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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Thomas Dakota Taylor; not a MARSOC Marine

    Thomas Dakota Taylor; not a MARSOC Marine

    Someone sent us their work on this fellow Thomas Dakota Taylor who claims to be a MARSOC Marine. Well he lets his tattoos talk for him;

    Local LEOs should know that he’s a felon and shouldn’t have firearms;

    He was charged with arson, I guess that’s why he started a GoFundMe tincup to buy stuff to be a fireman;

    The VA won’t be there to help him because he has an Other Than Honorable discharge. He spent less than three years in the Marine Corps as a mortarman, and he spent 4 months in Afghanistan, but I don’t see a Combat Action Ribbon, I don’t see any training for MARSOC and no Basic Airborne Course.

  • Monday morning feel good stories

    Monday morning feel good stories

    From Newton County, Georgia;

    Authorities are on the hunt for a dangerous armed robber who ambushed a homeowner in his driveway.

    It all happened in a quiet neighborhood in Newton County.

    But homeowner Carlos Wicker had a surprise as well.

    Wicker was armed, was a former police officer, and says he was more than prepared to take on the suspect.

    For 16 years Wicker served as a police officer, so he thinks this would-be robber with a gun messed with the wrong homeowner.

    So on Tuesday, when a robber ambushed him in his driveway at the Riverwalk Farms community off Dearing Road in Newton County just after midnight, he wasn’t worried.

    He says his years of officer training as a former DeKalb County police officer and district attorney investigator, working to take criminals off the street, took over.

    “I pulled my gun, I shot at him and he took off running,” Wicker said.

    Newton County deputies told FOX 5 they’re on the hunt for the robbers.

    From Yakima, Washington;

    Two people who forced themselves into a home early Sunday are dead of stab wounds and three people in the home were also stabbed, Yakima police reported.

    Police responded to a home invasion robbery in the 1900 block of South 64th Avenue at about 3:50 a.m., according to a news release.

    Two suspects forced their way inside, authorities said. Once inside, a fight ensued between the family members and the two suspects.

    Three family members were stabbed, as were both suspects. The family members were all transported to an area hospital for treatment, the release noted. Both suspects died at the scene.

    From Detroit, Michigan;

    The home invasion and shooting took place about 2:15 a.m. on the 13000 block of Tacoma, which is south of East State Fair and west of Schoenherr.

    Police say the victim was sitting in his living room when the suspect, a 51-year-old man, barged into the home and fired shots, one of which struck the victim in his face.

    The victim was able to grab a piece of wood and hit the suspect in his head with it.

    The victim was taken to the hospital, where he’s listed in temporary serious condition.

    The suspect ran out of the house, apparently dropping the gun in the process. Police recovered the weapon at the scene. A short time later, police caught up to the suspect at an area hospital and arrested him.

  • James Shaw Jr. saving the world

    James Shaw Jr. saving the world

    Early this morning, a gunman killed four people and wounded four others at an Antioch, Tennessee Waffle House. 29-year-old James Shaw Jr. prevented the body count from being much higher, according to the Tennessean;

    James Shaw Jr., 29, said after feeling cornered he saw an opportunity to tackle the man shooting into an Antioch Waffle House. He said he doesn’t feel like a hero.

    Police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters Sunday morning that the Waffle House hero rushed the suspected shooter, disarmed him and threw the assault rifle he was carrying over the counter.

    “I don’t really know, when everyone said that (of being a hero), it feels selfish,” Shaw Jr. “I was just trying to get myself out. I saw the opportunity and pretty much took it.”

    Shaw was grazed by a bullet and spent a few hours at the hospital;

    “While I was in hospital, a girl that was there said you saved my life,” he said. “I didn’t do it to be hero.”

    The gunman is still on the loose but he won’t see his name here.

  • Mikey Weinstein and same-sex couples

    Mikey Weinstein and same-sex couples

    The Army Times reports on Mikey Weinstein, of the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and his tilting at windmills. It seems that a chaplain, Army Major Scott Squires was conducting a retreat for married couples and a same-sex couple wanted to attend. However Major Squires’ religion didn’t allow for him to minister to same-sex couples.

    An Army investigator later concluded Squires discriminated against the service member.

    But Squires was following the requirements of his chaplain endorsing agency, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention, according to Mike Berry, an attorney at First Liberty Institute, the religious liberties group representing Squires in his appeal.

    First Liberty sent a letter to the Army urging it to reverse the investigator’s decision…Squires said he feared bringing the same-sex couple on the retreat would cause him to lose his chaplain endorsement.

