Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Get along there, you little donkey of mediocrity.





























http://www.army.mil/-images/2006/09/08/336/

Army Future Force Soldier

September 08, 2006

The Army's Future Force Warrior system is one step closer to being fielded as the Ground Soldier System following a successful demonstration in August of its electronic networking capability.










http://www.cswap.com/2000/Unbreakable/cap/en/25fps/a/00_54

Unbreakable


:54:03
A 737 crashes on takeoff--

:54:05
172 die, no survivors.

:54:08
A hotel fire downtown--
211 die, no survivors.

:54:13
An Eastrail train derails
7 1/2 miles outside the city--

:54:17
131 die...

:54:19
one survivor.

:54:21
He is unharmed.

:54:23
I've spoken with your husband
about his survival.

:54:26
I suggested a rather
unbelievable possibility.

:54:29
Since then, I've come to believe
that possibility...

:54:33
however unbelievable...

:54:35
is now more a probability.

:54:37
And what was it you suggested?

:54:40
These are mediocre times, Mrs Dunn.

:54:43
People are starting to lose hope.
It's hard for many to believe...

:54:47
there are extraordinary things
inside themselves as well as others.










>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:51:59 PM

Subject: as of a drama


In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.

His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars.

He did not pass such thoughts without severe condemnation of himself. He dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions.

In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals. They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem. He wanted it settled forthwith. He could not long bear such a load, he said. Sometimes his anger at the commanders reached an acute stage, and he grumbled about the camp like a veteran.

http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/redbadge/2

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