Sorry but I got a load of this um…human and I had to do it.
This is my review of Transmitter Brewing Bier de Garde Ale:
The current thing to hate about the right is the Florida Anti-gay/Anti-Grooming law, however you want to define it. Before I begin, please note that I do have kids of my own, all of whom are currently in a public school. I find it is a convenient way to present evidence the state is incompetent and that it does not have your interests in mind. Also that I am a Veteran myself and I am not necessarily poking fun at anyone.
Okay, everything except that last part is actually true. I’m probably making fun.
The idea this person with a severe mental condition is in a classroom with small children, and outwardly promoting a lifestyle associated with that condition actually does have a precedent. Who among us had a teacher that constantly talked about Vietnam or (albeit less likely) Korea?
*raises hand*
Veterans from that war came back from their service and assimilated within society, many are even employed as teachers by design. Many have PTSD which manifests itself in a variety of ways that many wouldn’t necessarily want to occur within view of children. Flashbacks in particular, may be dangerous in some cases. Many Veterans outwardly promote the fact they are Veterans, join political organizations and advocacy groups to promote their interests. In effect, being a Veteran is an identity unto itself.
Except Vietnam actually was real and this is really just a bearded lady, right? It was, but the flashbacks are real only to the person experiencing them not necessarily to the observer. The observer that doesn’t know what is going on was probably wondering why the teacher was taking cover and shouting at Charlie. Especially if there is a Charlie in the class. One would assume a teacher with this delicate a condition between what is real and what is not could never be allowed around children, but I direct you back to the premise the state is incompetent and that it does not have your interests in mind.
It is worth allowing the local schools expose your kids to this? If that element exists in society in a large enough number, probably. This way when they grow up they immediately go to “oh, another crazy person” and know how to deal with crazy people instead of, “WTF? That’s crazy.” I guess what I am saying, is kids are probably better able to understand what is, and what is not normal behavior—more than we realize. Need proof? Any that can’t will probably never learn to read beyond a 4th grade level.
PSA: For more information on PTSD, click here. If you don’t want to click a VA link, click here. For information on a transgender specialist clinic at the Tucson VA, click here.
Do you like peanut butter? Peanut butter AND jelly? That’s actually what this beer tastes like. Seriously, its peanut butter and jelly. I have no other way to describe this to you in a relatable way. Its a bit off-putting and perhaps shouldn’t be anywhere around children since its peanut butter and jelly flavored alcohol. Transmitter Brewing Bier de Garde Ale:2.2/5
PTSD is a motherfucker. My uncle was a Marine in VN and he was messed up for a long time. I assume that it’s just as common among the current generation of fighters?
I love that mask video. The little guy in the striped shirt busting a move is awesome!
Little kids know what’s up, but then they get into higher grades and the pressure ramps up. This shit needs to end.
I’m encouraged, despite the FBI target them, that parents are fighting back. No quarter when it comes to little kids.
I will be skipping that beer. Thanks for the warning!
If Team Red weren’t Team Stupid, they’d make a national issue out of asking every Team Blue candidate whether they agree with Merrick Garland that parents standing up to school boards are domestic terrorists.
If Team Red weren’t Team Stupid
You can’t stop right there.
Oh, I think we can.
Stupid auto correct
Can, dammit.
I figured as much.
If Team Red weren’t Team Stupid — that is an interesting premise.
Case in point – Team Stupid is having the internal contest for Senate nominee, and Team Stupid and Desperate put up a spectacularly stupid (and negative) anti-Barnette ad, so I got curious about the Honor Pennsylvania PAC behind the ad. First off, it’s registered address is Houston TX. Hmm. Second it says it is independent but then describes the mission of the PAC as advancing the McCormick candidacy (he’s now third in the polls and thus desperate). So for fun, I fired off a nasty-gram e-mail to the addy on the website (which listed absolutely no other info, though it did solicit contributions), and cc’ed the local McCormick rep.
I’d say it’s much less common amung my generation of joes. It’s massively sold by the VA and the barracks lawyers.
