Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: military

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  • 20111111-Weathery Ways

    Wow. It’s cloudy, a little breezy an there may be little rain. We are watching Veteran Day Observance in Arlinton National Cemetary on C-SPAN. President Obama is now speeching.

    We awoke at 6:30am. Maw made breakfast. Paw took care of hauling the recycle and garbage bins into the back yard while I took care to repark three of our vehicles next to the neighbors across from us. The vantage point front the one and only front window is great. I just saw a half balding Asian guy walk across MY long stretch of road and in between Paw’s cars. Mine is in front of the two.

    We are still waiting for the workers to come by between 8:30am to 9:30am.

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  • Tribute to…

    As per my three notes via the “Memo” app of my cellphone on 11/06/2011 at 17:58pm, 18:00pm and 18:01pm, Maw and I were watching “Huckabee” on FoxNews earlier tonight. And Tony Orlando was the guest!

    Maw forgot how he looked like but I remember because I actually watched the televised shows of “Tony Orlando and Dawn” during my growing years.

    Anyway, he and Huckabee will be in Branson, Missouri to pay tribute to Veterans on Friday. He sang a 9/12 song with VERY meaningful lyrics and pleasant tempo. I could hear Huckabee playing along in his bass guitar. Here is the refrain towards the end of the performance with talented staff members from FoxNews accompanying him:

    “God‘s country, home of the brave and free…”

    —

    Here’s Maw’s personal note to someone who knows about being free and giving back freedom in one day:

    “Congratulations, Tony! I love you. You are the hero to these Veterans!”

    Further, she mentioned if that fat slob Michael Moore would do the country a favor and spend his money to pay at least one tribute to these Veterans who fought long and hard for this country and whatever is left of freedom in a globist world.

  • 20111018-Random Thoughts

    Here are my notes entered on the “Memo” app of my cellphone:

    10/18/2011 12:38pm: We left home at 10:00am. At the same time I saw the sidedoor to the garage door of the divorced nutter living next door to us open up. Paw and I walked around the mall three times — twice encountering Ben and Minh and once meeting Maw, who did two, one-half circuits.

    From 11:00am to 12:30pm, Maw talked to Minh and Ben talked to Paw and me. We learned of his military background from Q-5 clearance up in Huntsford, Oregon from DOD to DOE. He talked of how the corporations are controlling the government, of working in Lousisana and the tundra climate of Greenland and its barren, lonely environment of one female nurse and thousands of GI, or working a total of 250 years of military service (in the Air Force) by his father, four other brothers and his son; proudly showed us his Urkel-like photo (of thick glasses, white turtle neck and baby blue sweater) from Defense Logistic Agency; and shared his knowledge of military generals (with “prima-donna” egos) from a THICK book he bought from a book store. Of course, Omar was mentioned, along with Marshall, Patton, Eisenhower, McArthur, Churchill, George VI and pals.

    10/18/2011 09:20am: After eating this morning’s breakfast, I was thinking about the clones of Obama. Each clone has lots of ego. If indeed clones have no souls and despite the fact that each clone has a perfect replica of the original Obama ego, then the “creators” of the clones can destroy these replicas because they are dangerous. After all, “There can only be one.” That’s from the 1986 film “Highlander“.

    10/18/2011 08:48am: En route home bound from this morning’s mass, Maw had talked about her jokes at work. Her co-worker, Joan Lewis, and she would joke about another co-worker. Joan’s speech is rapid, too. And when both of them tried to pronounce the name of another co-worker, Doug Hunter, it would sound like they were talking about a “dog hunter”. That was over ten years ago.

    10/18/2011 07:40am: You know it’s bad when you have a watery poop: you start to sweat. You know it’s bad when you have post nasal drip: you start to gag and get teary-eyed.

    10/17/2011 08:14am: I recall how space probes were sent up into space and how “golden records” contain information that might have confused alleged intelligent life found on other planetary system. One sample might have included a fictional film, which the alleged intelligent life might have confused as being a reality based on this earth. And when these intelligent life forms found earth, they made a mess of our reality by producing “class acts”, thinking that is how the human species communicate. That is false. Because we humans remember telling the truth and not dramatize half-truth through social media outlets.

