Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
So…what’s with all the Ghostbusters references around here lately?
When I want to hire a new person for my small business I follow a simple recruiting rule in building my pool of candidates. If I have but one person, I must make a decision. When I have two people in my pool, I can make my choice. The best case is to have three or more; then I can make a selection!
I would not want to be required to accept an employee at the order of a judge; why would the Navy want to do it for themselves?
Rah, rah for the blue and gold!!!
Ghostbusters?, I thought it was a “Spaceballs” reference. You know getting your schwartz crossed up with the next guy.
…I’m a little surprised at the Judge – when I recruited in 89-93, it had already been DOD policy for years that we would not take anyone who had to enlist as a condition of avoiding a criminal penalty. That’s not to say it didn’t happen – it wasn’t unknown for a person who hadn’t yet been sentenced to mention he was thinking about enlisting and the Judge to drop the case, but he’d better go in.
But in this case, I’m not sure what His Honor was thinking.
Mike
You might as well accept it Lex. Your blog is cutting edge.
“afraid to hit ‘Publish’ on this one. It feels like ‘crossing the streams’”
Blah blah blah. Just admit it Lex, you’re just bummed you didn’t see/post this first …
Nose is on fire lately. I couldn’t stop reading his post on the Flight Deck yesterday; even though my laptop battery did it’s darndest to make me stop.