My Burn Facility Story

 I worked for two decades around classified material....which required 'destruction' on a regular basis.  One of the least preferred methods....is the burn facility situation.  

This is a contained building usually, which has a fire capability (usually with natural gas) and you toss in a bag or two....using a steel 'rake' to push it around, and in five minutes....add another bag or two.  

In winter months, I never minded the half-day duty.  In June/July?  It was absolutely miserable work, and you'd be consuming a six-pack of Mountain Dew over a three-hour period.  

I was stationed at X-base where we had one single burn facility, which was controlled with a key.  You'd check out the key.....walk up, and there was a button device with three option buttons.  It would have made sense to have just a on-button and off-button...but for some reason, there was a primer-button (you were supposed to press it for several seconds....to put some 'gas' in....before you hit the 'on' button).

This facility was crappy....marginally made to run, and about one-third of the time....never functioned correctly.

One day....Lt X arrived and wanted to be on this detail.  Why some officer would volunteer for this duty....is beyond me.  He'd accompanied some folks before, and he was just going over by himself.....with five or six bags.  What could go wrong....was the question to ask.

The burn facility buttons went into some crappy malfunction status.  The Lt had wasted twenty minutes getting it to work.

So he did what you'd expect any 12-year old kid would do.  He went to his truck, and got a gallon-can of gas....covering over the burn-sacks, and tossed them into 'hold'.  The sacks were completely covered in gas.  Then for one last attempt....he hit the on-button.

Some witness to the episode said that some flame of about 30 foot came out of the pit 'window' in a sudden burst.

Yeah, the Lt got a fair amount of the 'burn'.  Ambulance was called, and he probably spent three weeks in a hospital unit.  It was bad, but not to the degree that he was medically discharged. 

The problem was....they had to do a safety report, and explain how it happened.

In the end, they had to make a sign up....over the button area....that said that you could NOT add accelerant in any shape or form...to the burn facility.  

At the time (mid-1980s)....this burn facility had existed for 30-odd years and never required anything much for regulations or rules.  

Five Observations

 1.  After watching this NY City subway episode with the Neely guy (taken down by the Marine)....I'm left this opinion.

Lets say the Marine had released the hold on the nutcase guy (Neely) at the right moment, and police came to arrest Neely.  Within 24 hours, Neely would have been released.  Court episode two months later?  He would have been given a warning, and fully released (43rd arrest and release).

Within a year or two.....Neely would have pushed some old lady down on the tracks where a train ran over her.  Maybe then, the authorities would have said....'fine'.....now you go to a mental asylum for the remainder of your life.  

People being disturbed then?  Nothing much.  

There's something wrong here, but the general public in NY City has yet to grasp it, or to understand why so many people are fed up....ready to leave the city.

2.  This talk that Tucker Carlson might arrange a 'debate' with Trump?  50-50 odds it's BS.  But lets say that Tucker gets Trump to agree to a 90-minute sit-down episode, and Trump says.....you can ask anything, and be rough on me.  It puts Bien in a difficult long-term position.  

Lets add spice to this....Tucker gets Trump to agree to six of these sessions....before January of 2024.  

Lets add more spice to this....Tucker also gets RFK Jr to agree to same format. 

Suddenly, the mass media (minus Twitter) is worried because there's more than seventy-percent of the country hooked-up to either Trump or RFK Jr.  

This might be fairly interesting to watch develop.

3.  This emerald mine story that Elon Musk's dad tells.....if you examine all details....virtually no one knows of the mine or its location.  The mine story is 100-percent bogus BS.

4.  I sat and watch video this AM of a bunch of idiots in a NY City subway system....on the track area....in protest, while the train was starting to arrive.  The thing that gets me, is that (having been there)....the cables to power the subway system are right there....maybe two feet away from these folks.  

You had fifty to a hundred folks on the track....just inches away, and the wrong step....would have fried person-after-person, laying them all burnt-crispy there on the track.  

Them recognizing the threat?  No.  

5.  RFK Jr has said 'enough'....it's time to close the 800-odd US bases overseas.  Whether wise or not....probably one out of three US voters would agree with his position on this.  

Maybe We Should Make AI 'King'

 After much consideration, I think it's time to bring in artificial intelligence (AI) and just let it run things (logically):

1.    AI would have evaluated the Bud-Lite situation on advertising, and asked the question...how many trans-people drink beer in general, and how many have a weight problem where diet-beer makes sense.  It would eventually arrive at a number of 10,000....then ask if we freak out 2-million regular consumers with this advertising...is it worth the effort?

NO, would be the AI response, and the trans-gimmick would never have occurred.

2.  AI would collect 2,000 Biden moments on video and evaluated his mental competency, and eventually said he was not fit for the job required....replacing him.

Then AI would have collected 2,000 Harris public comments, and evaluated her mental competency.  She also would have been replaced.

3.  AI would have reviewed all residents in NY City, and eventually come to a decision that around 19,873 people need permanent placement in a mental facility, in order to ensure the safety of the general public.

4.  AI would have reviewed the added chemicals to cigarettes' sold, and determined that the chemicals were a health-threat.  All additives would have been ordered removed so that you only smoked plain regular tobacco.

5.  AI would have reviewed the actual test and capability of people applying for college in America.....eventually saying that more than 35-percent aren't capable of handling college-level instruction.  At the same time, more than one-quarter of all college professors would be deemed non-qualified for the work they perform.

6.  AI would assemble the data and identify more than 8,500 Americans who falsely claim they have American Indian heritage.

7.  AI would do statistical analysis to determine more than a quarter of bank managers are not capable of performing at the level required for the profession.

8.  AI would write one single standard, about 3 lines long....to determine your immigration status.  More than 50-percent of people would be turned down.

9.  AI would analyze Congressmen and Senator stock purchases, and determine at some point....you are rich enough....you don't need the job anymore, and send you home.

10.  AI would analyze every American's fat ratio, and eventually add an individual tax at the grocery or restaurant..on fatty food or high-calorie items.