Eight Feet Deep

The Marine Corps has issued orders for its folks to stay clear of social net­work­ing sites such as Twit­ter and Face­book.  CNN reports that the Marines appar­ently are wor­ried that a slip of a lip might sink a ship which would mean Marines would have to swim from the Halls of Mon­tezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Never mind that the Chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has his own Twit­ter feed. He had 4,551 fol­low­ers as of this after­noon. The lat­est feed says:

“Obvi­ously we need to find right bal­ance between secu­rity and trans­parency. We are work­ing on that. But am I still going to tweet? You bet.”

RHIP ?(Rank hath its priv­i­leges). YBYA (You bet your ass).