Category: Dumbass Bullshit

The above is an album cover or whatever they’re called these days by some Muslim dude called Brother Ali. But don’t worry, kneeling on a US flag while it’s on the ground isn’t meant to be disrespectful…even though it is;

While the album’s cover could stir up controversy — it depicts Ali kneeling in prayer on the American flag — Ali says he intends no disrespect.

“It was meant to be a literal depiction of the album title,” he says. “That the things that we believe about our country — freedom, justice, equality, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, all people being equal — that these things are on the ground, these things are suffering, and so I am kneeling and praying for it. The meaning behind kneeling in this reverent way and praying is only a problem if [people] have believed this lie that somehow being a Muslim and being an American are mutually exclusive.”

But, it’s perfectly alright to kill people who draw cartoons of Mohammed and kill people who have nothing to do with a poorly made video and kill people for burning a defaced Koran. But, defacing one of our symbols is just dandy, cuz he’s just making a point about something or other.

No, I’m not trying to start a riot (since I see a lot of traffic from DoD and DoJ here), I’m just saying…where are the Muslims who should be condemning this peckerwood for doing to our stuff what they won’t allow anyone to do to their stuff?

Thanks to CSE CSC for the link.

We’ve discussed this before, but it’s probably a good idea to bring it up from time-to-time. Mary at Fake Warriors sent us an email exchange someone sent to her over the purchase of a motorcycle and a car that was listed on Craigslist in which the seller purported to be a servicemember fixing to deploy to Afghanistan, but obviously there was no car or bike. Stars & Stripes did an article about the practice the other day;

[Cpl. S.A. Hatten of the West Virginia State Police] recently received a complaint from a Charleston teenager who purchased a Nissan Altima for $1,700 on Craiglist. He sent the money but never received the car.

Some scammers claim to be military personnel who are being deployed overseas in the near future and need to sell off some of their belongings.

Hatten said many of these scams involve cars, but she recently received a complaint from a pair of Charleston residents who wired $540 to someone claiming to be a soldier who said he was about to be deployed and needed to give away his two English bulldog puppies.

After receiving the money, the scammer wrote back to ask for another $300 to purchase a special crate to ship the dogs.

The animals never showed up, and the money vanished without a trace.

My mother was almost scammed by someone called her claiming to be my son who said he was being held in an Ecuadoran jail and needed money for bail. At the time, my Air Force son was in Beijing on a tour, so we put an end to that. But the police wouldn’t do anything about it because my mother hadn’t sent them any money.

I guess my point is that this stuff is more common than you might think. A couple times a week, I check AKO for folks who think they’re being scammed by impersonators, at that usually turns out to be true. So, be careful out there.

TSO and one of my ninjas sent us this article about the tragic shooting of a young soldier in Killeen, TX outside the gate at Fort Hood. It seems that Pfc. Patrick Edward Myers tried to cure Pfc. Isaac Lawrence Young’s bout of hiccups by scaring him with a gun pointed at his face. Then he pulled the trigger and shot Young in the face and killed him.

Pfc. Patrick Edward Myers, 27, was charged on Tuesday with manslaughter, and Justice of the Peace Garland Potvin set his bond at $1 million, police said.

Myers forgot that training he got with the Army which said you don’t point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot.

According to NBC Phildelphia idiots converged at Philadelphia International Airport this weekend when a flight attendant from West Chester, PA accidentally brought a loaded gun to work and was stopped at a TSA checkpoint. I’m actually amazed that TSA stopped an actual gun from going through because they’re so busy stopping cigarette lighters and mouthwash from getting to 33,000 feet.

But, anyway, having a gun in their possession, TSA called over a police officer.

A US Airways spokesman says that a police officer was called over to check out the gun and that’s when it accidentally discharged, the spokesperson told NBC10. The bullet went into a TSA break room where an employee was sitting but luckily no one was injured, police said.

Notice the gun discharged, no one pulled the trigger or anything, it just discharged, accidentally. The flight attendant, Jaclyn Luby, 27, apparently was licensed to carry the weapon, but obviously not in the secure area of the airport and now her license is subject to scrutiny by the county that used the thing. but, I think someone should be scrutinizing the ability of the police officer who witnessed the gun discharging itself. I mean, if the first thing he does when he gets his grubby paws on a weapon is pull the friggen trigger, he’s dumber than any private I’ve ever seen on the range.

And the reporter should be called in for a class on how a weapon can accidentally discharge. The officer accidentally discharged the weapon, nimnil.

Who writes a headline like this;

Tman and Country Singer sent us a link to a Stars & Stripes article reprinted from The News Tribune about how two fobbits were playing with what the S & S says was a ” light anti-tank weapon” when it was fired and struck one in the chest;

Army officials initially called Turner’s death a “training accident,” but now are bringing charges of manslaughter against Spc. Francisco Perez, who’s accused of firing a rocket at Turner inside their forward base at Combat Outpost Kherwar in Afghanistan’s Logar province.

Perez allegedly killed Turner, 21, on Jan. 11 with a light anti-tank weapon, a shoulder-fired rocket launcher designed for use against armored vehicles and other hardened targets. The weapon did not detonate, but was fired at close range and pierced Turner’s upper chest, according to Turner’s family and Army charging documents.

Perez’s assignment called on him to store weapons as soldiers returned to their base from missions. Witness reports in documents reviewed by Turner’s mother, Charlotte Cox-Turner, suggest Perez had been scolded more than once for “horseplay” with weapons in his charge.

I don’t know what corrective measures can be taken to prevent privates from firing rockets at each other in a storage facility. Some things are just inevitable, I suppose. I’ve seen them poke each other with atropine injectors playing stupid games. But, rockets, that’s a whole ‘nother thing.