Kingsquared

I came back from Texas to start my new job. The changes, thus far, have been huge. I go home at the end of the day physically exhausted. I’m sure that in time I’ll get used to the grunt labor but for now I’m struggling. I’ve had a NCO rank for almost a year but I’ve never actually supervised troops… until now. When I went through ALS I thought I knew everything but now I feel that I’m reaching back and trying to remember all of that stuff. Its a daunting task but I’m sure that I can do it. I’ve got some good supervisors that have said they are more than willing to help me do this.

I’ll probably only be working at Target on the weekends as we are prone to work longer than our scheduled hours. Sure, I loose a few dollars here and there but its not going to break the bank.

This has always made me laugh and it took me hours to find so I decided to repost inspector urine in all its glory. Thanks to Taco the Wonder Dog for this gem.

Embed doesn’t like me so just watch it here.

After finishing my class today all I had left to do was drive to Dallas to stay at my hotel. I left the base around 11am for what was supposed to be a two hour drive. Shortly after I left town I had the distinct feeling that I had made a wrong turn because I thought I was supposed to be on a four lane road and on HWY 287 not HWY 281. I decided to keep on driving south for a while longer in the hopes that I would run into something familiar. Eventually I saw a sign for Ft. Worth and I was extremely relieved. I was at least heading in the right direction. I eventually stopped at a small town to grab a bottle of water and to ask for directions. I talked to a real country son of a gun that sent me on roads I had never heard of. I started off and decided to call my padre to tell him of my travels because I knew he would get a kick out of it.
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“If you stop consuming it, they’ll stop broadcasting it.”

Carlos Mencia made light of this a few weeks ago and George Carlin has talked about it on numerous occasions: jokes based on racial stereotypes in themselves are not bad things. If you let a stereotype bother you…. stop it! Its not a big deal and it shouldn’t bother you.

Check out the video… 95% of it is dead on the money

Want to know more? check out Peopleagainstcensorship.org

Yesterday it was announced they had found a suitable candidate for the new position of War Czar. Many have asked… isn’t that what the SECDEF was created for? I’m not sure if this position will provide any net benefit for the white house or the american people but I do know its one more chunk of bureaucracy that has been added to the stack.

The guy is not a fan of the buildup option and I’m a huge fan of contrasting points of view. This could be a good thing but only time will tell.

All of the details can be found at the Washington Post.

For quite a few years I have been looking for a particular arbitrary number as I move through each day. I’m not sure why I chose this particular number but I do know that when you look for a particular number its bound to pop out. I chose 108. If I happen to look at a clock I’m bound to look only when the time is 1:08. If I am going to recieve change, odds are it will be $1.08 or $11.08. If I look at a sequence of numbers I’m bound to see the number 108 buried in the middle of it. Wikipedia has an interesting article of where this number is also prevelant.

I found a few that caught my eye

The sum of “The Numbers” in the American TV show Lost

The number of stitches on a baseball

The Chinese school of martial arts agrees with the South Indian school of martial arts on the principle of 108 pressure points

Sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism and other Dharmic religions

So, if you want to try it out pick out an arbitrary number and watch for it. You’d be surprised on exactly how many times you run across it on any given day.

Last night peer pressure got the best of me. I was coerced into going out last night, on a school night, to go to the karaoke bar and engage in alcohol fueled shenanigans. While I didn’t want to spend any money while I was out I did want to spend time with other people in my class because its turns out they’re not all that bad. It takes me a while to mesh with other people and it appears that just as I’m about to leave I start to integrate with the group. Oh well, no matter, I’ll probably never see any of them in the future.
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We’re talking about document control in class; it’s a subject that I absolutely despise. Document control is all about how and where you might file a document. Yes, I’m sure you’re already asleep too. I slept like hell last night for some reason or other and I’ve been finding it difficult to stay awake so I’ve been finding fault with everything that I can in order to stay awake through the mind numbing drudgery.

I’ve only got until Friday morning but it seems like its not going to end soon enough.

More than anything else, GW, the “Commander Guy”, the decider, Dubya, or Bush, attracts more of my hate than anything else. In some ways, he acts as a lightning rod for any free hate that I might have at any given moment. I had a little time today to do some reading and I found a few reasons we should just get rid of his goofy cowboy ass. Dubya believes that his interpretation of the law and the constitution allows him to bypass legislation that he signed into law. Most of the laws he has reserved the right to ignore deal with the military. His belief is that as the commander in chief congress has no oversight of his decisions when concerning military action. I believe in checks and balances and I think that the President should always have a check. Unfortunately I’m not a deciding authority and this would be best left to the Supreme Court. Then again, we could use the ultimate check and just impeach his goofy country gun slinging ass.

It’s not only congress that doesn’t agree with what he’s doing but a large number of generals are starting to stand out and openly criticize Dubya. Of course, due to the laws in the UCMJ these are only retired generals. There has been speculation that generals that are currently serving could openly revolt against his decisions if the troop surge fails to work by the end of the year.

Outside of our borders even more people with that he would quickly leave office and let someone else make some decisions. The parliament in Iraq is drafting legislation to get us to move out should they reach specific benchmarks. If they approve the legislation and meet the benchmarks we have little choice but to leave and let them run the country. It is not our right to tell them how to run it as soon as they ask us to leave.

As long as he remains in office he is going to attract hate from people across the planet. Lets hope he doesn’t do any more long term damage in our relations with the rest of the world. We really don’t need to give fundamentalists more reasons to hate us because it makes the hate much easier to spread.