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Category: Dumbass Bullshit

  • More Stupidity from Chrissy-Poo

    Chrissy-Poo strikes again!  This time, he’s playing the race card:

    “I think they hate Obama. They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy Al Qaeda. Their No. 1 enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred, hatred for Obama. And we can go into that about the white working class in the South and looking at these numbers we’re getting the last couple days about racial hatred in many cases … this isn’t about being a better president, they want to get rid of this president,’ he (Matthews)  said.”

    Yep.  According to Matthews, people who don’t support Obama are against him because they’re racists.

    But Matthews doesn’t stop there.  According to Chrissy-Poo, people who don’t support Obama hate him so badly that they’d rather see Obama lose the election than see al Qaeda destroyed.

    That opposition can’t possibly be because they think the current POTUS is incompetent, inept, and unable to lead.  Or the fact that they disagree with his policies, finding those polices misguided, counterproductive, and destructive.

    No, anyone who doesn’t support Obama must be a racist.  There’s no other reason not to support Obama.  No less an authority than Chris “Tingly-Leg” Matthews says so!

    Teh stoopid is strong in Chris.  But we already knew that.  This is just more proof.

  • Yon unleashed

    Apparently, Michael Yon has been able to get CJ Grisham’s military records. Unfortunately, since Grisham is still on active duty, the records are incomplete and somehow, because Yon knows nothing about military records due to his own abbreviated service, he’s using this as some sort of stolen valor charge against CJ.

    We all know for a fact that CJ has deployed, but the records end in about 2004, which would give most people a clue, well, unless they are completely clueless, of course. That pretty much describes the only people left on Yon’s website. But, Yon doesn’t even put the records on line to show people what he’s talking about;

    Stolen Valor?

    I have here in front of my eyes CJ Grisham’s military records. He says he got a Bronze Star with V — this is not reflected on his records. What I see in these records is a boring, slow career. Others do more in two years.

    Seriously? Here’s CJ’s awards up until 2004;

    Here are Yon’s awards after almost five years of service;

    Yon's awards

    I guess that hand grenade bar puts him over the top. The problem with Yon and his doofus minions, the ones he has left, is that they’re all ignorant about the military and records. Of course, Yon is keeping them ignorant by not bothering to mention that the records he has in his hands are incomplete. Even his idiots would recognize that fact, if he was forthcoming.

    Yeah, I have CJ’s records because he sent them to us this morning, so this is me doing what Yon won’t for your edification;

    Make up your own minds.

  • Guess Who Didn’t Pay Attention in Junior High Civics

    It looks like everyone’s favorite MSNBC liberal, Chris “Tingly-Leg” Matthews, is pissed.  It seems as if he doesn’t think the current POTUS is getting proper respect.

    And maybe he’s right.  After all, the Constitution does say that you can’t challenge the President – right?

    Matthews:  “I don’t think he understands the Constitution of the United States…He’s the President of the United States. You don’t say, ‘you’ll get your chance . . . .’”

    Um, no.  That’s not what the Constitution says at all.  I’m thinking you’re the one who doesn’t understand the Constitution.

    He’s the US President, Chrissy-Poo.  He’s not royalty ruling by Divine Right or some absolute dictator whose whose words are beyond question or challenge.

    The Constitution gives the POTUS no special pass on following the law, or on being challenged.  If someone thinks  he is wrong, the POTUS can indeed be challenged – publicly, and directly.

    Further:  other than selected members of the military, no one is legally obligated to treat the  POTUS with any more or less respect than they treat any other person.  Only commissioned officers of the US military are bound by law (the UCMJ) to treat selected Federal and State officials with a degree of respect in their public statements and actions.  That’s it.

    So long as they don’t otherwise violate the law, everyone else can say what they wish about the POTUS – or to him, if they have the opportunity.  They’re not legally bound to give the POTUS any more respect than anyone else they know.  If they want to publicly challenge the POTUS – or call him a liar to his face – that’s perfectly legal.

    It’s called “Freedom of Speech”, Chrissy-Poo.    Perhaps you’ve heard of it?

    You can get remedial civics education from any number of sources, Matthews.  You might want to check into it.

  • Homeland Security reviewing ROE for border agents

    Apparently, some “human rights advocates” are upset that when rioting civilians attack border agents by throwing rocks at them, they are met with a hail of bullets in return. So the Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the “disproportional response”. This won’t end well (LA Times at Stars & Stripes);

    Under the agency’s guidelines, agents are permitted to use lethal force in such situations because rocks and other projectiles have caused serious injuries. Most agents involved in fatal incidents in recent years have been cleared of wrongdoing.

    “CBP law enforcement personnel are trained to use deadly force in circumstances that pose a threat to their lives, the lives of their fellow law enforcement partners and innocent third parties,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a recent statement.

    Human rights advocates and civil rights groups hailed the inspector general’s move as a way to counter what they call a growing culture of impunity. It is believed to be the first time that the agency has come under such scrutiny in recent years. The inquiry was not announced publicly, but was included in the inspector general’s annual performance plan, which was released Oct. 4.

    So, what exactly do they expect? If border agents threw rocks back at them, they’d complain about that, too. Maybe they should just arm themselves with Nerf bats and those guns that launch little Nerf rockets. That would be a great deterrent.

    The folks who throw rocks need to learn that if they don’t want to be shot, they shouldn’t throw rocks at armed folks. I mean, that’s what I take away from it. In fact, I’ve done a lot of stupid shit in my life but throwing rocks at guys with guns isn’t one of the things I tried.

