Compromise Apology
April 1st, 2008 by Admin
Okay, we're back up after a long, exhausting negotiations with Big Brother. The only way we are able to continue blogging is if we admit to certain aspects of the charges and issues apologies to the appropriate individuals involved. So, without further ado, and in order to continue our love of spreading truth, we offer our settlement:
There is no such thing as the Pentagon's "OPSEC Coordinating Authority on Nontraditional Media." We made it up!! BWHAHAHA!! Yes, we're evil!! We're just glad we didn't ask everyone to call their local media and their Congressman. This was starting to get out of hand.
We need to thank JP for the Milblogging.com plug! Yes, we know there are way too many Amazon ads on our sidebar, but they're all great books! When you learn to read gooder, you should check them out. Now, if they could just bring in a couple of pennies, we'll be happy. Thanks also to Terri for playing along on A Soldier's Mind, our fellow Noble Duty Milblogger Coalition partner, with their wonderfully written protest pieces HERE and HERE. We ALMOST feel bad for all the other blogs that linked to our predicament and were genuinely pissed off at the notion of censorship by higher.
To those that wrote us vowing your utmost support and encouragement, we apologize for leading you on, but we didn't really lie about being shut down, we simply "misspoke". You see, it was our perception that when we wrote those posts that we were under severe sniper fire from the Pentagon. We had to duck and rush to publish each post to avoid being targeted. There was no "new post ceremony" because it was too dangerous. But, let's not make our misspeak the subject of attention here. We need to stick to the issues that really matter in America. Issues like bringing our troops home…as soon as the mission is complete; The economic stimulus package that will pay for that awesome Millenium Falcon Lego set we've always wanted, but couldn't afford; and bringing milbloggers of ALL colors together regardless of how racist our crazy uncle pastors are.
Hopefully, you can appreciate our sense of humor and laugh along with us. If not, then you really should be reading something like the American Idol blog where all the action is!!
Posted in Military Perspective
YOU SNEAKY VARMINTS!!!!!!!!!
Dang that was a good one. I was going into withdrawal last night when I logged on and saw the "announcement" that y'all shut down due to the cease & desist thing.
You do realize, however, that we are all gonna have to git ya back.
Just sayin….
PS – glad y'all are "back."
You are lucky I have a sense of humor!!!!
see more crazy cat pics
bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Good one guys.
bummer, my picture didn't work. It was a LOLCATS with a hamster saying "come over here and say that" LOL
"OPSEC Coordinating Authority on Nontraditional Media" has got DoD-speak all over it. Why wouldn't we believe it? Although my wife was the voice of reason and said "The authority of what? That sounds crazy!"
Relieved it isn't true.
Also liked the maintenance mode plug in, too
You sneaky little devils!
And JP and Terri played along too? Just one word of warning guys….Payback!
Seriously,, glad it was all in fun (although it did make me say bad words and raise my blood pressure) and that you are still blogging.
Emily, if you need help Peeping "someone" next year, let me know. I will bite as many Peep butts as it takes to cover that bike and maybe his Guitar Hero game and we can take a road trip to get Marcus too!
You got us all good.
I think we're the most hated people in the blogosphere now!
Bwaahahahahah! I have to admit, I never considered the possibility of some kind of joke, but it certainly didn't make any sense to me–especially some of those charges about allies, etc. And the "OPSEC Coordinating Authority on Nontraditional Media" sounded very 1984-ish, but I didn't bother to look it up. Really, I gotta start trusting my instincts.
EVIL doesn't even cover it fellows!!!…rip rip shred…tearing up my letter to my congressman now…hook line and sinker…you guys are good!!!
Man, you sooooooo should have dragged that out longer! haha
CJ, you're sick … and cruel.
Then I hope Chuck Z. is having an April Fool's on us, too.
And the Academy Award goes to…..CJ and Marcus.
EXCELLENT job men. Big "whooshing" sound is me being glad you got us good as opposed to this being true.
Too funny….giggles on the way to click "submit comment"
Damn it CJ, curse you for leading us on and bless you for taking so much time for a simple joke. lol.
Got us Good ! ! !
But all four of you are EVIL EVIL I SAY ! ! !
Now I just have to stop laughing. No way I can explain this around the office.
CJ~hated? Nah, I'm laughing. It was a good joke.
My pleasure CJ. It was fun, I'm hoping we'll all eventually be forgiven.
CJ, I saw the "Cease and Desist Order" this morning. I then saw your "apology." You and your conspiracy made "April Fools" of all of us, I hope it was worth it. The cost was some thing you "HAD", yes, past tense, "HAD". You can call it integrity, honor or respect. You made a choice, you threw those values into the toilet and flushed. You can not reach in and grab them back, they're GONE!
This stupid prank was really against yourself and you will ultimately pay the price. I will respectfully step up into the high ground. Everything that will happen, will be the consequences of your own choices.
There is absolutely no sense of pay back or revenge, but more of sadness of a good friend making a terribly stupid mistake. Yeah, I still like a good joke, this was a very poor excuse for a joke.
Grumpy
Yikes! You got us good. Glad it wasn't true.
