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Category: General Whackos

  • Dimbulb; since Aguilera flubbed the national anthem, we should stop

    ROS sent us a link to the most ridiculous tripe ever written. Kevin Blackistone writes that since Christina Aguilera tripped over the lyrics of the National Anthem at the Superbowl last weekend, we ought to end the singing of the anthemat sporting events. And, oh, no one knows the lyrics anyway;

    It was, no doubt, Christina Aguilera’s fault that she flubbed the National Anthem’s lyrics at the Super Bowl on Sunday. But if our lawmakers don’t sing it every day to begin the country’s business, spectators of a mere sporting event shouldn’t be forced to sit through it, either, especially during the time we are living through right now.

    There are, after all, a lot of people out there who argue that they don’t want politics to have anything to do with sports. They accuse coaches, athletes and media of disrespecting service men and women in battle by using war metaphors to describe how touchdowns are scored, come-from-behind victories are achieved and adversity is fought through to win a game.

    Yet, those same people don’t see a contradiction at rising to their feet at every sporting event to mouth (a 2004 Harris Interactive poll showed most U.S. citizens don’t know the National Anthem’s lyrics)…

    That makes complete sense. Some drug addled bint forgets the words so we should all stop singing the national anthem so no more drug-addled bints are embarrassed by their incompetence. I mean that was the only thing she had to do all day, and she got to go to the Superbowl. And she blew it. Now she can’t even get a gig at a bar mitzva and it’s all our fault for bringing politics into sports…or something.

  • More idiot hippie crap

    StrikeFO sent us a link to an article in his school’s paper, University of Tampa’s “The Minaret” (Seriously?). The article written by Camilla Chabet is entitled “Military Service Preys On Fragile Minds Of The Youth“. Yes, it’s says what you think it says;

    Although military drafts were banned back in 1973, it is not hard to see instances where military service is heavily persuading and aiming for young people. The army openly stated that it was looking to attract and recruit more young people.

    The draft wasn’t “banned”, cupcake. In fact it may surprise you that the Selective Service System still exists, and all of those 18-year-old men around you at college are supposed to be registered for the draft. And of course the Army wants to recruit young people…cuz old people like me don’t make good soldiers. Dipshit.

    I was perturbed that the minimum education requirement for a person to be recruited into the U.S Army was a high school diploma, while the minimum age requirement was set at 18. Even this requirement has been over looked at times by allowing 17-year-olds to be deployed.At the age of 18, and even with a high school diploma, a person is too young to be recruited into military service.

    Yeah, most of the people in the United States only achieve a twelfth grade education. If teachers would get off their fat asses and actually teach, that’s all of the education we generally need. I went through most of my adult with just a high school education and when I did graduate from college, all I needed was the diploma because I learned more in high school.

    They are young and still fresh. They are yet to be exposed to the real world, or even college, which is a diluted form of the real world. It is during the 18-25 age bracket that a person develops and tests their beliefs, it is at this time that they explore who they are and what they are about.

    College has absolutely nothing to do with the real world. In college, you learn HOW to learn for yourself, your real education happens AFTER you leave college. In fact, college is so unlike the real world, folks in the real world giggles behind the recent grad’s back. The only thing you get from college is the sense that you know something.

    I’d hire a twenty-two year veteran with a high school education before I’d hire a twenty-two year old college graduate.

    t is in college that these beliefs are formed, fully developed and make up a person’s character and personality. People get to see a greater extent of what they hear about, they get to experiment with the process of making a decision by themselves and dealing with the implication of the decisions they make.

    You’ve obviously never seen a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead a fire team against an enemy. Or a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead physical training. What have you done in your pathetic little college student life? Planned a kegger?

    This is clear when observing the choices made by a freshman at college, compared to those of a junior or senior. As a person is exposed to more, they learn the difference between good and bad and right wrong; it is these that form the basis of what a person chooses to believe in and the path of life they choose to take later in life.

    Yeah, learning the difference between good and bad is different than doing the right thing. Hell, these days, most college students can’t even pick a major in their first two years. Because they don’t have to. Army recruits make their career choices before they even enter the service. They know what they want.

    The main problem with trying to recruit people who are young and mostly fresh out of high school is that they are not fully aware of what they are going to do. Some people’s main motivation for wanting to join the army is the allure of adventure and being exposed to guns and actually being able to use them. A young man is willing to lose his life for a cause that he may not even fully understand.

