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  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    Can we get another dick post with the fondling included please? Much to prefer, thank you.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    @Matthew Reid Krell:

    That does not look like anything that would be produced by Navy boosters.

    What do you mean? Aren’t all Navy enlistees basically one umbrella in their drink away from being this kind of rabidly gay?

  12. 12.

    General Stuck

    OT

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to take responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 in a series of interviews on Monday.

    Speaking with reporters, she said the blame should rest with her office.

    “I take responsibility” for what happened on September 11, Clinton told CNN after arriving in Lima, Peru, for a visit. Clinton gave several interviews to U.S. television networks Monday night, and it was the first private response she has given about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in eastern Libya.

    Pure class!

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    @Corner Stone:

    Aren’t all Navy enlistees basically one umbrella in their drink away from being this kind of rabidly gay?

    Shame on you! And there is NO truth to the vicious rumor that the Navy’s motto is “Never leave your buddy’s behind”.

  14. 14.

    Elmo

    My beloved Chargers are playing for sole possession of first place in the AFC West, against the hated Broncos and the even more hated Manning. Where’s my NFL Open Thread?

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    @General Stuck:

    Expected wingnut response: “Hillary only said that because the Mooslim Kenyan Usurper threatened her family with vile consequences if she didn’t”

  17. 17.

    The Dangerman

    As someone who spends every Army/Navy rooting for the Army…

    Did you see “A Game of Honor“? Definitely worth viewing.

    I used to work in the same building as Coach Ellerson; he’s a first class act. Army’s got a great coach, but a better man.

    ETA: Egads to that video; I was half expecting them to oil up and go play some beach volleyball.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    @SFAW: And that’s supposed to influence Hillary “I had Vince Foster whacked” Clinton how?

    Or am I going wrong by expecting consistency in wingnut conspiracy ravings?

  23. 23.

    Political Observer

    What’s NOT so funny is that Obama’s defense cuts will reduce our navy to its smallest size since 1917.

  24. 24.

    Nicole

    That one shot was a total shout-out to the Cher video, right? You know what I’m talking about.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @Political Observer:

    What’s NOT so funny is that Obama’s defense cuts will reduce our navy to its smallest size since 1917.

    It’s funny, because we have these things now called “airplanes” and “helicopters” that we can use instead of ships to move people and weapons around. You should look them up sometime since you’re not familiar with them — they’re pretty amazing.

  28. 28.

    Hill Dweller

    @Political Observer: The defense cuts were engineered by the Republicans when they threatened to intentionally destroy the full faith and credit of the country.

    Nevertheless, do you think our 1917 Navy could, in any way, threaten our current Navy?

    Again, I hope you are a parody poster. No one should have to go through life that insecure and ignorant.

  32. 32.

    Cacti

    @Mnemosyne:

    It’s funny, because we have these things now called “airplanes” and “helicopters” that we can use instead of ships to move people and weapons around. You should look them up sometime since you’re not familiar with them—they’re pretty amazing.

    I wonder how many super carriers and nuclear submarines we had in 1917.

    I’m surprised he didn’t complain about not having more battleships.

  33. 33.

    Elmo

    @Mnemosyne:

    Flimsy newfangled contraptions that will do absolutely nothing to maintain our vital presence in the Philippines. There’s nothing like a dreadnought to intimidate the Yellow Peril. Bully!

  34. 34.

    Joseph Nobles

    I would give someone five dollars to repost this video with the Village People’s “In The Navy” instead of “Oppan Gangnum Style.”

  42. 42.

    Cacti

    @MikeJ:

    When is the last time Obama issued a letter of marque?

    Speaking of the President Obama and the Navy, remember when Republicans were rooting for the Somali pirates?

    Rush was pissed when the Navy SEALS took them down.

  43. 43.

    Linda Featheringill

    Why are you guys ganging up on Political Observer? He only suggested that we sit down and have some pie.

    :-)

  44. 44.

    raven

    My old man was a “Mustang” enlisted sailor on a WWII Destroyer, went to college after the war, got his degree and a commission. He hated the fucking academy pukes:
    “What’s the color of horseshit?
    Navy Blue and Gold.”

  45. 45.

    smintheus

    Used to teach at USNA. The mids didn’t try any of this funny stuff in class, I can tell ya.

  49. 49.

    the Conster

    Why, why WHY do you let PO hijack every thread s/he/it shows up in? Stop it.

    The cannon between the legs just says it all. Men are just so ridiculously simple to grok, yet here we all are on the brink of catastrophe while we laugh at their silly antics. WTF.

  51. 51.

