Random thought of the moment.

[IEDmagnet]

Feel kinda like this asshole is going to get me elected in the media as "the face of PTSD" after word gets out that I'm a Vetetan.

Tough

Exactly why I tell no one I'm a Vet. I'm not going to get the extra attention when I flip my shit.

[Steadfast]

I'd record the fucker then play it back for others & him to hear so they can ridicule him.
Or play it back when the biggies are in earshot - sure they would recognize his voice.

[rgrokelley]

My daughter and I went out to overthrow the government today.

Out here in Barbecue Township, NC, it was fairly quick. Only took about 20 minutes, with only a small line. I went before lunch though, so I wouldn't have to wait as much. Met a few SF guys working for one candidate or the other in the parking lot, handing out voter guides.

It feels like everyone is in the starter block, leaning forward, ready for the race to start...

[RangerX]

Took me an hour and fifteen minutes. Line was long, orderly, and moved steadily the entire time. I have gone to the polls for every election/vote I can recall in the past two decades outside one absentee ballot this year. Turnout here in the Northern 'burbs of ATL is very strong this go around.

[Steadfast]

2 things happened today, voted, then got gas for first time in eleven days.
& yesterday we finally got heat & hot water after doing without for past week.
Temperature this a.m. was 28 degrees.
Jesus Christ still loves & carry's me everywhere.

[Jim]

2 things happened today, voted, then got gas for first time in eleven days.
& yesterday we finally got heat & hot water after doing without for past week.
Temperature this a.m. was 28 degrees.
Jesus Christ still loves & carry's me everywhere.

Amen, brother!

[CloakAndDagger]

I need to move to a "red" state.

[IEDmagnet]

Wouldn't make much of a difference...too many sheep making states blue.

[rangertough]

The election kinda blows. I was really starting to like my job. Guess I'd better start looking for a new one. Since Obama said he's getting rid of contractors.

Tough

[RangerX]

[Baseplate]

The election kinda blows. I was really starting to like my job. Guess I'd better start looking for a new one. Since Obama said he's getting rid of contractors.

Tough

Not to be all dickheaded but why should we pay a contractor 200k to do a job a private can do for 20k?

[RangerX]

The election kinda blows. I was really starting to like my job. Guess I'd better start looking for a new one. Since Obama said he's getting rid of contractors.

Tough

Not to be all dickheaded but why should we pay a contractor 200k to do a job a private can do for 20k?

Ooh, ooh! I know this one!

Because contractor deaths don't make the papers. With contractors, we aren't "at war". Nobody ties yellow ribbons to trees for contractors.

Did I get it right?

[rangertough]

The election kinda blows. I was really starting to like my job. Guess I'd better start looking for a new one. Since Obama said he's getting rid of contractors.

Tough

Not to be all dickheaded but why should we pay a contractor 200k to do a job a private can do for 20k?

Mainly because I'm not that kind of contractor. I get paid 50k a year to teach the new digital systems to every rank in the Army and I cost the government a fuck load less than a qualified Senior NCO with 20 years of service (which also describes me until my retirement hits).

A private can't do my job and a senior NCO or even a junior NCO has better things to do than teach CPOF, FBCB2, AFATADS, BCS3 or any number of other systems to 15 students a week. You might have been able to figure this all out had you spent more than a minute in the Army.

So basicly you weren't being a dickhead you were being ignorant.

Tough

[Baseplate]

The election kinda blows. I was really starting to like my job. Guess I'd better start looking for a new one. Since Obama said he's getting rid of contractors.

Tough

Not to be all dickheaded but why should we pay a contractor 200k to do a job a private can do for 20k?

Mainly because I'm not that kind of contractor. I get paid 50k a year to teach the new digital systems to every rank in the Army and I cost the government a fuck load less than a qualified Senior NCO with 20 years of service (which also describes me until my retirement hits).

A private can't do my job and a senior NCO or even a junior NCO has better things to do than teach CPOF, FBCB2, AFATADS, BCS3 or any number of other systems to 15 students a week. You might have been able to figure this all out had you spent more than a minute in the Army.

So basicly you weren't being a dickhead you were being ignorant.

Tough

Well then I was ignorant and you are the dickhead, dickhead

[Jim]

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S.Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year, the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."

This ends today's lesson in irony.