Quantico is firing artillery today, normal.
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I woke up to the house shaking and shuddering from the impact from the shells on the range, I am fifteen miles away. I see Harrier Jump Jets refueling over my head on a daily basis. 1,000,000 pounds of JP5 up there waiting to come down on my head. That old familiar Crump!Crump! Crump! of mortar fire is never more than a day away. When the 500 pound bombs are dropped the cabin does a real dance, though they are miles away. Most people have not been in this sort of thing, and for me it has not stopped since 1969,when I used to send it downrange on Haiphong and Hanoi. It is an ever present thing, they have to train the LT.'s to run their fucked up fire missions. Kill their own troops and in general screw up. Then there is the FBI academy, Marine sniper school, and the Marine 1 helicopter squadron that carries the LIAR IN CHIEF about. At some time of the day all the above is ever present, over my head, in my ears, to remind me that this nation is under the domination of the military industrial establishment, and that the permanent war that the book 1984 warned us of is in place. by tcrog1020 in Six-Word Memoirs on Feb 14, 2013 | 
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tcrog1020 says,
LIAR IN CHIEF http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/jack-kelly/president-obama-liar-in-chief-645691/TheUnknownComic says,
Don't worry at the rate the public is going America's enemies will win soon enough. Iran, North Korea should both soon be able to cause much bigger booms than a simple mortar. As hackers disable the Emergency Broadcast System; 1000's of cyberattacks are launched on our computers each day from China and we do nothing in the way of a comprehensive response. As miltant Islamic governments are being put in place in northern Africa, we do nothing. Of course, I'm sure that all of these things are meaningless to you because it doesn't directly affect you. Don't worry, one day it will, just sad I have to be here to see it.Social Security and Medicare account for almost half of the federal budget (state government must also contribute to these programs); national defense was 19% of the budget. We don't live in a "nation is under the domination of the military industrial establishment" that would provide jobs; we live in a welfare state that is sinking down that non-productive drain!
tcrog1020 says,
good points all, you left out the fact that China owns us lock stock and barrel. If we stood us all naked in the street, all we own would not pay the interest on the debt.