Testes, testes, one, two, THREE?

Let me introduce myself

I, after a long, long, absence have resurfaced. (hopefully, the charges have been dropped). For those of you just dropping in for the first time, I am 'that jackass'. For those of you who are familiar with me, I am 'that jackass'.

I was going to fire up the rant-engine this time out, but unfortunately I attended a fiftieth birthday party tonight, and lo-and-behold, I am in a very good mood.

I am, and always will be, a U.S. Marine. I am governed by Honor, Courage, and Commitment. This is a rather small capsule of thinking that is embedded in my overall mindset of Duty, Honor, and Country.

On that note, no. I will not run for President of the United States. I will, however, stand on the sidelines and taunt everyone else. Let the games begin...

I had a dream about mufflers last night. Today I feel exhausted...

What a freaking moron...

...so I stop by the new property to drop off some more paperwork, and when I am finished I decide to take the remainder of my lunch break to drive over to the apartment and see where the best parking is etc.

Now, when they showed the apartment, we used footpaths and such to get to the place. Behind the wheel is another story. I can't freaking find the place. I did see the building in between two others, but never did figure out how to get to it. What a moron...

Think the movers mind being told to just find the place? Hehehehehe

Update

Ah, the joy of moving

Doing more throwing out than packing; software boxes, old papers and such. My great bad habit is the stacking of loose CD's. Now to round up the dozens of jewel cases, mate them with the CD's and pack them...

Picking up the keys.

Hello, first floor!

No more stairs. Nuff said. A C-note and a half less out of the checking account a month was a bonus, too. Apparently, May is the month when people all over the metroplex flee their digs like they were on fire, and the properties around here scramble to offer incentives. I'm not complaining. I'm hoping Stodgy is enjoying the same good fortune, as he has landed in town completely without the resources to find a place. Land during the weekend, at work on monday. Not even the decency of time to go househunting.

Reminiscing on the last time I went through this...

CuteNubilePayedToShowUnits: And here is our first floorplan. It has blahblahblah, and over here blahblahblah...

Master Bates: Wait! No one has died in this unit, have they?

CNPTSU: Oh! No!

Master Bates: Well, can you show us a unit where someone has?

CNPTSU: ~eyes as wide as saucers~ Silence....

CNPTSU: ...French doors leading to the patio. The main playground is right in the middle of the courtyard...

Master Bates: ~elbowing me~ That's perfect for you, buddy. Easy access. hehehehe

CNPTSU: ~eyes as wide as saucers~ More silence....

I never got a call back from that property...

I am already incommunicado till this is done, so send up a flair or beat a drum, folks...

Happiness is...

Gregory Boyington as C.O. of VMF-214 in "The Flying Misfits" on the History Channel.

araah.

In the Immortal Words of Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles: "Oh, baby. I just have to."

This guy sucks great!

When both Sean Hannity AND Alan Colmes gang up on a guest interviewee, you just KNOW, he is either an evil creature, or a complete fuck-tard.

Michael Crook, who owns the domain name, runs the website for the link above, and is an utter jackass, contends that U.S. troops are grossly overpayed, and should not be payed allowances for off-base housing, com-rats, and other additional pay outside the base-pay structure, stating that U.S. troops should provide for themselves for grocery and housing from base-pay, just like 'the real world'.

After watching the interview, I am literally shaking. I want within pistol distance of this fucking scrote. I want to take this lazy-eyed, long haired, porn-star mustache wearing, borrowed suit wearing, college attending while leeching on his hapless folks, ass clown, completely out of the gene pool. This fucker is more outrageous than Michael Moore, who at least, in public, celebrated the commitment and sacrifice of U.S. Troops, and instead went after the policy-makers in 'The D.C.' who, in his eyes, are the problem, not the troops on the line. I'm so fucking livid after this interview, I have backspaced two dozen times at least so far to correct typos. I just don't do that. I'm that mad.

Here's a little nugget of information. The average tenure in the U.S. Military, an all volunteer one, is one term of between four and six years. Joey Bagodonuts enlists or receives a commission and jets after his first term. That's thanks to the Clinton administration, who under which, the pension for full tenure troops of twenty years was reduced from fifty to thirty five percent of base pay. Why bother reenlisting? You reenlist for a career and the benefits of retirement after a life serving your country in it's national defense, not just for the next term, and the job security it provides. They leave in droves.

Now. The average base-pay for a 'first-termer' is Under the salary level that entitles a U.S. citizen to food-stamps for subsistence assistance.

They make so little, that the U.S. Government has to help feed them.

I remember super-Tuesdays in base housing, where all the dependent families lined up for surplus food, or 'Government Cheese'. This was nineteen ninety eight.

I personally had no family to support, go figure. I was living high on the hog. Not a care in the world. Just my own bills. On five hundred dollars every two week payday. Just over ten thousand dollars a year, and no additional allowances. Wow. A grossly overpayed U.S. Military Pig. Now think about the same schlub that had a family and couldn't get into free base housing and had to live in town. On ten thousand dollars a year.

This motherfucker needs to get caulked.

You gotta be freaking kidding me...

Revenge of the Sith: Propaganda Piece.

While reading one of the various write-ups in today's Dallas Morning News about the new Star Wars film, I came upon this gem: an excerpt from another paper's write up.

In A.O. Scott's New York Times review of Sith, he writes:

Sith is about how a republic dismantles its own democratic principles, about how politics becomes militarized.
And he comments on Darth Vader "echoing the words of George W. Bush."

Okay. The world has gone completely insane. A space-fantasy saga that started out with a bunch of muppets and ended as a saga told with PC game graphics extravagance, is now a propaganda piece?

The Rant.

Sure, Lucas' films, like any filmaker's, have the opportunity to comment on society, and he has in film. That's filmmaking. Lucas' job, ultimately, is as an artist; to entertain as many people as possible. Lucas' film company, Lucasfilm ltd., and Twentieth Century Fox's job, ultimately, is to sell as many tickets, fill as many seats, sell as many DVDs, and sell as much merchandise as humanly possible.

So why on Earth would they make a film, hoping to do just that, that was a direct commentary on a sitting administration? Hey guys! Lets make this one polarize the viewing audience into left and right, piss off the voting majority, and have over half of it not buy our theater tickets, DVDs, and Star Wars crap! That's a plan! Right. What a bunch of crap.

So effectively, Mr. Scott is touting this film as his, the liberal media's, and the 'good, blue part of Americas' rally film. Get a life, or better yet, get out of line so the showtime I'm buying a ticket for doesn't get sold out. Schmucks.

Sweet Sean Hannity! Those ARE lovely hands!

American Dad is the tits.

This Just In:

Stodgy is feet-dry here state-side. He should be back to his parent squadron in Yuma, from which he was 'borrowed', by 1730hrs. A special note: When they got off the bird in New Hampshire, the USO was waiting for them and handed out cell phones so the troopies could make immediate, and free, phone calls home...