  • 20110927-Random Thoughts

    Here are most of today’s thoughts as entered through the “Memo” apps of my cellphone:

    On 09/26/2011 and at 18:49pm, the divorced nutter could be heard slamming her wooden door to our shared fence. I was sweeping up the backyard, cutting dried green onions and pulling dried geranium flowers. Also during Saturday 09/24/2011 and prior to a late lunch, Maw said she kept hearing the divorced nutter slamming her side door about a dozen times or so. It is reported that the divorced nutter was looking for her illegal ALIEN in un/known places around town. Again, to the SJPD, this divorced nutter has been timing her “activities” around our gardening out front. Is there nothing to kick these people out? Oh, I see. It’s like “registered offenders” are able to live in any neighborhood, huh.

    At 07:22am: the dashboard to my Ford Mustang read as: 71,899 (odometer) and 611.1 (speedometer). I was near Aborn Rd. when I noticed while stopped in traffic. There were double digit numbers of 477 and 133 from CA license plates. Of course, there were many other instances in the past that are not recorded via my blog.

    At 08:32am: Paw told me to follow “SOP” or “Standard Operating Procedures”. This was during breakfast at Carrow’s restaurant off Tully Rd. We had to make a U-turn because the ramp towards NB 101 was clogged with traffic. Then we took King Rd. home bound. The portion, price, bacon and eggs were REALLY good and service is much faster than at Denny’s restaurants.

    At 08:45am: I had a thought about Michael C. He was a classmate of ours during 5th grade. The girls adored him and we’d were aggressively playing with him one day during recess. We’d yanked his clothes and tug him ever which way. One day he followed me but stopped short at the door of the girl’s restroom.

    At 08:54am: We were ranting about the boy again and we “cow-towed” to the Chinese girl. As per the “trump card” on Greta Live via FoxNews last night, this United States have also “cow-towed” to the Chinese and are being ripped off. No wonder the two ingrates refuse to see us: we will grill them both for putting the family through trouble.

    At 09:35: Paw told me to remove the wooden beam from my eye before removing the thorns from the eyes of others. This was in reference to the Bible and how I was duped into thinking that I was helping the poor and the need. Maw emphasized that it was none of my business to feel sorry for these losers and that they, like the boy mentioned many times in the past, will overcome their obstacles and find their ways and means to survive during any economic and financial hardships. Essentially, the GOVERNMENT in in the correct position to provide assistance to these free-loaders.

    From around 09:35am to 10:10am: paw and I walked three times around the Great Mall. At 09:42am, I learned how Paw carried his blue-colored, carry on and green-colored nap. Both are made of canvas. He used those on USS Belknap. They are allowed only razor blades, like Gillette, not electrical ones. At 09:49am, I learned how Paw would get sea sickness aboard USS Belknap, USS Pocono but no sea sickness aboard USS Randolph and USS JFK because these two are not tin cans and are too heavy for anyone to feel the motion of the waves. Usually three days of heavy seas was the norm with most times are calm. At 09:50am, Paw would get sea sickness aboard the Admiral’s barge, which was once traveled through the Panama Canal Zone.

    At 10:34:21am: the dashboard to my car read as: 71,922 (odometer) and 833.5 (speedometer).

     

     

  • Father’s love…

    As per my “Memo” note on 7:58am, Paw shared his story en route to this morning’s mass.

    A son called his father long distance and broke the news. After many years of serving the military, the son asked: “Dad, I’m gay. Do you still love me?”

    The father replied: “I love you, son.”

    —

    With the recent repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law on September 20, the gays can now serve openly and proudly in the military without question (as to sexual orientation/preferences).

    —

    Compared to this story, the UNGRATEFUL boy continues to hide from his OLD family by refusing further communication. It is up to the boy to forgive his elderly father and to stop holding a grudge against this old man who didn’t have guidance on how to raise a family when he had a difficult childhood without his mother and father.

    I know we kids (as inherited from our paternal blood-line) don’t like to be wrong. But we are wrong to DISCOUNT our own family and relatives. I hold that Chinese, Lindsey, especially accountable and responsible for further destroying the relationship between the boy and his OLD, Filipino culture.

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  • Raid at Los Baños

    The three of us watched Rescue at Dawn: The Los Banos Raid (2004) on the Military Channel.

    Raid at Los Baños

    The raid at Los Baños in the Philippines, early Friday morning on February 23, 1945, was executed by a combined U.S. Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. It has been celebrated as one of the most successful rescue operations in modern military history. It was the second precisely-executed raid by combined U.S.-Filipino forces within a month, following on the heels of the Raid at Cabanatuan at Luzon on 30 January, in which 512 Allied military POWs had been rescued.

