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

Author: TSO

  • Are we witnessing the death of parenting?

    This story will be pretty far off the beaten path for what I usually discuss, but I have to admit I am fascinated (in a horrible way) by it, and apparently many others are as well.  I asked my wife to DVR the View today, which was possibly more embarrassing for me than someone being a Giants fan today.

    To catch you up to speed on what is happening, watch this video from ABC News 10 video from ABCnews:

    So Holloway started a website entitled “Help me Save 300” and printed screen grabs of pictures and Tweets from the party.  It’s resulted in a few good things, and one thing that will likely anger a lot of folks.

    For one thing, the Eagle statue has been returned.  That’s to be expected, since they had a picture of the girl who stole it.  Additionally, Mr. Holloway had a ton of people come over and help him fix up some of the damage, including some of the kids responsible.  As he posted on his website:

    4 Students of The 300 showed up and took a stand for their greatness;  I want to thank the parents for joining them.  This was significant.

    Four kids out of 300 seems rather meager to me, but I guess it is a start.  I wouldn’t have been able to go back if it was me only because my parents would have paddled my butt so hard I probably would have needed a chair to move around.  Look, I did some dumb stuff as a kid, but I rather draw the line at causing $40,000 in a house that I broke into.

    Apparently most parents are not like my own (via my former hometown newspaper the Berkshire Eagle):

    Now, some of the teens’ parents have threatened to sue for damages over his website, helpmesave300.com, which they claim defames their children, according to Holloway.

    The former New England Patriots player told The Eagle he thought these parents’ anger is misdirected.

    “I wasn’t there. All I did was reveal it to you,” he said. “If your child pooped in their diaper, change the diaper, don’t yell at me. It’s simplistic but it’s true.

    “You wouldn’t believe the stuff I’ve been getting,” Holloway added.

    Some parents, he said, claim their teenagers are suffering from “anxiety and depression” as a result of the considerable media attention given to the case. He said they’ve told Holloway “if my child commits suicide,” the blame will fall on his shoulders.

    But Holloway’s lawyers and other “top attorneys” from around the country have assessed the circumstance and told him the parents’ chances aren’t good, he said.

    So some kids break into a house, do drugs and destroy the place, and the parents want to punish the guy who publicized it?  Are you kidding me?

    For his part, Hollway seems like a pretty good dude. 

    (1)  Today we honored and support our real HEROES,  our military and veterans that served in Vietnam War,  Gulf War,  Desert Storm,  Desert Shied and The Afghanistan.  It was an amazing day; that all enjoyed and treasured.
    (2) Community Volunteers helped to restore the damage;  it was a powerful time healing. You should have been here.

    I wish I could have been there to help him, but I am more stunned at the litigiousness of parents.  If Johnny and Jane misbehave, how is it the responsibility of the victim?  Does this make any sense to anyone?

    And now I’m actually excited to get home and watch my DVR of The View, which I will immediately delete after watching in case someone looks at my TV someday and catches me taping the View.  As I said,  I’d sooner be a Giants Offensive Lineman that get caught recording the View.

  • Worst jingle ever

    OK, so I was worried about my Patriots yesterday. Frankly, the team scares the bejesus out of me this year because the receivers are like Clifford Franklin from the Washington Sentinels. Luckily, yesterday they pulled the good Clifford Franklin.

    So anyway, I’m listening to the game streamed on the internet while watching the unwatchable Bills/Jets game. Only, every time the game goes into commercial there is the same fricken commercial, over and over and over. It features this horrid jingle:

    Anyway, after I bitched on Facebook about it endlessly, people told me it runs in a ton of places. Have you ever heard this crap song before? I don’t want to say bad things about kids and such, but this is the worst song in history. It was so bad I would just hit refresh over and over and wait until the game came back on.

    So has anyone heard this shit horrid jingle before?

    UPDATE: Looks like I am not alone, some dude from SF Gate said he’d rather drive his car off a cliff than donate to Kars4Kids:

    I remember the first time I heard the jingle, while I was listening to KNBR during the morning kindergarten/babysitter dropoff. Most radio ads are annoying, and I usually don’t mind. I know a lot of nice people who work in radio and television. If hearing from Stephen Moskowitz every three minutes means a few of my friends get to keep their jobs, then God bless him and his no initial consultation fees. It’s easy enough to tune this stuff out.

    But the 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS ad was different. Horribly, horribly different. This advertisement couldn’t be ignored. It’s amazingly simple, featuring a slightly out of key adult, child or group singing the same jingle over and over. (The vocals change from commercial to commercial, but the tune doesn’t.) And yet the assault on my senses is all-consuming. There was no unringing this bell. It’s the audio equivalent of walking in on your parents having sex. Hear it once, and it’s in your head forever.

  • Oh shit! Veterans Today is on to us!!!!!

