I have officially found the new T-Shirt that will be work around Basecamp Ponderosa
http://16sucks.com/t/t-shirts
This guy gets it.
Crazed American, out.
16 May 2016
09 May 2016
Shenanigans
Wait, an "IT guy" worked someplace for 4 years and has NO emails? Not even the barely HR tolerable, almost inappropriate joke-meme emails, or "Servers and phone switches are going to be down tomorrow while we work on a UPS issue" emails???
This, the same guy that set up SecState's Email Server of Questionable Legal Status.
I call Shenanigans. It cannot be. Before any of you decry my lack of ability to comment on this, please know that I was an "IT guy". **0_o**
In modern history , the true damage never comes from the initial transgression, it is ALWAYS from the coverup.
Well, Mr. Pagliano's about to find out what the undercarriage of a bus looks like. But he is currently being held on a close leash by J. Edgar's boys.
Interesting times,
Crazed American, out.
05 May 2016
Words have meaning
In this time of the Novus Populares (Trump and Sanders) versus Novus Optimates (Clinton et al), this kind of language has meaning:
There is nothing I would like more than to take on and defeat Donald Trump, someone who must never become president of this country.
and the Glenn Beck / Brad Thor: #neverTrump and #NeverEverTrump
OK. If it is true that if you encourage your followers that Trump "must never" become president. How far do you think your followers (or an unhinged follower) might take it? Pretty easy to interpret this in a very negative and permanent way.
Told the Missus the other day that it looks as though our current time frame is beginning to rhyme with the very late Roman Republic (40-30 BCE). This is illustrative for those who might consider executive protection and being a bodyguard as a line of work. Don't do it. Early 21st Century America might become known as an era known for political assassination leading quickly into organized violence.
Lord help us have cool heads, and realize that the world won't end if someone is elected and rules are followed and everybody acts like rational adults.
Rational adults in 2016 America? Oh. We're fucked.
Crazed American, out.
There is nothing I would like more than to take on and defeat Donald Trump, someone who must never become president of this country.
and the Glenn Beck / Brad Thor: #neverTrump and #NeverEverTrump
OK. If it is true that if you encourage your followers that Trump "must never" become president. How far do you think your followers (or an unhinged follower) might take it? Pretty easy to interpret this in a very negative and permanent way.
Told the Missus the other day that it looks as though our current time frame is beginning to rhyme with the very late Roman Republic (40-30 BCE). This is illustrative for those who might consider executive protection and being a bodyguard as a line of work. Don't do it. Early 21st Century America might become known as an era known for political assassination leading quickly into organized violence.
Lord help us have cool heads, and realize that the world won't end if someone is elected and rules are followed and everybody acts like rational adults.
Rational adults in 2016 America? Oh. We're fucked.
Crazed American, out.
03 May 2016
Lying Populist Hack Demagogue v. Same
It's over! Cruz (Partisan Religious Demagogue) has FINALLY suspended his campaign after being trounced by a Lying Populist Hack Demagogue.
So the race, barring a victory by the Democratic Socialist in the race, will be one Lying Populist Hack Demagogue -R versus Lying Populist Hack Demagogue -D.
The Republican Party is DEAD. Good Riddance. One down, one to go. Your turn to eat yourselves alive, Democrats.
The American Republic has been on life support for a while. Lots of people like Glenn Beck have been asking if our current situation was closed to 1914 or 1939. I counter that currently we're skating along at about 32 BCE.
All it will take is a Caesar. None of the clowns currently running fit that bill.
Interesting times.
Build local community and local networks. We're DEFCON 4 (with option to upgrade) 'round here, and I don't say that lightly. Put some essentials aside, needs and some cash.
Crazed American, OUT
So the race, barring a victory by the Democratic Socialist in the race, will be one Lying Populist Hack Demagogue -R versus Lying Populist Hack Demagogue -D.
The Republican Party is DEAD. Good Riddance. One down, one to go. Your turn to eat yourselves alive, Democrats.
The American Republic has been on life support for a while. Lots of people like Glenn Beck have been asking if our current situation was closed to 1914 or 1939. I counter that currently we're skating along at about 32 BCE.
All it will take is a Caesar. None of the clowns currently running fit that bill.
Interesting times.
Build local community and local networks. We're DEFCON 4 (with option to upgrade) 'round here, and I don't say that lightly. Put some essentials aside, needs and some cash.
Crazed American, OUT
24 April 2016
The passing of a legendary legend.
Good night sweet Prince.
Purple Rain (the movie, the album, the idea) was one of those formative moments in life.
