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Category: General Whackos

  • Retired generals lobby for lifting of Cuba travel ban

    Our buddy, Val Prieto at Babalu Blog wrote to ask me about the background of the nine generals who wrote a letter to Congress to lift the travel ban to Cuba. Those generals included one colonel, but here are the signatories to the letter;

    …retired generals Paul Eaton, Robert Gard, John Castellaw, John Hutson, David Irvine, John Johns, Stephen Xenakis, and retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson…

    I didn’t recongnize any of the names so I did a cursory search of their bios and this is what i mailed to Val;

    As far as the generals go, I have no substantive information on any of them, however I suspect that they have a vested interest in lifting travel bans to Cuba.

    The first one mentioned, Paul Eaton, works for the “progressive” National Security Network which run articles about how the Democrats are real good on national security.

    The next one, Robert Gard, works for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where he has advocated for withdrawal from Iraq since the beginning.

    John Castellaw works for Pictsweet, the frozen vegetable company – I’d guess his motivations are related to agriculture.

    John Hutson is a dean at Franklin Pierce Law School. Despite being a Republican, he spoke at the 2008 DNC and announced he was switching parties.

    David Irvine lobbied for the anti-torture bill and writes for leftist Talking Point Memo.

    John H. Johns retired in 1978 that’s all I know about him.

    Stephen Xenakis works for Physcians for Human Rights and opposes “psycological torture” whatever that is.

    Lawrence Wilkerson has been a critic of the Iraq War from the opening shot.

    I guess that’s why the list is so short – they’re all liberals (and call themselves “progressives”). The lifting of the Travel Ban is hypocritical – the only thing it will accomplish is lining the pockets of the Castro brothers with hard tourist dollars and it’ll do nothing for the Cuban people.

    But it gives US Democrats a chance to act like they’re compassionate – but really they’re doing nothing constructive. Not new to them or their supporters who are just looking for a political win.

  • FBI protests

    Yesterday, I wrote about the warrants that were served to “social justice activists” in Chicago last Friday morning. Last Thursday I wrote about FARC’s #2 commander, Jorge Briceno, who was killed in Colombia by Federal forces there. Sixteen laptop computers and over 60 disks were seized after the air strike on Briceno’s encampment last Wednesday.

    According to news reports, those “social activists” are being questioned on their contacts with the Communist guerrillas in Colombia as well as their contacts in the Palestinian movements. The raids on these “activists” has sparked a nationwide series of protests. Even Victor Agosto, the convicted criminal and avowed Communist member of the IVAW, is helping to organize a protest against the FBI in Miami.I wonder how many of the 13 “activists” who have promised to come will actually show. And I’m sure the FBI is shaking in their wingtips.

    Tuesday, Code Pink and ANSWER showed up outside the FBI headquarters to protest. Notice their manufactured signs – so you know the protest is a grassroots reaction, right? The protest is also being held on the Constitution Avenue side of the FBI building – there are no entrances used on that side of the building, but there’s more foot and motor traffic. So no one inside the building actually saw the protesters (except the FBI cops watching them on video) so we know who Code Pink and ANSWER wanted to talk to – tourists with money.

    Well, now to my point. There have been several incidences over the last few years of “activists” being targeted by raids and surveillance from the Feds, but this is the first time they’ve put up a stink about it. Freedom Roads Socialist Organization, one of the targets of the raids has been in existence since the mid-80s when US peace groups lent aid and comfort to Central American communist guerrillas – those habits are hard to break.

    I suspect that when the dust settles, we’re going to read that these activists are charged with aiding FARC. Yeah, I know that it’s hard to believe that US Federal government could work so fast in just a few days from the seizure of the laptops to the raids, but remember that we have an FBI office in Colombia which has close relationships with the government. I’m pretty sure an FBI agent accompanied the first Colombians into the area where Mono JoJoy was killed and had complete and immediate access to any evidence the Colombians discovered.

    As a final note, did you hear how the Colombians tracked ol’ Mono? They infiltrated FARC and got someone so close that he/she was able to put a GPS device in Mono’s boot. So what chance do the other run-of-the-mill guerrillas have against the Colombian government?

    Thanks to Casey for the link to the video.

  • More Stolen Valor free speech

    Doug Sterner sent us a series of links related to 42-year-old Kevin Grimsinger in Denver, CO who is a double amputee and advocate for medical marijuana. His credibilty is based on his story that he was injured in Afghanistan resulting from a land mine explosion while serving as a Special Forces medic. In the Denver Post’s words back in July, Grimsinger has “become the Colorado poster child for PTSD and medical marijuana”.

