P.C. Police Keep the Country Safe From Funny

Just as the Tijuana Brass no longer has Herb Alpert's back, the U.S. Navy brass has elected to toss Captain Owen Honors overboard for having the temerity to tease his USS Enterprise crew with ribald videos.  We used to call this "busting chops" or "breaking balls",  good natured ribbing that bosses and co-workers engaged in to show that they actually liked each other enough to kid around.  Most of us have experienced it and laughed along at the idiosyncrasies of co-workers as well as our own.  It's what is necessary to keep life and work from becoming one long dental appointment.  But, somewhere along the way this country has decided that instead of a right to laugh at ourselves we are now a nation of folks merely waiting to be insulted about just about ANYTHING.  We are now a nation of humorless crybaby tattletales.  We are afraid to laugh at anything that, god forbid,  might be at someones expense and might  OFFEND THEM!  

Looks like the Captain didn't spare himself when it came to poking fun.

News Flash!!!!!!

ALL humor is offensive.  If you're not offending SOMEbody or SOMEthing you're not being funny.  Only Americans worry about it.

So, now the same people who want to re-write Huckleberry Finn, (what's next? Shakespeare?), want to keel haul Captain Honors for making fun of damn near every sailor on the Enterprise, himself included, with his videos.  No matter that the vast majority of the crew loved him AND his sense of humor, the gutless Navy brass has opted to end his Naval career and waste all that money the taxpayers have forked over for his education and training.  

Admiral John C. Harvey Jr., commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said that Honors had undermined his credibility with his actions.

"While Captain Honors' performance as commanding officer of USS Enterprise has been without incident, his profound lack of good judgment and professionalism while previously serving as executive officer on Enterprise calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command."

Really??  Did you bother to poll his crew?

It's nice to see that CYA is still the touchstone of life in America's military.   It takes very little integrity to invoke another military acronym recalled from my days in the Army; I'm sure they are familiar with this one in the Navy too.

KMAGYOYO

For the uninitiated:  Kiss My Ass Guys, You're On Your Own.

Please wake me when America comes to its senses and returns Political Correctness  to the old left wing college professors and liberal politicians who wouldn't know funny if it bit them on the ass.

Also, let me know when the Navy is ready to apologize to a good man and return him to his command.