I just wanted to say “Happy 65th Birthday” to our friend Daniel Bernath. Of course, since he’s 65 years old today, that means that when he joined the Navy in 1966, he was 17 years old and not 16 years old like he told the Library of Congress history project.
The picture above is how he wants people to see him, according to his little website project, so like the press does with Bradley Manning, I’m only conceding to his wishes.
We at This Ain’t Hell wish many more birthdays to Mr. Bernath.
The Stars & Stripes reports that Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, who walked off from his duties as an interpreter in Iraq and surfaced later with some of his Lebanese family, then once again walked off when his behavior was being investigated, was charged the other day with desertion;
The 34-year-old has deserted twice, officials say — the first time in Fallujah and again in 2005 when he was scheduled to appear in court on desertion charges. Hassoun turned himself in to authorities this summer and was transferred to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to face court-martial.
A week after Hassoun disappeared from Fallujah, he appeared in a hostage video. A group identifying itself as Islamic Response claimed to be holding him and threatened to behead him unless detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were released.
A month later Hassoun was found in Lebanon.
I suppose a firing squad is too much to ask for, but I’m guessing that soon he’ll announce that he wants to be known as Fatima and he’ll be suing the Pentagon for a sex change.
Even Eisenhower knew how to deal with deserters;
Pinto Nag sends us a link from MSN which reports that Red Cross Aid workers were attacked while they were collecting for burial Ebola victims;
One Red Cross worker is recovering after being wounded in in the neck in Tuesday’s attack in Forecariah, according to Benoit Carpentier, a spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Family members of the dead initially set upon the six volunteers and vandalized their cars, said Mariam Barry, a resident. Eventually a crowd gathered and headed to the regional health office, where they threw rocks at the building.
The good news is that my son, who is in the Air Force and in the medical field hasn’t been told he’s going to Africa. The bad news is that someone else’s son or daughter will go wading into that mess. It looks like they don’t want any help over there. It will be difficult to jam it down their throats.
Here’s a video of an “escaped” Ebola patient wabdering through the local market and getting “captured” by a health team;
I’m not even going to show you the traffic charts on how often Wickre, his attorney and confederates look at our website. It’s literally startling that Jonn and I haven’t been called in for some financial accounting for living rent free in what passes for their heads. It reminds me of a scene from Private Parts:
Anyway, today I wanted to discuss part 34,456 in our ongoing series of love letters that Psul sends us, as well as discuss his wealth accumulation tactic.
Your litle [little] band of unemployed [,] broke [,] military hasbeens [has-beens] operate in a circle jerk praticing [practicing] small suyad [unknown, perhaps squad] tactics by attackibg [attacking] stragers [strangers].
A strong start! Right up front we have antagonists in “unemployed, broke, military has-beens” and some action attacking strangers. Of course, the fact that he keeps trying to have me fired ruins the whole “unemployed” thing. And his lawyer is constantly lamenting violations of the “Posse Comitatus Act” [incorrectly I need not add] so the “has-been” part isn’t accurate. But my favorite part is us “attackibg stragers”. You’ll recall of course, that Palmer Psul the Viking came here to our blog, accused us of being worse than Nazis and then threatened to kill us. Also, there’s the fact we hadn’t written to him or about him in months, but he was sending emails, trying to leave comments, and visiting upwards of 100 times a month. Stragers indeed!
You are all sociopaths and broke [,] not worht [worth] suing [some transition needed, perhaps “with”] networths [net worth] with less than $50k in the house and $30 in your 401k.
….says the man constantly threatening legal action. Who seven years ago declared bankruptcy, see below for more. Also, stop peaking in my windows to get a view of my naked 401k.
We cant [can’t] even hunt you as trophy materials. None of you live on the coasts you live in the cheap inlands as they is what you can afford.
