movies – Weary Wretch

An Army of Many Genders

June 18, 2017

Lest you think I’m joking, go read the article cited down below. It is absolutely true. Our esteemed US Army has done it again. Again?

Yes, remember the recruiting slogan a couple of years, “An Army of One.” Bet that one put fear in our enemies hearts. Or, “Be All You Can Be.” Where the Army was willing to take anything as long as it was as good as it could be. Not necessarily up to any particular standard, you see, just the best it could be.

The slogan writers for the USA are not the cream of the crop. Well now, the same standards are leaking over into the official US Army gender department, or whatever it is called.

To keep abreast of modern trends, the Army of Many is becoming gender tolerant. It has issued guidelines for personnel to deal with the myriad of gender choices it faces. Like when a guy becomes a girl and vice versa. Quoting the guidelines, “All soldiers will use billeting, bathroom and shower facilities associated with their gender marker.”

Like what, a tattoo on the forehead? I thought gender markers were the presence of 2 X or an X and Y chromosome. Silly me.

It even cautions that one gender may find themselves showering with a soldier of the opposite anatomy, anatomy that just hasn’t had the surgical correction yet. “… there will be ‘mixed genitalia’ in military showers and sleeping quarters…”

“Moms and dads in America need to know this before they send their sons and daughters to military service.”

Shouldn’t the Army be at least as up to date as the elementary schools of San Francisco?

The guidelines even “…cover all sorts of scenarios – from shower stall etiquette to “transfemale” soldiers deployed to anti-LGBT countries.” I know, I know, you thought that armies were supposed to kick collective asses not kowtow to social mores of the lesser nation. What the hell is shower stall etiquette besides don’t drop the soap?

But the coup de grace is, “The Army has begun mandatory transgender sensitivity training for…dealing with a male soldier who becomes pregnant.”

I think someone in the Army watched Junior and thought it was a documentary.

From your grumpy male Uncle/Brother Dave, sharing guidelines “…mandated during the Obama Administration.”

Weary

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/16/armys-transgender-policy-includes-guidelines-on-male-pregnancies.html

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/08/san-francisco-elementary-school-switches-to-gender-neutral-bathrooms-for-little-kids/

Better Him Than Me

1/29/18

I think I’ve mentioned before that I do not watch TV doctor-shows. Because the shows are so ridiculously unreal.

They, those responsible for the show’s existence, take a subject that is otherwise entertaining, good, shocking, and a lot of other adjectives thrown in for good measure, and they apply their license. Literary license, that oft sought after quality of lying. As is often said, the only truth is that everybody lies (I specifically did not reference House for this quote because House is not the origin of this saying).

Some of the ones that I am acquainted with include The Doctor, Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Marcus Welby, MD, M*A*S*H and MASH (yes they are different), Doogie Howser, MD, St. Elsewhere, House, The Resident. There are many, many others. The one thing that they all have in common is fiction. There isn’t an ounce of truth in any of them. They stage sanitized scenes, use actors, write scripts with sanitized language, and add drama. They have to or they wouldn’t have an audience of 1.

I was recently introduced to a new, social media version of TV doctor-show. ZDoggMD. I’ll give you 2 links to his work that I did watch and enjoy. One for entertainment (1) and the other to illustrate what I’m trying to convey here without my having to actually watch one of the above-mentioned pieces of crap (2). I only qualify this with the following.

ZDogg does a pretty good job of critiquing The Resident (I’ve never seen the show BTW), he just doesn’t go far enough and actually gives checks (his metaphor for “that’s OK” as opposed to an X for “that’s a fail”) where I would not.

But the times, they do change. I watched a few ZDogg YouTube productions and laughed my ass off.

Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave’s 35 years of experience in The Reality Medical Show.

Weary

1. A lot like sepsis, an entertaining spoof of It’s starting to look A Lot Like Christmas; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6q5FGoaxg8

2. A real doctor watches The Resident, a critique of the newest doctor show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzLXH52Vr4

Russian-Ukrainian Crime

7/2017

As John Travolta’s character Vinnie Barbarino used to say in the TV sitcom Welcome Back Cotter (1975-79), “I’m so confused.”

First, there is this news story (1) about some Ukrainian-Russians that stole a bee farmer’s bee-hives.

I have to ask, were they Russian or were they Ukrainian? If you ask them, neither identifies as both. The Ukrainians say they are Ukrainians, even those that grew up under Russian rule, and that they are not Russian. The news reports daily that the Russians are invading Ukraine and trying to ethnically cleanse it. If you ask a Russian if he is anything else, well just stand back because the least you will get is a verbal lambasting and you may have to resort to physical self-defense.

And then there is the issue that Russian bashing is now the rage. Since Trump took office. Before Trump, the Russians and socialism were all the rage in liberal-think. They (liberals) have been in bed with the socialist agenda and their “Hero’s Have Always Been Russians”, so to speak, since liberalism was born. Of course, Putin has made hay with that. What I mean is that by publicly complimenting Trump, bashing Trump-haters and sending emissaries to meet with Trump, he has effectively fueled the fire for the liberals to drag Trump across the media coals whether he means what he says or not.

And thirdly, we have been told that the Russian Mafia has arrived. It must be true because there have been countless movies with Russians portrayed as the character(s) everyone loves to hate or be scared of. They are rumored to be involved in drugs, theft, human trafficking, prostitution… .

Surely, this isn’t a case of a confused Russian thug who was told to go out and get some of America’s sweet honey pot and he came home with 488 Montana bee-hives instead of 488 virgin maidens?

So, which is it? Putin or the Russian Mafia?

“Law enforcement suspects that Ukrainian-Russians are stealing bee-hives to finance organized crime rings.” (1) The beehives were reported to have been worth $170,000. We all know from books and movies that a thief can only expect to get about 30% return on stolen goods. So just how much crime does $51,000 buy in this place called the Russian-Ukraine, or is that Ukrainian-Russia? I’d estimate that profits from drugs, theft, human trafficking and prostitution in the US accounts for more than the national budget of any 2 other first world countries. And this bee-hive theft occurred in the US. Talk about setting your sights low.

Thoughts on disorganized American-Ukrainian-Russian crime from your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/15/montana-beekeepers-stolen-hives-are-recovered-in-sting-operation.html

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Destined to Fail

7/2017

I had a great time visiting the grandkids when last in Texas. On the last day, my granddaughter and I were watching cartoons while I was waiting for my wife to get up. It was a show called Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. Something about bullies, I think. See this white rabbit with a dragon tail found out that he could fight back cause he could breathe fire after eating a carrot. We were fine with that.

Then at work the other night, I was talking with my scribe (a 20 something). She said that she and her boyfriend had gone to a drive-in movie (it’s all the rage, you have to try it) and saw the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. So, I asked her how she liked it. She said it was OK, but it was too unrealistic.

How can you wonder why I think there is no hope, your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.

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