IAVA - CNN: Paul Rieckhoff

 

Once again CNN has turned to Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) as expert in the field of military experience.

Here is a quote from the current interview about National Guard soldiers returning and looking for employment:

“Before 9-11 National Guard units almost never deployed, didn’t go to combat, and for the most part you had one weekend a month and two weeks in the year. Now you have National Guard units which have been deployed three times for a year. They’re not weekend warriors, they are full-time warriors now.”

I believe Mr. Rieckhoff needs to look at the number of soldiers who were deployed during the Korean and Viet Nam conflicts and research what happened to the National Guard units in the 1940’s before he sells veterans of his father’s and grandfather’s era.

If you are going to speak with authority on a subject better know that subject. The soldiers who server in the National Guard need assistance in finding employment; this I agree with.

Don’t miss quote history in order to make yourself sound more important.

I have a number of other issues with IAVA, this Rieckhoff fella is number one on the list.

One Man Boat Race

I purchased a new camera this week and have viewed some of the online courses on Lynda.com in photography and thought I would go out this weekend and try some of the things the courses pointed out.

I had always been intrested in the hobby. For a short period of time I was an Army Journalist (71Q) and then worked for the Taylorsville Times for a couple of years where we had to take and develop the photos for the stories Lee Sharpe sent us out to cover.

I wanted something of intrest to take pictures of so I go onto the Internet to the Eisenhour Park calendar of events and saw that the model boat club was going to have a race.

I thought great, fathers with sons, model boats, a nice spring morning. Should prove to be a nice subject to play around with exposure times, shutter speed, all those things I had viewed on the instructional videos.

At dawn I start headed toward the park. I wanted to get the sun rising and actually got a few neat shots with the beams of the early morning light reflecting off train tracks, burning the dew off the grass on a golf course and some others I'll post later.

But the boat race was a bit dissapointing.

Only one guy showed up.  So I guess at the end of the day I got pictures of the winning boat.

You gotta be kidding me.....

Now the news comes that hackers have stolen fake money.

Fake money....

This is a service where people purchase 'coins' that are used to trade for other goods and services. A fake economy.

According to the WhoIs search from Network Solutions this attempt to corner the internet economy is one K.K. Tibanne of Shibuya (Toyko) Japan.

Along with the fake coinage user's names, emails and trade history were taken. According to Computer World the passwords were all encrypted, but it said nothing about the credit card accounts of those who had purchased the online trading money.

Not-for-Nutt'n; sorry the user's information was taken, but I'm not getting too excited over this. If their application security was this bad it is a good thing they were taken down.

Computer World Story

LifeLock - Government Sanctioned Rackateering

LifeLock is not really a company that is always monitoring your identity. About all it can do is query the credit reporting companys for inquiories made against your social security number. I have a service through my bank (USAA) which will do the same thing for a lot less money then LifeLock.

I really think with the comericials they are really playing on individuals fears, which I hate more than any other sales tactic.

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Consider for a moment the small print that appears on the bottom of the screen during their comercial. No commentary here, judge for yourself....

• No one can prevent all identity theft
• Checking and savings account takeover alerts require LifeLock Ultimate membership
• Network does not cover all transactions and scope may vary
• No one can prevent all identity theft
• Guarantee applies only if you become an ID theft victim because of a failure in our identity theft service. Restrictions apply. See LifeLock.com for details. Due to New York State law restrictions this LifeLock service guarantee cannot be offered to residents of New York.

Organizations which play of individual's fears in order to make money is nothing short of rackateering. LifeLock.com is the MOB operating as a corporation.

Today's Caption: Soldier at Sunrise

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Solider at sunrise....

BS Alert

So I'm hanging with friends on Saturday and a guy who was known to some in the group but not to myself join and started talking... and talking... and talking.

The level of BS this guy was spreading was so accute that I had to check to see if I had boots on to protect my feet.

One layer of the crap was a story about a friend of his, who was married with three kids, joined the army after 9-11. The guy was thirty-eaight years old when he joined and turned forty in basic training.

First of all, the cut-off age for joining the military is 35. Second, you can't be a private in the army if you are married with three kids (the max is two, they do this for economic reasons). Finally, the guy would not have spent two years in basic training.

Anyway, that was just one part of my weekend.....

KFC 70 Charger R/T–Commercial

Anyone else notice how dirty the dashboard is?

Hard to believe anyone who cares for a car that looks this good would have such a dirty dashboard.

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