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

Author: Sporkmaster

  • Alleged defections in Libya.

    This has just post a few minutes ago.

    Members of a Libyan army unit told residents of the flashpoint eastern city of Benghazi Sunday that they had defected and liberated the city from forces supporting the four decades of rule by Moamar Ghadafi, Reuters reported.

    And speaking from Benghazi, a local man named Benali told Sky News that anti-regime protesters were now in control of the city, the second largest in the oil-rich African nation.

    Now there are a lot of unanswered questions here like the number of soldiers and rank. But one of the biggest is how the Lybian government will react to this if this story is creditable. We shall see where this all leads.

    Also the US is attempting to apply pressure to Libyan to back down its threats of action against the local protesters.

    U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration also signaledthat the Libyan government might face consequences if it did not take heed of warnings to rein in its security forces and respect its citizens’ right to protest.

    Something tells me that they will not be impressed.

  • 150 is really a magical number.

    It seems that the argument that if we only send back 150 troops from Afghanistan then the entire problem in Wisconsin. Also you think that those that get sent back will not need funding? Or the fact that it ignores how those in Wisconsin got themselves into this mess. Kinda like the same short sighted idea that was put out a few months ago.

    Also it completely ignores the fact that several budgets have been put forward to cut troop levels in active service by 70,000 and over 78 billion in cuts. So you really think a additional 150 soldiers will have that much affect on State budget issues?

    Added:Oh and if this was not bad enough, lets have this on Russia Today for more fuel for propaganda of which the IVAW is so fond of giving to RT.

  • Update concerning Bounds, Kylen

    In addition to learning new information from Facebook from a friend in the family, I received this comment on my last post about Kylen.

    Ok, so I have held my tongue long enough. I am not going to sit here and read anymore slander about my son.

    My son Kylen bounds is mentally retarded. He has always wanted to go into the military and when he was in high school they let him into the JROTC and he loved it. But because his mental IQ is not the level that the military wants he can not go into anything. My son would be the best for the US and the military cause he loves it so much and would serve proud.

    I know that what he did was wrong and believe me when I tell you we tell him every day that he need to stop obsessing about the military and move on with his life. Now the restraining order that someone posted on here was for his girlfriend and him. His girlfriend is mentally ill as well and we wanted all phone calls and emails to stop between them that is why there is a no contact order with his name listed. As for the uniform you can call the National Guard in Tacoma and yell at them for giving him that. The patches he ordered them online. You can order them from a website and you don’t have to show them any paperwork as to your rank. now think about this people how many other people out there are doing the same thing?

    Kylen was just one that got caught. He did his time for it and now is trying to move on with his life. Please as a mom of a mentally ill kid i beg you to drop all of the hateful post about him and put yourself in my shoes for once. Think about how hard it is to raise a mentally ill child,who loves the military so much that when we take him to the recruiting offices and they tell him not to cry. I hope that me posting this will help you all understand what I am going through as well as him.

    Now I send my thanks to all the veterans out there that have served or are serving. I have family that is in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines right now. My father in law as well as other friends serve in Vietnam. my grandfather that served in ww2. I have had friends that I have lost loved ones in war so I know that I want to thank each and every one of our veterans for protecting our lives. May god bless each and everyone of you.

    So looking back at the post with this information does put things into a different light. So with that being said I am removing that post from public view.

  • Has anyone even heard of these people?

    It seems that the one of the many groups that will be cut off from funding is a group called US Institute of Peace At first glance I thought that it might be a side project from groups like Veterans for Peace. But it seems that it has been around for awhile saying that they gave a review about Iraq headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton. So when it’s funding was cut people on Facebook were quick to respond about their disapprove.

    “How ironic, even as our nation is at war in Afghanistan and shifting from war to peace in Iraq, that anyone in Congress could decide that now is the right time to undermine a proven, innovative congressional institution on the frontlines — helping US men and women in uniform, and on the civilian side, to save lives,” USIP President Richard Solomon wrote at Politico Thursday.

    What training? Has anyone here heard of anything benefiting to the situation in any form or action? If so I certainly did not see it.

    Of course some of the facebook comments give the stereotypical reply.

    We are still fighting 2 wars.With whom?With shadows of ourselves.How anybody can call it wars??We invaded 2 countries on very questionable base.No MWDs in Iraq.But,they have had capacity,like GWB said.Yes,capacity.Al Qaida in Afganistan?Fab…ricated as we please.8 years bloody spending and we are very close to VICTORY.Victory??You read me??We lost it very next day we started.No win situation.We are biggest Warmongering country in the world ,but we are #1 in global peace achievement.Something is deadly wrong about this picture.Almost in all our allies countries,people protesting against government,who is pro America.Government only-not citizens.How long we can sustain the satus-quo bribing governments to our interests ??The game is over I think.

