-Good Luck-
Posted on 08/16/2007 8:56:11 AM PDT by SERE_DOC
This is not my opus with respects to Free Republic, but it is my opus with respects to NJ. I hated that place since I left it 30+ years ago, when I joined the Marines vowing never to return (we all know that tune) HA!
But being a responsible carbon unit I accepted a position back there not really wanting to but as my Rice Krispies whisper to me each and every morning, (besides clean your weapons) "it is better to be employed in NJ than un-employed in Missouri".
They (the Krispies) repeated the same thing in Baghdad & Afghanistan when I was there, I can understand the clean your weapon part, and no matter what Baghdad & Afghanistan are far better than working in a cube 8-5 for 20+ years.
But I digress,
I have finally divested my self of that money sucking criminal activity known as NJ.
See ya Governer ButterCup, Adios Gov. "Tax & Crash". I am out of there, finally.
Congrats.
Which exit?
Congratulations. I’m about seven years behind you (if all proceeds according to plan). Where did you escape to?
The Krispies never lie. ;-)
The Kingdom of Bahrain, for a time then to NC!
Congrats to you! Where have you relocated to?
So you moved to North Carolina? That’s New York, south.
Congratulations on leaving the “Sanctuary State” of New Joisey.
-Good Luck-
Congratualations! Now Corslime will have to pay off his Union Thug girlfriends with some other suckers hard earned cash.
I am thinking exit 5, nice town, crappy state.
Extremely happy for you!
Congratulations and thank you for your service. Godspeed...
nice try though
My heartiest congrats.
You might want to reconsider that. Unfortunately, NC is well on the way to becoming a New Jersey-style workers paradise. I suggest you look into Texas.
Good move.
Left the liberal cesspool across the river from Jersey 30+ years ago.
I never looked back and neither will you.
I love North Carolina; have been down here 11 years now.
Semper Fidelis,
fontman
I’ve been in NY all my life. Now, if all of them would leave for NC, I wouldnt have to leave here.
I’m happy for you. I long to write a similar vanity. Soon, I hope. Oh, please God, soon.
LOL! My daughter just moved from St. Louis to Texas and hates it, 116 heat index yesterday. Now a couple of tropical storms/hurricanes blowing in. She’s been there two weeks, poor kid.
Exhilarating, isn't it?
Congratulations.
I absolutely believe in purgatory because: for my sins, I was exiled for several hundred years to the Edison (NJ)Assembly Plant from 1991 to 1992. Or maybe it was in one of the circles of hell - it was hard to tell.
Congratulations! North Carolina is a beautiful state. I wouldn’t mind living there myself one day.
Cool! I went through Jersey a few times and still haven’t gotten the smell out. Thanks for your service.
New Jersey needs to be towed out to sea and sunk.
Glad to hear you’re getting out!
Congratulations—I left fifteen months today, after living there for 52 years.
It’s a beautiful state in some parts, but hopelessly corrupt.
The Republicans and Democrats mindmelded years ago—there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between them. And they are both corrupt.
Like I have told my friends, make a plan to get out now. There are bills coming due for bonds, pension, borrowing schemes, educations, infrastructure—and there isn’t enough money in the whole state to pay for them.
If you can remember the Chrysler bailout—that’s what is in store for NJ—and for all of us as we are going to pay for it.
Don’t look back.
I’m in Southern Delaware now close to farms and the ocean,paying one fourth the property tax, one half the auto insurance, and when people wave at you here, they use all five fingers. Imagine that!
Good luck—if you can make it in NJ you can make it anywhere.
For all you other Freepers—you are forewarned.
So where're you headed?
Are you muslim?
My guess is that it's because Bahrain is the HQ for the 5th Fleet.
Your daughter wouldn’t have liked St. Louis too much better yesterday. I don’t know what the index was, but the actual temperature broke a record for the day at 105. We don’t have to worry about tropical storms/hurricanes, though. I hope they steer clear of where your daughter is.
It is wonderful to read about good things happening to people!!
I am not a Muslim, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn express once. I am here for a job. After suffering in Baghdad and Afghanistan I moved over for a quiet job with a private company, (IT). The suffering part came at the hands of corporate America and extremely anal Army (alleged) leadership. Let me say if this WOT is lost it will be because of the cowards that are our elected ruling class and the absolutely useless commanders that the Army has fielded in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Let me make this perfectly clear it is not the troops, they are absolutely magnificent, every one of them. They are the most dedicated, humble, respectful, professional warriors and the very best that America has to offer in any situation, my indictment is on the mid level officers Capt-Col and very few senior enlisted who forget (or were never taught) what leadership is. In Afghanistan life was far better at the remote fire bases in indian territory than these idiots supposedly in charge at the main bases.
Life’s travels can take us many different places for sure. I retired out of Camp LeJeune and moved about for 11 years. I have always enjoyed NC, and that is where the bulk of my family is, so since I can’t see putting up with the crap in NJ it was the right thing to do.
Semper Fi!
SERE Doc
PS I have been to Canton ~ "First Monday" what a hoot, loved it!
Very.
Bathe when you get out of town, across the State line..
Texas, and Texans, have a different attitude and mind-set. Freer and more open, more independent-minded, and much more resistant to creeping nanny-statism. They're not perfect, however, by any means. Texans still don't have a clue about the culinary magnificence of "boiled peanuts", freshly-fried "spots" on the beach, or steamed Lockwood Folly oysters! I agree with you about the "First Monday" in Canton, though - it's quite an experience, and you can see some really neat "stuff"!
On a more somber note, I agree also with your assessment in post #36 of the failures of both civilian and mid-level military command leadership and the damage and cost in lives that their incompetence and sometimes cowardice has entailed. I would add to that what I believe to be deliberate ideology-driven efforts to sabotage the war-effort by some of the ACLU-type lawyers who infest the JAG and NCIS corps.
I fully believe many of their decisions to proceed with their insane prosecutions/persecutions of our troops are motivated more by a desire and an intention to use the media pressure these show-trials generate to influence national policy than they are by any so-called dedication to justice.
These people are a cancer in our military which is eating-away at morale and respect for the chain of command, and providing a world-wide propaganda bonus to our enemies, giving them tremendous "aid and comfort". I fault that same CYA military leadership you describe AND President Bush for letting the situation get out of control. Even though the grinding military justice process is finally exonerating most of these troops, much irreparable damage has already been done.
In closing, thanks for your service to your country, and best wishes in your future endeavors!
Always listen to your cereal.
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