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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Strange bedfellows

    Saturday, 400 groups will converge on Washington, DC in what they call the “One Nation” rally. Of course, I’ve seen Leftist rallies which claimed 30 groups were represented and twenty people were there, so the number of groups isn’t really that important – it’s the types of groups that are showing up and intertwined for what they think make up the majority of Americans.

    Code Pink and the National Education Association? Really? Our teachers are proud to stand along side the post-op trannies of Code Pink? The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees standing alongside Maoist-inspired ANSWER? In fact, every anti-war group you can think of is included and every union organization is right there along with them. So if you’re in a union, your dues money was spent to send people to this political rally. What do I mean? Well, the unions and the NAACP are giving thousands a free bus ride to DC.

    And unlike Glen Beck’s rally earlier this month, this rally is purely political;

    Unlike Beck’s rally, in which overt politics took a back seat to religious and patriotic themes, the progressive groups will repeatedly remind attendees to vote in the midterm elections, said Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.

    “We have heard a lot about frustration and anger leading to apathy. What we are finding is that anger is now turning into, ‘Okay, let’s act,’” she said. “We can either sit here and not move forward or we can go backward.”

    Holt Baker considers the rally a first step toward more closely unifying the progressive movement, which has often splintered into niche causes.

    Organizers told the Washington Post what their focus will be;

    Organizers say they are focusing on three unifying ideas: jobs, justice and education. They define those ideas in a set of principles that also lays out a list of causes largely supported by liberals, such as ending discrimination in the criminal justice system, protecting Social Security, spending federal money to create jobs and improving public education.

    “These are the bedrock issues that define who we are and why we march,” Jealous said.

    Oh, really? Then why is the anti-military recruiting organization Ya-Ya Network coming? Why are The Geezers For Sitting on Our Hands (otherwise known as Veterans For Peace) slated? The National Center for Transgender Equality? American Friends Service Committee (otherwise known as Quakers – big anti-war protesters). US Labor Against the War? AIDS Walk Washington? The Trans-Africa Forum? Iraq Veterans Against the War (of course there are many contradictions just in that 5-word title)? US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation?

    Many of those groups have come out against Obama and certain policies of his administration. Gays don’t like that he hasn’t used his bullypulpit to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Code Pink, Vets For Peace and IVAW have all criticized him for continuing Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan – their reason to exist as organizations. In fact many of the members of those organizations have told me that they didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 – yet here they are at what is essentially a rally to encourage people to vote for Democrats in November.

    This isn’t America. Maybe it’s Washington, DC’s perception of America, but no one I know out here, just the other side of the Beltway, belong to any of those groups. And maybe the union leaders think their membership’s dues are justly spent on carrying smelly busloads of hippies who want a free trip to DC, but I’m pretty sure many of you would disagree.

    If that rally is an accurate portrayal of America, Those of us who aren’t there ought to buy more ammo.

  • Grimsinger may skate on fraud

    In reference to that douche nozzle Kevin Grimsinger who claimed that he lost his legs in Afghanistan, the little turd might skate on any charges related to his fraud;

    Grimsinger also testified before lawmakers about medical marijuana in March, but it’s unclear whether he said then that he lost his legs to a land mine.

    Grimsinger serves on Denver’s Commission for People With Disabilities. City officials said they had no evidence that he claimed to be a wounded combat veteran to get a seat on the commission.

    The Mayor’s office knows what he said, because you know there’s miles of paperwork related to the Commission and Grimsinger somewhere, but the soft-headed ritards won’t uphold the law and throw the legless, lying turd in jail. I just love how we have all of these laws that no one is willing to enforce.

    And the video I’d linked to in which Grimsinger described his phony tour in Afghanistan in his testimony before the Colorado legislature has been taken down. He clearly stated that he’d been wounded in combat and that he suffered mightily from PTSD related to that incident. That video had been posted by the medical marijuana advocates.

    And while we’re on the subject, I asked Susan Greene, the author of the original story in the Denver Post, if she’d share the documentation they had on Grimsinger with us, ya know since we helped the Post track down all of the stuff they used on Strandlof and got away with just calling us “a Washington, DC group”. Well, suddenly, they’ve never heard of us and the princesses have a “policy” about sending copies of their documentation.

    Colacioppo, Lee Ann wrote:

    I edited the Strandlof piece and while I don’t recall us working with you, I appreciate your help as a source on that story. But we are not in the habit of repaying sources on stories. More importantly, we do not share our documents. We do not want to be in the position of assisting any advocate for a cause. I hope you can understand our need to maintain this distance from your efforts.

    The reason she doesn’t remember is because they called us “a Washington,DC group” instead of using our names. I remember I had to calm TSO down when he read that. Well, we’re in the habit repaying our leeching, halfwit, bottom feeding, back stabbing Old Media acquaintances in kind. The Denver Post is dead to me – they can’t count on the three readers who go over there every year from here any longer. Their online readership is thus cut in half. I hope they understand our need to maintain our distance from their punkasses. Pretentious prigs.

