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RE: Random Thoughts
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 pm
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My sis and I just had a real nice chat about Bob Ross, the "happy accidents" PBS host and painter. We'd both only recently learned that Ross earlier in life had been a USAF drill instructor. Now, I've been through AF Basic, and by the time I was in BMT they were more-regulated. My sis tells me she read that Ross had to spend some time deprogramming himself.
On the other hand, one of my DIs had lost a stripe to two for beating a trainee (this after the tightened regs), but by Desert Storm he'd returned to his normal AFSC and was passing through my base in Spain while he was headed ... somewhere. I ran into him by chance at the enlisted club, bought him a beer, and we had the coolest little hour convo.
So tonight I'm wondering how it was that Ross got so far along that he had to deprogram, and SSgt Gibson could keep those two personae so efficiently walled-off.
Anyway, it was very enjoyable.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:43 am
They say animal abuse is a sign of a budding serial killer. Is it still so if the animal abuse is only verbal?
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November 7, 2025 at 11:09 am
(November 7, 2025 at 6:43 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: They say animal abuse is a sign of a budding serial killer. Is it still so if the animal abuse is only verbal?
According to psychiatrists and law enforcement, yes.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Look at me, sleeping in til 5:00am like a boss!
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November 8, 2025 at 5:31 pm
The system is no longer about seeking justice, but instead about avoiding personal responsibility.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:57 pm
The most notable conservative crime is its lack of humanity.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Poverty - along with every other social ill - is a policy decision.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm
50 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was overcome by the Witch of November. Gordon wrote a song about it. Listen to it.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 pm
(November 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm)Nanny Wrote: 50 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was overcome by the Witch of November. Gordon wrote a song about it. Listen to it.
His third best song!
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 pm
(November 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm)Nanny Wrote: 50 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was overcome by the Witch of November. Gordon wrote a song about it. Listen to it.
Not a fan of that song since my great grandfather was washed overboard off a ship off the Outer Banks very near Christmas. His body wasn't found till the following February and was identified by his boots by a fellow sailor. Great grandmother was pregnant with their fifth child and only son at time he was lost.
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