What happens when the system fails good people.

They either move or simply take the law into their own hands.

People forget that the system has a duty to the people it serves. If the system is designed to protect the people and their property and fails to do so then the system has no business interfering with the people stepping in and taking care of themselves.

One of the things the system tends to do is takes a true mentally ill troublemaker off the streets for a couple of months, clean him up and then release him if he promises to keep taking his meds.

He doesn't live up to his end of the deal and starts acting up. Rinse, repeat.

The people eventyually grow tired of it and lash out and the system goes after the people that are tired of being victims.

I think that in many instances of this that failure of the system to take care of the people should be an affirmative defense.

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Sarcasm strikes again.

I corrected someone that quoted Neil Armstrong when he walked on the moon.

I pointed out that a second or two earlier Buzz Aldrin had pointed to something and told Neil, "Hey! That looks like Alice Kramden!"

"Really!?"

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I have started to try and lose weight.

What is interesting to note is that lately I have not had much af an appetite which I suppose will help.

We shall see what we shall see.

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Things are starting to settle down a bit

which is good.

It looks like a hot July is in the making but that could change in a heartbeat.

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Many of the Founding Fathers paid dearly.

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One day my First Sergeant called me in

and told me he had gotten a call from my father asking me about the date I had returned from leave.

"What's that all about?" he asked.

I said I'd find out and called Dad. He reported to me that the neighborhood kids had tossed some kind of IED into the neighbor's new in-ground swimming pool and cracked it. He wanted to make sure I had gotten back OK from leave and was properly signed into the battery because he knew I was probably a likely suspect.

When I explained what the call as all about to Top he said that he had handled a couple of calls like that over the years.

Then he laughed. "Blew up the guy's pool, huh? Years ago we had a guy accused of something like that on leave. He as at the battery and the incident happened in Oregon if I remember. The call came from a police chief. He had been here when the incident occurred also."

I made this post because yesterday someone complained about the fireworks and I warned them of the consequences of getting on the wrong side of the kids. 

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I love this story. SR-71 Blackbird.

Happy 4th!

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Ahh, yes. Major Jason Watson.

The officer that ran his mouth on the Capitol steps a couple of days ago.

He's reportedly an Air Force Academy graduate with 17 years in service. If you know, you know. If not I will explain things to you.

Most of his classmates have either gotten out after they served their required payback or they have been promoted ahead of Watson. 

He does not appear to be a standout officer. 

He was basically a logistician which is an honorable and much needed career field.

One thing is almost for certain. He's going places, but not in the Air Force. Most likely he's getting the boot for running off at the mouth on the Capitol steps.

Of course a lot of people are screaming that he has rights under the first Amendment but the fact is he doesn't. He's subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and as such he has violated numerous articles of it and can be tried by courts-martial and is subject to be punished as directed by the Courts-martial board.

If he wanted to run off at the mouth he should have resigned his commission first and then he would have all of his First Amendment rights restored. Instead he chose to ignore the UCMJ. 

What happens to him is his problem. 

Personally I think that after everything is over and done with and he is sentenced that President Trump give him the final humiliation. He ought to pardon him and restore him to duty.

McMurdo Station can probably use a mess officer.

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I just read a brief article on seniors who can't retire

because they are STILL paying off college loans.

While I'm sure there is a VERY small handful of people with a bona fide reason it sounds like a life of poor decision making to me.

(Someone fell down a 300 foot mine shaft and got paralyzed for life) 

All I know is that debt is slavery and the three bank loans I ever took out were paid off in record time because I hated being in debt.

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I am sick and tired of Michelle Obama running her mouth about how hard she has had it in life.

It's really stale.

The poor complained that she had to buy her own food when she was the First Lady with a staff of 20-25 to take care of her.

Poor baby. What, was she unable to feed herself on a President's pay? 

Then she's always complaining that she has it rough because she's black. Poor baby.

If she has a problem with being black she should have the melatonin in her skin removed and become white. It can be done fairly easily and she can afford it. Then she can enjoy white privilige which means absolutely nothing because like most people (of all colors) I have had to get up and go to work for over 50 years.

Instead of sitting around complaining about her plight she should be preaching to the low end blacks (and everybody else of every race)how she managed to get ahead and give them hope and encourage them to make something of themselves.

Of course that would be too easy for her.

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Double post today. Keep reading if you want.

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It's eventually going to happen.

I  have seen and heard any number of brawls breaking out on aircraft and cruise ships and it's bound to happen. 

Someone is going to act up on a cruise ship and get put ashore somewhere in the Carribean like St. Kitts and Nevis. Once ashore it will come to the attention of the airlines that he started a brawl on an airliner and they're on the no fly list.

Oops...You're screwed!

Of course this depends on which no fly list one is on. If you are on one with a specific airline one simply opts for another airline to get back to the states on. If you are on the federal no fly list you're totally screwed.

A charter flight to Florida runs about $10-14K which you likely do not have in your pocket. A boat ride is more expensive and can take about a week or more to get to Florida.

If you are stupid enough to brawl on both an airplane AND a cruise ship then you're most likely stupid enough so you don't have the skills you need to work passage on a ship headed to the States.

You're also screwed because most places do not have the social programs that we have in the States. You are very likely to get hungry after you run out of cash. Being jailed for vagrancy or something related is a pretty good possibility, too.

You might try an embassy or consulate and see what they have to say. They might be able to help. 

Still, if a consoulate or embassy does help you out it's most likely going to cost you.

Update. Before I posted this I was talking to a cousin who told me she had read about some chowderhead on a no fly list that got booted off of a cruise ship and stranded. She didn't know what happened to them.

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