A hunting metaphor? Are you sure that’s such a good idea with your criminal past? Who is this “we” that is your potential hunting partner? And just what the hell is a “cheap inland”?
no [No] wonder you are angry all the time, wiht [with] what life gave you I would assult [assault] strangers to, as therapy [.]
Young punk Horses Ass’s [horses’ asses] [.]
Who’s angry? I’m a happy little bunny dancing in a field of lettuce. Alas, a dancing bunny is also twice as literate as Palmer Psul Wickre.
But, maybe he’s right. Maybe in the deep recess of my mind I’m just jealous. I mean, let’s look at his bio:
Palmer “Paul” Wickre, CEO & acting VP of sales has a storied past in startups, turnarounds, launches and public IPO’s. A graduate of Catholic University with a BSEE, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a MS Law in Federal Contracting is his pedigree. Paul launched his career with IBM whereby he led the team that created the entire back office for MCI Communications, entitling the deregulation of US Carriers a $36B business at the time, He went on to US Sprint, and was the founder of the FTS 2000 effort, leading to competition in the Federal deregulated Telecommunication market, removing the AT&T Monopoly. During his tenure, US Sprint went from $17 to over $60, He has worked with a dozen startups consulting, on the way to IPO, successfully.
And this from his Linked In which supplies us with some dates:
VP DHS Sales & Business Development, NCS Corp, January 2007 – December 2009 (3 years) Reston, VA
VP Federal Business Development, FirsTech, January 2003 – December 2006 (4 years) Washington DC
VP Sales and Marketing, Frame Relay Systems and Technology, Inc. , January 1997 – January 2003 (6 years 1 month) Washington DC
VP Sales & Marketing, HyperCom Network Systems, December 1992 – January 1997 (4 years 2 months) Phoenix, AZ
Director Federal Sales, Avanti, Inc., January 1987 – December 1992 (6 years) Bethesda, MD
Director Federal Systems Marketing, Sprint, January 1981 – January 1987 (6 years 1 month) Reston, VA
Telecommunications Industry Consultant, IBM, January 1979 – January 1981 (2 years 1 month) Washington, DC
Holy shit! He must have been so fabulously wealthy by 2007 that he retired to Antigua, and we didn’t know it!
Oh no, that’s right, he filed for bankruptcy in October of 2007. (Note that his LinkedIn says he was employed by NCS Corp at the same time he was filing for Bankruptcy claiming no income.)
But how did a supreme genius of marketing and business end up bankrupt? May have something to do with his budgeting skills:
$500 for electricity and heating? $825 for food? The dude didn’t have a job, couldn’t he spend the time knitting a sweater and maybe preparing his own food, or hunting it down?
And who did he borrow this money from that he can’t ever pay back? Well, you know, banks, many banks, oh, and family members:
Raise your hand if you’ve defaulted on $50,000 of personal loans from your family? No one? Come on. Huh. Well, maybe because you’re all living in the cheap inlands.
Well, he’ll always have his Jags. And his $35 wedding ring, his $1 ties and his $5 suits.
I often think about how men are from Mars, and the stolen valor morons are from Uranus; and more so about what defines each group. Obviously honor is at the top of that list for us. I saw this quote of Teddy Roosevelt today that seemed to sum up our thoughts succinctly:
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
And our antagonists are best viewed in this video:
As most of you know, Daniel A. Bernath filed a restraining order against me a few months ago. Of course, the judge tossed the order out, but Mr. Bernath contested the decision on the grounds that he was denied his right to face me in the courtroom because I attended the hearing by telephone. Well, while I have the right, as the defendant, to face my accuser, there is no right for the plaintiff to face the defendant.
That small point of law doesn’t hinder the lawyer who can’t join the Bar Association in his own state. He filed this motion with the court accusing me of lying about my medical condition and accusing my lawyer of perjuring himself and protecting me. Bernath posted the motion on line.
