McRaven Bullshit

No one will read it but I'll say it. Admiral McRaven's assertion that there was nothing unusual or wrong with the DevGru mission planning that killed 17 SEALS and support personnel is bullshit. The military would never load all the JCS or 30 admirals on a single helicopter. Never happen. Why? It's risky and you might just lose too many valuable people. So why put 17 DevGru and support on one Chinook?

And you don't deploy your best warriors on the spur of the moment to chase Taliban grunts in the dark. What's the fucking point? Everything about SEAL use under McRaven and fucking Obama smells bad. Shooting captured prisoners in the head, overloading SEALS for dubious missions and all the goddamned publicity are all contrary to tradition. McRaven sounds like an Obama spokesliberal.

Or maybe america has just turned into a banana republic.

Al Gore STFU

I'll keep it short and to the point. Al Gore STFU! You're a boring, lying hypocrite who can't even maintain a marriage. If you can't keep your shit gargling mouth shut, then commit suicide now.

Sylvania CF23EL Lighting in My Shop

I was getting a little concerned about the looming unavailability of 100W and greater incandescent bulbs as they will go out of manufacture in January 2012. I had tried some CFL bulbs and was very disappointed in their brightness. That was until I tried the Sylvania CF23EL micro mini.

This CF23EL bulb delivers 1630 lumens for 10k hours using 23W of power. It delivers uniform light compared to the Sylvania 150A21/CL/RP 2740 lumen, 750 hour 150W bulb that I've used in my shop for decades. The CF23EL bulb is a Bright White 3500K bulb suitable for visibility tasks such as reading and shop work.

The bulb cost is $4 compared to $2.50 for the 150W bulb. So you pay 38% more. But it lasts 13 times longer. So the real bulb cost is 1/8 the cost of incandescent bulbs. And that doesn't include the power usage savings of 85% that you'll save. Sylvania claims that you'll save $77 in electricity using the CF23EL over the bulb lifetime!

You'll notice the 40% loss of light but it will seem less. More like using a 100W incandescent, which makes sense as the CF23EL is sold as a 100W replacement bulb. The heat generated by the CF23EL is much less than a 150W which makes for a more comfortable work space.

The downside of the CF23EL is the warm up time to reach full brightness. It takes a couple of minutes for the bulb to reach full brightness.

I'm pleased with the CF23EL and am no longer putting incandescent 150W bulbs in a survival stash.

Aliens vs. Irene?

What is that formation around the Bermuda islands? Did aliens create a force field to protect a portion of the Bermuda Triangle from Irene?

Poorer Retirement

The SF Fed says that the retirement of the Boomer generation will put a drag on P/E values until 2027. Real stock prices won't return to their 2010 values until 2027! Earnings will decline in a shrinking economy for the next 16 years as Boomers sell stocks to fund retirement. Gulp!

Since most americans have less than $250k in savings, the economy is going to stagnate for the next decade and a half. Retired Boomers won't be able to spend like they did while working so sales will decline, profits will decline hence equity and earnings will decline.

We had planned to earn 6% annually to subsidize pensions and social security in retirement rather than liquidate stock. This report suggests lower earnings and a poorer retirement for most americans.

Doom Speaks

Dr. Doom says QE3 is coming by year end due to the 50/50 coming recession deepening Depression. We'll know more tomorrow when the Fed talks in Jackson Hole. Roubini recommends cash, not stocks or bonds, where losses could be 20-30% during the next year.

Our savings are back to where we were in November 2010. We'll need DOW 12k or 2.4% earnings to break even in 2011. In any event, 2011 is a wash for our retirement savings that we'll need in five years. QE3 means whatever we have will be worth less due to inflation.

The December 21, 2012 Mayan Apocalypse is looking better every day.

The Deity Frowns on america

Marines can't fart around Afghan cavemen! But they can show affection to their LGBT partner. I wonder if THAT might offend a typical Talibaner?

Navy SEAL Jon T. Tumilson, killed in the early August clusterfuck in Afghanistan, was laid to rest last Friday. His dog Hawkeye stood vigil near the casket at the ceremony. How did the dog know that his badly burned master's corpse occupied the casket?

Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the liberal East Coast and could cause up to $11B in property damage, perhaps even pushing the US economy deeper into the Depression. I'm getting popcorn and watching progressives dog paddle around in Manhattan and DC. Who knows? If the damage is extensive, the economy might get better.

The mutt's vacation will be ruined by Irene. Maybe he can shelter with Qaddafi or his buddy Warren Buffett. 

Do you think the earthquake, the hurricane and the cracks in the Washington Monument might be a sign of displeasure in america by the Deity? But at least Marines aren't offending cavemen and queers.

Not My Grandparent's Depression

In the third year of the 2008 Depression I'm watching the US wind down. The great experiment has failed and the country is becoming just another global shithole where most people struggle just to survive. But worse, there is no central culture that can sustain people under duress. Instead, everyone is like a bewildered foreigner stranded in some corrupt multicultural megalopolis.

Technology and systematic incompetence killed the US. As computers, cell phones and advanced manufacturing equipment were pushed into service, no one considered what excess workers would do to make a living. At the same time, people became disconnected from each other by technology. How can you care about or really know a person who is just another email or text message to act upon in your life?

At the same time, people have become data, title, education and experience to be evaluated and selected by computer. Candidates for employment, or even dating, are screened and selected by computer algorithms, not humans. The computer might find the perfect credentials of 4.0GPA, Operations Manager title, Six Sigma black belt experience yet have an incompetent jerk who couldn't manage a convenience store. Most people can't communicate well in person anymore so the interview fails to find the needed qualities. A jerk is hired who drives the enterprise into destruction while superior candidates become wards of the state.

I used to be able to figure things out. I might not like what's going on, but I could understand why things are the way they are. The past decade nothing makes sense. I'm bewildered by the decisions of leadership at every level. If there are rules, they are contrary to human needs. Destructive in fact.

My city of 50,000 has many skilled and experienced people with decades of manufacturing experience. The three largest employers shed many of those people and now is seeking to replace them. Rather than rehire these folks, they seek people with better credentials from afar. So we have a high percentage of people driving across the state, or migrating from elsewhere to fill local jobs. How can this make business or personal economic sense? Why does McDonalds need Costa Rican order takers? Why are process engineers with 30 years of manufacturing experience inferior to the newly graduated engineers with no experience? Have mathematics and physics changed recently? I drive 100 miles a day to baby sit foreign PhDs who can't connect two wires or run straightforward software applications consistently. It takes more time to understand their "problem" because of poor language skills than fix the problem. Just ordering lunch now is a chore because of order takers who barely speak heavily accented English.

And no one likes their job anymore. It's something you have to do. You get through your shift feeling unappreciated then go home. There is no sense of belonging or permanence. Just a check this week. Who knows or even cares about next week. Foreigners talk about home and it isn't here. It's where they came from and long to return to. There is no we beyond your parents, kids and who you sleep with on a given night. Neighborhoods, communities? Forget about it. Nations? Shut up.

As an engineer I've built logical, performing systems for decades. But the following generation's engineers and managers are fucking educated idiots. Their systematic incompetence is systematically destroying everything built by me and my fathers while replacing it with incomprehensible, inhuman nightmares.

The fact that the US elected a totalitarian, empty suit as President pretty much says it all. This educated idiot, this Nero who destroys the currency and future of the nation while reviling those who built it tells the story why the US is finished. It's all down hill from here. Facebook and iPhone savvy MBAs that can't fix a leaky toilet or manage a convenience store elected one of their own to run the country.

What is the symbol of 2011 america? I think it's wilding, flash mob niggers beating white people or robbing convenience stores using their cell phones. Authorities are bewildered by this and uncertain what to do. Is jamming phones or setting curfews the answer? I think not. In another decade the country will have Botswana-like mobs with machetes rampaging through upscale suburbs hacking up wealthy liberals and moving into their homes for awhile. Or selling white slaves to Mexican immigrants. What to do then?

This is not my grandparent's Depression this time around.

I Give Up

DOW in under 11K and probably not done losing value as people panic while the global economy slips deeper into the Depression. My stock is down 5.5% for the year, having lost all my 2011 gains and then some. This year is gonna be a bust for retirement savings. I'm losing hope for the nest egg due to the parasites running the global economy.

My work is barely keeping it's head above the water. Workers are fleeing the company, vendors are revoking credit and customers are few. I go to work every morning and see if the doors are open. It's bad.

