Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The legacy governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, declared that he’s an undocumented immigrant for some stupid reason, according to Fox News;

“I’m undocumented. You want to deport an undocumented person, start with me because I’m an undocumented person,” Cuomo, 60, said during a bill signing.

During the bizarre speech, the New York governor criticized the “extreme conservative movement” for being “anti-immigrant.” He said his family, who emigrated to the U.S. from Italy, was constantly ridiculed with a racial slur that he said meant “without papers.”

“I’m an Italian-American. I came from poor Italian-Americans who came here. You know what they called Italian-Americans back in the day? They called them wops,” Cuomo said, referring to the pejorative slur for Italians. “You know what wop stood for? Without papers.”

Well, Cuomo was born in Queens, his father was born there, too. While they are indeed wops, in the vernacular of my more youthful days, that’s not what the term means;

According to the Online Etymology dictionary, the slur originated from southern Italian dialect “guappo,” which means “dandy, dude, stud.” The dictionary said it’s not an acronym.

Since Cuomo is second generation Italian, he’s not undocumented. In fact, real undocumented aliens aren’t happy with Cuomo’s attempt at virtue signaling;

Immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action has called on Cuomo to apologize for the comments.

“To Dreamer and immigrants like me, these fabrications are offensive,” Make the Road Action member Antonio Alarcon said in a statement, adding that the governor “has no idea what it’s like to live as an undocumented person.”

“For those of us who came to this country with our parents to find a better life, and have struggled daily to get by and faced the threat of being torn from our family, it’s unbelievable that the governor would try to claim to have shared our experience,” he said.

Immigration officers shouldn’t let the fact that Cuomo isn’t an illegal alien keep them for deporting his dumb ass, though.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports on the investigation of Gregory Salcido, the teacher from El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California who bullied students contemplating military careers after graduation. The district hired Steve Hummel, owner of the Fremont-based Paradox Technology, which conducts “expert investigation and forensic services for attorneys,” according to the company’s website., to do a deep background investigation of Salcido. According to the Daily News, these were some of the transgressions that Hummel discovered;

According to the report, Salcido:

Had nude images of women on his work computer, which had been deleted;
Had an image of a young boy pulling on a sumo wrestler’s “thong like garment,” which had been deleted;
Told students it should not be illegal to download “kiddy porn”;
Told students they had the right to kill themselves;
Told students he would kill everyone in the classroom if it were required to protect his family;
Used racial slurs when talking to students;
Regularly insulted students, including cursing at them;
Used corporal punishment in the classroom by making students do push-ups or squats;
Refused to follow the district’s discipline policies;
Left campus during the school day, against his contractual requirements;
Completed City Council business on his school district computer;
Lied repeatedly during his interview with Hummel.

Hummel’s conclusion;

Despite Salcido’s denials of many of the allegations in his interview with Hummel, the investigator concluded that Salcido “lied repeatedly during his interview stating he has never raised his voice at a student, never used any curse or swear words in class, never singled out any student with humiliation or racist comments.”

In Hummel’s opinion, he wrote, “History shows Mr. Salcido will not stop his unacceptable behavior no matter what discipline the district uses on him. Mr. Salcido places his students in physical and emotional danger with his behavior. Removing Mr. Salcido seems to be the only way to protect the students.”

In Jacksonville, Florida, Melinda Power, a city inspector tried to cite Jaguar Power Sports, a local business, for flying flags from their rooftop;

A veteran who happened to be in the shop as a customer confronted Power and News 4 Jax reported the conversation;

At one point, the video shows Power getting in the man’s face.

“She says, ‘What did you do for this country?’ He says, ‘I took three bullets to the leg. I almost lost my life for this country. I’m retired. I’m a veteran.’ She gets in his face this close and says, ‘You did nothing for this country,’” store employee Katie Klasse said.

Well, the mayor interceded;

1. I Have directed city staff that military flags should be treated same as US flag. Let them fly. I Have reached out to the business owner & will review employee procedures. COJ employees r expected to be respectful of our customers – you, the people of Jacksonville.

— Lenny Curry (@lennycurry) April 16, 2018

So it looks like the situation has been resolved, except for the fact that Melinda Powers are everywhere.

We talked about Antonin DeHays earlier this year when he pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of dog tags from the National Archives. He was sentenced to 364 days in prison and ordered to pay more than $43,000 in restitution;

The historian stole dog tags along with various documents, including personal letters, photographs, a Bible and pieces of downed US aircraft, from 2012 to 2017. DeHays was able to obtain the relics by using his researcher identification card to get access to the US’ National Archives research room in College Park, Maryland.

