I am thrilled that I was accepted into Purdue's Summer Honors event! I moved into the IPFW (Purdue Fort Wayne) dorms last Sunday and found that I had my own private room, so the camp started off very well!
We had 14 brilliant professors teaching us a wide range of subjects from Contract Law to History to Geology. On Monday, the first official day of camp, we studied French and Arabic cultures and languages before lunch, then went on a scavenger hunt for buildings and places on campus to help us learn our way around. Once we had all finished the scavenger hunt, we learned what our group project for the week would be and were placed into groups. The project was World War I Propaganda and there were 4 groups: Recruitment, Women in Propaganda, Peace, and Villainizing. I was in the villainizing group.
The next day began with "Uses of the Past," a workshop demonstrating the uses of history in our lives today. Then came the geology field trip to a nearby quarry, where we tried to identify different rock layers and their respective ages. Managing a quarry is far more complicated than any of us thought. Proper management of a quarry requires being familiar with, and abiding by, several binders full of rules and requirements. While there, we also learned about the incredible number of uses for the quarry's rocks and about the fossils we could find. We were allowed to search for fossils and take home anything that wasn't extremely rare, such as an entire skeleton. No one found any fossils rare enough that they were not allowed to keep it, but I found a Stromatoporoid sponge, which the Professor said was the best specimen he had ever seen of that kind! It's quite large (9" x 5"; about 10 pounds) and in excellent condition with a well-defined front and side view. Then we took a tour of the Geology labs and were able to see an electron microscope!
Wednesday was another awesome field trip: biology! We went to Crooked Lake and split into two groups: one would start with entomology and the other would start with ecology, then we would switch. I was in the first group and I successfully collected and identified (and later released) 22 species of insects and invertebrates - the most of any individual or group! Then we swapped classes with the second group to find a suitable tree to core and subsequently age. There were several microscopes available and we could look closely either at the cores to age the trees, or to take a good look at a dragonfly nymph and determine the species.
After lunch we had an interactive contract law class, in which we learned (1) how to make valid contracts and identify them, (2) whether a commercial advertisement is a contract, and (3) whether an agreement to go on a date is a contract and therefore legally binding. We were given a list of questions to answer, and I was happy to learn I provided the most legally accurate definitions.
On Thursday we learned about all of the groups and activities available at IPFW. We were also given some souvenirs from the Student Government representatives. Then we had a class about feminism and what it meant to us. The class also covered several current issues regarding people's rights including, but not limited to, women's rights. After lunch we began theater class, where we learned about the history of political theater and created plays based on our own experiences.
Friday we got to tour one of IPFW's incredible computer labs. There we learned about the capabilities of virtual reality, including Oculus Rift, and we were allowed to work with a few of the virtual reality programs set up by computer science students at IPFW. We also learned about all of the coding that went into the programs and the complexity of all of the equipment we were using. I wish we would have had the opportunity to do some coding, but I was the only student who had programming experience and an interest in engineering.
Then we went to a separate classroom for a political science class in which we discussed whether the United States had too much democracy, and the question led to a few spirited debates on the matter. After lunch we discussed a book which we had been given at the start of the week: All Quiet on the Western Front. Most of the other students were surprised by the reality of war. That night we presented our projects on World War I propaganda to our parents and families and had a scrumptious celebratory dinner.
I had a fantastic time, I learned an amazing amount of material, and I earned college credit toward a Purdue Honors Diploma! Many thanks to Ann Livschiz, head of the Honors Department, for arranging this incredible event!
One of the many extracurricular activities in which I am engaged is 4-H, a wonderful program run by Purdue in an effort to build interest in various fields. This year, I once again enrolled in the Computer Science project, and I had a blast!
I used my R2 as the basis of my project, which meant I had to write a book filled with all of my research, the steps I took when designing and building him, even the datasheets for all of the components on my PBCs! With all that information, the finished book was quite thick, so I also prepared a shortened version in the very front in case the judge did not have much time to spend reading the entire book.
The judge was interested in the various projects and asked every competitor a lot of relevant questions. When it was my turn, I booted up R2. R2 performed perfectly! I was able to share with the judge all of the important information pertaining to building an astromech. Once I had finished and he had asked his questions, he said he was speechless! He gave me a special merit with the possibility of Grand Champion! I will know tomorrow what I received on my project.
Update: I received Grand Champion! It is going to the state competition!
I have been asked how to set up and program an Arduino, and I am going to go through the setup and programming in a few easy steps.
The first step is to install the Arduino IDE, which can be found on Arduino's website. This is where you will write code for the Arduino and upload it to the board. It is, without doubt, one of the most vital components for running an Arduino, second only to the board itself.
Once the IDE is downloaded, the board type must be selected under the "Tools" menu. Simply go to "Board," select whichever board is to be programmed, and move on to plugging the board into your computer. After the board is plugged in and an LED or two has lit up on the board, go to the "Tools" tab again and go to "Port." Select the port that is not "COM 1" or "Serial Ports." If none appear, try "COM 1" and begin uploading the desired code. If it pops up an orange bar at the bottom of the screen which reads "Problem uploading to board," unplug the Arduino and plug it back in while watching the "Port" portion of the "Tools" menu until a different COM port shows up, then select the new COM port.
Once the code has been written, hit the arrow or go to "File" and hit "Upload."
Building the actual circuit is fairly easy with the most common Arduino, the Arduino Uno: turn off the Adruino by unplugging it, find a 220 Ohm resistor, an LED of any color (as long as it can run off of 5V), and connect the long leg on the LED to the resistor and the short leg to ground. Then wire the non-LED leg of the resistor to whichever Digital pin was chosen, which is shown under pinMode (pin 9 in this example). Power up the Arduino and voila! A blinking LED!
On June 20, I got to start my first day at IPFW's Battle of the Bots camp, and I couldn't wait to get started! In the Battle of the Bots camp, students must create robots and program their robots to do certain challenges with the fastest time or with the most accuracy.
We were assigned teams immediately after learning about the robots we would be building and what challenges we faced. The challenges were a drag race, an object-finding race where the team would be randomly assigned one of two colored boxes, and a cooperative challenge for EV3s working with other teams. I began discussing who would have which challenge with my team, and because I have experience coding, it was decided that I would code the VEX robots in RobotC while my teammates shared the coding of the EV3 robot.
I accomplished the drag race program on the second day, overcoming the disadvantage of one motor on the VEX moving more slowly than the other. I then began the second challenge and, after making a partially autonomous mode that would switch to remote control to find the specific box, I decided to create a fully autonomous mode that could be switched to move to either box.
On the day of the challenge, however, the slower motor completely failed and I was unable to participate in the race. Despite the technical limitations, I still had a wonderful time working with my team, learning about robot, their uses, and their programming from the expert speakers: Professor Chen, Mr. Dobbs, and Ms. Bellis.
One of the several IPFW camps I attended this year was their physics camp, and it was one of the best camps I have ever attended! The content was fantastic and the professors were outstanding.
