than in Wolfies' boys. And because they do understand that the training tactics they are using are being battle-tested for the first time in many cases.

Yes, but are they savvy?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Yes, but are they savvy?

Big mamma, no need to impress me.

That offer to be my secretary stands.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Big mamma, no need to impress me.

That offer to be my secretary stands.

I am slave's secretary. What can you offer me that he can't?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I am slave's secretary. What can you offer me that he can't?

GGG likes little boys, so he won't bother you the way slave would. not sure if that's a plus or a minus.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
GGG likes little boys, so he won't bother you the way slave would. not sure if that's a plus or a minus.

Not bothering me like slave does is a plus, but not finding my category of sexuality (straight adult female) attractive is a minus that outweighs that plus.

ETA "adult"

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
GGG likes little boys, so he won't bother you the way slave would. not sure if that's a plus or a minus.

When I say "screw you" to you, I am not making a comment on sexual preference.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I am slave's secretary. What can you offer me that he can't?

Hair.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
When I say "screw you" to you, I am not making a comment on sexual preference.

There's nothing little about Hank.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
There's nothing little about Hank.

It was Hank's self-assessment. I have no basis on which to judge.

[SlaveNoMore]

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hair.

Talk is cheap, baldy.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Talk is cheap, baldy.

He's ickily furry in other areas. While the shaving doesn't really do it for me, it's preferable to old guy disco mitt.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Anne Applebaum, a good neo-con, wonders why people want so badly to believe that torture works. Setting aside the moral, legal and ethnical problems, people who should know are pretty clear that it's not a good way to elicit information. That being the case:

• Given the overwhelmingly negative evidence, the really interesting question is not whether torture works but why so many people in our society want to believe that it works. At the moment, there is a myth in circulation, a fable that goes something like this: Radical terrorists will take advantage of our fussy legality, so we may have to suspend it to beat them. Radical terrorists mock our namby-pamby prisons, so we must make them tougher. Radical terrorists are nasty, so to defeat them we have to be nastier.
  
  Perhaps it's reassuring to tell ourselves tales about the new forms of "toughness" we need, or to talk about the special rules we will create to defeat this special enemy. Unfortunately, that toughness is self-deceptive and self-destructive. Ultimately it will be self-defeating as well.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
There's nothing little about Hank.

Know when to quit sugar. A few months as Slave's assistant and you know who Penske, Paigow and SS are in real life. Maybe you get asked to back shave every other Tuesday.

I bet 2 months sitting outside ggg's office and you get the kind of photographic evidence that promises paid Bahamas vacations 3 times a year for life- boobie saggage with age does not cut down blackmail.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Watchtower
Guess who?!

Everyone has you down to a short list of 3 socks. After what was originally posted here, a vile accusiation of racism, I intend to be at war with each possible sock. i may bring my hate sock out of retirement, Guardez!

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Anne Applebaum, a good neo-con, wonders why people want so badly to believe that torture works. Setting aside the moral, legal and ethnical problems, people who should know are pretty clear that it's not a good way to elicit information.

Ethnical?