Hat tip Boston Bob
Maybe they aren’t all so good. I guess all of our wars don’t keep our soldiers totally occupied. They seem to have time for cheating on their wives. I can’t wait for a high level politician to be revealed. It’s just a matter of time, because we all know psychotic politicians are lowlife, slimeballs, with no morality or care for right or wrong. Cheating and lying are their lives.
Guest Post by Rob Price
It includes everything from email addresses and financial information to sexual fantasies. In short, it’s a blackmailer’s paradise.
And according to one researcher, who goes by the Twitter handle t0x0pg, the dump contains more than 15,000 US military and governmental email addresses.
Most of these are military in nature: There are 6,788 us.army.mil addresses, for example, another 1,665 navy.mil ones, and 809 usmc.mil. Some of these may well be fake, and security researcher Graham Cluley points out that Ashley Madison doesn’t verify email addresses used to sign up (“so I could have created an account at Ashley Madison with the address of [email protected], but it wouldn’t have meant that Obama was a user of the site”).
Nonetheless, the sheer volume of military email addresses very strongly suggests that highly private information on many thousands of military personnel has been leaked online. Business Insider has not yet independently authenticated these findings.
Guest Post by Fred Reed
Aaaagh! Enough. I keep reading that I should Honor Our Troops. On airline flights, I am asked to applaud Our Young Men in Uniform. Why, for God’s sake? What have Our Troops done for me except cause me great embarrassment, cost money better spent on anything else, and kill millions of people that I have had no interest in killing? For this I am to thank them?
No, they don’t have noble motives. Men join the military because they need a job, because they want money for college or because they are bored or want to prove their manhood or go to exotic places and get laid. Basic training, jump school, being a tank gunner or doing nocturnal scuba insertions are much more appealing to a young man than selling fan belts at the NAPA outlet.
Patriotism? “Love of country” is an after-market add-on, good for a drink or a pat on the back at the Legion–nothing more than an expression of the pack instinct that makes men in all places and times join in groups to fight other groups. The pack instinct is why tribal warfare is continual among primitive peoples, why war, otherwise inexplicable, remains incessant between modern countries. It is why the gangs of young males in Chicago mirror military hierarchy, with territory to be expanded or defended, with leaders and insignia (e.g. black and god jackets for the Latin Kings ), with hand signs to signify identify and loyalty. It is why people join screaming mobs in political conventions, why they become wildly emotional over football teams consisting largely of convicted felons who have nothing to do with the city.
Guest Post by Fred Reed
I have just read in Army Times that, to my delight, the Army is making soldiers wear the prettiest red high-heels in the pursuit of gender-equality. Yes. They look like little girls playing with Mommy’s shoes. It has something to do with understanding the psychological problems of women, a matter of importance in combat. It necessarily was done with the approval of the Army’s generals in the Pentagon, particularly Chief of Staff Odierno, since they are in charge of the whole Army shebang. I write them in astonished admiration, thusly:
Dear General,
I see that on your watch the Army is turning into a transvestite marching corps in high heels, a Ziegfeld cross-gendered or bisected gay-bath sexual zoo vacuuming up every sort of erotic loony, not to mention becoming a home for unwed mothers and prostitution rings. I commend you. I have always wanted to be defended by a freak show.
I do not question your qualifications for command. You doubtless have a firm handshake, a steely gaze, an imposing presence, and a perfect grasp of PowerPoint. But a general who is so afraid of feminists that he forces his troops to play dress-up, well, I mean, what if there is a real war?