If I suddenly go missing…please don’t bother other people.
Two senators introduced legislation Thursday that would create a Green Alert public notification system to find veterans when they go missing.
Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, sponsored The Green Alert Act of 2019. They said the system would be similar to the Amber Alert system for missing children or the Silver Alert system to locate senior citizens, especially ones with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Many veterans go missing because of stress and trauma associated with their military service, said Ernst, who is an Iraq War veteran who served for more than 20 years in the Army Reserve and Army National Guard.
That’s what we need to spend millions on, “Milk Cartons for Veterans”. There is something that makes my ass itch every time I read about these kinds of programs. All us poor veterans are victims of our service to this country. When I get full-blown dementia and revert to acting like a child does this mean they can issue a Silver Amber Green alert?
When I come up missing please use the following photo to be posted on highway signs across the country.
Source: Senators push for nationwide Green Alert system for missing veterans – Stripes
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Politics
Dave … wearing that bathrobe is not going to make a lot of people want to come looking for you if you do go missing. I’m just saying …
I think that is the point.
Oh holy fucking baby Jesus.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
I know, right? Where’s the eye bleach when you need it?
I’m taking a fucking cheese grater to my eyes and brain as we speak.
Brain bleach is sold at TAH World Wide HQ, in the Souvenir Shop… in 55 gallon drums.
Personally, I think Dave needs to add some neck bling to, you know, highlight his cleavage & match the sparkle in his eyes.
Other than that, he’s good to go. (grin)
6-Packs are on sale all week.
HOOOOLY SHIT
https://goo.gl/images/4xtRcs
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
That picture is enough to make me go dairy free. Don’t ever wanna risk seeing that image on a milk carton. LMAO
And I was having such a good day.
Will this only apply to Lieutenants?
That pink robe wearing stud looks like he’s suffering from the worst case of awesome and the Irish flu.
Roh-Dog:
Do you mean this LT:
“Lieutenant Goes Missing After Chewing Out Command Sergeant Major”:
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/02/lieutenant-goes-missing-after-chewing-out-command-sergeant-major/
😎
#missingltisurbanlegend
Hahahaha!
When the E-4 Mafia buttons up with those goodies on the table…
Dude‘gone.
Hey, stuff happens…
Just let me know when to start making gravy, okay?
The buttermilk cat heads are in the oven as we speak.
The first 2 will be used as eye patches.
The things the Soviet makes him do. SMH
Bet the King of Battle makes the best Buttermilk cat heads…
🔱😎
rtr/hbtd
Had to Google that one, but mmm delicious! We call ’em Breakfast Bricks in Houston, because we fill em’ up with eggs, cheese and sausage… and they land like a brick!
Sausage gravy with biscuits for breakfast is what I was thinking of.
The 2nd 2 cat heads got stuffed with hickory smoke thick slab bacon and the final 2 was used to sop up the bacon drippings based red eyed gravy and grits.
It’s a Southern Thang….some of y’all may not understand….I hurt myself.
howboutthemdawgs/rolltideroll/goarmybeatnavy
Gee, thanks, Joni and Maggie. This idea makes me feel so very special.
Or paranoid.
Maggie was about as useful as a football bat as NH governor. Thank God the governor in this state has relatively little actual power.
And now she’s proving her worthlessness on a national level. Good for you, you little crayon muncher, Maggie!
I have relatives in La Conia that voted for her. I apologize for their recklessness. They are Massholes that brought it with them when relocating to the Heroin capital of New Hampshire.
I weep for your State.
NH is only the heroin capital of New England because nobody has dropped a nuke on Lawrence, MA yet.
Most of our representatives need to heed the White Rabbit’s instructions to Alice:
“Don’t just do something. Stand there!”
Or the old adage: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Our government prefers to fix it ’til it’s broke.
More like keep fixing it until it’s FUBAR!
GMAFB.
(Translation on request, but I doubt any regular readers will need it.)
But if it only saves ONE CHILD… oh, wait, wrong do-nothing feelzgud proposal.
Indeed if I’m missing it’s probably best to assume I’ve gone walkabout 50-60 years later than is normally done….and leave me be…
The older I get the more comfortable I become not being around a lot of people and enjoying my own headspace however I wish, free from interruptions by well meaning folks thinking they’re doing me a solid by “checking” up on me.
Yeah, and I have very low contact with control freak relatives, for the same reason.
“checking” up on me.
I keep telling my neighbor that if he sees me laying on the ground to keep going and come back later. Wait until the crows arrive and then poke me with a stick to make sure I’m a stiff.
I do not want to end up in a VA hospital wearing a drool bucket. Let me go!
I hear what you all are saying. My dad is a Vietnam Vet, hits 76 y/o this year. I give him a call every couple weeks, just to see if he needs anything. Half the time, he’s gone camping or some such, and didn’t tell anyone…Freaks my sisters out, just makes me chuckle a bit..
