Category: Dumbass Bullshit

3E9 sends us a link to South Carolina’s The State which reports that the George Soros-connected MoveOn.org’s veteran wing, VoteVets has teamed up with Mikey Weinstein’s misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation in their opposition to a speaker at Fort Jackson’s prayer breakfast.

The speaker, Kenneth Copeland, who I wouldn’t know from Adam, made the mistake, in the eyes of the two organizations, of telling soldiers who suffer from PTSD that they can turn to God for answers instead of psychology and drugs. And, oh, Copeland bought an airplane, so that proves he’s a charlatan, somehow.

Here’s the statement from Copeland that frightens the heathens at VoteVets and MRFF;

“So this is a promise—if you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war…you shall return, you’re coming back, and be guiltless before the Lord and before the nation. Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me. You get rid of that right now. You don’t take drugs to get rid of it. It doesn’t take psychology. That promise right there will get rid of it.”

I’m not a terribly religious person, but, you know, some people might respond favorably to a little God in their lives if they need Him. So, who the F is Mikey and Jon Solz to say otherwise?

Fort Jackson responded to The State’s inquiry;

Fort Jackson, the nation’s largest basic training installation, responded to The State on Friday saying that military prayer breakfasts and luncheons have been held since the 1950s and have hosted “religious leaders from many faith traditions and denominations, cultural leaders, and foreign heads of state.”

“The Prayer Breakfast is open to all community members, is entirely voluntary, and is cost free to the Army and attendees,” it said. “Mr. Copeland’s participation in the prayer breakfast is not an endorsement by Fort Jackson of him or of any comments that he may present. Fort Jackson respects and protects all (individuals’) rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution, including ensuring access to religious services and events for those who wish to participate and protecting the rights of those who do not.”

Mikey’s pockets must be light, time to shear the sheep.

This weekend, we released the Kracken on Gregory Salcido, the teacher at El Rancho High School, in Pico Rivera, California who has a very low opinion of members of the military and their parents. If you want to read the transcript, our buddy and TAH alum formerly known as StrikeFO, now the founder of The Duffel Blog, We Are The Mighty and Code Red News did what these old ears can’t and listened to the entire rant and typed it out for you with his own commentary.

The Whittier Daily News says that Salcido has been placed on administrative leave while the school board decides what to do with his ignorant ass. Of course, you are the problem;

The firestorm over expletive-laced remarks against the military made by Salcido continued as security was stepped up at City Hall and the school, and phones rang off the hook at both sites with callers demanding he resign both posts.

Superintendent Karling Aguilera-Fort, school board President Aurora Villon and member Jose Lara, along with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Pat Valdez, met with school faculty to discuss safety issues in light of the controversy and how to move forward teaching students.

The school district hasn’t been able to talk to Salcido. I’m not surprised – his email and Facebook has blown up, but you think he’d want to go to a phone booth and call his boss, wouldn’t you?

Salcido, 49, in a text message to this news organization, said he was not conducting any interviews at this time.

“Based on the many hateful, vulgar, and violent threats being made against me and my family, my priority is the emotional and physical health of my wife and son,” he said in the text.

I guess he doesn’t like it when his “hateful, vulgar, and violent threats” are met in kind.

The Pico Rivera city council was quick to release a statement;

“We the elected governing body of the city of Pico Rivera unequivocally disagree and condemn the recent comments made by Councilmember Salcido regarding those individuals who have served or are currently serving in our nation’s military,” according to the statement signed by Mayor Gustavo Camacho and councilmen Bob Archuleta, David Armenta and Brent Tercero.

“The City Council and residents of Pico Rivera are steadfast in the recognition that the contributions by those who have served or are currently serving our country via military service are respected and we are grateful for their service,” they said.

Salcido is becoming a very lonely figure very quickly, but he should be fired from teaching and governing. I don’t often demand that people should be fired, but in this instance, it seems to be the only reasonable solution.

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which seems to support the candidacy of that fellow formerly known as Bradley Manning who stole secrets from the United States, released those secrets on the internet, convicted of espionage, sentenced to 35 years in prison and then had his sentence commuted as President Obama headed for the exits. Now Manning wants to be a Senator, and he wants to knock a two-term incumbent out of his seat. Manning’s campaign slogan is “We Got This”;

That slogan was her mantra in prison, Manning said, a way to keep up her morale.

It must have been his slogan between suicide attempts.

“This isn’t about criminal justice reform,” she said, “it’s about criminal justice restructuring. We need to start closing prisons. We need to start releasing prisoners.”

The Affordable Care Act, pilloried by conservatives as government overreach, didn’t go far enough, in Manning’s opinion.

She supports free, “no questions asked” health care for all but said making that happen is a “matter of debate for legislative purposes.”

Asked how to pay for it, she said: “Look at the defense budget. We’re spending almost $600 billion a year on weapons of war.”

Imagine that, a spy wants us to close prisons and reduce the defense budget. The fellow who wants expensive gender reassignment treatment wants free healthcare.

