Author: TSO

First, some background… This Kroger is probably 2 miles from my house. We actually don’t use it very much since there is a Marsh (which my wife refuses to shop at as she thinks they are “crooks“) and a Meijer somewhat closer, but it is still pretty darned close. So back on the day after Christmas of last year, this jackass went in to rob the place, took a young chick captive, and then got plugged by a dude working there who was carrying. I vowed then to shop there every chance I got….until he was basically forced to resign.

Fast forward to last week, when my former Army Medic buddy from my Church small group sent me this.

If they don’t settle I will reconsider shopping there. I won’t do it happily, but if they cave to this extortion, then no mas from me.

PS- Any lawyers reading this have PACER? COuld use a copy of the filing if someone does… Here is the link.

Support Defenders of Freedom:  Lost in the debacle that was the Tim Poe affair is the fact that he actually did serve honorably in Afghanistan, and really was injured there.  The stories after that were his and only his.  But Defenders of Freedom should not bear the fault for Poe expanding on his record, and they won’t again.  This week I will be honoring DoF, starting off with a meager $10 to help their mission.  DoF sends support boxes to our men and women in uniform, support wounded Soldiers with emergency financial assistance, supports the families of wounded Soldiers and support the USO at DFW Airport (which helped at least one blogger get married.)  So, I hope you will join me and give them a few dollars.  Don’t let the fakers define who we are.

JUSTICE KENNEDY REGIONAL

Now, a slight change.  We are about to open up Round Two of the Tourney.  Just as last week, I will be running one bracket each day.  The winners of each match will advance to the unSweet Sixteen, which will start next week.  So, there will be 4 competitions each day, so make sure you come back and vote.   For the original links, click the name.  To read what I wrote about these guys last week, head to that Regional by clicking HERE.

We begin with the Justice Kennedy bracket:

1 Dallas “Flying Assclown” Wittgenfeld v.
9 Thomas “Rolling Thunder Jackass” Lowry

WITTGENFELD:  Just a wonderful human being all around.  Hero, role-model, man of the people.  Also a racist (“remember what happened to the n***** in the hoody”), ladies-man (“I get plenty of pussy by the way…. I have a stable full”) and scofflaw (“Dallas George Wittgenfeld ‘Thunder Chicken’ was arrested for flying while intoxicated…”)

LOWRY:  Likes to fake horrific injuries, doesn’t fool the men who served with him and showed up in droves to ridicule him.  Apparently thinks he is Dr. Sam Becket: Trapped in the past, Lowry finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be back to when he wasn’t even in the unit, to steal the valor of a brother we lost.  (I double dog dare you to show up at next year’s Rolling Thunder in your costume.)

 

5 Jonathan “The Cock Inhaler” Sharkey v.
4 Larry “The Round Marine” Gugle

SHARKEY: No need to wonder what the offspring of Guy Fawlkes and Ron Jeremy would look like anymore. Most recently Sharkey attributed his fame to This Ain’t Hell:  “Do you not realize, the more you talk about me on yours sites, the better it is for my Hollywood rankings? I say shit at times, just so your little morons will talk about me, and raise my rankings. Oldest trip [sic] in the book. Like I said in one interview – your hatred of me will make me famous and it has. Now I’m getting booked on mainstream shows like The Travel Channel. And I went from an overweight fat beached whale looking bitch, to be having a 30 inch waist and 19 inch biceps.”   New Motto: TAH, helping insane vampire wrestler Presidential candidates get famous on the Travel Channel since 2011.

GUGLE: In the contest of two obese Marines, Guggle proved to be the bigger man.  Technically I guess other dude was fatter, but you get the idea.  Old Master Guns here was outed by Microfiche files that showed he was not in the unit he claimed (1/9 USMC) he was with them.  In fact, despite 7 overseas bars, dude never served overseas.