On the first day of camp, we were allowed to choose two projects on which we would work for the remainder of the week. Our choices were to build 1) an interferometer, 2) an ECG, 3) a spectrometer, 4) a photon detector that will count individual photons. All of the projects sounded interesting, but I chose the photon detector as my first choice because it aligned most closely to my intended major (electrical engineering), I have a special affinity toward microcontrollers, and it sounded fascinating. I would have loved to work on all four projects, but I had to pick only one for my second project. The ECG very narrowly beat the other two projects in my level of interest. Also on that first day we began our first group experiments: determining the resistance of certain materials and how changing their shape, thickness, and composition can raise or lower the resistance. At the end of the day, we were given an exam, of sorts: given a glob of play dough, and given a specified diameter and length of the play dough, given a certain voltage (3V), and given no other materials, copy the amount of resistance in the professor's clay such that 14 mA was flowing through the play dough. I am very happy that I was the only student who was able to come up with the correct solution. I created a resistor from a sheet of my lab notebook, placed it inside the core of the play dough, and thereby created the perfect amount of resistance to get the correct number of amps through the play dough.
The second day marked the beginning of our splitting up into project groups. At the start of each day we would work with the professor in charge of one of our selected projects, then after lunch we would switch to the professor in charge of the other project we chose. For me, the morning project was the ECG. Dr. Johnson began by reviewing how to use breadboards, create circuits, and how to measure voltages, resistance, and current. Once all of the other students understood how things worked (I was already familiar with these techniques), we began working with an OpAmp (Operational Amplifier) and discovering what it did and how we could alter our voltage and current by simply changing the resistors out. We then adapted it to measure voltage in a solution, and on the very last day, measure voltage across the human body. Working with OpAmps was fortuitous since I had begun studying them and their uses the week before camp began. I enjoyed getting the chance to work with one.
The photon detector project began with helping teach the other students how to solder so we could assemble our microcontrollers and LCD screens and begin working with them. Then Dr. Masters started teaching us to program the LCDs to show whatever text we wanted, to count up and down, and to use a pulse-wave modulator to make LEDs change as the counter went up or down. We also learned to make a photon detector using an oscilloscope, a backwards infrared LED, a power supply and a resistor. With the oscilloscope we were able to watch as each photon hit the LED and made a small spike on the oscilloscope. I loved this project! In fact, I am continuing to work on it even though camp is over. I am planning to expand on the readings displayed by the LCD screen taken by the LED.
The third day was continuation of the two projects, in addition to an extra challenge at the end of the day. We were to match the salt content to a variety of power drinks. To do this, we had to determine the conductivity of salt dissolved in water using a multimeter and OpAmp given various resistances. The one that was most conductive (most salty) was the drink that had the highest salt content on the label, and so on down the line. We were divided into two teams for this challenge. The other team only used one resistor in their tests, and they were certain of their results. I wanted to confirm our results so our team used multiple resistors to test each result. Our team won!
The rest of the camp was spent finishing the two projects.
With such awesome projects and helpful professors, it was impossible to not have a great time at the physics camp! Many thanks to the professors: Dr. Masters, Dr. Grove, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Wang, and Dr. Millspaw!


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The Flaming Lips Revel in Patriotism and Druggy Fantasies on American Head
The psych-rock band flirts with country-inspired psychedelia on a muddled and disappointing 16th album
By Zach Schonfeld | September 9, 2020 | 3:27pm
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Since emerging from their guest-studded "fwends" era with 2017's Oczy Mlody, The Flaming Lips have been on an unusually prolific tip, even by their elevated standards. Neither a global pandemic nor Wayne Coyne's recent entry into first-time fatherhood seem capable of slowing them down: American Head is the psych-rock group's third album in four years (fourth if you count the Deap Lips collaboration)—and these are proper studio albums, mind you, not EPs encased in giant gummy fetuses.
What distinguishes American Head from other recent output is how suspiciously normal its central conceit happens to be. It's not a concept album about evil-natured robots, or a magical severed head. It's a celebration of the band's American roots, rich with lyrical references to Coyne's Oklahoma City upbringing with his troublemaking brothers. "For the first time in our musical life, we began to think of ourselves as AN AMERICAN BAND,' telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure," Coyne writes in an explanatory essay. Lord knows what's more American already than a band of amateurish Oklahoma freaks who worked their way up to convincing a major label to let them release four CDs intended to be played simultaneously, but the Lips have also enjoyed numerous flirtations with British culture. This particular record doesn't contain any Beatles tributes or winding narration by Mick Jones.
In practice, American Head isn't such a dramatic departure. The record mostly sloshes around in the kaleidoscope-eyed orchestral pop that has been this band's hallmark since Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. There are moments of genuine melancholy elegance, such as the ambling psychedelia of "Mother, Please Don't Be Sad," in which a deceased narrator consoles his own mother as he lays dead, or "Watching the Lightbugs Glow," a downbeat "Great Gig in the Sky" homage starring Kacey Musgraves' humming instead of Clare Torry's wailing.
There is also a more pronounced country influence. Musgraves returns to duet with Coyne on "Flowers of Neptune 6," a sighing psychedelic gem, as well as on an ominous crime vignette called "God and the Policeman." (The collaboration makes more sense than you might think, given Musgraves' pivot towards lightly experimental country-pop on Golden Hour.) Steven Drozd's harmonies and melodic flourishes are as buoyant as ever, and Coyne's familial mood (several tracks reference his older brothers' youthful antics, such as Tommy Coyne crashing his motorcycle) lends the album a sense of unexpected intimacy.
But by track four, a whimsical-by-numbers reverie called "Dinosaurs on the Mountain," American Head starts to fall off an American cliff. The tempos are slow enough to deflate even Coyne's considerable charm, and the record's rootsy, pastoral spin on the Lips' sound is undermined by the band's maximalist production ethos. Nearly every song is overstuffed with queasy synth textures and sleek, digitized strings, and Coyne can't resist warping his vocals in a grab-bag of ugly processors, such as the vocoder croon he uses to serenade his younger self on "Assassins of Youth" or the robotic effect that renders "Brother Eye" dead on arrival. For an album so steeped in nostalgia for the Flaming Lips' early history, American Head never quite recaptures the feel of three inspired humans playing music together in a sweaty room.
The other frustrating aspect of American Head is Coyne's incessant reliance on drug imagery. Coyne has always been the kind of songwriter who seems more interested in singing about drugs than actually taking them, a tendency that resulted in one of the band's best and most gleefully sacrilegious epics, 1986's "Jesus Shootin' Heroin." Now, though, the singer's druggy preoccupations are starting to feel like a crutch, a sophomoric shorthand for imbuing mundane storytelling with psychedelic overtones. Four of the album's 13 songs, from the melodramatic bombast of "Mother, I've Taken LSD" to the embarrassingly half-cooked dope-dealing fantasy "You n Me Sellin' Weed," overtly reference drugs in their titles.
This theme does connect to Coyne's 1970s youth, but the singer's nostalgic mood might seem more revelatory if it weren't enveloped in inane musical decisions, such as the plodding beats and farm animal sounds that emerge in "You n Me Sellin' Weed." Such indulgences are cringey enough to make you question whether Clouds Taste Metallic really is the mind-melting masterpiece you remember, or if you were just an impressionable college freshman when you first heard it. (Fortunately, both can be true.)