    Lymie

    Can’t even get the steps right, silly Navy. Just one step better than air force (SO is ACAV, so ha ha ha!)

  52. 52.

    dmsilev

    @Chris: Not to mention spearmen. Nothing like a good well-formed phalanx for protecting one’s walled city. Clearly, Obama has left us open to attack from the Persian Iranian menace!

  54. 54.

    Cacti

    @dmsilev:

    Not to mention spearmen. Nothing like a good well-formed phalanx for protecting one’s walled city. Clearly, Obama has left us open to attack from the Persian Iranian menace!

    I hear President Obama will be throwing a lot of spears at tomorrow’s debate.

  57. 57.

    Chris

    @TOP123:

    You forgot the best thing about Salamis – the Athenians only had between three and four hundred ships, so, three to four times less than the Persians (and also less than the U.S. Navy in 1918). Didn’t stop them from fucking exterminating the Persians.

    Perhaps numbers really DON’T tell the full story…

    (I also love that the “boy-lovers and philosophers” of Athens crushed the Persians while the badass warriors of Sparta got crushed themselves. Seriously, the story of “300” is “Warrior Society spends entire life dedicating itself to war, then loses.” Gotta love that).

  60. 60.

    SFAW

    @Cacti:

    I hear President Obama will be throwing chucking a lot of spears at tomorrow’s debate.

    Fixed, so as to agree with the racist sentiment from Portman or Fehrnstrom or whoever said it today.

  62. 62.

    Chris

    @the Conster:

    Why, why WHY do you let PO hijack every thread s/he/it shows up in? Stop it.

    Nature of the Internets, bro.

    I’m just glad Toko Loco’s been permanently banned. Praise Allah.

  63. 63.

    Cacti

    @Chris:

    I also love that the “boy-lovers and philosophers” of Athens crushed the Persians while the badass warriors of Sparta got crushed themselves.

    I enjoyed the revisionist history that pretended the Spartan military wasn’t built on a culture of pederasty.

  64. 64.

    Suffern ACE

    @Mike in NC: what is important is how many ship builders will contribute and how many of their workers will vote. Otherwise it makes no sense to have a naval arms race at this point in time.

  65. 65.

    Elmo

    @SFAW:
    Hey, I made my hijacking effort but it didn’t take. Chargers up 17 zip on three turnovers, including two muffed kicks and a pick-six. Happy elmo +2.

  66. 66.

    PurpleGirl

    How many carrier groups did we have in 1917? How many carrier groups do we have now? I think the current distribution of ships is very different from 1917 and way more powerful than what we had in 1917. And, as Mnemosyne said, we have airplanes and (black) helicopters now.

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    @SFAW: See? Now when you said “throwing” I was like, “Yeah, dude’s gonna tear him down!”.
    But then when you said, “chucking” I was like, “Goddamn that’s fucking racist!”.

  68. 68.

    SFAW

    @Elmo:
    Chargers? You call that a threadjack attempt? It takes at least the Pats, Jets, or Stillers to do that. Chargers might as well be the Toledo Mud Hens, for all their threadjacking value.

  70. 70.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Cacti:

    I enjoyed the revisionist history that pretended the Spartan military wasn’t built on a culture of pederasty.

    Some of the historical reading I’ve done included contemporary descriptions of how the Spartans lived day-to-day, how they raised their offspring, and how they governed themselves. I came away wondering why only 300 of them wanted to commit suicide at Thermopylae.

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    @PurpleGirl:

    we have airplanes and (black) helicopters now.

    Ah, but if Mittens wins, they’ll be changed to white helicopters. Whether he has chopper elevators installed in the WHITE House is as yet unknown.

  72. 72.

    mai naem

    The Paul Ryan soup kitchen photo op story in front paged at CBS. They even mentioned that the pans he was cleaning appeared clean.

  74. 74.

    magurakurin

    @Cacti:

    I’m surprised he didn’t complain about not having more battleships.

    That’s basically what the troll is doing.

    One nuclear armed and powered submarine is equal to how many World War I era battleships…..in terms of payload, I believe we need to use the term…mega.

    Of course this “Obama’s cuts(r) are destroying the Navy” meme overlooks the fact that the cuts were asked for my the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    facts be damned because “Obambi is lazy and shiftless and will throw a lot of spears in the debate.”

  76. 76.

    Elmo

    @SFAW:
    Ya, but it’s MNF and they’re playing media darling Peyton Manning and the Broncos.

    Oh, and they’re now up 24-0 at halftime. But I’m still only +2.

  78. 78.

    burnspbesq

    I just hope those Mids got permission to do that. I lost count of the potential punishment tours at around 12,000.