    —

    So Maw told me of how she road in an Amtrak, which floated across the bay and onto shore. As a child, she wasn’t scared but just looked on as people got off the amphibious vessel. Only one of her brothers didn’t make the war. The rest of her family escaped to the mountains.

    The old black and white footage showed around one thousand  starving civilians (of skin and bones and on the verge of death) being fed by others from aluminum garbage cans filled with soup. Most made the rescue mission by the 11th airborne division, which parachuted down to the prison camp in Los Baños.

    Again, as expressed in my old blog entries, if it were not for the Americans, Philippines would have been slaughtered by the Japanese, who actually massacred over one thousand Filipinos in their towns and those seeking safety in a mission.

    Most Filipinos are Catholics and believed God has sent the Americans to free them from the Japanese. Without former guerrillas to aide in hacking off the heads of these Japanese, the Americans would have had no support.

    Without the aide of Filipinos to sneak food to these starving people, the Americans would have died. I could see how helpful Filipinos are back in those simpler days. However, the times have changed and today’s Filipinos are still good-natured but money and its evil have taken hold of these now greedy people.

    To this day, some Filipino people (like my cousin) don’t see Japanese gardens as friendship but as reminders of a past of suffering and death. How ironic history has brought us this far.

  • Backward Flag

    Why is the U.S. flag worn “backwards” on the uniform?

    The rule dates back to the Army’s early history, when both mounted cavalry and infantry units would designate a standard bearer, who carried the Colors into battle. As he charged, his forward momentum caused the flag to stream back.

    —

    This is the thought I had: Since the pole-mounted flag flows forward in the wind, it doesn’t matter if the soldier wears the patch on his left shoulder (forward) or his right shoulder (backwards). But since the military wears the American flag patch backwards, that could mean something else.

    If, for example, an army personnel wears the backward American flag patch in front of a civilian wearing an American flag patch in the proper direction, say on his left shoulder,  then I just see a reflection of one side defending the other side.

    In other words, what the military does with bullets the civilian can do without. While the military goes out in the front line of fire with swords and bullets, the civilian must go behind the scenes and defend the nation through pens and papers.

  • Magazine Makes Worse

    `Rolling Stones` magazine has been notorious for making things worse than appearance.

    Take for example, Arnel Pineda, the lead vocals for the rock group Journey. In one interview, he said he was tired (of being far away for long periods of time from his FAMILY back home in the Philippines). But the magazine went on to say that he was tired of the band. Then someone asked him if he was quitting the band.

    So from being tired and [sick and] tired of the band to quitting the band, the magazine has painted a different picture.

    That is what we believe has happened in the case of General McChrystal and the magazine. Something was said and something was published out of context, misconstruing the original interview. For all we know, the general RESIGNED instead of being FIRED by the Obama administration!

    So for anyone who believes in EACH and EVERY word spewing from Obama, the propaganda machine of newsworthy media and pals, it would be safer to get the WHOLE picture by doing lots of research and soul searching. Form your own opinions based on common sense facts and stop agreeing with each other just to feel like one of the gang.

  • Temp Jobs

    Temporary jobs blow. I’m blowing steam not getting a job. One temp job is a data entry position and the head hunter wants a background check. I’m thinking: Screw you! Didn’t I sign up long ago with the head hunter and signed paperwork for a background check and now they want a duplication?

    But my family downstairs said it’s okay. The boy said it’s better to make sure the company is not hiring thugs, drug users, felons, etc. I’m thinking: Screw you! I think it’s more of a privacy issue. They are invading my privacy. Just give me a stupid job behind the computer and pay me accordingly. Background checks are for those who think my last name is Hispanic. This is racial profiling, really.

    As far as General McChrystal is concerned, he did the right thing. Although most people would think that he was being insubordinate, he wanted out due to the frustration of not being able to do the job (as hunter/killer) he was sent out to do because his boss, the president, was not `engaging enough`.

    `She’s insubordinate`.

    ~Corinne A.

    Nope. Like all big companies, she gave me something that was weird and out of my `on-the-job-training`. I knew then that I couldn’t do my own thing without a micro-manager breathing down my neck at every small detail. I heard she wanted to get a lay-off package, which explained her behavior towards `her people` of temp helpers after I left that computerized job.

  • Two Wings

    And last night, I was thinking about the children’s song on `Two Clean Hands`. And then I remembered the following two thoughts:

    What is the sound of one hand clapping?

    The sound of one hand clapping is the same as the sound of two hands clapping.

