Congress to Examine “Inappropriate” and “Devastating” Use of “Geronimo” Codename in bin Laden Mission


As if Congress had nothing more important to do, ABC News brings us word that Congress will hold hearings on the use of the code name Geronimo as a reference to Osama Bin Laden.

“The hearing was scheduled well before the Osama bin Laden operation became news, but the concerns over the linking of the name of Geronimo, one of the greatest Native American heroes, with the most hated enemies of the United States is an example of the kinds of issues we intended to address at Thursday’s hearing,” Loretta Tuell, the committee’s chief counsel, said in a statement.

“These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating,” Tuell said. “We intend to open the forum to talk about them.”

Some of you are wondering if we can send SEAL Team 6 to Congress. I would never wonder that. I just wonder how exactly Congress ever hopes to improve its dazzling popularity rating when it plays on the hypersensitive humorlessness of lefties race warriors.


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You have GOT to be kidding me OMG!!!

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 2:42PM EDT (link)

Political Correctness has won, we are doomed!

oh this chaps my arse.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Unbelievable.

teridavisnewman (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 6:18AM EDT (link)

Political correctness is going to be the end of our way of life.

Teri Davis Newman
Consultant
2010 Republican Nominee for Congress
12th Congressional District of Illinois
www.terinewman.com

 
 

I suppose that honoring a Native American leader

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 2:43PM EDT (link)

when you jump out of an airplane is now a federal crime?

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 

Correction

paramedichess Wednesday, May 4th at 2:53PM EDT (link)

Your title should read “Democrat controlled Senate to Examine…” It needs to be clear to the American people who is wasting their tax dollars with such PC nonsense.

Yes

Red_in_SC (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 4:55AM EDT (link)

Exactly!

 
 

No Problem

dessert Wednesday, May 4th at 3:04PM EDT (link)

What’s the problem? They were both enemies of the United States.

The difference, to paraphrase the great Tom Horn

rickbull Wednesday, May 4th at 11:15PM EDT (link)

is that Osama bin Laden would have to stand on his mother’s shoulders to kiss Geronimo’s butt.

WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).

 
 

No Problem

dessert Wednesday, May 4th at 3:04PM EDT (link)

What’s the problem? They were both enemies of the United States.

as a

geah Thursday, May 5th at 9:13AM EDT (link)

native American I find this in really bad taste, how in heavens name can he be Americas enemy when he was here first, as an native person I am proud of him, if I were a Black person I would be proud of one of their own.

Hey if it had to have a name,, you fill in the blanks The Native is already well known for ball teams, enough is enough already

Native Americans...

gizmo Thursday, May 5th at 12:17PM EDT (link)

You’ve GOTTA be KIDDING!!! These guys were running around butchering, raping & enslaving other tribes… Then we “white men” come along & get them to “sorta” ban together against a common enemy… THEN we “white men” actually HONOR several of these “natives” by showing their bravery, tenaciousness, loyalty , etc. by enshrining their NAMES!!! AND YOU GRIPE AND WHINE!!!
This is totally rediculous! Do we have sports names of Germans? English? NO! we honor the “Red Man” through these uses, even though MOST of them throughout modern history have been drunks, lazy bums living on handouts…

Let's tone this down a bit...

vandalii Thursday, May 5th at 2:29PM EDT (link)

nt

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue.” – Winston Churchill

 

Let's tone this down a bit...

vandalii Thursday, May 5th at 2:29PM EDT (link)

nt

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue.” – Winston Churchill

 
 

my advice is to get over it

streiff (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 2:39PM EDT (link)

If you have doubt that he was our enemy I suggest you consult a biography of the man.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

 
 

Okay, as an Irish-American...

vandalii Thursday, May 5th at 2:24PM EDT (link)

…let me be the first to offer using the moniker “Mick” for future enemies. I promise, I won’t put up a fuss. ;-)

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue.” – Winston Churchill

 
 

I have to admit...

manfred (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:14PM EDT (link)

When I first heard news of this they were portraying this as Osama himself was codenamed Geronimo and I found that to be offensive. On second look it was the mission itself that was codenamed Geronimo which is entirely different and carries a whole other meaning.

