Category: Dumbass Bullshit

Bobo sends us a link to the New York Times which reports that this comedian who I’ve never heard of has for years credited his career success to his experience on 9-11-2001 in the South Tower;

In elaborate detail, Mr. Rannazzisi, 37, has described working at Merrill Lynch’s offices on the 54th floor of the south tower when the first plane struck the north tower.

“I was there and then the first tower got hit and we were like jostled all over the place,” he told an interviewer in 2009.

He fled to the street just minutes before another plane slammed into his building, he said, and decided that very day that life was too precious to waste opportunities. So he abandoned his New York desk job to pursue a career as an entertainer in Los Angeles.

Yeah, so he wasn’t there, he didn’t work for Merrill Lynch and they didn’t have offices in that building, anyway.

“For many years, more than anything,” he said, “I have wished that, with silence, I could somehow erase a story told by an immature young man. It only made me more ashamed. How could I tell my children to be honest when I hadn’t come clean about this?”

His interviews, though, several of which remain posted on the Internet, show that a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Rannazzisi was still relating a harrowing experience.

Yeah, so just like so many of our military phonies, he’s mostly just sorry that he was finally caught in his lies. And, no, I don’t recognize him or his name, but he seems to be someone to somebody.

According to Reuters, John Kerry has promised to make more room in this country for more Syrian refugees. The US has taken in 1500 refugees since the Syrian civil war began and 300 more are expected by next month. So, just like last year’s Ice Bucket Challenge, the Senate is falling for the peer pressure to try and be more charitable than the Europeans.

After attending the meeting with Kerry, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy pushed for lawmakers to pass an amendment to restore $416 million in refugee aid that had been cut from the fiscal year 2016 Senate foreign aid bill.

Republican Senator John McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, made an emotional Senate speech calling for the United States to do more.

“Our government is doing what it has sadly done too often in the past. We are ceding our strength and averting our eyes,” he said.

So, let me get this straight; the government makes bad policy in regards to Syria, the civil war goes on years more than it has to, it spawned ISIS, we went back to Iraq, and now we’re going to take more refugees that resulted from bad policy. So, the government makes bad decisions and the taxpayers pick up the check.

Kerry announced that the US will take in 5000 more Syrian refugees boosting our total number of refugees that we take in next year to 75,000, according to Associated Press. Apparently, that doesn’t include the number of migrants from the Mexican border that are also arriving next year.

I’ll bet that Assad had a price that we could have paid for him to leave Syria that would have saved us a lot more money than we are spending because he stayed. Now Russia has a lot to do with what is happening in Syria, but I don’t see them lining up to take in refugees. In fact, according to the

Christian Science Monitor, the Russians have increased their presence on Assad’s side in Syria. Last night, Reuters reported that the Russians deployed a number of naval infantry to fight alongside the Syrian government troops.

And, oh, yeah, according to Reuters, the Gulf States have deployed about 10,000 troops to Yemen. They won’t take any refugees, but they’ll send troops. I’m pretty sure that will result in even more refugees.

Yeah, we need to get out of that line. How many of those countries offered us support when our borders were over-flowing with immigrants? I really don’t care what the rest of the world thinks of us. I’m pretty sure that if those were immigrants fleeing Greece because of the financial conditions there, the Europeans wouldn’t care quite so much as they pretend to care now.

Of course, if those Senators above were to sacrifice an large portion of their pay and retirement packages to the refugee cause, that would help.

Yeah, if you’re allergic to irony, you might want to skip over this. It seems that Latin American countries, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, have offered to take on some Syrian refugees, according to AFP;

In a video message marking Brazil’s Independence Day, [President Dilma Rousseff] said she wanted to “reiterate the government’s willingness to welcome those who, driven from their homeland, want to come live, work and contribute to the prosperity and peace of Brazil.”

“Especially in these difficult times, these times of crisis, we have to welcome refugees with open arms,” she added.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered his foreign ministry to take steps to receive 20,000 Syrians in the country.

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, meanwhile, said her country also would be willing to accept refugees, without specifying a number or nationality.

Venezuela has the second-highest murder rate in the world, behind Honduras, so there’s room for refugees there, I suppose.

What’s ironic is that I don’t remember any of those countries volunteering to take some of the pressure off of the US when we recently were crushed by immigrants, you know, immigrants that speak the same language as some of those countries (yes, I know Brazil speaks Portuguese). They didn’t offer to help take Haitians off our hands in the 90s, or Cubans in the 80s or 90s. I guess these “these times of crisis” are conditional.

Yeah, I’ll admit that is just the New York Times playing gotcha with another Republican, but it’s still pretty stupid of Trump to open himself to criticism like this;

Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school.

Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

Actually, through much of the Vietnam War, Trump took advantage of deferments to avoid any real military service, because everyone during that era only served when they were forced to serve, if you listen to the stank-ass hippies. You know, even though 9 million Americans served during the Vietnam and only 1.7 million were actually draftees. Only about 600,000 of those ended up in Vietnam.

“My number was so incredible and it was a very high draft number. Anyway so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people,” he told Mr. D’Antonio.

The author seemed taken aback by this claim. Not many of the academy’s alumni “would compare military school with actual military service,” he wrote. “But the assertion was consistent with the self-image Trump often expressed.”

During an interview for the book, Mr. Trump removed a shoe to show the author the cause of his medical deferment. “Heel spurs,” he said. “On both feet.”

Yeah, well, those bone spurs didn’t seem to hinder his sports career; Trump was a member of the varsity football team in 1962, the varsity soccer team in 1963, and the varsity baseball team from 1962-1964. He was also the Cadet Captain-S4 (Cadet Battalion Logistics Officer) and lead his school in the Memorial Day parade down Fifth Avenue in 1964.

In other words, in typical Trump fashion, appearances are more important than substance. He could parade like a champ, but that “killing people and breaking things”, well, that’s for the working class.

Now, we’re going to be treated to more Trump as he refuses to apologize and doubles down on the dumb, in typical Trump fashion once again.

Poetrooper sends us link from the Navy Times about Commander Vincent Wood, XO of Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay, Georgia, who was caught in the act of pleasuring (we can only assume) the wife of a civilian.

Wood was with the married woman in the early morning hours of Aug. 23, according to a police report obtained by Navy Times. Her husband soon arrived; he referenced the protective order and taunts from both sides quickly turned physical. The fight left Wood in the hospital for at least 24 hours.

The fisticuffs left him with “a large contusion to his left eye, several knots on his head, an abrasion to the bridge of his nose, a small cut under his nose, and abrasions to both knees,” according to the report. A beer bottle also was thrown through the rear window of Wood’s car.

The XO was fired by his commander, Captain Gunter Braun, when he learned of the seaman-like conduct of his second-in-command. I’m beginning to believe that Flag Officers need more weekend safety briefings than the private soldiers. Maybe a little self-defense training, too.

Little Eddie Snowden, the fellow who convinced Glen Greewald that he was a Special Forces-trained soldier while selling him secret information as an NSA contractor, isn’t happy about the human rights situation in Putin’s Russia. You know, even though they took the little dweeb in to protect him from the evil United States justice system;

Pushed on Moscow’s deteriorating human rights record, the whistleblower said the situation is “disappointing, it’s frustrating” and described restrictions on the Internet as part of a wider problem in Russia.

“I’ve been quite critical of (it) in the past and I’ll continue to be in the future, because this drive that we see in the Russian government to control more and more the Internet, to control more and more what people are seeing, even parts of personal lives, deciding what is the appropriate or inappropriate way for people to express their love for one another…(is) fundamentally wrong,” he said.

He says that Russia was never “in his plan” to run from justice, that he’d planned to go to South America to hide, you know, instead of accepting responsibility for his actions. But the US cancelled his passport which left him few options for “asylum”. Well, tough. Get used to it, because when you return to the United States, you’ll be acclimated to the lack of freedom you’ll get here in jail.

Spike’s Tactical is selling a gun they’ve named the “Crusader” – it’s a scary-looking black rifle, an AR-series model. It was the idea of former Navy SEAL Ben “Mookie” Thomas. It differs from most ARs in that it has Knights Templar Long Cross on one side and the Psalm “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle” on the other side. Thomas says that their rifle probably will never be used by a Muslim terrorist. Of course, CAIR feels a need to weigh-in according to the Orlando Sentinel;

“Is it designed for Christian terrorists?” asked Hasan Shibly, executive director of CAIR-FL, who said out of 205 mass killings so far this year in the U.S. only one involved a Muslim. “We need to have a conversation on gun violence. There has been utter silence from gun manufacturers. It’s time for them to stop trying to make a buck on this.”

Yeah, it’s terrible that a business would find a way to stand out from the crowd and offer a product that is unique. I see Shibly reads Reddit, too, mistaking crimes for terrorism.

Thomas said that the idea came to him when he saw ISIS using US-made weapons in their own war against civilization and he wanted to make a rifle that no Islamic extremist would use. I think he found it. CAIR’s complaint should be taken up with the people who buy the rifle rather than the business that has found their niche in the market. This is still a capitalist country, for the time being, anyway, and the market drives profits. If no one wants to buy the rifle, Spike’s will stop making it.