What's disappointing is that a well-crafted Flaming Lips country album could have been pretty great, or at least an appealing curveball. The Lips can do stripped-down, folky melancholia, or at least they once could—check out the Okie Noodling soundtrack (their score for a 2001 documentary about Oklahoma handfishing), or "Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Internal Existential Fear," a gorgeous gem from the soundtrack to 2005 rockumentary The Fearless Freaks. The best moments on American Head, most of which involve Musgraves, grasp at that sort of understated beauty. But these days, understating things doesn't much seem to be The Flaming Lips' mission.
Zach Schonfeld is a freelance writer and journalist based in New York. He contributes regularly to Paste, Pitchfork, VICE, and other publications. Previously, he was a senior writer for Newsweek. His first book comes out in November 2020.
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This is one of the best week's of the year for any golfer as the golf season is now underway and we have The Masters Tournament at the world famous Augusta National just about to commence. The Masters really is a tournament like no other with a fantastic tradition played over one of the most picturesque golf courses in the world that everyone recognises, and the return of Tiger Woods adds even more intrigue to the week. If you haven't got Sky TV full coverage of The Masters will be shown in our clubhouse so why not call in and play nine holes before watching the best players on the planet battle probably the most famous golf course in the world!
The weather this week has finally improved and I'm sure that many of you will now have played your first competitive rounds of golf this season, hopefully with our help we can make this your best season yet! I know that this newsletter is very well read and lots of you find it informative but also make sure that you keep up to date with all the latest news and goings on here at the club by also liking our Facebook (Hartford Golf Club) page and following us on Twitter (@hartfordgolfc) for daily updates.
The season at Hartford got off to a cracking on Saturday as the weather was good and the golf course was in fantastic condition for the Captain's drive in, new Captain Liam Tyrer had the honour of hitting the first shot of the summer and there was a great turn out of members to cheer him on. Despite his nerves and a boisterous crowd Liam hit a cracking shot up the right hand side of the fairway. Well done Liam, probably the best shot you've ever hit on the first!
The captain's drive in on Saturday was followed by the April Medal which had a good entry of 45 players, the scoring was good considering that this was the first competition of the season, 18 handicapper Alan Royle certainly didn't show any rustiness in his game as he scored a nett 63 to take the victory. Alan knew he was going to have a good day when he had four pars to start but actually his round could have been even better as he finished with two double bogey's, this was however offset by birdies on holes thirteen and fifteen.
The form player of the winter was Gareth Eaton and he continued his good run in to the new season as he fired a brilliant nett 64, he really came to life on the back nine scoring a one under par gross 33 and now sees his handicap drop to 6 - the lowest it's ever been! 5 handicapper Steve Bond is another player that always features near the top of the leaderboard and he fired a nett 67 including four birdies to finish in third place.
The next competition is the Spring Stableford this Saturday starting at 12.04pm, good luck also to our team led by Chris Bird that are playing in the third round of the Mail on Sunday Classic at home against Portal on Sunday, let's hope we can get a win!
Remember also that you can enter the Singles Knockout and Pairs Knockout by putting your name on the entry list and paying the £5 entry fee any time before the draw takes place on 25th August, if you're looking for a pairs partner click here to let me know and I can probably fix you up.
The players entered in the Bank Holiday Stableford enjoyed playing a golf course bathed in afternoon sunshine, Stuart Fallows' golf game was certainly hot as he blitzed round the course in 46 points! Stuart played steady golf all the way round scoring on every hole and he especially came to life on the back nine with 24 points including a birdie on the fifteenth. There was a lot of good golf played in Stuart's group as fellow playing partners Dave Shering and Paul Foster came second and third respectively with 43 points and 39 points, Dave fired three birdies in his round but couldn't quite match Stuart's winning total.
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It's no coincidence that when you look at the competition results at Hartford the players with the best scores week in week out have almost always been using equipment custom fitted for them by us. I cannot over state enough the difference this can make to your game, how it can help you play with confidence and help you reach your full golfing potential.
Both weekend competition winners have recently been fitted for new clubs - on Saturday Alan Royle was using his new Callaway irons to good effect and Stuart Fallows recently was fitted for a new Callaway driver, fairway wood and hybrid these contributed massively to what he described as his 'best game of golf ever' on Monday when he scored a massive 46 points to win the Bank Holiday Stableford. Stuart had been struggling a bit with his game but the new woods have transformed his long game and as a result given him new confidence in his game, if you haven't visited us yet for a fitting session you really are missing out!
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There are plenty of golfers in with a good chance of winning this week at Augusta, world number one Rory McIlroy (6/1) is in good form and he clearly has the game to suit Augusta with his high towering ball flight and length off the tee plus he is trying to complete the famous Grand Slam, the only thing is can he handle the huge amount of pressure and expectancy placed on his shoulders? Young American Jordan Spieth (9/1) has been playing plenty of good golf recently and he has had a victory and string of top ten finishes, he is statistically the best putter on tour this year and I don't think you can win around Augusta if you aren't a good putter, he also has a cool calm demeanour and I would expect him to feature in the top five. Also look out for big hitting Swede Henrik Stenson (20/1), apparently he's been battling a bout of flu recently but he seems to be hitting the ball better than ever and is full of confidence, now could be the perfect time to win his first major.
If you're looking for some longer odds value bets I would have a look at Hideki Matsuyama (60/1), Paul Casey (70/1) and Webb Simpson (150/1) they all hit the ball pretty straight and high, hitting a high ball definitely gives you an advantage at Augusta whilst they've all got decent short games and they've also all showed pretty good form in the past few weeks. Funnily enough these three players are all paired together for the first two days, this could also help their chances if they're all playing well.
Continuing on The Masters theme in the shop available to purchase we have every Nike outfit that Rory McIlroy will be seen wearing this week over the four days of The Masters. You will see a lot of the bright vibrant Volt colour story which is coupled with Nike's dri-fit technology to keep Rory cool and looking his best on the golf course.
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The month of April sees the return of one of our most popular promotions - the April shoe trade in deal. I'm sure that many of you have been waiting for this and if your current pair of shoes are leaking or looking tired now is the ideal time to upgrade and trade them in and get up to £20 OFF a new pair of shoes ready for the summer.
Well done to our vice-captain Paul Underwood who scored his first ever hole in one this week, he was on a golfing trip to Scotland and it came at the Cardrona Golf Club. I'm sure that the drinks will be on Paul when he gets back to celebrate!
Outgoing seniors captain Graham Bower organised an away trip as his swan song to Hill Valley Golf Club in Shropshire last week, unfortunately the weather wasn't good with heavy rain and strong winds making an already long course play even tougher. Ken Powell battled the elements the best out of the 28 seniors that played to score 35 points, which was a great score considering the conditions, so good that he was well ahead of Alan Tayler in second on 30 points and third was Phil Pickering on 29 points.
Next Tuesday the seniors play a handicap qualifying nine hole Stableford starting at 9.16am.