I do have to give credit though that they did not name this one after a stripper named Odyssey Dawn.

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Geronimo...

davidleigh Wednesday, May 4th at 3:46PM EDT (link)

was in fact the code name for OBL. Unless you guys read something somewhere more current, this was the codename assigned to the murderer-freak. I have a solution: don’t elect women to Congress, period, not at all. And, take the pansy-democrats, particularly from the northeast and northwest, with them. That will help a great deal. No offense to patriots in these two regions of the country. But democrats from these two regions tend to be unenthusiastic about anything American.

(Single) Women voted overwhelming for little o

renny (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:30PM EDT (link)

which, most unfortunately, supports Coutler’s decaration that women should never have been given the vote.

But I wish the diary had said right off it was some Dem. nitwit–and why would she do this?–was the source of this “investigation.” It’s HER team that got OBL and will try to make hay on it for 18 months. Hasn’t she gotten the message?

But I would warn the o minions that Bush I had a 92% approval after the Gulf War and still lost the election in 1992.

and how they wonder why

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:31PM EDT (link)

he doesn’t give them an “O” any more.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 
 

davidleigh, maybe we shouldn't elect liberal women to Congress because

Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 12:15AM EDT (link)

I’d rather have 1 Michelle Bachmann’s or Marsha Blackburn than 10 Boehner’s.

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)

 
 
 

That's how "Thunder Horse" got its name.

Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:15PM EDT (link)

Thunder Horse is the large BP deepwater oil field I’ve alluded to a few times in these pages.

It was originally called “Crazy Horse”, until some Native Americans, presumably the Lakota tribe, protested.

Oil prospects are often given code names, with a general theme for prospects in a given basin with similar characteristics. The theme for this one was “rock bands” — Crazy Horse was actually named for Neil Young’s band.

There’s another field known as Blind Faith. Don’t know if that name offends the disabled.

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

Learned something new today. Thank you, Steve.

acat (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:22PM EDT (link)

I suspect the evolution of “blind faith” from a christian principle (walk by faith, not by sight) to a rock band to an oil field would not offend the visually challenged…

Mew

——
self-portrait

Caveat Suffragator

 

We do similar with computer names.

NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:27PM EDT (link)

My test lab is currently on a New Wave bands theme….Cars, Police, Devo, etc…

“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti

Worked with a guy who named his servers after South American pagan gods...

acat (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:39PM EDT (link)

good administrator, server names that looked like random noise… He could keep it all straight, I just gave ‘em all nicknames.

Mew

——
self-portrait

Caveat Suffragator

I name mine after pinball machines

Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:57PM EDT (link)

Though once I started owning pinball machines, I had to stop using the names of the machines I owned as computer names, to avoid serious confusion, so I retired bk2k and hauntedhouse as server names.

PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.

 
 

There's an amusing Doug Comer story regarding computer name

Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:51PM EDT (link)

Though I imagine few people here know who Doug Comer is.

Comer when he started his XINU lab wanted to name the machines after well-known people in CS, e.g. Knuth, Dijkstra, etc. Then he would be able to say things like “Knuth is down” or “Dijkstra isn’t talking to Knuth”. Unfortunately Purdue’s legal team told him that naming a machine after a living person like that might imply their approval which could get the university in trouble, so it didn’t happen.

PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.

We had one named "Yomama".

NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:03PM EDT (link)

I’m sure you can imagine what phrases that led to.

Also, never give computers negative names. We once named a computer “core” to save core files from other computers on it. Stupid computer core-dumped regularly.

“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti

Hee

Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:28PM EDT (link)

At one company I worked for, one of the eight top-level directories in the source code repository was foolishly named ‘core’– which led to much wailing and gnashing of teeth when they accidentally deleted some files in there and asked me to get them off backup, only to discover that not only did the backup software not back up files named core, it didn’t back up directories named core either. Oops.

Negative names aren’t always bad, though; I knew a grad student that named his two computers ‘slow’ and ‘slower’.

PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.

 
 
 

See if you can guess our prospect name theme...

Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 6:31PM EDT (link)

“Hacksaw”…
“Million Dollar Man”…
and the dead giveaway: “Kamala”.

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

You might be a redneck if...nt.

NightTwister (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 7:02PM EDT (link)

“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti

 
 
 
 

Loretta Tuell needs to smoke some happy weed.

grandma Wednesday, May 4th at 3:29PM EDT (link)

I’m so sick of all the PC.

“Warrior” (Indian warrior) was the mascot of my HS. I grew up watching cowboy & indian westerns. I never once thought that indians were inferior people.

The only reason for any negative complex they might have today, is that they allowed themselves to become a protected species, which ultimately undermines self determination.

Look at what all the government has done to the indians already

cpa2222 Thursday, May 5th at 9:18AM EDT (link)

And now they’ll get them scorned again all over the country. They have more government intervention programs than the snail darters. As Tevye once bemoaned in “Fiddler…”, “can’t you choose some other people for a while?”

“We are one generation away from a return to the dark ages, if good men don’t act responsively and vote out the liberals and humanists.”

Exactly.

grandma Thursday, May 5th at 1:21PM EDT (link)

The only hope we now have is that Obama is putting the Muslims into a protected category. :-)

 
 
 

C'mon, you're screwin' with us right?

veritaseequitas Wednesday, May 4th at 3:29PM EDT (link)

The Liberals can’t wet their pants over the handling of the OBL snuff operation so they are going to cry about this? Another reason we have to get them out of office in 2012. What is “devastating” Loretta is that the Poseur-in-Cheif had absolutely no clue that Geronimo was going down until they came and pried the golf club out of his hands and sat him down in the Situation Room to watch. He looked exactly like the dullard that he is.

 

Don't tell them about the helicopters used in the raid (nt)

blooch Wednesday, May 4th at 3:31PM EDT (link)

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

Or just about any rotary wing craft currently in Army service...

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:38PM EDT (link)

Blackhawk.

Chinook.

Apache. Heck, you can even get that one in a Long Bow edition.

;)

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


Don't forget the most formidable...

ag8tor Thursday, May 5th at 8:25AM EDT (link)

Apache!

 
 
 

As a one quarter Cherokee, and one eighth Choctaw

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 3:45PM EDT (link)

I have enough American Indian blood in me to FORMALLY ABSOLVE all of you of racism.

All white, black, and asian Americans are formally absolved of any charge of racism and political incorrectness, you may use the name Geronimo to your hearts desire.

You may also use Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Sequoyah, Quanah Parker, and Squanto.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

TY Kyle8

grandma Wednesday, May 4th at 4:01PM EDT (link)

You may tell Polish and/or Italian jokes. Ancestrally, I am 50% Polish and 50% Italian. But I am 100% American.

Fat jokes are a go, folks. No worries here. :D NT.

jonrd364 Thursday, May 5th at 3:11AM EDT (link)

Bald jokes are fair game, too! :-) nt

MF (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 12:12PM EDT (link)

And as I age,

grandma Thursday, May 5th at 1:18PM EDT (link)

I fear this granny will soon be fitting into this category also.

 
 

Besides the Polish & Italian jokes,

grandma Thursday, May 5th at 1:17PM EDT (link)

I can fit in this category also. :-)

 
 
 
 

It was inevitable.

nancylee Wednesday, May 4th at 3:57PM EDT (link)

The Professionally Offended class can always be depended on. I’m just annoyed that all these politicians haven’t learned to ignore it after all this time.

 

At least Congress hasn't made the SEALS change their name (yet)

Old_Crow (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:04PM EDT (link)

Might be offensive to those cute little aquatic mammals…

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison

 

And just how much is this stupid Congressional exercise going to cost us?

chbroussard (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:05PM EDT (link)

Half of these people need to get over it, and the other half need to get a life. There sure are a lot of people with a chip on their shoulder as big as Dallas, and it is quite unflattering. Pretty hard to take these so-called leaders seriously.

Actually, it will cost us nothing. These people get paid

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 8:15AM EDT (link)

whether they are doing something useful, useless, or even dangerous to the country.
In fact, by spending their time doing something this useless it might just keep them from doing something dangerous. But probably not, since “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” seems to be their main goal.
(Getting re-elected is the other one.)

