Category: Dumbass Bullshit

One of our ninjas sent us a link to the story of Joseph Hirt. He claims that he’s 90 years old (family members say that he’s about five years younger) and that he escaped from the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. He’s traveled the country weaving his tales for groups, until one day recently he spoke to group where history teacher Andrew Reid began to doubt his stories as he listened to Hirt.

Reid was…struck by discrepancies in Hirt’s version of events and in the evidence Hirt provided in support of his claims. Hirt’s nephew has since acknowledged his story as a lie. Hirt, meanwhile, stood by his claims when reached for comment by the Reading Eagle.

In researching Hirt, Reid concluded he lied about being imprisoned at Auschwitz, escaping from the camp and about his face-to-face encounters with the likes of Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death.”

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Much of Reid’s “debunking” involves a closer look at the dates and historical timelines presented by Hirt, ones Reid says were easily cross-checked. As for why no one has tried before, Reid says the answer is simple: “Who would suspect someone of making such extraordinary claims about such a topic?”

As with many of our phonies, Hirt’s real story is probably better than the lies he’s been telling – according to Hirt’s nephew, Michael, he escaped with his family as the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 and hid in the mountains of Italy as an intact family until the Americans liberated the country. Then they were shipped to the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario in Oswego, N.Y. in 1944. I guess that story was too pedestrian for the old coot.

The nephew confronted Hirt on his lies and his excuses were similar to our own military phonies – that the media misquoted him and the false photos attributed to him are photo-shopped.

Is there like a school for liars?

Skippy sends us a link to the story of Bill Keebler and his elves who plotted to blow up a Bureau of Land Management cabin in Arizona. Keebler is the nominal leader of a band of misfits called the “Patriot’s Defense Force”. They wanted to avenge the death of Arizona rancher Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. According to the Daily Miner, the group contemplated blowing up a BLM office in downtown Salt Lake City, but they decided that it was too visible, so they settled on a BLM facility in the wilds. They recruited a couple of FBI agents and set out on their mission;

Keebler traveled to the Arizona cabin Tuesday night with militia members and undercover FBI employees. An inactive explosive was placed against the door and Keebler was handed a remote detonation device and pushed it several times, according to the FBI.

The FBI arrested Keebler in Utah on Wednesday morning. He faces one count of attempting to damage federal property with an explosive. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch.

From the Salt Lake City Tribune;

He asked a militia member — who happened to be an undercover FBI employee — to build an explosive device.

In April, the militia member showed him a video of a 6-inch pipe bomb blowing up office furniture in the mountains of southern Utah. Keebler asked the militia member to make more of those bombs, saying he hoped to target a BLM cabin in Mount Trumbull, Ariz., that he had visited with Finicum for reconnaissance in October 2015.

He wanted two bombs — one that he would detonate near one of the cabins at the Mount Trumbull facility, and the other to use against law enforcement agents if they were stopped driving to or from Mount Trumbull.

Keebler planted the device — which, unknown to him, was inert — late Tuesday. He tried multiple times to detonate the device remotely, charging documents state, before departing. The FBI arrested him Wednesday morning in Nephi.

According to the charging documents: “Keebler made it clear he didn’t plan on blowing people up for now, but he wanted his group to be prepared to escalate things, and take people out if necessary.”

I guess as long as these guys depend on the FBI to build their bombs for them we’re safe.

Jerrold “The Waddler” Nadler, a New York Democrat representative, was sitting on a House Judiciary Committee hearing discussing whether the House of Representatives should impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for lying to the legislative body. Nadler interrupted the proceedings to show everyone his ample ass. It seems that he doesn’t understand the purpose of the Constitution, according to the Washington Examiner;

“The Constitution was enacted to strengthen government power to enable central government to lay taxes and to function effectively. We put limits on that through the Bill of Rights, but the Constitution was enacted for the opposite purpose,” said Nadler.

He said that after former assistant U.S. attorney and self described conservative constitutionalist Andrew McCarthy argued during his testimony that the “principal purpose of the Constitution is to limit the power of government to intrude on the liberties and suppress the rights of the American people.” Nadler said he wanted to make that “historical correction” because he hears people saying the contrary and “it really bothers me.”

