Category: Dumbass Bullshit

There’s a new show on Amazon by the name of “The Man in the High Castle” taken from the book by the same name by author Philip K. Dick. It takes place in 1962 and it’s based on the premise that the United States never prepared for World War II and so, when the war finally broke out we stayed out of it and the Germans and Japanese successfully invaded and now they’ve occupied the United States proper for seventeen years. The Rocky Mountains are a “neutral zone” between the Germans (in the East) and the Japanese on the West Coast. Both sides are brutal occupiers and neither is depicted well (though the Japanese seem nicer than the Germans). Both sides are depicted as racists against Jews, one of the main characters is Jewish and a member of the resistance.

Anyway, some of the ads for the show had some Nazi imagery and it was posted around New York City. Well, apparently, the legacy governor of New York didn’t like it so, it had to come down, according to Associated Press;

The agency also initially defended the ads, saying they met its guidelines.

But many public officials condemned them. Mayor Bill de Blasio called them “irresponsible and offensive.”

Officials confirmed Wednesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered them removed.

I binge-watched the ten episodes currently on Amazon. It’s really pretty good. But I didn’t come away hating Jews or blacks or anyone else. I thought it was an interesting and imaginative story. But it was fiction. The Nazis were bad, the Japanese were bad and they were still bad people in the movie. They celebrated VA Day (Victory in America Day) by greeting each other with “Sieg Heil” and throwing Nazi salutes. I still didn’t like Nazis, and it didn’t make me a racist. While I was watching the show for ten hours, I wished all of the characters who were Nazis would get killed – pretty much the same way I’ve always felt.

I was, however, offended by “The Motorcycle Diaries” about a carefree spirit, Che Guevara and his journey though his youth knowing that he was going to become a lying, murdering thief, but Hollywood romanticized him. Know what I did? I didn’t watch the movie. I ignored the movie posters and the ads that flashed on my computer screen and on my commute. Soderbergh’s “Che” absolutely insulted my intelligence, but I just paid the thing no attention. But I don’t remember anyone calling for ads to be removed from the public’s view.

A little real-life lesson; the American Communists and Socialists supported Nazi Germany and urged the US to stay out of the war; well, until Hitler touched off Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Then they campaigned hard for the US to help the Allies.

Bobo sends us a link to the Army Times which reports the missed-named Military Religious Freedom Foundation has found something else to give them fits. Echo Company of the 212th Aviation Regiment has an evil cross on the signage outside their headquarters at Fort Rucker. According to the 212th Regiment’s webpage, they train “Initial Entry Rotary Wing Students in UH-60A, OH-58C, and TH67A+ helicopters. The unit also conducts the Army’s only non-rated Crewmember Standard Instruction. In addition, the battalion supports allied military training mission.” Apparently it’s only Echo Company that calls themselves “Crusaders” and uses the evil image of the cross on their sign.

The logo of Echo Company, 1st Battalion, 212th Aviation Regiment, based at Fort Rucker, Alabama, contains “blatantly unconstitutional Christian Crusader imagery” and should be discontinued immediately, Military Religious Freedom Foundation president and founder Mikey Weinstein wrote Monday in an email addressed to Maj. Gen. Michael Lundy, commanding general of Fort Rucker and the Army Aviation Center of Excellence.

MFers claim to have a membership of 40,000 members of the military, you know, like IVAW claimed thousands of invisible members.

Weinstein’s letter to Lundy asks the general to launch “an aggressive investigation and insure visible and appropriate punishment for any and all individuals (including yourself) who are either directly or indirectly responsible for this unconstitutional injustice.”

Because this is what’s most important to the Army today – an investigation into how a company got it’s nickname. Just by saying something is “unconstitutional” doesn’t make it so. The Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” I’m sure that Congress didn’t pass a law mandating that E-1/212th name themselves the Crusaders, so WTF is Mikey talking about? He sounds Bernathian in his hyperbole.

These MFers are starting to get like those people trying to make a name for themselves in the Stolen Valor news – looking for something to get outraged about and then they call Mikey.

Over on our discussion of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and the Army’s “Fighting Knights” sign in Hawaii, Mikey Weinstein’s band of trolls have taken exception with my characterization of Weinstein as a “punk troublemaker” in the Facebook comments. I have other more appropriate terms at my disposal if you’d like to test my vocabulary.

They also complain that I said that Mikey “likes all religions except Christianity”. According to an email that he sent a Marine commander, also in Hawaii, that’s true. It seems that the Marine Corps base had a sign that said “God Bless the Military”. Mickey’s MFers emailed a few suggestions for other signs the Corps can put up in the area, according to Military.com, something more acceptable, in their view;

On Sept. 30, the group sent a second letter to Killeen offering a third alternative — that the base allow signs representing other gods to be erected next to the original one. Some suggestions offered were: “Yahweh Bless …,” “Allah Bless …,” “Goddess Bless …,” and “There is no god to bless … We have each other.”

Yeah, those suggestions for additional signs all approve any religion except Christianity (you know, although “God” is generally recognized as the Supreme Being in a couple of religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam all have their roots in the same God’s word, the Old Testament). The implication that “Allah” would be an acceptable alternative kind of illustrates my point that Weinstein and his MFers don’t particularly like Christianity (and probably Judaism, too).

The MFer trolls claim that some of them are Christians yet they support Weinstein’s efforts. Like that is supposed to change my mind. I guess they are whiny little punk troublemakers, too.

Before I get called names that don’t apply to me, I’ll let the newcomers know that I haven’t set foot in a church in about twenty years, I don’t adhere to any particular religion, but me and the Supreme Being have an agreement. I’ll behave myself but that he shouldn’t expect regular scheduled conversations with me. I support every religion and their tenets, I respect everyone’s right to believe what they want and I’ll promise that I won’t interfere – unless it’s to protect the innocent. I will however point out hypocrisy when I see it, and Mikey Weinstein and his little band of trolls reek of hypocrisy. And they don’t like being in some judgmental spotlight – I think that’s their whole complaint about Christianity anyway.