 
 

And just how much is this stupid Congressional exercise going to cost us?

chbroussard (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:05PM EDT (link)

Half of these people need to get over it, and the other half need to get a life. There sure are a lot of people with a chip on their shoulder as big as Dallas, and it is quite unflattering. Pretty hard to take these so-called leaders seriously.

How Many Hawaiians Will Vote Akaka Out for Wasting Money on This?

Ausonius (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:17PM EDT (link)

I fear too many of them might think this just a fine and dandy idea.

But I could be wrong: ultimately, a Conservative Republican in Hawaii needs to make the case that Akaka is bad for Hawaii, and bad for America, and that this is hearing is a small symbol of the stupidity and the wastefulness of the FedGov, and of Leftism in general.

Who will accept the challenge?

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

AND…Know Your Czars…Before They Hit BIG BRObama’s Unemployment Line in November: http://www.czarcards.us/

 
 

I look at this the other way, I like the Native American words, and

earlgrey (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:08PM EDT (link)

want that to be a part of our culture. I do not have any native american blood in my family although I wish I did so that I could tan.

I just find the inative american history of our country interesting and important. For those that are not happy with the term being used here, all I can say is that you simply do not have enough to do.

 

If it wasn't this peripheral non-issue, it would be another.

blooch Wednesday, May 4th at 4:18PM EDT (link)

It’s like a housewife in a ’50′s movie who has a workaholic husband:

“Honey, great news! I got a raise today!”

That’s just marvelous….look at these awful drapes. You just don’t care what this house looks like, do you??”

“Well, sure I do sweetie! Just buy some new ones…anything you like!”

“Oh boo hoo hoo! Men are so thick-headed!”

“Jeez…what’s eating you?”

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 

I'm Scots-Irish, and you may name anything you want

renny (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:38PM EDT (link)

Paddy and make Leprechaun jokes or squeez the nickel until the buffalo f*rts.

lol that's a bit funny because

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:45PM EDT (link)

That is another part of my heritage and I am enjoying a glass of scotch right now whil I write this.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

as you can tell no doubt by my spelling, nt

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 4:46PM EDT (link)

nt

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 
 
 

ABC was careful to use the word "Congress",

johnt Wednesday, May 4th at 4:47PM EDT (link)

not Senate, as in Democrat controlled. Such things matter in the world of the Pea Brains. It does show the level of gravity of the party of the working man. Their timing and taste is exquisite.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

The sad thing is I expected this

Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 5:15PM EDT (link)

As soon as I read the first article that mentioned the code name, I was expecting this investigation.

********
Formerly know as “Oz” in these parts

 

My surmise is that these folks would prefer more mundane name

romeg Wednesday, May 4th at 5:52PM EDT (link)

Such as ‘Trailblazer’ or ‘Rawhide’

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

 

Honestly, when I first read the title I thought

runner12 (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 6:15PM EDT (link)

it was a joke or something. Unfortunately it is not. No wonder these people have a poor favorability rating.

When I read stuff like this, it reminds me of the satires and scathing criticism Charles Dickens wrote about the British bureaucracies back in the day.

Boy would he have had a heyday with our politicians!

 

Good Lord!!!

Paul_In_Houston Wednesday, May 4th at 6:24PM EDT (link)

Even Monty Python would stop short of scripting this; as being beyond the bounds of credibility. :(
-

 

Stupid

jaykali (Diary) Wednesday, May 4th at 8:45PM EDT (link)

PC has gone crazy, it will destroy us all. The thought police are coming people.

A Busy Senate

kathleenst Thursday, May 5th at 8:22AM EDT (link)

Rome burns, senate moves porch furniture.
Idiots in charge.
Move ‘em out next election cycle.
Put in some people who want to work on real issues.

 
 

Are you kidding me?

jraiffie Thursday, May 5th at 1:01AM EDT (link)

Like Congress has nothing better to do than to examine the political correctness of the use of Geronimo? PC kills and so does Seal Team Six, Delta Force, ect. Attaching the name of such a prideful and successful mission should be an honor to native americans. Give me a frickn break. If soldiers have what it takes to serve black ops, they can call their missions whatever the hell they want as far as I’m concerned.