It can be a big VA payout. Up to a 50% rating. Tax free.
Not to mention the various state-level benefits like reduced or zero property tax in some states.
Yep. To get the property tax break you have to be 100% here in Idaho. I didn’t lie or play up anything so I have a much lower rating than guys I know who never got hurt.
I think it was the same in Texas. One employee I had was 100% with nothing visibly wrong with him who had a physical job. Legally I wasn’t allowed to ask about it, but I had my doubts and wasn’t allowed to ask. Him bragging about his exemptions didn’t exactly lend any credence to his cause.
There are millions of those guys in my generation. Most double dip with another federal, state, or post office job.
Ding ding ding.
In terms of magnitude? This generation is much smaller, but it does happen especially since they are better able to identify it.
Better able to lie about it in my experience. I’ve seen one real case, B17 gunner shot down three times.
The guys I know diagnosed with it out of my unit are fakers. There are at least a dozen of them. The worst thing we had happen on my tours and the one I missed was some inderect fire, a vehicle rollover, and an IED that went off between trucks and the burning bodies, the latter only two of us even saw as I was the guy running the fire hose.
Re B17 gunner shot down three times, how does he get through metal detectors with his balls of steel?
Guy was amazing. Confirmed kill on a Me262. My dad worked with him in the 80s and I did an interview with him in high school. I triggered him unknowingly. Watching the bombs impact got him almost as much as losing his crews.
My wife’s grandfather had (untreated) PTSD, from WWII. Definitely from a “no complaining” generation, but he’d have “spells”.
I like the term shell shock better.
#metoo
I would have been disappointed by any other link.
Relevant
Also relevant
Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.
This applies to Vietnam and teachers taking home with them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1RxINTkEU
Poor San Kinison.
…at least we still have Lou Reed.
That was the funniest scene in the movie.
Naw, Vonnegut.
That was funny. It seems like more of a cameo but tomato, tamahto.
Need proof?
I like that video.
Do you like peanut butter? Peanut butter AND jelly? That’s actually what this beer tastes like.
In a Biere de Garde? Yuck.
I only had one Korea/nam teacher. He was excellent, math teacher that got all the crap kids in his class. His class was probably 80% male and all the shitheads. The only time any of his war stories came up was when I went in after school to seek help and we started talking about aviation. After his tour he was stationed n Alaska where the Huey he was in suffered an engine or transmission failure and they autorotated into the muskeg from about 1500 agl. He survived with serious spinal injuries.
Damn.
I had a history teacher that did infantry in Korea, another that was a medic in Vietnam. The funny one was a math teacher that was an F-5 pilot we made fun of for wearing a heavy winter jacket and wool cap…in the summer.
One year we had a door gunner who did a tour in Nam give a talk to my history class. It clearly haunted the guy that he outlived so many people.
Survival guilt is real. I worked briefly for a guy who was the only survivor in his platoon in Vietnam. Outwardly he held it all together.
But he always had something behind those eyes and never married nor had kids.
I worked with a guy who was taken from his village as a kid and was beaten for speaking Yup’ik at a BIA boarding school and then got shipped off to combat in Vietnam when he was 18. He struggled mightily for a long time and turned to the bottle to kill off his memories. He got sober and worked to be the male for so many kids who needed someone in their lives. He is one of the best men I have had the privilege to meet.
Some people manage to tap into a deep well of strength they never knew they had.
I can only recall one teacher from K-12 who made his political leanings known. He saw the Kent State shootings in person and set aside one day each semester (we had the semester system in HS for some reason) to talk about it. But he never dinged anyone who didn’t agree with him as long you gave a cogent reason for your viewpoints.
My college profs were solidly left or communist, as in actual communist, and made no bones about it.
I had a bunch of K-12 that were hard left and let you know. From being eco warriors to actively trying to get us to campaign for bill Clinton and against local politicians.
I take that back. I had one MS teacher who was a turbo lefty and bragged about how when she lived in rural IL and was the “only Democrat for 50 miles”. She was a terrible teacher and would tell anyone who asked that OJ was framed by The Man.