    Ugh, yea is about all I can say to that without going crazy trying to reply to that one.

  • JP Morgan-Chase answers before Congress.

    It looks like all the people that were taken advantaged of got to have their say including Captain Jonathon Rowles.

    Under terms of the SCRA, provisions are made to cap interest rates on home mortgages for active-duty military personnel. In a lawsuit filed on behalf of Jonathon Rowles and his wife, Julia, JPMorgan Chase is accused of continuing to charge the couple mortgage rates that exceeded the cap after Rowles joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and was called to active duty.

    What I also liked was that in the session it was called for those that represented to take personal responsibility rather then corporate responsibility. But what comes next is priceless.

    In her oral testimony before the HVAC, Mudick said JPMorgan Chase assumed “full responsibility” for the SCRA violations, characterizing the alleged 4,500 cases of mishandled interest rates and 18 wrongful foreclosures as products of human error. She said lack of internal training left many Chase employees with little, if any, knowledge of SCRA regulations and the intricacies of military documentation, saying that “military orders are sometimes hard to comprehend.”

    In response, Rep. Tim Walz, I-Minn., produced his iPad, upon which he exhibited a simple one-page set of military orders. In contrast, he held up a Chase credit card agreement spanning dozens of pages. He called Mudick’s statement “the weakest testimony I’ve ever heard in this committee.”

    Yea, you cannot say what is complicated when then things that you give out to your customers is more complex.

    Committee Chair Jeff Miller, R-Fla., summed up the proceedings. “Our nation’s war fighters and their families should not have to fight to keep their piece of the American Dream, while they are on foreign ground defending that fundamental right for all of us,” he said. “While I am heartened that JPMorgan Chase Bank is attempting to fix these errors with respect to wrongful foreclosures, and is refunding over $2.4 million in excessive interest charges, more must be done to ensure that this never happens again. I hope this is a wake-up call for the entire financial services industry.”

    Hopefully this is the last that we hear about this, but I am afraid that it will not be.

  • I will remember that you said that.

    This is what is going around FaceBook from Rethink Afghanistan.

    Yea, the Taliban will all go away if we leave. It is all our fault.

    Except that people conveniently forget what the Taliban truly are.

    But don’t worry this is all our fault too. But somethings will never change.

  • New Year and New fakes.

    In with the new year and in with the new phonies. Meet a one Mr, Woytek, Jason thanks to POW.net.

    But according to his records he is not even have half of these awards. In fact that his highest award is the Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal.

    Oh with the CIB with two stars and the CAR with three stars was not a dead give away. But then again perhaps one should explain how unit awards are given and when one has a silver oak leaf on every single award is a big eye raiser, I do not know what is.

    It seems that he is facing other criminal charges of pawning off stolen laptops.

  • More issues at MacDill Air Force Base.

    This is stale by a month but it needs to be looked at. It seems that there was a second attempt at getting into the base. Only this time the person got in. Like the previous time, the person was armed.

    The brazen scheme was discovered last year by military investigators only after Scott Allan Bennett, 39, was arrested for drunk driving at an entrance gate to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

    At the time of his bust, a “dazed and confused” Bennett was carrying a concealed, loaded handgun, and his vehicle contained a second loaded gun, seven knives, a machete, a collapsible baton, mace, a stun gun, ammunition, a sling shot with BBs, and a box of throwing stars,

    It gets better.

    After being booked in late-April on a DUI count, Bennett returned to MacDill, where he was met at the gate by an Air Force Police investigator, who sought to question him about the weapons found in his vehicle (MacDill residents are required to register firearms and ammo with the Base Armory). Bennett invoked his right to remain silent and denied permission to search his apartment.

    However, after a military magistrate signed a search warrant, Bennett’s home was raided. Investigators reported finding “seven loaded firearms; approximately 9389 additional rounds of ammunition; numerous knives; brass knuckles; an electric stun gun; and a collapsible baton, in addition to other weapons and prohibited materials.” None of the material had been registered with the MacDill armory.

    Besides the fact that the pretended to be a vet to get on post, one has to ask how long before someone get through with a weapon? Also what is there to prevent a violent episode there? Will it be another one of those ” No one could have predicted this” or “It just goes to show how much these wars are affecting our Veterans” crap.