Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The Washington Post reports that the immediate effect of the breach of government employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) by Chinese hackers from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was the CIA pulling it’s intelligence agents from Beijing out of concern for their safety.

The counterintelligence risks of the OPM breach are significant, [Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.] said. He noted that the intelligence agencies do not know specifically whose records were taken. But the scale of the compromise — more than 22 million individuals’ records breached — “has very serious implications .?.?. from the standpoint of the intelligence community and the potential for identifying people” who may be undercover.

“Unfortunately,” he said, “this is a gift that’s going to keep on giving for years.”

So, this administration has made their “shift” of our military focus to the Pacific Rim, specifically because of China, and because of the feckless morons of OPM who can’t accomplish the simple task of protecting our PII from our enemies, we have no intelligence officers on the ground in China.

Seems about right.

One of our ninjas send us an article from Berkeley Side about a “military veteran” who had a break with reality for a spell and occupied a sculpture in Berkeley while disrobed.

A military veteran reportedly having a mental health crisis climbed on top of the metal bear sculpture at the downtown Berkeley BART plaza Saturday and refused to come down, community members reported.

The man climbed on top of the bear sculpture, which was installed in the plaza in March, sometime prior to 11:15 a.m.

Authorities taped off the area and were attempting to speak with the man to see how they could convince him to come down.

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“I just spent 45 mins talking [to] and counseling a Coast Guard guy who is involved in a standoff with the Berkeley Police,” [ Charlie Verrette, who posted about the incident on Facebook] wrote. “A very nice young man, unfortunately off his medication and having difficulties. I couldn’t get him to get down but the Berkeley Police let me try and we did have a very nice conversation. He is military though and he might be up on the Bear for a while. A Mental Health Unit is on the way.”

According to the article, he eventually came down from his perch atop the fairly ugly thing which is supposed to be a bear, I think. It’s called “Ursus Redivivus” and made from old elevator parts.

The thing I take exception with is that they seem to hit the “military veteran” thing pretty hard. I’m not saying that the Coast Guard isn’t a military service, but I’m thinking that the fellow had problems before he joined the Coast Guard and whatever made him climb the sculpture had little to do with his time in the puddle-jumping service.

But, him being a veteran makes it easier for the stank-ass hippies in Berkeley understand why he did it – the evil Bush killing-machine, you know, the one that throws veterans away after the parades are done and the memorials are built.

Art sends us a link about this Steven Goldmann fellow who was arrested in Bismark, North Dakota for impersonating an FBI agent. According to the article, he used a badge, gun and even a dog to get free stuff from folks. Apparently, he was arrested for the same thing in Nashville, Tennessee where they say he conned folks out of thousands of dollars for services and goods. of course, it’s the fault of PTSD;

Goldmann told U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that he wants to seek treatment for PTSD resulting from three Air Force tours of duty in Iraq, and he read a letter to the judge from a military superior who lauded his performance overseas.

“When I came back from Iraq, there was no grace period to reintegrate back into society,” Goldmann said. “I went from an operations schedule (in Iraq) of 18 hours a day working very, very hard to not doing a whole lot.”

Goldmann said he didn’t seek help because of pride.

“I didn’t want to tell anybody I was broken,” he said.

He was sentenced to time served – apparently they kept him in prison for 17 months while he awaited his trail. He turned snitch in prison and earned himself some points with the prosecutor for helping them.

I’m pretty sure that PTSD doesn’t make people pretend to be federal agents, otherwise there would be millions of phony pretend FBI agents around the country. He claims that he had three tours of Iraq with the Air Force, I hope the prosecutor checks on that, before he comes up for his hearing in regards to his absconding from parole in Tennessee.

Thomas David Deegan had a plan to take over the country, he was going to start by taking over the West Virginia legislature and be an inspiration for other “sovereign citizens” to do the same. So he plotted with the West Virginia State Police to get his plan going, according to WCHSTV;

The complaint said Deegan made multiple statements trying to solicit assistance in removing multiple state officials from their offices in Charleston. Deegan stated those officials would be charged with crimes such as treason, which he said in a later statement that the punishment for such a crime would be death, the complaint said.

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Detailed directions were given by Deegan, saying that any resistance from law enforcement or military personnel should be met with gunfire if necessary, the complaint said.

“We are at war,” police said Deegan said during a call. “The more bodies that come to Charleston, the less likely for bloodshed.”

Deegan said he didn’t want to have shots fired, but would fire if necessary and the more people, the more likely shots would be fired. Deegan was asked during the call if police would support them in which he replied, “if you see the police coming and pulling up in a vehicle, I suggest you shoot them.”

A quick Google through the search engines turn up several arrest records for Mr. Deegan over the last six years. So he’s pretty much a career criminal. I always thought that the sovereign citizens wanted nothing to do with the government and here this clown is trying to take control of the government. He should read their book.

He promised to reimburse his rebels for any expenses that they might incur as they prepared for their assault after they take the state treasury. You know, sovereign citizens don’t like paying taxes, apparently they don’t like paying for their own accommodations.

Some of his writings, like those found at Scanned Retina are as loony as anything written by the Dutch Rudder Club in court documents. He even has trouble with the shift key like them. I wonder why that’s so pervasive in the community of crackpots.

