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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Colonel John Howard charged

    Colonel John Howard charged

    The Air Force Times reports that Colonel John Howard, commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force Base, has been charged with two specifications of cruelty and maltreatment, two specifications of sexual assault, one specification of conduct unbecoming an officer, and one specification of fraternization in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

    Between July and September 2016 at or near Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, Howard is accused of maltreatment of the senior airman, whose name is redacted, by rubbing his groin against the senior airman and making inappropriate comments on at least two occasions, according to the charge sheet.

    In April 2017, Howard is accused of sexually assaulting the senior airman at or near Bangor, Maine.

    Howard was relieved last December because his commander had lost confidence in his leadership.

    Thanks to Bobo for the link.

  • Samuel F. Dabney passes

    Samuel F. Dabney passes

    Bobo sends us a link to the sad news that Samuel F. Dabney has passed because of that bitch cancer at the age of 81. He created the vintage video game “Pong” and he is credited with the founding of modern video gaming.

    Dabney, who went by the nickname, Ted, was born in San Francisco in 1937 and served in the Marines from 1955 to 1959. He attended the Navy’s electronics school on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay and quickly began applying his talents as an electrical engineer.

    In 1971, Dabney teamed up with Nolan Bushnell, a charismatic engineer and a colleague of Dabney’s at the time, to create the company, Atari. With just a few early employees and a bare-bones workspace, Dabney soon made a breakthrough innovation that laid the groundwork for the arcade machines still seen in bars and game rooms today.

    Using pieces of plywood and fake mahogany paneling, Dabney created the first Atari console in his daughter’s bedroom.

  • Tuesday morning feel good stories

    Tuesday morning feel good stories

    The other day we wrote about the homeowner who shot to death two criminals in Memphis, Tennessee. Today we learn that he used a scary black rifle to balance the scales in his favor;

    As the shooting went on, the homeowner pulled out a weapon of his own from a closet – a “personal” AK-47 rifle.

    “I don’t know what’s going on but I know I’m going to defend my life to the best of my ability,” he told WMC. “I just let loose, not knowing it hit both of them,” the man told Fox 13.

    When officials arrived, both 28-year-old Azell Witherspoon and 17-year-old Demond Robinson were pronounced dead, according to the Commercial Appeal. Police detained the homeowner but concluded that the shooting was in self-defense and did not press charges, according to the paper.

    The homeowner told WMC this wasn’t his first brush with violence, and that his home had been shot up less than a year ago.

    From Park County, Colorado;

    According to the sheriff’s office, after the attempted carjacking, the victim was able to escape and flagged down a ranch employee for help. The employee tracked down the suspect during a confrontation, the suspect was shot at least one time while the ranch employee was stabbed several times.

    Despite his wound, the suspect ran when deputies arrived. They chased him and arrested him around 5 p.m. Sunday. Deputies attempted to control the bleeding from his gunshot wound, but the suspect died before Platte Canyon Fire and Flight for Life arrived.

    No deputies fired their weapons, Jones said.

  • Everitt Aaron Jameson; jihadist sentenced

    Everitt Aaron Jameson; jihadist sentenced

    Late last year, Everitt Aaron Jameson was arrested by the FBI when he plotted to kill Americans with the help of FBI informants. He claimed to be a recent adherent to Islam and an admirer of ISIS and al Qaeda, according to the complaint document. He also bragged that he was a Marine. We got his DD214 and discovered that he had about four months in the Marine Corps before he was kicked to the curb;

    According to Fox News, he was sentenced today to 15 years in prison as part of a plea agreement;

    Lee said his client was having second thoughts and didn’t actually take steps to carry out the plot. Investigators found no bomb-making materials, and three firearms found during a search were legally owned by his stepfather and were locked in a gun case where Jameson couldn’t to get them, Lee said.

    An undercover agent told Jameson several times to think about what he was doing, according to the FBI, and each time Jameson said he was ready to attack. Agents also recovered a martyr’s letter signed with an Islamic variation of Jameson’s name.

    Jameson was discharged from the Marines for having an allergic reaction to a bee sting, had a “tumultuous marriage” in which his wife went to prison for attacking him with a knife, and he lost parental rights to his two children two days before he first talked to agents, Lee said.

    He intended to attack his victims on Christmas Day in San Francisco using pipe bombs to corral them into an area where he could shoot them. The FBI gave him several chances to talk himself out of his plans.

    Among the documents in his home, investigators found this letter;

  • Frank Dux; phony hero and “Stolen Valor Vultures”

    Frank Dux; phony hero and “Stolen Valor Vultures”

    Frank Dux was busted more than 20 years ago by BG “Jug” Burkett in his book “Stolen Valor”.

    He was also featured on the old POW Network website. But Dux has never conceded defeat, mostly because his wild-ass stories formed the basis for the Van Damme classic movie “Bloodsport” – and you know that Hollywood is never wrong. So last year we took our wacks at him. He claimed to be an elite Force Recon Marine who earned a “secret” Medal of Honor, a Navy Cross, a Distinguished Service Cross (actually an Army award), a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and a Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

    Actually, he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves two weeks after the Vietnam War ended for the United States. Two months later, he reported for four months of active duty training – his only period of active duty during his six years of time as a Marine Corps reservist;

    Actually, Dux has no awards, he served during a time when there was no National Defense Service Medal, so, naturally his other awards are bogus claims, too. So, Dux has taken to disparaging those of us who keep his lies in perspective – even the techs at the National Personnel Records Center suffer his slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;

    Prior to the PC age the St. Louis VA Records Center burnt down and military service record books were lost and, poorly reconstructed.

