This is a quick blog in remembrance of 9/11. Tommorow is the third year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Regardless of how you feel about the politics that followed, our society, our world was changed, with the murders of thousands of people in a short space of time. As a soldier, I have been affected personally by the results that followed, and I think that there are very few in this country, that if they do not know someone who was personally affect...
Enter my rant. This is not a nice article. This is not a funny, cute article about zombie deer, or squirrels with enormous nuts. This is an down and out, set your flamethrower to kill, kiss my ass 'til my hat falls off rant. Be warned. I am weary, weary of soldiers being portrayed in the media as the poor pathetic victims of an oppresive, money grubbing, oil loving government, headed by a pyschopathic commander in chief, hell bent on a religious war of destruction. I am also sick to dea...
Looked outside tonight? No? Go fast!!!! Look up!! The moon is the most amazing shade of red from the eclipse we're having, RIGHT NOW!!!! Don't miss it, there's not another one that can be seen from the states for 3 years. It's a great glowing orange red globule floating in the sky. The color comes from the light leaking around the edges of the earth at a tangent to the atmosphere's (where the sunsets and sunrises are happening. It just peaked maybe 9:30/9:35ish central time, so if you look...
Hadn't blogged in a few, just don't feel up to it lately. Usually the holiday season's one my favorite times of year. But this year it just doesn't feel right. Been tired, cranky, depressed, angry. Bleh. Got my lights up, and brought a tree home, but it's been three days, and I still haven't finished decorating it, just kind of picked at it. Just don't feel like it. Hell, I've still got a few things out from halloween. I'll keep watching, but I may not write much for a little while, just w...
"All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation." -Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL- Welcome to another long weekend. You sit there at home, and completely fail to remember the true meaning of this holiday, those who.....oh wait, this holiday's for you.
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There's a scene I like in Rushmore. The kid playing Max has just met Bill Murray's character, and they're siiting, facing forward. Max turns to Bill with this completely out of place question, and says "You were in Vietnam?" "Yeah" "Were you in the shit?" Bill Murray turns his head, with that deadpan look that says I hate myself and the entire world, then faces forward and says "Yeah, I was in the shit." Guess where I'm going......maybe. I talked to my parents on the phone today, and a cou...
Over the last few days, I've grown tired of seeing comments like this float up like the fecal matter they are, over and over again, by people desperately looking for a scapegoat to hang the blame on. "That was a BS post, US help was so slow, so slow to act compaired to the actions that where taken for the victums of the tsunami over sea's. " HELLO! Aid is coming, and has been arriving as much as is possible for an impossible situation. But there's not a rescue or aid worker in the world...
It's on for tommorow, going to N.O. Hopefully in and out in one day, but who knows? Here's an interesting email I sent today. You've probably got most or all of this covered, but here's what I thought of anyways. Probably won't need most of it, but better safe than sorry. Food - I got 4 M.R.E.s but I don't know if you can eat them. Water - Water. Camel Backs would be a good idea if you've got them. I've also got a couple of canteens, but honestly, they taste terrible. Bleach - the...
Just got back a few hours ago. Very very tired. I met my stepfather in Temple about 11 o'clock Tuesday, and we drove south to I-10 in Houston and headed East. It took about 10 hours to get to Baton Rouge, but over six to go those last forty miles or so. I knew it was going to be a bad day when we had to stop when a trucker got killed as we came into Baton Rouge. I don't know who he was, but he went off the road on the right and barely made it back on okay while we were behind him. We w...
WTF Rita? Category 5 storm I can see, okay. But a hurricane that'll go through central Texas, and maybe on up to Dallas? That ain't (and I pick that word con mucho cuidado wahine!) Don't Waco and Killeen got enough problems without a hurricane? I remember somebody asking the city council about Copperas Cove's disaster plan in the event of something like this. Their response, "We don't have one, Ft. Hood'll take care of us." ???!!!!!!! I guess we'll find out.......... Anybody got any n...
Nuts. People here are going hurricane crazy. Forecasts are showing that it's shifted east, so all we're likely to face are torrential rains, possible flooding, seventy mph hour winds, and a few tornadoes here. Shit, that's bad, but that's just normal Texas fall weather. But you should see the local grocery stores / gas stations / banks / anything. I'm set up sweet, just in case, but after the mass runs people are making, the hurricane hasn't even hit yet, and there's no gas, no water, and ...
The more I look at the complexity of the modern world, the more amazing I find that things hold together as much as they do. To me, it is not so surprising that the world economy could take a "sudden turn", and through a series of foolish choices, and lack of oversight take a serious fall into the shitter, but that it does not occur more often, and with greater consequence. My vision of a post-apocalyptic world is not so much a nuclear holocaust, or devestation wreaked by pollution,...
Kenya took their first gold in the Olympic marathon ever!!!! Samuel Wanjiru ran a 2:06:32 in 85 degree heat! I'm excited and using way too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was beautiful, just one of those moments you think they'll never pull it off, they're going to strive mightily and doom themselves to acrimonious failure. That's right, acrimonious. BUT THOSE MORONS PULLED IT OFF!!!!!!!!!! Apparently nobody told them that there was no frickin' way to beat the olympic...
Completely random update. I tried to file my DITY paperwork Tuesday on the last day of my leave, and oddly enough, the post was closed. They were planting Jerry Ford. Now, while I am all in favor of rendering due honor to dead presidents, WTF? They didn't close down post for Reagan, and they sure as hell didn't do it for Nixon. Why when they planted the 20th century Republican tribute to mediocracy did they chose to do such an honor? I'm always glad for another military holiday, but if it ...
Just like any good Veterans Day, I'm working.........oh the irony. But just in case you missed the boat, it's veterans day! That's right, take a little time today. Hang out at the V.F.W. or the American Legion. Listen to a few stories from the men who put some of the red in those stripes on the American flag. Good, bad, or indifferent, those guys put a piece of their life on the line to preserve freedom here, and around the world. Give them their props. (hint- Some of them are propped ...