    —

    What is the sound of one wing flapping?

    The sound of one wing flapping is the sound of wisdom without compassion. Without both wings, how can you possibly fly?

    —

    I am thinking that two wings (or hands, flippers, fins, etc) are better than one appendage. For without both tools, there can be no action. And without action, the vision for any said action cannot manifest.

    And therefore, like a singularity to operate on its own is almost next to impossible without duality. I’m talking about a partner, a soul mate, a twin flame, to help procreate and regenerate a singularity unto itself through countless generations and in various forms, shapes and ways.

    Honestly, homosexual (lesbians, gay, trans-sexual, transvestites, trans-gender and pals) don’t fit the bill. They rely heavily on sex to justify their lust, which is by far not even close to love between a man and a woman.

    You see the parts between same sex don’t fit. One is gender male while the other one is female. And the opposite are supposed to `hook up` together. The purpose of the Creator is to avoid relying to heavily on science and technology to create itself.

    Let’s put it this way: Hybridization cannot be done without a sterile lab. The planet earth is mostly dirt and other contagious contaminants. And without a lab and such, there can be no freeze-dried embryos or fertility clinics.

    Creator wants to have sex the normal way. It’s supposed to create a bond between the mates and families. Can you imagine being a cell and not knowing who your original donors were, looked like or behaved in a certain way? Without the connection to the past, there can be no `solid foundation` on how to teach certain values to descendants.

    Unfortunately, the Creative spirits get crossed over into the wrong gender, which causes the goofs in `lusting` for the same sex. So, yeah, the military should `stick their guns`, focus on their targets up ahead and not worry about being probed from behind.

    It’s just plain nasty and ethically wrong for a bunch of `straight guys` to shower with queers and equally if not morally wrong for family men to be influenced with the same sex thereof by those who tempt while serving on duty.

    As for the rapes and murders caused military personnel among themselves and to civilians, they’ll burn in hell for all I care.

  • 20100524-Guarding Coasts

    During Sunday morning’s, we sometimes tune into the `State of the Union with Candy Crowley` on CNN. We heard her interviewing Admiral Thad Allen of the United States Coast Guard yesterday. We had always admired Candy and how well she asked questions of her guests.

    Today during the White House briefing, Admiral Thad Allen had spoken again. Our impression was that America knew how to stop that oil leakage. But for whatever reason, BP and pals (namely Halliburton) don’t seem overly aggressive in taking action. And for the next 90 days, the spew will continue from the ocean floor. The briefing took over an hour, ending at 1:22pm (PDT).

    Now, the USCG is supposed to GUARD the COAST. All the government needs to do is make its business cohorts pay now and then the government will take care of the rest. Or if the private third parties got other ideas, it sure is taking a long time! What’s the delay? What’s the snag?

  • 20100517-Sabatoging Stuff

    When I read stupid articles about people having nefarious problems with their regular mail or their electronic mail, it’s just another excuse to play the victim against a bigger brother, namely the ever-watchful government and pals.

    Now, I’m just picking up bad vibrations from liars. There! I said it! These people are liars! I get sick of these types of conspiracy, especially by those who claim that their packages were lost, stolen or forgotten or even destroyed and mutilated or even the deletion or alleged diversion of certain electronic mails! What are these people up to fooling their readers?

    Listen, folks: Long ago, I sent an email to a site for educating oneself. I never got a reply back from that editor. And I didn’t care for following-up because I felt the contact didn’t want to pursue communication. For all I know he could be Japanese but he isn’t what his last name appears to be at first glance. It was a request for a signed book by the author on Tavistock, which I have no friggin’ idea what it is about but mainly for curiosity and entertainment purposes only.

    Anyway, my email accounts are the popular ones. While some claim those websites are owned and operated by the CIA and other alphabet soup agencies, I really don’t care or believe. My regular mails get delivered, too, by the way and the USPS has not yet failed me because I still believe in the government. After all, I still pay my taxes and that should be enough said.

    `As long as you are not doing anything wrong, don’t worry about privacy issues`.

    ~Expressed by an old soul many times in the past as re-assurance.

    Nah! I don’t believe in social networking site, like Facebook.com and Twitter.com. It just sets the person and those surrounding the persons up for embarrassment. Trust me: I hate my photos. I feel I’m not beautiful enough to share my photos online and for public scrutinity. What are these people trying to prove and what can they NOT share in person? I say these social sites are IMPERSONAL and does not foster relationships like it used to in the past — among REAL family and friends.