  • On the anti-war trail again

    Well, summer is over and it’s time for the rested and tanned anti-war crowd to take to the streets again. IVAW has begun it’s seasonal mental masturbation with their Operation Recovery to Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops – a worthy endeavor. Especially if the were a bit more specific about what is a “traumatized troop”.

    They say that Operation Recovery is “our effort to stop the deployment of troops suffering from PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Military Sexual Trauma. By signing our pledge, you agree to do what you can to help defend the rights of soldiers to heal and to hold accountable those who are responsible for deploying traumatized troops.”

    I’m pretty sure that the military doesn’t want those guys deployed either. But there’s some yelling fire in a crowded theater going on from some members of IVAW.

    Like Ethan McCord, the soldier from the Wikileaks video who carried one of the wounded children to an aid vehicle. Since he that video was released, he’s made a real pest of himself. Like in this article in which he said the military was engaged in something “reminiscent of ethnic cleansing“. Perhaps “reminiscent of Jengis Khan” was the phrase you were looking for, McCord?

    In another article, McCord tells an ugly hippie chick that after the incident recorded in the above mentioned video, he told his squad leader that he needed help and his squad leader told him to get the sand out of his pussy. He doesn’t mention the name of the squad leader or the date of the incident. So we’re left with just McCord’s word. The way we’re always left with these goofballs. But the headline of the article is “Mentally injured troops used to murder children and women daily“. Nothing left to figure out there.

    For one thing, the war that McCord left isn’t the same war. For another thing, unless he’s willing to name names and places about all of the mistreatment he endured from his commander, platoon leader, squad leader and whoever else he wants to implicate, I don’t place a bit of trust in a thing he says. And all of this non-specific tale-telling is going to get him in a bunch of trouble with those people someday.

    I’m positive there wasn’t an order to kill everyone in sight when an IED detonated on his convoy as he claims. I haven’t been to Iraq during the current war, but I’m pretty sure everyone in the world knows that when an IED explodes, everyone in your sight didn’t know it was going to explode, or they’d have taken cover before it did – so what’s the use in killing them?

    And if this unnamed squad leader did indeed tell him to get the sand out of his pussy, why hasn’t he done it yet?

  • Ballduster McManus news

    Thursday, I posted Michael McManus’ military records (known around these parts as Ballduster McSoulpatch) and now, strangely enough there’s news from Houston on him.

    Now, as he faces the prospect of again wearing a prison uniform, McManus, 44, argues he never intended to suggest at the mayor’s party that he was a true war hero.

    Instead, his dress at the 2009 gathering at George R. Brown Convention Center for the city’s first openly gay mayor was a political statement, he contends in documents filed in federal court this week.

    McManus was recognizing a triumph for gay rights as well as making a commentary about the military’s policy on gays, including his own personal battle while in the service, he argues in a motion filed by his lawyer, James Fallon.

    “Mr. McManus wore an Army uniform and medals to the mayor’s victory party in order to protest both his discharge from the Army and the continuing exclusion of (lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender) Americans from the military under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”

    Then explain all of the crap he spread out all over the internet about “personal security details” and being a General and getting booted for DADT? Was that to celebrate an openly gay mayor, too? In fact TSO spent most of the afternoon transcribing all of his lies from various sources.

    This veteran probably sums up the opinion at TAH pretty well.

    He was again arrested earlier this year after military bloggers dedicated to rooting out imposters pinned him down.

    “Wanted for Stolen Valor,” read an Old West-style wanted poster that showed a photo of McManus, who attended the mayor’s party while wearing a goatee and hipster glasses with the uniform.

    He struck a nerve.

    “Stolen Valor is one of the most insulting crimes to veterans,” said blogger Mark Seavey, who served in Afghanistan and was among several people who tracked McManus. “Granted there are far worse, but this (crime) is based on stealing something that many of us earned.”
    Photographed at party

    McManus did not just wear the uniform but assumed the character on Facebook and elsewhere, Seavey contends.

    “You might get away with telling war stories in the bars, but when you start trying to use fake accomplishments to make political statements, or to bulk up your reputation in the community, there are hundreds of military bloggers out there, and one of them will find you and put you right,” he said.

    Thanks to TSO and another reader (sorry that I forgot your username but it’s hard to match your real names with your screen names sometimes) who sent links to this article.

  • 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.

  • Phony homeless veterans

    BooRadley sends along this article from her hometown about a homeless guy who claims to be a veteran.Boo says he’s not even close;

    “I’m here because of trouble I had in the past,” said Brian Shawver, 36, of Lorain. “I burned my bridges with the family and split. I’ve been here since the end of June. I served in the first Iraq war.

    “One time, I was in line at McDonald’s and this lady in front of me was putting down homeless people, talking about the picture in the paper showing all the tents. At the end of the conversation, she told her daughter, ‘We need to get to church.’ I got upset. I said that’s my tent in the picture,” Shawver said.

