Bureaucratic healthcare.

Now, remember, that I’m talking about the HEALTH bureaucracy (that spelling looks like shit, and I even looked it up.)

I was in the Marine Corps, I know, I know, “GET THE EFF OUT OF HERE PINTO, WE NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED” blah blah blah.

Anyways, I was a “Tech” while in, and my assignments were always rear echelon units, though I did VERY short tours with more advanced units.  (technicaly 2881/5991 are considered 3 ech, sometimes 4, and on occassion “depo”) so we ended up eating a LOT of shit that the 1’s and 2’s just didn’t wanna waste their time with.  (officers assigned with a log unit, or techs with log bases know this) what happened is because of the military bureacracy, the 1st and 2nd ech techs would dump their work onto the 3rd ech.  In general, it’s not that big a deal during practice excercises, however, any unit that rates a 5911/6341, tends to be rather busy, since there are so few of “us” at the time.

 While I was in OKI, I was fresh to the fleet, so I accepted all equipment, thinking that everyone “below” (in ech) was responsible, but later I realized how STACKED my 3rd MRC float was with either maint, or . . . DAMN!!! whats the term?  when you request instructions from the engineers?   The reasons we would request from the base, the float engineers is because the 1’s and 2’s would cannibalize the shit out of equipment, and not document a damn thing about it.

While In Oki, I realized that people didn’t wanna work, because it’s easier for them to “play the game,” (which is actually a false premise, it’s actually MUCH easier to do your fucking job! unless you don’t care what the next guy in line has to do)

“You’re fucked wicked” My WO3 PLT Commander told me, “I know sir.”

“but don’t be a fuck, if you want to recover, learn how to be right.  Or if you want to fuck them back?  Be right.”

“yes sir.”

I was just making noises to make him happy, but it took me a couple more months to realize what he meant.

EVERY bureaucracy is stacked with assholes who think they can bigfoot people from the top down.

That CWO 3, showed me that being right is more valuable than rank.

 Anyways, back to the whole electronics thing (kinda/very, drunk) 

When I came back to cali, I worked on electronics, and I did my rotation of “acceptance” (since I was the only 5911/6331, I was ALWAYS the acceptence authority) during S&R inspections, and I had to inspect the equipment and the cards.

At CSSG-1, I was DISGUSTED!! because pretty much every piece of comm equipment I would open would smell like the ocean, and I would see salt traces on the cards, and me, the court-martialed bufoon had to tell, generaly, staff’s, or gunny’s, cuz it was the SNCO’s who wanted to visit base from wilson, that I wouldn’t accept their gear without a writeup from their commanders.

No Shit, (cuz the legueuners were the worst) I would crack the case, pick a random card, and fan it under my nose.

The legeune guys, almost always brought us water tainted equpment, almost always.

I, in fact remember, speaking to a First Sergeant, (Why is a 1st dropping off gear for anything other than opportunity to hit the clubs, the PX, or the whatever it was we called the grocery store?) “I can’t accept this right now first sergeant.”

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!”

(he tried to intimidate me, and, as most of you know, I was courtmartialed, a stupid person ain’t about to frighten me, I went to the brigg for yelling at a woman)

“I mean I can’t accept this right now first sergeant.”

“If you don’t!”

“if you keep up it will be my commander talking to you.”

“GET HIM!”

“It will be a moment.”

I went into the “tank” which is located around the “Vault.” (a part of my MOS.) and I told my PC “I need authorization for this, sir (he was only an MsSgt) because the paperwork is a lie, as is the cause.

“why do you think so?”

“It ain’t just me, it’s (list of names), the cards are fried because they have been in salt water, specifcaly salt water with fish in it.”

“you sure?”

I handed him a particular card, that didn’t just SMELL like salt water, but had a crystalized formation of salt around the exposed copper of the board.

“smell it sir.”

“I can.”

