(CNN) – The highest-ranking officer in the US Marine Corps has ordered Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from all Marine installations.
The order from Commandant Gen. David Berger was one of several initiatives he prioritized for “immediate execution” in a memo sent to senior leadership last week, Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Joseph Butterfield told CNN.
Some of the other directives were posted by Berger on Twitter, including revising the parental leave policy to include same-sex couples, reviewing the possibility of yearlong maternity leave for female Marines and to get more female Marines into combat jobs.
#1: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#0)
"Our troops" exist to bring Outfest and drag queen story hour to countries Israel doesn't like and obliterate indigenous culture everywhere.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-28 22:59:26 Reply Private Reply
#2: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
I'm glad you put "our troops" in quotes.
Several years ago a jewspaper reporter when interviewing me asked, "Do you support our troops?"
I responded with a rehearsed line to the effect that I support our troops when they're legitimately deployed in the defense of the United States in accordance with the US Constitution, etc.
Today my answer would be "I don't have any troops."
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-28 23:34:13 Reply Private Reply
#3: Rube Goldberg To: StraitGate (#0)
Rube Goldberg posted on 2020-02-29 12:03:58 Reply Private Reply
#4: Dakmar To: StraitGate (#0)
Dakmar posted on 2020-02-29 12:31:28 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: Dakmar (#4)
Only if you can find one that was a former slave. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 12:45:41 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#0)
They are still pushing the G.I. Jane scenario.
I got email from some woman who was in Syria on a U.S./U.N. joint task force operation.
She told me her unit stumbled upon a hoard of U.S. Dollars and her share was $2 million. She said she needed help getting it out of the country. I smelled a scam coming on so I deleted the message.
She did send me some nice pics of her holding a bull pup rifle. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 12:56:50 Reply Private Reply
#7: StraitGate To: Dakmar (#4)
H.K. Edgerton would, no doubt.
Last time I saw him was several years ago in Fairview, Kentucky at the Jeff Davis Monument.
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-29 16:21:49 Reply Private Reply
#8: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#6)
Good move. It could have been worse than a scam -- it could have been a set-up. And you could have been looking at some serious federal charges if you had conspired with her on the money thing.
I have a good friend who found out -- after an embarrassingly long time -- that his on-line "Russian girlfriend" was really a guy. "She" was trying to get money from him so "her" internet service wouldn't get disconnected. Ivan had sent some pretty pictures, too -- probably of his own girlfriend.
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-29 16:31:34 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#7)
A Jeff Davis monument in Kentucky? Amazing. I guess it is not Memphis. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 16:32:31 Reply Private Reply
#10: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#9)
After the War he donated the family property to the Fairview Baptist Church. On that occasion he began his speech with these words:
Jeff Davis was, in my opinion, one of the few great men who also a good man.
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-29 16:40:07 Reply Private Reply
#11: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#10)
Yes and Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves long before abolition was talked about. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 17:28:02 Reply Private Reply
#12: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#8)
I have no doubt there. Smuggling large amounts of cash is not a good idea. I did not have any resources that she might have needed to do anything untoward anyway.
I know a guy with Interpol. I helped him bust some internet scammers in Nigeria. He sent me a picture of four of them handcuffed wrist to wrist like a daisy chain.
He apparently could not get them prosecuted, but they got their machines and all their contacts and they were put out of business too. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 17:35:02 Reply Private Reply
#13: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#12)
StraitGate posted on 2020-02-29 17:52:43 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#13)
It sounds familiar. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-29 17:58:53 Reply Private Reply
#15: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#2)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-01 20:57:20 Reply Private Reply