Jack Hughes, who we have verified is a Vietnam War Marine veteran and who has earned at least one Purple Heart Medal was cornered by two men who claimed to be active duty Marines at the Charlotte, North Carolina airport;

“All of a sudden he jumps up and he’s got a camera in my face screaming ‘your medals are crooked. You’re a fake. You’re not a marine,’” an emotional Hughes told WBTV. “He kept screaming at me, telling me I was nothing, that everything I had was fake. I was a fake and phony.”

The Gastonia man said it happened Saturday, shortly after he and his wife had just landed. He went to St. Louis to take part in a Veterans Day program at their grand-daughter’s school.

Hughes said he was wearing his suit jacket with medals and ribbons. As he entered Concourse C, he said the man approached him with a camera, insisting that Hughes was an impostor.

Hughes tried to show them his VA card to prove that he is indeed a veteran, but the pair smelled blood in the water. Finally police intervened.

I don’t need to tell you that this isn’t the type of behavior that we condone here at TAH and I doubt if any of you would act like this. But, it is strange that the website “Popular Military” are the folks most responsible for the dissemination of this story, because they’re the folks most responsible for this kind of confrontation. They post videos over there of any kind of so-called Stolen Valor confrontation. They encourage that behavior – you know, even though there are no veterans on the staff at Popular Military – they bought the website from a group of veterans. But, chasing a homeless guy into traffic because he’s wearing ACU trousers isn’t really stolen valor enforcement. Popular Military will publish any video that is sent to them with total disregard for content. That’s why I didn’t link them in this article.

The best stolen valor videos are the videos where the thief is allowed to talk – like that “Sergeant Colonel” video we posted last week. or the George Feck video, where we recorded Feck while he told his tall tales about “gay spray”, after we had his FOIA which we posted with his recording. But, this random harassment of people in the airport needs to stop. This isn’t a business for amateurs.

I don’t know if I’ve told this story before, but when I was a private and flying out of Savannah airport, I was confronted by a Marine NCO who accused me of wearing stuff that I wasn’t authorized. This was the days between the end of the National Defense Service Medal for Vietnam and before the Army Service Ribbon came out – so I was wearing no personal awards, besides my jump wings and my marksmanship badge. The unit I was assigned to had four or five unit citations and that was his complaint – I was wearing decorations that hadn’t been awarded since the second world war. Clearly, I was authorized to wear those awards, but the Marine NCO who didn’t understand the Army system wouldn’t listen to an Army private, but the fact that he didn’t understand nor would he listen – that didn’t stop him from locking me up at attention while he humiliated me in the busy airport. Finally, an NCO from my unit straightened him out.

I guess my point is that folks should stay in their lane.

A couple of readers sent us link to the story of James Walker Morales who was arrested in New York. Turns out that he was the fellow who broke into the Army Reserve Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts last weekend. Morales used to be a Reservist at the armory, until he was arrested for raping a minor and got booted for his trouble. From Stars & Stripes;

Morales gained access to the facility through a kitchen window, and then broke into the gun vault by climbing on top of it and using a cutting tool and pry bar to get through several layers of metal and wood, the FBI affidavit says.

The electronic monitoring bracelet placed Morales “directly inside” the facility, and blood left at the scene matched his DNA, the FBI said. He cut off the bracelet Monday but was tracked to New York through his cellphones, authorities said.

A real rocket surgeon to break into the armory while he was wearing his ankle monitor. He also injured himself breaking into the vault and left blood evidence. The FBI said that the theft wasn’t related to terrorism, but that doesn’t mean that Morales would have tried to sell those weapons to terrorists if he could find one or two.

The other day, we discussed the break in of a Reserve Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts that resulted in the theft of some scary black guns. the building was under construction at the time. Today, one of our ninjas send us a link to an article that reports that the alarm in the facility did alert on the break in;

“It was determined that the alarm went off during the time of the arms room break in,” Capt. Eric W. Connor said in a statement released Tuesday. “Due to operations security and to protect the integrity of the investigation we cannot reveal our security procedures.”

[…]

The break-in occurred between 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday.

It seems to me that they’d have the time frame for the break in narrowed down a bit, if the alarm had worked.

The picture above is allegedly a picture of the thief and his mode of transportation.

Those terrorists at Military Religious Freedom Foundation have successfully struck again, this time in Hawaii according to the Army Times in a link sent by Bobo. The sign above was posted outside an Army training center at Fort Shafter and was in front of the “Fighting Knights” of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 8th Special Troops Battalion. The MRFF president Mikey Weinstein, the fellow who likes all religions except Christianity, emailed the unit and they completely collapsed hours after his call. But, see, being a terrorist, Mikey isn’t satisfied;

Weinstein’s email to Dorman also requests an investigation into the matter and the punishment of those found responsible. He also chastises the general for sending a tweet that included the image through what appears to be his personal Twitter account, and suggests that such imagery “enrages our Islamic allies” and “emboldens our Islamic enemies.”

“This shocking utilization by your command of this weaponized imagery representation of historic Christian sectarian warfare and brutality is just PLAIN WRONG both as a matter of law and as a practical matter,” the email reads, in part.

Yeah, images are more damaging to our relationships with our enemies than, say, bombs or bullets. Mikey Weinstein is nothing but a punk troublemaker. these unit commanders only encourage his terroristic behavior by caving to his puny demands. The military has too many other things going on to be paying any attention to to petty tyrants like Mikey Weinstein and his Military Freedom From Religion group.