This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Hondo

  • “No ‘Wiretapping’ ”, Eh?

    Well, then it will certainly be interesting to hear what the former Occupant, 1600 Penn Avenue, Wash DC, and his defenders have to say when Representative Devin Nunes goes public later this week.

    Rep. Nunes is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.  And reportedly he has information showing that yes, in fact some of the Trump Campaign’s post-election communications were “incidentally” intercepted – and that those intercepts were provided to the White House.

    The information was provided to Rep. Nunes by personnel within the US Intelligence Community.  It reportedly corroborates information Rep. Nunes had already obtained from other sources.

    Oh, and did I mention that the CIA Director is also reportedly interested in determining the extent of any monitoring of President-Elect Trump’s communications by the former     gang of incompetent fools running DC prior to 20 January 2017     Administration?

    Stay tuned.  This one could get interesting.

  • Three More Are Home

    DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.

    From World War II

    • F1c Charles R. Casto, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 15 March 2017.

    • Pvt. Donald S. Spayd, USMC Reserve, assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, USMC, was lost on Tarawa on 20 November 1943. He was accounted for on 16 March 2017.

    From Korea

    • PFC Robert E. Mitchell, Company F, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost in South Korea on 6 September 1950. He was accounted for on 13 March 2017.

    Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.

    Rest in peace. You’re home now.

    . . .

    Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.

    On their web site’s “Contact Us” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.

    If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.

    Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.

     

  • Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of . . . Dumb

    I’ve been busy lately, so this article was a bit delayed.

    Seems as if a certain       dipstick jerk     “fine fellow” (or perhaps a group of Dandy Remarkable Guys) is at it again.  My friend Birdie tells me that I’ve been “found” – again.

    This time, I’m once again SF.  But this time, I’m apparently a member of the 20th Special Forces Group.  Or maybe I’m a former member of 20th SFGA; Dingus WetPeaBrain (and/or his cronies, if he had any) wasn’t exactly clear on that point this time around.

    (sigh)  And once again . . . Doofus Maximus ­­of the Skydiving Clown Kind and/or his cohorts, if any, are out to lunch.  As usual.  You’d think they’d learn a lesson after being wrong at least 15 times previously, but I guess not.

    The guy they’ve wrongly identified as me this time around doesn’t need the grief, so I’m not going to publish his name or photo here.  Suffice it to say that I’ve never been assigned to 20th SFGA – so this new guy being me is a “NO GO” from square one.

    But hey, at least they’ve been pretty consistently identifying me as an Army BAMF lately.  I’m no longer being misidentified as a Navy SEAL or Diver.  (smile)

    OK, recap time.  As I noted above, this is now at least the sixteenth damn time that Blunder ChickenChoker and/or his friends have erroneously identified someone else as being me.  The true total is probably higher; I’ve doubtless missed one or two of their bogus “identifications”.

    This time around, I’m allegedly a current or former SF SNCO.  The two times before this, supposedly I’ve been a current or former SF NCO and a serving Engineer 1SG (see here and here).

    Prior to that, I’ve been misidentified as both a retired SF Major and SGM; a serving Army officer; a retired law professor who served in the Army during the Eisenhower administration; a bona fide war hero with multiple high decorations for valor whose name I’m keeping private; 4 different Navy SEALs; a Navy diver; a deceased Army GO; a different longtime commenter at TAH; and a guy who occasionally writes a sports column for a newspaper in the Midwest.

    If you want to read the details, follow the second link above – and continue following links.  I’m not going to take the time to link each previous article individually; there are just too damn many of them now.

    Sheesh.  I guess dumbasses gonna continue being dumbasses regardless.  But you’d think that they’d eventually learn.

    Give it up, Dorkus WitLessOne.  You should be worrying about getting the help you obviously need instead of worrying about who I am.  Otherwise, I’m guessing this could end up your theme song someday.

    But if you – and any of your cronies – want to continue, just remember:  one of the best things about the First Amendment is that it helps us identify morons easily.  (Hat tip to longtime TAH commenter Bobo for the original version of that sentiment.)

  • Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is “Nancy”

    SanFranNan, March 2010:
    “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”

    SanFranNan, March 2017:
    “The American people and Members have a right to know the full impact of this legislation before any vote in Committee or in the whole House.”

    Along with monumental chutzpah, the abject hypocrisy and utter dishonesty shown by the combination of those two statements is simply sickening.

    But I’d expect nothing less from a committed     Socialist     “Progressive” like SanFranNan.  After all:  the Left’s modus operandi for years has been, “Fine for me – but not for thee.”

  • Feelgood Music from the Dead Guy

    Recorded after the man learned he was terminally ill. IMO if this upbeat little tune isn’t Key West’s and the Mardi Gras’ theme song, it should be.

