Author: TSO

Every now and again someone slips through the electronic field I have set up around my Facebook page that is supposed to keep Birthers, lunatics, Yankees fans, and episcopalians out. It’s like a bug zapper for the mentally deranged. But, the damn thing keeps breaking and I still end up with batshit crazy ramblings and links to shoddily researched crap. Case in point, the link I keep getting to this horseshit:

CONGRESS KNEW OBAMA WAS INELIGIBLE…SIX YEARS BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED!

Amazing foresight on Congress, no? I mean, shit, 6 years before he was elected, he was a friggin nobody. Let’s look at this rock solid proof.

Congressional records show that on eight separate occasions over six years, between 2003 and 2008, legislators attempted to eliminate or change the definition of the “Natural Born” eligibility clause of Article 2 of the Constitution in order to remove restrictions and, thereby, create legal justifications supporting Obama’s unlawful candidacy for President.

We now know what members of congress knew about Obama’s ineligibility, and when they knew it.

In a recently produced documentary, Carl Gallups, a senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than two decades with a ten year professional background in law enforcement, presents documented evidence showing that members of congress submitted repetitive, coordinated proposals to alter the ‘natural-born’ eligibility clause.

Um, who?  This is where I would forward you to his wikipedia page to document all the shit that this guy has done, but unlike say “Star Wars Kid” dude doesn’t even have one.  But, nonetheless, let’s push on.

The moron writing here lists 8 seperate attempts to amend the Constitution in this regard.  I won’t go through all of them, but some are interesting.

1. On June 11, 2003, Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Arkansas, introduced House Joint Resolution 59 (HJR 59) which attempted to Constitutionally change the understood historical definition of a ‘natural-born’ eligibility for the U.S. Presidency in order to “permit persons who are not natural born citizens of the United States, but who have been citizens of the United States for at least 35 years, to be eligible to hold the offices of president and vice president.” The resolution did not make it to a senate vote at that time.

I’m going to go out on a limb, and suggest that it didn’t make it to the Senate largely because it was introduced in the House, and not the Senate.  Also, it had 6 cosponsors, never had a hearing, and was DOA.  But those Dems were incredibly crafty, since they managed to get half of their cosponsors to be GOP, including Rep Issa (R-CA) who even now is carrying on with his Obama perfidy by masquarading as a conservative by doing things like hounding the shit out of Eric Holder.  Sneaky man!  Look out, The Daily Pen is on to you!

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Cross posted from Burn Pit.

In his work on the Korean War, military historian T.R. Fehrenbach once noted that “you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life – but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.” On the 7th of April, 1945, Mike Colalillo was that man in the mud, defending civilization in a town named Untergriesheim in Germany.

Born on the first of December, 1925, Mike grew up in West Duluth Minnesota to Italian immigrant parents, one of nine siblings. When his mother died in 1941, Mike dropped out of school and worked at a bakery to support his family. According to the Washington Post, Mike said that he “did everything from cleaning pans to putting jelly in the Bismarcks,” a type of pastry. But when the war broke out, Mike enlisted to do his part for the cause of freedom. He went over to Duluth and would later be assigned to the 398th Infantry of the Army’s 100th Infantry Division. From there, he would head on to Germany.

Shakespeare once discussed greatness in his classic work, the Twelfth Night, noting that all great men (and presumably women) come to greatness by three routes: “some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” While a truism, which was Mike I wonder? For his part, he ascribed his actions to the third, telling the the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2004 that “It was a rough time, and I was scared, but I had to do what I had to do.” And what he did was the stuff from which legends are made.
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Salute:

Mike Colalillo, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for an extraordinary machine gun assault on German soldiers toward the end of World War II that inflicted 25 enemy casualties, died Dec. 30 at a nursing facility in Duluth, Minn. He was 86.

He had congestive heart failure, said his son, Al Colalillo.

Just how badass was this guy? Um, pretty fahkin badass:

He was pinned down with other members of his company during an attack against strong enemy positions in the vicinity of Untergriesheim, Germany. Heavy artillery, mortar, and machinegun fire made any move hazardous when he stood up, shouted to the company to follow, and ran forward in the wake of a supporting tank, firing his machine pistol. Inspired by his example, his comrades advanced in the face of savage enemy fire. When his weapon was struck by shrapnel and rendered useless, he climbed to the deck of a friendly tank, manned an exposed machinegun on the turret of the vehicle, and, while bullets rattled about him, fired at an enemy emplacement with such devastating accuracy that he killed or wounded at least 10 hostile soldiers and destroyed their machinegun. Maintaining his extremely dangerous post as the tank forged ahead, he blasted 3 more positions, destroyed another machinegun emplacement and silenced all resistance in his area, killing at least 3 and wounding an undetermined number of riflemen as they fled. His machinegun eventually jammed; so he secured a submachinegun from the tank crew to continue his attack on foot. When our armored forces exhausted their ammunition and the order to withdraw was given, he remained behind to help a seriously wounded comrade over several hundred yards of open terrain rocked by an intense enemy artillery and mortar barrage. By his intrepidity and inspiring courage Pfc. Colalillo gave tremendous impetus to his company’s attack, killed or wounded 25 of the enemy in bitter fighting, and assisted a wounded soldier in reaching the American lines at great risk of his own life.

