4 days…

I’m getting anxious. On the 6th I’ll be going to my recruiter’s office at 0900 to give my final reporting statement as “Trainee Tisone”, have my last breakfast with my mom, then go up to Phoenix to do my final swear in. Then I rest that night and the next morning I’ll get bussed to the airport, get flown to San Antonio, then bussed to Lackland AFB where I will begin my basic training.
The excitement is just…overwhelming. Nerves? None yet. I hear once you’re on the final bus ride is when they kick in, we’ll see.

This is the start of my life. I’ve had many people who support me in my decision and a few who have been against it for whatever reason. It’s not about going to war to fight for some politicians interests. Unlike the blind I know there’s more to war than just that. Counter-terrorism isn’t about oil and it’s more widespread than just the Middle East.
It’s about serving my country, giving back, doing what I want to do, doing what I need to do. This is my calling. I had forgotten about it since the time I first said I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was six years old. Six years old. Too often little kids say their dream job is this or that, then they lose sight of it or never really meant it. That was almost me. Almost. Now I’m pursuing the dream and I will live it.

To those of you who read this and live in Tucson, Arizona, I’m sorry to say I don’t ever want to end up here again. Visiting is fine for a week or two max, but living here is something I don’t want to do after this. I want to end up somewhere new, see the world, experience all it has to offer. I want to give my kids more than the same house their entire life like I had (in my case, city). My mom is stuck on the idea that I’m going to try my hardest to get stationed here. To avoid hurt feelings, I simply smile and nod when she asks. The reality is, though, I’m going to try my hardest to not get stationed here. It has nothing to do with my mom, my friends, or anyone else. This place is just boring, it’s hot as fuck, it’s pretty gorgeous in some areas, but otherwise it’s not a place I’d like to continue my life. I’m hoping for up north somewhere or on the east coast, somewhere it’s actually cold during the winter. I don’t mean a low of 10 degrees one day out of the year and never again. I mean a low of 10 or colder, below zero wouldn’t be unwelcomed, multiple days in a row. A place where I can feel happy, comfortable, and as hippy as it sounds, a part of the landscape.
So no hard feelings, I just don’t want to be here anymore.

It’s time to spread my wings and fly. No Air Force pun intended. And I’m quite excited about it.
I guess this will be the last post on here until I can get my laptop back. So long, stay safe everyone.

About a week left

A week and two days really. Until my life really starts. And by my life, I mean mine. Me on my own, being in the world alone, making my own decisions (apart from what the military tells me to do). I’m excited, really. But at the same time, it’s a little, let me stress that, a little bittersweet. I’m leaving behind friends and family, but they understand.

Tonight I had a…nice experience. I was able to communicate with my sister. For those of you who know…that’s a little bit hard to do. It was a little emotional. But I always knew she was here and now my mom does too. Love you, Kaitlyn…

Today I’m going flying for the last time before I leave. I really can’t wait, flying is just great. The sky is where I’m meant to be and one day I’ll be flying through it at supersonic speeds and higher. One day.
I can’t really do certain controversial posts anymore…the government wouldn’t like that. I have to be careful what I say now. More posts coming next week, I’ll finally have time.

Brinksmanship, ahoy!

So last night it was brought to my attention that North Korea is up to more no good. I looked into it and so far it seems pretty true. So I’ve decided to make a post about it to give a little information about it then give my opinion on the matter. I’m putting this as controversial because I know many people will have many different opinions and hopefully the comment board will reflect that, but that isn’t likely.

Earlier this week, North Korea essentially declared their 60 year armistice with South Korea ‘invalid’ and have entered a “state-of-war” with them. South Korea and the US have apparently played this threat down as tough talk because of the North’s history of bellicose rhetoric, which basically and loosely means ‘aggressive bullshit’, empty threats if you will. The KCNA, Korean Central News Agency, reported a North official gave the statement, “From this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the state of war and all issues raised between the North and the South will be handled accordingly.” Pyongyang also threatened to shut down a border industrial zone, the last remaining example of inter-Korean and cooperation and a zone that gives the North $2 billion a year in trade.
Also, I’ve now read that tensions have been rising since North Korea decided to do order a third nuclear weapons test in February, but I was only aware of the one they ordered in December. China, their sole ally, has not been supportive of their actions and Russia has pushed every side to show restraint.

