Lots of odd things have happened in the AXE's life lately, and at some point I'll write about them. However, let it suffice to say that I'm spending this evening in Fort Wayne, Indiana -- actually, a pretty nice town and home of my favorite musician's supply and equipment internet firm, Sweetwater.com. Best prices, best quality and probably best info if you call or chat. Reason I mention that is I may move here...maybe I can get a part time gig on their phones. Obviously, I'm tired. Very good and productive interview for another job.
Anyway, the Crossroads of Opportunity doesn't have a lot, and one of the things it doesn't have is a Crackerbarrel. If you're not familiar, drive south or east on the interstate until you find one. They started in Tennessee I believe, and conquered the south first. I recommend ordering a breakfast, although tonite I had a reuben (B+)and fries(C+), coleslaw (A+) and a slice of their double fudge coca cola chocolate cake with ice cream. I was struggling with that monster when I over heard a discussion about what had just gone down at Fort Hood.
Ok, at this point nobody really knows what the fuck went down. The shooter was an officer and a mental health professional with an Arabic name. Christ, I have no idea what could have happened. However, the HuffPO article asserts something to the effect that it's significant that this mass murder occurred at Fort Hood because the infamous Kileen massacre at a Luby's cafeteria in the 80s is right there, outside the gate. This is why the military gets pissed at liberals...and, let's not pretend that I am not more liberal than not, and that if anything, I find a lot of the HuffPo stuff too nuanced. Call a motherfucker, a motherfucker. Of, visit Vote Vets and sign the petition calling Tom Turkey Coburn an immoral motherfucker for blocking Vets Aid. Syphilitic dick weed...
The Luby's thing could result in some defeatist bad taste humor -- Luby's is several steps down from Golden Corral. However, that was one local nut ramming the cafeteria in his pickup truck and blowing away people for whatever tinfoil lining to his gimme cap reason the voices in his head gave him. This is a lot worse. The reports are pretty odd -- however, since the idea of two automatic pistols have sufficient rounds to kill and injure that many without reloading seems odd. The next thing is the idea that soldiers normally are packing heat. Good way to lose you freedom and career. Sorry, I do not recall ever putting a loaded magazine in a weapon while in the cantonment area. Doesn't happen. Now, if these were some sort of MAC10, then the question becomes how did a mental health worker get to be such a goddamn great shot with those incredibly hard to control weapons...but, they would have the fire power.
I can thing of few places that are supposed to seem and be safer than the soldier readiness center on an installation. While I'd like to think that soldiers would automatically move to the shooter and take him down, the odds are pretty good they couldn't process it. If you open your refrigerator to get a bottle of milk and a fucking Tyrannosaurus Rex chomps on your arm, you're probably not going to react well.
This is troubling. Regardless of faith or lack thereof, or point of view on the war, this is not good. If these goddamn silly wars have turned shrinks into mass murderers (one theory is he didn't want to deploy, which seems counterproductive -- don't want to deploy because I might get killed, have to kill someone, so I'll kill a bunch of people and then they'll kill me! --but I'm not inside the guy's head and wouldn't want to be.
and A+ cole slaw is hard to come by.
Posted by: el serracho | 05 November 2009 at 06:12 PM
Sweetwater, I could drop a house payment there (if I had one).
Damn shame down there in the Hood.
Posted by: Frederick | 05 November 2009 at 10:14 PM