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

Author: TSO

  • What’s good for the [Crossroads GPS] is good for the [VoteVets]

    If this post doesn’t make as much sense as it should, it’s because my boys at Boys State decided to talk to girls out the window after midnight last night, and after the State Cops chased the girls off, I got to deliver a ridiculous and completely un-heartfelt butt chewing to them for doing what they should get achievement medals for. Also, I am listening to the Governor candidates for Nationalist Party give horrible speeches that are at ridiculous Debbie Wasserman-Shutz decibel levels.

    Nonetheless, I love this article in NYT so much, I want to cuddle with it after reading it.

    The lawyer for President Obama demanded on Tuesday that Crossroads GPS disclose its donors, saying in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that the group is plainly a “political committee” subject to federal reporting requirements.

    In the complaint, obtained by The New York Times, Robert F. Bauer, the campaign’s chief counsel, writes that the group — founded by Karl Rove, among others — can no longer shield the identity of its donors by defining itself as a “social welfare” organization.

    “Crossroads seems to believe that it can run out the clock and spend massive sums of money in this election without accounting for a trace of its funding,” Mr. Bauer wrote in the complaint, filed Tuesday. “Now, a federal appellate court has issued a ruling that makes clear that Crossroads is out of time.”

    The case Mr. Bauer cites is “Real Truth About Obama v. FEC,” in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the government must determine the “major purpose” of groups like Crossroads.

    In a letter to Mr. Rove and Steven Law, the president of Crossroads, Mr. Bauer urges them to immediately disclose their donors.

    Amen Mr Bauer! You speakum troof to power!

    I join Mr. Bauer in detesting all these political expenditures by the 1% that are unreported and unattributable. Which is why I am going to take his complain (which you can read here) and just do a find/replace between Crossroads GPS and VoteVets. Both are 501(c)(4)s and neither apparently do anything vaguely charitable or educational except trying to elect members of their chosen political power.

    Need proof, go reread Jonn’s post from about a week ago about how Jon Stoltz (name intentionally misspelled) who thinks it is diabolical that Romney got student deferments, even though a year and a half ago they were spending almost all their money electing a similarly dispositioned Harry Reid.

  • General Ballduster McSoulpatch Memorial Stolen Valor Tournament Nomination Thread

    Well, looks like in the next couple of weeks we’ll get a ruling on Stolen Valor from the Supreme Court, and no matter which way they go, it will be vital that we give these dirtbags the notoriety they have worked so hard to earn. If the Supremes go our way, this tourney will provide a good list of folks to go after. If the Supremes pull a Jonathan Turdley, then we need to point out how these folks actually harm true veterans, and how their lies are never of the “picking up chicks in a bar” variety.

    So, let’s get it on.

    For nominations, please follow the following format. 1 nomination per comment if you would.

    Name (the persons actual name.)
    Link (some link to this person’s perfidy, whether on TAH or elsewhere.)
    Nickname (“Gunny Driveway” for example)
    State (What state will this asshat be representing)

    Obviously the two top seeds are Poe and Mailahn, but someone should nominate them in here at some point. We are hoping to get a full complement of 64 for this one. The Tourney will take a little longer to materialize this time, since I was to upgrade how we portray each of the “contestants.” (Which is to say I need to con Sniper into photoshops.)

    Go get ’em boys.

    NOTE: Contestants in the Jesse MacBeth Stolen Valor Tournament not eligible for re-nomination without some superseding stolen valor event. (If Zombie Ballduster comes back to claim the MOH, this second untruth will re-eligibilize him.)

  • So, turns out they bumped me from 20/20 to Nightline

    Can you do that? I guess so.

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  • And thus does it end…

    Still waiting on apologies….Blue Falcon, Dude, you guys out there?

    Next argument up will be I am picking on a mentally handicapped guy. Who also has an arrest warrant out there now.

    Also, for those who care, I am on 20/20 right now.

    Or not. Looks like the entire Poe segment got canned.

    UPDATE: Here is my friend Donna, and this stuttering crying asshat.

  • You don’t say…..

    NY Post:

    “It may not have happened exactly like I said it did,” he told The Post.
    “I really do not remember a lot of things since the accident.
    “I remember a blast going off by my head and being in Afghanistan and telling one of the sergeants,” he said.
    “It is like a dream . . . I can’t remember things exactly how it happened.”

    Interesting…..I will be here when all those folks said I lied and was slandering this guy. You Dude, you Blue Falcon, you lady whose name I forget that claims to be his Mom. Etc.

    All of you that said I was rushing to judgment etc, what say you now? Can someone point out a single thing I said that was inaccurate?

    Damn Bar still hasn’t called about Blue Falcon’s complaint. 20/20 did though. We’ll see if I am on there tonight.

  • The Poe medical records…

    The Blaze just dropped them online.

    I’m not even going to comment on them. Let’s crowd source this one. Go ahead, go look at those documents.

    Apparently the Joe Pags guy I just did the radio interview with (dude was REALLY cool) is friends with Glenn Beck, and that is how they ended up on the Blaze.

    Naturally I am offering to go back on to talk about the medical records.

  • Poe’s fiance on radio

    As per her second half part, I got that medical file, it is absolutely useless, and “ear infection” is not why he got tossed from theater. I have the document, it doesn’t show what they purport.

    If anyone knows Joe Pags, in San Antonio, I would like to go on air and let him know the true score.

    H/t Doug.

  • First hand reports on Poe

    OK, so bear in mind that the MN National Guard has told it’s people to stop talking.  Totally get it, and am NOT picking on the command.  I would want this to go away too.  But guys are still very angry.  And they still want to tell their story.

    As I said earlier, I need more info for the SIGACTS check.  Some guys are claiming they were at KAF, but other elements had moved out earlier.  Here is an anonymous account from one soldier that talks about the period in question for the miraculous insta-healing grape wound/RPG attack.

    Here is a timeline as the best I can recall from the top of my head. I know we left the states around the 26th or 27th of July, as [redacted, but event that he knows the date for.] Now looking at the press release from the PAO in MN, it looks like we were boots on groun in Manas on the 28th of July. I know this is going on kind of a whim, but I checked dates of photos that I took in the properties of the photos. I know this is not concrete evidence at all, but, I know for a fact that date and time was set correctly on my camera. We left Manas for KAF on 8/4/2009. We left KAF for Leatherneck on 8/11/2009. These dates however are going to fluctuate as our company left KAF by platoon, on different dates, and from what I recall, all the convoys were spread out over a period of about a week and a half. The only thing I remember and of the three convoys seeing action wise was during our convoy in which the Taliban ambushed an Afghan National Army Checkpoint about a mile ahead of the road of us while we were stopped for mechanical issues. There was a MEDEVAC at that time, but it was of a local national who got shot by either the Taliban or ANA. No friendly injuries were recived, and we were not in contact at all during that incident. One of the other convoys from our company that left got held up, but that was because of numerous heat causaulties from us not having AC and piss warm/boiling water. Once we got to Camp Leatherneck, we fell in on our tents, and I can’t tell you how long it was until our first mission. I will tell you that we did go through the RIP/TOA process with the platoon that was doing our mission, and the first several missions which our company did go out on were key ) personnel (squad and team leaders and a few high speed E4’s) for the left seat/right seat ride process. Our mission runs, like I said before were desert runs, which we would occasionally run across a mud hut here, and a mud hut there. We never, ever cleared any buildings. Our first contact that we recieved as a company was mid September I believe as the person that got hit was my battle buddy from Iraq from back in the day.

    If anyone else wants to comment from the 114th Transportation company (the sweetest smelling Guard unit in the ‘verse) you can either email us, or leave a comment.