Sipsey Street Irregulars: Nice. "Panetta Nominates Notorious Navy Captain For Admiral."

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Nice. "Panetta Nominates Notorious Navy Captain For Admiral."

The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position in which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise, which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology." -- Wikipedia.

Lt. J.G. Timothy Dorsey Intentionally Shot Down Friendly RF-4C in 1987. You know, I once explained to Grandpa Vanderboegh about the Peter Principle. He snorted and said, "What you mean is, shit floats to the top of the pond." Which, when I thought about it for a moment, I replied, "Right."

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rdf67 said...: Navy folks are upset about the selection, given his early outing from Navy Air due to his error in shooting down an Air Force jet. His father, a former Deputy CNO, clearly has had an influence on his meteoric rise through the ashes. With the record number of COs removed by the Navy in 2011, it is hard to believe this guy can get confirmed by Congress as an Admiral (although Rear) given the outcry.; February 23, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Longbow said...: It makes perfect sense. Who else would do their bidding?; February 23, 2012 at 10:53 PM
millerized said...: Had a saying in the Army...fuck up to move up. Watched a captain become a major after taxi'ing an aircraft into a chain link fence.
This type of action doesn't even phase me any longer. Hell, he just might become president if he keeps it up.; February 24, 2012 at 6:51 AM
Anonymous said...: I'd also think the USAF would be less than amused, considering his past treatment of a harmless RF4.

An admiral of this caliber could give "interservice rivalry" a whole new spin.; February 24, 2012 at 10:08 AM
CowboyDan said...: "intentional destruction of government property"

Aren't you supposed to pay for stuff you break if you do it on purpose?

I heard about guys being told to pay for damage to vehicles, buildings, etc. to get rid of charges.

Maybe it's different if your dad's one of the big bosses...; February 24, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Anonymous said...: First there were wooden ships and iron men.
Then there were irong ships and wooden men.
Soon they'll be nothing left but rubber rafts and reserves.; February 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Gunny G said...: No different than McLame graduating at the bottom of his class yet having Daddy the Admiral grease the skids for him and look how that turned out.; February 24, 2012 at 4:43 PM
JoeFromSidney said...: Years ago I was a student at the Air War College, the Air Force's top military school. One day the Commandant introduced one of the faculty members to us, prior to the gentleman's first lecture of the year. "This is Colonel X, father of 12 children, and the War College's foremost advocate of the Peter Principle."; February 24, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Pat H. said...: He only has four more aircraft to down to match "Ace" McCain's record of five.; February 25, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Anonymous said...: And together they will float on down the patomac on the good ship lolipop ,holding hand`s and singing cum-bi-ya.; February 26, 2012 at 2:58 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"A common language of resistance . . ."

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Nice. "Panetta Nominates Notorious Navy Captain For Admiral."

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