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Cost of Endless War: Army Provides Each Soldier a "Battle Buddy" to Prevent Suicides

I only recently learned about this from my daughter's boyfriend who has been deployed to the Ukraine. He has a "Battle Buddy" not to be a friend but so neither of them will commit suicide. And why is that? Because since 2005 the Army suicide rate has exploded.

A vignette--a work-in-progress

Been a while, releasing the pressure...

Had a splendid day,
escaped for a while,
the expectant days bearing down,
abiding confusion of what to do, to say
interrupted in responsibility

Can't change them
can't bow to kidnapping, either
can't assuage guilt
cultivated generation-ally
maybe jesus can do that
but, they have jesus
oh, jesus

Positive Thinking. Grin and Bear It. Fake it 'Til You Make It. Fuck That Noise.

Some of the therapists I've seen over the years since my diagnosis have used shit like this to describe ways of coping or dealing with certain situations. Unlike many neurotypicals, I don't have a 'switch' to 'turn it off'. You see, I'm not just dealing with Asperger's, I'm dealing with life-long depression as a result of not working with it early in life and I'm dealing with the neurological and physical aspects of hemiplegia.

Another Middle Finger From Employers

So my Voc Rehab counselor said there was a potential Mail Clerk position at Kennedy Space Center that paid 25 dollars an hour. Sounded promising enough, that is, until I got the job description.

Most of it was pretty straight forward, but then I got to the qualifications section and I got angry.

What We Know About Collusion by Obama, the DNC and Hillary to Rig the Primaries - Part 1

With the brouhaha over Donna Brazile's self-serving revelations that Hillary effectively bought the DNC after entering into an agreement that allowed the Clinton campaign an unprecedented amount of control over the DNC during the primaries, a lot of other facts about the Dem establishment supporting Clinton long before August 2015 is not being mentioned. So let's review the full timeline shall we, beginning in 2013.

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