Pam Spaulding highlights an ad that the Pentagon took out in the Washington Post that said the Army is seeking linguists with a specialty in Arabic. Well what a coincidence, you dolts. Maybe if you hadn't booted out every gay Arab-speaking linguist the Army has - and lied to the public to cover up the fact that you had actually booted out 3 times more than you said - you wouldn't be so short-handed. This policy is actually damaging our national security and it's time it was ended.
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In my post ranting about the Iowa caucuses, I unintentionally set off an argument about whether "I could care less" is fine or whether you should say "I couldn't care less."
And with this, a five year old catapulted back in time, say 10,000 years in West Asia or Southern Europe, encountering two people, would make perfectly intelligible sentence that wold be understood by all.
The NPR had a wonderful report this weekend about the Speech Accent archive, including an extended interview with the archive's creator, Steven Weinberger.
I am not sure who said it, but a quote springs to mind:
'Military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music.'
Military intelligence is, and always has been, an oxymoron. I been dere, done dat, so I can say it.
They (the USAF) kicked me out of a critically undermanned communications job back in '87 because I didn't conform to their 1954 actuarial height/weight chart; I wasn't fat, didn't disgrace the uniform, wasn't unhealthy.
It's been going on for a long time and they seem to enjoy cutting off their nose to spite their face...