Whatever Happened to Jade Helm 15?

After all the Alex Jones, Glen Beck, et al conspiracy hoopla, the topic seems to have disappeared from the national RADAR. wow the media is really good at hushing the airwaves and this time the Internets too. While trying to discover the answer to the title question, I stumbled upon this Reddit post. It made as much sense as anything else one might imagine. Itswaynebradyyall 14 points2 days ago "The timeline was altered when a young boy lost his arm to an evil entity living beneath the sewers in a small Maine town. This set off a chain of events that banded 7 children together in a blood bond to rid the town of the entity and ultimately moved our reality over into the one where Jade helm was in actuality just a training exercise."

Comment from Reddit discussion Whatever happened to Jade Helm 15 ?.

There are literally millions of alternate universe time lines out there waiting to be visited. See Quantum Universe and read about many of the things, people and events that exist in those alternate realities.

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Silly "Bagger"

I went to the store to buy a bag for the vacuum cleaner. What I found was a bag containing 3. At the checkout counter the cashier asked me if I wanted a bag. I said, "you are asking me if I want a bag for a bag of bags?" She said, "paper or plastic?"

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Runaway Farm Tractor

Village Destroyed By Runaway Farm Tractor
Yaounde, Cameroon. June 16, 2009. New Zealand Voice + Me

Yaounde Interior Ministry officials confirmed the 'near total loss' of the small agricultural outpost at Masabe when the tractor that was recently donated by the French Missionary Alliance, Il Pleure Il Pleure, was taken amok by 8 year old Kintabi.

The boy was seen sitting in the operator's seat making motor sounds on several occasions and was warned each time that he was not to touch the machine.

Kintabi would stand at the end of a field watching the large wheels turn and the plow blades cut the soil, said his mother. "He run along with the machine, shouting he was a farmer too."

Village elder, Jimi Callali said that all of the destruction was not surprising because, "We all know that it takes a child to raze a village."

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It Was the best of Times, it Was the End of Times

It was the best of times, it was the End of Times. It just didn't get any better than that. POTUS was supporting free-trade agreements with 10 other pacific-rim nations and touting alternative energy production to save the planet. His plans were inscrutable to the naked eye making it difficult to know whether to come or go. It's good that such things are color-coded.

The Televangelical leaders were in their virtual pulpits exercising their the god-given Constitutional Rites to tax-free speech saying that the nation was going to be punished by god for allowing people to be recognized by the State for the relationships they already exercised. The Federal government's steadfast assertion that women have the right to make their own health choices was going to bring on Armageddon. Armageddon was a precursor to the return of Jesus Christ and that we Patriotic Americans must stop the President from subjecting America to the Wrath of God by killing babies or allowing two adults to have their relationships acknowledged in Federal, State and local secular statutes.

Personalities such as Michelle Bachmann spouted rhetoric that seemed to be contradictory. She blamed POTUS and SCOTUS for the sins of the nation and announces that they will be responsible for the destruction of this exceptional nation as we know it. Other conservative Republican politicians endeavored to curry favor of a single-issue electorate by invoking fear of the future under Democratic leadership where god would punish everyone en masse for the alleged sins of the few. Each minor politician asserted that what the President and his Minions were doing was going to both bring about the return of Jesus and destroy America at the same time. Well Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, you cannot have it both ways.

It seems that Republicans are just not ready for The Rapture. They appear to want to set up some "off-shore" accounts where they can access their ill-gotten gains in the Afterlife. They want the End of Times but just not right now. It takes time to figure out how to stash the untaxed profits AND be able retrieve them from the Other Side.

Being able to stop children from getting an education, you know from the Latin: e-ducare to draw out, and replace it with indoctrination from the Latin word for "teach," doctrina is the root of indoctrinate, i.e. to put the teaching IN is essential. After all children have no need for any secular knowledge if god is about to exterminate everyone who doesn't believe the indoctrination material.

So just like the compassionate Coach who has the winning season who puts in the second string teammates and the bench-warmers for the last game of the season, the GOP is fielding an entire team of misfits and dinks to play-out the last few minutes of the last game of the season. It will not matter in their thinking. The Conspiracy Prophets have already said that Barack Obama will be the Last President of the USA and that Pope Francis will be the last Pope. Even Nostradamus
interpretations have been off by one Pope so far.

