…either that or he’s just completely fucking insane, on which we’d all agree anyway.

as for me i’ve recovered. im 25, read the Financial Times and this blog for example, and yet have no illusions regarding my own intelligence. ok, time for cartoons.

The Jacksonian prefers the long-term, small-scale suffering of conventional wargamery over the quick, easy fix of nuke-em-till-they-glow. Possibly his medications have, er, “solved” the quick-trigger problem so common among the Reichtards?…

To be slightly more serious: I have never worked for the Department of Defense, but I have worked for large corporate entities both public & private, and when I get a resume that reads:

“So learning the ropes took a bit, but once done I was finally able to get moving through more interesting positions and became the ‘pinball’ of the Agency getting to touch on nearly every aspect of its work. And once my ability to deconstruct problems and find solutions was evident, I got moved… then back… by volunteering to help spell my coworkers… worked hard to help find new and better ways to put necessary information into the hands of those who could ‘connect the dots’ which went up and down the scale…

I bullet-point it thusly:

1) Slow learner
2) Can’t take direction, but is an enthusiastic meddler in other people’s work
3) Doesn’t respect chain of command; will pester anyone from a mail clerk to a senior vice-president
4) Has been bounced from multiple departments, yet never fired. Legacy hire (i.e., somebody’s idiot nephew)? Protected category — ADA? Previous history of bias-related workplace claims?

“Recently a medication has interacted with an underlying condition in my family and taken me out of service permanently…”

Finally found — or was forced to visit — a doctor who’d fill out the forms to have him declared medically unfit. His then-supervisors failed to contest the claim, which means either he’s VERY obviously unfit, or they considered his disability payments a lesser liability to the department than his ‘services’, or both.

This is not the description of an individual I’d recommend hiring, not even for a very simple task, not even if I would never have to work with him myself, not even if there were a large cash bonus waiting upon my positive recommendation.

The Wingnut Welfare Wurlitzer is really getting hard up for new voices, if this is the quality of their latest recruits!

Not Sherpas. Yetis. Yetis would be so much cooler.

However, since this poor human is apparently occupying some other planet than the one which currently has the honor to be my home…

…I forgot what I was saying. I think I’ll take a nap now.

EC

A Jacksonian reduces the world’s religions to a formula:

To put it this way: I have read all the major works and tracts of the majority religions, their minority off-shoots and such to about the third degree out from the root stock. There is NO further return on investment for me in looking *again* because the basics needed to be understood along with the differences (n) number of times, until the actual systems of differences involved became apparent. Just as there is a limited number of actual stories that can be devised, although characterization, plotting, setting and timing are infinitely variable, the actual story TYPES are limited. From what I have seen, although I am not enough of a linguist, mathematician, religious philosopher and logician to give this a definitive 1.0 only the ‘back of the envelope’ 0.9 for my OWN views, there is a LIMITED number of possible permutations in religion type before patterns of differences show up that become common across ALL religions throughout the history of mankind. Devising a brand *new* religion would be the equivalent of creating a brand *new* story. And even if it is *done* that will not make it either right nor perfect. A brand new story type can still be BADLY TOLD the first time, for all of its novelty.

What will be done is the increase from the number of religions (n) in which ( n > 10 ) multiplied by the standard and non-standard number of deviations and their crossings which is larger than (n) and is a (!v) factorial minus a non-zero, but non total number that represents recurrent themes in which a difference makes no difference where (k) is a constant (!(n v) – (!n + !(v-k))) = R which is the total number of religions possible that are all highly variable within the original typific space and have non-commonality so that they can be differentiated easily by more than *name*. That, to me, as a non-mathematician but as an individual who has had to deal with such things in computers and programming, makes sense to yield a highly rich space because the variations are so high, but the actual numbers for the original types and their consistent themes are relatively low.

A Jacksonian identifies the one true human science:

Yes, human behavior would need to be defined in a numerically relevant way and then tested to ensure that the measurement and original definitions had meaning. It is a sad note for all of humanity that we have been so afraid of this that no one has put together a meaningful and mathematically measurable system of defining human personality, perspective and behavior. After you get out of the medical sciences and their recent advances, you are left in a void and cast adrift. In point of fact there is only one community that does this and has a feedback mechanism to help ensure that they have actually defined what they measured and are getting results to it. And the group that does this is one that will give no joy to you, I am sure.

Who are these people? These solons of insight?

Marketers.

A Jacksonian used to work for the Department of Defense:

And that was a long search in which one of hundreds of applications filled out was to the Federal Government and the DoD as one Agency was looking for folks in the sciences with bachelor’s degrees. I applied there and also to one of the National Parks that I had worked at after a volunteer stint there as they offered a *second* path through academia via government research. The DoD beat the Park Service by ONE WEEK. Either would have put my skills to use for the Nation and I would have adored working in the area I volunteered in, which was Yellowstone. That said, guaranteed advancement, interesting work and decent pay made the DoD a much more likely opportunity. And I would be helping the Warfighter!

So learning the ropes took a bit, but once done I was finally able to get moving through more interesting positions and became the ‘pinball’ of the Agency getting to touch on nearly every aspect of its work. And once my ability to deconstruct problems and find solutions was evident, I got moved into near-future systems procurement, then back to the warfighter assist area right after 9/11 by volunteering to help spell my coworkers who were digging up every shred of data to send out to the troops as they left for Afghanistan. From there I got into Advanced R&D and worked hard to help find new and better ways to put necessary information into the hands of those who could ‘connect the dots’ which went up and down the scale from the tactical to the geostrategic. Recently a medication has interacted with an underlying condition in my family and taken me out of service permanently.

And did someone mention Steven Den Beste?

But in that post-9/11 world I could feel that there was something *wrong* and terribly so about what was going on in the world and our approach to it as a People. I searched for answers and thought on many things and then came across the ongoing discussions at the USS Clueless run by Steven Den Beste. Things quickly fell into place when I saw that the synthesis of my outlook on life, warfare, and what was an HONORABLE way to act within the confines of the common agreement between the People of the United States led to only one direction.

Straight to Old Hickory’s plantation!

The Jacksonian Party offers “a plan to stabilize Iraq.” It’s rather involved.

I bet that’s where Brad found it. Rather involved! Heh, indeedy.

The sad part is, this dude seems to like all the same things I do: B5, wargames, Holy Grail…man oh man, there but for the grace of the Unknowable go I…

I thought I had outgrown that.

Jacksonian speaking for Boskone says:
“That is me, your ambassador to a different world! I am *still* waiting for the much promised mothership”
and
“There is the other, and more chilling way to put it: ‘He was such a *quiet* boy…’ The postal career actually didn’t look to good to me, however, so life would not take me there”

I had to stop after bon mot number 2. It was like being hit with a prose Kirk-hammer.

Keep reading? KEEP READING?!?! Stay the course? In the face of such carnage?

You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

I only want to know how many times “Jacksonian” came typing the sentence, “The modern US arsenal now will decimate any pre-2006 armored force on the battlefield via the use of Sensor Fuzed Weapons.”

What a dick.

“You mean Brad? Why, honey?”

“He’s reading delirious brain-damaged wingnuts and parsing their plans for world domination.”

“Hm.” (Puffs on pipe.) “But just as long as he’s not reading that Jacksonian fellow. Did you tell him the Jackson being referred to is Michael?”

“Oh. Oh dear, no. I told him it was Randy.”

“I’ll have a talk with him.”

Oh, I’ve got it! “Obey your leaders, they are protecting you from /them/”

Which is pretty much what every republican believes already.

Of course, it helps if you are a member of the Jackalope Party.