Posted on 05/25/2009 4:49:52 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
SWORDLESS SAILORS Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all "ceremonial swords" and anything else "that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners" for Friday's outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by President Barack Obama. Inside the Beltway has obtained the academy's list of prohibited items for this year's graduation exercises, which, besides ceremonial swords, includes umbrellas. Yes, cell phones and texting are still allowed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
President Oblowme was conceived, born and raised in circumstances completely antithetical to the entire concept of honor, and went on to be groomed and assisted by people who despise the very notion of honor. A Communist has no use for honor other than as something to be used against the honorable.
Mr. niteowl77
Maybe he’s thinking of Soviet defector Georgi Markov: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Georgi_Markov
The death blow will come from the Praetorian Guard
Me wants one! Got source?
On another thread, a poster claimed the same was done when GWB delivered the commencement address a few years back.
Did you get the Ron Paul statement in the same article. Long verbage, troubling, but contains some real grasp of what is happening.
I have never been a Ron Paul supporter, but this video on which the long quote in the article was based is worth viewing.
“Is this reality or just a bad dream?”
“a government out of control, unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law, or morality; bickering over petty politics as we collapse into chaos; the philosophy that destroys us is not even defined.”
OH ya and take off those silly uniforms too. I want you there in cut offs and sandles.
Obama may not understand the concept of honour, but properly trained military officers are steeped in the concept. Common Law nations depend on that fact.
Obama comes from a generation and an intellectual sub-culture who were raised to consider military force to be so awful that they never troubled themselves to learn its uses and limitations. Such people who then achieve political power have a tendency to fail to use military force when it is needed or to improperly deploy it when diplomatic remedies will suffice,
Part of learning about the use and limitations of military force is learning about military culture. There is such a thing as military virtue and a wise civilian leader will recognize it and honour it in his officers.
Have read a great deal about this incident, and do not believe the Warren Commission got it right.
But, you would have to be a total idiot to believe anything the (the fraud) Dan Rather supports.
To answer your question, Lyndon did not do this. (and I loathed him) Was there a conspiracy, Probably.
Cuban mafia, Possibly.
you fergot a space their freebilly. heh, heh
I have an umbrella that contains a little flask, and I would want a little brandy handy if I had to go listen to that ivy league socialist punk.
Contrast with the following tale of a sword, trust, respect, and decency among men:
Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
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Meeting at Appomattox
The exchange of messages initated the historic meeting in the home of Wilmer McLean. Arriving at the home first, General Lee sat in a large sitting room on the first floor. General Grant arrived shortly and entered the room alone while his staff respectfully waited on the front lawn. After a short period the staff was summoned to the room. General Horace Porter described the scene:
“We entered, and found General Grant sitting at a marble-topped table in the center of the room, and Lee sitting beside a small oval table near the front window, in the corner opposite to the door by which we entered, and facing General Grant. We walked in softly and ranged ourselves quietly about the sides of the room, very much as people enter a sick-chamber when they expect to find the patient dangerously ill.
The contrast between the two commanders was striking, and could not fail to attract marked attention they sat ten feet apart facing each other. General Grant, then nearly forty-three years of age, was five feet eight inches in height, with shoulders slightly stooped. His hair and full beard were a nut-brown, without a trace of gray in them. He had on a single-breasted blouse, made of dark-blue flannel, unbuttoned in front, and showing a waistcoat underneath. He wore an ordinary pair of top-boots, with his trousers inside, and was without spurs. The boots and portions of his clothes were spattered with mud. He had no sword, and a pair of shoulder-straps was all there was about him to designate his rank. In fact, aside from these, his uniform was that of a private soldier.
Lee, on the other hand, was fully six feet in height, and quite erect for one of his age, for he was Grant’s senior by sixteen years. His hair and full beard were silver-gray, and quite thick, except that the hair had become a little thin in the front. He wore a new uniform of Confederate gray, buttoned up to the throat, and at his side he carried a long sword of exceedingly fine workmanship, the hilt studded with jewels. His top-boots were comparatively new, and seemed to have on them some ornamental stitching of red silk. Like his uniform, they were singularly clean, and but little travel-stained. On the boots were handsome spurs, with large rowels. A felt hat, which in color matched pretty closely that of his uniform, and a pair of long buckskin gauntlets lay beside him on the table.