Many conservatives, and particularly those of the Christian persuasion, are hoping for and expecting the End of Times to resolve all conflicts, pay all debts and reward all devotees while cruelly punishing all persons who do not accept their faiths. In light of that why worry about environmental pollution, the rise of sea-level, the demise of species, the level of debt, the health of the people or the crumbling of the infrastructures? In god there is all remedy (in another world yet to be seen) so gird your loins with the treasures of this world and seek a way to take it along. These are the best of times.

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Comic Relief

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You know that moment in the horror movie just when the visuals are getting too intense or in the crime thriller when the body count is mounting, that is when the director introduced a moment of Comic Relief. You have been subjected to all the visual and audible mayhem and destruction that you can handle, then one of the actors says something like, "Mom always told me to wear clean underwear in case you are in an accident." Or maybe, "he always was of two minds..." when the blade bisects the latest victim.

Well with all the GOP horror story goings-on of the past few years, the name calling, the President bashing, the idea that we are all going to roast on a hot planet, that the police are doing a great job of containing dissent and the defunding of every safety net program that feeds, houses and medically treats people, it is time for the Comic Relief. Enter The Donald. The clown prince of conservative politics. The purveyor of purely persnickety political poppycock. The man who thinks in the third-person.

By saying the most outrageous things at the time when the country is the most engrossed in the violence of the day, the mass shootings, the police choking and shooting unarmed minority citizens, the beating of the war drums for Iran, the poisoning of our water with fracking chemicals, the modification of our food to make it produce its own insecticides, the denial of science, and the alleged persecution of Christians, HE makes people sit back and revel with a smugness of superiority.

His entire presence speaks of nonsensical solutions to imminent problems that are and will continue to plague this country of ours. As I watched his performance on the Fox News Presidential Debate Stage there was a distinct air of Andy Kaufman wafting around the podiums. Andy made his fame and fortune by being as outrageous as possible even to the point of getting himself smacked down by a professional wrestler. He did not care, it was publicity.

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A "Parking License" Law is Needed

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Some people make their own spaces.

Silly Bugger Parking

There are two distinct skill sets necessary for being the operator of a motor vehicle. One is being able to make it go, stop and stay within the marked lanes while traveling from one place to another. The other set is the ability to park the vehicle in the designated spaces.


There ought to be two licences issued to people who want to operate a vehicle. There should be the Drivers License where they must read and know the laws and they must pass a proficiency test to prove they are capable of driving safely. The other license should be a Parking License.

Many parkers have no respect for fellow
parkers.

This guy was so far over the line that
he was in two spaces yet left just
enough room for a second car to
squeeze in.

Here is another person who can't
see well enough to park. Makes
you wonder about seeing well enough
to drive.

This trucker is just begging to be
 parked-in to that corner.

Many but not all of the photos shown here are people parking in Disability Permit Spots. They all have a permit or a plate to imply that they have the permission to park in these space. A survey conducted in MTA Commuter Train parking lots revealed that fully 25% of the users were using someone else's permit. What is not checked regularly is the ID card that is issued with all placards and plates that show to whom the permit was issued. During those "surveys" the Transit Police confiscated all bogusly used placards and issued violation citations. If the person chose to fight the ticket and could win they could have the permit back.

Most private property violations are ignored due to the Management not wanting to get into the quarrel and have to spend an time on the matter.

This guy really pissed me off because
that is my van he parked next to like that.

There are those people who should
understand the purpose of the
yellow lined space between spaces.
They don't.

Now this parker doesn't have a
"disability" to rely on for an explanation.
Just plain old rudeness.

Just plain and simple rudeness.

There is very little to do about the bad behaviors of people who drive cars and park like they are the only one that matters. More ticket issuance would do more to raise revenues than to change behaviors of the people who do silly bugger parking. One of the side effects of the Transit Police Officer checking every person's permit Id on a morning as they arrived to catch a train is that after a few people were caught and more people with bogus permits arrived, they just drove on by. At the end of the monitoring session the permit spaces were left have used. This condition persisted for a few days afterwards. The MTA did assign an officer to just sit in his car during the early morning hours and the results were the same. Half the spaces were unused.

This one was there when I went into
the Supermarket.

This one was there when I came
back out a few minutes later.

The logical conclusion is that at any time from 25 to 50% of the users of designated spaces are posers and liars. One can easily observe the people who use them and see that this is true. Hidden disabilities aside, there are a lot of P&Ls out there and people who are not competent to park much less drive a motor vehicle.

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