A HS math teacher I had was political non stop. I bailed on his class and went to the Korean was guys class.
The single bit of politics I saw from K-12 was my 7th grade math teacher had a Solidarność poster on the wall. He never spoke about it and nobody asked. Oh, and my English teacher in 11th and 12th grade thought there were too many immigrants in Toronto. She had a habit of running her mouth but only after class.
I thought Shit Post was the default setting here.
I had more than a few veteran teachers growing up, but we were never pressured to cheer on the fact that someone had PTSD.
Astute observation of a key difference. We are now being told to celebrate the gender dysmorphia of these mentally ill people like the teacher above.
Will Hallmark start a new greeting card line? “Congratulations on your bulimia!”
“Congratulations on your crippling depression!”
I’ve been out in the Aleutian Islands for the past 9 days and it’s been goddamn sunny the entire time and not even that windy. This has to be some sort of trick.
It’s been sunny and mild up here in the valley, too, but here in May that’s not unusual.
I reckon that I’ll need to mow when I get home tomorrow. It’s about that time.
We won’t need to mow for probably another month. About a third of the yard is still covered with snow. We really got nailed in February, we were right in the crosshairs of those last two big winter storms.
Damn, the snow in my yard was finally gone the first week of this month.
Climate change, FTW!
Maybe they should be rebranded as the Alaska Keys.
Are you now suffering Post Tropical Sunshine Disorder?
It has been pissing down rain off and on for the last month here in Oregon. And, apparently, it has been the coldest spring on the satellite record.
My Boy Scout leaders were WWII (B-17 ball turret gunner), VTN (advisor), and Cold War draftees. No issues from any of them. I had a couple of HS teachers who were VTN vets and the only issue I remember was on the day that Sagon was about to fall my science teacher basically just told us to do whatever we wanted, quietly while he sat at his desk not doing anything. He had been an infantry LT and wounded several times. As an undergrad multiple WWII vets were professors, if they had issues it never came up in class. My Soviet history professor was a very interesting fellow. His parents were immigrants from the USSR and he spoke Russian as soon as he could speak English. He was an infantry officer during WWII and kept over there to observe the post war elections in Poland and as a translator at the main Nuremburg trials. Lots of lefties signed up for his courses where he would announce on day one that “He loved the Russian people and loathed everything the Soviet government stood for.” Lots of day 1 drops, but he was a great instructor who really knew his stuff so I took everything I could from him.
Like multiple generations of US military vets, some of my Soldiers suffered from PTSD, but most returned home as changed people but not damaged people.
My friend’s dad was a Vietnam vet; he didn’t want to talk about it (this was in the 80’s) but said something to the effect of “guys who went over there with problems came back with worse problems. The rest of us just got by”
One of my fathers co-professors was in Pearl Harbor, on the Missouri I think(?). Nice guy, I interviewed him for a HS project. No animosity towards the Japanese.
My scoutmaster was a VTN vet, helicopter pilot. Apparently he was ill-behaved because he kept getting troop transport under heavy fire duty.
No PTSD I was aware of, but he was a tough old bastard. Got shot down multiple times and took at least one high caliber round to his leg.
As a military brat with many relatives and family friends who served, I assumed teachers talking about Vietnam or Korea combat in school were probably full of shit.
Likely
Like the young homeless men with the “Homeless Vtn Vet” signs you saw up to the 2000s scamming for money at intersections? By the end they were bullshitters all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcd-srsSBY
My favorite one I ran into was a guy at Walmart outside of Ft Campbell who claimed that both his parents were killed in the gulf war. I called him out, knowing that the us death toll was under 250 and called him a liar. He slinked off. Helps I’m 6’5” and in good shape at the time. Probably some army brat.
Was expecting Falling Down.
A friend and I used to BS in the evening about the invented war stories we were going to tell. The scariest one was when the cooler broke down at the club and we were threatened with warm beer. Then someone ran to the mess hall and got a jeep trailer full of ice. ‘Course that was BS too, the cooler never broke down.
