As I thought about my 9 years in the Navy working under various ship skippers, I've tried here to figure out the key virtues.
And I very much had Trump in mind as the ideal skipper. See what you think.. MAGA.
Posted on 02/10/2018 9:18:36 PM PST by catnipman
President Trump's tweet today indicates that he may release the Democratic memo, but only once the authors of the document make the suggested changes. Trump alleges that the Democrats "would have blamed the White House for lack of transparency" had he decided to release a redacted memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
No, I think Trump did it right. They simply would say, “It was all still secret until you released it unredacted. YOU spilled the beans!”
The way Trump handled it, any genuine secrets are still genuine secrets; the Donkey’s “yeah, but…” memo stays with the committee; the process for releasing it starts over; and the Donkeys have to expend more effort on getting it out. And if they leak it, Trump gets them on that and shows everyone how Donkeys treat important secrets like political footballs.
And they'll sit on the ball. They will say that they tried to release the facts and the President refused to allow it. So they'll claim that Trump is trying to keep the truth from the American people.
It's questionable whether they wanted the memo released to begin with.
As I thought about my 9 years in the Navy working under various ship skippers, I've tried here to figure out the key virtues.
And I very much had Trump in mind as the ideal skipper. See what you think.. MAGA.
Maybe he isnt consciously aware of it......but Trump demonstrates the character of a Faithful Christian.
He keeps the course regardless of the storm......regardless of the critics.....regardless of the heat.
Perseverance seem to be his motto.
Thanks catnipman.
This re-writing of the memo in proper form must irk English Composition teachers, and thus the teacher’s unions.
My suggestion would be to have Schiffless, Schmuck Schumer, San Fran Nan, Director of FBI and Director of National Security in the Oval Office, live in front of national news media.
Hand them the original Dem Memo and a black magic marker each.
Tell them on national television that you want to release the memo, but they will have to perform the redactions themselves live in front of the nation to insure FAIRNESS and insure National Security.
Let the party begin.
Or dare them to hand it to NBC and arrest them for violating national security
“Actually, Trump and his administration, do need us. I believe that they’re keeping up with what conservatives are thinking and saying and doing. I’m pretty sure that they take good ideas from the internet to revise and issue policy. I’m under the impression that FR and other conservative sites have been influential with helping government direction.”
I agree. It really does seem that way, especially the “revise” part. We’ll see an initial proposed policy or trial balloon, and in a day or two, there are revisions that bring things more in alignment with the majority of commentary here.
One recent example was when Trump originally announced he wasn’t going to release the Dem memo. I posted here that was a bad move because the Dems could then claim a coverup, non-transparency, unfairness as well as whatever they wanted to pretend was actually in the memo. I suggested Trump redact the classified parts and release it. The next day, Trump went one better and said he WOULD release the memo if the Dems THEMSELVES fixed the problems!
I’ve also DEFINITELY seen Hannity, et. al. repeat themes and even phrases here word for word, especially before the 2016 election. Now of course the FNC conservatives have more red meat than they know what to do with.
It really does seem like influential people are listening to us. It’s one reason I take care to frequently express lengthy opinions and not JUST one-liners that so many post here.
Good observation, Liz. He's some more perspective.
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
Shakespeare makes several allusions to seamanship in his writings. This is certainly one of his most memmorable:
We can assume that Shakespeare read John Davis' book, Seaman's Secrets, published in 1594. In fact, Sonnet 116 was published in 1609.
The navigator aboard a bark (clipper ship) uses both the sextant (or backstaff) to measure the height (angle) of celestial objects above the horizon -- and from that he determines the ship's location at sea.
Now latitude can be very accurately determined by measuring the height of the Sun at exactly high noon. An accurate time instrument is absolutely essential for other kinds of celestial observations, although as long as you know the daily error rate of the timepiece, you are OK.
It's longitude that is the hardest thing to get right and it stumped navigators for centuries.
Essential to navigating precisely is scientific study of the heavenly bodies which is printed in tables within a Nautical Almanac (beginning in 1767 in England) which predicts very nicely the location of the brightest stars, the moon and Sun by date and time.
And so in my time in the Navy (1974-1983) before GPS, we used the Almanac to calculate our position. Navigation was usually done two times a day -- sunrise and sunset. Why? Other than the noon sun fix, the brightest stars are only seen at that time. At night, the horizon is too indistinct to make an accurate reading.
When I was stationed ashore in Hawaii, I actually went out and spent (wasted) my money on buying a sextant of my own.
But my appreciation for the instrument increased after owning it and now I own a relic of my days on the sea.
And I learned a Mnemonic saying: "Captain! All de Rigging Seems Properly Polished" which allowed you remember the stars that can be seen in a clockwise rotation around Orion from the top: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, and Pollux -- the stars that are bright enough at sunset to be seen clearly.
My moment of pride was using the sextant aboard a Navy ship on the way home from a West Pac deployment.
The quartermaster recorded my readings as I quickly discovered the stars (which most navigators could not find on their own). Besides, that night was partly cloudy.
But returning to the chart room, they found that I made some very good readings and three arcs of position crossed each other on the chart in a very tight triangle. Ha!
So thank you, Liz, for allowing Time's Fool to remember his days wandering aboard an eastward sailing bark.
Here are some midshipmen enjoying the pleasure...
Excellent Dave. Especially the first one!
My best recollection is that my fix placed us somewhere just outside of Akron ...
I agree, the end result is somewhat magical. But once you get the hang of shooting the stars, it’s a rather simple task.
The magic comes from accurately measuring the movements of the stars and giving a hat tip to Galileo.
I REALLY wish people would pay attention:
THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT RELEASE THE MEMO! The committee releases the memo, after Trump has gone through it and suggested changes.
Put the heat where it belongs-on the heads of the Dmorons who wrote it with every intention of spinning it this way.
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