That guy, my PC at the time, fucking tore the SHIT OUT of the 1st sgt.

basicaly he said what we all know “before you lie to my team, at least TRY to clean your traile”

Everyone cheats, but a complacent buracracy (I don’t care about the spelling) means that even more people cheat, and they do it poorly, and more expensively.

I’m not sure what I was at, but I know that there is a parable in there.

I have a dream.

Honestly, I don’t, for me it was a reality.  So the good reverend wasn’t speaking of a dream, but a reality.  There were racists, there were anti-semites, there were fools who lived in my city, and we never heard this speech as it was given, but I promise you , the story is almost as powerful, if not more, than it was before.

The Good Reverend, did you whities know that in college he loved a white woman?

 How about the history of Victory?

This is a link to Winston, defining Brittain.  It’s cut off, but really, does it matter?

 How about roosevelt?

War IS, I’m sorry, but it IS!

Funny Cats

As I’m sure you know, I’m all about cats, especially those cute little funny one’s.

Karl Rove

First off, I don’t have video, though I wish I did, I don’t have major news transcripts though I wish I had, though I SAW a quote by John Edwards, and I find it disgusting.

John Edwards says “goodby and good riddance” cuz thats good for his base, but ROVE is responsible for divisiveness?

You know what, I dislike diviciveness more than any lefty, because I ‘m not selective.  ROVE’s campaign plan was NOT based on division, or on bashing, the McCain “bash” was a third party who was NOT acting on the orders of the president, in fact, BUSH himself contacted McCain during the NC bash and apologized and said neither he nor his people had anything to do with it.  It WAS linked to bobby jones university, but mccain and bush BOTH spoke there, so was McCain responsible for his own bashing?  I don’t know, I don’t care,   that sort of smear isn’t worth acknowledgement.

But For Politicians who oppose “divisive” politics to say “good bye and good riddance.” that makes me think, you are completely lacking any form of grace.

How about Obama?

1. “Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful, and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory.  But to build a new kind of politics, it will take more than the departure of a man or even an Administration that constructed the old -it will take a movement of everyday Americans committed to changing Washington and reclaiming their government.”

Barrak? the guy who had a cakewalk election after a CORRUPT liberal judge released Jack Ryan’s divorce records?  All the time, in the judgement the judge HIMSELF say’s that he is acting counter to the well being of the child, and releasing “perhaps” inflamatory DEPOSITION testamony between Jerry and Jack?

Barrack cake walked because ONE judge violated the discretion of being a judge.

As an aside let me say this.  Jack was destroyed because he wanted to fuck jeri.  I don’t know about gay men, but I think I can speak for most if not all heterosexual men on the planet, there would be a SERIOUS issue if Jack DIDN’T WANT TO FUCK JERI AT ALL TIMES.

I made this joke about Beyonce’ knowles some time ago about her song that had the line “wouldn’t mind putting that on me” and my response was “wouldn’t mind?  WOULDN’T MIND!!!  I’d HAVE A PROBLEM TAKING IT OFF!!!”

Barrack a guy who was easily elected thanks to DIRTY judicial politics, has NO Moral Authority, and he’s completely inexperienced.  “everything I supported in the illinois legislature passed!” is his background.. . . .Well people?  the illinios legislature is an oligarchy of Democrat’s, who’d'a’thunk that a dem would support passing legislation?

He’s only been on the national stage for 2 3/4 a year, and he’s accomplished nothing as a senator.

Good on you, if you elect Obama? he will be THE MOST INNEXPERIENCED NATIONAL POLITICIAN since WASHINGTON!!  FACT.

But Rove, is some sort of evil empirial mastermind.

Obama and clinton are the false legacy’s, noone in the ‘pub side has that lie.

I can’t put this in a category, I don’t want it to ever be read again.

Happy Birthday America

And Many Many Many More. 

From a couple of Marines,

I love you America.