 

Geronomo

zanografix Thursday, May 5th at 7:02AM EDT (link)

Names who were the Senators who brought this silliness up. How much money are they going to waste on this deversion? Geronimo hid in Mexico until US army and cavalry routed him out. Any honors due to OBL are pure PC crap.

 

NO LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS

barrowmrb Thursday, May 5th at 7:43AM EDT (link)

DOES CONGRESS HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO.

TAXES ARE TOO HIGH.
THERE IS HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT
THE DEFICIT IS GROWING MORE AND MORE
THERE ARE STILL TERRIORISTS IN THE USA.
GAS PRICES ARE STRANGLING AMERICA
AND THE DEBT CEILING IS CLOSING FAST.

DOES CONGRESS HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN THIS.

 

It's An Honor Not an Insult

kathleenst Thursday, May 5th at 8:21AM EDT (link)

Rather than take it as an insult, accept it as an honor.

Perhaps the name was chosen to insure success and luck.

I am highly confident the name was not chosen to insult anyone.

This political correctness is a bunch of crap and we have a crappy senate who is taking time and OUR money to chat about it. Most likely make up an apology bill or proclamation. Another public stupid attack!

The Paddy Wagon was named after all the drunk Irishmen who came to America and had to be picked up by the wagon to spend a night in the jail.

It wasn’t renamed.

Get over it!

 

Let's see...

ag8tor Thursday, May 5th at 8:39AM EDT (link)

The deficit, the economy, rising gas prices, two wars without ends in sight, no workable budget for 2011 or 2012, no immigration policy that defends our borders, challenges to the second and tenth amendments, etc. etc.etc. What is of the greatest concern to congress? The code name for taking out a terrorist and whether the NCAA should have a playoff system. Maybe we should just re-elect these guys by acclimation since they are facing the tough problems in such a courageous manner. This has got to be the most inept disgusting congress in my 61 years. Totally worthless. Please don’t forget the job they’re doing when it’s time to vote in 2012. No wonder their approval rating is below 15%! They should be ashamed. They aren’t. Just waiting for the next lobbyist checks to come in. Two words…TERM LIMITS!

I was with you until your last statement

PowerToThePeople (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 5:03PM EDT (link)

and I must ask, are you calling for term limits because you feel people are too stupid to vote for who they want to be in power or because you do not think people should have the right to vote for the same person after a set amount of time?

 
 

COME ON!!!!!

aldutt9mm Thursday, May 5th at 8:54AM EDT (link)

please give this political correctness crap a rest and fix the mess this country is in…IMPEACH OBUMMER NOW…

Your call to impeach

PowerToThePeople (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 5:01PM EDT (link)

is as absurd if not more absurd than the thin skin PC calls about the word Geromino.

 
 

I have plenty of redskins in my family and I really do not care.

melissatx (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 3:15PM EDT (link)

We are Apache and Cherokee…..and I can trace my family back to Pocahontas. I don’t find any problem with the usage at all. It is time to just get over it folks, or run the risk of looking like those who slap the race card all the time. Move on for Pete’s sake and leave the whining to the left.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. John Adams

 

I have plenty of redskins in my family and I really do not care.

melissatx (Diary) Thursday, May 5th at 3:15PM EDT (link)

We are Apache and Cherokee…..and I can trace my family back to Pocahontas. I don’t find any problem with the usage at all. It is time to just get over it folks, or run the risk of looking like those who slap the race card all the time. Move on for Pete’s sake and leave the whining to the left.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. John Adams

 

Please God can we stop this?

js1019 Thursday, May 5th at 4:08PM EDT (link)

This is nothing more continual diversion from the issues that will defeat Obama.

Is there any conservative Republican who will stand up and say we are paying $4 per gallon, 475,000 first time claims for unemployment, $14 trillion in debt?

FOCUS PEOPLE!!

This is a continual slight of hand by this administration to keep people’s eyes off the REAL problems.

It is called accountability, and if this congress isn’t going to address, then throw them out until someone gets it.