Category: Dumbass Bullshit

A gunfight reenactment group staged a shoot-out in Tombstone, Arizona yesterday. One of the gunfighters showed up late and didn’t bother to check his gun – a gun that had been loaded with live bullets before he arrived at the show. So, he shot one of his fellow reenactors;

The man was shot in the upper groin area sometime around 2 p.m. and had to be airlifted to the hospital, said CCSO spokeswoman Carol Capas.

According to an update from the Tombstone Marshal’s Office, actors Tom Carter and victim Ken Curtis were facing off against each other when Carter fired his gun. Curtis fell to the ground after being hit by a live round.

Curtis was flown to Banner-University Medical Center to have the bullet removed.

It was a six-shooter, so, really how hard would it have been to check? I think if I was the target, I would have wanted to inspect the gun before someone fired it at me, especially if it had arrived on the scene loaded with live bullets. Dumbass bullshit all around.

Thanks to Marine_7002 for the link.

Russ sends us a link to a short story out of Mobile, Alabama about this Joshua Mitco Gipson fellow, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who was flashing FBI credentials around a bar in Mobile. Of course, the 21-year-old isn’t an FBI agent, so he’s cooling his heels in the local hoosegow.

Several people sent us link to a story about this Wayne Simmons fellow who has pulled the wool over the eyes of Fox News, among others, claiming that he was a CIA spook and a contractor. Kent Clizbe busted him two years ago and warned Fox News, he says, but Fox continued to use Simmons. According to the Washington Times, Simmons was arrested by the FBI for his skullduggery;

The FBI announced Thursday that Mr. Simmons had been arrested and indicted on charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud and making false statements to the government.

Mr. Simmons made the false statements about his ties to the CIA to at least three companies, one of which hired him as a “senior intelligence advisor” and he was deployed by the United States “overseas as an advisor to senior U.S. military personnel,” according to the indictment.

I’ll be honest, I don’t pay attention to any of these “experts” anyway, so I don’t know if this guy was ever on while I was watching. I also don’t read other blogs, unless someone sends me a link to something that interests me. I don’t pretend that I’m an expert, but I’ve been dealing with phonies for so long, that everyone makes me suspicious.

Anyway, Simmons was arrested for stealing more than a hundred grand from a lady who he told he would be investing it for her, but the money went to pay for his expenses. It seems that Fox never paid him directly, but I’m sure just appearing on the show gave him a measure of credibility he wouldn’t have otherwise.

He’s also being arrested for lying to the federal government about his time in the CIA and with contractors, according to CNN Money;

U.S. officials told CNN that there have been suspicions about Simmons’s resume and U.S. government agencies have received calls about claims he made on his website about his past work.

But because government security agencies generally do not comment on people who worked for them in certain capacities, that only served to fuel the perception that Simmons had a top-secret background.

In a statement the CIA said it is “working closely with the Justice Department on this matter and we refer you to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia for comment on the charges.”

Again, it’s the math that should have busted him – he was 62 years old, two years older than me, and he claimed that he was recruited from the Navy by the CIA in 1973, when he was 20 years old. That’s like those stories that we hear from other phonies who were chosen by the CIA before they could graduate from jump school – or Joe Cryer who went straight to the SEAL Teams without going to BUD/S after they found him in a video arcade.

When we warned Fox News about the Wickre family security expert, Jared Stern, they pulled his videos and I haven’t seen him back on there since.

Clizbe says that he never published his article, because Simmons’ friends “circled the wagons” around the liar. I can’t imagine that would stop me if I had the juice to out a phony. But, that’s not my community, maybe they do things differently over there. I guess that’s why I need a lawyer or two or three.

I don’t know who this Shia LaBeouf guy is, but apparently a lot of you do know. I guess he got drunk in Austin, Texas to the point that police became involved. He tried to weasel his way out of it by claiming that he was in the National Guard, according to Breitbart;

After multiple, failed attempts to break free from police officers, telling authorities they had to let him go because LAPD killed one of his friends, Labeouf allegedly became agitated, said he was a member of the National Guard, and barked, “Do whatever the f*ck you gotta do!”

Yeah, like no National Guardsman has ever been arrested for D&D. But Breitbart continues that LaBeouf has been telling folks that he was in the Guard for a while. It seems that he researched his part in “Fury” by hooking up with a National Guard unit.

“The day I got the job, I joined the US National Guard. I was baptized – accepted Christ in my heart – tattooed my surrender and became a chaplain’s assistant to Captain Yates for the 41st Infantry,” he told Dazed magazine ten months ago. “I spent a month living on a forward operating base. Then I linked up with my cast and went to Fort Irwin.”

He didn’t “join” the National Guard, he followed a unit around. I wonder what he thinks a forward operating base is. I guess he means the 41st Infantry Division – a National Guard unit – not the 41st Infantry, two active duty battalions.

I guess he’s been embellishing his military experience for a while. A couple of weeks following an Army chaplain around isn’t “joining” the military, though.

Fox News reports that Edward Snowden says that he has offered to go to prison in the US, but prosecutors aren’t taking him up on his offer;

Snowden told the BBC that he’d “volunteered to go to prison with the government many times,” but had not received a formal plea-deal offer.

[…]

Michael Hayden, the former head of the NSA, told the BBC, “If you’re asking me my opinion, he’s going to die in Moscow.”

In an interview broadcast Monday on the BBC’s “Panorama” program, Snowden said he and his lawyers were waiting for U.S. officials “to call us back.”

Earlier this year, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said a plea deal with Snowden was a possibility.

So, I’m guessing that Snowden isn’t having a good time in Russia if he’s more attracted to prison in the US than his current situation. I’m thinking that he misses the press about him and being a wanted criminal isn’t all that movies make it out to be. Or maybe he’s a little jealous of Brad Manning getting all of that attention.

So, Republican front runner, Donald Trump, told NBC’s Chuck Todd that the world would be a better place if only we wouldn’t have disrupted the regimes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, according to Reuters.

“You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there, it’s a mess,” Trump said on NBC.

“If you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there, it’s a mess. It’s going to be the same thing” in Syria, he said.

Asked by NBC’s Chuck Todd if the Middle East would be more stable with Gaddafi and Saddam in power, Trump replied, “Of course it would be.”

Well, you know, Europe was fairly stable under Napoleon, too. Yugoslavia was certainly more stable under Tito than it has been in recent years. The Soviet Union was stable under Stalin and the Communists. Mao sure stabilized China, too. Just ask the millions of victims of state-sponsored starvation.

Before we ousted Hussein in 2003, he was the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East – he’d started a ten-year war with Iran, invaded Kuwait, paid bounties to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel and murdered his own citizens by the thousands. We had to fly over those citizens to protect them from him for more than ten years – while Hussein was taking pot shots at our aircraft with surface-to-air missiles. He massed his troops on the Kuwait border twice after the Gulf War causing the US to deploy troops to our prepositioned equipment in Kuwait. When Hussein was toppled, Gaddafi figured that he was next in the war against terror and gave up his own weapons of mass destruction.

Gaddafi had bombed the LaBelle Disco in Berlin to kill US soldiers out on the town. He also bombed a commercial aircraft over Lockerbie, Scotland. Yeah, that’s some real stability.

Trump is just mouthing populist BS, attracting the Ron Paulians to his campaign, but he’s dividing the party, and if I didn’t know better, I’d think he’s trying to make the party lose next year. Actually, I don’t know better, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being.