    The 42-year-old former special-forces medic had served in Kosovo and Desert Storm before stepping on a land mine in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2001. He lost parts of both legs, broke his back in 13 places, shattered a shoulder and ribs and suffered injuries to several internal organs.

    But by far, his toughest wounds are to his brain — textbook post-traumatic stress disorder.

    That means flashbacks. It means struggling to sleep and thinking about suicide more often than he cares to admit. His nightmares are constant, he says. “They’re bloody, they’re noisy and they’re gory.”

    After two years in hospitals, Grimsinger was released addicted “to every pain medication known to man,” he tells me. It wasn’t until turning to therapeutic cannabis, along with other prescriptions, that he says he has been able to function.

    While playing this part, he helped launch “The Budding Group” a veterans outreach program for medical marijuana. He was appointed to the Denver Mayor’s special commission, the Commission for People with Disabilities, he testified at a hearing of the state legislators and he was the quartermaster at his local VFW post, Post 1.

    Here’s a video Grimsinger telling his tale and advocating weed;

    Anyway, the Denver Post, who seems to make a habit of having the wool pulled over their eyes, has finally checked on Grimsinger;

    As it turns out, the double-amputee didn’t serve in Afghanistan and wasn’t injured by a land mine, as he claimed. Records show his military service ended a decade before he said he was hurt fighting in Kandahar in 2001.

    He was, in fact, paralyzed as a civilian in a crash on a mountain road in Southern California where, as he now tells it, he was trying to kill himself.

    “OK, so I claimed one tour that I wasn’t there for. I wasn’t in Kandahar. I didn’t trigger a land mine,” he admitted Friday. “I’m not laying no guilt trip or anything. But it’s just another nail in my coffin. I probably won’t make it through this if you write this.”

    Poor baby makes a fool of the whole State of Colorado, but he might kill himself if you tell the truth about him.

    What’s worse was hearing him twist his story when asked about military records that show he’s not a combat veteran and recipient of two purple hearts.

    “I’m exactly who I said I am. Any man in green will stand right next to me and vouch for it,” he said at first.

    “I’m highly offended that all this nonsense is in my face right now.”

    Not as offended as the rest of us, Kev. I think any “man in green” that would stand next to you has an alternate reason for being there. Don’t turn your back on him, ya weasel.

    The Denver Post writes;

    …he hoodwinked medical-marijuana advocates who were all too eager to wheel him forward as a valorous poster guy…

    Shades of Richard Strandlof, huh? Vote Vets and IVAW were more than willing to put Strandlof forward when he said the things they liked. I guess the hemp heads were happy to do the same with Grimsinger.

    Grimsinger at first denied being related to his mother, father, brother, aunt and uncles. Then he said they’re all dead. Later he clarified that they’re dead to him.

    I’m sure the feeling is mutual.

  • Peace activists raped and kidnapped by Palestinians

    Israel National News posts an article today that tells the tale of young peace activists who go to the Palestinian territories to protest the “occupation” by Israel but who end up as shotgun brides and rape victims to the people they’ve come to help.

    Most female leftist European activists, writes Bello, are brainwashed in their youth into hating Israel, and then sent directly into Judea and Samaria, without spending a single night in Tel Aviv, lest they see civilian Israeli society for themselves and find that they like it. They are whisked off to Shechem, Jenin and other PA towns and housed in Arab educational or cultural facilities, or private homes. Local Arab girls are sent to befriend them and they have no choice but to trust them.

    It is is easy, explains Bello, “to carry out a sexual crime against a foreign girl, in her first days away from her family, in a place where no police have ever visited. And this is what happens, and has happened.”

    “I was told of such rape cases by women who are not Jewish: a female European leftist activist, a female Red Cross volunteer and a young Arab woman from Yafo,” he says. He says that he met these women when he carried out IDF reserve duty, and met them afterward as well. “They told me what goes on there, in the Palestinian villages, far from any prying eye.”

    Think Rachel Corrie. Victims of their education and upbringing, some of these women end up being wives to the Palestinians and trapped by the patriarchal society. Some have escaped to Europe and told their stories, but according to the article, they’re silenced by the peace movement.

  • Westboro creeps coming to Arlington

    TroopRally, the Freeper organizer who has been doing such a bang-up job maintaining the vigil at Walter Reed Army Medical Center every Friday night for the last several years along with countless other actions and counter-actions in the DC area wrote to tell me that the Westboro lunatics are planning to show up at Arlington cemetery on Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 4:30PM – 5:30PM.