231 years ago, you made me a middle classed kid who could have but did not attend universtity, 231 years ago, you gave my parents the opportunity to be middle classed citizens, and in the face of the world my family was RICH, and knowing that, my parents could teach me about the good fortune I was born into.   THANK you, for allowing me to make my own choices, no matter how bad, but always in service of you, THANK YOU, because ALWAYS it was My and our choice.

I Love you America because it was MY choice to be who I am, and it was THEIR effort to raise me.

I love them, and I love you.

Thank you America.

I don’t know who I would have been had it not been for you.

Bombs.

Had a friend who was EOD, he was a moron, but I guess he knew his stuff since he was a rather young gunny.

He basicaly said everything people know about bombs is wrong, almost every modern explosive, requires a det cap, otherwise they might blow up on their own.  Even the amfoll bombs that are the most common form and easiest to create require an initial detonation, like a primer cap or some other highly “volatile” actually “explosive” force to initiate detonation.

 So, if you want to “defuse” a bomb?  remove the caps, and remove the triggers, don’t get dental tools don’t get anything else, just grab the caps and yank those effers out, and run the hell away.  If you can recognize the trigger, grab the trigger and run away.

 Though generaly, the way you handle unexploded ordinance, is to get everyone the hell out of the way, and have someone with a high rifle quall and shoot it with an incendiary round, or you set up a strip of a controlled explosive, and det it from a distance.

Bomb makers aren’t macguyver, they are more like creative dorks.

I believe it, he wasn’t a ninja, but you know he did it.

( I mention macguyver cuz there was an episode where only Macguyver was as qualified as a bomb disposal person as the person who created the bomb, and one of the students of the bomb maker created one of these complicated “vacuum seal” chamber on a destroyer or something like that, where the “student” vaccummed out some purple powder, only to change the balance of the rube goldbergian bomb that he was trying to defuse, when he probably could have just pulled the actual explosive out of the contained chamber, I’m just saying)

Update: CURSES!!  sorry about that, I’m just saying that all of this “Highly sophisticated” stuff we have been hearing about for years is generaly not really highly sophisticated, if it were, the bombers could actually kill someone they were aiming for.   Sorry about that.

Dear Effing God!!!

Just plain Dear Effing God!!!

 All praise be to allah

I will destroy you!!!!

Cuz Wickedpinto is my friend.

DUCK BITCHES!!!

update: ” or I will plant my oversized feet up your ass!!!”

Fear:  YES SHE MEANS YOU!!!!  REALLY DUCK BITCHES!!!

Update:  Imagine an extraordinarily brilliant Paris Hilton.  Paris would require about 2k years to accomplish the fear that the littlist physicist offers, and about another 10K to live up to her genius.  If only Paris were the recipient of the littlest physicists oversized foot, or feet.  Other than that, she is the perfect child, cuz she is and will be nothing like Paris Hilton.

Alarm:  No really duck.

I’M NOT KIDDING FUCKING DUCK!!!

My first E-mail in

A commenter (I keep it silent until you say it’s cool) includes this link and he’s right, there is a bizzare action by people who aren’t white who use race at their every action to push their own failures.

Yes, George is hispanic, he’s also mostly right in many of his depictions, at least in his show, but he mostly sucked.  What is the major portion of his performance that made him get removed?  That he has a somewhat “righty” aspect (responsible parenting) or that he sucked (not at all funny, I did watch a few episodes, and trust me, not at all funny) or that he was hispanic, (something that I don’t give a flying Eff about) 

Hrm…..

Let me think.

Hrm, I think. . . . 

Wait!  I need to think some more.

hrm…

George Lopez was canceled because. . .

he was someone who SUCKED and happened to be hispanic, hispanic is an additionalal unrelated qualifier, but the reason he was canceled is cuz he sucked.

Was Black Donnely’s anti-irish? was “the apprentice” (a crappy show from day one) canceled cuz trump was white? was “studio sixty” canceled cuz it was too secular (there is actually truth to this, cuz “studio sixty” wasn’t “too secular” it was too “ANTI” which always pisses a person off.  Why was “conviction” the 4th law and order spinoff killed? because there were too many blacks, or mexicans?  I don’t know why “conviction” was killed, it was actually a damn fine show.