After the lady captain's drive in Stableford was washed out last week it was re-arranged for Thursday morning, thankfully the weather was much kinder to the ladies on the second attempt. The winner was Collette Walling with a 17 point total, she just edged out Elspeth Forbes on a card play off after she also returned 17 points, Jean Clare came third with 16 points. Here's the winner photographed with lady captain Annie Rowland.
Remember that from this week the ladies Thursday morning golf, which is a nine hole Stableford, will start at 9.32am. This is the new start time for the ladies every week from now on.


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Q: Integrating Flurry AppCircle Clips I've integrated Flurry Analytics and now am trying to add Flurry AppCircle Clips, but the AppCircle docs only seem to pertain to banners.
I'm looking for full screen ads or video ads to display at key times during my app's usage and would like to see documentation of how to implement such.
Has anyone any examples of creating a full-screen AppCircle Clip?

A: AppCircle provides openTakeover which you can take advantage, here is an example call:
[FlurryAppCircle openTakeover:@"my_hook_name" orientation:orientationString
    rewardImage:rewardImage rewardMessage:rewardString userCookies:nil];

Mike
Partner Integration, Flurry

A: Using the Flurry SDK (3.0.3), after including all the proper header files...
Include the FlurryAdDelegate protocol:
// MyAppDelegate.h
@interface MyAppDelegate : NSObject <FlurryAdDelegate> {
    // ...
}

Setup Flurry Analytics and AppCircle:
(Not sure why the delegate-setting redundancy, but it didn't seem to work with only setting the protocol.)
// MyAppDelegate.m

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    [FlurryAppCircle setAppCircleEnabled:YES];
    [FlurryClips setVideoAdsEnabled:YES];
    [FlurryAppCircle setAppCircleDelegate:self];
    [FlurryAnalytics startSession:@"AWWWTH36PXLU6Y3DN3GB"];

    // rest of my code ...
}

Then in my custom UIView class: (Again, after including all the proper header files)
// MyCustomView.m
[FlurryClips videoAdIsAvailable:@"VIDEO_SPLASH_HOOK"];
[FlurryClips openVideoTakeover:@"VIDEO_SPLASH_HOOK"
                   orientation:@"portrait"
                   rewardImage:nil
                 rewardMessage:nil
                   userCookies:nil
                      autoPlay:YES];

Also be sure to #import MediaPlayer.h in the appropriate view. (I think I read this somewhere in some version of the Flurry docs, but can't find it now... Doesn't help that the PDFs have a funny character encoding and are thus non-indexable).
I'd host the AppCircle-Clips docs they sent me, but am not sure if they'd approve, since they don't seem to have these available on the downloaded SDK. (Perhaps, because it won't let me download the 3.1 for my project?)
For further AppCircle-Clips-related questions, you can also email appcircleclips@flurry.com

A: First, I must apologize for this thread.
And I show my reason.
My project encountered same problem with @Old McStopher.And I asked my own question here
Unfortunately, nobody give us a correct answer.
The only hope about this question is the post which @Old McStopher posted -- "Thanks, Mike. Someone from Flurry replied with detailed instructions. I'm waiting for an official link to the Clips-specific instructions and will post it here for anyone else interested."
I really really need this implement for my project.I hope @Old McStopher could post his solve.
But I do NOT know how to contact @Old McStopher.
Apologize again.

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The federal government will soon be announcing the award of a contract to study what compensation and reward practices matter most to federal employees and stand the greatest chance of encouraging merit in government service, according to Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.
"One of the things that we're about to go to field with is a broad, modern compensation, rewards and recognition study. I think there's been a ton of focus on pay, which is actually a very narrow component of what motivates human beings once they've met the basic need for food, clothing and shelter," said Weichert at a March 20 press briefing.
According to Weichert, pay and benefits both received above 60 percent in FEVS satisfaction scores, while performance rewards scored between 30 and 40 percent.
The Trump administration has long tried to adjust the federal compensation system to better reflect the performance of employees, but attempts to freeze federal pay rather than offer an across-the-board pay raise were overturned by Congress in the most recent funding package.
Though Weichert said that the award for the study had yet to be made, and details were therefore sparse, she said that the study would try to uncover what kinds of compensation structures would best fit a modern workforce.
"We want to field a broader conversation, and I think pay is too narrow. I asked the question: how do we really use 21st century, leading practices around rewards and recognition? And that includes compensation, but it's bigger than that," said Weichert.
Those rewards may include practices that improve work-life balance, provide better access to job progression or offer training to transition into more-needed, higher-paying positions.
According to Weichert, the study will also try to more effectively compare the whole of federal pay and benefits to the private sector.
Past comparisons have presented conflicting results, depending on the scope and education level of the federal workforce examined.


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The war-torn soul of John Kerry
From biographer Douglas Brinkley's Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, we get this powerful portrait of young John Kerry's anguish, quoting a lengthy letter he wrote to his sweetheart (pp. 82-83; boldface mine):
Judy Darling,
There are so many ways this letter could become a bitter diatribe and go rumbling off into irrational nothings.... I feel so bitter and angry and everywhere around me there is nothing but violence and war and gross insensitivity. I am really very frightened to be honest because when the news [of the combat death of his college friend, Dick Pershing] sunk in I had no alternatives but to carry on in the face of trivia that forced me to build a horrible protective screen around myself....
The world I'm a part of out there is so very different from anything you, I, or our close friends can imagine. It's fitted with primitive survial, with destruction of an endless dying seemingly pointless nature and forces one to grow up in a fast — no holds barred fashion. In the small time I have been gone, does it seem strange to say that I feel as though I have seen several years experience go by.... No matter [where] one is — no matter what job — you do not and cannot forget that you are at war and that the enemy is ever present — that anyone could at some time for the same stupid irrational something that stole Persh be gone tomorrow.
You can practically hear the mortar rounds shriek overhead Kerry's foxhole, can't you? Everything around him "is nothing but violence and war" — "endless dying," the enemy "ever present."
Except that this letter was written in Febuary 1968, while Kerry was an ensign aboard the missile cruiser U.S.S. Gridley as it plied the dangerous waters of war-torn Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The Gridley was still almost 6000 miles and many weeks away from the waters offshore of Vietnam. Certainly Kerry already knew that once there, he would remain aboard that large ship, on which his own risk of death or injury through combat would be essentially nill. (During its entire service, the Gridley had only one combat fatality, Petty Officer William J. Duggan, who was killed while aboard a helicopter flying a search and rescue mission in 1967. Kerry flew no such missions.)
I have no doubt that young Kerry felt genuine grief at the report of his college friend's combat death — certainly everyone who knew and loved Dick Pershing felt that. Sadly, there were many deaths to mourn. Nor do I mock or denigrate the notion that serving aboard the Gridley was important and patriotic. [Update: And as a veteran of the Gridley aptly pointed out in my comments below, there were very real noncombat dangers in that service, as in much of military life even during peacetime.]
But what's striking — and yes, what I frankly do mock — is the incredible self-aggrandizement and exaggeration of this letter. Brinkley reports this with a straight face and, seemingly, a completely tin ear.