     

    If the guitar work and background vocals sound somewhat familiar, if you’re a Tom Petty fan they should. The background vocals were done by Tom; much of the guitar work was done by Petty’s longtime guitarist from the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell.

    Gone too soon, Warren. We hardly knew ye.

  • Five Are MIA No More

    DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.

    From World War II

    • F1c Elmer T. Kerestes, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 6 March 2017.

    • 1st Lt. Robert E. Oxford, 425th Bomber Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, 14th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in India on 25 January 1944. He was accounted for on 6 March 2017.

    From Korea

    • PFC Manuel M. Quintana, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, US Army, was lost in South Korea on 27 July 1950. He was accounted for on 4 March 2017.

    • SGT Willie Rowe, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost in North Korea on 25 November 1950. He was accounted for on 2 March 2017.

    From Southeast Asia

    • Capt. Daniel W. Thomas, USAF Reserve, serving on active duty with 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron, USAF, was lost in Laos on 6 July 1971. He was accounted for on 25 February 2017.

    Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.

    Rest in peace. You’re home now.

    . . .

    Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.

    On their web site’s “Contact Us” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.

    If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.

    Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.

     

    Author’s Note: Capt. Thomas was accounted for on 25 February 2017; SGT Rowe, on 2 March 2017; and PFC Quintana, on 4 March 2017. However, their accounting was not announced on DPAA’s web site until this week.

  • Anyone Surprised?

    I’ve written before about the abuse of “refugee” status to gain entry into the US, along with the possibility of terrorists and/or other US enemies using such fake “refugee” status to do exactly that.  Well, today we have a concrete example.

    Multiple concrete examples, actually.  This linked article details them.

    The “money quote”?  Here you go (emphasis added):

    U.S. officials said earlier this week that nearly a third of the FBI’S 1,000 ongoing domestic terrorism investigations involve those admitted to the U.S. as refugees.

    The linked article gives multiple examples.  Those examples each discuss “refugees” subject to “extreme vetting” and admitted to the US by the previous       <del>naive gaggle of incompetent fools formerly running DC</del>       Administration who don’t appear to have been legitimate refugees at all.

    “Refugees” my ass.  “Infiltrators” seems more like it.

    The article’s IMO worth the 5 minutes it takes to read.  Fair warning:  if you read it, the article will probably p!ss you off.

    The article also details one case in which the Justice Department seems to have “slow rolled” prosecution of one such fake “refugee” in the weeks immediately prior to the 2016 elections.  Hmm.

    Gee, I wonder why something like that might happen?  It couldn’t be because such a prosecution might reflect badly on the former       SCoaMF       Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, Wash DC – could it?

    Wonderful.  Just freaking wonderful.

  • Gee . . . Thanks, SCoaMF

    Iran recently tested a new and highly sophisticated air defense system.  They obtained the system from Russia.

    The system is based on Russia’s S-300 missile.  The NATO designation for the original system is the SA-10; since the original version was first deployed in the late 1970s, Iran doubtless received a more modern variant.  The first linked article is unclear regarding precisely which S-300 variant Iran received.

    The S-300/SA-10 system and its descendants are quite capable.  They are regarded as some of the best currently-deployed air defense missile systems in the world.

    So, why do I say – completely sarcastically, of course – “Gee . . . thanks, SCoaMF” in the title above?  Read on.

    It seems that Iran and Russia signed the contract for Iran to purchase the system back in 2007; the system was to cost Iran $800 million.  However, international sanctions associated with Iran’s nuclear program prevented delivery.

    The US-Iran nuclear      giveaway      “deal” removed those sanctions. That in turn allowed Russia to deliver the system to Iran last year.

    And anyone with the common sense to pour p!ss out of a boot knew a priori exactly that would happen.

    In other words:  the previous       gang of utterly naïve imbeciles screwing things up “by the numbrs” in  DC        Administration in effect approved delivery of that system to Iran.  So in the event of hostilities with Iran US military aviators will now have to face one of the most sophisticated SAM threats in the world – a threat that wasn’t present prior to the US-Iran nuclear      giveaway       “deal”.

    Oh, and that $40 billion in Iranian assets we released in the Iran nuclear     giveaway      “deal”?  That was 50 times more than the $800 million cost of Iran’s new S-300 system.  So not only did the previous       DC gang of feckless fools        Administration green light installation of Iran’s new SAM system, they also reimbursed Iran for buying the damn thing – 50 times over.

    Hell, the $1.7 billion cash ransom the US paid Iran to release 4 US citizens a bit more than a year ago alone paid for Iran’s new system – more than twice!

    I know I’m repeating myself but I’ll say it again anyway:  “Gee . . . thanks, SCoaMF.”