By the way, the cat pics were great.
No, a poor excuse for a joke would be calling your sister and telling her your mom was in the hospital, letting her freak out, then saying April Fool's.
I honestly don't think Cj let go of any integrity over this prank. As i see the hate mail piling up, yes, HATE mail over this, i am astounded at how many people felt that he owed them better than what this post is about. From day one of Cj blogging, he has been full of mischief of all sorts, that is nothing new. So, people, please, if you are pissed at this, then be pissed, but don't pass off judgment with terms like, "I'll take the high road and you can deal with the consequences of your choice."
Personally, I think it was brilliant.
LOL, yes you got me on this one. Glad it was just a joke.
Welcome back CJ and Marcus. We need you guys.
lol HAHAHAH that is sooo funny!!! I was so bummed when I tried to get on the site lastnight and that message was up! lol
SMACK!! You got us all – that's about the best April Fools joke I've ever seen – even though it was tacky as all get-out!
Some of us are too old to have our blood pressure jerked around like that! 
What a hoot! (making myself a note to not check in here the last of March or 1st of April next year!)
You rotten scoundrel. I was ready to start typing out letters and make "Free ASP" tee shirts. I even ranted to my husband for a good 45 minutes. Then I wondered who you had pissed off in the Pentagon. My daddy has contacts there and that was another route I was thinking about. Good thing I could not get a hold of him yesterday. Talk about getting some people wound up. I have never been able to pull of a prank like that one. If only I could have been a fly on the wall when you were typing that one up.
Well Happy April Fools!!!!!!
Funny! It gave me a LOL minute.
I was thinking about emailing some folk to start an ASP Legal Defense Fund. Glad I decided to wait on that… :-p
omg – HATE MAIL?! That's awful! I mean, golly – everyone KNOWS CJ is a prankster (Must be because he hangs out with that David Sneakers scoundrel too much…) – that's part of why we all luv him so much. Geez… to all the haters out there… chill.
CDR Salamander is calling you an "a55 sandwitch" – with extra cheese, even. Earlier, he'd had a much longer write-up about it…
Hey Guys, that is the best April Fool's joke I've ever seen! You guys had us all worried for nothing! I'm so glad that it's not true. Darn it CJ, don't scare us like that again! Maybe we won't take you guys for granted now!
Happy April Fool's Day!!
P.S. I love the cat pictures too!
That was a bottom of the litter box joke (said in a catty way LOL). I really thought it was true. I haven't posted here before but have been reading for several months. Next year will have to not look at posts at at the end of March till after April 1 so I don't get fooled again.
Hate mail over a joke? OMG! It's sad that some people don't appreciate a sense of humor. You're right Emily, CJ has been ornery and full of mischief for as long as I've known him. Sigh…… I kinda love his sense of humor.
Yeah, and if this is what it takes to lose a friend, then i say he's better off. Now, i think it's time for me to take a step down from my higher ground and let this go.
First they came for the Communists,
- but I was not a communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists,
- but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews,
- but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for the milbloggers, there was no one left to speak out because other milbloggers thought hoaxes were funny so nobody took the threat seriously.
Negligent discharge of weaponized ridicule.
Cannoneer,
While I can understand an artillery man being ultra-serious about discharging of weapons, if you have visited this blog for any amount of time you surely know that CJ has a…well-developed, devious, sense of humor, as in the dress pattern-as-a-map incident – lol.
Soldiers from time immemorial have played some questionable, nay even cruel, antics upon each other. True brothers-in-arms understand this need to laugh in the face of the unlaughable; those that don't get this have too much starch in their uniforms!
CJ, this was a classic! Well done, 1SG.
Hmmm. Good one, CJ!
As some of you know, but most of you don't, I have represented detainees at GITMO in habeas proceedings and have done a fair amount of behind the scenes work for the ACLU; I have also represented soldiers pro bono in domestic cases during their tours of duty in Iraq and the poppy capitol of the world.
Notwithstanding our disagreements on most issues political, however, I would have come out guns a blazing for CJ on this issue were it true (as would have my colleague Cliff at 1U).
Having said that, I am somewhat surprised at how the entirety of the readership of ASP swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker. I find this fact to be analogous to how the stubborn 29% still buy what comes out of the Decider's pie hole, hook, line and sinker!
You have a very obedient followship, CJ, and I trust, therefore, that you will never stray out of bounds of that trust. I am still amazed that not a single on of the readers of the blog (myself included) fact-checked the veracity of your post.
At any rate, well done!
Whew! ~ First off, I'm glad that's it's just a RUSE! and quite a good one at that, I don't mind sayin') I was already to go and do battle in the halls of whoever was in charge of this censorship nonsense.
Second ~ you are evil, CJ and Marcus! Pure evil, making my blood pressure go up like that!
Well Done!!! Well Done!!!
Oh, this was good! Of course, I am late for the "ball" here! I read through pages and pages of postings and was wondering why you had to cease. Crazy, now the joke was on me! Keep on blogging!
First off, that was just mean.
Secondly, Nice Job!!!