On to Kerry's shore patrol duties when the Gridley was at Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines. This came after a brief patrol in which, as Brinkley reports, "[every] day that the Gridley patrolled the Gulf of Tonkin an enemy attack was remotely possible." (That would be from the North Vietnamese Navy's combined battleships-and-aircraft-carriers task force, one presumes.) At Subic, Kerry had Shore Patrol duty. But even in that duty, Kerry and his biographer must find the seeds of Candidate Kerry's future greatness and nobility (page 88):
Kerry was both amused and surprised by the squalid life of this liberty city. His "beat" was the bars and brothels part of town.... On [one] occasion he came upon a woman passed out on the floor of a bar, a sailor standing above her muttering, "Please don't let her die," over and over. Kerry felt for her pulse and tried to bring her back to consciousness. He succeeded.
Well, damn! He woke up a drunk bar girl, isn't that worth another Bronze Star at least?
Later Brinkley writes breathlessly of the Gridley's return to Vietnamese waters, where Kerry came "only forty miles away" from "North Vietnam's treacherous Haiphong." Now, again, I'm not suggesting this was trivial duty or that the Gridley should have turned off its radar and sonar and sent all its crew to bed drunk around 11pm. But of this duty, we find Kerry writing to his parents (page 94-95):
The Viet Cong have tremendously increased their counter batteries along the coast and there is not a ship on the shore bombardment that does not encounter opposition. Most of the shore effort is down south — in the I Corps area where Persh was killed.
I guess that must've been pretty much exactly like The Guns of Navarrone, wasn't it?
A couple of Brinkley's short passages about Kerry's service aboard the Gridley do resonate, so to speak — if not in ways Brinkley may have intended. From page 84, describing the Gridley's voyage from Long Beach to Honolulu:
Every few days while at sea he would write an 800-word vignette about World War II battles that he would then read over the intercom in his best Edward R. Murrow stentorian tones.
And from page 86:
One time [Ensign Kerry] was directing helicopters during an exercise from the Combat Information Center. [Robert E.] Jack, who was the watch officer that day, said, "Captain Harper (who had been listening to the radio chatter on the bridge) burst into CIC and asked me who was that person talking to the helos with the great voice. So, I guess the skipper did at least give John a compliment on one occasion."
Too bad Kerry didn't have a chance to tell his shipmates about "Jeng-jhis" Khan, but I think we can all be sure that both his vignettes about naval history and his instructions to the helo pilots must have been "seared — seared" into their memories nonetheless.
Kerry's service aboard the Gridley has drawn almost no attention in the current SwiftVets controversy, and he's rarely mentioned it during his campaign — even though he spent three times as long assigned to that ship as he did in the Swiftees. It's well worth your time to read the reactions to the chapter from ToD about his Gridley time from those who served with him then on the Gridley's website. You'll find comments there detailing more of Kerry's consistent self-aggrandizement and exaggeration as reported by Brinkley in ToD — Kerry claiming responsibility for "motivating 400 swabbies," when his actual responsibilities were for 30, for instance. The Gridley's website home page has a very understandable reaction:
When questioned about [the relative lack of reporting in his biographical materials about Kerry's greater time aboard the Gridley], Kerry told Douglas Brinkley that "nothing much of note happened during his tour aboard the vessel." So much for us!
I say again: I do not mock or belittle Kerry's service aboard the Gridley. It's something he should be very proud of — even if it wasn't the stuff of which Hollywood movies are made. There are a whole lot more vets (and friends and family of vets) whose military service has resembled Kerry's aboard the Gridley, and can you not imagine how positively they'd have reacted if, instead of ignoring his time there, Kerry had made that service at least some small part of the balloons-lights-and-magic routine at the Democratic National Convention?
Instead, the only way he's used his Gridley service in his campaign has been as a basis for claiming that he served "two tours in Vietnam." If anyone's mocking and belittling the Gridley, it's John Forbes Kerry.
Posted by Beldar at 06:17 PM in Books, Politics (2006 & earlier), SwiftVets | Permalink
Other weblog posts, if any, whose authors have linked to The war-torn soul of John Kerry and sent a trackback ping are listed here:
» Those Lying Eyes from Cranial Cavity
Tracked on Aug 29, 2004 9:33:42 PM
» http://inbillsworld.blogspot.com/2004/08/john-kerry-unfit-for-command-update-22.html from In Bill's World
Tracked on Aug 30, 2004 4:48:19 AM
» The Kerry Grill from Les Jones Blog
» Hilarious story from Beldar from Media Lies
Tracked on Aug 30, 2004 11:30:30 AM
(1) Narniaman made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 6:26:23 PM | Permalink
So what is exactly the problem with what Kerry was saying? I think he was being quite truthful. Let's look at this sentence by sentence. . . .
"The world I'm a part of out there is so very different from anything you, I, or our close friends can imagine."
Yep, he's in the military. Not exactly like prep school or a skiing vacation in Switzerland.
"It's fitted with primitive survial, with destruction of an endless dying seemingly pointless nature and forces one to grow up in a fast — no holds barred fashion. "
In the military they teach people to fight and kill, while to avoid being killed. Not exactly what they taught at Yale.
"No matter [where] one is — no matter what job — you do not and cannot forget that you are at war and that the enemy is ever present"
The enemy was ever present. They surrounded him every day. John Kerry's enemy was the US military. He certainly seemed to have a higher opinion of the Viet Cong than he did of the US Navy.
So you see, Honest John is once again vindicated from the vicious mean attacks the digital brownshirts are hurling at him by quoting what he actually has said and written.
(2) Deb made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 6:58:46 PM | Permalink
That looks remarkably like a "feel sorry for me, I want to get laid next time I see you" letter. :o)
(3) GaryK made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 7:40:25 PM | Permalink
The needle on my BS meter just wrapped itself around the peg. This guy was full of it (and himself) then and he is full of it now. Is this the kind of jerk we want as president?
(4) Jumbo made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:07:41 PM | Permalink
"So what is exactly the problem with what Kerry was saying? I think he was being quite truthful(.)"
That's an argument an advocate would make. And you would savage it were the tables turned and it was Bush's or Cheney's to make. The problem, as I think Beldar laid out very clearly, is that the letter is an early example of the kind of self-dramatization which, it is slowly coming clear, was a common technique used by Kerry about much of his service. The obvious context of the letter is that, as he writes, he IS IN combat, under fire, literally surrounded by death and destruction, which he has personally witnessed. He Knows Things No Man Should Know kind of stuff.
It is an early entry to the myth he was making. I'm embarrassed to see him doing this; it's something adolescents, even juveniles do. You can almost picture him gravely writng, while a song plays in his head: "Fighting sooooldiers from the sky...". Creepy and sad.
(5) Cog made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:09:27 PM | Permalink
Put a fork in him, he is done.
(6) DCRob made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:17:36 PM | Permalink
History repeats itself. In 1968 young Kerry lamented that "everywhere around me there is nothing but violence and war and gross insensitivity." And in 2004 he wishes to wage a "more sensitive" war on terror. So much insensitivity, so little time.
