Some good news...and some not so good news....

  Hello readers,

  Another working weekend...but only have a couple more of these...yay!  A shorter post today..it is Saturday after all.

  First the good news:  The Marines in the video I described yesterday have been identified and two have already been interviewed by Military Intelligence ( I know.... I will try to limit my use of oxymoron's from now on...ha ha ).  There will be action taken against them and a positive note in a statement from the Taliban...is that the release of the video will not derail planned talks for an inclusive Government in Afghanistan.

 The not so good news is that the apparent front runner for the G.O.P. is none other than the guy I didn't name from the now viral video.... Mitt Romney.  Huge round of applause ( insert here ).  When I posted my opinion on who will win the presidency this year, I barely touched on the Republican Factor... but if this video of Mitt Romney dissing a dying man gets a few million more views, I can guarantee that even Republicans won't vote for him. 

  Of course, I also didn't add the human factor...will allows for voter apathy, disenfranchisement and the ever standing..until it's abolished, College of Electorates. who can swing the vote which ever direction the money flows.

  Have a great weekend.

Trevor

Highs and Lowes.....ooooops, meant Lows.

  Well....will keep this simple.  Two of the greatest things that have happened, thus far in my life are getting married to my wonderful wife Ginger ( in Sept of 2010 ) and us getting our beautiful house and puppies in Shelton ( in Feb 2010 ).  Some of the worst things that have happened...ugh.  Here we go.
  1.  Voluntarily leaving The Home Depot in Jan 2011.  I wasn't trying to get promoted before my most recent deployment....I wanted a daytime position so that I could spend more quality time with my new wife before I deployed for a year.  Management did me no favor by not telling me why I didn't get the position to which I applied. That , in itself, is against the law. I gave the management of my store approximately a month ( Dec 15th 2010 - Jan 1st 2011 ) to attend to my requests. Needless to say, they made no attempt to rectify the situation and they lost a knowledgeable long term employee.
  2.   Finding out in the short span of 6 months, that the Fed. Gov't withheld my pay ( once in April 2011 ) and nearly again in August.  The first was when Congress debated the Governments fiscal calendar for 2011, and narrowly passed the measure at the 11th hour. This impacted the pay for more than 1.5 million active and reserve soldiers. Believe me, and I am only one of them, that the prospect of not getting paid, having a house and wife was scary.

  There have been many more good things and few more not so good, but believe me...the good are the best!!!