Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The Washington Post’s Fact Checker took on the task of rating Hilary Clinton’s claim that she once tried to enlist in the Marine Corps. To refresh your memory, she once told the tale that in 1975, she stuck her head in a Marine Corps recruiting station when she was about 26 years old – according to the story she told, the recruiter told her that she wasn’t much eligible for the Marines because of her age and her eye sight. The Fact Checker gave her Two Pinocchios – meaning that they could neither prove nor disprove the story. So let me help them out;

In 1975, the military was trying to make the All-Volunteer Force work. They were taking everyone who volunteered. I went in the Army in 1974, we had people who were in their thirties, so that was just ridiculous that a recruiter would turn away a twenty-six-year-old because of her age – especially one with a college education. They were taking people with bad eyesight, as long as it could be corrected with spectacles. There was a guy in our platoon with glasses that looked like soda bottles. Not just because it was the Army – everyone was hurting for recruits in those days.

The first time that she made the claim was 1994 and according to the Post, even the Left disbelieved her story. The only people who said that they heard something about it, were solid Clintonistas. And, oh, yeah, she got married later that same year.

I’m pretty sure that the Post won’t give Ben Carson a pass on his West Point story, but they seem willing to give a pass to Hillary for this story. Anyone who was in the military in 1975 knows how under strength and struggling the services were at the time. They were only a few years away from full integration of women into the services at the time. Considering the limitations of women in their job availability in the military, it’s difficult to believe that poor eye-sight or age would have prevented Clinton from beginning a military career. You know, eye-sight and age might have been a consideration if she planned to be an infantryman or something – but not a lawyer or a clerk.

But, you know, it’s Hillary and she can say anything she wants to say and the Post stands and applauds. Even her sniper story hasn’t precluded her from being a front-runner in the Democrat primary race.

Specialist Atkinson, the hero, not Suhanec

Cactivet sends us a link to the story of Jesse Suhanec, a special snowflake private stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. For some reason he stole an M9 handgun and an Army van and took off for downtown. Kevin Anthony was driving by a parking lot where Suhanec was standing outside his vehicle. Suhanec took several shots at Anthony, hoping to steal Anthony’s truck. Anthony was struck a few times by bullets but he continued driving looking for help.

Meanwhile, Suhanec, tried unsuccessfully to car jack some rides. As police closed in on him, Suhanec says that his “training took over” and he stripped off his clothes and tried to hide in a mudhole – which worked for a while until hypothermia started taking over;

Suhanec then went to a nearby home and surrendered to a couple, who held him at gunpoint until officers could arrive, prosecutors said.

I guess that I missed that part of my training that would take over so that I’d take my clothes off and lay in the mud.

At the Fox affiliate, Q13, they tell the story of the soldier who rescued Anthony;

Army Specialist Jonah Atkinson was on his way to lunch when he saw the shooting victim slumped over in his car. That’s when Atkinson said his military training kicked in and he was able to give the victim life-saving medical attention.

“He was just completely out of it and gasping for air,” he said.

Atkinson stanched the flow of blood until the EMTs arrived. Somehow I think that’s more related to military training than hiding in the mud.

Atkinson might have helped save the man’s life but he doesn’t want to be called a hero.

“I helped save somebody’s life, I’ve never had to do that,” he said. “I was just in the right place at the right time. I hope if I was the one in the situation, another bystander would be willing to help.”

Yeah, that’s more like it, actually. By the way, that’s Specialist Atkinson in the photo, not mudboy.

A friend of ours sent us a picture of the Police Brutality Memorial that sits at the front desk of the San Jose City College in California. Our friend noticed this picture in the collage;

Recognize him? It’s Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the Chattanooga shooter, the fellow who killed four US servicemen before he himself was taken down by a good guy with a gun. I guess it was police brutality to stop an active shooter from killing more people in uniform.

It makes you wonder what they’re teaching college students these days, doesn’t it? If you’re interested in what they’re teaching at San Jose, the contact information for President Byron Clift Breland is (408) 288-3725 SJCCPres@sjcc.edu

According to WCHS-TV County assistant prosecutor Chris White was suspended when Halloween decoration spiders freaked him out and he drew his own firearm and threatened to shoot the toys;

The alleged incident happened on October 5th after several secretaries in the office decorated for Halloween. The decorations included many fake spiders that were throughout the office. Apparently, White has arachnophobia and became irate over the decorations.

“He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn’t funny, and he couldn’t stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out. It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn’t know that, I wouldn’t either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth,” Bennett explained.

Bennett says it’s his understanding that White didn’t point the gun at anyone or wave it around but did threaten to shoot all of the spiders. Bennett says the incident caused quite the scare for the three secretaries that witnessed it.

Chill, dude, they’re toy spiders.

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

Michael Delfin’s wife contacted us the other day about him. He was attacked by a pair of Air Force guys who thought that he was lying about his military service. The story about it comes out of Sacramento, California;

“So, I asked him to read my ID, and he was like nahh stolen valor, stolen valor; this guy’s a fake,” he said.

Since he’s no longer active duty, Michael’s ID is different. But he was accused of lying about serving—stolen valor.

“He’s ignorant. He needs to learn how to read an ID, plain and simple,” he said. “When a vet tells you he’s a vet and he’s obviously wearing a fallen brothers bracelet-doesn’t even recognize that.”

The two Air Force fellows attacked the former Marine in the parking lot outside of the club. They broke his leg and possibly his jaw.

I don’t think anyone in this crowd at TAH would engage in that type of vigilantism, because everyone knows we don’t condone that behavior. We get the records of folks first before we call them out, and physical violence, no matter how tempting, is always frowned upon. I don’t know what was going through the minds of those two Air Force fellows, if anything was working up there at all.

Bulldog at Guardians of Valor has an interview scheduled this afternoon with Delfin’s wife later today, so this isn’t the end of our work to make this right.

If you want to donate to Delfin’s GoFundMe here’s the link.

TSO sends along this advice for amateur valor hunters;

14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, the youngster who innocently made a clock that looked more like a bomb timer than a clock, has been offered a full scholarship in Qatar in order to sharpen his bombclock-building skills with the masters of bombclock-making in the Middle East, according to Fox News;

“We are going to move to a place where my kids can study and learn, and all of them being accepted by that country,” Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told The Dallas Morning News before boarding an airplane from Washington back home to Texas on Tuesday.

The statement said the family has been “overwhelmed by the many offers of support” since Ahmed’s arrest on Sept. 14 at his school in Irving, a Dallas suburb. The family said it accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development to join its Young Innovators Program.

Ahmed, who along with his family will relocate to Qatar, received a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education. Ahmed said he was impressed with the program and thinks he’ll “learn a lot and have fun, too.”

I’m sure that the rest of the TAH readership will join me in wishing young Ahmed loads of luck in his future endeavors, knowing that he will make something of himself and contribute greatly to the advancement of the 11th century Islamic culture as they make the great leap forward into the 12th century.