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Category: Dumbass Bullshit

  • Joe Teti; squirrel $#!+ nutty

    Joe Teti; squirrel $#!+ nutty

    Joe Teti
    We’ve been talking about Joe Teti for a couple of years now and how he’s a little nutty. We got a copy of the lawsuit that Cody Lundin has filed against Discovery Communications, et al. and apparently, we had no idea just how nutty Teti was;

    Teti insanity

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    Lundin continues in the suit that he tried to warn Discovery, but instead of fixing Teti, they fired Lundin and then produced a show out of edited clips that made Lundin look like a lunatic.

    At the very least, Defendants [Discovery] recklessly and consciously disregarded the truth that each of the foregoing statements of fact and implied statements of fact that were made about Cody in Episode 5, whether written, oral or by manipulation and editing of the audio and visual recordings made in the production of the show, were false and defamatory.

    […]

    Defendants also intended to convey the equally false impression that Teti
    was very professional and competent because he was continuing on as co-host.

    These court battles are more entertaining than the shows were.

  • Officer shoots 73-year-old librarian in exercise

    Bobo sends us a link to an article about the police department of Punta Gorda, Florida who were demonstrating a “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” scenario for members of the community.

    Mary Knowlton was one of two Citizen Police Academy students chosen to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” role-playing situation, Punta Gorda police said. The demonstration was supposed to instruct the class about making decisions “using simulated lethal force,” according to Chief Thomas Lewis.

    Knowlton was “mistakenly struck” with a live round during the lesson’s “first scenario,” the department said.

    She was rushed from the police department to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead, PGPD said.

    Yeah, she wasn’t “mistakenly struck” – it was careless, not a mistake. Like I told Bobo, I’ve been shooting blanks at people for decades for MILES training and never once have I carelessly shot someone with live ammo. In all of the thousands of people I’ve supervised in similar situations, I’ve never heard of that happening. I’m not special – I’m just careful and I don’t want to kill people who don’t need killin’.

  • Kevin Webb; phony cop at Disney World

    Kevin Webb; phony cop at Disney World

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    Bobo sends us a link to the story of Kevin Webb who was terminated as a cop from Sherwood, Arkansas about three years ago, but tried to get a gun through security at Disney World in Florida with an old ID card;

    According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office report, Kevin Webb, 42, was randomly selected to go through a metal detector before entering the park. He is said to have told a security officer that he was an officer out of Sherwood, Arkansas and that he had a firearm in his pocket.

    There is something seriously wrong in this country.

  • ISIS captures ID card

    Andy11M sends us a link to the International Business Times which reports that ISIS has captured an ID card left behind by a soldier after an engagement and they’re playing it like they have the actual soldier;

    Although the photo ID of Ryan Larson appears to be genuine, the US insists he was not captured by IS and remains on active duty.

    “SPC Larson was attached to a unit conducting a partnered [operation] with Afghan Forces,” US military spokesman Commander Ron Flesvig said in an email published by The Guardian. “The soldier’s ID and some of the equipment were left behind after the [operation]. The loss of personal identification is unfortunate.”

    It reminds me of the time that al Qaeda in Iraq tried to convince a willing media that they had captured an American soldier with this picture;

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    We’ll probably see the ID turn up in some dating scams now. I’m glad that Specialist Larson is with his unit and not a POW. But knowing this administration, they’ll be sending another $400 million cash ransom for the card.

  • Eighth Circuit will not review Janos’ case against Kyle

    Eighth Circuit will not review Janos’ case against Kyle

    Jesse Ventura's big fucking mouth

    The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review their decision to toss out Jimmy Janos’ monetary award from the Chris Kyle estate in the “Scruff Face” case;

    The ruling rejected a request that the entire 10-judge Appeals Court rehear the case. It also rejected a request by Ventura’s attorney to have the three-judge appeals panel that initially ruled against Ventura rehear the decision.

    The three-judge panel ruled in June that the jury improperly awarded Ventura $1.3 million for “unjust enrichment,” concluding it was a misapplication of Minnesota law.

    The jury also awarded Ventura $500,000 for defamation, but the Eighth Circuit voided that award because it said his attorney, David B. Olsen, made improper statements at trial and in his closing argument.

    Nice.

  • Yer Midweek Funny: Do NOT Try This At Home

    Here’s a stunt you do NOT want to attempt yourself.

    Man encases genitals in plaster, gets stuck

    Why not, you ask?  I mean, what’s wrong with making a cast of your . . . self for posterity?