It’s odd that he accuses me of perjury while committing that offense himself. Bernath drags up old pictures of me from six and seven years ago to prove that I’m lying about my health. He makes up lies about my behavior in the White House and we see these lies repeated by phonies. Here’s the easy-to-read embedded version of his motion to reopen the restraining order hearing;
20140516 Bernath Opp Motion for Telephonic Hrg
Well, since that link of his is fully searchable, I have no recourse but to post the defense that I wrote for that particular motion. The numbers refer to the paragraph numbers in the document above;
Line-by line refutation of the opposition to the motion;
1. During my trip to Washington, I required constant assistance from the five friends who accompanied me, including Mark Seavey who will be available to testify at the hearing, also by telephone. We did go out the night of the 12th and my wheelchair was in the trunk of the cab and my friends wheeled me up to the table. I had coffee.
2. My “appearance” on the Lars Larson Show was by telephone. I made it clear to the staff of the show that I wouldn’t discuss Mr. Bernath or this impending legal action and they complied.
3.I can attach the determination of the Veterans’ Administration that I am 100% disabled, if I need to do that.
4. I have no idea who is Judge Creighton (except that she was in the news today [back in May when I wrote this letter] for domestic problems with her boyfriend). I have never appeared in front of her and to the best of my knowledge; she has never ordered me to do anything in her official capacity.I never drove by Ms. Wickre/Williams’ house, nor have I ever talked directly to her on the phone or talked to anyone in the office where she works. Since I have never been near her house, I also didn’t take any guns to her house. The restraining order from that hearing expired in April and I complied completely with it, despite the fact that her husband tormented me and my family in an attempt to get me to violate that order.
5 To 54 As I wrote previously, I have never appeared in front of Judge Creighton who, by the way is a “her” not a “him”.55 – 64. I have only recently been prescribed blood thinners (on May 5th) aside from bruising easily, because of the obvious nature of the drugs, if I’m accidentally cut, it would be very difficult to stop the bleeding.
65-68. I have no “Medical Team”, per se, I’m assuming that Mr Bernath is referring to the care that I get from my wife. She helps me to walk and stand, pushes my wheelchair, helps me to dress and bathe, and she prepares my meals. She’s also a certified nurse’s aide. I was supposed to be in DC for three days, but I cut the trip short by a day and left after the Medal of Honor ceremony.
69-86. As I stated previously, I had five friends who helped me with most of those chores while I was in DC. I have never been accused of perjury by a judge, in Montgomery County or otherwise. I’d like to see the evidence of that.
87-91. As I previously stated, the interview with the Lars Larson Show was by telephone. I’ve done radio shows across the country in that manner. Technology is an amazing thing.
92-103. I’m not sure what the point of this is, unless Mr Bernath considers himself a troll. By the way, that line from my blog was edited by Mr. Bernath, because Mark Seavey was never going to be a party to the show, so he added in Seavey’s name for some reason that escapes me at this point.
104-105. The audience of the Larson show were clicking over and asking for the story of when we busted Mr Bernath for lying about his accomplishments in the military, so I put the link in the post.
106-157. Nothing in those comments was written by me, so I don’t why he includes them in this document.
159-163. I have never encouraged anyone to harm or scare Mr. Bernath, or any other phony that we’ve busted. I challenge Mr. Bernath to find a direct threat to him or to anyone else from me.
164-168. Again, I don’t know Judge Creighton, and neither does Mr Bernath, because Judge Creighton is a “her” not a “him”. As I said, I only learned that fact today when her personal affairs surfaced as a news item.
169-176. That particular picture is from 2008 before I was afflicted with ALS. Yes, it was in Washington, DC and yes, six years ago I could ride a bicycle. In fact, in 2009, I was riding 18 miles each day and it’s one I thing that I seriously miss.
