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And 7,500, 569 of those visitors was Goldie, posting and hoping for a friendly PM in his in box... BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously Gold, I didn't know you were a pedophile...
Actually, 7,400,000 were bots. No, I am not a pedophile.Quote:
Originally Posted by AuGmENTor
I know man, I was just funnin ya kid... relax.
You want a hundred Gulaks for your trouble?
Wow AuG, just found your NYC experience at this post- that's too surreal about you being on Manhattan at that fateful time... Looking back, probably about the only good thing about your Iraqi vacation- you went to WTC sufficiently numb for the horror of the WTC scene, or maybe not though on second-thought...
That's pretty wild about FEMA and the non-disclosure statements they made you sign (I had to sign those when I interviewed GS-5 with US Border Patrol for the interview questions-long story there-- really puts the CIA drug running/DEA interference reports in perspective though-- hmmm...) I signed stacks of them for security clearance in aerospace too, and I worked "unclassified?" projects. For me the similar experience was the time I was escorting a Japanese national (Univ. of Tokyo) to our "telescope" located on the Dugway Proving Ground-- possibly the most dangerous place in the USA-- when 2 full-MOPP gear Army soldiers with M16 selectors "full forward" had the road blocked and told me I needed to leave immediately (I had authorized clearance to be there on base in the name of "NSF science"). The Japanese collaborator was awfully nervous about Americans with M-16s, but I was more worried about the gas masks personally... Working in rooms with combination locks on the door and filing cabinets got strange at times too (this MI-5 [and MI-6] business brings back some less-than-fond memories for me- I met the US version, I think). Pretty strange to keep running into the SAME 3 people across most of the airports in the US (aerospace work then)...
Hell, I didn't know you were a fellow ironworker-- that explains how we both ended up calling bullshit on the WTC OCT. My late father (physics prof. like Dr. Jones who probably knew him) and I took college welding classes way back in the early 1980s. Then me growing up on a farm/ranch, welding X-ray tubes together, and over 2 years in a professional weld/mechanic shop during college. Uranium and plutonium is about the only metal I haven't worked with (and I think I PM'ed you about that New Mexico thing). My A-hole uncle was PhD Materials Engineering at BYU, too (but he's a real douche and we don't talk). I joke about being too smart to go to graduate school (they've tried a few times, and haven't got me yet)...
I've got 2 buddies that are "professional powder monkeys" for the mining industry (and some military "demo" friends). No shit! That is the official job title as I understand it- goes back to the 1800s, when it was a much more hazardous job. They were pretty much all the first 9/11 Conspiracy OCT doubters that I met- took me almost 4 years to wake up though.
They're pretty shook up about that recent mine distaster (9 men presumed dead, 6 never recovered) here in UT. My ex-Navy step-brother is an electrician for the mine too- that's what got us watching C(ia)NN again when the mountain started falling down...
My nephew recently got back (we think- still reserves for a year or 2) from Afghanistan in the USMC (but he got pulled out of the 'Corps by the Joint Task Force for Gitmo). Sounds like all 3 of us have been government property in one fashion or another (back when my nephew and I were still asleep "helping fight the War on Terra"). We've all seen too much shit and places that "don't exist" and....
I don't know if anybody posted the "The Trouble With Normal" here yet- it's a great article about Daily Kos "conspiracy bashing":
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.co...th-normal.html
Check this quote from that article:
" America's had trouble with normal since the day it watched a police narcotics informant silence a self-described patsy on live television. It's degraded to the point at which it needed rebranding as the "New Normal" to still be recognizable to most Americans, who aren't sheep so much as lobsters who believe it's supposed to be this hot."-- Jeff Wells
There's a good article on IgNORAD over here too:
http://www.attackonamerica.net/ignorad.htm
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Don't worry, if he's in the reserves, they will find a way to get him to go to Iraq. They HAVE to be running low on fresh meat for the grinder.Quote:
My nephew recently got back (we think- still reserves for a year or 2) from Afghanistan in the USMC (but he got pulled out of the 'Corps by the Joint Task Force for Gitmo). Sounds like all 3 of us have been government property in one fashion or another (back when my nephew and I were still asleep "helping fight the War on Terra"). We've all seen too much shit and places that "don't exist" and....
Yup- the recruiters have already called twice saying how much everybody likes it over there. His attached unit, the "8th Com" went there in early 2006, I believe. The 22nd MEU (SOC) was the one that chased the Taliban out of the caves and:
“You rocked him back on his heels. You knocked him on his ass.
“You went places that has never seen an American.
“You went to find him on his turf, on his terms, on his ground and kicked him in the ass.
“And that surprised him.”-- Maj. Gen. Eric Olson
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?...2&archive=true
Anybody know what "special operations capable" means-- my nephew doesn't (but it's gotten them front row seats to some very nasty zip codes)...
I've heard rumors of the CIA airlifting bin Osman & Co. out "of country" at Tora Bora, but can't find documentation. I've told my nephew to stay in college every semester and volunteer for Officer Candidate School when our new draft sends my old, tired ass to Iraq if we don't impeach these warmongers first... 2 tours in 2 countries for a bullshit war seems like plenty to me.