If I suddenly go missing…there will be no mystery…I’m planning the caper now…..
LOL
And in honor of DH’s famous bathrobe picture:
(smile)
Why is it that every time I see that picture of Dave, I hear the theme music to “The Crying Game”?
Gotta up the meds again…
After seeing that picture, I *need* meds.
Sharing time is happy time!
(passes 500 count vial over)
Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya. Wild root cream oil and Vitalis works great also. Any of you silent majority or baby boomers remember the name of the sweet smelling green hair tonic with the suspended bubbles inside the bottle that after it dried on your hair, you could hear your hair crackle when you pushed it down with your finger/fonger’s.
Never trust a man that combs his hair with olive oil and a fork.
Are you talking about Vitalis?
Dippity Doo? Geri Curl?
Jeri’s Hair Tonic
But then again, Lucky Tiger came in a green color, but didn’t have bubbles in the bottle.
Jeri’s, and other brands were used in the barber shop I went to which was 25c a haircut plus a lolly pop and all the comic books you could read while waiting to get your DA, crew cut or hair parted to one side with a small wave on top of your forehead. I still comb my Brylcreemed hair with the wave up front. Mom wouldn’t let me have a DA haircut, leather jacket, engineer boots and a garrison belt with the buckle turned to the side. In NYC, you would be called a “Rock”.
Was it Jeri’s Hair Tonic you were asking about? And if it was, do I get a lollipop for getting it right?/smile
My dad’s favorite:
I still recall the day, I think I was 5… Dad wasn’t paying attention and squeezed out a healthy dollop of Brylcreem onto his toothbrush. I learned a lot of new words that morning.
I was about 10 when I filled the fingers of my grandpa’s work gloves up with grease from a grease gun. When he jammed them back on, I thought he was going to take the barn apart; even ole Tug – the dog – ran and hid. He couldn’t catch me, but he knew I’d get hungry eventually and show up to eat something.
I wonder how long before someone makes the jump to “What potential threat is this missing veteran to the public and elected officials” and attach a gun confiscation provision to it.
Probably already being worked.
Who will vets be required to check in with to get approval for fishing trips, day excursions to anywhere, and whatever else they deem as “missing?” If I simply leave my phone at home, will I go on report? What if I am out in the yard without a phone? Will a SWAT team show up and shoot me off the lawn mower??
This is ridiculous.
Could we get a zebra alert for illegal aliens and criminals gone missing?
What OWB said, and I am now inspired to not carry my phone at all, unless I’m going grocery shopping and might need a cab ride.
If you don’t have your phone, “they” may not be able to track you. Of course, my car has one of those tracking systems built into it.
No one has yet explained why people need to track my whereabouts. Sounds dangerous for anyone who is being stalked or is trying to escape an abusive relationship, for a couple of examples.
Had a state trooper show up for a “welfare” check one day. Some one was “concerned” about my attitude.
They put that trooper in grave danger.
He surprised the shit out of me but kept his cool and I kept mine. Had a friendly conversation and he appologized for bothering me over nothing. They hate that.
Don’t do it to them.
I always hated when someone would use the police as their own personal bullies knowing we had no choice except to away least inquire about their complaint. Apologized to more than one person for having to do it.
Yup, probably to disarm those poor, “dangerous” veterans “damaged” by their service immediately upon discharge too…
This is just going to end in a lot more armed standoffs. If a person wants to be left alone, leave them alone. No sense making it a nationwide manhunt for someone who just wants some alone time.
Does this Act also pertain to veterans who choose to go AWOL?
“Man Who Went AWOL 45 years Ago Home After 30-Day Sentence”:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/04/22/man-who-went-awol-45-years-ago-home-after-30-day-sentence/
What is the age factor cutoff for the Silver Alert system? What about veterans, no matter their age, who chose to end their life in an isolated because of their mental/emotional condition?
What about those veterans who choose to disappear because they were unhappy with their lives, i.e. they “disappeared” to get away from an unhappy marriage..or perhaps embezzled money from their unit and did not want to be caught…or decided they just wanted to be a new person with a new background, etc.?
What if the Veteran never deployed and decided they did not like the military and wanted to disappear? (I know, AWOL).
What about our First Responders?
#pinkmangood
Tracking devices may be next. Yeah, that’s it. Everyone else has privacy rights, but not us vets?
Tracking devices for veterans, placed under our skin, just as they do with animals (domestic or wildlife)…
Oh, wait….where I have heard that story before…😞
What if you just prefer to choose when you want to be around other people, and when you want “alone” time?
Are you serious? You seem to think that your freedom to decide outweighs the loopy dopes who just want to pretend they are in charge of you. How DARE you.
You can’t be in charge because OC is now, doncha know. Yeah, really.
Hah! I’m looking forward to the day when I can tell someone to whom I’m related to go pound sand up his backside before I call the cops on him. 🙂
I’m getting into that ‘ornery’ part of life where you brook no nonsense from such people.