  81. 81.

    MikeJ

    @Cacti:

    But seriously, if we have less than 1000 ships, how will we bring back Helen of Troy?

    We can’t rescue any woman hotter than ~450 millihelens.

  83. 83.

    Elmo

    @SFAW:
    I despise the Mannings and all their works – Eli Weasel more than his brother. Peyton’s losing record and subterranean passer rating against my Charges is an endless source of pleasure to me.

  85. 85.

    Chris

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    Some of the historical reading I’ve done included contemporary descriptions of how the Spartans lived day-to-day, how they raised their offspring, and how they governed themselves. I came away wondering why only 300 of them wanted to commit suicide at Thermopylae.

    The wonder of Warrior Societies is that for all that warmongering, they’re not actually that much more militarily efficient when push comes to shove. The Spartans got their ass handed to them in the Persian Wars, did better against Athens in the Peloponesian Wars but were beaten by Thebes shortly thereafter. And the Assyrians got their asses kicked by Babylon.

    Personal theory: a culture that spends all its time and energy obsessing about war is a culture that doesn’t spend any time and energy thinking about anything else, which makes them vulnerable to anyone with a slightly more diverse skillset.

    (E.G. the South investing in Officer-Gentlemen, versus the North investing in factories. War comes along, and wouldn’t you know it…)

  88. 88.

    J R in WV

    As a former Bosun’s Mate, that wasn’t like any of the brass I ever knew! I mean, none!\

    But dey got de rhythym!!

  91. 91.

    burnspbesq

    @Elmo:

    Oh, come on.

    You know all those Super Bowls the Chargers haven’t won with Philip Rivers at QB? They wouldn’t have won them if they’d had Eli.

    You want a QB who was taught by David Cutcliffe? You’ll have two chances to draft one in the next three years.

    When Sean Renfree is drafted in the third round next April, fans who don’t know as much as they think they know will say “Sean who?” And then when his team beats their team like a drum for 12 years, they’ll get all pissed at their GM for not having the foresight to draft him.

    On the other hand, by the day of the 2015 draft, everybody will know who Anthony Boone is.

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    @burnspbesq:

    You want a QB who was taught by David Cutcliffe? You’ll have two chances to draft one in the next three years.
    __
    When Sean Renfree is drafted in the third round next April, fans who don’t know as much as they think they know will say “Sean who?” And then when his team beats their team like a drum for 12 years, they’ll get all pissed at their GM for not having the foresight to draft him.

    Yawn. I sure as fuck hope this was some kind of twisted satire. But knowing you it’s more likely you were seriously predicting these outcomes.

  94. 94.

    Another Halocene Human

    Damn, Cole, that’s the gayest thing I’ve seen all week, and I was reading slash fanfiction last night.

  95. 95.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Corner Stone:

    What do you mean? Aren’t all Navy enlistees basically one umbrella in their drink away from being this kind of rabidly gay?

    B-b-but they had two coed midshipmen in that one shot and they didn’t look like ravening lesbian feminist terrorists from a 1980s post-apocalyptic East Berlin underground comic.

  96. 96.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Cacti: I enjoyed the revisionist history that pretended the Spartan military wasn’t built on a culture of pederasty.

    I enjoy conservative academics tying themselves in knots trying to tell us that Hellenic pederasty is not every bit as silly, if not moreso, than certain tribes in Papua New Guinea’s firm fixed belief that pre-adolescent males must fellate grown men to “acquire the seed” and complete their sexual development.

    Even more, I enjoy the ancient Greeks’ attempts to tell us so. Exhibit A: the Symposium.

  97. 97.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    They played it at an event I was at on Saturday night — I think it’s more like this year’s “Macarena.” I had to stream the video to my phone to show some co-workers who had no idea why people were prancing around the dance floor like they were riding horses.

  98. 98.

    The Other Chuck

    Leave it to a Korean pop singer to make the Navy gayer than the Village People could ever have hoped to…

  99. 99.

    SFAW

    @Elmo:

    Just woke up, missed the second half of the game. So, I take it the Chargers won by like 4 touchdowns, right?

  100. 100.

    Lojasmo

    @Political Observer:

    COnsidering that we have battle fleet tonnage equivalent to the next thirteen largest navies combined, I am not exactly displeased that ours will be shrinking by a couple percent. Now shove off, tool.

  102. 102.

    Ash Can

    This post and comment thread are epic. And I’m assuming that the only reason Sarah PT hasn’t weighed in yet is because as soon as she saw this video she hopped a plane to Annapolis to, well, invite these delightful young gentlemen to, ahem, tea.

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