That is the only conclusion I can come to from this:

Manning’s lawyers have portrayed him as an emotionally troubled young man whose behavioral problems should have prompted superiors to revoke his access to classified information.

Witnesses said Manning sent an email to his sergeant expressing concern that confusion over his gender identity was seriously hurting his life, work and ability to think. Manning had created a female alter-ego online, Breanna Manning, according to testimony at the hearing.

Coombs underscored Manning’s emotional instability, saying he mainly “struggled in isolation” but showed warning signs that should have prompted the unit’s leaders to take action.

He went over excerpts of Manning’s email to his sergeant discussing his gender identity issues.

“This is my problem. I’ve had signs of it for a long time. I thought a career in the military would get rid of it … It is not going away … and now the consequences of it are dire,” the email said. “At this point it feels like I’m not really a person … sorry.”

Coombs also cited memos between Manning’s supervisors discussing his increasing instability and the need for therapy. But in the end there was no effective action.

“It was the military’s lack of response to that which also smacks in the face of justice,” Coombs said.

So….folks who think they have the wrong gender are emotionally unstable, and require special needs? Is that right? Because I can’t help but think that if I had written this, I would be vilified:
* Those with Gender assignment problems should not be trusted to be alone;
* Homosexual men, or men who think they should be women, should not be allowed to get Secret Clearances;
* Under no circumstances should homosexuals, or those with gender assignment problems be left alone around classified materials, unless accompanied by heterosexuals.

Now, assuming that my bullets are bigoted and homophobic (which I believe they are) how is this defense not also? Put another way, should Bradley Manning be enjoying the support of the gay community when his defense seems to be that gayness or gender issues make you legally incapable of not committing treason by reason of gayness induced insanity.

a) It hasn’t been repealed.
b) The specific verbal fraudulent claims has ONLY been overturned in the Ninth Circuit and the Tenth is still on appeal.
c) Steve Jordan does not live in either the Ninth or Tenth Circuit.
d) In all circuits wearing of medals is still violative of the SVA.
e) The Supremes will take up the verbal side next year.
f) Jordan is not a recipient of the CIB
g) Steve Jordan wears the CIB.
h) If Jordan could read, which I doubt, he might want to check out US. v Perelman:

By contrast, here, Defendant effectively argues that the First Amendment protects the fraudster’s knowingly fraudulent activity: knowingly wearing a military medal without authorization and with intent to deceive. Whereas § 704(b) criminalizes pure speech, § 704(a) criminalizes certain specified
activities4 limited by a scienter requirement. Even if we assume that the intentionally deceptive wearing of a medal contains an expressive element—the false statement that “I received a medal”—the distinction between pure speech and conduct that has an expressive element separates this case from Alvarez. Indeed, in Alvarez, we carefully explained that, while false speech alone is protected by the First Amendment,
fraud and impersonation statutes are constitutional because they contain elements “that assure[ ] us [that] the law targets legitimately criminal conduct.” Id. at 1213. We have no trouble concluding that wearing a military medal with an intent to deceive is engaging in legitimately criminal conduct. Indeed,
Defendant did not preserve or bring to us for decision an asapplied challenge to his conviction, most likely in recognition that his own fraudulent activities do not deserve First Amendment protection. In conclusion, we reject Defendant’s argument that our recent decision in Alvarez dictates that § 704(a)
is unconstitutional.

CONCLUSION: When we find an FBI Agent in New Jersey, and a US Attorney with balls (I am looking at you Paul J. Fishman) then Steve Snake Eyes Jordan can do time in Federal Pound Him In The Ass Prison.

One slight Update:

Jordan’s only possible defense against the charge was that he didn’t use the uniform or his fake persona to get anything of value. That defense is easily mitigated thanks to Steve himself:

You will of course note that he uses his experience in the military (he has none) to bolster his private business. Thus, clearly, he is using his CIB to increase his image professionally, and thus is garnering a benefit from wearing the fraudulent uniform.

This case is slam dunk, we just need the FBI and US Attorney to prosecute.

UPDATE: Loach makes some good points in the comments about Snake Eyes, suggesting that the new Facebook posts are a clone. I agree they probably are, but this screen cap from his Vampire Profile suggests that it predates his outing. So either the time stamp thing is innaccurate, or someone premeditatedly decided to take this dude out.

I am thoroughly confused here:

Attorneys for Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning on Monday challenged evidence linking him to the biggest classified document leak in U.S. history, arguing others had access to the same files and that it cannot be proven Manning sent anything to WikiLeaks from his computer.

The 24-year-old Manning is suspected of downloading thousands of classified or confidential documents from the military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. Those files are thought to have later appeared on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

I thought the other day his defense team was arguing that it was an acute case of the Gay that made him do it. Also, didn’t it come out at some point that Manning had downloaded the SIPR stuff to his lady GaGa CD?

Two muffins were sitting in an oven. One muffin said to the other, “Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?”

And the other muffin said, “AAAAAGH!!! A talking muffin!!!”

My buddy thinks that joke is hilarious, and when I called him, he was just giggling and couldn’t stop himself. I’m guessing he had magic mushrooms for breakfast or something, but thought I would throw it out to the floor to see if this is funny.