Is NHQ taking the day off today?

[Mustang]

Can't reach a soul down there this morning.

[MIKE]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

[Eclipse]

Perhaps they have caller id...

[a2capt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N4D7QbFgCE .. dated but .. ;-)

[Mustang]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

What, they're out celebrating Hitler's birthday?

[MIKE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29

[NIN]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

What, they're out celebrating Hitler's birthday?

Only the folks in the DDR shop are in..

<rimshot>

[MIKE]

Nah, the DDR shop is taking the whole week off.

[Major Lord]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

420-----Check out the clocks in "Pulp Fiction". Too cool for the room.....probably way over the heads of NHQ....

Hey, Lenins' Birthday is the 22nd ( Earthday, by no coincidence) Couldn't they combine Hitler and Lenins Birthdays to make one totalitarian holiday?

Major Lord

[Cecil DP]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

420-----Check out the clocks in "Pulp Fiction". Too cool for the room.....probably way over the heads of NHQ....

Hey, Lenins' Birthday is the 22nd ( Earthday, by no coincidence) Couldn't they combine Hitler and Lenins Birthdays to make one totalitarian holiday?

Major Lord

Why not? They did it for Lincoln and Washington.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

Just confirms what I've thought for a long time...the whole place is going to pot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uFQQOiMr8M

[Major Lord]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

420-----Check out the clocks in "Pulp Fiction". Too cool for the room.....probably way over the heads of NHQ....

Hey, Lenins' Birthday is the 22nd ( Earthday, by no coincidence) Couldn't they combine Hitler and Lenins Birthdays to make one totalitarian holiday?

Major Lord

Why not? They did it for Lincoln and Washington.

You think Lincoln and Washington were totalitarians too? 

Major Lord

[Майор Хаткевич]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

420-----Check out the clocks in "Pulp Fiction". Too cool for the room.....probably way over the heads of NHQ....

Hey, Lenins' Birthday is the 22nd ( Earthday, by no coincidence) Couldn't they combine Hitler and Lenins Birthdays to make one totalitarian holiday?

Major Lord

Why not? They did it for Lincoln and Washington.

You think Lincoln and Washington were totalitarians too? 

Major Lord

As much as any other presidents, and then some. Their circumstances gave them a lot of power.

[tdepp]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

:clap: Brought a smile to my face.

[Cecil DP]

Dude... it's 4/20. 

....

Hey, Lenins' Birthday is the 22nd ( Earthday, by no coincidence) Couldn't they combine Hitler and Lenins Birthdays to make one totalitarian holiday?

Major Lord

Why not? They did it for Lincoln and Washington.

You think Lincoln and Washington were totalitarians too? 

Major Lord

Read a history book about the measures Lincoln took during the Civil War

[tdepp]

^^Abraham Lincoln is probably the closest thing we have to an American secular saint.  Some historians and admirers don't want to hear anything bad that he did.  As to the suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, as a lawyer, I cringe.  And up here in the Northern Plains, at about the same time he was issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, he was hanging over 30 Dakota Indians for participating in the Sioux Uprising.  Some settlers were killed by bands of Dakotas.  But the Dakotas will tell you they were protecting their land and families.  It was group punishment and innocent men who likely did not participate were executed.  And it was during a war, Lakota/Dakota/Nakota v. USA. 

I too admire Lincoln and think he did save the Union and set the stage for the eventual political and civil emancipation of Blacks and other minorities (and really, all of us Americans).  And I also think he was one of if not our greatest American President.  But he was a complicated man in a complicated time who made controversial decisions--just like any politician in his shoes.  History has come down on the side that he did far more good than bad.  But the bad cannot be ignored either.

And what any of this has to do with CAP, I haven't a clue. 

[jimmydeanno]

I'm standing in front of NHQ right now...there's plenty of people here.

[tdepp]

^^I've never worked for an organization where the troops didn't think the big shots at the home office didn't do anything.  As both someone who's worked for others and owned my own businesses, I've been on both sides of that cultural divide.  I'll give the folks at NHQ the benefit of the doubt that they're doing their jobs and working for CAP members like me.  I recently ordered new photo ID cards and got them in short order.  How about we just all worry about doing our own jobs in our own squadrons, groups, and wings?  There's plenty to keep us all busy.

[capchiro]

Well, Gen. Courter is here with us at NLOC in Dallas, TX.  Why aren't you here with us Todd??

[jimmydeanno]

Additionally, many of the folks at NHQ (some of the most frequently called) are often out and about supporting all those conferences, schools and NCSAs that everyone likes to go to.  So...if they're at your conference, they aren't going to be in their office.

Also, many of them can't spend all day on the phone (and shouldn't be expected to) and accomplish what their primary job is, so they take and answer calls/customer service requests at specific times throughout the day.  So, our NHQ directors and staff end up getting calls from some random C/A1C from podunk squadron asking what patch he should wear on his uniform or what the address is to send the CAPF 11.  Being the professionals that they are, they answer those questions, which can cause delay in getting your question answered.

I think we're lucky to have them.