November 6, 2003
I Am Not Josh Hartnett
There’s been a recent surge in attention the blog is getting and I feel a little overwhelmed. I’m one month into an eighteen month deployment. We haven’t even done anything yet. Soldiering is boring work with scarce and brief moments of intensity. I’m in for the long haul. There isn’t going to be a tidy coda after two hours of Josh Hartnett mugging for the camera. Credits won’t ever roll and house lights don’t go up for a long long time. On top of it, I’m in the National Guard. The guard isn’t cool, it’s a place for unrepentant masochists with a lot of karma to work off. We’re gluttons for punishment that jones for a monthly grunt fix. If I were cool, I’d join the friggin’ Ranger Battallion and start talking shit about how I’m gonna try out for Delta or SEAL team six. In real life I’m a geek. I’ve never read Black Hawk Down. I miss the city and I just want to get back and finish school. This “war on terror” crap has totally ruined my semester. Okay, at least this time I have an enemy. Now who was it again? I did a month guarding the West 4th station from 8pm – 1am (terrorist hours?) which was cool for about two days. Anways, I love everyone for all the wonderful things they’ve shared with me, but we haven’t even started to roll yet. Oh yeah, my company motto it “Let’s Roll.” Todd Beamer’s last words are now ubiquitous and tiresome. I’m certain he cringes everytime he hears it.
October 11th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Dude- War on Terror Crap – Right.
I voted 4 bush 2x- I am so sorry and ashamed.
This is war- war without a declaration from congress. It is an illegal war. It is Rumsfeld’s war, and rummy has put it over on bush. I am sooo sooo sorry.
October 11th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
I sympathize with you for having to do that. Resist.
October 15th, 2005 at 2:38 am
Tov, drop the BS about voting for Bush. Bush is a big boy and can make his own decisions Dude. You make me sick with your sooo sooo sorry crap. Open your eyes to the real world. They came to us, so now we go to them. Any questions about Iraq being a den of terrorists? How many innocents did they blow up today? Yesterday?
October 27th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
you pass to the TV man
October 31st, 2005 at 6:03 am
Hallo there
How interesting that a sodier is posting his story on Line. I trust that you come home safe and well to tell your story at the end of your stay.
I am a TV producer at Community Television in Perth West Auatralia.
John Howard the Australian Prime Minister took Australian troops to the Iraq Oil War.
I thought that you might be interested in a program I am prodocing in Perth about how popular George Bush is in Australia and how he compares with previous American presidents.
It does appear that afer conducting over 500 interviews that Bush is not a popular. president. I found the statistics very interesting. Over 500 appraoches to people have provided 10 interviews on camera of people who like Bush, 110 people who dont and all the others who would not speak on Camera for various reasons.
I thought that i would share that information for the TV film will be shown in American film festivals when finished.
How many soldiers are sending Blogs from Iraq – does anyone have figures?
Tho I do not approve of your war – stay well soldier and bring truw peace to your world.
in light michael
November 2nd, 2005 at 5:37 pm
All I have created a forum where military members and families can bitch and complain until they feel better. It is uncensored and your name won’t be used unless you tell me too. The forum is called “Sound Off” http://dfwtinker.isa-geek.com/forum/index.php.
I know what it means to be able to vent. My dad was 30 years USAF and myself 2.5 years USMC. “Sound Off” thats what its for. Enjoy and keep your heads down. Most of all Thank You!!
November 14th, 2005 at 8:28 pm
How were you only in the Marines for 2.5 years?
November 22nd, 2005 at 6:29 pm
Dude I just finished reading your book and to me you are the definition of a true American Hero! You have the balls to stand up for what you believe in even if it goes against everything that you were taught as a soldier and for that I commend you! Hoo-ah!
December 21st, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management/positioning:
4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans – The seamless transition between Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar may be a clue alluding to a partnership.
6. Mafia – the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying “He has more money than god.” There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says “I’m too old and rich for this.”
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
20 cent/hour Chinese labor, 50 cents for material.
An $80 sweater costs less than a dollar; tribute kicked upstairs vindicates the creative accounting.
I don’t want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe. But these individuals become wealthy exploiting those they hurt.
They have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won’t help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an environment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.
The coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton’s WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.
They desire a system based on duality:::good and evil. They seek to set up a system of two participants and assign them polar opposites:::
Coke and Pepsi (?)
BestBuy and CircutCity
Energizer and Duracell
Republican and Democrat
The list goes on:::
AMD and Intel
Microsoft and Apple (?)