3 Jason “Prison SEAL” Truitt v.
11 Ronnie Glenn “Wheelchair Security Guard” Eddings

TRUITT: Invented history as a Navy SEAL who had been a POW in Afghanistan and wounded countless times, and all he got was a free hunting trip and a Weatherby rifle.  “What’s the hardest thing about being in the military, people ask me. I simply tell them, coming home. You go through all of these Christmas’s sitting in a foxhole and getting mortared, and people are back home eggnoggin’ by the fire,” he said. “I’ve come to hate the holidays. Every year I have some kind of breakdown around the holidays.”  I hope Santa bringing you a sock filled with batteries, and his litter helpers beat you with it before Blitzen drives his antlers in your arse.

EDDINGS: I wonder if the guide dog knows what an A-Hole his owner is?  Got 100% from the VA for 16 years, from 1994-2010.  A) that was my money you were stealing, and B) that money should have gone to one of my brothers or sisters who was really injured.  Hope he has the biggest angriest cellmate in the prison.  Preferably the 3^rd most dangerous man in the world that whipped Burrell’s ass.

7 Kyle “Dunking Bird” Barwan v.
2 Brian “Wounded Mind” Camacho

BARWAN:  Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, of the suborder Vermilingua, Barwaneses Beak Ridiculouso.  Barwan: “impersonating a U.S. Army Warrant Officer with Special Forces for monetary gain. Barwan would ask individuals for money, stating he was being deployed and was having financial problems.”  I’m guessing none of the funds went towards a rhinoplasty. 

 COMACHO (real name Brian Khan): I just watched his idiotic video, and it was painful.  Luckily the guys at F’n Boot didn’t buy into lines like “I lost too many friends to count” and got the Marine Corps Times to look into it.  According to “Camacho’s” brother, his real name is Brian Khan and  “according to Brian Khan’s brother, Ian Khan, the 45-year-old has never served in the military.  “My brother’s a fraud. He’s obsessed with the Marine Corps but he never went in,” Ian Khan said in a phone interview.”  Well, I’m obsessed with Lord of the Rings, I never claimed to be Aragorn, the true king of the North and Gondor.

Go forth and vote:

Dude, bloodbath.

*(16) Fatty McQuartermillion Pounder def. Williamson 64/36

*(9) Martel def. Schroeder 56/44

*(12) Dickmunch Johns def. Cruze 59/41

(4) Groves def. Dutt 56/44

(3) Tillson def. Culp 68/32

*(11) Blumenthal def. Aden, 58/42

(7) Holland def. Webb 53.5/46.5

*(15) Oliver def. Garcia 54/46

* Upsets: Fattys, Giants, Ninja’s, Senators and Hipsters Dance!

Bracket, Click to embiggenate:

Go and enjoy more at Sniper’s House.

A bit busy right now trying to figure out what to do about a twice convicted felon who claims to own $137k in guns and ammo who is talking nonsense about me over at Yawn’s place. I bet it will shock virtually no one that he and Wittgenfeld are commenting at the same time. So, here’s your A-Team right there:
Wittgenfeld, Arthur South, Bob Golden, and now William Ray Hall. (Note in particular the comment about guns, his fake exploits in Viet Nam, and his recent conviction for attempted extortion.)

Anyone know someone at the BATFE, or perhaps with the Mineral County West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney’s Office? (F. Cody Pancake * in particular so I can find out how this guy is commenting when he is supposed to be in jail.)

* The very nice reporter at the Cumberland Times News provided me with Mr. Pancakes phone number.

 

(1) Schaffer def. Seal 65/35
(8) Wilson def. Lopez 84/16
(5) Creekmur def. Arlt 63/37
(4) Climer def. Zinna 64/36
*(14) Soard def. Leveau 63/37
*(11) Vaughn def. Dahan 73/27
(7) Pequignot def. Joseph 71/29
(2) Diliberto def. Tracht 73/27

* Upsets! Soard and Vaughn will face off to get into the UnSweet 16!

Conceptual series to follow when Sniper wakes up.

As we wrap up our last Regional of the first round, don’t forget to give back to the actual veterans of the Global War on Terrorism who gave so much by donating to Soldiers Angels Valour IT – Team Army.  Next week we will be honoring another small non-profit that deserves your attention.

