Alcoholic Commander In The National Guard? [not for children]

Well, well, well. Another interesting situation where national security is at risk because of a drinking problem and a CYAhole. If I was a high-level leader in charge of keeping Bubba bombers out of harm's way in the outer rings of hazmat womd territorial protection, I'd make sure my subordinates could handle their drinks without getting out of control (and thus, lying through their teeth to keep their jobs - how far will they carry their lies?).

But I'm not.

Instead, I'm barraged by those who want to get the modestly conservative voice heard, as in the following quote pointed out to me today [from 1 Timothy 2]:

"9 I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."

Thus, the Christian crowd, ultraconservative or not, is asked if it is of literalist or figurativist belief. If the former, then one cannot support Palin, Pelosi, Oprah, O'Donnell, etc., if one believes this is a true Christian nation and 1 Timothy is literally true. If the latter, the Bible is a general guide subject to personal interpretation and anything goes.

Meanwhile, I've got to go cash a reality check that's about to expire.  Somebody help me out here.  I'm walking through the county fair funhouse mirror maze carrying my corn in a jar.  Where's the exit.  I need an outhouse, quick!

First Grind - Shaping

Ever watched two hummingbirds fight over a feeder?

I have watched the Kashmiri violence ignited, so I'm told, by a man of the Christian faith who said he was going to burn a copy of the Koran.

Are we not men and women of intelligence as well as deep emotional beliefs?

Are we no more than two birds quarreling over a small container of sugared water?

Are we easily swayed to act rather to seek understanding?

I am an old, tired man, weary of the repetitive ancient ways of our species.

You tell me we live in the dawn of the new age, well into what I think you call the Anthrocene period, epoch or era.

Are we living fossils, unable to overcome the mass violence of our ignorant ancestors?

Do I always believe what I'm told? No. I hear words and phrases, then ponder the possible reasons for their existence.

Are my conclusions sound, correct, clearly thought out? Sometimes.

Do I injure or kill others in order to exclaim my beliefs? Only, it appears, through the actions of my seven billion kin who I wish would take the time to think rather than to instantly react.

Birds of a feather flock together. This is our planet. Let us choose wisely, regarding our species as one in which we find positive, light-hearted, humourous solutions to our problems rather than act hastily and destroy our brothers and sisters and their hard-earned property.

Do not assume the worst of our behaviours accounts for all of us.

For my part, I would rather we eliminate the chaotic destruction and violence wrought by the drug cartels and replace it with legitimate, peaceful, logical business practices rather than launch a full-scale, legitimate, military invasion of Mexico in order to protect the interests of the United States and secure a peaceful existence for Mexican families and others from countries further south.

But I don't always get what I want.

If I did, UT players would have acted like men for 60 minutes and finished off Oregon on the playing field rather than take out their frustrations in drinking establishments. Dooley has a lot to learn in how to grasp the emotions of young men and point them in the right direction at a moment's/momentous notice.

Have you figured out the universe in which we think we live is not the universe in which we live? Let's save that thought for another moment. I have a spot of Justice to attend to, scrutinise more closely.

Is Buddhism Pseudo-Christianity or the other way around?

Experts outside my network have informed me that Buddhism performed its usual role of absorbing and becoming part of the societies that argue about who has the best religion, overcoming Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism as the religion of choice amongst the world's youth, where peace rather than war is the word du jour.

Meanwhile, the Interplanetary Youth Brigade announced that all local, national and international political candidates and government workers on Earth must take the Turing Test in order to separate the robots from the real to properly point out who has been making decisions about how to wisely redistribute the people's public monies and who has been simply following preprogrammed instructions.

Friends reminded me they have fun with my light-hearted poke at conspiracies, showing me that the first generation of "discovered" artificial lifeforms is still under investigation by skeptics and believers alike, whilst I point out the youngest generation of our species continues working on the latest regeneration of artificial life.

A German reminds the Americans what they're supposed to be made of.

The Book of the Future has not stopped predicting that our species will merge with an artificial lifeform yet to be.  The witch doctor warns us to be prepared for this transition period in which the old species will fall behind and use barbarianism to attempt one last defense of its existence, "losing" in the end (the witch doctor won't say why "losing" is in quotes, which could mean the old species won the war but lost the fight?).

Some of my colleagues, during post-processing of photographs of artifacts under glass, showed me the messages we were expecting in the 360-degree view we had been advised to look for.  In a reflected image, using infrared and ultraviolet light filters, one finds much that the human eye cannot.

We shall respond to these messages when the prime opportunity presents itself shortly.  Here is the code key we were asked to show at this time [you must use an amber CRT at 60 Hz refresh rate to decode it]:



Global empirebuilding creates no favourites, only flagrante flavours of the moment.  Of course, since/because we live in the moment, we can't see anything but what we see.

Unless you knew the moment doesn't really exist.

Let's say you knew who was handholding the handholders who were leading the majority down the rosy path of living in the moment.

Let's say you were able to unplug the youngest generation from massively maneuvered mass media movements.

Let's say you were willing to face a high level of chaotic noise for something better, if not quieter.

Let's say you knew there was something and nothing more to know than what is there before you.

Very few could handle the destruction of all the self-deceptive veils that surround us.

If it's for the few that the rest of the species lives, then would you be okay with that?

Or would you rather believe that every individual reserves the right to become part of the few?

Should I say more?  Certain colleagues say the precious cargo I carry is not ready for primetime.  Best stick to humour and let the preplanned scenarios continue to play out.

Am I a player or the amateur professional amateur wondering wanderer I profess to be?

Those who put the moment to their best advantage are those to whom you'll pay attention the most.  Why should I bother to divert your attention from simple gaze-based programming already built into us?

My friends in the drug cartel business are thrilled that Paris Hilton is getting so much attention with her [alleged] cocaine and marijuana use, hoping she'll get more attention, no matter whether it's because she received no jailtime or she received hard jailtime.  Either way, it's free publicity for them!  They thank my friends in the mass media business for continuing to promote freewheelers like Ms. Hilton - they say there's plenty money in the slush fund (in the guise of behind-the-scenes perks and overpaid adverts) to go around, now that one of their major distributors is in the hands of U.S. authorities, lowering the number of players and thus increasing their profitable slice of the pie.

Taking down a criminal is never the answer.  Changing how the system works is.  Do you know how?