    Why? Because you were such an immature airhead that you didn’t understand at that age?

    Young people are quicker and more aggressive at defending their decision to join the army as opposed to veterans who will tell you the thick of what it really is, without all the puffed up promises of glory.

    You don’t know any veterans either do you?

    The only redeeming portion of the article is the comments.

  • PTSD treatment sure has changed

    Just A Grunt sent us a link to an article about the kind of people who are getting hired these days to treat our soldiers’ PTSD.

    A therapist treating an army sergeant for post-traumatic stress disorder allegedly stalked and sexually harassed the soldier — apparently sending him lewd text messages and threatening his family — in a case that culminated with a high-speed chase and the therapist in a psychiatric hospital, according to a military investigation.

    Prosecutors Tuesday charged Rachelle Santiago, 43, an independent social worker hired to counsel soldiers at Fort Riley in Kansas, with stalking the sergeant who she was counseling for PTSD and marital problems.

    The story ends with an hour-long, 100-mile-an-hour high speed chase and the apprehended therapist in a state mental institution promising to see the soldier once she got out. Her lawyer blames steroids she was taking for a nasal problem.

    Yeah, I know most therapists aren’t like this one, but this bat-shit crazy bitch should have been detected long before she started parking in front of the sergeant’s home and threatening his family.

    You need to read the whole story to get the full effect.

  • Duff: I wish we could be lucky like the Egyptians

    I tried no to check on Gordon Duff today, but I couldn’t resist. Apparently, the Egyptians who are rioting in the streets are more free than we Americans in the world of Duff;

    Egyptians, by the millions, have hit the streets to bring down 30 years of a government that wasn’t hated 30 years ago, not by so many. 30 years is a long time, trading stability and security for freedom, and getting neither. 30 years of Mubarak

    America is ten years into the same cycle, patriot acts, habeas corpus gone, a Department of Homeland Security, demonstrations only allowed in “free speech zones.”

    I so envy the people of Egypt and the pride they are feeling, no matter how this ends. They stood on their feet, something the people of America have failed at since the early 1970s. I don’t count the Tea Party, with its financing from billionaires and its love of war and the frightening ambivalence it has shown for the real constitution, real American rights, real American freedoms.

    Yeah, protests are cool as long you agree with Gordon. Then this most curious statement;

    Ever see a gun owner at an anti-war rally?

    As a matter of fact, yes I have. I was at a boatload of anti-war rallies. I saw Uncle Jimbo at an anti-war rally once.

    What a dick.

    Whenever there is flag waving and speeches, we know a truckload of manure is coming. Speaking for America’s veterans, which I actually do, I thank those of you who supported the politicians who have turned on those who gave so much to defend their country. You say you were too busy worrying about “Obamacare” to think about veterans and our military? They’re only starting with us, veterans are always an easy target. They have plans for the rest of you. Watch gas prices rise, health care standards plunge, watch criminals of every kind operate with “Madoff” impunity, just as they did during the Bush years.

    Thanks. We will remember you for this.

    Duff speaks for you?

    Ten years later, I know how the people of Egypt feel because I feel the same way, oppressed by a government that has made a sham out of elections, a government that cares nothing about people or laws, one that only serves the pack of criminals crawling the sewers of Washington DC.

    Funny how Duff can dislike government so much and get his reasons completely backwards. I think the Mossad has been pissing in his cornflakes again.

  • Protesting from a safe distance

    Someone sent me this video of a protest or something in Austin in support of the riots in Egypt;

    Hundreds show solidarity with Egypt: kxan.com

    A couple of things bother me about the video. One is that Karen Burke, an IVAW groupie, appears in the video. I wonder what her involvement is all about. Another thing that bothers me are these quotes from some interviewees;

    “I love my country so much and I wanted to stand by my country,” said 7-year-old daughter Laila Tousson.

    “I’m sending a message to my friends and family in Egypt saying you know we support you. Stay safe, be patient. It’s going to change. It takes a while but there’s a price to pay,” said Tarek Tousson.

    “My country”? Then what are you doing here, protected by our tax dollars and Constitution? “…there’s a price to pay”? But not a price you’re willing to pay yourself, but others “should be patient” and continue to sacrifice while you sit in Austin, soaking up the sun and eating Whattaburgers? Nice. Carry your Egyptian ass back over there and fight for “your country” instead of cluttering up our sidewalks with your lazy, ungrateful ass.

