Introduction

My name is The Warnastud (nickname from the Marines), and I felt the need to create somewhere where I could rant, and others can learn from my genius.

I'll give you a little background information about me, so you can understand what qualifies me to give opinions on every subject. You can get most of this information from the "About Me" tab, but here goes anyway:

I was born in 1983 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I was raised just outside Green Bay. After high school, I joined the Marine Corps Reserve and became an infantryman. I was deployed from September 2004-March 2005 in Iraq (my rank was then lance corporal). I went to Niger to train some Nigerien soldiers in March of 2006 (my rank was then corporal). Meanwhile, I got a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology and Law Studies from Marquette University and worked as a bouncer at Brothers Bar & Grill in Milwaukee. I then transferred to a truck company in Erie, PA in August 2007 (then a sergeant), where I attended Mercyhurst College. While at Mercyhurst, I was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, I gave a presentation on the structure and function of the Iraqi intelligence community under Saddam Hussein at the 2008 annual conference of the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) in Reinbek, Germany, did a competitive and market intelligence internship with Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA in Lübeck, Germany, and am currently doing a marketing internship with Draeger Safety Inc. Although Draeger Safety Inc. is located in Pittsburgh, I work from home in Wisconsin. I am a thesis defense away from a Master of Science in Applied Intelligence from Mercyhurst College. My thesis compares and contrasts how intelligence agencies cooperate and compete with one another under democracies and dictatorships.

All of this qualifies me as an expert on nothing. Well, I guess the IIHA thought I qualified as an expert on the Iraqi intelligence community. Enough to fly me to Germany and put me up in a hotel, just so I could give a 45 minute speech and answer 15 minutes of questions at their conference anyway. But anyway, besides the fact that I may not be an expert on every subject, I, and pretty much every standardized test I have ever taken, consider myself to be smarter than about 97% of the population, and more reasonable than 99% of the population. Therefore, most things I write in this blog will probably be correct.