But everyone who can bitch about those shows I mentioned weren’t anything less than pristine and perfect white.  George, who has voice very concervative views, when it hits his pocketbook?  OH! THEN it’s racism.

George?  you make powers of 10 more money than I do, and I’m white, as are most of the other informed, and active poor.

Sorry that YOU! don’t get your extra 20 million, because your show sucked, while I’m paying to watch it.

There are degree’s sir, and you have forgotten them.

Update:  The “commenter” was Frankley, I just wanted to make sure that he didn’t mind being a part of my occasional crazy.

I’m rather new.

Those of you who take part in Absolute Moral Authority?

Can I ask? what it is that you like?  _I_ like the Sunday Morning Cartoon, but other than that I really don’t know how I should act, is there something specific that neither I nore Mesa provide?

 I might be able to feed your need, if you haven’t noticed, I generaly act prior to other bloggers (I actually read news sites, and such, and include commentary before linking)  Absolute Moral Authority Readers?

The comments section is open for a reason.  We don’t just want our “friends” to say “good job MESA!” or our friends to say “good job wicked.”

I think that mesa and I are interested in serving our own interests, while simultaneously serving yours.

Lurkers?  Shit on us, as much as you think others praise us.

Trust me, I will speak for mesa here.  We were Marines, and we can take it.  What do you want?  If we don’t like your suggestions we will be honest.  Use the contacts (gmail) or the comments to challenge us, and we will be honest.

Mesa?  Am I wrong?

Things that make you go…

commit righteous murder

I don’t get this.

I guess there are good good samaritans, and then there are bad good samaritans.

I think massachussets (not gonna spell check, don’t care much for the state) has a “good samaritan” law that could land you jail, or at least with a fine (ala the final episode of seinfeld) if you don’t offer assistance when you can.

And I guess other places have a special class of good samaritan leaches/lawyers who will suck you dry if you do something stupid like. . . I don’t know protect the lives of individuals who are about to be killed.

Washington Times.   I know it’s been all over the place, but I figured I should fill my quota, like that Chicago cop who gave me a ticket less than .2 miles from the border of illinois and indiana.

AoSHQ lifestyle primer

Swallow some gin Val-u-Rite vodka and sing that stupid Ewok celebration song….

American Idol

I can’t say, I think that blake did not fit in, and screwed up, but never had lakisha been so ugly and arrogant.  Melinda and Jordan are safe, but, jordan won’t sell jack cuz she really isn’t ready yet.

But for some reason as lakisha advances she becomes one more fat black chick who thinks she deserves the right to live in malibu just because she has a good vocal ability, but she never trained her voice well enough to get RID OF THAT DAMNED LISP!!!  Sorry, I don’t think lisps are cute, I think they are either childish or gay.  I’ve seen her teeth, there is no reason for her to have that lisp, get rid of it and SING DAMNIT!!!

Blake was just screwed, I mean really BARRY FRIGGEN GIB!?!?!  these genre weeks seem built to isolate a particular TYPE of singer.  I think jordan is good, damn good, but not ready yet, and melinda is the ultimate studio voice, she has so much diversity in her inflection.  Lakisha is “just a church girl” who can only go soul, and sorry, I’m effing tired of soul.

blake is unique, he might actually create music that he himself writes, I don’t think the others have that ability yet.

I still favor melinda.

On your own.

find it at baen.

Tell me this quote hasn’t lived in most of your minds or hearts at least once in your life, even if it has never touched your lips.

“My innocent, I died a long time ago. My life passed with my magic, my sight and Cormac. The chance of dying against the chance of striking at the League is no hazard at all.”

I died when I EAS’d, but I’m reminded that there is still life, but I think everyone over 30 has experienced exactly that moment, suffered it, and then re-evaluated it so that they could be more.

Yes it is.