He will be missed.
Apparently, His Sacred Purpleness has thousands of unreleased works in a vault in his compound in Minnesota. I think I have divined the plot of the next Indiana Jones movie.
Sadly,
Crazed American, out.
Purple Rain (the movie, the album, the idea) was one of those formative moments in life.
He will be missed.
Apparently, His Sacred Purpleness has thousands of unreleased works in a vault in his compound in Minnesota. I think I have divined the plot of the next Indiana Jones movie.
Sadly,
Crazed American, out.
11 April 2016
One is on it's way down...
...in flames. The Party is OVER.
Me thinks the Democrats are next. This little kerfuffle between Bernie Sanders supporters and the DNC, which has set up their primary / caucus system to do exactly the same kind of voter nullification with Super Delegates.
But, what do you truly expect from two private corporations that have run this country virtually unopposed for 175+ years??
Damn you, peasants, you're not playing your part in Democracy Theatre 2016 correctly!
-R, -D: Both the same, just minor differences in marketing...
Crazed American, out.
Me thinks the Democrats are next. This little kerfuffle between Bernie Sanders supporters and the DNC, which has set up their primary / caucus system to do exactly the same kind of voter nullification with Super Delegates.
But, what do you truly expect from two private corporations that have run this country virtually unopposed for 175+ years??
Damn you, peasants, you're not playing your part in Democracy Theatre 2016 correctly!
-R, -D: Both the same, just minor differences in marketing...
Crazed American, out.
05 April 2016
Madame Secretary... tsk, tsk, tsk
If I, as an analyst for any of the alphabet agencies, had ever done anything even remotely similar, I'd be in prison (if I was lucky).
2016 is the year maybe everybody realizes that the US Government is beyond the point of saving. Irretrievably broken...
Crazed American, out.
***UPDATE***
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2587663/
The server was hacked. So it plays out thusly: The Russian FSB and the Chinese PLA Cyber folks have the entirety of what was on the server from inception to the day she had it wiped.
Guaranteed: If she is elected, this will come back to bite us. POTUS will be liable for blackmail on possibly 30,000 different items. Joy.
21 March 2016
I have a vote...
...but I don't have Twitter anymore...
Cute idea, but as the British have found out, if you ask the internet to name a new science ship, you get a vessel named Boaty McBoatface. Seriously.
Now the US Air Force wants to crowd-source the name of a Strategic Bomber?!?
If the B2 is the Sprit, naturally the B21 should be the Wraith. Duh.
This is a weapon of war. Why are we crowd-sourcing this??
Crazed American's not loving the state of the nation right now, folks.
Crazed American, out.
Cute idea, but as the British have found out, if you ask the internet to name a new science ship, you get a vessel named Boaty McBoatface. Seriously.
Now the US Air Force wants to crowd-source the name of a Strategic Bomber?!?
If the B2 is the Sprit, naturally the B21 should be the Wraith. Duh.
This is a weapon of war. Why are we crowd-sourcing this??
Crazed American's not loving the state of the nation right now, folks.
Crazed American, out.
17 March 2016
Mandate of Heaven
China got it right when it looked at history as a large cycle of boom and bust. We're in a volatile time. I'm afraid to consult the I Ching, cause I don't want to spook the beast.
This is not a bad thing, in the slightest, speaking of China.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't that much a communist. He was a nationalist. The communists would help him where no one else would.
Also, keep in mind the Chinese were beaten, badly by the Vietnamese. Speaking as someone who's father spent a year (1968-9) fighting the NVA, the Vietnamese should never be underestimated.
It is a relationship that should be cultivated. We need as many friends as possible right now.
Crazed American, Out.
This is not a bad thing, in the slightest, speaking of China.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't that much a communist. He was a nationalist. The communists would help him where no one else would.
Also, keep in mind the Chinese were beaten, badly by the Vietnamese. Speaking as someone who's father spent a year (1968-9) fighting the NVA, the Vietnamese should never be underestimated.
It is a relationship that should be cultivated. We need as many friends as possible right now.
Crazed American, Out.
14 March 2016
Violence
So, the Crazed American just got back on Facebook after an absence of six months.
Holy S#!+, people... there is a metric f--kton of bad mojo running around out there.
Civil discourse is ALMOST gone. Calls for violence against political opponents are PLENTIFUL.
Keep in mind a lot of this is passed back and forth by normally nice middle aged (30-50 year old) folks.