Some of the tags sold by the 33-year-old had dents and showed evidence of charring due to fires during crashes of Allied planes that were shot down within areas controlled by Germany, according to WTOP. Two of the dog tags stolen belonged to Tuskegee Airmen.

That hateful troll, Mikey Weinstein of the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint against U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa’s POW/MIA table that displays a Bible, according to Stars & Stripes;

The complaint — addressed to Navy Medicine West commander Rear Adm. Paul Pearigen — demands the immediate removal of the Bible from the hospital galley display, the immediate removal of accompanying written materials that describe the United States as being “founded as one nation under God,” a Japanese translation of these materials and an independent investigation into who put up the display, as well as “appropriate disciplinary measures” for those responsible.

The complainants include sailors, Marines and Department of Defense civilian employees stationed on the island, MRFF founder and president Mikey Weinstein said Friday.

I guess Mikey needs a new speedboat and his coffers are drying up.

Military Religious Freedom Foundation wants freedom FROM religion, not freedom OF religion. The 1st Amendment reads; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof and as far as I know, Congress has not established a national religion and placing a Bible on a table doesn’t hurt anyone. It especially doesn’t hurt Mikey, since he’s in New York and the table is thousands of miles away.

Mikey should be told to pound sand.

The Associated Press reports that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle has determined that coffee contains the carcinogen acrylamide and so coffee packaging must have a warning to consumers.

In 2016, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization moved coffee off its “possible carcinogen” list.

Studies indicate coffee is unlikely to cause breast, prostate or pancreatic cancer, and it seems to lower the risks for liver and uterine cancers, the agency said. Evidence is inadequate to determine its effect on dozens of other cancer types.

Coffee companies have said it’s not feasible to remove acrylamide from their product without ruining the flavor.

This how the legal war against tobacco began, a warning on the packaging. So begins the war against Big Coffee. This lawsuit was mainly aimed at Starbucks, because the lawyers want access to deep pockets and Starbucks probably has the deepest pockets – well, not as deep as Juan Valdez’ burro’s pockets, but deep.

Retired Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens called for a repeal of the Second Amendment in the pages of the New York Times today. He says that he was impressed by “the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington” this past weekend, so he’s advising us to repeal the Second Amendment to honor them;

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

Stevens claims that repeal of the amendment would be simple – even though only the repeal of the 18th Amendment, making alcohol illegal, has ever been accomplished in our history.

The process is hardly simple. It would take two-thirds of the House and the Senate to ratify an amendment, with two-thirds of state legislatures calling for a Constitutional Convention and then three-quarters of each of the state legislatures would have to approve the amendment traditionally within seven years from the votes in Congress.

Stevens calls the Second Amendment a relic, and I guess he’d know, being a relic himself. While he’s at it, he can go ahead and declare the Third Amendment protecting citizens from being forced to house soldiers a relic, too.

The Times uses this graphic to help the senile old coot make his point;

Scary, huh?

Here’s my graphic to convince you to repeal the 1st Amendment;

Yesterday, we talked a bit about R. Daryl Fisher who is running for sheriff in Buncombe County, North Carolina when he told prospective constituents that he would gladly take guns from their cold, dead hands.

R. Daryl Fisher, a candidate for Sheriff in Buncombe county says he is coming for your guns

Didn't he swear to uphold the constitution? #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/pKyPATLx1h

— The Red Elephants ? (@RealRedElephant) March 24, 2018

Today he’s claiming on his Facebook page that he was merely making a joke.

The crowd laughed and I made a joke. I admit the joke was a mistake and I should not have joked. But I go on to relay that the government cannot take away any guns or any items that were legally sold before any new laws take effect. To do this would be unconstitutional because that would constitute what is called an ex post facto law. Responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about. We have to do something different because what has been done is not working.

I do not mind anyone disagreeing with me and I in fact encourage anyone who has a better proposal to please make that proposal. Being downright rude, making false statements, making half-truths or being utterly disrespectful is unacceptable.

Ha, ha, ha, I’m rolling on the floor from laughing so hard at his joke about prying a gun from my cold, dead hands. The gun control issue is just so funny. I’m sorry that we didn’t get your joke at first.

“Responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about.” Well, except that we’ll happily pry their guns from their cold, dead hands.