1 Herbert “Cav Secret Squirrel” Williamson v.
16 Fatty McQuartermillion Pounder

WILLIAMSON: This may be the only Stolen Valor guy I know of who claimed to be a CW2.  (“Stolen Valor, not just for Generals anymore!”)  Earning a Distinguished Flying Cross in 1971 as a scout helicopter pilot is almost the same as serving in the CT National Guard working as a communications wireman at the rank of private first class.  One you are in this shithole place where everyone smells bad, and the other you are in Viet Nam.  (I kid, but come on, how can you be that close to Massachusetts and not make a break for the border.)

POUNDER: Heh.  Seriously dude.  Can you imagine this guy in BUDs?  “Look out, there’s a Sperm Whale!”  “No, that’s Gunny Bratwurst dogpaddling.” Millions and Millions served indeed.

8 Paul “PTSD Counselor” Schroeder v.
9 Asleigh “Shrapnel slit my throat” Martel

SCHROEDER: “One day in the middle of the afternoon, I’m sitting on my sofa. I’ve got a drink in one hand and a .45 in the other. I wasn’t sure which shot I was going to take next.”  You chose the wrong one.  I guarantee you damaged more brain cells with the drink, even if it was Kool Aid.  On a side note, how many people did he tell this story to without anyone going, “Dude, that story is redonkulous!”  Once again my lifelong hatred of MPs is justified.  FWIW Schroeder, I always thought you had a touch of the Ghey when you wouldn’t hook up with Lucy van Pelt and instead hung out with Linus.

MARTEL: From a certain angle at one point I thought she was kind of cute, and then it hit me…she looks like the female version of the dude from Happy Gilmore that took a nail to the grape (Mr. Larsen).  Which I gotta tell you is totally not hot.  I’d love to hear her say “And *you* can count, on *me*, waiting for *you* in the parking lot” but with her throat slit like it is, I guess I’ll just have to imagine it.  I think I’d rather wake up with Charles Martel, and he died 1300 years ago.

5 Jacob “read my plates bitch!” Cruze v.
12 Albert “Sensei Dick Munch” John

CRUZE: You look like a celebrity doing a Poligrip ad.  You related to Penelope Cruz?  You have the same “can eat Corn on the cob through chickenwire fencing” teeth.  Haven’t seen choppers like that since The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.  (This does not give you permission to claim you jumped on top of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch to save your entire regiment.)

JOHN: An awards clerk got an MSM, I haven’t been this shocked since Ellen came out.  He claims he’s the “Bladed Weapons Offensive and Defensive Instructor” at the “Street Smart Self Defense School.”  Bladed weapons my aching arse, the closest he got to a bladed weapon is when he and his friends were reenacting scenes from Zorro the Gay Blade.   If he’s so badass with a katana, what in the hell is he hunting in the corn field with an Uzi or whatever the hell that is?  Some sort of Ninja Raccoon?

4 Dave “Tiger Hunter” Groves v.
13 Micaiah “Marine Terrorizer of OWS” Dutt

GROVES: Deep blue hero stuff… “He was starved and tortured for six months until eluding his guards and hiding in the jungle for two weeks. He was finally able to contact U.S. Marines and reunited with U.S. forces. Groves is the recipient of three Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars and two Crosses of Gallantry.”  Did you snare small animals with your moustache?  You know what I find most awesome… I know the guy that busted him, Terry Schow, executive director of the Utah Department of Veterans affairs, and I’ve never once heard Terry mention he was SF (he was apparently.)  Quiet professionals don’t look like shitbag homeless guys at awards ceremonies.  You can bank that one.

DUTT: “I was a terrorist, I terrorized people.  Women hid from me.”   Same shit with me brah!  I was once known as the “Carlos the Jackal of the dance floor.”  Seriously, I would take the floor in my MC Hammer Pants at Hennessy (3263 M Street, Georgetown, DC) and chicks would go to Crazy Horse next door.  Children too.  Sometimes stray marsupials. I was like a weaponized ball of retardation on the hardwood. But I atoned for it.  You can to.  Now, stop being a little pissant and stay off the mic.  You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.   