This does not bode well for the overall political health of the nation. It also provides me a touch of nausea seeing it. American politics is not supposed to be violent. No tanks, or riot police rolled during the 2000 Gore/Bush debacle. American politics can be vitriolic, can be filled with invective, but I think the accepted norms of not physically attacking your political opponents are in danger of collapsing. The tome and rhetoric have changed. Peaceful transfer of political power has been a hallmark of the American Political system. Me thinks that era might be at an end.
I think it's because the average American finally feels the disenfranchisement that has been there for a long time. The political parties and their corporate masters can't hind behind the flimsy veil much longer.
I can't predict where the battle lines will be drawn. When or if this little experiment of the USA comes apart, it is not going to be like the nice, neat USA/CSA schism (650,000 dead) of 156 years ago. This will Balkanize, with entire regions going up due to several competing factions in each area and state. Cities will be criss-crossed with opposing organizations and groups, each one clamoring for control or a piece of the overall pie. To say nothing of Russian or Chinese involvement in political developments and factionalization here. We do it to them, why the hell do we think they wouldn't return the favor??
Overseas, the Russians are running what appears to be a reasoned, well thought out foreign policy. Taken at face value (which is all we have thanks to very woeful American intelligence gathering), President Putin is marking a staged withdrawal of some of his combat forces in Syria. His goals for the mission have been met, now he will pull out just enough of his forces to allow the Syrians government to stand on it's own two feet and begin opressing the hell out of opposition groups and hopefully battling ISIS, or at least coming to a standstill and not let them expand anymore.
Contrast this with American foreign policy, which is, to put it mildly, confusing and inept. Libya is a wreck, as is our support of factions in Syria. Iraq is a mess, Afghanistan a failure. The past 30 years of American Foreign policy has been ill advised, at best. That outlook does not look to change dramatically anytime soon.
America always gets the government it deserves. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump.
One of those people will be president barring martial law or a coup d'etat.
When I look into the crystal ball, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. What I am seeing is not good. More surveillance, less freedoms, more authoritarian rule. The oligarchy is tightening the grip. The economy, or what's left of it after 8 years of "RECOVERY" is a shell of it's former self.
I am concerned, friends. There's a storm coming.
Crazed American, out.
Holy S#!+, people... there is a metric f--kton of bad mojo running around out there.
Civil discourse is ALMOST gone. Calls for violence against political opponents are PLENTIFUL.
Keep in mind a lot of this is passed back and forth by normally nice middle aged (30-50 year old) folks.
This does not bode well for the overall political health of the nation. It also provides me a touch of nausea seeing it. American politics is not supposed to be violent. No tanks, or riot police rolled during the 2000 Gore/Bush debacle. American politics can be vitriolic, can be filled with invective, but I think the accepted norms of not physically attacking your political opponents are in danger of collapsing. The tome and rhetoric have changed. Peaceful transfer of political power has been a hallmark of the American Political system. Me thinks that era might be at an end.
I think it's because the average American finally feels the disenfranchisement that has been there for a long time. The political parties and their corporate masters can't hind behind the flimsy veil much longer.
I can't predict where the battle lines will be drawn. When or if this little experiment of the USA comes apart, it is not going to be like the nice, neat USA/CSA schism (650,000 dead) of 156 years ago. This will Balkanize, with entire regions going up due to several competing factions in each area and state. Cities will be criss-crossed with opposing organizations and groups, each one clamoring for control or a piece of the overall pie. To say nothing of Russian or Chinese involvement in political developments and factionalization here. We do it to them, why the hell do we think they wouldn't return the favor??
Overseas, the Russians are running what appears to be a reasoned, well thought out foreign policy. Taken at face value (which is all we have thanks to very woeful American intelligence gathering), President Putin is marking a staged withdrawal of some of his combat forces in Syria. His goals for the mission have been met, now he will pull out just enough of his forces to allow the Syrians government to stand on it's own two feet and begin opressing the hell out of opposition groups and hopefully battling ISIS, or at least coming to a standstill and not let them expand anymore.
Contrast this with American foreign policy, which is, to put it mildly, confusing and inept. Libya is a wreck, as is our support of factions in Syria. Iraq is a mess, Afghanistan a failure. The past 30 years of American Foreign policy has been ill advised, at best. That outlook does not look to change dramatically anytime soon.
America always gets the government it deserves. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump.
One of those people will be president barring martial law or a coup d'etat.
When I look into the crystal ball, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. What I am seeing is not good. More surveillance, less freedoms, more authoritarian rule. The oligarchy is tightening the grip. The economy, or what's left of it after 8 years of "RECOVERY" is a shell of it's former self.
I am concerned, friends. There's a storm coming.
Crazed American, out.
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