Comments on: The Sky Is Blue And Water Is Wet

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:31:03 +0000

In reply to Kryten42. Those two guys had no true connection to the rest of humanity. They were totally lacking in empathy. It is amazing to find two individuals so totally devoid of any shred of morality; I don't think they even understand the concept. They have no doubts because they assume that everything they do is right, by virtue of it being their idea. If someone has been around a while they know the cost of fools.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:11:53 +0000

Rumsfeld should have been given a bullet decades ago, before he recruited Cheney.

As for the potential dot-connectors… I think you give them too much credit! 😉

… You can see why I had a few psych eval’s during my milint career. 😉 I’m told I have a far warmer personality these days! Does it show? 😆 Truth is… these days I talk or make an opinion about what should happen to them, 30 years ago, I’d have quietly figured a way to just make it happen. Whether I executed the plan would have depended on some variables and my mood the next day, which rarely changed back then. It did occasionally approach merely ‘cool’, rather than sub-zero.

I still have serious problems suffering fools, and it’s NEVER ‘gladly’! 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:12:38 +0000

Rumsfeld wasn’t very popular with the ground crews who busted their butts to turn around aircraft after returning to base. The aircraft had been deployed out of the area when the hurricane approached, and then flown back sooner than normal in anticipation of being needed for rescue work.

Everything was ready, and then they slept on the flight line waiting for the call that never came.

The helo drivers were really pissed when someone reported that it was too dangerous because of reports of ground fire. Shooting at a Special Ops helo would only happen once. It’s not like people didn’t shoot at them in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rumsfeld and the entire crew were sociopaths. They belonged in prison, not power. The people who voted for them just couldn’t connect the dots and figure out that they were the problem, not the solution.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:51:20 +0000

Yeah. I did a series of blogs at LM about that insane debacle. Just one more proof that life means absolutely nothing to them. And people vote for them. If it were up to me, I’d round up everyone who voted for them and drop them in the middle of the Atlantic and tell them that if they can swim back, they can live in the USA. The problem with amazingly stupid moronic people, is they generally get others killed.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:05 +0000

In reply to Badtux. The Corps is part of the DoD, and Rumsfeld refused to accept responsibility for anything. The Corps aren't trigger pullers, so he didn't even want them associated with the DoD. He's the one responsible for not releasing the military to assist New Orleans, even though there was a landing assault ship right off the coast that had purposely followed to the storm in to help people. While people were drowning, its helicopters and hovercraft were prevented from acting. While people were dying in nursing homes and hospitals, there was a 600 bed facility on the USS Bataan sitting off the coast. While Coast Guard pilots were exceeding flying time, hundreds of military helicopters were within 250 miles, grounded by Rumsfeld.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:27:27 +0000

The baffling thing is that it's not their money, so why are the bureaucrats so hidebound about refusing to accept responsibility here? It is not as if any bureaucrat has ever been fired for mismanaging a project, after all. Reassigned to other duties, perhaps, but in this case the bureaucrats responsible for the mismanagement are long-retired so... what is going on here?! - Badtux the Baffled Penguin .-= last blog ..Thursday morning dream pop =-.