{"id":89468,"date":"2019-08-02T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89468"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:28:40","slug":"is-he-the-very-model-of-a-modern-brigadier-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89468","title":{"rendered":"Is He the Very Model of a Modern Brigadier General?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-81136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a production of &#8220;Pirates of Penzance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Major-General&#039;s Song from The Pirates of Penzance - live and with lyrics!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rs3dPaz9nAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T04:45:41-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rs3dPaz9nAo?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rs3dPaz9nAo\" data-author_name=\"English National Opera\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@englishnationalopera\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Rs3dPaz9nAo\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Major-General&apos;s Song from The Pirates of Penzance - live and with lyrics!\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>You have to admire the capability of the actor in managing those tongue-twisting lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>And the subject at hand is an inquiry into the behavior of one BGen Cooling during a confab at the five-sided nut farm in Foggy Bottom.<\/p>\n<p>This BGEN Marine may be either be a social moron, or he may have lapsed into the 1960s when saying stupid things in an offhand way wasn\u2019t nearly as likely to get you hammered as it is now. Or else \u2013 and this is more likely \u2013 he\u2019s someone who doesn\u2019t yet realize that offhand remarks are <em>always, and without exception<\/em>, taken the wrong way nowadays by the SJW crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Someone should tell <em>them<\/em> to get their britches out of their butts. I\u2019d give him the benefit of the doubt, because guys are known to say and do stupid things without thinking about the side effects.\u00a0 And since there is an entire population demographic looking for an opportunity to let everyone know just how butthurt they are, I&#8217;ve taken that into account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/07\/31\/marines-reprimand-1-star-alleged-to-have-bullied-subordinates-and-devalued-women\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/07\/31\/marines-reprimand-1-star-alleged-to-have-bullied-subordinates-and-devalued-women\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article: In the report witnesses told investigators Cooling explained that it was because women were physically inferior to men that male Marines had to \u201cpick up the slack\u201d during training and \u201cmen have had a difficult time adjusting to open combat roles because they can no longer refer to certain rifle parts as female body parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his response, Cooling said that he didn\u2019t say those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, one, that\u2019s a ludicrous statement,\u201d Cooling said. \u201cTwo, I don\u2019t recall having any conversation [like that] at all with anybody on the Senate staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a December 2017 congressional fellows breakfast during a question and answer session witnesses allege he said women make better schedulers and secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>Cooling denied using the word secretary but did say that in his experience women make better schedulers. He saw that as a compliment noting the important aspect of that part of the job among congressional staffers.<\/p>\n<p>A few of those in the breakfast meeting took offense, seeing the comment as demeaning to women and brushing off the position as \u201cmenial.\u201d \u2013 article.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to anyone who says that being a secretary is a menial position, any corporate exec will tell you that a good executive secretary is worth her\/his weight in gold, period. An executive assistant is worth even more. At Fidelity Investments the average executive secretary starting pay is $51,075. West Virginia Regional Jail Authority pays the lowest at around $42,826.<\/p>\n<p>Executive assistants have more responsibilities and scope, and pay reflects it. The average salary for an Executive Assistant to CEO is $60,685 per year in Chicago, IL, which meets the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone still think this is menial work?\u00a0 Anyone? Bueller?<\/p>\n<p>So some of these SJW female twits got their bikini briefs in a bunch over the use of the word \u201cSECRETARY\u201d, as if there\u2019s something wrong with that kind of work, <em>when there is not<\/em>.\u00a0 The narrow-mindedness going on in the current work world, civilian and military alike, is a waste of your tax money.<\/p>\n<p>My response to this is that no matter who you are or where you are, there is someone lurking on the sidelines to make a fuss about what you said or did. It is much ado about nothing. If the military&#8217;s focus is on who got their undies in a bunch over some offhand remarks by a senior officer or SNCO, I want to know why that is more important than getting the job done.<\/p>\n<p>I have this strong urge to yell &#8220;Shut up, slut!&#8221; at the women who have their bikini briefs in a wad over some of Cooling&#8217;s offhand remarks. Perhaps they should spend some quality time in the shoot-shoot-bang-bang world with women who are not desk jockeys. And the use of the term &#8220;menial&#8221; reflects on their own attitude that once they&#8217;ve gained some rank, their lofty view is that they are superior to all those (especially other women) who have not achieved that significance of higher rank.<\/p>\n<p>I have to go sharpen my claws now.\u00a0 Try to be good\u00a0 until I get back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From a production of &#8220;Pirates of Penzance&#8221;: You have to admire the capability of the &hellip; <a title=\"Is He the Very Model of a Modern Brigadier General?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89468\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is He the Very Model of a Modern Brigadier General?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89469,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89468\/revisions\/89469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}