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Category: General Whackos

  • Rag Blog; a memorial to the fallen of the Global War on Terror is a waste of money.

    There were many reasons that I stopped reading the Rag Blog, this is one of them.

    GWOT LOVE

    By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2010

    BURLINGTON, Vermont — I hear on the news this Veterans Day that our thankfully exiting governor — cynically known as Governor Scissorhands for all his ribbon cutting — will be dedicating a new memorial to our Vermont dead in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    The “Vermont Global War on Terror Memorial,” planned and funded by the families of “Vermont’s 36 Fallen Global War on Terror Heroes” to the tune of $350,000, is aimed at “marking both the sacrifice of those who served and the heartbreak of the loved ones left behind.”

    A memorial to oneself?

    Yea I mean spending money on something that honors those who have giving everything when you cannot even be bothered to give a damn. But here are a few things from people that do.

    America paused to honor its veterans Thursday. And Vermonters gave a special tribute to its fallen heroes with the unveiling of a new memorial.

    From all across Vermont they came, flooding the entrance to the Randolph Veteran’s Cemetery. They came to honor the 40 Vermonters who have given their lives in the global war on terror.

    Paula Chapin came for her husband. Master Sgt. Chris Chapin was killed in Iraq in 2005.

    “It’s quite beautiful,” Paula Chapin said. “It’s a little overwhelming.”

    Gregory Murano came for his friend and fellow Wilmington Police Officer. Lt. Mark Dooley was also killed in Iraq in 2005.

    “It’s important that we take time to remember all those who have stood up for our country and fought for our country and for what we represent,” Murano said.

    But of course the fringe see it otherwise.

    It is hard to know where to begin reacting to all this. I cringe at the language — bathetic, maudlin, soupy, cloying, schmaltzy, large-P Patriotic — but the sentiments inscribed in this language are more problematical still.

    A guy stopped by at our peace vigil last night and said, “My nephew got back from Iraq and blew his brains out. He couldn’t deal with the stuff he had done — killing civilians and all that.”

    Great huh? I mean it going for broke on those stereotypes. I mean trying to label all Vets as crazy war criminals that are just a trigger pull from committing suicide. Not to mention trying desecrate the dedication of a memorial to the fallen on Veterans Day. Oh and the fact that the person saying this is namless, and impossible to track. Kinda like the story at McDonald’ that a mystery “Danny” that the Rag Blog was trying to push.

    If there was any doubt about this I leave you with this last quote.

    In any case, the language of the Vermont Global War On Terror Memorial is tired, empty, and ever less to any point. It perpetuates a sentimental, obscuring cloud-of-unknowing over the realities we currently face and must radically change.

    ADDED Yea it seems that the guy what was voted off of the Rag Blog island for his behavior has this little gem to add.

    richard jehn said…

    That is a tired (and false) argument. Sadly, the right wing doesn’t care about facts.

    The US is a hegemonic, invasive nation. If all we ever did was defend our own soil, rather than act as the world’s cop, what you say might have some truth to it.

    ADDEDx2 Speaking of not caring about the facts by Dennis Cunningham

    They are not defending our freedoms (such as they are). they are engaged in a gigantic war crime and crime against humanity, “the paramount international crime” under the Nuremburg Laws, and all the people they kill are murder victims. our country has no business putting armies and fighting wars all over the Earth; and you know it’s only for the sake of those who get rich from the way it’s done.

    Eighteen veterans a day commit suicide, why do you think? they cant forget what they did and saw being done to innocent people;     they know it’s all wrong, and their lives were ruined by it; better to end them.

    Our country is sliding down a moral chute into a sewer of barbarism, destitution and repression. Public indifference to torture and war crimes, and indulgence of the burgeoning police state, prepares the way. If you cant yet ‘throw your body on the gears, at least get off the fence…

  • Another Westboro protest thwarted

    The Westboro fags tried to protest in Lake Ridge, VA this morning, but they ran headlong into more than 200 counter-protesters (Inside NoVa.com link);

    The Westboro group — known for its anti-gay sentiments and picketing military funerals –planned to head over to the Coast Guard recruiting station by Potomac Mills Mall for another protest this morning. A counter-protest was planned there, too, spearheaded by the brother of a soldier killed in Iraq.

    That protest didn’t materialize, but many anti-Westboro picketers rallied along Smoketown Road near Prince William Parkway.

    Five protesters showed up for the protest at 7 AM, but I guess they figured they were out numbered and stayed away from the recruiting station. I wonder how they think it could worth it anymore. I guess they’re just waiting for that big legal pay-out they’ll get when someone loses control.

  • That time again.

