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Category: Geezer Alert!

  • A (Not Quite) Suicide Bomber Story – Updated With More Details

    You may have heard about the Israeli Embassy bombings of recent days?

    This may well be an attempt at doing the same…
    Iranian bombs himself

    Two  bombs went off on Sukhumvit 71 road, injuring five people, including an Iranian man, the reports said.

    According to a television news report, an Iranian man carrying a black bag hurled the first bomb at a taxi after the driver refused to accept him as a passenger. The cab driver was among the injured, reports said.

    When police arrived at the scene, the foreigner then threw a second bomb at them, but it hit a tree and bounced back towards him and exploded. He lost both of his legs in the blast, the report said.

    There’s not much more to the story yet.

    In any other context this would be a tragedy, and I sympathize with the others injured… but I sure would like to have seen the look on the Iranian’s face the second before the BOOM.

    Update: Israel to “settle the score” for Bangkok attack

    JERUSALEM – An Israeli Cabinet minister says his country will “settle the score” with the perpetrators of a bombing attempt in Bangkok.

    An Iranian man fleeing wounded from an explosion at a rented Bangkok house lobbed a grenade at police that rebounded and blew off one of his legs Tuesday in a series of blasts. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the explosion, which wounded four civilians, was an attempted terrorist attack backed by Iran.

  • The Navy Defines Hazing For Us?

    I have mixed feeling about this story. In fact, I was hesitant to post about it.
    Navy: 8 tossed from Bonhomme Richard for hazing

    SAN DIEGO — The Navy discharged eight sailors after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship that was captured on video and included the choking of a fellow sailor, a Navy spokesman said Saturday.

    The eight received general discharges following allegations they assaulted and choked the sailor aboard Bonhomme Richard as part of a rite to initiate the sailor into a new department, said Lt. Cmdr. David McKinney.

    McKinney said the assault, which took place Jan. 17 in the ship’s berthing area, was videotaped, and the victim treated for injuries.

    Boys will be boys,  and the Navy is just over-reacting in this modern PC climate would seem a valid appraisal at first glance.  Indeed Doc Bailey makes this point over at his place.

    However, there is one line in the Navy Times  story that seems to belie that take?

    The injuries were not serious, but the sailor sought treatment and reported the incident to his superiors, leading to the discharges, McKinney said.

    Once this “harmless horseplay” rises to that level the NAVY has to do something! Imagine if his superiors had said something like “Don’t be such a crybaby!” and dropped it? Do we really need the kind of headlines that would likely engender?

    In truth I still ain’t sure what “hazing” is nowadays, but the words “assault”, cover-up, and “climate of brutality”  wouldn’t look too good in the press. That is quite clear.

  • Rectum? Damned near killed him.

    This story has been “in the news” today and has nothing to do with TAH… except MOST of the folks who comment here might get a laugh out of it. I sure did.

    From The Courthouse News Service:

     HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (CN) – A college student claims he was injured when a fraternity member in a “drunken stupor” decided “that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus,” and did so, “but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant’s rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back,” and fall off the fraternity’s deck.

    Title and link stolen from Don Surber.

    Sorry Jonn…

  • Not His Fault? The Army Made Him Do it!

    That’s the excuse his defense team has been using.  Now we get to see how it stands up in Court.

    This is news to few here at TAH… but it IS new that it is finally moving out of the court of public opinion.

    Bradley Manning to Face All Charges in Court-Martial

    WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is headed for a general court-martial, according to the commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington in an announcement released late Friday.

    Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington, the general convening authority for the district, made the determination that Manning will face all 22 charges leveled against him, include aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy, theft of public property or records, transmitting defense information, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers.

    The most serious charge — aiding the enemy — carries a possible death penalty. Prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty. Instead, Manning faces life in prison if convicted of all the charges.

    There seems to be no/zero/nil doubt that he did what he’s accused of.  The peripheral  dog and pony show and other fancy dancing should be entertaining.

     

  • Movin’ On Up

    Some guy who comments here got noticed.

    Now this really sucks… If his blog gets enough hits I won’t be able to steal his ideas for my own posts!

    He’s going to WVU and drives a Mustang… damn hippie wannabe.

  • Fun Is Where You Find It

    According to two of my favorite people February 20 is the time and DC is the place to be?

    We, the founders of Veterans for Ron Paul 2012, Nathan Cox and Adam Kokesh, invite you to join us for a veterans and active duty march for Ron Paul on President’s Day, Monday, February 20th. We hope to send the message from now until “Super Tuesday,” March 6th, that RON PAUL IS THE CHOICE OF THE TROOPS! We have applied for a proper permit from the Parks Department and DC MPD.

    Nope, this is NOT one of my Sunday Silly posts.  It’s the Real Deal.

    I hope to be there.

    ETA (edited to add) Been told that this is old news here.  At my age I welcome reminders. [shrug] Doesn’t mean a heads-up don’t matter.

  • An Odd Confluence of Events

    NSOM sorta set the stage. without a direct reference to the date.

    Jonn, with his usual diligence has exposed several Vietnam related shitheads. I need not offer links… just scroll down.

    OWB reminds us geezers, in a comment,  of our duty with: Many of us declared some years ago that we would do whatever was necessary to see that THIS generation of warriors does NOT suffer what our generation of warriors endured.

    Travel back in time with me to January 31, 1968

    Wasn’t exactly my war, although I played a small role in those events.

    A thing happened many years ago that continues to echo in many lives.

    It both fascinates and troubles me some.

  • I Wish I’d Said It.

    Still a Sunday Silly:

    Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman

    The establishment is fighting back, alright.

    This has not received a lot of national attention, but the Republican legislature in Florida is about to push through a plan which puts Allen West at serious risk, and the person leading the effort is one of Mitt Romney’s spokemen.

    I got this via FB. Here is the Sunday Funny bit via a comment from OUR  own AW1Tim:

    I find this despicable on many levels. I will not vote for Romney or Paul, no matter the stakes because I believe that Romney is an Albino Obama, that he and Obama are two sides of the same coin.

    I think the term Albino Obama  needs an award, or something?