I'm sick of this crap. My last two employers both went balls up. I lost my job as a result. Now this employer is dying. At 60 I have a snowball's chance in hell of finding a job. I'm considering just suckling at the taxpayer's tit for a year then retiring early. Unemployment, HCTC, food stamps supplemented with savings would keep us afloat. Barely. Someone else can take care of me. I've done my share.

I tried for 43 years but just couldn't succeed. The deck is stacked against me. I give up.

Shark Eats Husband...As Wife Watches

A newlywed couple were torn apart by a shark on their honeymoon this week. Authorities said the man was brought ashore in a dingy, unconscious and mortally wounded after a bull shark attacked him while snorkeling. The wife rushed to the boat but was prevented from getting near her mutilated husband by bystanders. But in her interview she said that she held him and comforted him.

In her mind she did what she said that she did. She's certain of it. But in reality, it never happened. Her analyzer had shut down while she was in shock and emotional agony. Gemma left her body and comforted her dying spouse while men held her body back. She even stated that men carried her off the boat, her feet never touched the ground. A classic out of body experience.

Gemma will always remember her account. It's better for her that way. God have mercy on their souls.

Get Even

Looks like Obama wants some get-even with S&P for downgrading US sovereign debt. And he can cite a villain for the Depression at the same time.

Bear Eats Girl Alive...As She Talks to her Mom on the Phone

A Russian girl called her mother on her cell phone as a Siberian brown bear and her cubs ate her alive! Damn freaky nature stuff lately. Brain eating amoebas, bull sharks eating a honeymooner and now bears eating a girl alive. I suppose this kinda stuff has always gone on. Life can be brutal.

Who Knows?

Moodys lowered US economic growth estimates to 2% for the last half of 2011 and 3% for 2012 with a 1 in 3 chance of a recession. They cited lack of confidence as the cause.

That might be high considering first quarter growth was adjusted to 0.4% and second quarter was reported 1.3%. Likely adjusted downward in the next report.

Gonzo thinks the EU will go into crisis in the September /October time frame. 2008 x2.

Who knows?

Beware of Amoebas

I had known Naegleria Fowleri amoebas were deadly creatures that infrequently killed unlucky humans that swam in warm, still bodies of water. But OMG! A girl in Florida and a boy in Virginia died this week from primary amoebic meningocephalitis. But I didn't understand how horror movie awful these critters truly were. Read this or this. Sonofabitches are 3/8 to 3/4 inches long in their infectious state!

Watch where you swim!

GPX, Comcast/Xfinity Remote Programming Fail

We bought the grandson a new GPX LCD TL1920B television for his birthday this month to go along with his new loft bed/desk unit. The LCD TV is lighter than the old CRT he had so it mounts higher, safer.I spent several hours this morning trying to program the COMCAST/XFINITY digital remote to control the TV. I tried the code then did a search for about 20 minutes. Nada. Epic fail. Finally I called COMCAST for code assistance. Fuggitaboutit! If code 10179 doesn't work then you can upgrade to the bigger box (at more cost per month) or use two remotes for volume and on/off operations. I asked if COMCAST was going to find out the correct code and they said "no". They "don't support all televisions".

I'm not happy with either of these companies. Most of the televisions made are connected to cable. Why can't these companies figure out how to make them talk to deliver customer satisfaction. It can't be difficult. Instead GPX makes a half-assed but cheap product while COMCAST rents a clunky interface.

I don't know where the fault lies in this clusterfuck but programming a remote should not be a problem. Hundreds of manufacturers have figured it out. Why can't GPX? And why can't COMCAST/XFINITY fix this to make their customers happy? Laziness? No profit in it?

What Were You Thinking Michelle?

Why would Michelle pick this food to eat knowing that photos will be taken? Does she have any public relations handlers? Are they perverts? Or is she trying to get attention, and votes, of young males?

And what the hell is she holding? A butt-plug on a chain?

Well she won. 

I like Michelle's political views more than the RINO Romney, nutty Paul, preacher Perry, Santorum, Cain, Gingrich and Huckabee. But I don't need to know she can, or would, deep throat. Just too much information about a potential leader of the free world. This is a case of either bad judgment or desperation to get elected. Both are a negative to me.

