August 22, 2013

Manning's Freakshow Finale: A Dressgrace to the Uniform

"These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: Duty, honor, country." General Douglas MacArthur

The insect formerly known as "Bradley Manning" currently has "let if be known" that s/he/it wishes to be known as "Chelsea" and have the Army pay for s/he/it's "gender reassignment surgery." I am sure that there are many who, having lost limbs in their Army service, would be more than happy to let this traitor have some speed gender reassignment surgery for free. "‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished."

Although I know this creature will, from time to time, crawl back into the news, today's proclamation will be the high water mark of s/he/it's notoriety. At some point in the near future s/he/it will disappear inside the walls of Leavenworth and fade into the dull, grey life inside an institution. And the days will roll into the weeks and into the months and on into the years. Yesterday s/he/it was a traitor. Today s/he/it is a joke. Tomorrow joke time will be over.


If you think you're Napoleon, you're insane, if you think you're Josephine, the State will pay to make it come true.-- Bill Jones
[HT: Christopher Taylor, Word Around the Net]

General Douglas MacArthur "Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiator in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice.

"Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by Federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be.

"These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: Duty, honor, country.

"You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the Nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds.

"The long, gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honor, country."

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 22, 2013 1:42 PM
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The real question is how Manning was accepted into the Army in the first place. He was known to have "gender identification disorder" before he was accepted. Why was he accepted? This "disorder" amounts to insanity. Consider: you look at your genitals and decide that you're the other sex. That is a major delusion, rising to a level which interferes with your functioning. In other words, insanity. So, why did the Army accept him? PC, that's why.

Posted by: Ike at August 22, 2013 2:05 PM

Ike - Yeah. This whole imbroglio says a lot more about the "modern" army than it does this one kook.

Posted by: BillH at August 22, 2013 2:16 PM

It is even worse than you think. The same Army that recruits the delusional and sexually disoriented to do the horrible and necessary task of manliness, also puts women in packs that weigh more than them, and shoves them from planes and helicopters, expecting them to be as manly as man. PC is insanity. My 100 lb. daughter is in airborne. Well, she would be, but she is flat on her back because wonder of wonders, she is too small to be able to carry her own parachute. I'm sure there are behemoth women who could, but some recruiter said, "Sure, you can be a paratrooper! Not a problem!" Except that it is.

Posted by: Jewel at August 22, 2013 5:35 PM

Betrayal? You would call exposing the crimes of our leaders betraysl? Be this betrayal, let's have more of it.

Posted by: Alan Kellogg at August 22, 2013 7:05 PM

Seriously, you cannot make this shit up. Rod Serling couldn't have come up with a story like this for the Twilight Zone. Even 30 years ago this kind of story would have been laughed out of Hollywood for its extremity. In your most paranoid high from smoking weed with your college roommate immediately after all exams were done, you still couldn't have conjured an f*d up story line like this one to freak your roommate out.

The truth is ALWAYS stranger than fiction.

And why do so many young people need so much goddamn attention these days? Is everyone under the age of 30 an attention whore, needy to the point of psychosis, starving for the entire planet's attention because mom and/or dad didn't spend every f*ing waking hour talking to them, or what?

Posted by: Kerry at August 22, 2013 7:06 PM

I am not so sure. He'll be a DemoNRat candidate in 8-9 yrs or will be a tenured prof and a best selling author.

Posted by: Winston at August 22, 2013 7:10 PM

After the video is over, check out the speech by Colonel North. You won't be disappointed

Posted by: Denny at August 22, 2013 7:53 PM

To repeat: "Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds. But serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiator in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice.

"Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by Federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be.

"These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: Duty, honor, country.

Posted by: vanderleun at August 22, 2013 9:38 PM

"I want a gender-confused Private to define the classification and access of U.S. military, intelligence, and diplomatic message traffic."

That about covers it, I guess.

And make no mistake about it, Obama will pardon him.

Max damage in the remaining time available.


Isaiah 3, indeed.

Posted by: TmjUtah at August 22, 2013 9:55 PM

I'm sure the former First Daughter is delighted that (Wo)manning chose "Chelsea" as its first name.

Posted by: PA Cat at August 23, 2013 3:26 AM

Bill Jones,
The correct form for the indefinite gendered is:
S/He/It.

If you pronounce it slowly, you will understand why. (Just ignore the slashes.)

Posted by: Jean at August 23, 2013 5:22 AM

Won't matter what sex he is, 10 minutes in the DB (Disciplinary Barracks) at Leavenworth will be a nightmare. Longer will be hell which is what he deserves. Gender has nothing to do with it!

Posted by: Tom at August 23, 2013 7:06 AM

The rabbit syndrome. It is so easy to distract and diffuse any issue. It started out, he stole and revealed State secrets. It ends up with he's gonna become a girl.

Oh, look, a rabbit!

Posted by: chasmatic at August 23, 2013 7:28 AM

Has a line formed yet to un-man Manning?

Posted by: ErisGuy at August 23, 2013 9:52 AM

"Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar,
so they put him in a home.
Then they gave him Medicinal Compound....
Now he's Emperor of Rome........."

How about we spring for some Medicinal Compound for Whatsis Manning...?

Posted by: Eric Fithian at August 24, 2013 12:44 AM

Woke up, it was a Chelsea Manning,
And the first thing that I heard....

Posted by: Rob De Witt at August 24, 2013 1:59 AM

Duty, honor, country. Is that right, Gerard? You gave me a good laugh remembering the little radical from Paradise who got himself wrote up on on a national cover. It was about that time that I dropped out of school to join the USAF. No matter how hard you try, how many hard hitting pieces you write, how much venom you spew, the fact remains that you were on Jane Fonda's side. If you really want to make amends, do some volunteer work at a VA rehab clinic. What you're doing here is sad and pathetic.

Posted by: Frank at August 24, 2013 11:42 AM

You know, Frank, from what yøu write about Jane Fonda it tells me you don't know anything about me at all. Hence it makes me understand that everything you say about "yourself" is a lie.

Sorry, little Frank, but it is far too late for you. Far, far too late.

Posted by: vanderleun at August 24, 2013 1:24 PM

If it were up to me, Brad would be cellies with Nidal Hasan (oh, yeah, and Hasan Shoot would get life, just because he clearly wants martyrdom so badly). Those two prats deserve each other.

(By the way, Brad's 5'2" and such a twinkie that he had to stay away from fairs for fear of being captured and deep-fried. He has to know he didn't really have to go tranny for the other prisoners to treat him like a girl, right? Tryhard.)

Posted by: Rich Fader at August 25, 2013 3:23 PM