    Hide your kids, hide your wife, cause everybody getting satanized up in here! (From Veterans Today of course.)

    I was given the following photograph of George HW Bush by German Intelligence as a favor which shows Daddy Bush wearing the satanic Knights Templar 77 hat with the goat headed demon. Can a Christian wear the goat headed demon? The level is 34-99 in the top Satanic level the picture of Bush was years ago now he has risen to the top 12 who control the economies of the world worth nearly $60-$100 Trillion dollars.

    This photograph is further proof that Daddy Bush is certainly not a Christian and as Anthony correctly states in the interview, you cannot be a Christian and be a member of Skull and Bones! George HW Bush and George W. Bush are admitted Skull and Bones members and have never publicly renounced their membership. Leonard Millman and George HW Bush were both member of Skull and Bones a Satnic Occult at Yale when they graduated.

    The picture is helpfully titled: “Bush with his Baphomet the Goat Headed Demon Hat”

    And, here it is:

    Bush satan hat

    [You can’t see this, but this is my “I’ll have whatever he’s having” face.]

    I hate to shit all over this awesome little theory involving space goats, illuminati, a secret cabal of Jews, and price fixing on quinoa, but that’s a Legion cap. The German intelligence officer that leaked it to you probably got it from the main Legion page. It’s sort of less a sign that he’s in league with demons and having sexual congress with succubi, and more a sign that he’s a member of American Legion post 77 in Houston Texas.

    But, back to the fun little theory:

    These power hungry and greedy Evil humans like Len Millman and Daddy Bush desire to rule the world they only breed for one purpose to be reincarnated into their own Daughters, Granddaughters or Great granddaughters. They can live to be 150-200 years old this is why Leonard Millman has started a new family when the Denver generation dies off his new and younger family will be available for him to be reincarnated into. Then in 50 years when diseases are all cured Millman will be able to live to be 200-600 years old and of course younger woman willing to marry for money to give the Illuminati Alien Brain Leonard Millman more off spring to have available for reincarnation which is a fantasy and illusion in the Human who is now possessed by the Alien Brain.

    Look, again, I don’t mean to belittle your totally awesome, fact driven conspiracy theory, but if the man can live up to 600 years, why is he wearing around cute socks and playing with his granddaughters? Doesn’t dude have some top secret world ruining to do? Or is that a part time occupation?

    And now a reading from the Necronomicon…..

    That hat, you know, the one with “Baphomet the Goat Headed Demon” on it? You know, from the shitty picture that German intelligence smuggled to you in the anus of a rare civit cat? Yeah, slightly less Templarian, and a bit more “Texas star with a steers head in the middle of it.” You can’t make it out from your super duper top sekrit picture there, but this one should be clearer:

    Texas cap

    If “Daddy Bush” is a level 77 Luciferian Knight Templar of the Illuminati, than the dude in this picture is like one of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, cause he’s level 493. And even if Daddy Bush lives another 518 years, I doubt he’ll make it that far.

    Seriously, how many asses go into making each of your hats Stew Webb?

  • The Paul Wickre Chronicles: Paul in his own words

    As the legal issues raised by this situation are evaluated and the facts investigated, for the time being TAH will not allow any more comments on any of the Wickre/Monkress/APL threads. Thank you for your patience as we work through this.

    (In light of yesterday’s events at the Navy Yard, I’m publishing this so you can see what we are dealing with.)

    NOTE: SHould go without saying, but behave yourself in the comments.  THIS WILL BE READ BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.  I want to make sure they get the threat, so don’t say something dumb.  Kapiche?

    We haven’t posted any updates on Paul Wickre for nearly a month now. In fact, we even went a step further and locked down the threads. I wanted to briefly explain why, and show you what we are dealing with behind the scenes. We are doing this because clearly he does not intend to stop emailing and commenting here, despite numerous entreaties that he no longer contact us.

    For now, we have a great attorney helping us out. (No need to send money, we are good for now.)

    His name is John D. Mason, and his law practice is “Copyright Counselors” out of….Bethesda Maryland, where Paul Wickre is located, which makes it much easier. He’s also an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where I graduated from law school. But the ironic part is, he has also worked with someone we all know and love loathe: Michael Yon. (In his defense, he also has Mike Totten as a client, so he’s one for two on those guys.)

    Anyway, he’s phenomenal, and I won’t clutter this up too much praising him, because he deserves his own thread and hosannas once this is over. Suffice to say that dude has helped us immeasurably, dealing with local law enforcement, Mr. Wickre’s attorney and others. And he answers my calls and questions every time I call. So, if you are writing a book or need a literary agent, call him. If you are being sued for defamation, call him. He gets my highest recommendation across the board for legal knowledge, eagerness to help, responsiveness etc.