And what is Sarah doing? She kept her face in the public at the fair but seems to be letting the pack thin out before she throws her hat in the ring. I like Sarah's views on things.

The GOP is really two parties now, a traditional GOP and a conservative Tea Party. The traditional party voter's views are too moderate to vote for conservatives while the conservative voters can't abide RINOs. So the party is seriously divided. Independents will only vote for a moderate. So we'll get Romney. Socialist vs. Marxist. Both the best candidate that elite money can buy. Chances are that the shoeshine boy will be re-elected to preside over the fall of the US.

I'll retire in North Mexico in 2017.

Post Lughnasa Stuff

I have arrived at the conclusion that the company that I work for is a cartoon. Literally. Oh I treat it like serious work. But it's a cartoon.

This blog is so dead. No traffic except normal distribution curve nerds lately. All the previous regulars have stopped coming. Have my writing skills deteriorated? Am I a boring creep? Material awful? Am I too cynical or is life just too depressing anymore? Or do people just Facebook and Tweet anymore? I dunno. But this blog is dead.

Forbes said my town is one of the most affordable in the future North Mexico. Hurrah. Median home price $80k, median household income $60k, good schools, low crime and low cost of living. No wilding niggas yet. But it's early. I think they missed some important stuff but what the hell do I know.

Feels like Fall already. Pool 71F. Garden wrapping up. Nightime temps in the upper 50s. Sun comes up as I pull into work. Rain coming overnight. Life is moving fast. I'll be dead soon enough.

Britain's Clockwork Orange

FT had an editorial on the recent British riots that thought the same thing I did. Clockwork Orange! A society that had devolved to the point where the only way that young people felt alive is when they were inflicting suffering on others. Sounds about right.

It's here as well. It exists wherever adults let the children run loose in the society. A mobber nigger said he targeted whites because they were "easy targets" at the Wisconsin State Fair. Adults should be empowered to use lethal force on these pieces of garbage. And they should have the means to do so at hand. That would give the feral pups pause before acting like a wild beast.

Most cultures understand all this very well. The West is too stupid to even consider it.

Who are We?

Wretchard's post The Golden BB vs the Chrystal Bullet he says in the comments "we need to regain strategic rationality:
1. recover confidence in our culture;
2. regain energy independence and economic viability;
3. understand that the world is at war with a hostile ideology supported by rogue states." 


and later


"What are we fighting for? Who are we? Who are our enemies? That is what nobody wants to talk about and yet that is what we must decide above all. The West hates itself and is consequently undecided even about whether it is worthwhile to preserve itself."

Indeed. Who are we? Does we even exist any longer?


I can barely relate to the cultures I encounter on a daily basis. Snobs, whores, punks, foreigners, queers, drug addicts, sociopaths, loons, trash; the list goes on and on. And almost all of them believe that they are the center of the universe. No one else matters at all. Worse there's liberals, conservatives, libertarians sprinkled amosngst the mostly know-nothings who don't even pay attention.

Who are we?

At my work, the Russian and Chinese owners certainly are not we. The H1B1 visa holding PhDs are not we. The snobbish executive team is not we. The largely uneducated, liberal, black hourly workforce doesn't feel like any we that I can relate to. The mostly educated, conservative white technical workforce feels kinda like we, mostly. But it's hit and miss. Even within a small company there is little sense of we.

It's the same wherever I look. Drastically different people with vastly different worldviews. More differences than similarities. It's impossible to define enough things that can be agreed upon to even form a homogeneous culture.

Who are we?

I don't think there is a we in this country

Obama's Military

The US military under Obama is just becoming pathetic. And it is just the beginning.

Obama's national security team had Seal Team 6 shoot an unarmed Osama in the head. Then, later, had 17 members of the same Seal Team 6 load up in a helicopter for an extremely dubious mission to fly into a Taliban ambush where they were all killed. Obama's reluctant dead heroes. Was Obama wagging the dog after S&P downgraded the US and the DOW tanked?

Obama America has accomplished and won nothing after a decade of operations in Afnamistan. The Taliban will be back in control weeks after the US retreats. The US is incapable of winning wars anymore, despite having the best soldiers the world has ever seen, thanks to the rot in american culture.
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Today Obama DARPA launched the second Falcon hypersonic aircraft and like the first, it failed.