“Richard Colvin Cox (25 July 1928 – last seen 14 January 1950) was a second-year cadet who disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.”:
“Disappearance of Richard Colvin Cox”:
“In January 1950, he was visited by a young man whose first name may have been George, three times over the course of a week. On the third occasion, Richard Cox and “George” left the grounds of the academy and were never seen again. According to an eyewitness account from another cadet, the two men seemed to have known each other somewhere other than West Point. Cox is the only West Point cadet to have disappeared without a trace…”
The rest of this unusual story can be found at this list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Richard_Colvin_Cox
You Be The Judge.
Young Cadet Cox was visited by the Future Richard Cox and was prevented from completing his West Point studies and receiving a commission. This averted WWIII and a nuclear holocaust.
Undoubtedly a serious threat from a future butter-bar . Had Cox graduated he planned to go Air Force and was destined to have a launch key at one of our Minuteman silos.
“For a variety of reasons, far too many veterans go missing for long stretches of time before someone finds them,” [Retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald] Bolduc said.
He believes the system would help “better locate veterans and give them the appropriate care they need when they disappear.”
Christ on a fucking crutch. That says it all. “We’re going to find you and help you whether you like it or not.” Are they going to make us wear a collar or chip us like dogs?
Dear MISTER Bolduc.
There are times when we WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE, you mordant jackass.
Now be a good boy FOAD, and stay there.
Bolduc, I’m 56 years old and I’ve never been missing except when I wanted (or needed) to be missing, and I intend to keep it that way. Your searching for me against my will is tantamount to illegal search and seizure. So kindly fuck off.
“This Firm Already Microchips Employees. Could Your Ailing Relative Be Next?”:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/23/this-firm-already-microchips-employees-could-your-ailing-relative-be-next/
“The technology company Three Square Market made headlines last year for implanting microchips in the arms of nearly 100 employees, allowing them to open doors, log on to their computers and purchase snacks from company vending machines with a simple swipe of their arm.”
“The chips were initially little more than an innovative novelty, but now the Wisconsin-based company — which designs software for vending machines — has a more ambitious plan, according to chief executive Todd Westby. During an appearance on CNBC, Westby said his company is working on a more sophisticated microchip that is powered by human body heat and includes GPS tracking capabilities and voice activation.”
“Microchips with GPS tracking may strike some as the first step toward handing our autonomy over to Skynet-like government overlords, and Three Square Market officials acknowledge that the chips will offer a convenient way to track people — especially those suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia.”
“…acknowledge that the chips will offer a convenient way to track people — especially those possessing firearms and, er, suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. Yeah, Alzheimer’s and dementia.”
“…acknowledge that the chips will offer a convenient way to track people — especially those possessing firearms and, er, suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia. Yeah, Alzheimer’s and dementia…. and some serious cash retirement income.”
Fixed it for you.
Once we are all chipped the Skynet computers will make sure none of us are ever “lost.”
Dang near impossible to “go missing” in that robe….
OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD!!!!! I have to pour bleach in my ear to get that image out! Thanks Dave!!!
“Many veterans go missing because of stress and trauma associated with their military service”
Yeah, and the crazy Vietnam Vets all walked off into the woods with a rifle after coming home because they could not deal with the stress.
Give me a fucking break. This is the same shit we were smeared with fifty years ago.
I am still here and I can tell you youguns that it still smells the same.
Exactly. Fifty years ago, the media told the public that most of us who served in the Viet of the Nam were drug addled head cases because of all the war crimes we committed in combat. But the realty was that over 90% of us never fired a round in combat or even saw a live enemy soldier or dead US soldier. Also, most Vietnam vets are better adjusted and more successful in every category than their peers who never served.
Won’t be able to get away from the “caring” bleeding hearts and hippies giving us crap, will we?
This proposed legislation is just another “solution” crafted by a couple of stupid political scrunts for a problem that doesn’t really exist. Last I heard there wasn’t an epidemic of vets wandering off or being abducted. I know of no veteran who decided to go “walk-about” and is MIA because of his service. This bill might make some sense if it was directed at the mentally impaired, irrespective of their service history or lack thereof. Instead, maybe we just need a bunch of PSA’s warning vets not to take candy from strangers or accept rides from them.
Next thing ya know they will have us wearing dog tags. Oh…wait. Never mind.
Sure, I’d like to see how much this costs.
But..
I’m not a crazy vet riding a bus to start a worm farm with my Army buddy, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(1977_film),
but I may just go off the deep end some day.
Dave it’s cool that you have your shit together, but maybe one day I’ll pack it in and go for a walkabout. I’m sure Frau Red will be glad to know she can track me down.
On second thought, I’m with Dave. If I wander off with dementia (wink), please just let me go to Thailand like I specified d in my end of life manifesto