    “We (homeless people) don’t fit any designation. People think we’re always drinking and doing drugs and that we’re dirty and nasty. I lost everything I had. And this is where you wind up when that happens,” Shawver said.

    “I’m hoping something happens with the shelter. If not, I’ll just have to get extra blankets,” he said.

    He says his age is 36 – the first Gulf War was 19 years ago, that means he was 17. Boo says he was in high school during the Gulf War. When he eventually joined the Navy, he was chaptered out. There’s video of his interview at the link.

    He “burned bridges” with his family? He’s freaking 36 years old…what’s he need his family to do for him? I guess it’s just easier to camp out behind the local church and hope someone brings him a blanket.

    Since his story about being a veteran is false, the one about the line in MacDonald’s is probably manufactured, too.

    I remember watching the news after the Gulf War and the program I was watching was about homeless veterans from the Gulf War. One guy they were interviewing was talking about his wounds and sacrifice. The reporter asked him when he went to the Gulf and he said he got there in May. Either he was there three months before Hussein invaded Kuwait or he got there when the rest of us were leaving. The reporter realized he was talking with a fake, I could tell by the look on his face and he tried to quickly end the interview…without mentioning the guy was full of shit.

    That’s why I doubt this whole thing about massive numbers of veterans living on the streets. Every freakin’ homeless guy I’ve talked to claimed to be a veteran. One guy in Syracuse, when I told him I was a veteran, too, asked why I wearing a suit as if all veterans are homeless.

    The media perpetuates this story by interviewing these liars without doing ten seconds worth of math.

  • General Ballduster McSoulpatch’s records

    Well. it only took seven months (so much for your “48 hour turn over”, Matthis), but POW Network finally got Michael Patrick McManus’ military records from the National Personnel Records Center.

    You probably remember the story. We asked you guys who he was and you came through for us. All we had was a picture and you gave us his name. TSO got the Army Times to call him Ballduster McSoulpatch. Our crowning achievement in bloggerdom.

    Well, here are his records;

    It looks like he was discharged early and as a private.The medals are pretty skimpy compared to what’s on his uniform in the wanted poster (made by Mrs. Greyhawk, by the way).

    His Form 2-1 says that he attended one station unit training (OSUT) as an MP at Fort McClellan. AL (the stories I could tell you about my visits there when it was the WAC Basic Training Center), then trained as a linguist in German, then stationed in Germany for a year or so. It also says he got a General Discharge…probably for being some kind of pirate or smuggler. You decide which kind of pirate or smuggler.

    I know that I probably didn’t have to write this post, but I’m kind of proud of naming him and I’ll use any opportunity to repeat the story. TSO gets credit for “steaming bag of dicks” but “General Ballduster McSoulpatch” is mine.

  • When the cheese slides off your cracker…

    I was checking out my Facebook page today, I noticed one of my “friends” got married. It was funny because it seems like he’d just announced he was single a few weeks back. So I went over to see what was up with Jesse MacBeth

    salaam my fb fam.today i am going to start off saying to all those people who dont like what i say or get offended.if u cant handle the truth and lack the ability to debate me then stay off my page.i will show no mecy on them white devils.did they show mercy when they raped our women.enslaved us,murdered us in the mill…ions.when they threw women.children, old men,the sick into the ocean when the slave boat was to full

    we are commanded by allah to no eat pork to stay away from the foulness of swine. the nastyness of pig. then why my brotha’s do u stoop lower then a pig and go after the white swine. the white women. who skin is the same color as a pig. who smells the same as a pig. who looks like a pig, and sweats inside like a pig, a…nd most of all who rolls in her own shit like a pig

    today is a good day. today i woke up knowing i was going to take the breath out of same devils to knock the wind from their sails. have u every went to a devil church and watched their service, listen to them chant, see the evil gleam in their eye as they stare at u the lone negro, the sole king or queen amongths devil…s and daemon’s unafraid. if u want to see cult like evil attend their services

    in the bible it say the devil comes in the form of an angel of light. that speaks more truth then most would admit. to me that means the devil is white

    white devils ur world is slowly comming apart. the lies and myths u spread to opressors others are turning back on u the truth that the freed ones have know all along is comming to light

    And the best one;

    come check out my book my brotha’s and sista’s its on sale right now. them devil’s took 74% off my price for the next 2 weeks

    Yup. The white devil cut his book price 74% keepin’ the brother down.

    Actually, the Kindle version is $.99 But it looks like Amazon has high hopes for the book at $19.99 for the paperback. TSO bought the book over a year ago and still hasn’t read past the first paragraph.

    Last time Jesse wrote me, he was trying to organize against the Revolution Muslim, those batshit crazy reactionaries in New York City. It looks like he didn’t resist their message very well and joined them instead.

    Just remember, Jesse, take the detonator down range with you when you’re installing the IED. Or don’t.