Is the RIAA guilty of violating Rico laws? via insty’s link, he seems less absolute.

The RIAA is a self destructive thuggish group of money grubbing retards. The don’t forget that it takes time to download music, music that individuals have heard of but haven’t heard, but they have no problem with it being broadcast over the networks, rebroadcast over the nets, and recorded over either, because their fraction of a cent.

But they don’t like me downloading “cop shoot cop” who virtually noone has heard of, or me downloading “drink drive and spill” from some other punk band, or refreshing my hatred of hate punk that a small group of friends liked when I was in lower levels of highschool like “skredriver” or “blackdeath”

Now I won’t buy a CD, or order a CD by “blackdeath” or “skrewdriver” but I will and have from “cop shoot cop” and “20 fingers” and “Carl Orff” and “Dashboard Confessionals?”

Granted, it’s very very moody that music I listed, but how many more songs do I have on my lists that I would have never listened too were it not for file sharing?  I can tell you, HUNDREDS!  The RIAA made more money thanks to file sharing (at least in my case, cuz I had a good stereo system, and I like clean play) than they lost.  You know who lost money?  BRITTANY EFFING SPEARS!  PARIS EFFING HILTON and even evanescence, I waited until the MTV compilation that had only that one song.

RIAA?  Stop thinking you are Michael, you aren’t even Pentangelo, you are barely Lefty, and you are only lefty cuz donny is protecting you.

(yes I mixed movie metaphors.)

My point.  I bought a lot of CD’s I never would have bought had it not been for File Sharing, which I “do not do at all in anyway whatsoever now, because it is “totaly illegal” even though the issue hasn’t been resolved honestly in any place other than vermont and NY”  So I don’t do it

Sunday Morning Cartoon

This used to be on at 3:30 on WGN. I would watch it right after I got home. Unfortunately the show that was on before was jem, and I didn’t have cable at the time, so the only cartoon I could watch before M.A.S.K. was Jem. At least M.A.S.K. had Flying Effing Cars, which made up for a wannabe popstar crime fighting paris hilton in the 80’s.

Once again, Flying Effing Cars.

American Idol

If melinda goes?  I’m done with this show,  really, melinda is the best technical singer YET, but she’s in danger according to dial idol.

Update:  My girls are safe.  Riff Raff is gone.

Update:  Chris is going home, THANK YOU, Blake completely flipped the script and made that stuff his own.

“Torture”

I imagine most of you are gonna soil yourselves at learning this, but at one time in my life I was in the Marine Corps.  No, it’s true.

 Anyways, one of the things you have to do to become a “Marine” is to pass a swimming qualification.  I, fortunately, was soft and trained well enough to be qualified as SQ (a little tougher than lifeguard stuff, yeah I went to the ymca for swim courses as a kid, I recommend it for every parent, and every child) however I did see people be “dropped” because of swimming, and they were given additional chances.  Most bad swimmers quit immediately (maybe 1 or 2 people per platoon at most) anyways, the goal of boot, is to give the recruit a chance to succeed.

Many think that the recruits are harrangued constantly (which they are) but whenever it comes to something that only the recruit can do, they let the recruit have every chance.  So if you jump into the water, and try, but fail, if you don’t call out something along the lines of “I quit” the SQ instructors will leave you alone so you can try.  Sometimes people inhale water, sometimes people panic and sink, but the training regimine of the swim quall is very well regulated, and as soon as a recruit is threatened with real harm, the trainers act, and protect the recruit.

Basicaly, unless you quit on the swim qual, you will suck water, you will experience a very real sense of drowning, and you will be safe.  The swim quallers will be safe.

If it’s okay to allow our own, most basicly trained marines who can’t swim experience something much worse than waterboarding, why is it evil to allow our worst enemy’s something that simulates it?

