Sharepoint considered harmful

When I am done using Sharepoint I feel like someone has sawed off the top of my head and poured sawdust in: I know less than when I started.

Thank God they are on our side

The British sent out some guys to track down a Taliban warlord.

Having identified their target, a fierce battle ensued during which the warlord was killed. To prove that they had got their man, the Gurkhas attempted to remove the body for identification. Further enemy fire necessitated a fast exit minus corpse. So, an unnamed soldier drew his kukri ...  removed the man's head and legged it.

Showing superlative initiative, attention to detail, quick thinking under pressure.

Captain said he wanted positive ID, he's darn well gonna get it.

Via.

Tough Love

Perhaps we'd have less of this if society hearkened to sage child-rearing advice ...

Perhaps a more severe variant — a Super Time-Out, if you will — should be considered, where instead of being confronted with an abstract absence of stimulation (difficult to make the cognitive leap into behavior deterrence), the child is instead thrust into a stressful survival situation. For instance, if he teases the cat, submerge him immediately in a box of spiders. He will quickly learn not to tease the cat.

Whatever it is that Society is doing clearly isn't working so good. A box of spiders could hardly make things worse.

. . . He kept screaming . . .

It's not all sunshine, snappy uniforms and victory parades: Raw Stuff by Michael Fay.

Disturbing pictures at the link.

If you have sex you will get pregnant

"Wow, Uncle Brian," my nephew said. "I've never heard so many f-bombs in one sentence before."

This is why.

Daughter-niece Heather has a friend, N____.  N____ is pregnant.  N____ is fourteen.  The daddy, B____, is seventeen.  N____ is keeping the baby.  N____'s momma is very supportive.  N____ is keeping the baby.

All of this delivered to my ears in a very matter-of-fact tone in the car, just gossip.  Teens having babies happens all the time where Heather comes from.  It is the done thing for girls to have pupped out four or five children by as many boys before they've graduated high school.  It does not provoke condemnation, it does not lead to name calling or shaming or anything more than a muttered tsk, if that much. 

Somehow in the brain-housing group of an entire generation of children the idea that sex and making babies are the same thing has gotten lost.  There is sex.  It feels good.  Making babies is an accident. 

The tooth fairy has been replaced by the baby fairy.

My jaw dropped, my censor disengaged and out came the invective.

Ain't proud of it.  But I won't take it back, neither.  This shit has got to stop.

Female Engagement Team

Michael Fay is back in Afghanistan . . .

There’s a minor statistic that doesn’t get a whole lot of play in the coverage of Afghanistan. In fact, based on my own observations, I would classify this bit of information as little more than a rumor. But the Marine Corps, being what it is, has decided to take this data and run with it. This is the unsubstantiated claim I’m referring to; half the population of Afghanistan is women. The mission of the FET Marines is to reach out to them. Those of us here can tell you there’s a better chance of encountering a Yeti than an Afghan woman. Be that as it may, the Marines have organized and deployed groups of female jarheads to actively meet with and engage them in the political process.

Sergeant Melissa Hernandez is an MP (military police) by trade. Today she commands a FET. She’s as geared up as any Marine I’ve ever seen, along with a team of two other female Marines and a female Navy corpsman. They’re on their way outside the wire to meet with local women. In my humble opinion these women are doing more than the entire National Organization of Women put together.

Three Monkys at Restore

Hey .. where did the boys go?

Big Green Weenie

Charles Bolden.  Graduate of the Naval Academy.  100 combat missions in an A-6.  Test pilot.  Astronaut, flew twice, mission commander twice. Commanded 30,000 marines in Kuwait.  Retired as major general.  Selected to lead NASA.

A very accomplished man, a very smart, savvy leader, a man who mastered a difficult career.

Gibbs, at his daily news briefing, was asked why Bolden had made the comment.

"It's an excellent question, and I don't think — that was not his task, and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs said.

Stabbed in the back.  That has got to sting a little, ya know?

What's a big green weenie?  When you're due for a weekend of liberty, and the gunny calls you out for a working party, that's a big green weenie.  Have the CO tell you to enforce an unpopular policy, only to have him change his mind a week later when it proves unpopular with the troops, and you look like a tool?  Green Weenie Time.

Why we need the rich:

Why we need the rich: A message to Americans – and our leaders in Washington DC – on wealth creation

By Ziad K. Abdelnour, President & CEO Blackhawk Partners, Inc. On 23 Jun 2010

It has an often repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor. But just as much can be learned by looking at how that society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor – and our nation – will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich. And our ability to protect this minority.

It is an unpopular thing to say, I know. Rich people need help? Rich people need to be protected? Rich people a minority? Give me a break. They just seem to keep getting richer! Regrettably, too many Americans, and far too many intellectuals and politicians, don’t understand these people we call “the rich.” And how it is they got rich in the first place.

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