    The Army has training guidance — although not an official policy — telling chaplains to adhere to their endorsers’ religious tenets in order to keep their endorsement, while also finding alternative solutions for situations like this, Berry said.

    Squires found an alternative for the same-sex couple, but that wasn’t good enough for Mr Weinstein;

    Weinstein said the refusal of certain military chaplains to accommodate same-sex couples was comparable to refusing to accommodate mixed-race or mixed-religion couples.

    “If you’re going to view same-sex couples as a sin against god, you can either hold your tongue, change your attitude, or get out of the military,” he said.

    “This chaplain did not put his hand on a copy of the Constitution and swear allegiance to the New Testament,” Weinstein said. “He put his hand on the New Testament and took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.”

    Again, Mr Weinstein, show me where Congress has made a law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. MRFF has done more to prohibit the free exercise of religion than any agency of the Defense Department.

    I suspect that Mikey would be fine with an Islamic chaplain tossing same-sex couples from the roof of a building, though.

  • Douglas Duane Roberts; stolen valor/gender

    Douglas Duane Roberts; stolen valor/gender

    I’ve been trying to make sense of this story for a few hours this morning, so if I get some of it wrong, please blame the subject, Douglas Duane Roberts, aka Liz Roberts, and the author, Tony Messenger.

    I think this fellow, Doug Roberts, tried to pass himself off as a hermaphrodite to folks after he was medically discharged from the Army. He claims to Messenger that he has been a woman all of his life, but, James Rogers served with Roberts and Rogers says that while Roberts served as a parachute rigger, he was a man. Somehow being a hermaphrodite gives Roberts some kind of credence in the world of medical marijuana advocates, I’m not sure how, but there it is.

    So much of what Liz Roberts has told veterans, politicians, reporters and others about her background simply isn’t true.

    Hers is a case of stolen valor, say two men who served with her when she went by her given name.

    “She was lying about everything,” Rogers says. “It’s a complete disgrace. I’m embarrassed to say I served with her.”

    Liz Roberts is not transgender. She is not transitioning.

    That is what she told me in a phone interview early this month.

    “I’ve been a woman all my life,” she said. “I was one of the first hermaphrodites in the military. The Army changed my sex for me.”

    Roberts also claims that he was injured in an IED ambush in Iraq, even though he was never in Iraq.

    According to various copies of Roberts’ military records, including her DD 214, the standard record of service issued to a soldier upon discharge, Douglas Duane Roberts served in the Army between 2006 and 2014. Roberts was a rigger — somebody who packed parachutes — who served one tour in Afghanistan. She was retired by the military because of a temporary disability…It didn’t take long for some of Roberts’ stories to raise questions. She told the Gradys the same thing she eventually told The Missouri Times, in a story about her efforts to promote medical marijuana: that she had been injured by an improvised explosive device while serving in Iraq. She told Kara Grady that she was pregnant at the time.

    Roberts was never in Iraq. She never served as a woman. According to Jen Rogers, who changed the adult diapers that Roberts sometimes wears, Roberts still has male genitals.

    Mr. Messenger started asking questions about Roberts’ background and he was threatened with legal repercussions – always the best way to deflect background inquiries.

    It looks to me that this Missourians for Patient Care doesn’t really care about patients as their title suggests – it’s more about legalizing weed than any real patient care. I’m not surprised that they’re embroiled in this whole controversy. Remember Wayward Bill?

  • Sunday morning feel good stories

    Sunday morning feel good stories

    From New Orleans, Louisiana;

    According to NOPD, two suspects walked into Waffle House in the 2900 block of Elysian Fields Avenue just after 10 p.m. Thursday. One of them men jumped on the counter and demanded money from the cashier. He took $8 from a customer.

    The second suspect, later identified as 19-year-old Ernest Thomas, stood on the side near the counter, covering staff and serving as a lookout.

    As the first suspect approached a customer, the customer pulled out his personal firearm and drew his weapon. The first suspect ran out of the building, and Thomas turned and pointed his gun at the customer.

    The customer fired several shots at Thomas, who fled from the restaurant. Witnesses observed the subjects flee in a white Chrysler south on Elysian Fields Avenue.

    Detectives found a blood trail outside the business leading to the area where the waiting car had been parked. Detectives alerted local hospitals for any recent gunshot victims.

    A short time later, detectives learned a man with several gunshot wounds to the back and arm had been dropped off on the emergency ramp at University Medical Center.

    Detectives went to the hospital room where the shooting victim was and saw he matched the description of the armed robbery. Detectives also recovered the suspect’s bloody pants and sneakers.

    Hospital security footage showed a white Chrysler pull on to the ramp at a high rate of speed and the suspect exiting the vehicle and walking into the emergency room.

    The subject had been shot in the lower back, hip, and arm.

    From Elbert County, Colorado;

    Deputies said the 23-year-old was shot on Monday after breaking into his mother’s house and assaulting her. This is in Elbert County in the 36000 block of County Road 17, just north of the town of Elizabeth about 4:00 p.m.

    The homeowner told deputies that she shot her son, James Mamich, when she said she feared for her life. He was released from the hospital on Thursday and is being held on several charges including burglary, criminal mischief and and assault.

    From Indianapolis, Indiana;

    Keith and Kellie Durham were arrested for theft, burglary and possession of a controlled substance.

    Police believe the pair broke into the home the night before when no one was there. When they returned Friday morning, the homeowner’s son was there and he was armed.

    Police say he handcuffed and held the suspects at gunpoint until officers got there.

    “I think this was a crime of opportunity and I think that some people don’t go about getting things the right way, like people who work and purchase their own things instead of stealing them,” said Becky Owens, who lives two doors down from the home.

  • Mike Pompeo and the 1st Gulf War

    Mike Pompeo and the 1st Gulf War

    CIA Director Mike Pompeo is about to become President Trump’s next Secretary of State and today we hear from Splinter News that a number of his bios on the internet claim that he was a veteran of Desert Storm. Pompeo was an Army captain and West Point grad from 1986 – 1991. At the time of the Gulf War, he was assigned to the 2d Squadron, 7th Cavalry with the 4th Infantry Division. 2/7 Cav didn’t deploy to Desert Storm.

    Splinter News admits that none of the bios are directly quoting Pompeo.

    The question was first raised on Twitter Friday morning by Ned Price, a former CIA officer who served under President Obama, and who very publicly quit the CIA rather than work for President Trump, announcing the decision in a February 2017 op-ed in the Washington Post. Price pointed out that among other places, Pompeo’s Wikipedia page suggests that he was deployed. It currently states that Pompeo “served with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division in the Gulf War.”…The claim has also been repeated in numerous media outlets, either due to sloppy writing or outright incorrect information.

    Well, when I expose valor thieves for a false narrative, I only use direct quotes from the individual – not from the press, unless I can find photos of them wearing certain articles of clothing that condemn them. That’s pretty much what Splinter News has done, since no one can a find a direct quote from Pompeo where he claims to have been a Desert Storm Veteran.

  • Tech Sgt. John Chapman; first Airman to receive Medal of Honor since Vietnam

    Tech Sgt. John Chapman; first Airman to receive Medal of Honor since Vietnam

    The Air Force Times reports that Tech Sergeant John Chapman will be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his action in Afghanistan in 2002. Chapman will be the first Airman to be awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.

    He was originally awarded the Air Force Cross. That citation read;

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title 10, Section 8742, United States Code, takes pride in presenting the Air Force Cross (Posthumously) to Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman, United States Air Force, for extraordinary heroism in military operation against an armed enemy of the United States as a 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Combat Controller in the vicinity of Gardez, in the eastern highlands of Afghanistan, on 4 March 2002. On this date, during his helicopter insertion for a reconnaissance and time sensitive targeting close air support mission, Sergeant Chapman’s aircraft came under heavy machine gun fire and received a direct hit from a rocket propelled grenade which caused a United States Navy sea-air-land team member to fall from the aircraft. Though heavily damaged, the aircraft egressed the area and made an emergency landing seven kilometers away. Once on the ground Sergeant Chapman established communication with an AC-130 gunship to insure the area was secure while providing close air support coverage for the entire team. He then directed the gunship to begin the search for the missing team member. He requested, coordinated, and controlled the helicopter that extracted the stranded team and aircrew members. These actions limited the exposure of the aircrew and team to hostile fire. Without regard for his own life Sergeant Chapman volunteered to rescue his missing team member from an enemy strong hold. Shortly after insertion, the team made contact with the enemy. Sergeant Chapman engaged and killed two enemy personnel. He continued to advance reaching the enemy position then engaged a second enemy position, a dug-in machine gun nest. At this time the rescue team came under effective enemy fire from three directions. From close range he exchanged fire with the enemy from minimum personal cover until he succumbed to multiple wounds. His engagement and destruction of the first enemy position and advancement on the second position enabled his team to move to cover and break enemy contact. In his own words, his Navy sea-air-land team leader credits Sergeant Chapman unequivocally with saving the lives of the entire rescue team. Through his extraordinary heroism, superb airmanship, aggressiveness in the face of the enemy, and the dedication to the service of his country, Sergeant Chapman reflects the highest credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.