Quick story:

  For some reason my training data was lost, I was listed as s1, when I was actually sq.  (twice as a matter of fact, and the second(actually third time) I went through SQ testing, I couldn’t make it, my body changed too much, so I don’t regret the second one) and I volunteered for testing (if you are s1 you only have to be tested every 5 years I think, SQ’s don’t ever have to be tested I think) anyways, there I am, going through the s-2, maybe s-1 (you get tested in total, you don’t get to skip) lifeguard like tests, and I was the “drowner” during one of the practices.

This particular practice was the “dive retrieval” (pardon my spelling) I think it’s called, it’s where the “victim” is underwater, and you have to be able to surface with the vic into open air, and basicaly scissor kick your ass back to shore (it sucks, cuz I think you have to cover 100 meters, and while I could have done more, I didn’t want to do more than 20, swimming in general is a strain, especially dragging someone you have to semi-drown every 50 meters, is even worse)

Anyways, I was the “drowner” so I voided my lungs enough to sink, and the guy who was supposed to rescue me took his own sweet ass time.  I actually hit bottom on a 10′ and waited (usually they catch you pretty quick in the practice.) but I knew the guy I was practicing with was a good swimmer so I waited, and waited and waited (5 or 10 seconds is an infinity when you are underwater and empty lungs) FINALY! the dude grabs me. 

Now a little background, to do this sort of retrieval you put your hands “LIKE A KNIFE!” (hehe) under the armpits of the victim/drowner and then you kinda drive your elbows into the drowners ribs, this forces the buoyancy of the vic into an advantagous manipulation of the drowner, and then you kick to the surface.

Thing is, when this guy (actually a friend) grabbed me, he hurt me (quite a bit) and my already oxygen deprived lungs paniced, and I inhaled water.  That is a horrible horrible experience btw, absolutely Effing horrible, anyone who says that “drowning is peaceful” is only talking about the view, the experience of inhaling water is EFFING HORRIBLE! When I surfaced after about maybe 2 seconds of a partial breath of water in my lungs, I breathed it out (with many curse words) and then bitched at my “rescuer.”

Anyways, if we put even our most basic recruits through this, why can’t we put our enemy’s through it?  And don’t get me started on the “tv chair” and stuff.

Does it suck?  yes, it sucks a lot, but you know what?  LIFE sucks, and if you are gonna serve in the military, your life sucks much more (though much more rewarding than “real” life) and if you are an enemy, you should expect to be treated a little if not much worse than the nation treats it’s own people.

Suck it up islam, you kill baby’s, we make you pass swim quals.

Sunday Morning Cartoon.

I had it all written, then I deleted it.  Theres some stuff going on personal like that is interfering with my promise.  I’m sorry, it took so long.

Anyways,

When I was in kindergarten, I don’t know if all states have it, it’s a prelude to 1st grade, it acclimates children to the basic disciplines necessary for gradeschool.  At the time I went (I think it changed later) we only went to kindergarten for half a day.  and that half of the day alternated at the semester break.  So if you went to the afternoon portion of kindergarten during the first semester, you went to kindergarten for the morning portion in the second.

I attended kindergarten in the second half when I was a child, so I went to day care at about 9 o’clock or so, when my mother went to work, rather than rushing off to school at 8 o’clock.

at 7:30am on one of the local superstations (actually, at the time I think it was fox’s toe in on channel 32) “Battle of the planets”/”G-Force” was on.  I fell in love with that show.  I had to be up at that time, because I had a big brother, we both had to wake up at the same time, thats just how it is.

Anyways, I fell in love with “Battle of the planets”/”G-Force” and when the semester changed, and I had to be at school at 8, rather than 12:30 I think it was, I would cry, I admit it, I would cry, trying to get my parents to let me be late for school so I could watch the rest of battle of the planets.

My brother was old enough to walk to school, so he wasn’t there at the time, but I was still small (freshly 5 I think) and I Wanted to watch my EFFING BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!!!!!!!!!

But I had to go to kindergarten, my parents were fascists.

Shoutout: to forged who remembered BotP/GF.

watching it now, I don’t know why I loved it, but I did.