Telling it like it is, or it should be, or like it's going to be, or the way I wish it would be, or the way my girlfriend who just yelled at me told me it is
You know what’s funny, is the irony of the name of the Documentary. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard on CNN that Trump is no King and that there are no Kings in America and that this country has no Kings.
So what do they name their Documentary on the son of JFK, the revered and venerated late President that was murdered by some sociopath, the “American Prince”.
You can’t make this stuff up.
And yes, I watch CNN… they actually have some very neutral coverage.
I’m trying to print something out than this message pops up… Printer needs attention…. My first thought was “My wife built this”… And it just keeps blinking and saying… Printer needs attention… So, I start caressing it and holding it and telling it how special it is… still wouldn’t print anything out. So I started to pull down my pants when it said, I just need more paper.
I was always the smartest person in a room by myself…. then my dog wandered in and it created a conundrum.
A person asked me what I think about the crisis in the middle east with all the warring… I try to stay neutral so I generally say that I don’t know what to say about the insurrection. It’s a thinker….
I know this one is going to come back to bite me in the rear end but here we go and I hope everyone takes this in the spirit it is intended. The new rumor is the Mets are trying to shore up the starting rotation and are giving Pedro Martinez a contract for 200 million for three years. If that one fails, they are looking at Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux at the same rate. If none of those pan out, they’re going to court to excavate Tom, just in case.
I think there is a disconnect between the previous generation and the new tik tok generation. I was watching an interaction between a 55 year old man and 28 year old man that turned violent, next thing I know the old man is punching the younger man and tells him that that he needs to get the hell out of Dodge. The younger man, trying to cover up, says he doesn’t have a Dodge, he drives a Toyota, the old man then looks at him and starts to punch harder and says it figures, a rice burner, the younger man looking even more confounded and curling up into a ball, says no, I don’t do rice, I’m on a Keto diet. The old man continues and tells the guy that he is barking up the wrong tree, the younger guy yells, I own a cat. The old man then yells, I’m going to put you in a pine overcoat, the younger guy, trying to run away, responds, I prefer hoodies.
I joined the military back in 1990. I scored a 99 on my ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery exam), which meant I had my pick of any job I wanted except for one hiccup, I was a LAPR (this is going to be filled with anagrams, no, that’s not right, acronyms, Lawful Alien Permanent Resident). After telling me that I was assigned as an AFSC 5R0X1 (AFSC refers to the Air Force Specialty Code, in the Army it’s called an MOS) I said, what’s an 5R0X1 to which they said “congratulations, you’re a Chaplain’s Assistant”. I immediately worked out in my head that this would definitely be a damper on my social life, especially having to work on Sunday mornings, so I requested a change in specialty. They send me to the AFSC office and they immediately looked at my scores and said, you scored really well, what do you want to be… I said “I want to be a Fire Protection Specialist”. They said because I was a LAPR, look above, that I didn’t qualify. They told me that I could be a file clerk with the medical group or a cop, Security Forces. My first year at my permanent duty station, I was tasked with protecting and standing guard over Air Force One while the President was visiting Ohio. They told me that, because I wasn’t a citizen, I couldn’t put out fires but I could protect the most important Air Plane in this country. Maybe they figured I had experience on how people breach barriers and/or borders.
This is not a criticism of the Air Force, they have the best specialty training of all the armed forces. This is just how funny bureaucracy can be. The reason I wanted to be a Fire Specialist isn’t all that admirable, I heard that they had the most time off and got to work out a lot. I would have gotten to go and finish my college degree and gotten paid to stay fit. What can I say, I was young and the product of inner city schools. Didn’t really have any direction at the time.
I understand how that statement above reads and you’re going to get a lot of people with opinions. LAPR’s, please refer to above mentioned explanation, probably would have been quicker just to write it again, are mostly people too, I heard some are part donkey, but you are going to have some unscrupulous people opine that I shouldn’t have been allowed to guard the President’s plane, even though I was guarding numerous F-15’s, guarding entry to the base and was trained to protect the airbase from attack. LAPR’s do multiple tour’s of duty and died in combat for this country in every war this country has participated in. My point was LAPR’s should be allowed to stomp out fires or guard the base, but I understand not sharing classified information, but those AFSC’s don’t require a TS clearance, even though, if you check, the biggest espionage cases against this country has ever faced have all been committed by natural born citizens and not by naturalized citizens.