esprit decor

[DainBramaged]

Sorry We Asked, Sorry You Told

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303642.html?nav=emailpage

Don't ask, don't tell. And, whatever you do, don't ask Elaine Donnelly to tell you what she thinks about gays in the military.

The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee made just such a miscalculation yesterday. Holding the first hearing in 15 years on the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, lawmakers invited a quartet of veterans to testify on the subject and also extended an invitation to Donnelly, who has been working for years to protect our fighting forces from the malign influence of women.

Donnelly treated the panel to an extraordinary exhibition of rage. She warned of "transgenders in the military." She warned that lesbians would take pictures of people in the shower. She spoke ominously of gays spreading "HIV positivity" through the ranks.

"We're talking about real consequences for real people," Donnelly proclaimed. Her written statement added warnings about "inappropriate passive/aggressive actions common in the homosexual community," the prospects of "forcible sodomy" and "exotic forms of sexual expression," and the case of "a group of black lesbians who decided to gang-assault" a fellow soldier.

At the witness table with Donnelly, retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, a lesbian, rolled her eyes in disbelief. Retired Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, a gay man who was wounded in Iraq, looked as if he would explode.

Inadvertently, Donnelly achieved the opposite of her intended effect. Though there's no expectation that Congress will repeal "don't ask, don't tell" and allow gays to serve openly in the military, the display had the effect of increasing bipartisan sympathy for the cause.

Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) labeled her statement "just bonkers" and "dumb," and he called her claims about an HIV menace "inappropriate." Said Snyder: "By this analysis . . . we ought to recruit only lesbians for the military, because they have the lowest incidence of HIV in the country."

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/conservatives-go-bonkers-over-esprit.html


Fucking stoopid Reich-wingers. This is funnier than one of them tapping their feet in a men's room, oops, one of them did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvN_-ES4udk

[burythehatchet]

1. Just one half step above "mercy boocoo". Illiterate dolt.

[DainBramaged]

3. This was one of the saddest moments in human history

This piece of shit tried in front of a Congressional hearing to spread the most venomous, hateful, and audacious lies about the Gay community that could exist And it amazes me that this is how these scumbags actually think.

She should be abandoned on an island somewhere with a goat, a male goat.

[burythehatchet]

10. I love free speech. Just let these idiots keep talking

as they say, just give them the rope to hang themselves.

[EFerrari]

2. Isn't the expression "esprit de corps"? n/t

[DainBramaged]

4. Read the link from AmericaBlog and you will understand.

Donnelly was followed by Jones, a tough-talking businessman who suggested that the military's tradition of "selfless service" would be undermined by gay men and lesbians. "In the military environment, team cohesion, morale and esprit de corps is a matter of life and death," he said. His written statement spelled it "esprit decor"; it also warned of "a band of lesbians that harassed new females," and noted his own military experience when "the only way to keep from freezing at night was to get as close as possible for body heat -- which means skin to skin."

[EFerrari]

6. Got it. Just when you thought they couldn't go more stupid. n/t

[DainBramaged]

7. They have not yet reached the heights of pure stoopidity

but this was a step up.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

8. I wonder if there is a gay military history compiled somewhere.

Just to make their heads explode. lol

[burythehatchet]

9. since it is plural (corps) I believe it is "des corps"

[Lex]

5. Bigoted crap was rolled out when the military integrated racially too.

It's just so pathetic.