In junior high had a history teacher with a prosthetic hand. Shop teacher in high school was a tall thin man that never smiled, we called him Ichabod. Years later I learned he’d been a POW in Germany for a couple years. Many teachers were WW2 vets that had gone to school on the GI Bill, only one bragged abut his exploits, I didn’t care for him.
My Dad’s war story is that when he was drafted and sent to Fort Dix, they learned about his allergies with ragweed pollen. So they sent him to White Sands, NM, where he promptly found he had allergies to tumbleweed.
I like to joke that Dad kept all those missiles at the missile range safe from either Ernst Blofeld or illegal immigrants, take your pick.
(Dad’s one of those people who, like Elvis, had 18 months stolen from his life courtesy of the peacetime draft.)
At my first engineering job out of college, there was a crusty old technician who’d teach the youngsters how to do practical electronics prototyping. Before he smoked himself to death, he’d always help us out, prefaced by “Lemme show you a little trick I learned in Nam.”
After he was gone, us protégés kept the tradition going, always telling the newbies “Lemme show you a little trick I learned in Nam”, even though most of us were toddlers in 1974.
When I resigned, they were still saying it. Not disparagingly at all; the tales of the original dude were told with respect, and his legacy lives on!
Army buddy of mine did that until a crusty CW5 gave him the look one day. He was there.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-endorses-mastriano-for-pennsylvania-governor/ar-AAXgRJY?ocid=AMZN
There we go.
We’ll find out two things – does it do any good in terms of getting elected, and second, does it do any good in terms of performance in office.
I’ve been waiting for this.
RE: juris’ comment: I think Mastriano has the primary locked up. I’m not sure about the general election, but I expect that a) he will do better than the GOP Establishment predicts and b) the GOP Establishment will find a way to shank him. Mastriano is very popular among the Reopen PA/allied groups/spin-off groups. Those groups were able to influence a state-wide election, so they have power. My gut tells me they’ll keep it together through the primary. I’m not sure about the general.
As for performance in office, we’ll see. I’m prepared to be disappointed.
Full disclosure: I still follow PA politics, but from afar. If I were still in PA, despite Mastriano not being a libertarian, I’d be helping out his campaign because of what he did to push back against Wolf. He’s the legislator that probably did the most to shut Wolf down.
I am not impressed that Trump knows what Oz stands for (other than getting elected).
That of course is Trump’s endorsement for PA Senate, not governor. But still.
My little nephew is going to Kindergarten next year and my bro and his wife live in a very conservative part of the midwest. They already went through the curriculum to make sure that there’s no bullshit in it and talked to the principal just to be sure. They’re both super conservative, to the point of eye rolling at times, but that 57 gender bullshit doesn’t fly in their house.
I went to dinner with an old colleague and his wife Thursday night. We met years ago in a conference of our niche technical specialty; I was in industry, he was in academia at one of the very few university programs for said specialty.
He recently resigned and joined the national labs doing what I do now too. He explained that the university program he had headed up had been completely destroyed by a new Dean and president hell-bent on destroying traditional “male dominated l” engineering and tech, especially since much of it has only military applications. The president and Dean (both women, natch) completely tanked it and defunded it. Leaves us weaker as a nation, IMHO.
There are elements of our society actively trying to end the transmission of key knowledge to new generations.
“There are elements of our society actively trying to end the transmission of key knowledge to new generations.”
In their twisted, diseased worldview, they’re heroic crusaders ending a legacy of oppression and misery; like de-Nazifiers removing racist content from German school curricula. Except for these lunatics, the tumor that must be excised is Western civilization and anything associated with it. Logic, rationality, delay of gratification, the search for truth and natural rights: all of it is just a cover for White supremacy and subjugation.
The irony, as we’ve pointed out here countless times, is that if they ever achieve their goal, they’ll be among the first lined up against the wall.
You know, the funny thing is – if that crusade ever “succeeds”, they’ll have no oppression to rail against. So what is the plan then?