Yeah, no, dumbass. The Constitution was written by people who had just thrown off the yoke of an oppressive, over-bearing government. They wanted to limit the power of the government, that’s why they wrote the Constitution to narrowly define the limits of governmental power in the lives of the governed. Allow me to quote Mr. Madison from Federalist No. 51;

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

It’s babbling morons like Nadler that have corrupted the Constitution, found words that weren’t there and twisted the meaning of the words that were there to feather his own nest and further entrench him in his cramped chair. So why do you people in New York City keep sending this idiot to work at a job that he doesn’t even understand?

Don sends us a link to a story about this Clint Lampkin fellow. Apparently, he claimed in some sort of public venue that he was a survivor of the Pulse terrorist attack in Orlando. He got wild applause and hugs for that simple statement. Then folks started questioning the story;

One of Lampkin’s Facebook friends from his home state of Arkansas sent WHNT a screenshot from Clint’s Facebook page in which he said of the Orlando massacre, “Glad I wasn’t at that one.” The post was dated June 12 — the morning of the attack.

From WHNT, Lampkin goes through some of the stages of being busted for stolen valor;

WHNT News 19 employees spoke to Clint over the phone Monday, and he says his Facebook account was hacked and that he never made that post. He still claims he was at the Pulse Nightclub the night of the shooting. “I have really bad anxiety attacks, so I just kinda, I don’t know, my mind is just gone,” he told us on Saturday.

We asked him for additional details surrounding the night of the shooting Monday over the phone, and he gave us the same response – that the trauma of what he’s witnessed has erased his memory.

“I did lose a friend that got shot,” he told the crowd Saturday. We asked Clint for the name of his friend who he said died inside the club. He answered that he had only known each other for a short time and didn’t remember the victim’s name.

I’m having flashbacks from every phony we ever busted. The TV station says they’re trying to find out from the FBI if he was really there or not. I’m guessing “no” would be the correct answer.

Jarhead sends us a link to the story of a couple of San Diego Marines who sent the photo above to one of their Facebook Groups, Camp MENdleton resale;

First Lt. Thomas Gray, a spokesman for I MEF, told Marine Corps Times that the command has identified the Marine in the picture and the one who posted it on Facebook.

“We cannot discuss details of an ongoing investigation, but I can tell you the command is taking this incident seriously,” Gray said.

Marine officials have vowed to take “appropriate action” in response to the social media post, according to a statement released by I MEF.

Yeah, social media is a sewer and just because something strikes you as funny, odds are that no one else will. The corporal in the photo may not have known that someone taking the picture would post that caption on it (that’s the defense I’d use) and some Blue Falcon screwed him. i have to have heart-to-heart talks all of the time with folks who post to our Facebook page, but, threatening to attack nightclubs only days after an attack on a night club is pretty damn stupid.

The Army Times reports that special operations icon, retired Lieutenant General William Boykin was disinvited from a breakfast at Fort Riley, Kansas during the 1st Infantry Division’s “Victory Week” celebration because perpetual whiner, Mikey Weinstein doesn’t like the general. It seems that Boykin is a Bible-thumping Christian, which should earn him protection from the actions of the mis-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Weinstein’s group of hand-wringing Godless heathens.

“I have clients of ours weeping on the phone about this,” [Weinstein] said. “[Army officials] have not admitted any fault. They don’t indicate that they are going to investigate how this travesty, this unconstitutional travesty, happened, or their willingness to punish [those involved] to make sure it doesn’t happen again. And we want all those things.”

Seriously? Weeping? Not the 1st Infantry Division in which I served, certainly. If you’re secure in your Godless hedonism, your lack of beliefs shouldn’t be shaken by an old general speaking at breakfast. If you are so emotionally distraught, you shouldn’t go to that particular breakfast and grab a sausage biscuit at Burger King that day instead.

Here’s MRFF’s press release on the subject;

If Mikey and the MRFF really wanted “religious freedom”, they’d be defending Boykin’s right to express him self and to propagate his religious views in public. But, well, Mikey worships the dollar and the attention, certainly not the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights.