Author: TSO

Don’t you like that title?  I do.  Commence with the bitching of my classification of this asshat after you read the article.  TSO is going back to doing the superfly dance in his Superman jammies with the plastic footies….

SAN DIEGO – 9Wants to Know has learned the former head of the Colorado Veteran’s Alliance, who admitted to lying about his military service record, has been arrested by FBI agents in California.

Rick Strandlof faces a charge of “false claims about receipt of military decorations of medals.”

The FBI tells 9Wants to Know Strandlof was arrested without any problems.

Strandlof gave his first jailhouse interview to 9Wants to Know in June and admitted he hadn’t been truthful about his military record.

Strandlof had claimed he graduated from the Naval Academy and received a purple heart after being wounded in Iraq.

Strandlof also went by the name Rick Duncan.

Under the pseudonym of Rick Duncan, Strandlof founded the Colorado Veterans Alliance in order to lobby for veterans’ issues. In 2008, he became quite popular with local Democratic politicians as he made a number of campaign appearances and was even featured in a pair of television advertisements.

Duncan told people he was wounded during the battle of Fallujah. He told people he served on three separate occasions in Iraq. He was also known as a harsh critic of President Bush’s policy in the Middle East.

If convicted, he faces a year in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Somehow the line I suggested got taken out of the article:

“TSO of the famous blog This Ain’t Hell, when contacted by Channel 9 news responded that: ‘I believe it was noted philanthropist, philosopher and phrenologist Shaquille O’Neal who said ‘Tell me how my ass tastes.’”

Need I tell you how happy this story makes me?
Good job by Mr. Lamothe, my newest, favoritest reporter…..

Charges filed against phony Colorado war hero
By Dan Lamothe – Staff writer
Posted : Friday Oct 2, 2009 13:31:42 EDT

U.S. authorities have charged an admitted military faker exposed by Colorado veterans this spring for lying about being a Marine captain who served three tours in Iraq, being wounded in combat and surviving the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

Jeffrey Dorschner, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado, confirmed Friday morning that charges had been filed against Richard Glen Strandlof, 32, but said he did not immediately know what they were. The actions come nearly five months after the FBI arrested him May 13 on an outstanding warrant after questioning him about his purported past, which he later admitted concocting.

Wonder what changed from last week when they were bagging the case…..(rhetorical question)

Completely unrelated music video:

OK, so the title of this thread is based on a Mexican song that was sung by various units as they marched off to The Alamo if the book I am currently reading is to be believed. It seemed vaguely proper for a quick post. (Someone go ahead and translate if you feel like it.)  As you can see from the picture above of my horribly coffee deficient desk this morning, I have the books of Jesse MacBeth and Dahr Jamail ready to be perused.

I pretty much fricken lost it after 2 paragraphs of Jesse’s book when I read this line:

My soul cowers, fleeing from the steady drip of my heart’s blood…

Honestly, I don’t even know what that means. But it struck me as hilarious.

Anyway, I took a quick gander at Dahr’s book this morning and expected the same ole shite. Apparently not, we get an entirely new heaping portion of shite. My good buddy Geoff “Stolen Valor” Millard gets 12 pages, the better part of one chapter. I figured it would be his dopey racism stuff with “Hadjis” inability to operate motor vehicles in a safe manner being the context. How surprised was I that instead it was his “resistence.” Which started because when he went to his new guard unit they had (allegedly) printed out targets with his picture on them and then informed him they were going to the range the next day. He apparently called his lawyer (presumably after shitting his pants, but before cleaning them) and then went AWOL.

Profiles in courage my friends, profiles in courage.

Anyway, look for my book review soon, after I read the book my girl got me for my Birfday about the writing of the Constitution.

This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. OK, these are my 2 favorite shows on TV doing their take on the classic “Take on me” by A-ha. Which one is better?

Here at TAH we have long stood up for respecting other cultures.  Even bringing them here, provided they do so illegally.  As such, our own Claymore sent along this link which clearly shows our allies the Germans engaging in their national pastime.  We’re not so different I think….

Mind you the first 18,202 are policy related, like actually liking our country, but WTF with all these guys hugging each other? If I am ever standing around with men draping their arms around each other, I am wondering why the TV in this gay bar is not on the Red Sox game.

It starts off with Gilligan and his lack of understanding how compasses and heavy masses of metal are a bad combination. This story still strikes me as bizarre, and ridiculous. I don’t know if it happened or not, but the odds of a faulty azimuth just happening to land on an Afghani village is just too singular for me to accept without proof. It would be roughly akin to firing a missile into the ocean and accidentally hitting a row boat.

Next we get John Turner who covered his 1970’s half mullet with a bright orange bandana. He served as an “automatic machinegunner.” You can never have enough automatic machinegunners, who can totally shoot more than the droves of semi-automatic and revolving machinegunners.

Next up, Reverend Yearwood. Best just ignore that one.

Then we get “This Land is Your Land” with acompanying hand holding etc. Totally creeps me out. And the back slapping of Millard had me fighting chunks back into my esophagus. And the singer’s tirade is absolutely weapons grade Awesomium. History is not made by CIA kingpins running dope. He speakum much troof to power people!

If the wheel of history is in IVAW’s hand, then I say, Please Spongebob, take the wheel.

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