3 Paul “Prince Chumming” Tillson v.
14 Brian “Pound me in the ass Prison Bitch” Culp

TILLSON: Actual ribbons….four.  But in these pictures he kind of looks like William Sadler, the guy that played the bad guy (Colonel Stuart) in the second Die Hard movie.  Well, he would if that dude had a lobotomy and a sort of slack jawed jackass look.  Actually, he looks exactly like the same actor in The Green Mile (“Alexandre Dumb Ass”) but that reference is obscure.  Which is relative because you probably didn’t get most of the previous 58 references.  Also, Tillson’s wife has huge breasts.  Look!  Melons! (That is Elvish for “Friend”.)

CULP:  “He also falsely claimed he was wounded while part of the 1993 Army Ranger rescue mission in Somalia made famous by the book and movie “Black Hawk Down.”  I think everyone was in that fight, even my cabbie from yesterday (he may not have been on our side, that wasn’t clear.”  But, there are clearly more fat white dudes claiming to have been in Mogadishu in October of 1993, than there has been fat white dudes in Mogadishu since the time of Solomon running his mines there.  Also, this guy is a ginger, and they have no souls.

6 Ken “Tri-recycled 18B Wannabe” Aden v.
11 Richard “Senator Dickenthal” Blumenthal

ADEN: Phony SF, wanna be Congressman.

BLUMENTHAL: Phony tour in Viet Nam, is a Senator.

7 Jasper Land “My moustache alone is SF qualified” Holland v.
10 Leo “Half my Squadron Died” Webb

HOLLAND: What can you say about a man with a moustache like that?  It reminds me of a school board meeting I went to and I heard a fabulous speech: “Welcome to our meeting here at the school. We got lots of exciting topics here tonight. We gon’ have a puppet show, we gon’ have some jazz. No I’m just kiddin. We have some business to take care of. I’m sorry I’s pulled ya’lls legs. I’m just a little excited cause I met somebody today! Someone in the bookstore! Someone who likes the same kind a literature I do! Oh and the adventure begins again!”

WEBB: “I killed all these people and watched half my squadron die.  I’m a mess.  I struggle every day.  The Army taught me to drink.”  Sure man, that was a whole chapter in the Common Task Training Manual – Skill Level Two for 11B20’s.  I think it was right after the chapter on how to use a knife and a T-Shirt down at Fort Polk to improvise toilet paper when the shit suck truck gets taken out in the box.  I had to drink A LOT to forget about coming out of the field with only a T Shirt necklace.  I was ahead of the curve though, I figured out how to drink early, but never could wean myself off drinking with a nipple attached to the bottle.  Which is probably why I never made CSM.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, My Little Pony is on.

2 David Garcia “Not so Trusty” Diaz Jr v.
15 Timothy “Durango + Delta = Douchebag” Oliver

DIAZ: The only thing more pathetic than faking a Silver Star is giving it to some homeless people as a photo op.  Again, this guy actually took money from a non-profit dedicated to helping our Homeless Brothers and Sisters.  Who does stuff like that?  And again with the crappy moustache.  Also, who fakes themselves into a Ranger Battalion with a Purple Heart and doesn’t give themselves a CIB?  For shame sir, for shame!

OLIVER: Ironically, our Bios end with our most recent dirtbag, who surprisingly also has a crappy moustache.  And a pony tail.  And was Delta.  And likes to play with toy guns.  And is named “Gabryal” or something.  He HALO’d into Kandahar with hundreds of other Delta guys.  “It was a lot of chaos and a lot of fear.”  Rather like an attractive woman might feel at Comic-con I would imagine.  Dude may have a case of lycanthropy too because that pony tail grew in like a year if his bio is accurate.

Now, Go Vote my Minions, vote your brains out!

Crossposted from my other Home.

Raise your hand if you think I am exagerating with that title….ok, you can put them down now.

Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the drone strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen.

The  Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union  filed the lawsuit in federal court in Washington on Wednesday on behalf  of relatives of the victims. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, CIA  Director David Petraeus and other high officials are named as  defendants.

And just who are these poor victims?  Let’s look at some quick bios:

Anwar al-Aulaqi: “senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.”  Email pals with Major Nidal Hassan before he shot up Ft Hood.  Was allegedly the guy behind the Christmas Underwear Bomber fiasco.

