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
Whoodathunkit? Really! Good luck to them over there. Not that an official blog is long overdue (it is) I’m just happy they realized they should.
Now if the content just gets a litle edgy (meaning sticking it to the MSM without compromising OPSEC) and not becoming serial PPTs and propaganda, that would be great. We can all use more news and INFO, for sure.
Thx, CAPT!
Heh – “GS-13, at least”. I’ll do it for 12! (11, step negotiable…)
(A sharp tongue poses dangers to all but the most hardened cheek…)
But too bad it’s a blogspot site, and thus banned on many military networks.
Well, at least I was in good company in not making the list…
But Intlawgrrls?
DOD does not listen to old retired has-beens!;-})
You need to lobby the VA to start a blog.
Lex, not to worry. I will have my blogmate John put the good word in for you so you can join us…
Surprisingly enough, it’s not blocked at MNF-West, at least not after 1800. Looks like mostly plugs for the Pentagon Channel.
I strongly suspect this has to do more with LTG Cladwell’s influence than the DoD realizing it was a good idea.
He’s been pushing blogging and engaging the media like a champion of the new age over here at the Command and General Staff College.
Interesting that the second story on this blog site as about him. Hmm…
Cool site. About time the DOD caught on.
I actually have the IntLawGrrls site bookmarked and read it often (pinko-commie libs. Hee, hee). But the much better milblogs (left out entirely) are yours, Acute politics, Abu Muqawama, and ROK Drop.
Give ‘em time, the DOD is new to this internet blog thingy…
Lex:
Just dropped the POC a note. You know, if you’d participate in the blogger’s roundtable every now and then, it might have been up there sooner…why today they even had a topic that was close, geographically that is, to your ‘umble abode.
-SJS
Well, now Lex is listed.
SJS has the power!
Lex, I do hope you’ll consider participating in the roundtables. I think you’d be a tremendous asset to the assembled participants (both questioners and questioned).
Damn… I didn’t see Draw Mohammad Week listed on there.
Naw…. come on Lex – SES, baby — SES!
Dang, Lex, starting to let it flow, a bit, now that anchor-swallowing time is real soon?
I must buy a high-temp-rated monitor for reading your stuff after you turn in the final papers and _really_ lay on with the capsicum.