    The semi-annual gathering of protesters of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation closing off one of the main gates for a weekend. The SOA watch host these protests on regular dates. Also it seems that they get upset when people react to the protests that cause the gates to be closed. The God Bless Fort Benning Day is used as a counter protest to these guys showing up. It is interesting and not surprising to know that many of the SOA protesters try to get free food at the God Bless Fort Benning day event. My wife had to explain to a few of them that trying to close of both gates would be bad considering that many people live on base and need to get out to buy items not found on post.

    Over the seven years we’ve been doing the Friday nonviolence trainings, we’ve had to take into consideration a number of situations. The police have set up fences, increasingly restricting access to adjacent property. One year Fort Benning blasted “patriotic” music at us, attempting to drown out the speeches and music from our stage. “God Bless Fort Benning Day” has become a counter-event which has also grown over the past years. Fort Benning has also become a major base for soldiers going to and returning from Iraq, raising local people’s opposition to the presence of demonstrators.

    Or how about the punishments that they complain about when they try to enter the base they hey have done in the past.

    Trainings also take place to prepare people for roles such as Peacekeepers and Legal Observers. For those who engage in civil disobedience, sentences have been from 3 to 6 months. Therefore a strong support system has been created for those considering that risk ,to help them through the discernment process and during and after their time as prisoners.

    But of the mention about the concern about violence from the usual suspects.

    The 2nd Annual God Bless Fort Benning Rally got underway at the old fairgrounds Sunday, across from the Port Columbus National Civil War Naval Museum. The event features food and entertainment and is designed to counter the message of the SOA Watch protest at Fort Benning.

    Mayor Bob Poydacheff spoke to News Leader 9’s Jo Giles at the event and said he was pleased with the effort and the turn-out. He also indicated that event organizers did the right thing by relocating their rally away from the massive protest.

    Fears of violence or confrontations with “fringe groups” forced that relocation. Organizer Miriam Tidwell told News Leader 9 in a live interview that she didn’t want to risk any confrontation with the protestors that might result in injury to any of the people or children attending her event.

    There have been increased fears of possible violence surrounding the SOA protest this year, not because of the regular crowd of thousands of SOA Watch marchers but because of additional “fringe groups” attending this year’s event.

    But really the only people that really win are the people that rent parking spaces and sell food near the Victory Drive area.

  • But we are suppose to be the horrible ones.

    So meanwhile while our image is being dragged through the mud by the people like Bobby Whittenberg while these are issues like this one going on in Mexico.

    Soldiers are hunting a 12-year-old suspected drug gang hitman accused of helping wage a gruesome turf war in central Mexico, a state prosecutor and Mexican media said on Friday.

    Yea, so in regards to us being accused of using our youth to comment horrible acts in war and that is the “obvious” reason that the world hates it. But in the mean time we have a 12 year old kid killing people for hire.

    The boy, known only as “El Ponchis,” is believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel in Morelos state just outside Mexico City and is one of a group of youths who have already committed “terrible acts,” Morelos State Prosecutor Pedro Luis Benitez told local radio.

    “These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game,” Benitez said.

    Benitez did not name the boy or give more details but when asked directly about the teenage hitmen he said: “They’re persuaded to carry out terrible acts; they don’t realize what they are doing,” he added.

    Oh and never mind about doing wonders for the area.

    More than 31,000 people have been killed since Calderon launched his cartel crackdown four years ago, alarming many Mexicans and some foreign investors who are freezing investment in the country just as it is recovering from recession.

    So I imagine that good old Bobby and friends will be on this to giving full coverage, right?

    Also here is a link that is in Spanish if anyone can read it.

  • Duff: Gordie Say Relax

    In his latest thought-vacant piece at Veterans Today, Gordon Duff reassures us that “Yemen; Al Qaeda Presence Not Credible“. His proof?

    The people of Yemen simply don’t believe in Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and for good reason. When Abdullah al-Faqih, professor of political science at Sana University told the New York Times, “We cannot differentiate between what is propaganda and what is real…Some of what looks like Al Qaeda is really terror as a business.”

    With early news stories being continually contradicted, bombs that weren’t really bombs heading out on flights that never existed, carrying packages for companies that don’t service Yemen, all heading for Chicago synagogues, part of the wildest “persecution complex” of all time, the whole “Al Qaeda/Yemen” thing has been little more than a “borscht belt” comedy act.

    Obviously, this another false flag operation by Mossad…a furiously busy organization if you follow Duff enough. the bomber the Moscow subway, recruited Iran’s President, who then turned on them. They hide walrus-sized Adam Gahdan on Israeli beaches.

    And now we discover that al Qaeda isn’t even in Yemen. I’ll bet Anwar al-Awlaki would be surprised to learn that he’s all alone in Yemen calling for attacks with no soldiers. But since Duff tells us that the Yemeni people don’t believe that al Qaeda are there, it must be true.

    Of course, Duff also blames Obama for creative electioneering, sending bombs on planes that didn’t originate in Yemen. First of all, even Republicans haven’t posited a “wag the dog” scenario in regars to the bomb plot two weeks ago. And just because planes don’t originate in a certain country, that doesn’t mean they aren’t carrying cargo from there. Even a five year old could have told Duff that. But apparently, even five year old children aren’t talking to the nut anymore.

    As always, the really scary part of Duff’s posts are the comments. 152 on this story today. Most think Duff is some kind of genius. I guess anything is possible among the racist denizens at veterans Today.

  • Westboro fags defeated by locals in MO

    It was so simple, why didn’t someone think of it before? Residents of Weston Missouri confounded the Westboro fags from protesting at the funeral of Sgt. First Class C.J. Sadell by getting to the soldier’s funeral early and taking all of the parking places, forcing the fags to park from the service.

    Citing their First Amendment right to protest, Phelps’ followers say they use funerals as an “available public platform” to “deliver the message that there is a consequence for sin.” Phelps is openly opposed to homosexuality and all government policies they he says supports homosexuals.

    “We got everybody here early so we could take up all the parking spots,” Rebecca Rooney of Weston, Mo., told Fox4kc.com. “We did that so Mr. Phelps wouldn’t have a contingency that was really close.”

    Thanks to Jerry920 for the link.

  • The Special Pre-election “Tuesdays with Claymore”

    I know it’s not Tuesday, damn it!

    First up, when you ride with Obama, you ride alone…unless you’re going to India then you take 40 airplanes, 100+ armored vehicles and an entourage of 300 people, but I digress:

    Size matters:

    Then everyone applauded; Halloween edition:

    Failure is not a strategy, DUmbass.

    Upstaged.

    “We have seen that a god can bleed.”

    Penn. crossovers:

    Looking for that silver lining…so it can be taxed, I guess.

    Pretty pictures.

    “Dewey Beats Truman”.

    Apparently Barry can’t get it across the plate.

    Just doing the jobs that Americans won’t do, I guess.


    “…don’t pull on Superman’s cape…don’t spit into the wind…”

    You gotta be Paul-ing my leg.

    “I think I still have Dick Morris’ old cell number somewhere…”

    Poll watching.

    “I hate all these personal attacks…it’s that fat druggie bastard Limbaugh’s fault.”

    Yeah, that’s nice…now go make me a sandwich, OK, sweetie?

    Pitcher…catcher…San Francisco…write your own joke, kids.

  • Duff: Some fat Jew called and he wants you to attack US

    TSO, whose obsession with Gordon Duff is beginning to worry me, sent this latest missive from Veterans Today. You remember Gordon Duff, right? He’s the guy who, one week, declared that Iran’s president Ahmadinejah is a Mossad agent and then the following week declared him a super-genius mouthpiece for the anti-war left.

    He also declared that Adam Perlman, the American Taliban, Adam Gadahn, is also a Mossad spy. His proof was this unmistakable picture of Gadahn on an Israeli beach;

    Well, this week’s fantasy from The Mind of Duff is that Perlman phones in a threat to the US from his bungalow on the Mediterranean coast;

    Does anyone wonder why Gadahn never calls for attacks on Israel? In fact, Al Qaeda doesn’t seem to know Israel exists. They never threaten Israel. They never attack Israel. They never even mention Israel, never. All those Osama bin Laden and Adam Perlman, sorry, “Adam Gadahn” tapes have one thing in common.

    Israel doesn’t exist. Get the picture?

    Now, everyone in the Near East has been calling for an attack on Israel and what effect has it had? Hardly anyone outside of Palestine has heeded those calls. Why does Duff think that Perlman would have a different effect? This right up there with Duff’s declaration the battle in Marjah, Afghanistan never happened because Duff had never heard of the city before the Marines assaulted there.

    The genius of Duff is the volume of crap you have to wade through to get to his point – and many times I miss it completely. This is one of those times – unless it’s simply that we’re all being fooled by the Jews once again – those crafty people who convinced the rest of the world to give them a narrow strip of barren wasteland which they transformed into Europe’s agricultural equivalent of California.

    But here’s one of the more curious bits from Duff; not only has bin Laden been dead since 2001, he also denies involvement in 9/11. It’s difficult to determine whether bin Laden died before or after his denial because Duff’s source is al Jazeera which didn’t bother to date it – or Duff figured the date conflicted with his other information and didn’t bother to add it.