This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: General Whackos

  • Duff and Ventura; Cheney blew up the Pentagon

    It was only a matter of time before Gordon Duff glommed on to prime time crack pot Jesse Ventura and his conspiacy theories. Here’s his 43 minute television program in which he comes out as a 9-11 truther, i watched about ten minutes of it – it was all that I could take of Ventura’s persona. He’s an entertainer, not an investigator;

    Notice that Ventura, in his opening statement, says “I was governor. I was a Navy SEAL….” Ventura wasn’t a SEAL, he was in a Underwater Demolition Team that became a SEAL team after he left the Navy. According to Wikipedia, Ventura served in Vietnam, but that he didn’t earn the Navy’s Combat Action Ribbon, so you really have to wonder why he would use that as one of his life experiences to give him credibility. But then, Duff’s Vietnam’s experience was much the same as Ventura’s.

    Ventura proves, beyond any doubt that no airplane every hit the Pentagon. As the video shows, not even a highly trained airline pilot was capable of the maneuvers claimed. Long before, it had been proven that the 757 was incapable of the task, either the maneuvers or the speed and trajectory. The plane would have come apart, there is no disagreement with this and hasn’t been for some time, yet nothing had been done. Why?

    Um, wouldn’t the Democrats expose the Republican administration if there was real evidence that Dick Cheney fired the missile which hit the Pentagon?

    The real crime here is that Ventura has that scraggly-ass ponytail on the back of his bald head. People still do that? I mean, I know it’s the uniform in VFP, but other people still do it?

    Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • Tears for Brad Manning

    Glen Greenwald writes in Salon that Bradley Manning isn’t very happy with the fruits of his treasonous release of sensitive documents to Wikileaks;

    For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

    Well, Manning’s discomfort is my pleasure. See, he released that information without a thought of lives and families he destroyed or the damage he’s done to our war effort. For something as simple as being spurned by his lover. And I’m supposed to feel sorry for him – the opposite true. I revel in his discomfort.

    He were released into the general population, given a roomie and mingled with the other inmates, he might get his little ass beat. I’m sure there are criminals locked in the Quantico facility who would want to make a name for themselves.

    No sheet or pillow? Poor guy. My only experience in confinement was when I was jailed for kidnapping in Panama (it’s a long story, suffice it to say that I didn’t do it), my bed was a newspaper on a concrete floor, my pillow was my arm and my sheet was another newspaper. I left my cell once a week for a shower, otherwise I was in the cell 24/7. I was released before my trial, because like I said, I didn’t do it. So I really can’t feel much sympathy for Manning.

    Thanks to BooRadley for the link. And for making my night.

  • Birther gets six months in prison

    I’m sure the birthers will call this some sort of victory, but not for Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin whose career ended in a Fort Meade courtroom today. According to Stars & Stripes, Lakin got a six month prison sentence and the end to his seventeen year Army career;

    “I don’t want [my career] to end this way,” a tearful Lakin said to military jurors during the sentencing phase of his trial Wednesday afternoon. “I want to continue to serve … It crushed me not to be on deployment. I can be on a plane tomorrow. I’d truly do that.”

    Yeah, well….

    “I would not do this again,” he said. “It was a confusing time for me, and I was very emotional. I thought I was choosing the right path, and I did not.”

    Lakin said he still believes questions exist about the president’s eligibility for office, but he told jurors that disobeying Army orders to prove that point was a poor way to show his frustration about what he said was a lack of investigation into the issue.

    And all of the birthers in the courtroom didn’t get a prison sentence – but they’re just as guilty. Opportunists who use members of the military to make their points should all be lined up against a wall and shot…from James Branum to Oily Titz. The brainless turds who don’t understand military service and promise protections they can’t deliver.

    Your military service is your own…don’t surrender your service, your work, your sweat, your blood to these charlatans. They weren’t with you through that first PT test, through you first gas chamber, your first 25-mile road march. They didn’t help you pass your first weapons qualification, they didn’t share in your joy at graduating basic training…why are you giving them all of that?

    Everything Lakin ever did that was good in the military disappeared in a few moments of video…17 years of faithful service flushed. And for what? Tell me for what.

  • School Board shooting on tape.

    Again I saw only a bit of this while in the Gym today, (one of the advantages of being behind so many times zones)

    It seems that a guy came into the School board armed with a handgun and randomly shooting it. The video is unreal to watch.

    The video shows 56-year-old Clay Duke, an ex-convict, walking into the meeting and scrawling the symbol from the film V for Vendetta on the school board wall before pulling out a 9-mm Smith & Wesson handgun. He then ordered all the women and non-board members out of the room.

    Board member Ginger Littleton returned and tried to disarm Duke by hitting him in the arm with her purse. Instead, Duke put her on the ground.

    But don’t worry the board members know who to thank for saving them.

    “It could have been a monumental tragedy,” Husfelt later said. “God was standing in front of me and I will go to my grave believing that.”

    Really? I thought it was the guys that placed the well placed shots that did it?

    “I don’t think anything was going through my mind, except for the fact that these guys were sitting ducks,” she said. “They were lined up like pigeons on a wire and I couldn’t leave them.”

    Duke’s wife said her husband was an excellent marksman and he probably missed the board members on purpose.

    Also the shooter had a past to boot.

