Yeah, alcohol was involved.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
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Silencer trial ends in guilty verdicts
I got tons of emails while this trial was going on over the last several days. But, honestly, I couldn’t bring myself to understand the thing. Apparently, a couple of guys tried to sell some silencers that didn’t work to the government who didn’t order them. See? But, finally, Stars & Stripes reports that the trial ended in guilty verdicts for the fellows who couldn’t make silencers that work, and that I can understand;
Lee M. Hall, a civilian Navy intelligence official at the Pentagon, and Mark S. Landersman, the mechanic, were convicted of conspiring to build 349 untraceable silencers — without a firearms license — and shipping them across state lines for a sensitive mission that was never fully explained in court.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who delivered the verdicts after bench trials in Alexandria, Virginia, said she was unconvinced by defense attorneys’ assertions that the silencers were needed for a clandestine purpose and were necessarily obtained outside of normal channels.
“I do not accept the argument that because this might have been covert, that somehow that excuses the participants from playing by the rules,” she said.
Somehow, there was 1.6 million bucks involved that was somehow owed to these guys, but the government denies that they ordered the things…and oh, did I mention that the silencers weren’t silencing?
Defense attorneys said the price was reasonable because Mark Landersman had spent years working on the design. They also hinted that the silencers’ poor performance was exactly why the Navy ordered them — suggesting obliquely that they were destined to end up in the hands of foreign guerrillas who may or may not have been friends of the United States.
Sorting out the truth of the case has been made even more challenging because of the destruction of potential evidence.
Navy security officers testified that they incinerated documents last year that had been seized from the offices of Hall and David Landersman — three days after The Washington Post published a front-page article about the unfolding investigation. Defense attorneys also accused the Navy of destroying a secret stash of automatic weapons that the silencers were designed to fit.
See, that’s why I couldn’t bring myself to pay attention to the story. I mean, I could design and build twice that many silencers that don’t work for half of that price. I’ll even pretend to work on the design for years, if that’s all it takes. Anyway, someone is going to jail, but probably not enough people by the sounds of it.
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MSN: Common lies on résumés
Don sends us a link to MSN which talks about 3 common lies that people put on their résumés. They leave out military service, which I’ll correct for them here.
We’ve seen lots of people who falsely claim on their résumés that they were SEALs or Special Forces. For some reason they add that they’re recipients of medals and training that are also false, and usually have nothing to do with the job for which they are applying. A really good example is Larry Sims who we busted in 2012. When we brought his lies to the attention of his employer, that employer discovered that he also lied about his academic credentials. So Larry moved on and tried the same thing with another employer earlier this year. This time our initial post from 2 years ago sparked interest in his new HR department and they tossed his lying ass before we could have much impact. And then, this weekend, someone sent us this report of Larry’s activities since the second firing;
Yeah, he’s been arrested for unemployment fraud.
One of Don Shipley’s tipsters is a headhunter who sends him reams of résumés he encounters of people falsely claiming to be SEALs. When I went to HR for last job, I had to show them my DD214, but then, I’ve had HR people send me fake DD214s that made them suspicious to try and verify. So there are people who are vigilant for phonies, but most of them are veterans. With the government pushing for veteran hirings and the goodwill that the American people have for veterans these days, it’s only natural that sociopaths will try to cash in on that. But employers need to pay attention to the problem, so they don’t hire a Larry Sims.
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Doing my duty to warn you
I received this in snail mail yesterday, and I figured that I had better warn y’all;
So, who ya gonna call? TSO thinks it’s from the guy who bought his reflective belt. However, I think it was sent by a familiar tub of lard who we all know, and this is his clever way of communicating a threat. But, he’s too much of a yellow-striped coward to follow through.
Oh, by the way, it’s been turned over to the Post Office.
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On the Absurdity of Being Earnest
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, speaking about the situation in Dallas: there “are screening procedures in place at our border.”
Sure there are, Mr. Earnest – sure there are. And the CDC folks in Dallas are working desperately to track down and monitor about 100 close contacts of a man who recently came to the US from Liberia as part of some readiness exercise, right?
Sheesh. Compared to these guys, Baghdad Bob was as trustworthy as Lincoln.
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AWOL Afghans ask for asylum
Remember a week or so ago that three Afghan officers went AWOL from Joint Base Cape Cod in Massachusetts and ended up on the other end of New York State at the Rainbow Bridge to Canada? Well, now they’re asking for asylum because they’re afraid they’ll either be beheaded by the Taliban or punished by their own government for their indiscretion, according to Stars & Stripes;
Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar…would be thankful for asylum in the United States, in Canada or in any other safe country,” said Matthew Borowski, a Buffalo immigration attorney who has agreed to represent the three soldiers without pay. “They’ve told me they just want to go somewhere they won’t be killed.”
The men are convinced they will be sent to prison, tortured and killed by the Afghan government if they are sent back to Afghanistan, Borowski said.
If the ultra-violent extremist organization known as the Taliban gets its hands on the three men, their treatment could be just as bad, or even worse, the attorney said.
Yeah, well, they should have thought of that before they left the mall in Boston, I suppose, but those people aren’t known for their far-sightedness.
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Still Clueless, After All These Years
Time today has a short article concerning perhaps the most incompetent President this nation has ever had. Like it’s subject, the article is brief – and uninspiring.
But it does have this little “nugget of wisdom”:
Former President Jimmy Carter claimed Wednesday that he would have been re-elected and beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980 if had been more “manly” in his dealings with Iran.
The Clueless One goes on to claim that his “prayers were answered” when “every hostage came home safe and free”, and that he’d have been reelected if he’d started a war. He implies that he took the moral high ground instead, and suffered the consequences.
Looks to me like Jimmy the Clueless is still fond of slinging some kind of “nuggets”. But I wouldn’t exactly call what he’s slinging here “wisdom”.
Here’s a clue for ya, Jimmy-boi – “morality” doesn’t have a damn thing to do with why you allowed this nation to be humiliated by Khomeini’s Iran. Rather, you didn’t act more “manly” because you weren’t capable of being more more “manly”. You simply didn’t have it in you.
That’s why you weren’t more “manly” in dealing with Iran. Period. So don’t p!ss on our legs almost 34 years after the fact and tell us it’s raining.
Let me ‘splain something else to ya, Peanut-boi. This nation is still paying for your Administration’s clueless incompetence in the Middle East from 1977-1981. Even today that example of stunning, feckless foreign policy idiocy emboldens Islamist groups worldwide.
And I haven’t even mentioned your impotent, hand-wringing, supine response to Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan. (Yeah, that “Olympic Boycott” really hurt those nasty Soviets, didn’t it? They pulled right out of Afghanistan the day it was announced – right?) Without that invasion, there’s no need to support any mujahideen – period. Your policies in Iran doubtless tipped the scales for the Soviets on making that grab.
They knew you’d stand by and do nothing effective. You’d already proven that in Iran.
Finally: though it will never be proven, I am convinced that had you not stood by with your thumb firmly inserted as the Shah and Iran fell to radical Islam 9/11 would never have happened. A strong, friendly Iran would have been a much simpler and easier way to deliver US support to Afghan mujahideen than Pakistan. Without the need to use Pakistan as a conduit for that aid, al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban probably never happen. Hell, with a strong Iran friendly towards the US, the Soviet Afghan invasion IMO probably doesn’t happen at all.
Put that in your “peanut jar” and munch on it, Jimmy. And then, how about you just shut the hell up.
Author’s note: apologies to Paul Simon.