An aside, but appropo to the thread, my FIL had been an A/V mech stationed in Korea during Vietnam, and ended up working at Laurence Livermore. He did disarmament checks.
The cognitive dissonance on that teacher is mind-numbing. People used to pay good money to see freaks like that. Now it’s free.
This way to the egress.
Oh it’s not free. We get robbed to pay them $70,000 plus benefits every year.
My mistake. You are indeed correct.
OT: Repost of the Financial Times article in dedthred that was paywalled.
https://archive.ph/Siglj
“a severe mental condition”
That’s what it really comes down to doesn’t it? Society is twisting itself in knots to enable these people instead of working to get them the help they actually need. It’s as if instead of having AA and medical detox we just declared alcoholism an “orientation”, subsidized free tequila shots at every corner and vilified dissenters as bigots. It’s not going to help anyone long term and it’s causing enormous collateral damage. Take away the grooming (which is abhorrent) and I can’t feel anything but pity for that specimen because I *know* that no matter how many kids he indoctrinates, no matter how much he shouts his pronouns from the rooftops, he’s still gravely ill and depressed and has a better than average chance of offing himself in the near-medium future.
I would like to know how many of these cases are actual mental conditions versus attention whoring, unless we consider attention whoring a mental condition. Narcissism, maybe? But narcissism can’t be mitigated or cured.
If primary narcissism can’t be cured, then I see a lot of these folks as expressing narcissism as a symptom of something else going on; secondary narcissism if you will. I think many of these people are suffering from a gaping chasm of meaninglessness underpinning their lives. With the purposeful destruction of civil society and the family, people are atomized; aimlessly drifting from one pointless stimulus to the next. Hoffer described the phenomenon in The True Believer; people attempting to manufacture meaning in their lives by joining groups and movements.
The point being: whatever the pathology, whether it’s actual gender dysphoria, depression+existential nihilism or something else, the answer is definitely not what is being done. And finding the answer requires digging and self-reflection and tough questions; things that are actively discouraged by our facile, callow society.
What I get a little concerned about is the advice teachers are giving to some of their kids. We know a 14yo kid, and there have been indicators that he might have been gay. But, after several conversations with his teacher (in middle school a year or so ago), he confirmed to his mom that he was gay. My question is, was the teacher genuinely concerned/interested in his situation, or was there a push for him to declare he was gay so the teacher could let others know she’d helped someone out.
It’s not a big deal for this kid either way as his family loves him to death and there’ll be no personal consequences, but I’ve seen too much from HS teachers who see it as their “mission” to liberate kids in order to put another notch in their belt.
or was there a push for him to declare he was gay so the teacher could let others know she’d helped someone out
[narrows gaze in Swiss’ honor]
Your comment also makes me think about the Philip Seymour Hoffman movie Doubt.
Now that I have a little more time, about veteran teachers: If any of my teachers from Kindergarten through the end of my education were veterans they kept it quiet. I can think of a few that might have been, but they said nothing about it.
I have some relatives whom I know (*) who were in combat in the Second World War and Vietnam. There are two relatives I know of that were in the military at about the same time but didn’t see combat. One is great-uncle who was slated to join the invasion of Japan but instead got to be one of the occupiers of Japan. I never knew about his time in the military until after he died. We weren’t close. When we did interact, we talked about other things. One uncle was in the Navy during Vietnam. Despite his attempts to get assigned to duty in Vietnam, the Navy kept him cruising the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
Most of the ones that saw combat were quiet about their experiences through most of their lives, and if any of this set had PTSD they kept it under control. When I was older, a few talked a bit about what they went through.
For example, my one grandfather who was in the Army during the Second World War. He talked about when he first entered Europe after D-Day. About ten minutes or so after getting there a friend of his took a German bullet to the head. The friend was right next to my grandfather when it happened. Dead. A little before he died, one of my cousins visited him at the nursing home. My grandfather swore him to secrecy and told him a whole bunch of stuff about the Second World War. My grandfather being a devout Roman Catholic, he was worried he would go to Hell because of what he did during the War. This cousin didn’t say anything to me about what happened and I have not asked him. I won’t ask him. I know about what happened second hand. Somehow some relatives of mine found out what happened. These relatives have been badgering my cousin to tell all. They told me about what they know. According to them, my cousin said a) our grandfather told him things about the War, b) was worried about going to Hell, c) swore my cousin to secrecy, and d) my cousin won’t say anymore. My cousin is doing the right thing. Those relatives badgering him are doing the wrong thing.