    Since September, three people have been killed in confrontations involving Border Patrol officers, including a mother of five from the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista and a 16-year-old suspected rock thrower from Nogales.

    During the boy’s funeral this week, mourners carried his coffin along the border fence and shouted epithets at border officials who bolstered security along the fence dividing Arizona from Sonora.

    Yeah, that helps to get your point across. Idiots.

  • Alemar update

    Thanks to 2-17 CAV for the link to the latest craptastic BS in regards to Billy Alemar who we discussed here, here and here back in August. If you remember, Alemar was stopped by Officers Fife and Pyle in Martinsburg, WV when they caught him in a “terroristic act” of training for Ranger School while wearing ballistic armor and an Airsoft rifle. Well, it seems that the prosecutor has backed off the “terroristic act” thingie according to The Journal;

    William Everett Alemar, 23, of South Raleigh Street, Martinsburg, pleaded no contest to one count of public intoxication and one count of misdemeanor willful disturbance of a school.

    As part of the agreement, Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely agreed to dismiss felony charges of committing a terrorist act and wearing body armor in the commission of a felony.

    Alemar was fined $10 and sentenced to seven days in jail with credit for time already served on the charge of willful disturbance of a school as part of the binding plea agreement. He was fined $5 on the charge of willful disturbance of a school.

    Here’s where they say was running “near” the intersection of Bulldog Boulevard and South Raleigh. Bulldog runs through the school campus;

    Sounds to me like the prosecutor still owes him two days since Alemar spent nine days in jail and got sentenced to seven days of ‘time served’.

    [Games-Neely] said the police response to the incident and the charges that were originally filed were appropriate given the circumstances. At the time of his arrest, authorities didn’t know Alemar was a member of the military. Further investigation confirmed Alemar to be a member of the Virginia National Guard’s Company B, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and that he was previously deployed to Iraq in 2011.

    “They were absolutely right in taking him down the way they did. I’m grateful … that they were there very quickly and they did exactly what they were supposed to do. Mr. Alemar was within a gnat’s eyelash of them shooting him. It was that close, because it was that frightening to them and they are military people in addition to being officers,” Games-Neely said.

    She also said that the she was appreciative that the victims in the case immediately contacted authorities after they saw Alemar.

    Horseshit. As soon as the police determined that it wasn’t a real weapon, they should have backed-the-f**k-up. And what “victims”, FFS? Martinsburg should get prosecutor Games-Neely and officers Pyle and Fife some training in how to act like humans. Dipshit hicks. I’m sure Alemar pleaded guilty because he knew these halfwits were going to try to save face and that was the best he was going to get out of them.

  • I’d Guess This Could Get Pretty Ugly

    We all know that the rules for military personnel, government civilians, and contractors vary – with contractors having perhaps the most leeway regarding personal conduct.  But it appears that things may have gotten just a little bit out of hand at one of our security contractors in Afghanistan.

    Full-blown batshit crazy of out of hand, to be precise.

    One of the US security contractors in Afghanistan – Jorge Scientific – is alleged to have really paid attention to employee morale.  As in drunken parties, open drug use, sophomoric stupidity, and other absolutely unprofessional and asinine behavior. There are also insinuations of either lack of supervision (or turning a blind eye) and/or similar bad behavior on the part of some in uniform having the responsibility to supervise this contractor’s work or while visiting the contractor’s facilities.

    It got so bad that two former employees quit in disgust, went home from Afghanistan early – and filed a lawsuit.  And it turns out they took a little cellphone video supporting their claims before they left.

    Oh, and did I mention that one of those captured on that video has admitted repeatedly using illicit drugs, corroborating at least part of the two former employees’ story?

    The contract under which this “wonderful” behavior occurred appears to have been W911QX-1O-C-0096, let on 4 October 2010.  The value of the contract appears to be a bit over $47M.  Unfortunately, if the contract is structured in the typical base-plus-option-years form they’ve likely just started an option year – and are thus probably on-board for the next 12 months, like it or not.

    ABC News now has the video, and reputedly was planning to air the story on “World News Tonight” and “Nightline” yesterday.  I didn’t watch either program, so I don’t know if they did or not.

    Looks like somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.

  • For What It’s Worth . . .

    We apparently have yet another record-high number of US residents getting food stamps – somewhere around 47 million.

    Remember – free groceries are a SNAP.  For more and more people every day, it looks like.

    And it also looks like it’s worth close to $80 billion a year for the foreseeable future, too.   That’s what it’s gonna cost the US taxpayer.

  • Solyndra Redux

    According to Bloomberg.com, battery-manufacturer A123 Systems, Inc., has filed for bankruptcy.

    Under one of its “green” initiatives to encourage the use of electric vehicles, the US government gave A123 Systems a grant of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars – $249.1 million, to be precise – in 2009 to build a US factory.  (Thankfully, A123 systems appears to have “only” managed to burn through about $129M of the grant before going belly-up; the rest is apparently still in the US Treasury.)  They also got $125M in Michigan state tax credits to build the factory.

    The factory opened in 2010, in Michigan.  But the firm couldn’t seem to make a suitable product.  Costs of recalling batteries it supplied to electric-car maker Fiskar seem to have nailed the company’s finances badly enough to force bankruptcy.

    I don’t exactly think this is what Steve Miller was thinking about in 1976 when he wrote “Take the Money and Run.”  But maybe it’s apropos as a theme song for the current administration’s “green” policies.