Category: Shitbags

Among the many businesses that ultimately may be harmed by the disastrous Unaffordable Care Act is one that couldn’t be more deserving: AARP. Founded more than half a century ago as a non-profit advocacy organization for senior Americans, AARP has been taken over and completely corrupted by leftist propagandists, who have gradually converted it into a huge money-making advocacy machine for the substantial socialist wing of the Democratic Party. That was glaringly evident in the way AARP shilled for the passage of ObamaCare from the outset of the legislative process. Far less obvious to the public was that AARP was positioning itself and its lucrative billion-plus-dollars-a-year insurance business to profit from the changes to be imposed upon the nation by this government health care takeover.

So, as someone who long ago severed his ties with this leftist organization, I was not surprised by an article at the Daily Caller last week revealing that AARP and one of its lesser-known partners, the Herndon Alliance, a truly leftist group, weren’t just cheerleaders for ObamaCare; they were planners and developers, responsible for the now infamous and deliberately deceitful sales pitch so oft repeated by our clueless chief executive that “if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.” The concluding and definitive “Period!” was likely an imprudent, slapdash attempt at sincerity added to the message by the sock-puppet president to make himself appear more credible. In any case, it is now apparent that the big lie was indeed a monumental lie, calculatingly contrived by a messaging organization to sell the American public a pig in a poke. Follow that pig link and tell me if you don’t suspect that the self-admitted dog-eater in the White House didn’t try to sell Americans one big sack of canine crud.

Now, according to the Daily Caller report, many of AARP’s members are angry with the organization for helping Obama peddle that sack of purulent pooch. They should well be angry, because their so-called watchdog organization sold their interests down the river to further the political interests of Democrat leftists, not to mention AARP’s own bottom line. So we should all hope that seniors realize they’ve been had and leave AARP for less politicized senior advocacy organizations. They’re out there and growing as more folks wake up to the true intentions of AARP.

And please, you diehards, spare me the argument that AARP is a beneficent non-profit organization that exists to aid seniors. That, like their overpriced insurance, is as big a lie as “If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance.”

And you can put a big fat “Period!” on that.

Crossposted at American Thinker.

When last we left you in the saga of Paul K. Wickre, he had graduated to leaving threatening voicemails, emails and comments. In fact, Blackfive had picked up on what was happening to us, and tried to give it some publicity. It worked, and they made Paul’s naughty list. Here was the voicemail Paul left on my work machine at the time threatening Blackfive.

Yes, I also laughed at “I’m trying to be reasonable.” Because nothing says “reasonable” like comments such as:

spEAKING AS YOU DO, YOU DESERVE THE WORST. i HAVE 30& OF YOUR ADDRESSES, dONT BE SURPRISED MY THE NEWSPAPERS.
yOU SLIMY FUCKING CUNTS. yOU ARE THE WORST AS TO ADDRESS ME. i WILL FIND YOU.

Having failed in that regard, Paul and his wife Karen decided to file “peace orders” against Jonn. Now, a peace order is a civil hearing wherein basically you have a hearing and if the judge decides to put a “do not contact” order in place he does. It seemed like an unlikely approach as a foray into the legal system, but Paul was attempting an end-around. He added into the claims that he not only wanted “do not contact” orders, but also the blog taken down entirely. (Also he wanted Jonn’s guns taken away, something the hearing didn’t have the power to grant.) I’m really unclear how he thought that would work, but that’s what he asked for. Now, since I was not a named person on that hearing, and because it was never going to work, I decided that it just wasn’t in my best interest to drive halfway across the country for the hearing, especially when my lawyer said he wouldn’t call me to the stand.

And then I came into work to this voicemail from Paul:

(Pay attention to the Google thing, I will be back to that in a minute.)

Anyway, that voicemail sounded an awful like trying to convince me not to come and testify. It sounded like a bully trying to keep me away from the trial. It sounded that way to a lot of other folks as well, including lawyers I consulted who are not on my legal team. So, I got in my car and drove 12 hours to the hearing. (I drive slow.)

After an interminable wait while a series of women were granted peace orders against men who allegedly threatened or beat them (seemed to me that several were bogus sounding) we finally were transferred to our own courtroom with our own judge. Again, the peace orders were by both Paul and Karen separately against Jonn. Our lawyer was there, and Wickre had two lawyers, his civil one and his criminal one. There was also a guy there to watch, who told me later that he had worked with Paul previously and said he’d been a lunatic since he had met him some six years earlier.
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Rick sends us a link to an article from Cleveland in regards to the family of Eric Wiley, a Vietnam veteran, who died three years ago. The family thought that Eric’s remains had been properly interred, but those remains were discovered in an Akron dumpster;

“We had a funeral, and then after that, the remains were supposed to go to a military slot. I signed papers for that,” said his widow, Dorothy, on Thursday.

Instead, Wiley’s cremated remains and those of two other people were discovered in a large commercial dumpster in Akron on Tuesday.

What all three had in common was Funeral Director Charles Taylor, who explained to FOX 8 News that they may have been in a Macedonia storage unit he was renting, along with someone else.

Taylor explained that he was locked out of the storage unit after payments had not been made.

The owner of the storage facility told FOX 8 on Wednesday that Taylor owed him $4,000, but would not answer questions about how the boxes of cremated remains ended up in an Akron dumpster.

Pinto Nag sends us the story of 68-year-old Larry Howard Longfellow who was the Chief Financial Officer of the Montana department of the VFW. It looks like he stole a hundred forty thousand bucks from the VFW. He got two years in the federal pen and has to pay back the loot;

“It seems to me that the crime here has impacted all of the folks who were receiving benefits from the VFW. They have been denied those services through this breach of trust,” [Judge Charles] Lovell said. “It seems to me that this isn’t the Bank of America from which the money was taken, but a theft related to the myriad of those veterans who were entitled to this assistance.”

Adding to the judge’s ire is that Longfellow, who retired after 23 years with the VFW, is receiving a monthly pension from the VFW, and initially sought to lower his restitution by saying the VFW owed him back pay for vacation and sick time. Lovell ordered that the entire $879 Longfellow receives each month be paid toward the $140,398 restitution.

“That is the minimum amount. If you are able to make further payments you can do that,” Lovell added.

It’s bad enough when we get ripped off by people who have never served, but when we do it to ourselves, that’s extra-shitbagish. I hope he chokes on Tiny’s meat sandwich, but after he pays us back.