The exception about combat experiences talked a little about some of his experiences while I was younger. He was also quite the asshole and very good about driving people away. Looking back, I wonder if he had PTSD and part of his asshole-ness was him taking it out on people. I think, judging by what I know of him, that he would have been an asshole regardless, it’s just the possible PTSD made it worse.
(*) I have other veteran relatives, but they died before I was born.
Granpa Tres was a WWII veteran. Infantry and part of a mortar crew, 1st in N. Africa then in Europe. His unit was being shipped to the South Pacific when he got a furlough to stop in Ohio since my mom was just born. Since he was a week behind, the transport the rest of his unit was on got sunk in the Pacific with no survivors. At least that’s what I was told.
Wow, that’s some good timing.
Appropriate for this group.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/05/canaDA3.jpg?resize=429%2C600&ssl=1
A Møøse once bit my sister… No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”…
Is she into anal?
the Oh so great Macca, hell of a guy,
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/an-open-letter-to-paul-mccartney-regarding-ticket-prices/
The prices are what the market will bear.
Alternatively, auction the tickets off.
And when it sells out? It’s worth it to somebody else.
I wouldn’t pay that much if they managed to reanimate John and George and he was fronting for The Beatles. But yeah, the tickets are worth what they’re worth.
8 People Dead, Including Gunman, in Buffalo Supermarket Mass Shooting: Sources
Er, I forgot to close the blockquote tag. That last line is obviously mine.
dammit; that sucks
What an asshole.
Holy shit. Story says the shooter is alive and in custody.
That area is really ghetto. You don’t see a lot of “mass shootings” like this. Usually just gang shit.
Ten dead, so far. Shooter alive.
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JFC.
The horse of New Zealand got Covid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/jacinda-ardern-covid-positive.html
I hope she is going to prove how deadly the disease is.
We’re not that lucky.
What I want to know is how they’re being treated. I guarantee it’s not remdesivir.
No one in my family served* but my best friends** father did two tours in Vietnam. He came home with a missing eye, most of is inerds rearranged, and a massive case of PTSD. Apparently he stepped on a landmine during the second go-round. I always got along great with Dave, but, then again I am not the one growing up being chassed around a campfire with an ax, the bing spending and drinking, inability to hold a job, and so on. Much of his family wants as little to do with him as possible after all this time, but his (long suffering) wife make sure he is OK.
*My father was accepted to West Point, but then they saw how bad his vision was. My great-great grandfather was a recent Bohemian Jew Immigrant to Missouri with an engineering degree, so he was a sapper for the South.
*We have been friends so long that I don’t care what anyone thinks at this point.
Now that I have had a chance to read the thread comments and reflect a bit, there are a few other notes. Both of my FIL’s served during the Vietnam conflict, but neither were in-country. One was an A/V mech in Korea, while the other was on missile defense in Germany. One grandfather built engines for PT boats during the second, as he was a machinist while his younger brother, a math wiz even though his PHd was in astronomy, was recalled to Berkeley to work in the Radiation Lab, whose sole work at that time was the enrichment of plutonium.
On the other hand, my other best friend is Austrian, and his father grew up during the war. My friend has a great-uncle who served in the Wehrmacht and fought on four fronts, all of them twice except the eastern. He surrendered to the Americans, as he was tired of not eating.
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After hiking my fifth mountain in the Lake George region, I’m beginning to believe they’re pretty much all the sme.
Don’t know if anyone has linked to this crazy Florida story or not. Airplane hits car on bridge. The video is just drone footage so no idea of injuries or fatalities.
https://youtu.be/bl9pVf7NxgM