Samir Khan: Pakistani American editor and publisher of Inspire magazine, an English-language online magazine reported to be published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  Samir here used to live in his mom’s basement in North Carolina and has been stirring up trouble for years, and my friends at “My Pet Jawa” have been tracking him the whole time.

Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi: Son of Anwar, he was killed after the other two in a targetted strike that is claimed to have killed other AQ operatives.

ACLU for their part put up pictures of a young Abdulrahman and had this to say:

In Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta (Al-Awlaki v. Panetta) the groups charge that the U.S. government’s killings of U.S. citizens Anwar Al-Aulaqi, Samir Khan, and 16-year-old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi in Yemen last year violated the Constitution’s fundamental guarantee against the deprivation of life without due process of law.

The killings were part of a broader program of “targeted killing” by the United States outside the context of armed conflict and based on vague legal standards, a closed executive process, and evidence never presented to the courts.

Since 2002, and routinely since 2009, the U.S. government has carried out deliberate and premeditated killings of suspected terrorists overseas.  In some cases, including that of Anwar Al-Aulaqi, the targets were placed on “kill lists” maintained by the CIA and the Pentagon.  According to news accounts, the targeted killing program has expanded to include “signature strikes” in which the government does not know the identity of individuals, but targets them based on “patterns” of behavior that have never been made public.  The New York Times recently reported that the government counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.

Now, the last time I wrote about this subject it got 355 comments.  As I noted at the time I wrote that post, the whole situation made me uncomfortable, and I wasn’t sure what to think.

If anyone is reading an inherent bias on my part in the preceding, I’d love to know what that bias is, because I honestly have no clue how I feel about this whole thing.  I feel uncomfortable with secret bodies not authorized by legislation authorizing things like killings.  On the other hand, Awlaki needed to be ventilated and good riddance to bad rubbish.  But, we should always think worst case scenario with these sorts of things.  Can you envision a scenario where a US Citizen is killed abroad with a drone attack, and he didn’t have what was coming to him?  Probably we all can.  So, what safeguard is there?  That’s where I get somewhat lost.

I still feel that way.  I’m not crying into my pillow at night that these horrible folks got vaporized, not even a little.  But I still don’t know what the legal mechanism for this is.  I had rather hoped at the time that there would be some statement made about how these trials took place in a FISA Court, but I still haven’t heard that being the case. 

You can see the picture above, that was the last article written for the Al Qaeda magazine by Samir.  That’s apparently not the Samir that the ACLU and his parents want to remember.  From the court filing:

28. Plaintiff Sarah Khan is a U.S. citizen who has lived in the United States since 1992 with her husband and children. Her son, Samir, was born in 1985 and became a U.S. citizen in 1998.

29. Samir Khan attended elementary school in Queens, New York, and high school on Long Island, New York. After graduating from high school in 2003, he moved to North Carolina, where he attended a community college and worked part-time. He left for Yemen in October 2009.

30. Anonymous government officials have told reporters that Samir Khan was a propagandist” for AQAP. The government never publicly indicted him for any crime.

“Anonymous”?  That’s his magazine up there.  If an “Anonymous” government official said that the bright ball in the sky is the sun, it doesn’t make it not so.  Just head over to My Pet Jawa and hunt through their records for “InshallahShaheed” which was Samir’s online name. 

This part of the lawsuit apparently had the opposite effect as it was intended, at least for me:

Senior government officials, including Defendant Panetta and President Barack Obama, have acknowledged the responsibility of the United States for killing Anwar Al-Aulaqi. On the same day the strike was carried out, DOD published a news article stating that “[a] U.S. airstrike . . . killed . . . Anwar [Al-Aulaqi] early this morning” and that he had been “high on the military-intelligence list of terrorist targets.”

Yeah, well good for them.  I feel a little better everytime I read it, because it means there are fewer folks out there trying to hurt my family, including my brothers and sisters that are still deployed to Afghanistan.

So, I still remain concerned about the way the law of this works, but I’m not losing sweat over these guys here.  What say you?

Sniper paid tribute to a few of our “Winners” yesterday. Pictures after the jump because site is running SSSSLLLLOOOWWWWW.
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