178-185. I’ve admitted that I went to an Arlington pub, seated in my wheelchair, drinking coffee, my five friends assisting me. Inside the White House at the ceremony, my friend, Matt Burden, wheeled me through the checkpoints and parked me in the audience. I took pictures, but there was no jumping up and running around, I couldn’t even stand when the President came in the room, like everyone else. But I do have telephoto lenses for my camera that might make it appear as though I was close to the action. But I did it all seated. I have five witnesses to that fact.
185-194. Yes, I drove two hours to DC and back. I’d also have to drive those same two hours to get to an airport to begin my journey to Oregon if I went there, since the closest airports to Fort Ashby are in DC.
195-196. I went to Kentucky in 2012 and to Indiana in 2010. ALS is a progressive disease and affected me less then than it does now. I was diagnosed with ALS in December 2012.
198-214. I would be happy to provide the court with documentation from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as well as from my doctor to assuage any concerns about my medical condition.
I’ve already provided Mr. Boutin with a picture of the selfie I took with Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler and clearly, I was in my wheelchair as we took the picture.
I’ve already said that I was at the White House on May 13th, that picture was taken with four of the friends who helped me around the city that week.
Yes, I own a cell phone and a camera, I don’t know what his point might be.
As I explained, I have a telephoto lens that lets me get close to the action.
Notice, I’m sitting in a wheelchair at the White House gates.
In the pub photo, notice the coffee cup in front of me and I’m sitting in my wheelchair.
His reason for including the President’s remarks escapes me, because he wasn’t talking to me and there was no alcohol served, aside from some wine.
I didn’t take that picture of Sergeant Kyle, the president and the president’s aide. In the other pictures he included in this group that I did take, Bernath provides the copyright information, but he doesn’t in this case because I didn’t take the picture.
Bernath identifies me as one of the photographers holding a cell phone, that isn’t me. So I don’t know what he’s trying to do. Well, I do know what he’s trying to do, but clearly that isn’t me in the picture.
Yeah, I copyright my photos because people steal them. My blog is my business and a sole proprietorship for which I pay small business taxes. So yes, I was working as a journalist for myself. If it took me 9 hours to drive the 150 miles from my home to DC, I must’ve taken the long route.
Yes, I went to Gettysburg and took pictures last year. They had handicap services to drive me around. The parade that Mr Bernath claims was in 2014, was actually a Memorial Day parade in 2012 in DC and a young lady went to DC and took the pictures for me. She also wrote the post on the blog at https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=30163
The parade in Richmond was in 2012 and as I said, ALS is a progressive disease.
My trip to Kentucky was also in 2012 for that ceremony. I could walk unassisted at that time.
Yes, I went to my friends’ wedding in Indianapolis nearly four years ago.
Yes, I was at the rally on September 12th, 2009 and on my bicycle. ALS is a progressive disease and I wasn’t finally diagnosed until December 2012. I think the picture that is of me and labeled “At Walter Reed” was in 2008 or thereabouts. That particular Walter Reed hospital on Georgia Avenue in DC closed in 2011.
The picture of me shaking hands with the Target employee was on October 23, 2009 when we all went to our local Target stores and thanked the HQs for donating to the troops of COP Keating. My wife took the picture.
The picture of me with the Wolf for Congress sign was a joke and was actually taken in September 2010 in the garage of a friend in Winchester, Virginia.
The picture labeled “Jonn Lilyea and I (Mark Seavey)” is actually me and Jim Hanson (from the blog Blackfive) and it was the summer of 2009.
The picture of me with the lady with the Iraq Veterans Against the War T-shirt was taken in 2008 in one of the Congressional office buildings where I reported on their testimony to Congress.
The picture of me and Mark Seavey holding drinks was at one of the last Milblog conferences in 2010. I was still walking fine then.
The picture of me with the lovely Michelle Malkin was taken at an anti-war rally in September 2007. I lived in downtown DC at the time.
