Category: Dumbass Bullshit

I hate giving these little cretins the attention that they crave, but you guys are relentless in my inbox. From WEARTV;

The woman, who has not been identified, shared a live video on her Facebook page of her appearing to protest by sitting down during the National Anthem while on the base.

In the Facebook video, the woman shows viewers her sitting on a bench as the National Anthem is played reportedly on base. She then holds up her left fist in protest.

“The U.S. Military Police WTF Moments” Facebook page referred to the U.S. sailors actions as a “disrespect at flag call”. The video had been seen more than 44,000 times as of Thursday night.

Lt. Commander Kate Meadows said the Navy became aware of the video last week and disciplinary action is pending.

Her little protest begins at about 3:20;

From Military.com;

Lt. Cmdr. Kate Meadows, a spokeswoman for Naval Education and Training Command, said actions were ongoing regarding the sailor, but declined to specify what they were.

The sailor, who has not been publicly identified, is assigned to Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Florida, Meadows confirmed, and is expected to be allowed to continue training.

ADDED: I don’t what she’s mumbling about the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner, unless she’s illiterate;

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, I

n full glory reflected now shines in the stream,

‘Tis the star-spangled banner –

O long may it wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion

A home and a Country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land

Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Indulge me for a minute while I quote from this old article. My intentions will be made clear in a minute;

It seems like everywhere you look these days, there’s a sketchy character with a sub-regulation haircut and 5 o’clock shadow and standing on a median at a traffic light, carrying a bucket of cash, and wearing ACUs with patches removed and usually the wrong kind of boots.

They’ll say they’re collecting money for veteran’s organizations and charities. I’ve never given them a cent, and it turns out my suspicions may have been justified:

Acting on a tip earlier this month, law enforcement traced a suspect to a bar in Portland, Oregon. He was wanted in Ohio for embezzling up to $100 million in charitable donations, which he collected primarily from Navy veterans. The scam is an old one: Analysts refer to it as “affinity fraud.” This is a common form of fraud in which the criminal gains the victims’ trust by exploiting supposed commonalities – a shared racial, ethnic or religious heritage, membership in the same church, or in this case, an affiliation with the military and veterans.

Bobby Thompson – an alias (authorities still aren’t certain of the suspect’s real name), is accused of stealing millions in small contributions, mostly to the U.S. Navy Veteran’s Association, a legitimate charity in Tampa, Florida. The alleged crime spanned some 40 states. Donors thought their donations – often from $5 to $50 – were going to help needy veterans. Instead, prosecutors say, they simply lined Thompson’s pockets.

Someone cut and pasted the above article about Bobby Thompson, the convicted valor thief who stole from so many people. “Someone” edited the article and replaced Bobby Thompson name and location with one of “our friends’” names in an attempt to interfere with the launch of a new charity, because “someone” hates to see people become successful – because he can’t be successful. I’m surprised that he can get out of bed in the morning, actually.

Actually, “our friend” beat “someone” in court again today and “our friend” was awarded thousands in court costs from “someone”. That was in Virginia. Last week, “someone” lost to “our friend” in Maryland. I tell you all of that because apparently “someone” isn’t telling his minions the truth. They’re banking on a piece of the pie;

Disbarred doesn’t mean “retired”.

Sean sends us a link to the New York Post which tells the story of Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod – they claimed to be the first Indians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The couple are police officers in their country, so who would doubt them.

Well, it turns out that they stole photos from another climber, Satyarup Sidhanta, and photoshopped themselves over his images.

So the couple has been banned from climbing any mountains in Nepal for ten years – the Nepalese government had awarded them a certificate based on the photos.

“Our investigation shows that the couple faked their summit. We have imposed a 10-year ban against them from climbing any mountain in Nepal,” Sudarshan Prasad Dhakal, the tourism department chief, told AFP.

The couple disappeared after the investigation was launched and are still missing, the Indian Express reported.

It seems that you can’t trust anyone anymore.

ADDED: TSO claims that they stole his photo, too;

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is on a jihad against Christians once again – this time, an Air Force officer has violated the Constitution by having a Bible on his desk. According to Fox News;

“It [the Bible] is very obviously a statement of Christian preference, Christian primacy,” MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein told me. “Had that been the Book of Satan or the Koran there would be blood in the freaking streets.”

He accused Maj. Steve Lewis, a supervisor at the Reserve National Security Space Institute, of “harboring and encouraging a truly abhorrent example of First Amendment civil rights violations.”

As always, when these MRFF stories come around, I went to their website to get the straight poop. I got nuthin’. After navigating through the popups begging for money for MRFF, I got to this;

There’s supposed to be a Wall? I need to buy a brick for this Wall?

[Colonel Damon Feltman, the commander of the 310th Space Wing] stressed that Air Force personnel are free to exercise their constitutional rights to practice their own religion “as long as it is respectful of other individual’s rights to follow their own belief system in ways that support good order and discipline and don’t detract from (the) military mission.”

“As long as he’s not doing something excessive, the existence of a Bible or the Koran or the Torah or some other religious article is not prohibited,” Col. Feltman said. “It’s what you do with it when you have it.”

From Patheos;

It all began with an email from someone who deals with Lewis on a regular basis:

“It certainly gives the appearance of favoritism toward one religion,” says a Peterson military member who insisted on anonymity for fear of retribution. “I’m a Christian myself, and it’s concerning. I don’t think people should be promoted or given opportunities based on whatever [religion] they are. It should be about your performance.”

That’s right: A Christian blew the whistle on his also-Christian commanding officer.

Yeah, and Iraq Veterans Against the War were all Iraq Veterans, too.

Weinstin used to write about these cases, but now he just links to news sites like Fox and puts up donation links to feed his totally useless endeavor to make all members of the Armed Services religious eunuchs.

The Constitution forbids Congress from writing laws that establish a national religion, it doesn’t prevent anyone from practicing their own religion which is what Mikey wants.

My inbox is filling up with this story. Personally, I think this guy’s lawyer is a moron for politicizing this case. Saucier used to be a Machinist Mate 1st Class on the sub USS Alexandria. He took pictures of some classified stuff and kept the pictures even though he knew he shouldn’t have them. He was busted last year and we talked about him then.

Well, now his lawyer thinks that claiming the Hillary Clinton defense should work for his client, according to Politico;

The defense and prosecutors agree that sentencing guidelines in the case call for a prison term of 63 to 78 months, but defense attorney Derrick Hogan cited the treatment of Clinton as he argued in a filing last week that Saucier should get probation instead.

“Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Secretary of State Hilary [sic] Clinton…has come under scrutiny for engaging in acts similar to Mr. Saucier,” Hogan wrote. He noted that FBI Director James Comey said 110 emails in 52 email chains in Clinton’s account contained information deemed classified at the time, including eight chains with “top secret” information and 36 with “secret” information.

Anyone who thinks that the rest of us will be treated like a Clinton haven’t paying attention for the last twenty years. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying that’s the way it is. Anyone who is caught doing something wrong should be punished. Period. Anyone. The schoolyard excuse “He did it, too” doesn’t work in the real world. Just because a prosecutor can’t summon the testicular fortitude to prosecute a Clinton, that doesn’t mean that everyone else gets a pass, too. That would require someone to change the law.