    Anyway, yes, he’s helping us deal with local law enforcement on the ground in Maryland. Since we last talked about Wickre, things went RAPIDLY south. For obvious reasons, I am going to be somewhat circumspect here. As I was about to leave the country for Cuba, Wickre decided it was time to ramp up the physical threats. Rather than talk about them in the abstract, I am going to include some of the comments we blocked from the website, and emails we received, and let his words speak for themselves.

    I perceived the threat to be real enough that I contacted three FBI field offices, my local police, and the police in Maryland. All of them have responded well, albeit somewhat slower than I would have liked, since I was headed out of the country. I got a new security system for my house, and started getting my wife to understand the basics of personal security. My father in law came down to stay with her, and to teach her some basic firearms skills. Now, my house isn’t the Alamo that Jonn has created, but I daresay we can hold out until reinforcements could arrive.

    Wittgenfeld thinks we are being “pussies” for contacting the police. Ok. Then I am a pussy. But I love my wife, and didn’t want her to get beaten with a baseball bat (see below) when I wasn’t there to protect her. I haven’t included Jonn and my responses to these emails and comments, because largely all I have responded with was “do not contact us, continued emails constitute harassment.”

    Where do we stand now? I’m not sure what I am at liberty to discuss. I will have updates for you as soon as developments occur. But this is only the first part of what will likely be a VERY long process. Because it is our opinion that this might go far deeper than just Paul Wickre… He continues to allege that his efforts are being bankrolled by APL and Monkress (for example: he wrote that “The litigation expense of multiple firms on this puzzle is being underwritten by the Principals as below, the Wickre Family Trust, APL and Phil Monkress.”). Which means that we are exploring the possible involvement of APL and Monkress in these threats and harassment.

    For now though, I give you the threats and insanity that have been going on in the background in the form of emails and unpublished comments he has submitted to the TAH website for publication.

    Email 8/12/13 2050 hours:

    Just want to make sure you have this. On my trip to Indiana, I am going to stop by for a cordial visit with your family. N worries, my Class 14 Champion XKR’S which look like Aston DB-9;s will be stopping by.They do not break and can make the trip on the way to see Seaveys family in 6 hours.

    Phil may come or just our agents from DC. We will bring a pie, so you remember.

    It is not far, but I will be bringing papers. So open up your gracious home. We see it as on your AT&T statement at John Lilyea, RR HC 86 411 Fort Ashby VA 26719. I have a route planner so no worries. WE can find it. And we still have all your family mobile phones, so we can find it.

    I will let you know as the week progresses such that your family can plan a warm welcome.

    Watch for the Jaguars, they are quite something.

    s send your wife’s name so we can instantly meet and bond.

    If not Phil, I will be bringing the guys that called you in May, so we can all meet and greet, as you jave mentioned them so many times as to your wife and her friends. They should meet in person, and I will do introductions, so everyone is cozy.

    (more…)

  • Anna Shireman-Grabowski semi-professional assclown extra-ordinaire

    First, the story:

    A 2,977 flag memorial was ripped out of the ground in front of Mead Memorial Chapel shortly before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 by a group of five protestors claiming that the flags were on top of a sacred Abenaki burial site.

    The flags — meant to commemorate each of the 2,977 lives taken in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks — have been posted in the grass between Mead Chapel and the Davis Family Library annually in a joint effort between the College Republicans and Democrats for nearly 10 years.

    Ben Kinney ’15, president of the College Republicans, spent two hours putting the flags outside of Mead Chapel on Tuesday night, and happened to be walking up the hill towards the chapel when he saw four females and one male stuffing the miniature flags into black trash bags.

    “I got there just as they were taking the very last of them out of the ground and putting them in piles,” he said. “At first, I the group was comprised of College Democrats helping put the flags away before the rain rolled in, but then I realized what they were doing.”

    Now the idiot chick has come forward to defend her actions.  H/t Jeff Wilkinson  (Corrected link)

    Today I, along with a group of non-Middlebury students, helped remove around 3,000 American flags from the grass by Mead Chapel. While I was not the only one engaged in this action and the decision was not solely mine, I am the one who will see you in the dining halls and in the classroom, and I want to take accountability for the hurt you may be feeling while clarifying the motivations for this action.

    My intention was not to cause pain but to visibilize the necessity of honoring all human life and to help a friend heal from the violence of genocide that she carries with her on a daily basis as an indigenous person. While the American flags on the Middlebury hillside symbolize to some the loss of innocent lives in New York, to others they represent centuries of bloody conquest and mass murder. As a settler on stolen land, I do not have the luxury of grieving without an eye to power. Three thousand flags is a lot, but the campus is not big enough to hold a marker for every life sacrificed in the history of American conquest and colonialism….