Does he want laws that would allow us to assault women, too? It seems everyone has forgotten that while he was still considering himself to be male, he assaulted his female squad leader, until she assaulted him right back and pounded his narrow little ass – and not in the way that he enjoys it.

According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Gregory Salcido, a councilman and teacher in Pico Rivera, California doesn’t hold members of the military in very high regard when he’s supposed to be teaching.

Addressing one of his students, who happened to be wearing a Marine Corps hoodie, Salcido said that members of the military are “the frickin’ lowest of the low”.

The young man, whose father and two uncles are Marine veterans who fought in Afghanistan, Desert Storm and Vietnam, said Salcido went too far when he said those in the military were stupid and only joined as a last resort.

“It was so disrespectful to my dad and my uncles and all veterans and those still in the military,” he said.

With students laughing in the background, Salcido is heard profanely questioning military members’ intelligence and continuing, “They’re not high-level thinkers.”

Here’s the video as it was posted on Facebook;

I’m not sure what a high-level thinker is, but I’m smart enough to stay in my lane. Mr Salcido, however seems to have trouble in that area of “high-level thinking”.

Former Senator Chuck Hagel, who also served as the Defense Secretary during the Obama Administration, and as a squad leader in the Vietnam War came out of hiding today to criticize the current Presidential administration on the subject of leadership. He told the Lincoln, Nebraska Journal-Star;

“Globally, you see the same political dysfunction in virtually every democracy in the world,” Hagel said, with England abandoning the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel struggling to form a coalition government and Emmanuel Macron bringing a new face to the government of France.

“Nationalism, populism everywhere,” Hagel said.

As for Trump himself, Hagel emailed a blunt assessment one day following the interview after the president asked congressional leaders why the United States should be open and welcoming to immigrants from “shithole countries” like Haiti and in Africa.

“Donald Trump is doing great damage to our country internationally,” Hagel said. “He’s an embarrassment.”

Yeah, it’s a cryin’ ass shame that people are trying to regain control of their governments after being told for decades that government knows better than we do in our own lives. We’re “dysfunctional”.

Yes, Hagel used to be one of us. He was wounded twice in Vietnam and he earned a Bronze Star for his service there.

But, then, as a Senator, he joined up with VoteVets, the MoveOn-supported Veterans’ organization that stood against President Bush as the centerpiece of their existence. I guess IVAW wouldn’t have him.

Also, as a Senator, he called the Iraq Surge a failure before it even began, standing shoulder to shoulder with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

As Secretary of Defense, he called the decline of the US military “a good thing” in the international press while he set up sequestration and the dismantling of the US military might.

Hagel was such a poor leader that Obama had to ask him for his resignation. After he left the position, Hagel stated he was “backstabbed” and accused Obama administration officials of making anonymous comments after his resignation in an effort to destroy his reputation. You know, instead of having the backbone to make those declarations when he had a chance to do something about it.

But, yeah, Chuck, continue to lecture us on how poorly we make political choices. Even John McCain didn’t want you at the Pentagon.

The Orange County Fire Association Tweets out this photo from Santa Ana, California;

OCFA on scene in SANTA ANA of a vehicle into a building. One person still trapped inside the vehicle. pic.twitter.com/sWmtovu0Kd

— OCFA PIO (@OCFA_PIO) January 14, 2018

KTLA reports;

The watch commander for the Santa Ana Police Department told KTLA that the driver was driving at a very high rate of speed down French Street when he or she hit the center median and the vehicle was launched into the second floor of the building.

The driver was still trapped in the car at 6:48 AM PDT.

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to Foreign Policy and an article written by British author Anatol Lieven entitled “The Only Force That Can Beat Climate Change Is the U.S. Army” in which Lieven advocates the politicization of the Defense Department so that soldiers go forth into the bastions of conservatism and preach the gospel of climate change;

One of the impediments until now to approaching this issue rationally has been that the issue of climate change has become miserably entwined with the cultural-political divide now splitting American society. In recent years, all too many conservative Americans have begun to deny climate change not on the basis of evidence or debate but because their cultural allegiance rules it out. “We aren’t the kind of people who believe in climate change.”

This is where the role of the U.S. military is so crucial. It is the one American institution that retains the confidence and respect of the great majority of Americans from both political parties. It is also an institution whose culture depends on a sober and realistic appreciation of threats and which can talk to conservative patriotic Americans with conviction and in a style they can understand. No “citizen of the world” will ever persuade a Republican voter to vote against his or her immediate interests. A U.S. soldier talking about threats to America would have no problem doing so.

Yeah, the Obama Administration tried that and it made the generals and admirals who preached that climate change, global warming, global cooling, melting ice caps, etc… were a national security threat, laughing stocks. Climate change isn’t the reason jihadists blow up their countrymen. Their adherence to a faulty religion and ideology does that – a faulty religion and ideology that predates the industrial revolution.

I know the Left has a problem accepting the fact that the Pentagon isn’t a political tool to do their ideological bidding – it exists to force our political will on our foreign opponents, not to influence our own civilians to a particular ideology. They kind of have their hands full these days, putting our nation’s enemies in their graves. That’s what they do best.