(7) Patrick R. Sullivan made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:19:42 PM | Permalink
"I guess that must've been pretty much exactly like The Guns of Navarrone, wasn't it?"
I'm sure John is simply too much of a gentleman to have told of how torrid was the affair he had with Gia Scala.
(8) stevesturm made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:28:45 PM | Permalink
not only did kerry p*** off his fellow sailors aboard the Gridley, he made up the story about when the ship returned from duty on the day RFK died. This claim is contradicted not only by the official ship history but also by the journal of Kerry's superior aboard ship.
For details: link
(9) Beldar made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:38:52 PM | Permalink
Jumbo, I think Narniaman's comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. But you're right about Kerry's fantasies. Again, from ToD (pp. 133-33, boldface mine), telling of his arrival "in-country" to start his Swiftees tour:
As he waited outside the terminal for the truck that would take him to his post, off in the distance, Kerry spied a lush field high on a lovely mountaintop.... He remembered where he was and a "stupid vision," as he put it, came to him. He imagined being set upon by Viet Cong in black pajamas on that lovely mountain field, and he worried that his instinctive protests would betray his naïveté and fear: "Why do you want to kill me? I haven't done anything to you!" But then it occurred to him that just being an American armed with a rifle in Vietnam would give the VC all the justification they needed to kill him. "I saw myself waiting to be shot and then falling in slow motion, tumbling over and over again, to finally lie alone in the field with an eerie stillness muffling the echo of gunfire," Kerry wrote of the reverie in his personal journal. "The truck then arrived to transport us to the base."
But then literally two pages later:
It irked him to be assigned to the "fun in the sun and surf division"; he had not come to Vietnam for jukeboxes and cheap liquor. If he was going to avenge the death of Dick Pershing, he needed to see combat, or at least some sort of action beyond that offered by the diversions available at Cam Ranh. Like Platoon director Oliver Stone — who had served fifteen months in Vietnam ... — Kerry felt inexplicably drawn to combat.
He's the hero of his own internal war movie. Or the anti-hero. He can't seem to decide; it's very nuanced and sensitive. But it's damned sure he gets top billing either way.
(10) 73wcf4440 made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:41:00 PM | Permalink
Ok, so far he's saved the lives of:
1. A drunk Philipina
2. VC, the dog who wasn't
3. Jim Rassman
4. His daughter's pet rodent
Is it me or is there a John F. Christ element to all this?
(11) Beldar made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:42:36 PM | Permalink
73wcf4440, be fair now. He doesn't claim to have resurrected Licorice the Unlucky Hamster, just to have given it CPR.
Patrick, he did famously date Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg, and Dana Delany between his marriages to the two heiresses.
(13) Karine A. made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:49:12 PM | Permalink
"That looks remarkably like a "feel sorry for me, I want to get laid next time I see you" letter. :o)"
That was my reaction too!
(14) Jumbo made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 9:50:30 PM | Permalink
"Jumbo, I think Narniaman's comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek."
*ahem* That would appear to be correct, sir. I should have recognized that anybody who chooses his handle as an allusion to C.S. Lewis must have his head on straight. Pardon, Narn? I promise never to be snarkily sanctimonious (at least towards you) again.
(15) Dave made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 10:19:38 PM | Permalink
.....Geez....Don't you guys recognize ENSIGN PULVER when you read the script ? Now....wheres that palm tree ?
(16) Mark made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 10:21:23 PM | Permalink
Maybe we're being too hard on Kerry's melodramatic exaggerations - maybe he was just an emo kid.
http://www.time.com/time/election2004/photoessay/gatefold/7.html
(17) The Raving Atheist made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 10:47:58 PM | Permalink
But it is Jeng-jhis.
(18) MJ made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 10:52:59 PM | Permalink
It reads like it was written with Roger Whittaker's song "The Last Farewell" playing in the background...
"I heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell"
(19) Beldar made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:03:08 PM | Permalink
Indeed, friend Athiest. And a man who can give an erudite pronunciation of Ghengis Khan's name can surely be counted upon to draw other essential lessons from culture and history. After all, Kerry was right in that very same speech, wasn't he, about the 3000 casualties and other minimal effects from a North Vietnamese overrun of the South?
(20) Bill made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:10:38 PM | Permalink
What a crock. I transferred off of the Gridley about a week before he wrote that letter. I spent several cruises off the coast of Vietnam both before and after that time. He was in danger alright, but it was the normal day-to-day dangers of the Navy. The chances of the North Vietnamese or VC hurting him were minor compared to the chances of a line parting or bashing your head while negotiating a scuttle. But, of course, those kinds of danger aren't dramatic enought for a man of Kerry's stature. BTW, I spent dozens of times in Olongapo and never once saw a bar girl passed out. For the most part the "ladies drinks" were weak tea so that they could stay sober while WE got drunk.
(21) Pat Curley made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:14:57 PM | Permalink
I was amused by Brinkley's imaginative name for the Gridley chapter: High Seas Adventures. Really his chapter titles were right out of the Hardy Boys--Braving the Bo De River, etc.
(22) 73wcf4440 made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:15:23 PM | Permalink
" He doesn't claim to have resurrected Licorice the Unlucky Hamster, just to have given it CPR."
Just give him time, Beldar, give him time!
(23) ed made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:18:40 PM | Permalink
"For the most part the "ladies drinks" were weak tea so that they could stay sober while WE got drunk."
Yeah. It's like that all the world over. A girl that's passed out is one that's not earning money. And a smart girl can make just as much from kickbacks on her "drinks" as she could in any other way.
Memories. :)
(24) tvd made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:32:04 PM | Permalink
Perhaps you can penetrate this fog, O Mighty Beldar.
Young Mr. Kerry had already spoken out against the Vietnam War before he entered the service.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4271520/
Why, then, did he volunteer for the Navy?
Or why did he accept a shotgun wedding with the US Navy rather accept induction as this July 3 article maintains, link, instead of applying for Conscientious Objector status?
I respect the COs of that era as being true to their principles. But what principle was Young Mr. Kerry adhering to---don't ruin your future political career with changing bedpans as your combat record?
And why did he remain in the heinous US military (Navy Reserves) until 1978, after he had charged it with systematic Vietnam atrocities in 1971?
What principle was he adhering to?
Help us prospective Kerry voters out here, B.
(25) Narniaman made the following comment | Aug 29, 2004 11:35:20 PM | Permalink
"*ahem* That would appear to be correct, sir. I should have recognized that anybody who chooses his handle as an allusion to C.S. Lewis must have his head on straight. Pardon, Narn? I promise never to be snarkily sanctimonious (at least towards you) again."
My comment.
Let's just say I was booted out of the John F. Kerry personal fan club before I even got an invitation to join.
This just serves to illustrate how surreal this is all becoming. The stuff the Kerry supporters, uh, Anybody But Bush Crowd are spurting off almost go beyond parody.
I do wonder about something, though. I would bet that Kerry's most excellent Cambodia in Christmas adventure with VC the Wonderdog and the Secret Agent Man were spawned in his memory by watching Apocalypse Now a decade later. I wonder if Kerry's stirring account of the Battle of Long Beach wasn't helped along by some book he was reading at the time -- perhaps some book on World War II? Is anyone out there familiar with some good WW II histories that Kerry's flowery prose could have been borrowed from?
