Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The Associated Press reports that Doug Hughes, the fellow who flew a gyrocopter onto Capitol grounds last week is frustrated because his antics overshadowed his message. Wearing an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, he’s complaining to the media;

Doug Hughes had hoped to raise awareness about the influence of big money in politics by deliberately breaking the law to deliver 535 letters, one for each member of Congress. Instead, the overwhelming focus of news coverage has been about the gaps he exposed in national security.

“We’ve got bigger problems in this country than worrying about whether the security around DC is ironclad,” Hughes told The Associated Press. “We need to be worried about the piles of money that are going into Congress.”

Well, he wanted to bring attention to himself, and he did exactly that – his little show for the cameras had nothing to do with the message that he claims he brought to Congress, so, really what does he expect? Mr. Hughes should just be happy that he didn’t catch a Red-Eye anti-aircraft missile in his lap, do his time in prison and shut up. By the way, Mr. Hughes, the courts say that political donations are speech, so what would you do? Rewrite the Constitution?

His little flight into DC had nothing to do with his message and everything to do with some personal stupid need for attention.

This story has been on Facebook for a few days, but I never paid any attention to it until I read this by our friend Denise Williams. It seems that a former Mormon Sunday School teacher, Rachel Lehnardt, decided to include herself in a raucous party in her home hosted by her 16-year-old daughter, during which she endorsed a game of naked Twister, after which she boinked one of the youngsters. Eventually, she passed out and then awoke when her daughter’s boyfriend bumped her ugly. And whose fault is it – not her’s, you can bet on that;

Growing up in the Mormon Church, Lehnardt never touched a drop of alcohol before her husband of 15 years came back from a deployment to Iraq [w]ith Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and anger issues in 2010, the source said.

I guess she caught the PTSD from her husband. No one thought to ask if he had “anger issues” from being married to an absolute lunatic.

So she was busted when she told the story to a woman at Alcoholics Anonymous, that woman claims that Lehnardt had photographs of her misbehavior, you know, because she was so remorseful.

We talked about mega-dependa Bobbi Ann Finley last week. According to Fox12 in Oregon, she and her 15th husband were picked up their stolen car in Alabama Tuesday, but authorities there released the pair;

The couple were said to be living out of their vehicle, along with a dog, when they were stopped.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office seized the stolen vehicle and released the Houses, stating they were unable to determine any local charges.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is still seeking help from state and federal agencies due to jurisdictional issues surrounding the case.

I guess living in a stolen car isn’t illegal in Alabama. If they just take your stolen vehicle from you, you’re cool. And, I’m pretty sure that the pair has written a couple of bad checks while they were in Alabama, it just takes a while to discover that crime. They’re wanted for uttering more than $13,000 worth of bad checks in Oregon.

From March 11 through March 30 this year, deputies said House and her new husband wrote thousands of dollars in checks with insufficient funds at locations including Cabela’s, Safeway and Bi-Mart in Oregon, Colorado and Oklahoma.

So, good job, Alabama.

Andy11M sends us a link to the Huffington Post which tells of John Arthur Benedict who blames a “senior moment” for pulling over a pair of real police detectives with his Crown Vic which was equipped with strobe and flashing lights, in Lee County, Florida;

The officers drove a white, unmarked SUV that Benedict later claimed he saw speeding. Police said that the fake cop drove a Crown Victoria with strobe lights and a “police interceptor” emblem on it. From afar the cruiser looked legit, so the driver of the undercover vehicle pulled over.

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Benedict later described the incident as a “senior moment,” and said he’d never done anything like that before. However, the man’s son admitted his dad had impersonated a cop before, turning on the strobe lights to direct traffic at accident scenes in Lee and Harris counties, according to the police report.

A neighbor told WBBH that Benedict’s car had him fooled.

“I definitely thought it was real and he might be a cop,” Jack Deraps told the station.

I wonder if Benedict is also a member of MESNA [sic].

Marine_7002 sends a link to the Detroit Free Press which reports on the discussion between handwringers and bedwetters in Michigan over a memorial that includes a *gasp* “machinegun”;

Council President Jerry Aubry says he’s not opposed to the fallen soldier monument itself, but rather the prominence of the proposed location.

“I don’t think it needs to be a center point of our Central Park,” Aubry said. “The boots, the machine gun, the helmet; I understand it should be there somewhere, but I don’t think it should be right in the middle of the park.”

“Being a veteran I want to see a monument there, yes,” said Councilman Tom Nader. “I just don’t think this is the proper one.”

For decades, the upturned rifle has been used to mark where soldiers have fallen on the battlefield so they can be located by graves registration folks. The current use with boots, helmet and dog tags is common at impromptu memorial ceremonies on the battlefield.

That is not an M16 or even a machine gun, by the way. It is an M4 – it is a gas-operated, magazine-fed, selective fire, shoulder-fired rifle with a telescoping stock and 14.5 inch long barrel.

Fox News reports that this Joshua Van Haften fellow was arrested Wednesday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago when he arrived back in the US from a failed trip to join ISIS. Apparently, Mr. Dimbulb couldn’t get across the border to Syria from Turkey. The coyotes who were supposed to be helping him took his money and left him along the side of the road and told him someone would be along to help him the rest of the way – but no one showed up.

The complaint says Van Haften’s former roommate told FBI officers that he made comments referring to jihad. When asked to explain what he meant, the complaint says, Van Haften folded a $100 bill to make it look like the twin towers of the World Trade Center that were destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack. The complaint says Van Haften folded another $100 bill to look like a missile.

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U.S. Attorney John Vaudreil called Van Haften a flight risk. He also said Van Haften’s mental health will likely come into question during the trial.

“In any case like this the first thing we think is, `What was this person thinking?”‘ Vaudreil said.

But he said Van Haften does not appear incompetent or mentally ill. Vaudreil said Van Haften acted alone and FBI agents are not currently seeking accomplices.

Well, let me be one of the first to welcome Mr. Van Haften home, and by “home” I mean the prison system, because the fellow has a long and persistent relationship with the justice system. The FBI could have done us a favor and helped him get to ISIS.