Ten Things I Learned From The Air Force Chow Hall Over 22 Years

1.  If you walked in with low expectations....you were always happy.

2.  Yes, there were always random food poisoning events (1977 @  Sheppard AFB...they had to shutdown the chow-hall for a weekend and throw everything out).

3.  There's a rotating schedule of  x-dinners.....once you figured this out....you could mark off 12 evening dinners a month as 'crap'.

4.  Approximately 50-percent of the time....whatever pastry they had for breakfast....was probably 3 days stale/rock-hard.

5.  Chicken always came out of a freezer-bag and was crap.

6.  In the first five years of my military time.....for lunch, I either ate grilled ham/cheese sandwiches or hamburgers. It was the only thing they made in front of you....that you felt was not screwed-up.

7.  Mid-night chow was probably the best meal to attend...but around 1980...they made a rule you had to be on duty and in a uniform.

8.  I can't think any coffee worse, than chow-hall coffee.

9.  From my first ten years of using their 'service'....I got the  impression that none of the chow-hall cooks were skilled in anything other than opening cans and heating food.

10. The best chow-hall I ever used....was a the Incirlik-Turkey operation....appropriately named 'Satans-Inn'.  Most of the cooks were Turks and they were pretty liberal with herbs/spices.

Eight Random Thoughts

 1.  No matter how you view things....in the end, you are held accountable for the stupidity/nutty behavior of those under you.

2.  I'll just say it.....there are a infinite number of mental illnesses, and I suspect the number expands by 5-percent every full moon.

3. You can live beyond your means....until the day comes when you start counting pennies as a plus-up, or you can only drink cheap Pabst-Blue-Ribbon beer.

4.  If you go and read the text of this Minnesota transwoman shooter (now  dead)....oddly enough, he comes to blame two things for his ending (his mother, and cannabis).  I assume he used the high-thc content weed, while listening to his mother's advice. 

5.  People who seem to be die-hard anti-capitalists....seem to believe we just haven't ever gone full-blown true-socialistic yet.

6.  Most people don't grasp....if you order a sub-sandwich.....the meat on it is the cheapest of the cheap lunch-meats that you can procure.

7.  I think if you really categorized things....more than 90-percent of Americans will be considered 'fringe' or 'unconventional'.....to the left and right.

8.  We are reaching a point where liberals and conservatives both seek out 'safe-spaces', yet....neither want the other within their safe-space.

How Ten Events Might Conclude?

 1. John Bolton.  As charges mount, and the prosecution starts talking 20 years and the crappy fed prison situation....Bolton will likely be offered some deal of 10 years of fed-prison (the nicer place), and admit guilt.  Tax troubles over hidden income?  That will come next and wipe out most all of his overseas income.

2.  CBS has a profits drain, and will likely go to some let-go deal of five of their big-ticket moderators. 

3.  Cracker Barrel will quietly in early 2026....let the CEO exit, and undo most of the changes, but bump prices up by 20-percent....while trying to go back to original cooking (instead of frozen-food warming-up).  The new style of buildings?  My guess is that this will continue ahead.   

4.  This burning of the flag  business.  Based on Trump's EO....if you do this in a public setting to incite people.....you end up in court and charged.  Grand Jury dilemma?  Well....the question is...are you doing this to get people riled-up/incited?  If so....your case goes to the next level.  I could see 3,000 for the remaining months of 2025....getting incitement charges and most convicted.  

The odd thing....it ends up as a felony conviction, and the 'boys' in prison will be asking you how you got there.  Burning a flag....will you back for the remainder of your life....as a felony conviction.

5.  Decline of Vegas?

By the end of 2026....a minimum of 20k city residents will have exited the city, with properties rapidly dropping 10-to-20 percent in value.

6.   Some report by the end of 2025 will indicate that over 3-million homes are in a section-8 situation and  the resident is NOT an American citizen.  

7.  Some Wal-Marts in 2026 will have a $5 off your purchase deal....if you allow them to examine the cart before exiting....to cut back on shop-lifting. 

8.  Mental-health specialists in 2026 will start to treat obsessive people who are anti-capitalists.

9.  Crisis-actors and fake-protest-actors....will start to be dragged into court because they failed to report their 'extra-income'....amounting to more than $20k a year  for full-time actors.

10.  Finally,  a majority of people (80-percent or more) will start to admit whenever Governor Newsom come on  TV....they mute the set within 5 seconds.