    I’ve noticed that the riots in the streets of Egypt have taken an anti-American tone, for no good reason, well, other than the fact that declaring your movement anti-American will get you more support from this administration than declaring your movement a pro-American movement. I guess that’s why you can find fat-ass IVAW groupies at pro-riot rallies.

  • Choi refuses to pay his bill for breaking his contract

    Dan Choi, perhaps the worst graduate of the US Military Academy in modern history, got a bill for $2500 because he left the military service before his contract ended according to DailyKos. Of course, this is another reason for Choi to play the victim. Despite the fact that he knew that “coming out” on that fellow Rachel Maddow’s show would violate his contract under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Choi did it anyway and refuses to pay his financial obligation for that act;

    Dear Mr. President:

    Today I received a $2,500 bill from your Defense Department Finance and Debt Services. Specifically, you claim payment for “the unearned portion” of my Army contract. Six months after my discharge under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy I have tried to move forward with my life, and I was inspired by your clarion calls for our progress as one nation towards a more just society. I have served my country in combat and I have tried to live my life by the values I learned at West Point in continued service to our nation. To move forward in my own life I have finally sought treatment for Combat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), Insomnia, and Depressive Disorder from the Veterans Affairs Department. But I still find myself on a domestic battlefield for basic dignity as an American citizen. I know I am not alone in this fight because of the desperate cries for help I get from discharged, unemployed, discriminated, and suicidal veterans. I have felt all of their same pains personally. Today I also witness the disgrace of a country that perpetually discovers methods to punish its own citizens for taking a moral stand.

    By flagrantly and repeatedly violating an immoral law, I have flagrantly and repeatedly saluted the honor of America’s promise. At West Point, when we recited the Cadet Prayer we reminded ourselves “always to choose the harder right over the easier wrong.” It would be easy to pay the $2500 bill and be swiftly done with this diseased chapter of my life, where I sinfully deceived and tolerated self-hatred under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Many thousands have wrestled with their responsibilities and expedient solutions when confronted with issues of this magnitude. I understand you also wrestle with issues of our equality. But I choose to cease wrestling, to cease the excuses, to cease the philosophical grandstanding and ethical gymnastics of political expediency in the face of moral duty. My obligations to take a stand, knowing all the continued consequences of my violations, are clear.

    I refuse to pay your claim.

    What a drama queen.

    Thanks to Daniel for the link.

  • More anti-zionist drivel at Vets Today

    Obviously, Gordon Duff isn’t the only completely whacked out squirrel turd at Veterans Today. A new contender for anti-Zionist moonbat raises his head today, Jeff Gates writes that the attack on the Russian airport this week was Israeli retaliation for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to that thing that everyone calls Palestine.

    Aware of the future that awaits them, Zionists are becoming desperate and even more dangerous. An escalation of violence is assured until the full force of international law is turned on those who have long flaunted the law in pursuit of their extremist agenda.

    Yes, because we’ve all seen the news footage of Jewish suicide bombers throughout the world. Gates calls it “out of theater repositioning”. I just call Vets Today “bad theater”.

    Meanwhile, not encumbered by mind-numbing bigotry, the Russians have released the following about the identity of the bombers;

    A Russian security official said the bomb that ripped through Moscow’s Domodedovo airport was carried by a woman who mingled in the crowd at arrivals. She then either set the bomb off herself or someone else detonated it using a remote-control device.

    An eyewitness said the woman had been dressed in black and had worn a veil, suggesting she may have been a ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber from the North Caucasus region out to revenge the killing of her husband by Russian security forces.

    Why that sounds just like Gates’ assessment – well…except that it’s completely different.

  • No link between Manning and Assange

    The Guardian reports that an NBC correspondent is reporting that sources in the Pentagon are admitting that there’s no provable link between Bradley Manning and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange;

    Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News’s chief Pentagon correspondent, reported sources inside the US military as saying they could detect no contact between Manning and Assange.

    According to NBC News:

    The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.

    If accurate, then US authorities have no realistic chance of successfully prosecuting or extraditing Assange for the leak of thousands of classified documents.

    Do they realize how absolutely stupid that sounds? Of course there’s no direct link between Manning and Assange…well, other than the classified documents that Manning passed on and Wikileaks published.

    Ya know, a year and a half ago, Army CID tracked down a leak of Nidal Hasan’s ORB, a single page of paper, transmitted across the internet, and now they can’t discover who it was that received hundreds of thousands of pages?