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• Diversity flap over USNA color guard at World Series

  
  Inside Charm City: Baltimore, Maryland blog — Authority: 444
  LaShawn Barber via Smitty It seems the Naval Academy performed some real-life photoshopping. Academy leaders removed two white men from the color guard line-up for a performance at the recent World Series and replaced them with a “non-white” man and a white woman for purposes of diversity. [...] But ...
  2 days ago

• Political Correctness in the Ranks

  
  In From the Cold — Authority: 417
  In the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood, many have expressed shock and amazement that the shooter--Army Major Nidal Hasan--openly expressed anti-American and anti-military views. Yet, he was never punished, and the service (apparently) made no effort to discharge him. Sadly, the case of Nidal Hasan is yet another ...
  2 days ago

• The Potemkin Color Guard goes mainstream

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  As the Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, family, friends, and alumni have been hoping, the story of active discrimination going on at Annapolis has broken into a major daily newspaper of record; The Washington Post . The NavyTimes article by Philip Ewing on Sunday was good - but the Washington Post brings it to ...
  3 days ago

• The mask slips at Annapolis

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Sadly, I think Franz would fully understand where we stand WRT The Potemkin Color Guard of Annapolis. If this is a new subject for you, please read the post from last Thursday and then come back. As of this Monday, there a few things we do know as fact. - Two Midshipmen were discriminated against, ...
  5 days ago

• The Potemkin Color Guard

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Walk in somebodys shoes for a bit. You have worked long and hard to reach a high profile position, as those who came before you had. You did everything that was asked of you, and more. You believed in a system that told you all you had to do was work hard, pay attention to detail, excel in your efforts, show ...
  1 week ago

• Waiting for a call of racism in 3, 2, 1 .....

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Lucky you folks - we have a "Tuesday Twofer." One subject - two authors. The first post will be from me, then following will be the input from USNA English Professor, Bruce Fleming. Heres my take. From Earl Kelly in The Capital . Varsity athletes make up 29 percent of the brigade and commit ...
  1 week ago

• MUC: aint what she used to be

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Boomer rule in full bloom . Everyone gets a trophy. Yep, time for the quote again . An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. - Walter Savage Land Hat Tip, Tecumsehs Caddy.
  1 week ago

• USANA Health Sciences Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 676
  USANA Health Sciences Inc ( USNA ) Q3 2009 Earnings Call October 28, 2009; 11.00 am ET Complete Story »
  2 weeks ago

• An agonizing "fix" for an imaginary problem

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Professor Bruce Fleming is an English Professor at the United States Naval Academy. No stranger to our regular readers , I have offered Professor Fleming the opportunity to guest post here concerning the latest developments in his almost one-professor struggle for equality and fair treatment at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Diversity Thursday

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Equal time here at CDR Salamander; open letters are fair game. Delivering a Message of Service and Opportunity to All of America October 2009 Thirty-five years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, I raised my right hand, took an oath to support and defend our nation’s Constitution and four years later, ...
  3 weeks ago

• MIDN .... Midshipwomen?

  
  CDR Salamander — Authority: 595
  Ungh. Please tell me this is just a CNNism. 13 seconds in. I thought "Female Midshipmen" was just fine. BTW - this was with the first Sup. during the First Battle of the Severn River a few years ago; were in the middle of the Second Battle of the Severn River. Yes, the middle.
  3 weeks ago

• What I did Tonight

  
  Cooking My Life — Authority: 126
  Today is the primary for Mayor in the City of Annapolis and this year we both voted at the USNA Stadium. We wondered why and one of the people there said that the schools are run by the County and this is a City election. For cryin out loud... Anyhow, we always get our little "I Voted" stickers and I needed to show it ...
  8 weeks ago

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