No stealthy $339M F-22 Raptors or $208M F-35 Lightnings are flying today due to technical problems. No one knows when they will fly again. The Obama military relies on aging $19M F-16s and $29-57M F-18s in the meantime. As the US economy shrinks the military probably will rely on Skynet drones instead. Better dead drones than soldiers.
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I suppose it really doesn't matter. Obama's military can't even defeat Qadaffy under his "leadership". But they can share their sexual preferences.

Rangers Speak Out, No Racism and No Leadership in Sight

Today an Army Ranger spokesman said that the Rangers didn't need rescue but a Immediate Reaction Force to go after a band of Taliban that separated from the main force. Why SEAL Team 6 was deployed on a Regular Army CH-47 instead of an AC160 SOAR MH-47 as usual is unknown.

The Taliban claims they set up an ambush for any reinforcements arriving by helicopter. Maybe they did, maybe not. Most experts say hitting a moving helicopter with an RPG is pure luck. But every once in a while even dumb guys will get lucky. Especially when US leadership is stupid. And they were.

Did Obama assassinate SEAL Team 6?
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Milwaukee area police said there was no evidence of racism when black youths beat up white fairgoers at the Wisconsin State Fair. Generally police say they can't "prove" racism in any of numerous, recent flash mob violence. But the US is going to see British style insurrection over here if they don't get this crap under control. And American whites aren't going to be as docile as pantywaisted, disarmed Brits. Will police find evidence of racism when whites fill wilding youths with lead in suburban neighborhoods when the cops don't show?
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There isn't any leadership in this country, or the West, any more. The economy is wrecked and no one has a clue what to do to fix it. Companies are run by deg reed imbeciles who couldn't manage a gas station. Government is full of parasites only interested in their entitlements and incapable of civilized rule. 73% percent of recently polled americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. I'd say it's destroyed with nothing left to rebuild upon.

London Riots

These needy "youths" need to be dead. They have no value to themselves, their families, their nation or the world. They don't need shoes, shirts or pants. Just a single 9mm, 147 grain copper clad piece of lead in their cranial cavity.

Ready Up!

Ready up!

Dow looses 17% of it's value. JPMorgan, SocGen, Citi and UniCredit on the brink of collapse. Italy and Spain on the verge of bankruptcy. London on fire. Niggas wilding in US cities. National leadership is silent. Pundits have nothing to offer. Pre-revolutionary? No one knows what tomorrow will bring.

I'm going into defensive posture.

Who's the Idiot Who Got 7% of DevGru Killed?

What fucking imbecile decided to put 17 of the nation's most highly trained soldiers on the same goddamned helicopter? And don't suggest it was some Colonel or theater General. These SEALS get tasked by JSOC or the DOD. Whoever ran this clusterfuck needs to be removed from command for destroying over $22M of irreplaceable national defense talent.

This was a loss of one entire troop of three that make up Gold Squadron. Only 250 of these highly trained warriors exist in DevGru. Asked what the naval special warfare community’s initial reaction to the incident was, the NSW source answered: “Shock and disbelief. There’s no precedent for this. It’s the worst day in our history by a mile.” A military blog commenter said "This is the equivalent of the Pacific fleet losing a carrier". This is a loss of 7% of the DevGru!

I didn't go to Annapolis, but I wouldn't put 7% of my total resources in a single helicopter just 11 days after the Taliban shot down another CH-47. I'd consider it too risky.

And what was the mission? Was it worth the loss? Sayadabad has been a Taliban stronghold since the war began ten years ago. The Taliban there have long been known as locals. Why not drop a goddamned thermobaric weapon on the suspected target and kill every living thing there?

Nemesis Has Been Busy

Nemesis has been busy these past 24 hours. First she destroyed the american goose with the sovereign debt downgrade, then she killed 22 Navy SEALS in a helicopter crash and finally she made me send my grandson's father packing when the grandson didn't want to spend a few hours with him. Nemesis always comes and is not to be messed with.