From that transcript – the judge was Judge McHugh and the judge stated clearly that Mr Wickre was “crazy as June bug”. He also said in the “he said, she said” discussion that he didn’t believe me, but I didn’t have the benefit of crying in the court room and I didn’t lie about the exchange like Ms. Williams did. However, I did abide by the peace order, despite the fact that Mr Wickre called and harassed my daughter for months afterward.
Since Bernath has joined forces with Wickre and Wittgenfeld, you can see their influences in the .pdf file. It looks like Frank Visconi might join up with them since he sent me the link as proof that I’m a POS. As I’ve said before, I have never been convicted of a crime, not even a parking ticket. My only experiences in court have been with these boneheads.
The only perjury I’ve witnessed was Ms. Williams/Wickre when she told the judge that she heard me threaten to kill her family with a pickaxe and then shoot them all. Anyone who knows me, also knows that I’m incapable of making empty threats – you’ve all heard me on the phone when I’ve been confronted by criminals.
I have no reason to lie in court since I have right on my side.
This is depressing. But it’s worth reading nonetheless.
Apparently the proposed US military deployment to West Africa to assist with the current Ebola outbreak is not exactly very well thought-out. It’s apparently gotten about the same amount of thought and planning to date as you’d devote to planing taking a shower.
Operation Massive Cluster, indeed. Unfortunately.
We’re all very aware of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. But you really have to wonder about the intellect – or sanity – of some of those involved.
Recently, the government of Australia pledged a substantial contribution – $2.5M each to both the WHO and the NGO group Medicines Sans Frontiers, or MSF – to be used to defray costs associated with containing the outbreak. It also pledged a contribution of $2M to the UK government to help with their efforts in Sierra Leone. This brings Australia’s contribution to the effort to contain the Ebola outbreak to $8M.
MSF turned the money down. Why? On the grounds that Australia was “shirking it’s responsibility” to help contain the epidemic (or words to that effect) by not sending people.
What a load of horsesh!t.
Now, I think MSF is a fine charity. They’re doing great things, worldwide, in helping to reduce suffering. But here, they’re just freaking out to lunch.
They’re a charity. Charities help people when they can’t help themselves. They don’t make policy.
What follows is a message for the head of MSF:
“Listen up, f**kwit. No – don’t try to say a damn thing. Just sit down, STFU, and listen up.
You obviously don’t ‘get it’.
The government of Australia is helping the best way they feel that they can. They have advised their own citizens that they have no capability to evacuate them from western Africa should things go bad. They’ve determined that they don’t have the capability to provide help in kind – or that doing so is not in their national interest.
Your organization has no claim on Australia’s resources. And the government of Australia doesn’t have any ‘responsibility’ to anyone but Australians. They obviously don’t think it’s in their best interests to send large numbers of people to west Africa right now. That’s their call – not yours.
Get a grip, and remember who – and what – you are. Quit acting like a combination prima donna and spoiled brat who got a different toy from the exact one they wanted.
Take the Australian money, tell them thanks, and buy some sh!t your organization needs. Or use it to hire some folks to do things you can’t do now. But damn – quit being stupid. And concentrate on doing your freaking job instead of trying to tell others how to do theirs.
That is all. Now, get yer ass out of here and get back to doing something useful. You’re actually pretty good at that when you put your mind to it.”
Sheesh. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face . . . .
Army ammunition specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Eric Alexander Rodriguez, was arrested when border agents found two illegal aliens stashed away on the floor boards of Rodriguez’ truck, covered with a military jacket with Rodriguez’ name tags.
Rodriguez is accused of hiding two undocumented immigrants in his pickup truck on Thursday as he crossed into the United States at the Sarita, Texas, checkpoint, about 180 miles south of San Antonio.
[…]
Rodriguez was wearing his military uniform during the incident, the complaint said.
Prosecutors said one of the immigrants told authorities he paid $3,000 to be smuggled into the United States and Rodriguez was the driver who picked them up and transported them farther north.
Rodriguez is looking at a possible sentence of 10 years. Heck of a way to start your military career, isn’t it?