    Well, it’s like this.  Plaster generates additional heat as it cures.

    The       dumb ass       individual doing this had already warmed the plaster to around 158 F before applying it.  That’s fairly hot to begin with – and as the plaster cured, it got considerably hotter.

    As the man began to experience literal bratwurst, he attempted to remove the plaster.  Unfortunately, by that point in time the plaster was rather well hardened.  He was desperate, though – resorting to using a hammer and chisel, a saw, and even a power drill to free his trapped appendage.

    He did eventually end up extricating his family jewels from their artificial stone prison.  However, as he put it, “My (groin was) so hot, I thought they would turn into charcoal.”

    The individual in question is a Russian blogger who goes by the name of “Boroda Dead”.  He’s damned lucky that he doesn’t have to change his online moniker now to “Johnson Dead”.

    Dolbo’yeb here apparently made a video of his ordeal, which has now reputedly gone viral.  Sorry, folks – you’ll have to search the Internet yourself to find that video if you want to watch it.  I’m not going to look for it.

    Sheesh.   Looks like we once again have more proof that the Refreshments were right 25+ years ago.  But tell me:  who’d have guessed that that famous aspiring rapper “1-DMF” had relatives in Russia?

  • WaPO Fact Checker Says: Clintoon Lied

    Clintoon recently made a public statement with which the WaPO Fact Checker took issue.  Here’s the statement:

    “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”

    Well, the WaPO checked it out – and bluntly disagrees.  It rates the statement as meriting “Four Pinocchios”.  Their rating scale can be found here, but I’ll cut to the chase:  their definition of a statement rated “Four Pinocchios” is short, sweet, and to the point.  It defines such statements as, “Whoppers.”

    In effect, the WaPO here has called Clintoon a bald-faced liar.  Their article on the matter analyzes the topic in substantial detail; it can be found here if you’re interested.

    Yeah, most readers already knew that the Clintoons have significant “veracity issues” pretty much every time they open their mouths.  But I think it’s great to see this in print in the WaPO.

  • That DHS report, once again

    CPT11A sends us a link to Politico which drags out the discredited DHS report from 2009 that warned of crazed veterans creating terrorism. Actually, I kind of expected this after the murderers in Dallas and Baton Rouge turned out to be veterans. Everyone seems willing to accept any excuse besides the radical Black Lives Matter movement. The NRA, and now this Daryl Johnson who copy and pasted his report to disgraced DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano from the pages of Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate Watch columns wants to blame conservatives for these two shootings.

    The events in Dallas and Baton Rouge that left eight police officers dead and ten wounded have rekindled the frustration felt by Johnson and others involved in the study. Both shooters, XXX and XXX, were former veterans who had served in Iraq or Afghanistan. They were also members of radical groups like the New Black Panther Party and an obscure group called the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, respectively. According to current and former counterterrorism experts from various federal agencies, both acts of violence fell squarely within the purview of the DHS branch, which studied extremism across the political spectrum.

    Both murderers wanted to kill white cops, that had nothing to do with their military service, one was a carpenter and the other was a data processor. Everything they did after their service led them down to their ultimate demise, nothing they did during their service had anything to do with it.

    This Johnson fellow has been trying to revive his report and will use any opportunity.

    Though the numbers of non-military shooters in the country dwarf those of returned veterans, some of the most high-profile and deadliest shootings in recent years have been carried out by ex-military. These include the Umpqua College shooting in Oregon in 2015; the Navy Yard shooting in 2013; the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting in 2014; and the Fort Hood massacre in 2009.

    Nice list, except that none of those shooters had any deployments and that was the main part of the DHS report – that thousands of veterans were returning from war and eager to smoke civilians with their military training.

    But after the DHS report appeared in April 2009, conservative groups swiftly mobilized.

    And there’s the rub – it was Conservatives’ fault that these shooting happened.

    “Is there some kind of agency or working group focusing on tracking returning military veterans? Not that I know of, not at all,” says Mark Potok, a senior analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center. “And I think probably if somebody tried to do that it would be politically explosive.”

    “Very many veterans are very vulnerable in a lot of ways,” he adds. “I think there’s a real risk.”

    What agency is tracking Mark Potok? The Family Research Council shooting can be laid squarely at his feet.

    Like I said, the Left and the media are searching for stuff to blame except that which is really the culprit. The new American culture of hatred. Veterans are the cure not the cause.