In addition to all this, the US deployed B-2 bombers, which are nuclear capable, to South Korea as part of a “drill” which was intended to show that we will support them and Japan if war breaks out. North Korea has been threatening Japan, South Korea, Guam, Hawaii, and the US Mainland with missile strikes for some time now. The US hopes that by deploying the B-2 bombers, which left Illinois and returned to Illinois in about 34 hours, it will give opportunity to go about this issue with North Korea diplomatically. I don’t think that’s the case. I think Kim Jung-un will take that the exact opposite way than the US intended. But if there’s any silver lining to that cloud, it’s the fact that if North Korea does start the nuclear war, we can be on the doorstep to retaliate and obliterate in just under 16 hours if our bombers leave from Illinois. Hopefully that’s enough to make them think twice about firing on targets of the US (including mainland targets such as Austin, Texas, D.C., and Los Angeles, California) and her allies.

So, what does all this mean? Here’s what I think. I think it means that the world as we know it is on the edge of ending.
Say North Korea sends a nuclear missile at the US or one of her allies. We have the available technology to shoot the missile out of the sky mid-flight before it reaches its destination. Hopefully, our government will not overreact to it and send some of our missiles back at them, which will effectively wipe them out. As much as I’d like for that to happen just to get rid of this pest, it’s not going to do much good. China is still North Korea’s ally. They will retaliate back against the US then we retaliate back and all holy hell breaks loose on Earth, and in no time at all practically every nation will be destroyed.
Now, say we don’t shoot North Korea’s missiles out of the sky and we end up getting hit here on the mainland (which I don’t see as much of a possibility since they barely have the technology to hit Guam or Hawaii) and our government does retaliate. Our B-2s go over, launch their payload, wipe out North Korea and turn it into rubble, China still gets pissed off, attacks us, so on and so on and the same outcome is the result. The world is screwed over.

There’s a term for what I described above: MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction, people. You’ve likely heard about it in your history classes. Essentially, it’s a domino effect of death and destruction. All it takes is one nation to attack another nation with its nukes. That nation will then strike back with their nukes. Allies of each nation will step in to fight each nation’s allies, allies of those allies will step in, and allies of those allies will step in. In the blink of an eye World War III is taking place and it’s not going to last six years like the second world war did. We’d be lucky for it to even last six days. The world will be in ruins because of one nation’s little man syndrome who wanted to show everyone they’re important.

Normally, I’m someone who’s all for kicking the ass of anyone who openly threatens the US like North Korea has been doing. But the only option for the greater good here is to be diplomatic and try to reason with them. This time we have to put faith in the pen and not the sword. We can’t provoke them, we can’t put boots on the ground to kill them all because they’ll probably just launch their nukes anyway, we can’t do anything hasty.
But since I know it’s not likely that we can talk down North Korea, I see these recent events as a sign that soon we’ll all be dead or wishing that we were. It’s the final move before a checkmate and I don’t see a way out without destroying ourselves. It’s a lose-lose. That’s how I see it at the moment.

I Pronounce You Man and Man

So I recently decided that it’s time I quit neglecting this blog…for about the fourth or fifth time. I’ve lost count. It’s not all my fault, I’ve been really busy with work and when I’m not working I’m sleeping and when I’m not sleeping or working, I’m doing other stuff. SO…let’s get started.

With recent events I’ve decided to give my opinion about this whole marriage equality business. I’ll make it short, sweet, and to the point.
I know the title only talks about two men getting married, but if two women want to get married I think that they should be allowed. Fuck what your bible says about it, fuck what you’re thoughts are on it, fuck what anyone says about it. Let them do it. Why? Because marriage shouldn’t be restricted to a man and a woman who are in love. If a man loves a man (or a woman loves a woman) and wants to marry him (or her) and spend the rest of his life with him (or her) then he (or she) should be allowed to just the same as a man who wants to marry a woman are.
So, why’d I say fuck what your bible says? Aside from thinking that entire book is a bunch of shit, there’s this nifty little thing called SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. I don’t care if this country was founded with religion, religion cannot be used to make laws. You can’t lawfully deny someone something because they don’t share the same religious view as you do or they go against your religion. It’s called discrimination and that is illegal. So in a sense, the making of same-sex marriage illegal is hypocritical because the law that makes it illegal is, in itself, illegal.

“Gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry because being gay is a choice…”. I believe Ellen DeGeneres said not too long ago “…why don’t you try being gay and see how it goes.” You don’t just choose to be gay, it doesn’t work that way.

So that’s my opinion on the matter. I’d have typed more but my thoughts are a little busy with other matters at the moment and I can’t zero in on this one topic.
Leave your thoughts below in the comments.

Well…

Today I decided to rant about the shootings in Connecticut, and no, it isn’t what you think. This was started on a website I frequent when I’m bored and feel like pissing people off. Which is a lot.

It basically started with people commenting about how pissed off they were and how wrong and bad they think it is. This was my rant that made someone call me ignorant. Lol. Okay.

“But seriously I don’t care. People die every fucking day. Why don’t we get pissed about that?
I don’t see anyone get upset at how many elderly die from being sick.
I don’t see anyone get upset over unborn children dying from their mom’s miscarrying.
I don’t see anyone get upset when everyday people turn up missing or turn up murdered after being raped.
I don’t see anyone get upset over all the men and women overseas who lose their lives for shit they shouldn’t even be there for.
What about the kids and adults who die from violence every day across the country? Across the continent? Across the world? None of you care about those people.
But as soon as something like this is put on the news, THEN you care. THEN you pretend to give a shit and pretend to be high and mighty because you worry about your image. “Oh no, better say something supportive about this so I don’t look bad…”.

Everyone is so inconsistent that it’s sad. If you’re going to give a shit and get upset about one thing, give a shit and get upset about the rest. You don’t give any thought to anything bad in the world unless it’s brought to your attention, then you jump on the bandwagon for feeling bad.

Welcome to the world, people. It’s fucked up. It’s cold. It’s unforgiving. Get used to it and stop caring only when it’s in your best interest to do so.

And no, none of these yous are directed at any one person, I’m just ranting. And now I’m done.”

And this is really how I feel. It’s the truth. And if you’re one of those people who can’t see it, then I feel bad for you.

2012 is obviously a hoax, but try this on for size…

A little forewarning: The thoughts below are kind of jumbled up so deal with it. I’ll fix it up later when I think about more and organize my thoughts better.

So I feel the need to address something because while my friend was over we managed to get on the topic of ancient civilizations. After a few minutes I started thinking about the Mayans and their ridiculous calendar that is set to end this year on December 21.
So. The Mayan civilization can be dated back to c. 2000 BC and lasted up until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the early 16th century which is roughly about 3500 years. They devised a way to keep time with their calendars and the Maya calendar is based around key principles that were used in the region and can be dated back to 5th century BCE. So this means that the calendar everyone is freaking out about began around 500 BC and was used until they mysteriously disappeared in the 16th century and therefore it’s only 2000 years old.
So this calendar expires on the year 2012 AD, December 21st. However, it is to my understanding that BC and AD is something that was only developed after the birth and death of Christ.
How did the Mayans know to count down to 0 to when this person they would have no way of knowing about was born, then begin counting up again after his death from 0 to 1 to 2 and so forth?
Secondly, what about the 33 period of when he was actually alive?
Thirdly, say they didn’t know about Christ. They still wouldn’t have known that they would have to start counting up. So what’s that about?
If modern people interpreted the calendar and figured it’s end was marked on 2012, that still doesn’t make any sense. With the account of Jesus being 31 when he died and we’ll just say that the calendar didn’t include that, then we should have seen the end of the world 31 years ago, yes?

I think, if anything, this just proves the 2012 doomsday prophecy to be a hoax because there are just too many things in the way time was counted between then and now for it to work. I’m just really confused on this whole thing and how anyone could possibly think it’s a possibility.

LOLOMFG xD

Okay so as you all know by now, I’m what’s known as a troll. If you don’t know what trolling means, Google it. But today, I have something for you guys. It’s not that special, but after I did it I busted up laughing harder than I have in a while…
Another victim of meetme.com