    Today I chose to act in solidarity with my friend, an Indigenous woman and a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy who was appalled to see the burial grounds of another Indigenous nation desecrated by piercing the ground that their remains lay beneath. I understand that this action is confusing and painful for many in my community. I don’t pretend to know if every action I take is right or justified—this process is multi-layered and nuanced. I do know that colonialism has been—and continues to be—a real and destructive force in the world that we live in. And for me, to honor life is to support those who struggle against it.

    Read the rest of her nonsense over at the link.  But dear God is this woman dumb.  Her response to Colonialism is to piss off people honoring their own cherished dead?  How on Earth does that make sense?

    UPDATE: Same link, the President of the University is not a happy warrior….

    We live in an academic community that fosters and encourages debate and discussion of difficult issues. It is also a community that requires of all a degree of respect and civility that was seriously undermined and compromised by this selfish act of protest.

    Like many of you, I was deeply disturbed by the insensitivity of this act. Destruction of property and interfering with the rights of others to express themselves violates the standards of our community. The College has begun a disciplinary investigation of this incident.

  • What the hell is Fox News talking about?

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    Closer look….

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    That is literally the banner running at the top of the screen. Does anyone know what the hell they are talking about?

    Figures, Fox News has no clue what they are talking about….

    WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate leaders are formally awarding Congress’ highest civilian honor to four girls killed in an Alabama church bombing nearly 50 years ago.

    The Congressional Gold Medal is being awarded Tuesday to 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. The ceremony comes five days before the 50th anniversary of their deaths inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

    MOH, Congressional Gold Medal, what’s the diff.

  • Wittgenfeldian Symbology

    So Wittlessone is on a tear again, and it’s as exciting as ever. A few days ago he was citing to this nonsense and saying it summed up attacks on him perfectly. This is what that page says:

    Cyberbullying tactics are Information and Communications Technology methods used to harm, tease and disparage children by other children.

    So, I guess now he at least admits he’s a child.

    Then he shifted to citing to the laws of West Virginia (HERE) and saying:

    …. NOW ….. All you West Virginia cyber/bullicide iPredators need to read these rules/laws that you all break incessantly.

    Read and Understand, Ridge-Runners….

    the LRRP 41…. Cometh to West Virginia……

    a) He’s the slowest LRRP in history, since he’s been comething to West Virginia for 18 months now. And he apparently hasn’t even made it to the Georgia state line.
    b) None of those laws have anything to do with “cyber/bullicide”.   That whole page deals with illegally accessing data, or disrupting other folks’ computer services.

    Anyway, that was all build up to today’s picture, which I must admit, I just love:

    hilarious

    a) To answer the unasked question, no, I was never knighted. However, I did watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last night.
    b) Also, that is a photoshop that added Don Shipley’s hair to my head. Why didn’t he steal a normal picture of me, like he does with everyone else.
    c) He has it in his head I am some sort of religious zealot. Why? Because he found another Mark Seavey on Twitter that had a picture of Jesus on the cross. Now, because he can’t even follow through on that research, he apparently doesn’t realize that isn’t me. Yes, I go to church every Sunday. Yes, I go to Bible study every other Wednesday. But when is the last time you heard me on here telling you all to repent and stop sinning? In case you were thinking it, please, no graven images of me in your front yard, I must insist.
    d) I am so down on the Legion totem pole that grass is over my head. There are 5 bosses between me and my National Commander. Why would everyone salute me? Or were they paying tribute to the hair? Unclear.
    e) Why would the Nazi’s, who were not devout, be seig heiling me, if I am some sort of Christian crusader? Did I miss a step in there somewhere?

    Anyway, is anyone out there a master of Wittgenfeldian Symbology? I figure if people can study Sandskrit (You are majoring in a 5,000-year-old, dead language?) then someone must be able to study what is going on in Nostradummass’ head.

    Jonn added: I just thought that maybe everyone ought to see how Wittgenfeld looks without a stolen valor Green Beret;

    Wittgenfeld mugshot
    His story is that he was beating someone wearing a SEAL Trident…I believe that, hardly.

  • Advice for a future Super Trooper

    A blogger friend I know has a son who just went through MEPS. Now the kid won’t ship out until next July, so plenty of time. His Dad is obviously very proud of him, but there are tricks I think to basic training like all other things. I already told him that if the kid isn’t a total fatbody (which he isn’t) that focusing on PT is kind of silly, the Marines will do that. For me, looking back, it was the little things you can do before basic that make it easier. For instance, knowing the phonetic alphabet and shit like that. I also told him to get a copy of the Ranger handbook, and to at least read through it.

    But was looking to make the kid a cheat sheet of stuff he could look through before going. So, thinking back to your days in basic, what things could you have learned before you went. Stuff like SPORTS, land nav, damn near anything.

    Advice on what a kid should know before he goes?

    (I also told him to show up with a haircut, wearing REALLY non-descript stuff.)