Have you ever wondered how really nutty the Left is? I mean, as soon as you think you’ve found the nuttiest, another pops up. That’s pretty much my day-to-day life. But this one, this Eric Holmes May, well he’s going to be tough to beat. He has a group of other crackpots and they call themselves “The Ghost Troop” and their self-appointed job is to uncover ridiculous theories and manufacture “proof” for these theories.
I know you guys are probably tired of hearing about Michael P McManus, otherwise known as General Ballduster McSoulpatch, but I thought you’d take at least a passing interest that some bloggers think that our greatest accomplishment, that our place in history is virtually secured by the fact that we got (by “we”, I mean TSO) the Army Times to call him Ballduster McSoulpatch.
That alone should win us a MILbloggie this year. Um, yes, this is a shameless plea for votes – well, if anyone can figure out how to vote.
Someone sent me this video of Matthis Chiroux talking to a group of snooty kids in some Long Island educational organization. It’s actually the Woodhull Institute for “ethical leadership” so, boy is Matthis out of his depth. This is from their “About” page;
The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian educational organization that provides ethical leadership training and professional development for women. Too often, success has been measured in terms of the accumulation of power and wealth, with almost no consideration of how these accomplishments have been achieved. Ethical leadership is concerned with the means as well as the ends to personal and professional achievements. As such, Woodhull has developed a community that encourages women to lead with honesty, respect, courage and compassion; to strive for the common ground in decision-making; and to share in community service.
So why have they asked for Matthis to speak to them, I wonder. maybe it’s opposite day in Woodhull. In the video, you veterans listen for the line “returning war vets’ experiences prevent them from attaining their full potential”.
Of course, Matthis wouldn’t know about returning veterans, because any of them worth a shit won’t talk to him because he tried to steal their valor by claiming to be a combat veteran himself, for six days of licking cones at Baskin Robbins in Bagram. And then, while defending himself against the internal IVAW membership charges of stolen valor against him, he demeaned their valor by claiming there was nothing valorous about their service -dragging them down to his sorry level.
Returning veterans will never reach their full potential. And Matthis Chiroux will forever be a coward and a moron.
Here’s the link for the General Ballduster McSoulpatch at The Army Times.
Schantag learned of McManus when a friend’s brother sent her photos he took of McManus at the Dec. 12 inauguration for Houston Mayor Annise Parker.
Schantag posted photos of the man to the P.O.W. Network site and sent them to This Ain’t Hell, where the photo was posted at the center of a mock “wanted” poster.
Seavey’s day job is new media manager for the American Legion, but he blogs about stolen-valor cases and other military topics in his spare time for This Ain’t Hell.
For Seavey, whose blog dubbed McManus “Gen. Ballduster McSoulpatch,” the first big break was an anonymous tip saying the man’s name is Michael P. McManus. From there, readers pointed Seavey toward references to McManus across the Internet.
Personally, I’m proud of the way the story turned out – there will never be another like this one, though. It was a one in a million shot. I’d like thank Mary Schantag at POW Net for including us in her hunt. She’s sent me another couple phonies that I’ll roll out in the next few days.
DanNY sent us this link of phony soldier Matthis Chiroux defending Marc Hall, the Stop Loss Rapper, on Russia Today;
Of course when the interviewer compares Hall to Chiroux, Chiroux takes the opportunity to mention how brave they are for being chickenshits. Chiroux also says that Hall isn’t being persecuted for his song, but because he refused to go to Iraq. That’s absolutely false. Hall himself admits that he wasn’t tossed in the hoosegow until he mailed his CD to the Pentagon right after the Hasan murders at Fort Hood.
Chiroux also advocates for a draft to replace Stop Loss which fails to address the fact that the Army uses Stop Loss to avoid bleeding experience. And Chiroux doesn’t really want a draft anyway. He just wants something else to complain about.
He probably enjoys this kind of publicity, but I’m going to do my best to continue to remind IVAW why they booted Carl Webb last year. Their membership punishments tend to be brief. So here’s some screen shots of a conversation Webb had with some veterans somewhere that someone sent to me just to hold IVAW’s collective feet to the fire; (more…)
I caught wind of a little presentation that the Chicago chapter of IVAW was giving in the Windy City next month entitled “What the hell do you know about Afghanistan?“. Apparently, it’s designed to inform us woefully ignorant Americans about Afghanistan. But here’s their press release about the event;
Iraq Veterans Against the War present a series of shorts, improvised skits, talks, stories, and performances that dive into how little and how much we know about Afghanistan. Hear from the first hand experience of veterans that have walked the streets and driven the roads of a country that too many of us know too little about. And tell us what the “hell” you know about a country we have now occupied
for over nine years.
So I went over to the Chicago Chapter’s roster just to see who the Hell is going to tell me what the Hell they know about Afghanistan.
Chicago | Chapter 12
President – Pete Sullivan
Treasurer – Mike Applegate
Secretary – Jim Redden
So what is their background? According to their profiles, none of them have been Afghanistan – or Iraq for that matter; (more…)
A Kansas City man was arrested for telling a high school newspaper reporter that he he was awarded the Purple Heart and a Silver Star in the Grenada operation while he was SURPRISE! a Ranger. Turns out he spent a month in the Army in 1983, according to KansasCity.com.
Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged [Timothy James Watkins, age 47] with one misdemeanor count of falsely claiming to have been awarded military medals. If convicted, he faces up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
A telephone listing for Watkins in Richmond had been disconnected late Tuesday afternoon.
Watkins began to embellish his military service after his discharge and wore pins on his clothing that signified he had received the Purple Heart and Silver Star, authorities allege.
The most expansive telling of the tale purportedly came in March 2005, when he spoke with the Liberty Junior High student who was writing the paper.
Watkins claimed that as an Army Ranger, he parachuted into Grenada during a nighttime operation and began climbing a 135-foot rock face under enemy fire while carrying almost 100 pounds of gear, authorities say.
Watkins allegedly told the student that he was shot in the leg during the climb and fell 70 feet, breaking his leg.
Read more: Area man who claimed he received military medals is charged – KansasCity.com
That was a busy month he spent in the Army, huh?
Kansas City InfoZine says the FBI investigated it – that’s a good sign since they’ve been so reluctant to touch these cases.
