You can take the money, but please, leave me my Denzel autograph!.

Meh, he'll just go work for Raytheon and get another Denzel autograph there.

Looks like we have too many Generals, time to thin the herd



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ZAZ: Ward will retire at the lower rank, and consequently a lower pay grade.

Reminds me of when Admiral Poindexter wanted to retire at his temporary higher rank. He just needed the routine formality of Senate confirmation of his promotion.

His retirement pay will be at highest rank held.

Obama's War on Generals continues

These accusations are clearly racist.

I bet a whole bunch of generals and admirals are deleting emails, breaking up with girlfriends and wondering if they have any dumpsters nearby that will hold a rolled carpet.

Leon panetta needs to wheel out a head on a pike.

"party is over gentlemen"

I think he should apply for one of michelle's assistant jobs, because that isn't a misappropriation of services at all.

So they still offer disgraced Generals a side arm, a single bullet and a suggestion to 'do the honorable thing'?

Ever notice how "sly / crafty / badass" criminals and thugs always seen to wind up with their thumb up their ass both professionally and socially or better, dating some guy named bubba? Stealing is a really sh*tty, job, kids. Seriously. Like, Wal Mart is better.

So apparently what we'really learning this week is that the upper echelons of our military industrial complex are inundated with some folks who act like they're on a reality show.
I've met quite a few admirals and generals through my work, and they usually seem like pretty awesome dudes... there's a few I've met that I'd hate to think were actually like this. But IIRC we've been promoting a lot more folks up to those ranks than we used to...

"For 40 years that I've been in this town, I've gone home because my wife and family are there and because, frankly, I think it's healthy to get out of Washington periodically just to get your mind straight and your perspective straight,"

I agree. Yerp. Can't argue with that. Nope.

Oh. By the way...



IT'S CALLED A COMMERCIAL AIRLINE, YOU POMPOUS BAG OF LARD! 

Okay, I'm not anti-Obama like most of the local crazy farkers in the politics tab, but is it just me or is it just odd that all of this drama is going down right after the President's re-election?

If all the perqs and all the freebies and all the "well, nobody will care"s and all the pork and shenanigans and entitlement welfare that people in power enjoy were halted tomorrow, then there wouldn't BE a f*cking deficit.

Madbassist1: Delawheredad: AirForceVet

To quote article "Panetta says he "regretted" the cost to taxpayers"

BUT OF COURSE the trips continue and of COURSE he is not paying for them himself

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Sorry you dont have the skill set needed to qualify for a job like that...some of us do.

I do furnished housing for a living and I've seen more than my share of government waste over the years. Like guys from the Army staying in short term housing at $5k - $6k per month for 4, 5 years running on the taxpayer dime. They should just move them to the area, but instead they often just keep paying for them to have "temp" housing here.

Which is great for my company and all, but just seems extremely inefficient.

Can we get seven bad generals?
1. General Rapey
2. General Autograph
3. General Dickincrazy
4-7???

We did have General Snarky, but he was last term.

Oh, and General Ward, don't even think of hiring a biographer.

Is this is someone's unilateral wet dream?

/obscure?

Madbassist1: mongbiohazard: Madbassist1: Delawheredad: AirForceVet

To quote article "Panetta says he "regretted" the cost to taxpayers"

BUT OF COURSE the trips continue and of COURSE he is not paying for them himself

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Sorry you dont have the skill set needed to qualify for a job like that...some of us do.

I do furnished housing for a living and I've seen more than my share of government waste over the years. Like guys from the Army staying in short term housing at $5k - $6k per month for 4, 5 years running on the taxpayer dime. They should just move them to the area, but instead they often just keep paying for them to have "temp" housing here.

Which is great for my company and all, but just seems extremely inefficient.

I want to make a point here that I am NOT saying the gov. isnt wasteful, or that panetta is a saint. All I am saying is that it isnt unusual for comped flights and living expenses to be included in a job offer. Its actually fairly common, I believe.

It certainly isn't unusual. My last company offered to fly my wife out to me or vice versa a couple times on weekends when they had me working for them in another state for a while.

In and of itself I see nothing wrong with those kinds of compensation either. But there is a limit, and I see that limit get left in the dust way too often. It's one thing to do that for someone working away from home for a few months... it's another if they're doing it for years, IMHO.

All Generals do this. He just pissed off the Sec Def. Poor bastard will retire still a millionaire with a pension thats better than his current pay.

Had it been enlisted- Dishonorable discharge and jail time. Seems fair.

The real surprise is that a general got in trouble for something other than his dick.

An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: All Generals do this. He just pissed off the Sec Def. Poor bastard will retire still a millionaire with a pension thats better than his current pay.

It's funny how you can fight in a couple wars and warm a chair and you get a pension and you can fight in a couple wars and bust your ass 40 hours a week until you're 70 and not get a pension.

Delawheredad: Yet Leon Panetta, his boss, flies home to California every week, and sometimes twice a week, first class each time spending millions of unnecessary dollars and it doesn't even raise a bit of protest.

Just to check, you're claiming it costs "millions of dollars" to fly first class to California?

 

Hold on.

HOLD THE fark ON.

Denzel Washington works as a pimped prize for defense contractors? Does Clooney know?

LegacyDL: Oba

Not at all. It was probably brewing for a long time, well planned, staged and set to roll out after the election. And I applaud this. He brought something to the table other than a fork straight off the acceptance speech podium and said "See? I'm actually trying to unscrew the pooch, folks." and he is looking out for his constituents and scraping some of the lard off the ass of the republic and I applaud this. In football, it's called a "touchdown". Touchdown. Hope there's a second reel, a T-shirt and a 6 film franchise. If "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice", the smacking douchebags on the wrist when they have their hands in the till is easily a virtue.

OOPS.

LegacyDL: Okay, I'm not anti-Obama like most of the local crazy farkers in the politics tab, but is it just me or is it just odd that all of this drama is going down right after the President's re-election?

Not at all. It was probably brewing for a long time, well planned, staged and set to roll out after the election. And I applaud this. He brought something to the table other than a fork straight off the acceptance speech podium and said "See? I'm actually trying to unscrew the pooch, folks." and he is looking out for his constituents and scraping some of the lard off the ass of the republic and I applaud this. In football, it's called a "touchdown". Touchdown. Hope there's a second reel, a T-shirt and a 6 film franchise. If "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice", the smacking douchebags on the wrist when they have their hands in the till is easily a virtue.

Delawheredad: madbassist

Panetta is using MILITARY planes for UNSCHEDULED flights so he can go home every week and, if you had bothered to read the article, he is reimbursing the government for a FRACTION of what those flight are costing. He is doing ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING THIS GENERAL IS ACCUSED OF.

Your comped flights are paid for by the airline or someone else somewhere along the line. You are not flying military planes at taxpayer expense.

The thing is, because he is Secretary of Defense, he can't just fly commericial because his job requires him to be reachable 24/7 in case there's like a war or something. So as SECDEF he has to fly on a government plane.

This isn't so much compesation, he's getting a service (transportation home) but he's paying for it. The reason that he's flying on a government plane is because the goverment requires him to be reachable all the time.