The Western ruling elites thought they were Masters of the Universe after their continuous economic manipulations following the 911 attacks. They used american's patriotic beliefs to take control of Western economies through deceit and cunning until they stole everything in the aftermath of the the 2008 crash. Now the West, and particularly the US, is in a permanent Depression and so indebted that it can never recover. The ruling elites thought they could use the debt hike legislation to gain popular appeal for the additional $100B in interest they will earn on US debt down the road. Instead Nemesis brought them the S&P downgrade that will lead to political chaos in the short term and the destruction of the US in the long term. The US will not recover from this blow. If the US was marginally recovering, that is all over now. And as the US economy slides deeper into failure it will only get worse and worse. The ruling elites will never be repaid.

Shooting an unarmed bin Laden in the head was unethical and immoral. It was outside of Western military ethics and would be unrecognizable to generations of Western warriors. It doesn't matter that a head of state ordered it. It was a reprehensible act. Nemesis took revenge with those 22 SEALS from SEAL Team 6 and she probably isn't finished yet. May they rest in peace.

I've been sick this past week and my wife and daughter had plans. I was going to watch the grandson but didn't know if I'd be up to it. We called his father and asked if he could get the boy at 1100 hrs, he agreed.
I'm feeling a little better so the issue was moot, dad never came and the boy called grandma to ask if he could come to the end of her event at 1300 hrs. She agreed and came to get him. Then dad shows up and told the boy "You're coming with me". He started to cry. Nemesis had come. I gave dad a few minutes to say the right words. He didn't. So I told dad that the right thing was to let him go with grandma and play with the kids. He conceded and left.
Dad's hubris caused this event. When he showed up 2 hours late and started giving the boy orders the boy thought to himself, you don't care about me or the grandparents I live with who love me. He gave me a thank you grandpa secret smile as he left with grandma. Dad does this stuff all the time. I always keep my commitments to the boy.

Destroying the global economy, shooting an unarmed man in the head or showing up late for your boy will always, eventually, invoke Nemesis. She is an angel of God.

Life is Grand

Ain't life grand? I've lost all my stock gains since last November in the past two weeks. The DOW lost 12.6%. Nice. The ruling elite's cluster fuck governments and economies are just broken machines incapable of delivering anything useful to mankind.

And then there's Obama's roving bands of niggers beating up white fair-goers in Wisconsin. That's nice too. It brings a little bit of Botswana to america, for those who don't have the money to travel. Nothing like a mob of 300-400 niggers hopped up on a Tone-Loc concert, punching fair-goers to demonstrate that this country has gone to hell. Do whites need to conceal carry when they go out shopping, or to the fair these days?

Just 58% of working age americans are working. But 45.8 million americans are on food stamps. That's success. Cities are setting up homeless tent camps while millions of vacant, foreclosed houses sit rotting in neighborhoods. That's inspiring.

Every day, I feel like I'm living the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Updates:
Wisconsion State Police have issued an edict that, starting tonight, any "youth" under 18 attending the fair after 1700 hrs must be accompanied by their parent or guardian. That included white, yellow and brown "youths" who didn't beat down other races. We must be colorblind ignore the truth out of political correctness.

Meanwhile S&P downgraded US debt to AA+. They don't trust americans any more than anyone. The US has lost the moral high ground in this world. Just another banana republic.The ruling elites just got a big raise, you and I will suffer.

Oh. And Tim Geithner is a fucking idiot.

US Gross Public Debt and the Future

US debt as a percentage of GDP from the beginning of the republic. Only WW2 was cause to exceed 100% of GDP, until the shoeshine boy's iDepression 2.0. Moody's recommends 73% of GDP. But the sock puppets running governments for the ruling elites want the power of owning and running everything!

US GDP was guaranteed to grow heartily after WW2. The rest of the world was destroyed. Now? US GDP is flat and will likely stay flat in this depression that no-one knows how to end.  If the US can't grow itself out of debt then it must cut it's way out. That means austerity. The New Deal must be abandoned; social security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, SNAP, Obamacare, all of it. Who will run on THAT election platform?

Interesting stuff!

20% of americans are redundant. Unnecessary. They consume resources that no longer exist, and never will exist again. 62 million americans must be culled to save 250 million americans. No retirement or disability. Just a SWAT team with a body bag and an accountant to disposition assets. Same with the lazy, the insane, criminals and the stupid. Navy SEAL teams to clean up the evolutionary mistakes.

I'm 284 weeks away from "aisle cleanup" by security forces. Bring it. I don't want to grow old in this world and be a burden on the cesspool.