Well, he only claimed that it was in a "fashion reminiscent" of Jenjhis, so he wasn't being completely literal in that speech. The Fog of War frequently colors one's fashionable reminisces and remembrances, both of things past and things to come.
(27) Beldar made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 12:03:56 AM | Permalink
tvd, I wish I could offer a "grand unified theory" of John Kerry that would explain all these inconsistencies. I'm tempted to say that the one principle Kerry has consistently put above all others has been creating his political legend to facilitate his ultimate advance to the White House, a la his hero, the first JFK. Under that theory, Kerry tried his best to make himself into, as Richard Holbrooke wrote in yesterday's WaPo, "a good hero in a bad war."
Well, then, if so, now he's finding that some folks don't agree that he was a good hero, and some folks don't like the way he's portrayed his fellow vets for their own parts in the "bad war," while yet other folks still don't agree that it was a bad war.
That's still my working hypothesis, but I have to confess, I'm not wholly satisfied with that explanation. Every time I think I'm convinced that the man's entire being is built around advancing in political office, he says or does something so incredibly politically tone-deaf that I have to rethink that premise. Put another way, I can't for the life of me figure out how much of his own carefully fabricated self-image is real, or has become real; and I can't quite rule out the possibility that at least some of the time, he actually has been and is motivated by some principle other than political expediency (although I have a hard time picking out what that principle might be or finding any consistent display of it). I can't even look at John Kerry snow skiing or wind-surfing, for exammple, without genuinely wondering, "Is he enjoying that? Or is he just doing that because he thinks the people watching him will think it's 'cool'?"
In a sentence: I think he's the most profoundly phony individual in the public arena today, but I genuinely can't tell whether there's anything beneath his phony surface, or if so, what it might be.
(28) Jim C made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 12:13:48 AM | Permalink
Damn, if waking up a drunk hooker in Subic Bay is a heroic deed then I missed out on the medals.
(29) richard mcenroe made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 12:32:20 AM | Permalink
JimC — No, chewing off your own arm to escape from a sleeping drunk hooker gets you a medal, the Coyote Cross with V device, I think...
and ""everywhere around me there is nothing but violence and war and gross insensitivity." I guess the other three ensigns all picked on him in their cabin...
(30) FS made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 12:47:01 AM | Permalink
In answer to tvd's questions other than the one about Kerry's principals which any Kerry voter will have to decide on their own.
I would guess that Kerry did not think that being a Conscientious Objector was a good credential for a political career and perhaps he didn't feel he could tell that to his father, a WWII veteran whom he described in a Boston Glob bio as "painfully remote and shut off and angry".
He went to the Naval Reserve Officer's Training Program because if he had waited to be drafted into the army he would have been an enlisted man in the jungle. (At least that was the reason the rest of us had for going to ROTC.)
He stayed in the Naval reserves until 1978 because he had a legal obligation to do so.
What he apparently didn't do was go to the regularly required Reserve meetings during the two years of Active Reserve obligation he had accepted in order to get out of the Navy early - pretty much the same thing of which Bush is accused.
(31) Jim in NC made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 12:58:58 AM | Permalink
His agenda is easy to figure out: The only way he could have the wealth and prestiege he is incapable of warning was
to marry two wealthy women. His senate salary is nowhere close to what he wants, and especially the senate retirement
plan. But if he can become president he would have it all: the best job in the world with a fine salary, hundreds of people
protecting him, prestiege unmatched by any other vocation, and both a president's and a senator's retirement pension.
Kerry the flip-flop king becomes the double-dipping king.
He has no "secret" foreign policy, he has no plan for Iraq, he has no sensativity about Ameticans otr other peoples,
nor does he give rat's ass about anyone other than himself. He will become America's first socialist president, if
elected, with all the problems that will cause. He will be closer to Putin's idea about democracy than to Jefferson's.
Working with John Edwards they will make a mess of America's health system.
(32) tvd made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 1:12:27 AM | Permalink
Let's be clear---something Kerry himself accused Bush OF:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040428-120852-4376r.htm
I don't know if Kerry himself missed any required meetings, tho. I saw nothing about that in Kerry's docs assigning him to inactive status.
What I do know is that nobody takes on a 10-year commitment to military service. I believe Kerry voluntarily re-upped for Reserve duty circa 1972. What up with that?
And what we do know is that the Kerry website's (phony, since withdrawn) announced gap in his military service from 1970-72 may have been cover for his meeting with North Vietnam's peace negotiators in Paris during that time, since meeting with an "enemy" is expressly forbidden to a US military man, reserve or otherwise.
I also don't know exactly what Kerry said in opposition to the Vietnam War at his Oration at the 1966 Yale graduation ceremonies. But if he had moral and not strategic objections, going off to fight a war he found morally objectionable would be worse than whatever LBJ or Nixon did.
Perhaps The Mighty Beldar will find some of this worthy of elucidation. This all sure is making it hard for me to vote for Kerry.
(33) jackmehoff made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 6:10:02 AM | Permalink
I think Kerry a la his "boredom" was/is Walter Mitty. I've read at least 300 articles on this clown since the earlier part of this month. There is enough "evidence" to convict this idiot of lying. The liberals keep swathing him in his manger while carefully protecting him from those awful Swiftees.
The elite media has yet to provide one shred of legal documentation that the Bush/Cheney campaign has any link to the Swiftees yet Chris at kerrywaffles.com has a verfiable link between Ter-RAH-zah and a 527 lawyer.
Kerry applied for a student deferment to study in Paris. All the string pulling daddy could muster didn't get him off. So...he enlisted in the Naval Reserves thinking that combat would be unlikely. OOPS! Now a CO is in a war. Well, it will look good when running for office if I can be a war hero AND a protester. Jenjhis would be proud of the strategy.
I don't think the average level-headed American is going to be "snowed" by this clown anymore than believing Bill O'Reilly is an independant.
(34) Bucky Katt made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 7:21:29 AM | Permalink
FS sez:
"He stayed in the Naval reserves until 1978 because he had a legal obligation to do so."
Actually, I believe he stayed in longer than necessary. He had an 8 year committment to fullfill not 10. As I understand it, he never did resign his commission. It appears the Naval Reserve released him. So for someone who had such a "hard-on" over the military..his behavior was certainly contradictory.
(35) Snowy made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 8:06:16 AM | Permalink
>Ok, so far he's saved the lives of:
Here's one more for the list, where he put himself in great personal danger:
From "The Batallion:
Kerry later married the twin sister of another Bonesman, David Thorne, a friend since freshman soccer.
"He was different. He was very focused and kind of driven in those days. He thought he was setting out to achieve stuff in the world," said Thorne, a publisher of holistic health books and magazines.
But Kerry had a lighter side. He slacked off senior year and took flying lessons. He got a parakeet his junior year, and spent hours teaching it phrases in three languages. "John really liked this bird," Bundy recalled, and he let it nest in his hair "wiggling back and forth."
