Sorry for the dead air over here lately… Wait, why am I apologizing…you know where I’ve been, you can hie your asses on over there and read shit just as easily as here. It won’t have quite so many colorful metaphors as here, of course. GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN!!!
There, I needed that.
Ennyway, by show of hands, who out there doesn’t think this is a Very Bad Idea:
The Pentagon’s 18-year ban on media covering the return of fallen U.S. service members ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped casket of an airman felled in Afghanistan.
After receiving permission from family members, the military openedDover Air Force Base in Delaware to the media Sunday night for the return of the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va.
The 30-year-old airman was killed April 4 near Helmand province, Afghanistan, when he was hit with an improvised explosive device, theDepartment of Defense said.
Myers’ family was the first to be asked under a new Pentagon policy whether it wished to have media coverage of the arrival of a loved one at the Dover base mortuary, the entry point for service personnel killed overseas. The family agreed, but declined to be interviewed or photographed.
Not only NO, but HELLS NO.
Why, you ask? Gee, hmm, let me think… Are the thumbless proto-simians who colluded with the most unqualified candidate in decades to snake the highest office in the land going to show anything resembling respect or decency when covering an end-result of a war their slimy little pre-brains firmly believe to be illegal and immoral?
Not only NO, but HELLS NO. Ergo, Very Bad Idea.