Lowes and HomeDepot
Sam’sClub and Costco
WellsFargo and BofA
Pier1 and CostPlus
Borders and Barnes&Noble
PetCo and PetSmart
And in other cases attempts to eliminate the third competitor failed:::Chrysler, attempts to downgrade Miller beer to low cost like they did Olympia.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they decided who they didn’t want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren’t their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Royalty is the correct way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient’s hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.
Jewsus Christ is a religious figure of evil. He teaches of a begnign, forgiving god when quite the opposite is true.
The seperatist churches formed so they could capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to disfavored people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
Since Buddism doesn’t recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Asian representation is instead fully selected by the thrones.
Budda was the Asian’s Jewsus Christ::: bad for the people. It was a clue they both emerged at the same time. Timing may be a clue alluding to ranking.
Simpson’s foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. “Last one you ever suspect.”
“You’ll see lots of nuns where you’re going:::hell!!!” St. Wigham, Helloween VI:::missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
The advent of the modern Christmas was a brilliant move. It creates a vested interest among those who would prefer the Church of Evil be destroyed::::
As goes the Catholic Church so goes the majority of annual retail sales.
The similarity between the names “Santa” and “Satan” is no coincidence.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of “god”, and inflicted circumcision upon all other white people.
I think about how Jews (were used to) created homosexuality among Slavics, retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
For their suffering the Jew leaders were granted the right to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite, a recurring aspect of the elite’s methodology.
Jews were ostracised for a reason.
Retribution for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the Korean War got the disfavored United States into this socially depraved environment in the latter 20th century because we attacked an antient, revered peoples. Our continued presence keeps us in trouble.
When the disfavored americans attack the wrong people again, as they suggested they will, in Korea or elsewhere, they will pay dearly.
All peoples are ranked in terms of favor and disfavor. And when the disfavored abuse those with favor there is hell to pay.
All the groups mentioned throughout are necessary to justify the will of the managing species. They conceive a strategy, devise a plan yet need a way to implement it, and without these groups the managing species would be exposed in the course of execution. So, based upon their rank they are assigned goals to accomplish and are rewarded with favors.
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
You’d man! … oh and update your blog, please~
January 6th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
im not gonna say im sorry for anything i didnt vote for bush (hello are the retards and robots taking over this country) I wish you the best of luck and you can always party with me in easthamp mass
all my love
Alexis
January 9th, 2006 at 12:54 am
I was in the Corps for only two and a half years because I caught them on breach of contract. I entered with a guaranteed contract in Computer Technology. After finishing 2nd in boot, 1st in A-school and 1st in B-school, when the slot came open and I applied for my transfer I was denied. Since I had the the old GI Bill and the education I wanted I used contacts my dad had made over his 30 years to get out and get on with my life (my career in the Corps was over anyway as soon as I started making a stink). Vietnam had just ended less than a year before so war was not an issue. The Corps was still the best thing to happen in my life.
January 17th, 2006 at 3:29 am
Hi Soldier, glad to see someone tell it like it is. Some of these blog sites, they seem to want to glorify a war. That one guy seems to think that Iraq attacked us. Sadamn Housein would not want to have a powerful terrorist group in his country, nor would any other Arab country. They would be afraid of being overthrown by them. They are probably paying the terrorist groups to stay out. According to our government leaders, we were attack by Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist gang, from Afghanistan. And we have not made a serious effort to capture him, not compared to what we’ve done in Iraq. There are a lot of terrorists in Iraq now because it is easy to go there and kill Americans, rather than come here. Although I’m sure some of them have come across the border from Mexico, they look a lot like Mexicans, so we’ve made it pretty easy for them to do that too. Anyway Soldier, thanks for your time.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Detal or seal team,have their own responsibility.
National guard aslo have their own responsibity.
They are the same important.You must have been thankful by the city.Because they need you
April 10th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
We need every person there, you are all more valuable than the next. Your service is honored greatly stateside.
http://www.usasupportourtroops.org/
September 13th, 2007 at 11:46 am
I can definetly sympithize with the situation and alot of the soliders probably feel alot like that
November 9th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
To all the troops in Iraq. You all make me prowd to be an american. Keep up the good job, and please stay safe. Come back safe and sane. You have my respect!
April 28th, 2008 at 1:07 am
National guard aslo have their own responsibity.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
true
July 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
hey whats up man well at least now i have an idea of where im going im deploying to Afghanistan april 19 2009 as an 11C(CHUMP)at the age of 17
yay
August 31st, 2008 at 1:05 am
Your semester can wait 100 years.
January 4th, 2014 at 2:20 am
Soldiering is boring work with scarce and brief moments of intensity.
I know what you mean!