Comments on: “Elaine’s List” of 1,100 officers doesn’t represent today’s Military

By: Christopher Eberz

Christopher Eberz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:55 +0000

The link to the older BTB post with the youtube video of Donnelley discussing the issue with Lt. Choi shows that the video has been removed.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen CNN make a copyright claim over an Anderson 360 clip.

I have a *feeling* I know who flagged the video as infringement.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:07:06 +0000

Thanks, Laurie. :)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:26:54 +0000

A note, Box Turtle: “discrete”
means “separate, apart from” and “discreet” means “able to keep a secret.” I imagine in the good ol’ days, whores were both. Keep writing!

By: penguinsaur

penguinsaur — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:14:18 +0000

This is the funniest story I’ve seen in awhile, it’d be a crime if Stewart and Colbert didn’t take a whack at it. I thought it couldn’t get any sadder and funnier than an average age of 76 and some of the signers being dead or having never agreed to such a petition. Then I got to the section on the scandals.

On October 15, 1993, Rear Admiral Riley Mixson received a letter of censure from
then Secretary of the Navy John Dalton for his portion of the responsibility for
what became the most damaging sex scandal in military history. According to the
Navy, Mixson failed to stop “debauchery and sexual abuse.” He was also “cited
for failing to take action when he saw a woman drink from a dispenser made to look like a rhinoceros penis and men shaving women’s legs.”14

You can’t make up stuff this ludicrous. And of course it’s gonna be even funnier seeing the bigots and their buddy John McCain explain away this statement from one of their signers:

“In the military skills, we find that the minority officers do not shoot as
well as the non-minorities,” says Mundy. “They don’t swim as well.
And when you give them a compass and send them across the
terrain at night in a land navigation exercise, they don’t do as well at
that sort of thing.”10