West Point El Supremo, Roy Moore and more

First off and most importantly, Happy Birthday Devil Dogs!!

West Point update  
Not long ago LTC Robert Heffington released an open letter blistering the “leadership” or lack thereof at West Point. West Point El Supremo Lieutenant General Robert Caslen responded to LTC Heffington’s charges here.

It’s worth noting that El Supremo NEVER addresses the particulars of LTC Heffington’s allegation that El Supremo is liar.  

There are lies of commission.  When the wife asks, “Do these jeans make my butt look big,” and you answer “No honey, those jeans don’t make your enormous butt look big” knowing full well that the jeans do nothing to hide the wife’s XXXL Texas sized azz.  That is a lie of commission.  

Another kind of lie is the lie of omission.  When the wife asks, “Do these jeans make my butt look big,” and you answer “Honey you’d look good in gunny sack.” You’ve avoided answering the question with a non-sequitur that skirts the issue knowing full well a barn door couldn’t hide the wife’s ginormous azz.  You’ve lied by omission.  

LTC Heffington’s specific allegation that caused El Supremo’s azz to chafe was that El Supremo lied when he said West Point would win at athletics while maintaining admissions and academic standards.  Seems to me that would be an easy accusation to bat away if it were false.  So El Supremo, either the Point allows athletes with sub-standard test scores to enter or it doesn’t. Answer the specific allegation El Supremo or we will be forced to accept that the allegation is true.

I’m sure El Supremo doesn’t like being called a liar.  I don’t like it when Mrs. Lex points out the time I drove the tractor into the pond.  Sadly, I did it.  So Lex not liking it does not change the fact that it happened.  El Supremo doesn’t like being called a liar, but never refutes the specific case he was said to be lying about.  So by omitting any evidence to the contrary while drowning us in statistics and other rubbish, El Supremo is admitting by omission that he's probably lying.

The rest of El Supremo’s defense actually seem to me to prove Heffington’s point.  The idea that West Point has gone from an “attrition based” model to a “developmental based” model tells me about all need to know.  I read somewhere, but cannot locate the link now, that in the last couple of decades West Point’s attrition has gone from about 50% - half of those who start a class plebe year fail to graduate – to about 10%.  Also, 75% of the 50% who managed to graduate two decades ago made a career of the military.  Those numbers have now flipped.  Only about 25% of the 90% who graduate now make the military a career.

With regard to acedemics, El Supremo again seems to confirm Heffington’s allegations.  El Supremo points to the average GPA at West Point.  I think Heffington charged that when a cadet fails a course, the cadet is given the opportunity to retake the class in the summer thereby avoiding summer duty with an Army unit to do so.  Most astonishingly the grade the cadet achieves during the retake is the grade used to compute his GPA.  Of course GPA is up under those conditions.  Who wouldn’t take a redo with no penalty for the original F-up?

That’s total BS.  In the Marine Corps every Marine qualifies with their TO weapon.  There are three levels of qualification, expert, sharpshooter and marksman.  Shooting badges are issued based on scores and the higher the score the more points a Marine is awarded toward his cutting score for promotion. 

Here’s the thing, if a Marine fails to qualify during his assigned range time the highest score he can achieve for his cutting score and badge in subsequent shoots is the lowest passing score.  That Marine may have set the range record the second time around but his score will be recorded as the minimum acceptable score and he will be awarded a square marksman’s badge of concentric circles depicting a target I suppose but what Marines call a “toilet bowl” for his efforts.  If a Marine qualified marksman with both the pistol and the rifle he was said to have achieved dual stool status.

Unwittingly, probably, El Supremo is affirming Heffington’s allegations.  He relies too heavily on the deeds of others – pointing to West Point grads that have done well and served heroically – to cover his own faulty azz.  Heffington didn’t say every West Point grad is a douche.  He said that standards at the Point have slipped crashed.  El Supremo seems to duck and dodge every specific allegation by pointing to the performance of a few top grads and hide behind statistics, that if Heffington’s allegations are true, you’d expect to be glowing.   

Air Force Academy update
Still waiting for that apology from the AFA El Supremo for his douchbaggery.  Emily Lattella would at least say, “never mind” after totally f-ing up an issue.  El Supremo, like the pope I guess, is infallible when it comes to the AFA catechism.  So no apology is ever necessary.

   

Roy Moore
UPDATE!!  Lex nails it!!: ReRs out to wreck Moore


Anyone who suspects the Demo-Dopes of dirty play in this ought to guess again.  My money is on the Rat establishment Republicans.  If you doubt that assessment recall how deeply the ReR’s were invested in Luther the Strange.  Then recall how the bloated MS ReR bastard Haley Barber ran ads against a fellow republican, Chris McDaniel, that stated McDainiel was a racist in order to get Black Demo-Dopes to cross-over in the open primary to vote for Barber’s ReR butt buddy the 197 year old Thad Cochran.  

Then read this.  The ReRs want Moore gone.  No innocent until proven guilty for Moore.  No investigation.  No trial.  No nothing.  Moore just has to go because of 40 year old unsubstantiated and probably unprovable – one way or another - allegations.

Whether true or false, my gut tells me the ReRs are behind this story.

John McCain actually thinks “it’s the seriousness of the allegations”, weather true or not, that are enough to disqualify More. Oh, really.  I recall when I was at the Basic School 30+ years ago, John McCain came to speak to the class.  After the speech I ran into McCain in the head.  He was butt naked except for clown shoes and face makeup.  He approached me and said he’d never seen a penis before and has always hoped to get one.  Then he demanded to see mine so he’d know what to look for. He offered to pay me $100 if I’d cooperate.  I told him to get bent, which he immediately did.

Now that’s all total BS, but if McCain’s standard for getting bounced out of public office is the “seriousness of the charge,” well I’d be happy to peddle that load of BS to the Post.  See ya John.  By your own standards, you’re done. But then you’ve never applied your own standards to yourself.  Keating 5?  Hmmm.

   

This is nuts.  We are actually considering paying a deserter hundreds of thousands of dollars in “back pay” instead of shooting him?

This is nuts.  This would be like putting Lex in command.  Neither one of us can keep up with the guys we are supposed to be leading.