Bobo sends us this link from Popular Military which tells us of the court martial of former Army Sergeant Major Virgil Ebrecht who was the senior enlisted adviser to the commander of the 1st Space Battalion at Peterson Air Force Base. According to Popular Military, he was convicted for abusive sexual contact with a child.

PM says that even though he was originally sentenced to reduction to Specialist (E-4) and 30 months confinement, he pleaded out and only got six months of confinement. The Army Times confirms that his plea got his sentence reduced;

Fort Carson, Aug. 5:
Name: Sgt. Maj. Virgil L. Ebrecht
Conviction: By a military judge, pursuant to his plea, of one specification of abusive sexual contact of a child.
Sentence: Reduced to the grade of E-4, confined for 30 months. As part of an offer to plead guilty, a pretrial agreement limited confinement to six months.

AKO confirms that he was reduced to E-4, but he remains assigned to the Space Battalion. I’m not sure how personnel clerks handle assignments when folks are serving six months confinement, or where the Specialist is serving that sentence, but I’m sure that he won’t remain in the service after his sentence is served. The implication in the PM article is that Ebrecht is still on active duty, but, I can’t imagine that he would even want to serve among the soldiers he led a few short months ago, and now he’s a sex offender.

The Washington Times reports that Jon Ritzheimer, who says he’s a Marine and he organized the “Draw Muhammad” contest in Arizona earlier this year, says that him and other members of the Oathkeepers will arrest Senator Debbie Stabenow for her vote for the Iran agreement.

“We are planning on arresting Senator Debbie Stabenow, who voted yes to the Iran Nuke Deal. She will be arrested for treason under Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution,” Mr. Ritzheimer wrote, Roll Call reported.

“We have chosen her as our first target due to our strong ties with the Michigan State Militia and their lax gun laws that will allow us to operate in a manner necessary for an operation like this,” the letter continues.

Mr. Ritzheimer, a former Marine, wrote that after successfully detaining Mrs. Stabenow, he and his armed militia “will continue to move across the country and arrest everyone involved with the Iran Nuke Deal” including President Obama, Roll Call reported.

For a bunch of people who claim they defend the Constitution, they don’t know very much about it. Of course, Ritzheimer won’t be able to depend on his strong-arm thugs when he tries to arrest all of these people, because they’re in jail. The ones who aren’t posted on our Stolen Valor wall.

Capital Police say that they’re investigating this along with local authorities in Jon’s hometown in Michigan. Ritzheimer responds that he has already informed his local police about his intentions.

I guess it’s time to get a FOIA on Jonny, here.

Last week, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought what he said was a clock to school. It was a clock, but it inside a briefcase, and it was just parts from a commercially-available clock that the youngster dismantled and reassembled. The teacher thought that it looked a little bit like a timing device for a bomb, so she sent him to the principal’s office where the police took him into custody.

His father, an Islamic activist, says that he was arrested because he’s a Muslim, according to ABC News;

“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told the Morning News. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is reviewing the matter.

“This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving’s government entities are operating in the current climate,” said Alia Salem, executive director of the council’s North Texas chapter.

So, young Ahmed is headed to a root beer summit at the White House because we feel guilty that the fear of Islamic terrorism has us saying something when we see something. Yeah. I’m not apologizing. If I saw anyone with a device like that on the commuter train, I’d signal law enforcement, regardless of who was carrying it.

If a bunch of female soldiers can take a picture of themselves breastfeeding to “desensitize” us to the sight, it makes sense that terrorists would be licking their lips at thought of “desensitizing” us to the sight of youngsters carrying things that look like bombs.

Our buddy, Jim Hanson, recently, Uncle Jimbo of Blackfive fame, was on Glen Beck’s program yesterday talking about the incident;

The Associated Press reports about yesterday’s hearing in the Bergdahl Article 32 hearing to determine if he should be tried for leaving his post and his mates for a five year stint among the Haqqani Network. His lawyer says that the most the Army should charge him with is one day AWOL;

Bowe Bergdahl’s lead attorney says there is enough evidence to show that the Army sergeant’s case should be treated as a one-day stint of being away without leave, not a more serious violation.

Eugene Fidell’s remarks came Friday toward the end of a hearing to help determine if Bergdahl should face a court-martial for walking away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009.

Major General Dahl, the lead investigator, testified that Bergdahl told him that he had intended to report to some general 19 miles away about problems Bergdahl had noticed in his unit. Yeah, that’s the best excuse he could come up with after thinking about it for five years? General Dahl testified that Bergdahl was “completely off the mark” in regards to his unit’s leadership.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, Dahl also recommended that the panel exercise compassion for Bergdahl.

“I do not believe that there is a jail sentence at the end of this process,” Major General Dahl told the military court….

A nurse, Curtis Aberle, testified that Bergdahl suffered extensive injuries and that he’ll require a lifetime of treatment. And, of course, there’s PTSD, too. Well, then they should lock his ass up and he can get his treatment at the prison clinic, I hear it’s very good. And they’re more dependable than the VA, so the panel would be doing Bergdahl a favor by locking him away if they recommended a court martial. In fact, that’s more compassion than he deserves.