The pet led to a brush with the law. New Haven officers were dubious when they found Kerry up a tree trying to retrieve it.
Sorry for the size of this link:
http://www.thebatt.com/news/2004/05/26/News/Same-School.Different.Personalities.Defined.Candidates.Since.Yale-683302.shtml
(36) Patrick R. Sullivan made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 8:22:13 AM | Permalink
No, this is another irregularity in his service. He signed an enlistment contract in 1966 that called for him to do three years active duty, two years ready reserve, and one year standby reserve.
That obligated him for six years, but he didn't get his discharge until 1978; 12 years later. There's something fishy about that. I'm guessing his discharge was withheld because of his treasonous activities in Paris, and with VVAW. Then, when Democrats held both houses of congress, and the Presidency in 1978, someone with the requisite political muscle arranged for a quiet, and behind the scenes, honorable discharge.
Question for Geo. W. Bush; "If, as you say, Kerry served honorably, why didn't he get an honorable discharge when his enlistment was up in 1972?"
>In a sentence: I think he's the most profoundly phony individual in the public arena today, but I genuinely can't tell whether there's anything beneath his phony surface, or if so, what it might be.
I think it's his far left world view, which because it is relativistic, makes for a shifting, empty and uncentred core. The only god in that world is power, and you do ANYTHING, say ANYTHING to get it.
His beloved words from Langston Hughes were not just pulled out of a hat; they were emblematic of what really drives Kerry.
And he and Michael Moore are made of the exact same cloth.
(38) Sharps Shooter made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 8:43:44 AM | Permalink
Add my voice to those of other Americans sick to death of this weasel.
When I finished 4 years of honorable service (no thanks to YOU, JFKerry) I returned from Korea Sept 68 only to be spat upon by some of the scroungy 'peace protesters' at Sea-Tac airport...
They didn't care if I had only served on Korea's DMZ, they were spitting on my uniform!
And for that I say, THANKS JFKerry! Part of MY Tour of Duty, you traitorous, treasonous communist!
(39) Jamie Irons made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 8:57:35 AM | Permalink
tvd, I wish I could offer a "grand unified theory" of John Kerry...
Such a "grand unified theory" has occured to me.
I have tried very hard to find a charitable ("sensitive" and "nuanced") underlying theme to John F. Kerry's seeming inconsistencies(!).
As a psychiatrist, I am fond of the idea (delusion?) that every person behaves, at a deep level and in a sense, consistently, even though the surface behavior may seem to be wildly erratic and riddled with bizarre and baffling, even absurd, contradictions.
Here is my charitable grand unified theory of JFK's behavior:
We know that even at Yale he was deeply ambivalent about the war, as early as 1964. (I was a freshman at Yale while JFK was a senior; I didn't know him but knew of him.)
His actual experiences as a swiftee somehow, and perhaps understandably, deepen his ambivalence about the application of American power.
His entire politcal career has ben dedicated to reigning in American power.
This is not an especially helpful principle, if you want to get elected to national office, except perhaps in Massachusetts.
So one has, in order to get elected, and still remain true to this principle, to strike a Janus-faced pose to the electorate: depending on the audience, one may want to appear "strong," on the one hand, or "sensitive" and "nuanced," on the other.
My less charitable interpretation of JFK: he is a deeply cynical and opportunistic politician, and a man we want under no circumstances to lead us.
Jamie Irons
(40) George made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 9:39:49 AM | Permalink
As with all Kerry's sea stories better get the fact checker out.
An ensign on first cruise a shore patrol officer? Maybe but doutful.
4 miles off Haiphong? The NVA shore batteries gun arcs extended to 22,000 yards, what was the Gridley going to do, fire a missle. The Gridley had no gun suitable for shore bombardment.
(41) Scaramonga made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 9:40:23 AM | Permalink
As it turns out, I was serving on the carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) at the same time Kerry was on the Gridley. The Enterprise was flying bombing missions 12 hours a day into Viet Nam. We were never in any danger of enemy attack. Ships like the Gridley routinely followed us to pick up downed pilots in case of accidents or crash-landings.
I also did time on shore patrol in Subic (to be accurate, the Navy base was Subic Bay Naval Station, the town was Olongapo). It was nothing but bars, beauty shops and hotels (with hourly rates). The whole place was nothing but a place for sailors to blow off steam after weeks and weeks at sea. Oh, and when I wasn't on Shore Patrol, Olongapo was fun.
In Kerry's recently released medical records, a case of "Non Specific Unretheritis" is indicated. We used to call it NSU and joke it was USN spelled backwards! The Navy classified it as one of the "sexually transmitted diseases." Now that I know he was in Olongapo, I think it is obvious where he got it. Wonder why he never got a medal for that?
4 miles off Haiphong? The NVA shore batteries gun arcs extended to 22,000 yards, what was the Gridley going to do, fire a missle? The Gridley had no gun suitable for shore bombardment.
(43) Bill made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 11:00:33 AM | Permalink
Not the Guns of Navarone, but this:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0060177/
(44) M. Simon made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 11:17:25 AM | Permalink
ed, bill,
Thanks for the memories. Nina's Papagayo?
I usually went a little farther up the street to the classier joints. I was an ET and we didn't hang with the BMs. :-)
George Bush never called me "baby killer".
BTW Drudge is charting the Kerry meltdown:
Kerry daughters get booed on MTV.
Kerry daughters booed
And Daschle(D)is running as a Bush supporter.
Daschle supports Bush
"I wish I could offer a "grand unified theory" of John Kerry"
Beauty! Here is my Theory of Kerrytivity:
There was a cultural archetype which attracted him most, which he achingly wished to emulate as a young man, and after which he has formed his life. This archetype was ambivalent about war, troubled and somber and war-weary. But also a heroic and highly-efficient killer of the enemy. I speak, of course, of the moody yet deadly Sgt. Chip Saunders as played by Vic Morrow 1962-67 on "Combat" on ABC.
This explains much.
(47) tvd made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 4:36:36 PM | Permalink
"(Kerry's) entire political career has been dedicated to reining in American power."---Jamie Irons
Boy, that about explains every foreign policy position Mr. Kerry has ever held.
Hats off to Mr. (Dr.?) Irons, and to the Mighty Beldar for the fine company he keeps.
(48) AST made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 6:21:22 PM | Permalink
This is why the all volunteer military is such a good thing. It isn't dragged down by twits like Lt. Kerry, and future liberal politicians are less likely to salute and exclaim, "I'm So-and-so, reporting for duty!"
The fewer jerks like this who get out and build a political career on denouncing their fellows, the better.
(49) Paul Klenk made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 6:57:54 PM | Permalink
John Kerry is doing for military service what "The Sound of Music" did for hills.
Let's push him down hard on Nov. 2.
(50) jackmehoff made the following comment | Aug 30, 2004 11:09:10 PM | Permalink
To Sharps Shooter,
I bunked with a guy from the war in Vietnam. I know being spat upon, literally, had him a few cards shy of a full deck. I can't speak for anyone but myself when I say thank you for doing what I dreaded, your service to our country is appreciated and admired.
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