Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The latest tactic of the terrorists at the ironically named Military Religious Freedom Foundation and their mullah, Michael “Mikey” Weinstein, is to attack various VA POW displays around the country for displaying a Bible with the empty place setting representing our missing service members and prisoners of war. Of course, every time a VA facility capitulates to the specious claims that the displays violate the First Amendment, it only encourages the terrorists. From Fox News;

Weinstein’s declares that the Bible’s inclusion on the remembrance table is a “loathsome message” and a “disgustingly bigoted statement” that is “an absolute disgrace and unbridled slap-in-the-face to all of the men and women in uniform.” He claims that the symbol of faith will “eviscerate good order, morale, unit cohesion and discipline” in our military.

Only someone with a burning animus toward this traditional symbol of comfort and faith could make such wild, hurtful, and unfounded claims.

It would be laughable—except that the U.S. military has too often capitulated to bullies like Weinstein. He successfully harassed Patrick Air Force Base into suspending use of the traditional remembrance table decoration, just as he attempted to intimidate the Pentagon to curtail certain National Day of Prayer activities.

I’d change that second paragraph to begin “Only someone with a burning anus….”

The First Amendment reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” Congress hasn’t made a law establishing a religion, and if anyone is prohibiting the free exercise of religion, it’s the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The Fox News article quotes from a couple of POWs how important their faith was to them while they suffered. For Mikey and his minions to disregard those simple truths as a testament to human endurance is just disrespectful to all soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who may some day find themselves in those unfortunate circumstances.

A group called #WeLove gathered outside of a Trump rally at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Mainstage Theatre yesterday to protest “the hate” and ended up stomping on an American flag, you know, to show love.

A FOX6 News crew estimated there to be about 70 to 100 protesters on hand outside the theatre. Most were a part of the group #WeLove, which was started on Facebook.

An exchange occurred Sunday after a protester was seen stomping on an American flag outside the theatre.

More than 100 Trump supporters waited in line to see him speak, but outside, things got heated as protesters and supporters came face-to-face.

At one point, the opposing groups got too close — and police were forced to create a line to separate them.

It seems to me that these folks are trying to get Trump elected.

Thanks to Instinct for the link.

One of our friends sent a link to the news that if you missed Jade Helm 15, the good news is that Jade Helm 16 is in the works;

I have learned from reliable sources that Jade Helm 16 is also about controlling the shipment of all food. If one thinks this sounds outrageous, stay tuned, because the circumstantial evidence clearly points in this direction.

I received this email on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

To the staff of The Common sense show:

My cousin is deployed in Army Spec. Ops at Ft. Bragg. He is going to be expected to take part in guerrilla warfare drills against rogue military forces. After arriving at Ft. Bragg, he was still permitted to leave the base. We live in Texas and drove to meet him. When we went to lunch. he had all of use leave our cell phones in the car and we walked a block to eat dinner. He said that they were beginning to receive briefings about taking on rogue military units in a guerrilla war scenario. He assumes they are American military units, but they were not told that when he was presented with their newly created training specs.

He has a role in this exercise, but I will not reveal the nature, as we do not identify him. He said he is being moved from Ft. Bragg to another base that has not yet been identified. He suspects that it is in the area because their deployment gear remains the same. He told us that he fears the drill could go live for many reasons…

[…]

Donald Trump has awakened millions of Americans to the tyranny that we have been living under for the past several decades. The decadence of our ruling class has grown to such a level that even the blind can see the heinous character flaws and devastating motives which underlies our ruling class.

[…]

Recent current events have demonstrated how the Obama administration is posturing to control the food supply with the
ultimate goal of regaining control of the American people and undoing the damage caused by Trump.

[…]

Jade Helm 16, with the assistance of foreign troops is training not only to arrest dissidents, subjugate rogue American military units who will not be on board with the increasing level of tyranny, they are also preparing to weaponize food as a means of political control in the face of the new American populism.

Yeah, I’m so sure that our special forces soldiers would be willing to participate in mass starvation of the American public. But, you know, now that you mention it, I could use a Snickers bar and there are none in my house. Only Trump and Obama could have caused that to happen.

According to the Associated Press, Carlo Goias, a comedian and actor, was playing the part of a drug lord’s body guard in a low-budget movie that was being filmed in New Brunswick, New Jersey. They just finished a car-chase that had concerned some of the residents who witnessed the scene. The crew was surrounded by police who took Goias into custody for possession of an unregistered Airsoft pistol. He spent four days locked up while friends and family raised his $10,000 bail. The movie’s budget was only $50,000. Anyway, Goias has priors which could net him a decade in jail;

Some state lawmakers say the case highlights the need for New Jersey to change its gun laws.

The permit law recently led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania corrections officer who lacked a New Jersey permit for a gun that was legal in his home state. The charges were later dropped.

Airsoft guns fire nonlethal plastic pellets. Nearly half of the states and many cities regulate the weapons to some degree, according to the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

New Jersey defines all non-powder guns as firearms, which require a permit to carry them. State lawmakers are pushing legislation that would give prosecutor’s more discretion in filing charges under the statute.

Everyday, I read stories about folks using Airsoft guns to stick up convenience stores, or they point the guns at police and get ventilated, but clearly this isn’t one of those cases. But, hey, I guess the prosecutor thought that his case was sexy enough for him to get exposure in the media with very little risk. And then we wonder why kids are suspended from schools for pointing finger guns at classmates or making Pop-Tart guns.

So, this woman, Heidi Czerwiec, who is an English professor at the University of North Dakota, was at work in her office and she saw two people crossing the sidewalk below in camouflaged uniforms and carrying what looks like a gun. Here, let her tell the story;

I look up from my office computer to see two figures in camo with guns outside my window. My first thought is for my students’ and my safety: I grab my phone, crawl under my desk and call 911. The dispatcher keeps me on the line until someone can see if ROTC is doing maneuvers.

I can barely talk—first, with fear, and then with rage when the dispatcher reports back that yes, in fact, I’ve probably just seen ROTC cadets, though they’re going to send an officer to check because no one has cleared it with them. They thank me for reporting it.

Of course, it’s not going to end there, you know because of triggers and microagressions;

[A university officer] also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks.

So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time.

It’s not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It’s my job to teach and to get home to my family.

It’s already highly inappropriate to conduct unnecessary military maneuvers in the middle of the quad. But with school shootings on the increase and tensions at UND running high, it’s especially irresponsible.

I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the first time ever that Czerwiec had seen ROTC cadets on campus. She studied at UNC-Greensboro and at the University of Utah, so I’m sure she’s aware of ROTC, even if she didn’t join in the fun.

According to Campus Reform, UND is going to make a point of telling everyone about the drills on campus, making it a point to personally warn the good professor, but that doesn’t seem to calm her much.

When I taught ROTC, the only things close to weapons that we had were rubber ducks (an inoperable completely rubber M16-looking training aid) for our rope bridge training and some demilitarized M1903s which could not be loaded or fired and were just used for drill and ceremony training.

I hope the University keeps a supply of Depends on hand for the professor.