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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Charleston gunman’s sister takes weapons to school

    The sister of the Charleston murderer (whose name we don’t repeat here) was arrested yesterday when she took a knife and some pot to school, according to Good Morning, America.

    Her brother is on death row in South Carolina for murdering nine people three years ago. She left a barely literate message on Snapchat;

    Your walking out of the allowed time of 17min, they are letting you do this, nothing is gonna change what tf you think it’s gonna do? I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot we know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway.

    If that’s indicative of the education that students are getting these days, they need to stop getting involved in social snowflake causes and start paying more attention in the classroom.

    From CNN;

    XXXX XXXXX, 18, was arrested after a school resource officer at the A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina was notified that [she] was carrying marijuana, pepper spray and a knife on campus, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said.

    XXXX had also made an alarming Snapchat post expressing anger about the National School Walkout, The Post and Courier reported. A 17-minute walkout was staged at schools around the country on Wednesday to honor the 17 people killed at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month and call for stricter gun control laws.

    It’s people, not guns that are the threat to youngsters in school.

  • Thursday morning feel good stories

    Thursday morning feel good stories

    From Lexington, Kentucky;

    The Sheriff’s Office said that on Monday, authorities responded to N.C. Highway 150 in the Tyro community in reference to a domestic dispute.

    Woodell’s wife of 42 years, who had fled to her mother’s residence, said that she had been assaulted by Woodell. Authorities said the wife informed deputies that Woodell would most likely be at his residence on Sink Farm Road.

    Officers arrived at 1257 Sink Farm Road at approximately 11 p.m. Monday and found Woodell was holed up inside a barn. Grice said that when deputies made contact with Woodell, who was armed with a shotgun, he threatened law enforcement and said he would shoot before he would come out and surrender. Around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, deputies heard a gunshot inside the barn while they attempted to negotiate with the suspect over the telephone.

    The Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team was called at 12:43 a.m. While the response team staged across the street, line officers staged themselves around the barn to keep Woodell inside.

    Grice said that at 1:47 a.m., Woodell exited the building and shot at deputies. Officers fired back and struck Woodell. A response team medic administered CPR and then Woodell was transported to Wake Forest Baptist-Lexington Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries.

    From Memphis, Tennessee;

    A suspected vehicle burglar ended up dodging bullets Monday night.

    He allegedly tried to break into a man’s truck, but ended up running for his life.

    It happened around 10 p.m. after Demaris Johnson and his cousin, Kevin Jamerson, parked their vehicles at Smackers, near Airways and Lamar.

    Police say Johnson saw a man trying to break into Jamerson’s truck after his cousin went inside.

    When he went to confront him, the suspect pulled a gun, which forced Johnson to pull his gun and start shooting.

    He told police it was self-defense.

    “He did what he thought best to do at that time,” one woman told us.

    Police say the suspect drove off in a white car.

    Investigators found 16 shell casings when they got to the scene.

    Officers tried to find the suspect by checking hospitals for gun-shot victims, but they didn’t have any luck.

    Also from Memphis;

    John Lesure…says he was just getting in from church and had his sights set on settling in for the night when the plan changed.

    “I opened the door for him, and he came in screaming ‘I think I’ve been shot,” he said.

    Lesure says his son claimed someone pulled into the driveway on Whispering Elm and just started shooting, hitting him in the groin, chest and leg.

    It turns out, that was a lie.

    According to police, Edward Lesure was behind the whole plan to rob an unsuspecting victim who agreed to meet up after talking to a teenage girl he met online.

    Police say, the girl who was working with Lesure to get the man to come to John Lesure’s home.

    “Hopefully, if he can make it through this, he will have an eye opening experience. Hopefully it opens his eyes,” the suspect’s father said.

    Police say the teenage girl and Lesure used that dating site to send her picture to entice and invite the victim over.

    Once the victim came over, the teenager took $100 from him, and Lesure crept up from the back with a BB gun.

    The victim then pulled a real gun and shot, hitting Lesure three times before getting away.

  • Students on gun control

    Students on gun control

    Someone sent us this video clip from their local news coverage of the student protest against guns today in Nashville, Tennessee;

    Yes, if you shoot a deer with an Armalite-style Rifle, the deer will explode according to this person who got lost looking for a barbershop. The reason that this class of people are called students is because they don’t know everything, as this youngster demonstrates perfectly.

    Go back to class.

  • “Teacher accidentally fires gun and injures student during safety lesson”

    “Teacher accidentally fires gun and injures student during safety lesson”

    That’s the headline to the CNN article. While it’s mostly accurate, the “teacher” was actually a local reserve police officer and the mayor pro tem of Seaside City, California.

    Anyway, he pointed his gun at the ceiling and had a negligent discharge. One student was struck in the area of his neck by a bullet or ceiling fragment (pictured above).

    “I think a lot of questions on parents’ minds are, why a teacher would be pointing a loaded firearm at the ceiling in front of students,” Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh told CNN affiliate KSBW. “Clearly in this incident protocols were not followed.”

    A lot of questions should be on the minds of the people who hired him to be police officer, too. Questions like “Why is this guy our mayor?” and “Who gave this guy a gun?”

    Again, as always, it’s people who are the problem, not the guns. In the Army, we said that the nut behind the trigger needed an adjustment.

  • Space Force; Trump trolls media

    The president is always looking for ways to toss the media out of it’s orbit. His latest was at a San Diego Marine Corps base where he audibly ruminated about a “Space Force” to battle an enemy outside of our atmosphere, according to Associated Press.

    Saying his national security strategy “recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump said at a San Diego Marine Corps base that he’s considering “a space force” that would be the equivalent of the Air Force, Army and Navy.

    Trump said at first he wasn’t serious when he floated the concept, but “then I said what a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that.”

    Last week we were treated to the media reaction to Trump’s apparent embracing of the idea of a President for life. This week, it’s hand-wringing over the United Federation of Planets taking over the solar system.

    Expert level trolling.

  • James Henry Kapner; phony SEAL, phony wounded Vietnam veteran

    James Henry Kapner; phony SEAL, phony wounded Vietnam veteran

    Our partners at Military Phonies share another phony SEAL with us. This one, Jim Kapner, claims that he was wounded while he was serving as a SEAL in Vietnam.

    Folks wonder how we’re able to spot so many phonies, it’s easy because they begin talking about their secret military records at every opportunity without any prompting. A case in point;

    Mr Kapner retired from the active duty Navy and Reserves after 22 years as an AE1 – an Aviation Electronics Mate 1st Class, an E-6. But no awards for Vietnam service, no Combat Action Ribbon, no Purple Heart, no SEAL training.

  • Stephen Hawking passes

    Stephen Hawking passes

    Probably the most famous theoretical physicist and ALS victim of our time has passed according to Stars & Stripes. Stephen Hawking lived an astounding 50 years after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS – Lou Gehrig disease as it’s known in the US) in 1969. Many patients last only several months after the diagnosis.

    A severe attack of pneumonia in 1985 left him breathing through a tube, forcing him to communicate through an electronic voice synthesizer that gave him his distinctive robotic monotone.

    But he continued his scientific work, appeared on television and married for a second time.

    As one of Isaac Newton’s successors as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, Hawking was involved in the search for the great goal of physics — a “unified theory.”

    Such a theory would resolve the contradictions between Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which describes the laws of gravity that govern the motion of large objects like planets, and the Theory of Quantum Mechanics, which deals with the world of subatomic particles.

    For Hawking, the search was almost a religious quest — he said finding a “theory of everything” would allow mankind to “know the mind of God.”

    “A complete, consistent unified theory is only the first step: our goal is a complete understanding of the events around us, and of our own existence,” he wrote in “A Brief History of Time.”

    In later years, though, he suggested a unified theory might not exist.

    The ALS Association says that veterans are twice as likely to be afflicted with ALS as their civilian peers. There hasn’t been an official reason to the cause, but ALS is a presumptive condition for veterans as far as the VA is concerned, meaning that they’ll take care of most of your needs. Since most people don’t show signs of ALS until they are more than 50 years old, it’s nice to know that the VA will be there for you if you need help.

    But, as far as Mr Hawkins is concerned, I’ll take 76 years old.

  • Cherokee genealogist: none of the evidence supports Warren’s version

    Cherokee genealogist: none of the evidence supports Warren’s version

    The Washington Times reports that Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes who has researched the story told by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren about her Indian heritage says none of it adds up;

    Ms. Barnes, who said her research into Ms. Warren’s family found “no evidence” of Native American ancestry, has challenged key elements of the senator’s tale of how her parents, Pauline Reed and Donald Herring, defied his parents by running off to marry.

    “The problem with Warren’s story is that none of the evidence supports it,” said Ms. Barnes in a 2016 post on her Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter blog. “Her genealogy shows no indication of Cherokee ancestry. Her parents’ wedding doesn’t resemble an elopement. And additional evidence doesn’t show any indication of her Herring grandparents being Indian haters.”

    Of course, that surprises no one, mostly because Massachusetts Senators have a history of being strangers to the truth.

    While Ms. Warren may genuinely believe the story of her star-crossed parents, Ms. Barnes has argued that the documentation doesn’t back it up.

    She cited the friendship between Grant Herring, Ms. Warren’s paternal grandfather, and Carnall Wheeler, who was listed on the Cherokee Nation roll and mocked in his Virginia Military Institute yearbook as an “aboriginal.”

    Documents show that the two played golf together and that Mr. Wheeler attended a 25th anniversary party for the Herrings in 1936.

    “Clearly, Wheeler experienced some degree of racism in his life due to his being Indian,” said Ms. Barnes. “Despite this, there is one person we know who did not have a problem associating with him — Grant Herring, the grandfather of Elizabeth Warren, the same grandfather she claims was racist against Indians.”

    Of course, in this day and age, folks can be whoever they want to be, just by declaring it’s so despite any documentation. That’s why our Stolen Valor page is chocked full of phonies.