    TroopRally assures us that Free Republic will be there and they want you there, too. Details at Free Republic.

  • Duff: Ahmadinejad is Mossad’s super spy

    TSO sent me this link, and I can barely type it from laughing so hard. Our favorite tin-foil consumer, Gordon Duff at Veterans Today has uncovered absolutely no evidence that Iran’s Doofus-in-chief is a Mossad plant but it doesn’t stop him from writing about it;

    “Cardboard Lethario” Ahmadinejad isn’t hard to pick out, an actor, waiting for cues from his handlers, waiting in the wings, his “Tel Aviv connection.” Weak as all these Iranian theatrics may be, they are all Israel has to work with nowadays, that and bottle rockets from Stalag Gaza. Building a holocaust threat out of Israeli mole, Ahmadinejad, isn’t even a “cardboard” threat.

    Just when you think our career TOC Rat, Duff has reached Maximum Lunacy Density, he finds some more room. Even rotund former Jew Adam Perlman, the American al Qaeda, Adam Yahiye Gadahn doesn’t escape Duff’s watchful gaze;

    How many hundreds of times did Americans watch Adam Perlman pretend to be the Al Qaeda spokeman, taking credit for 9/11 and ranting threats, always timed for a news cycle, an Israeli funding bill or the election of a political candidate willing to send American troops to fight Israel’s wars of choice.

    Perlman got as much publicity as Madonna until the fact he was a phony began to leak out. From that second on, it was as though he had vanished from the face of the earth. We are told that Blackwater teams are looking for him in Karachi, Paksitan. We might suggest some place else where they are more likely to find him.

    The unspoken answer is probably Israel. or maybe Duff, the Mossad’s greatest enemy has Gadahn cum Perlman locked in his liquor cabinet. Oh, here’s Duff’s proof that Perlman is in Israel. I mean, you can tell that’s an Israeli beach, right? The sand just looks Jewish. And even though you can’t see his face or distinguishing characteristics, it has to be Perlman, right?

    What? What do you mean? Perlman is fat, and this guy is fat…so it must be Perlman. You don’t see the damning evidence? What’s wrong with you? You’re not a real veteran!

    Oh, Sarkozy and Merkel, the French and German heads of State;

    …millions are spent every month in what can only be an attempt to organize a holocaust in Europe against Muslims. One has already begun in France against the Roma, once carefully orchestrated in Tel Aviv and put into motion by Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France and an ethnic Jew.

    So there you go…all aimed at extinguishing the poor goat roping camel herders. Probably to make Soylant Green…or Brown. Oh, sure – it’s always about race with you guys.

    Here’s a question for Gordo next time he’s on one of his many visits to TAH: If the Mossad is behind all of these “facts” that Duff drags into the light, why haven’t they silenced him yet?

  • Duff: Israel will destroy us

    Yes, Gordon Duff is a moron, a world-class moron. We’ve featured many of his nuttier warnings about the Mossad false-flag operations which have plagued the poor idiots who inhabit this planet. Only Duff seems bright enough to spot the clues which point at the Israelis. Every. Single. Time. Well, this week’s column is no different. Entitled Is America’s Military Prepared For The Israeli Threat? along with a picture of an ICBM launch.
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  • Someone is going to burn a book tomorrow

    Drudge lists three more Koran burnings for tomorrow. One in Tennessee, one in Kansas, and one in Wyoming. I can’t take the pressure anymore – I have to burn one, too, so I can get some publicity, too.

    Unfortunately, I don’t own a Koran, ya know because I’m a right wing pro-war ignorant turd. So instead, i’ll be burning Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. I always hated Hemingway anyway – he was a pretentious old fart who couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag. He sold books because of his lifestyle, not because of any particular writing talent. I can’t write any better, but he always pissed me off. Well, “For Whom The Bell Tolls” was pretty good – but it was an anomaly.

    And, oh, he liked Cuba better than the US, so ya know, he’s kind of anti-American. He wasn’t a suicide bomber, but he committed suicide and that’s half of the phrase right there. I know his connection to 9-11 is tenuous, but then so are connections of most of the Muslim world to 9-11.

    I can be convinced to not burn the book if Mariel Hemingway will come over tomorrow and reenact the lesbian scene from “Personal Best” with Patrice Donnelly in my living room. I’m not cheap, but I’m easy.