    If you believe in the DD 214/ SRB confirmation myth you also have to assume the military establishment is founded and run by a bunch of imbeciles, in uniform.

    Yes, it is possible that the NPRC records fire consumed the military records of Frank Dux more than two years before he enlisted…he must be a time traveler.

    For the most part, Stolen Valor Vigilantes stubbornly refuse to accept the historically proven reality the US military and government does not always competently or willingly record or tell the truth all the time.

    That when it comes to concealing its embarrassing truths or for purposes of national security the military and intelligence apparatus as well as political appointees will, when necessary, go so far as to manufacture entries and create a fraudulent DD214 and/or SRB known as a “Front File” to provide them plausible deniability.

    I speak from personal experience that this practice is necessary and real and had left this author vulnerable to Stolen Valor Vultures and misinformation propaganda.

    Frank Dux was a Marine Corps Lance Corporal who wants you to believe that he was one of the most decorated Marines of the Vietnam War – his Medal of Honor is so secret that he can talk about it ad nauseum on the internet and in his books, but he can’t cough up any proof. He was a secret warrior, so secret that the story can only be reconstructed by Hollywood and shown on screens around the world.

    Stolen Valor Vultures, historically speaking, could care less if they invariably punish the innocent along with the guilty. Their acts and words betray a mindset where being accused is enough to make you guilty.

    The displays of indifference to fairness and the truth is why the Stolen Valor Vulture will predictably keep others operating in ignorance by continuing to propagate and defend the DD214 and SRB confirmation mythology.

    Their smug indifference to the truth and operating with extreme bias is made that much more visible through the Stolen Valor Vulture’s unwillingness to challenge the evidence before using it. Or allow the accused to defend their reputations where the accused voice and the contradictory evidence does not end up obfuscated by them.

    I have a mountain of files on my computer of former members of the military whose claims have been proven by the NPRC to be true. Frank Dux’ file is not among those.

  • Supreme Court rules with Colorado baker

    Supreme Court rules with Colorado baker

    According to Fox News, the US Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker in a 7-2 decision today. The baker had refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding because of the baker’s strongly-held religious beliefs;

    In a 7-2 decision, the justices set aside a Colorado court ruling against the baker — while stopping short of deciding the broader issue of whether a business can refuse to serve gay and lesbian people.

    At issue was a July 2012 encounter between the couple and baker Jack Phillips.

    At the time, Charlie Craig and David Mullins of Denver visited Masterpiece Cakeshop to buy a custom-made wedding cake. Phillips refused his services when told it was for a same-sex couple. A state civil rights commission sanctioned Phillips after a formal complaint from the gay couple.

    NPR calls the 7-2 decision “narrow”. I’m calling it “nearly unanimous”. Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

    In a case brought by a Colorado baker, the court ruled by a 7-2 vote that he did not get a fair hearing on his complaint because the Colorado Civil Rights Commission demonstrated a hostility to religion in its treatment of his case.

    Writing for the case, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that while it is unexceptional that Colorado law “can protect gay persons in acquiring products and services on the same terms and conditions that are offered to other members of the public, the law must be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.”

    He said that while in this case the Colorado baker, Jack Phillips, understandably had difficulty in knowing where to draw the line, because the state law at the time affording store keepers some latitude to decline to create specific messages they considered offensive.

    Of course, there were bakeries who would have sold a cake to the couple, but their intentions were to shove acceptance of their lifestyle down the throats of people like Jack Phillips.

  • FBI agent’s negligent discharge injures one

    FBI agent’s negligent discharge injures one

    An unnamed off-duty FBI agent was showing off his “dance moves” when his concealed firearm fell from his waistband. When he retrieved the gun, I guess he picked it up with the trigger, because it discharged injuring a by-stander according to the Denver Post;

    “The victim was transported to the hospital with a good prognosis,” the [Denver police] news release read.

    The name of the agent wasn’t released because he hasn’t been charged, said Marika Putnam, a Denver police spokeswoman.

    All firearms are loaded always – every time you touch the trigger, the gun will discharge.

    You’ll want to stay out of the comments wherever you see this article, because the gun control crowd thinks that all of gun owners are like this wooden-headed Bozo. The media calls this an “accidental discharge”, but it’s a negligent discharge.

  • Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez saving the world

    Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez saving the world

    Southcom.mil reports that Sergeant First Class Levon Fernandez, a flight paramedic with Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Charlie Company, 1st Battalion 228th Aviation Regiment, was awarded the Soldiers Medal for his actions on August 16, 2017 in Honduras when a Honduran Air Force L410 training flight crashed into powerlines and a headquarters building;

    After negotiating the electrical wires, debris and other hazardous conditions, he reached the severely wounded Honduran aviators, checked for signs of life and began directing others in vicinity of the crash site.

    “I met up with a few of my medics over there. Our first goal was to try to extract the pilots; we noticed 3 guys in there. There was fuel spurting out all over us as we were trying to extract them,” said Fernandez.

    Fernandez retrieved the flight engineer from the aircraft and got him to a safe distance where another flight paramedic was able to provide the necessary medical care. He then turned his attention back to the other aviators who were severely entangled in the wreckage. Unable to extract the pilot within conventional means, Fernandez climbed into the cockpit.

    “They were all pretty trapped in so we were trying to take the aircraft apart around them. We were able to extract two of the pilots right away, the third one unfortunately was not able to get extracted and passed away in the aircraft. It was not until hours later that the fire department was finally able to get him out,” said Fernandez.

    Thanks to AW1Ed for the tip.