General Grant began the conversation by saying ‘I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico, when you came over from General Scott’s headquarters to visit Garland’s brigade, to which I then belonged. I have always remembered your appearance, and I think I should have recognized you anywhere.’
‘Yes,’ replied General Lee, ‘I know I met you on that occasion, and I have often thought of it and tried to recollect how you looked, but I have never been able to recall a single feature.’”
The two generals talked a bit more about Mexico and moved on to a discussion of the terms of the surrender when Lee asked Grant to commit the terms to paper:
“’Very well,’ replied General Grant, ‘I will write them out.’ And calling for his manifold order-book, he opened it on the table before him and proceeded to write the terms. The leaves had been so prepared that three impressions of the writing were made. He wrote very rapidly, and did not pause until he had finished the sentence ending with ‘officers appointed by me to receive them.’ Then he looked toward Lee, and his eyes seemed to be resting on the handsome sword that hung at that officer’s side. He said afterward that this set him to thinking that it would be an unnecessary humiliation to require officers to surrender their swords, and a great hardship to deprive them of their personal baggage and horses, and after a short pause he wrote the sentence: ‘This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.’
Grant handed the document to Lee. After reviewing it, Lee informed Grant that the Cavalry men and Artillery men in the Confederate Army owned their horses and asked that they keep them. Grant agreed and Lee wrote a letter formally accepting the surrender. Lee then made his exit:
“At a little before 4 o’clock General Lee shook hands with General Grant, bowed to the other officers, and with Colonel Marshall left the room. One after another we followed, and passed out to the porch. Lee signaled to his orderly to bring up his horse, and while the animal was being bridled the general stood on the lowest step and gazed sadly in the direction of the valley beyond where his army lay - now an army of prisoners. He smote his hands together a number of times in an absent sort of way; seemed not to see the group of Union officers in the yard who rose respectfully at his approach, and appeared unconscious of everything about him. All appreciated the sadness that overwhelmed him, and he had the personal sympathy of every one who beheld him at this supreme moment of trial. The approach of his horse seemed to recall him from his reverie, and he at once mounted. General Grant now stepped down from the porch, and, moving toward him, saluted him by raising his hat. He was followed in this act of courtesy by all our officers present; Lee raised his hat respectfully, and rode off to break the sad news to the brave fellows whom he had so long commanded.”
From “Surrender at Appomattox, 1865,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (1997)
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
In line with the Napolitano Doctrine.
The brides mother was a good friend of the Kerrys (yes, the POS from MA).
The groom was in the military and his platoon was coming to the wedding as well as many of his friends from his four year military college.
Teresa H K attended the wedding, but John was told NOT to come.
I know John was told not to come because of his disregard (to say the least) of the military.
I always got the feeling that something might have happened to him if he had attended. Some VERY tough military men in attendance at this wedding.
Note: I have kept this very vague to protect the branch of service and the individuals. It is a true story.
Home made
You are sure right about him being a cowardly POS. You will never see him in a crowd shaking hands.
Well the obvious answer is Hell Yes. Obambi knows that when he took his oath of office it didn’t mean any more to him than a tick on a mule’s ass. But these guys in the academy - they take their oath real serious. I mean deadly serious. I mean what if one or more of these guys realize - I mean think - obambi is destroying the nation! They have taken an oath to protect and defend the country against all threats external and domestic.
It sure is... ;-)
The policy is stupid, but is it new? I’d like to believe it is, rather than reflecting long-standing paranoia on the part of the secret service. W made a ton of appearances to military bases and service academies. Can anyone who knows verify they, specifically those on or entering active duty, were NOT ordered to disarm prior to seeing their Commander-in-Chief? Once we’ve verified that the secret service has indeed raised the standard of protection for their chief charge, then we should demand that high standard be maintained against all historically plausible threats. There has only been one successful physical attack on a President in the past 25 years. Before entering His presence all press must remove their shoes!
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