    Duke had a troubled history. In 2000, he was convicted for waiting in the woods for his ex-wife with a rifle, wearing a mask and a bulletproof vest. She confronted him, then tried to leave in a vehicle, and Duke shot the tires.

    I wonder if this will change people’s thoughts about carrying concealed weapons?

  • So, is this guy a leftwing terrorist?

    Clay Duke left a suicide note on his Facebook account which blamed “the rich and powerful” for all of his problems. So I’m guessing he’s a Leftwing terrorist nut.

  • Moore volunteers bail money for Assange

    Michael Moore dipped into his budget earmarked as cheeseburger change to offer $20,000 (of the $31,000) for bail for Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder. Although reading the statement, anyone with a bit of common sense can tell that it’s nothing but an advertising campaign for Moore’s documentaries and books this Christmas season;

    STATEMENT OF MICHAEL MOORE

    Aged: Over 18

    Occupation: FILM MAKER AND AUTHOR

    ____________________________________________________________________________

    This statement (consisting of 2 pages each signed by me) is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

    I, MICHAEL MOORE, care of Finers Stephens Innocent, 179 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5LS make this statement and say as follows:

    1. I am a filmmaker, author and political commentator and I produce as my exhibit [MM/1] evidence of my identity in the form of a photocopy of my passport/driving licence. I am an American citizen.

    2. I am aware of the various allegations Julian Assange faces in Sweden. I am willing to act as security for Julian in the sum of twenty thousand dollars USD$20,000.

    3. I am the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, four of the top nine highest-grossing documentaries of all time. In September 2008, I released my first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting my personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. These experiences underpinned my conviction that it is the duty of a free press to probe, and hold government and the powerful to account – and that citizens must be properly informed and have access to information in order to exercise their democratic rights.

    4. Governments have always been discomfited by a probing press. With the hollowing out of newsrooms, in large part as a consequence of the new digital world, old media have largely abandoned the territory of investigative journalism.

    5. I support Julian, whom I see as a pioneer of free speech, transparent government and the digital revolution in journalism. His commitment to exposing the follies of government and business offers the greater society a chance to protect itself from these follies. Some aren’t just follies. Some are crimes. What do we do with someone who informs the authorities — and in this case it is the free people in a democracy who are the “authorities” — that a crime has been committed? Do we arrest HIM? Do we try to shut his mouth? Do we hound him, threaten him, track him down and hunt him as if HE is the criminal? He bravely informed the citizenry of what was being done in their name and with their tax monies. That is no crime. That is an act of patriotism. He should be thanked and honored, not abused and jailed. It dishonours this court to be used in this way, holding this man without bail. Julian has made the world, and my country in particular, a safer place. His actions with WikiLeaks have put on notice those who would take us to war based on lies that any future attempts to do so will be met by the fierce bright light provided by WikiLeaks and intended to expose those who commit their war crimes. His actions will make them think twice next time — and for that we all owe him a debt of gratitude.

    6. I believe that Julian takes pride in his reputation and as any journalist would understands that if he were to abscond he would ruin his reputation in the media and journalism industries.

    7. I regret that I am out of the country and therefore I am unable to attend court and explain in person that I expect Julian to observe his bail conditions. I am offering to stand and provide security for him abiding by his bail conditions to the value of USD$20,000.

    8. I understand that by acting as security for Julian I risk forfeiture of the aforementioned sum to the crown if he breaches his bail conditions by absconding or by not attending Court as and when required.

    9. The money which I will pay to the Court, to be held as security, is my own. As I am abroad I am unable to produce any statement as evidence of these funds. However I have already transferred the sum of USD$20,000 into the client account of FSI.

    10. I have not been indemnified against the loss of this money in the event of Julian breaching his bail conditions, and understand that if I were to be so indemnified it would amount to a separate criminal offence for which I could be imprisoned.

    11. I have been advised by Julian’s solicitors that it would be prudent to obtain independent legal advice in relation to my liabilities as security.

    12. I have no previous convictions.

    Yeah, he’s a real trooper. Not much chance that Assange won’t show up in court since he’d be the most wanted and most recognizable criminal on the planet. I wonder how much Moore has given to the troops (besides polluting day rooms around the world with free copies of his DVDs). Of course, there’s no chance he’d get any of that money back like he will paying bail amounts.

  • UK students clash with police

    While Parliament voted to triple university tuition in the United Kingdom today, students bumped heads with the police in protest according to the Telegraph;

    Nine police officers have been seriously injured in the violence and a number of protesters have attempted to storm the Treasury building.

    MPs voted 323 votes to 302, a majority of 21 in favour of the motion despite vocal opposition from some Liberal Democrats and a handful of Tory MPs.

    Well, if the students hadn’t placed such an irrational importance on a university education, the price wouldn’t rise as much as it has. Getting yourself arrested for attacking the police doesn’t do much to raise your value in the job market either.

    Some sage advice from Judge Smails;

  • Westboro fags’ bright idea

    Squidthoughts sends along a tip that the Westboro “Baptist” Church fags had a brilliant idea to raise money. They’ve decided to protest at Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral. I guess that’s the only route left for them since many Americans are using force and the threat of force to deter them from attending many funerals.

    I don’t think much of Edwards’ husband, but i can’t help but think of the venom their children will forced to suffer at the hands of these bottom-feeding, inbred halfwits.

    Their press release is complete insanity and I’ve put it below the jump;
    (more…)