Author: TSO

H/t VT Woody. Don’t care that he’s liberal, dude is right on this one.

I hope this guy ends up in federal pound-him-in-the-ass prison.

A general counsel for The Citadel found believable the claims of a boy who said he watched pornography and masturbated together with a camp counselor in 2002.

The information is included in documents released by the South Carolina military college this week in response to a public-records request.

Over the weekend, the nationally known South Carolina college detailed an abuse allegation against one of its alumni, Louis Neal “Skip” ReVille, 32, who was arrested late last month.

He faces at least six charges, including three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of lewd act on a minor, according to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, police.

In 2007, The Citadel received an allegation from a former camper that five years earlier, ReVille had invited the boy into his room at The Citadel Summer Camp to watch pornography. Another camper was also present. They did not touch each other, but engaged in sexual activity, the college said.

“He says he felt ‘dirty’ and ashamed as a result, and that his grades and general standard of life suffered tremendously afterward,” Citadel general counsel Mark Brandenburg said in an August 8, 2007, email included among the documents released Monday.

I don’t know that I really have anything to add to the story. One thing of small interest is that Mark Brandenburg here was my Cadet First Sergeant. Didn’t like him, thought he was a bit of a dork. Wasn’t afraid of him like I was James Darren Byers (who probably would have ripped this dude’s head off and shat down his neck) but one thing I will say for him is the guy was super bright. It’s not as if there isn’t a bright line between masterbation and porno, and masterbation, porno and a minor in the room. Pretty easy to spot the fact that one is common place at a military college, and the other should get your ass thumped repeatedly.

I hope they take this dudes ring back. There was always an urban legend that they could do that, and if true, now would be the time to do it. (I haven’t worn my ring since a COL saw me wearing it with E5 stripes on and I told him that I wasn’t an officer since I could read a map and was thus overqualified. The humorless asswipe dropped me for pushups while in formation.)

Cross Posted from The Burn Pit

I never actually met LTC Michael Amidei, but tomorrow I am headed out to his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

Arlington is always a weird experience for me.  Being the final resting place of men I served with, some guys I knew very well, it’s always sad to know that you are surrounded by loss.  But at the same time, the place is so immaculate that it fills me with pride, despite the problems with the Administration of the Cemetery that come to light from time to time.   For me there is almost a sense of belonging as I walk through the rows of our honored dead.  And I will visit my fallen friends, like SSG B., a soldier who took his own life a few years ago.  I served with him in Bosnia, and a more humorous, more gregarious man I have never met.

The weather at Arlington always seems to be right, no matter what it is.  If it is warm and sunny, I always think, “this is as it should be.”  And when it is rainy I think, “well, that is somehow appropriate.”  Granted, I understand that makes no sense.  But regardless of service, what you did, how much valor you displayed or anything else, those of us who have worn the uniform have done so in the sun, and in the rain.  For some reason that no meteorologist could ever divine, it always seemed to rain every time I went to the range for weapons qualifications.  But, good weather or poor, I was always happy to be out in it, though at the time that often took some reminding. 

Nonetheless, tomorrow looks to be of the rainy variety.  But LTC Michael Amidei, a man who will go to his everlasting rest there tomorrow, was used to the cold and the rain.  And he strove to make sure that men and women who didn’t want to have to brave the elements knew that they had somewhere to go.

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Thanks for your support Chamber of Commerce, no really.  Why give us an entire day, we should only get 1 minute, and the rest of the day should be hijacked by you assholes.

Rather than celebrating Veteran’s Day and honoring the men and women who have served their nation, advocates for illegal aliens use Veteran’s Day to push their amnesty agenda.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of November in 2010, community, business, political, and religious leaders who place the interests of illegal aliens ahead of those of the United States used Veterans Day to launch the so-called Utah Compact.

The Utah Compact was developed specifically to push the amnesty agenda although it never mentions illegal immigration. The Compact was carefully crafted to give the impression that those signing it are simply stating their support for “immigration.” However, the authors of the document and the primary signers strongly support amnesty for all illegal aliens.

As former Arizona State Sen. Karen Johnson wrote: “Pretending that the ‘Utah Solution’ was something new, unique, and more compassionate than previous attempts at immigration reform, they put it in a pretty new package, slapped a brand-new label on it, and took it on tour, trying to foist it off on other states and Congress. But despite the new packaging, it’s still all about amnesty. And the vaunted diversity of the Utah Compact is a sham.”

I have emails into both the SLC Chamber and the national one, but I won’t bother waiting for a response. I hereby designated Christmas Day as “Screw You Chamber Of Commerce, And the Horse You Rode In On” Day.

I used to count Baird as my 5th favorite Congressman. Somewhat surprisingly, all 5 were Democrats. Anyway, I don’t agree on political issues with him at all, but he was GREAT on the Iraq War after having a sort of Come to Jesus meeting with the troops when he went there, and he always seemed a real honest guy. I’m glad to see him get the press here.

If Boehner does have his stuff in blind accounts, he needs to just come out and say so. This bill should have passed a long time ago.

No link to these assmonkeys from WBC…

Beaver Stadium in University Park, PA    November 12, 2011  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

WBC will picket the Penn State vs. Nebraska “Senior Day Clash.”  Now there are two doomed states if ever there were. On the one side you have Nebraska who arrested one of the servants of God for allowing her son to stand on this nations idol.  On the other side you have the state that started the mischief of putting the church of the Lord Jesus Christ on trial for preaching! 

Now, Penn State has the wrath of God raining down on them in righteous judgment!  They have taken from the playbook of the Catholics.  Let’s diddle the little kiddies and hide it from top to bottom!  Fitting that the head cover-up artist is called the Pope of Happy Valley.  How sick is that!  Not surprising, but sick!  College in this country is nothing more than a giant party, with a few classes set to instruct in sin thrown in for good measure.  What you have turned out of those classes are raping priests, raping coaches, raping marines, along with various other  violent dangerous brutes that are poised to be tomorrows “heroes” in this vile land.  Wake up!  You have angered your God beyond recovery.  More and worse is coming!  America is doomed!

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:  therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.  Jeremiah 6:15 & 8:12 

I wouldn’t want to be a Happy Valley cop right now. Dudes flipped a news van over the firing, how do you think the fans will react to these idiots? If they follow through on this one, I’m guessing they’ll have some “Come to Jesus” moments on Saturday.

I don’t know what caused me to look this guy up today, and lord knows how I found the case I was thinking of, but Judge Kent was released from prison last week. I didn’t actually even know he was in prison, but there you have it. Now, I want to share a few opinions from this judge, just so you can see why he was my favorite. I swear these are actually entertaining, so read them.  None of that mitigates the fact that he is apparently a shitbird of the first order in real life, but damned if the man can’t write well.

From the Bradshaw case, discussing the attorneys:

Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact–complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words–to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions. With Big Chief tablet readied, thick black pencil in hand, and a devil-may-care laugh in the face of death, life on the razor’s edge sense of exhilaration, the Court begins.

After this remarkably long walk on a short legal pier, having received no useful guidance whatever from either party, the Court has endeavored, primarily based upon its affection for both counsel, but also out of its own sense of morbid curiosity, to resolve what it perceived to be the legal issue presented. Despite the waste of perfectly good crayon seen in both parties’ briefing (and the inexplicable odor of wet dog emanating from such) the Court believes it has satisfactorily resolved this matter. Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED.

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