Category: Who knows

  • The Damn Few: Actionable Intelligence

    Ranger Up’s latest iteration of The Damn Few entitled Actionable Intelligence. And, as always, because it’s Ranger Up and it’s on TAH, it’s not safe for work;

  • Getting the Leach to Drop Off

    There is a sure way to get Joe to depart from this site and eventually never return: Never, ever respond to anything he posts here no matter how insulting or outrageous. Ignore his input as you would that of an old demented uncle who spouts profanities at the Thanksgiving table. It may be one of the most difficult things you ever do but it is the right thing.
    Trolls like Joe feed off the anger they incite, like leaches sucking blood from the host where they have attached themselves.

    Leaches inject enzymes into the host body to make the blood flow freely, thus Joe’s infuriating little insertions into comments at TAH. Joe dissolves your restraint and every response you write in all your righteous fury is just more blood in the sucking jaws of a leach like Joe. When I was in Vietnam, we got read of leaches by applying the hot tip of a cigarette to their slimy little bodies. That doesn’t work with Joe; he thrives on the heat so the only way to get rid of him is to cut off the blood supply. That equals silence.

    My suspicion is that Joe is a rather lonely old guy who life has passed by. His self-description of being an armchair geologist indicates he never made it to being the real thing. He craves attention and those who respond to him are feeding red meat to his starving ego which I would wager resembles a Gulag prisoner, shriveled cold beyond belief, emaciated to protruding ribs and lonely as a wandering asteroid. So starve him to death, a troll death, at least. Quit feeding his needy ego and he’ll go elsewhere like a wild animal that comes around seeking scraps. No food-no reward-no point in showing up.

    So please, do not comment on this piece other than to agree or disagree. Whatever Joe posts, ignore him.

    Then learn not to respond to Joe ever again. If he posts a comment, simply ignore it and post what you would have, had the bloodsucker not bitten your butt. When engorged leaches have their fill, they drop off. But more importantly, they learn to not even attach to a surface where no blood is available. Keep that in mind and Joe will remain in the muck of the liberal fever swamp where he belongs and not sucking on the butt cheeks of this blog.

    Remember: no blood, soon no leach…

  • A Super Bowl Sunday Article to Make You Think

    Many of TAH’s readers follow sports somewhere between occasionally and religiously.  I’d put myself somewhere in that range.

    So I thought I’d post this in honor of the Super Bowl Sunday – though it’s more generic than footbal-specific.

    Since we follow sports, most of us also unfortunately have heard more about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) than we probably wish we had.  And we’ve seen more than a few sports “heroes” turn out to have feet of clay, too.

    A fellow named Bill Simmons has written an interesting article on the issue.  It’s one of the single best and most thought-provoking articles I’ve read on the subject recently.  You may or may not agree with Simmons – but the article, though fairly long, is IMO worth a read.

    Simmons’ article can be found here.  I found it well worth the time.  YMMV.

     

    Author’s note:  URL in link is fixed now.  Sorry about the initial error.

  • Nick Searcy v. Bryan Anderson

    Some entertainment for a Sunday from Tequila Volare;

    Politichicks report on the two involved parties;

  • “Good Grief!”

    The actor who provided the voice of Peanuts’ character “Charlie Brown” in numerous “Peanuts” TV specials has been arrested on charges including stalking.

    No, I’m not kidding.

    (Sigh.)  Maybe the Mayans were right after all and we just didn’t get the memo yet.

  • Military Bureaucracy – Ya Gotta Love It!

    All of us here at TAH probably have funny stories about run-arounds, SNAFUs, and the like involving military bureaucracy or paperwork.  So it occurred to me that posting an article on the subject and inviting comments from TAH’s readers might be worthwhile.

    Since I’m posting the article, I guess that means I’m “on the hook” for the first such story.  Fair enough; here goes.

    Each service has its own admin practices and procedures.  Most of the time, they actually work fairly well.

    Even the Army’s orders process generally works – though like a dancing bear, it often does so somewhat less than gracefully.  Once it took 3 tries for DA to slide a reporting date of mine 30 days “to the right” (later).   I guess that change must have had the same clerk-typist processing it that had trouble spelling “Fort Rucker” in this article.  (smile)

    But that’s not the funniest admin SNAFU that ever happened to me personally.

    In 2007-2008, I was ordered back to active duty for a tour in the CENTCOM AOR.  I spent virtually all of that year serving in either Afghanistan or Iraq.

    During January 2008, my duty station was in Iraq – Baghdad, to be precise.  Except for R&R, I’d been there since August and in theater since April.

    Well, in January 2008 I got the following amendment to the orders recalling me to active duty and sending me to the sandbox.  It was sent to me at my home of record; my spouse forwarded me a copy.

    I’ve redacted PII and a couple of other bits of info.  Take a look at the text in the red box.  (Click on the image to enlarge it.)

    Yep, you read that right.  I’m deployed to the sandbox, stationed in Baghdad and have been there for months, in the middle of a no-joke shooting war.  And the Army sends me an amendment to my freaking orders telling me I need to check in with Post billeting and reminding me that if I want to live “on the economy” I need a statement of nonavailability.

    I got a really good laugh out of that bit of bureaucratic idiocy.  (smile)

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    OK, there have to be better stories than that out there.  Fire away!

  • Ranger Up Presents, The Damn Few: Zero Dark Sealy

    The folks at Rangers Up sent us their latest in “The Damn Few” series;

  • Trust, But Verify

    Jonn’s written before many times about guys using photos of fake military IDs and stories to con unsuspecting women online. For any such approach, the title of this story is generally good advice.

    It’s damn good advice regarding any online relationship, period.  And guys take note:  as the case of Manti Te’o and his phantom girlfriend shows, that advice is not just for the ladies.  (There is some thought that Te’o may have been a part of the hoax vice a victim.  The matter is under investigation.)

    Doveryai, no proveryai“, people – “doveryai, no proveryai“.