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Category: Shitbags

  • Biden tales

    Our country’s highest elected politician known to be a plagerizer and habitual liar has been caught in another lie according to the Washington Times which claims that Biden told some of the nation’s mayors that he was playing golf a quarter mile from the site of an Amish school shooting in 2006 in which five children were killed and five others were injured. So close that he heard the shots;

    But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.

    “There’s a lot of things here that I find hard to believe,” Mr. King said. “I looked in my database, and he [Mr. Biden] is not in my database.”

    Even if Mr. Biden had played at the course that day, Mr. King said, “It’s very far-fetched that he would have heard it.”

    “I know he didn’t hear those gunshots,” Mr. King said. “They were inside the school. Even if they were outside, he wouldn’t have heard them.”

    A spokeswoman for the vice president did not return a request seeking comment Friday. Mr. Biden told the story as he was describing for the mayors’ group the Obama administration’s efforts to enact new gun-control laws.

    But, you know it COULD have happened, you know if they hadn’t put the golf course so far from the school and if the shooter had done his killing outside, and if Biden was in the same state at the time of the shooting.

    The Times reports that it’s not the first time that Biden made shit up to place himself in danger;

    While running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2007, Mr. Biden said in a debate that he had been “shot at” during a trip to Iraq. Pressed by reporters, he eventually described three incidents on two separate Iraq trips in which he felt that he was shot at or might have been shot at.

    He ended up revising his description by saying: “I was near where a shot landed.”

    Yeah, well, whatever. Aides later said that Biden heard some outbound mortar fire once while he was in Iraq. That’s just like getting shot at, though. Well, except that the rounds were headed the other way from where he was standing, but, ya know, when you’re the smartest man in the world, you can’t be bother with ordinal directions and stuff.

    I can just imagine the media frenzy this will create. Day and night, 24 hours coverage of Biden telling a whopping big lie to influence legislation with what I’m sure he thinks gives him some sort of morale authority in the gun discussion. Oh, wait, Biden is a Democrat isn’t he, so never mind.

  • Former Mayor of “Chocolate City” indicted

    ROS sends a link from BBC to a “couldn’t happen to a better guy” story about Ray Nagin, the guy who, as mayor of New Orleans, watched his city collapse from his hotel room in Baton Rouge. Well, it seems he’s facing 21 charges for wire fraud, bribery, filing false tax returns and money laundering;

    The charges come amid an investigation that has already seen two businessmen and two former city officials plead guilty.

    […]

    His indictment in the case has been long expected.

    Mr Nagin, 56, is accused of using his office for personal gain and of accepting bribes and other illicit gratuities while the city of New Orleans reeled in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

    According to the federal indictment, Mr Nagin accepted more than $160,000 (£100,000) in bribes for his family business.

    All I can say is “good”. But it’s been my experience that these clowns never get what they deserve, so we’ll see.

  • Flag-stomping teacher awaits decision on continued employment

    I didn’t write about this when it first happened a few weeks ago because TSO covered it rather well while he was wearing his peaked American Legion cap at The Burn Pit. But the Huffington Post called tonight and they want me on their Huff Post Live program tonight (at 7:30pm, Eastern time) to discuss the issue.

    But, it seems that Scott Compton, who has been an English teacher in Chapin High School in South Carolina for 12 years. Apparently, he was trying to make the point that symbols are less important than the ideals behind those symbols by stomping on the flag while “talking glowingly” about the United States. From the Huffington Post;

    Neither Compton nor his lawyer Darryl Smalls, returned messages from The Associated Press. Last week, Smalls emailed a statement to WIS-TV, saying Compton was trying to show the idea of what America stands for is greater than the material objects like the flag that represent it. He said several members of Compton’s family have served in the military and they fully support him.

    Frankly, I’m tired of hearing or reading about people who hide behind the service of their antecedents when they misbehave in some way that is disrespectful to actual service. Unless you make the sacrifices yourself, you don’t understand it.

    The Huff Post Live producer who I talk with tried to defend Compton with his First Amendment right of free speech. I told her what I tell everyone – the Bill of Rights was written to protect us from the government, not from each other. So the First Amendment really doesn’t apply here unless you want to call the school board our government.

    Given the state of our current education system, I’m sure there was something else Compton could have been teaching. I’m not sure what this little demonstration was doing in English class, anyway. When I took English in 9th & 10th grade, it was about literature, not a civics lesson.

    I’m sure Compton is a competent teacher, but he made a really bad decision to make this theater part of his classroom instruction. And who knows what other stuff he’s done in his classroom that we haven’t heard about. He could have made his point by stomping on a Hezbollah flag, but I think he’d probably be in hiding for fear of the retribution. If he wanted to make a point about symbols, he could have drawn a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed and suffered the consequences of that poor decision.

  • Michael Moore doubles down on teh stoopit

    Our buddy, Blanka sends us a link from the Huffington Post in which our favorite Orcan American, Michael Moore tries to explain what he meant the other night when he resolved in the New Year to “not support the troops”.

    I don’t support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what — a lot of these soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines see right through the bullshit of those words, “I support the troops!,” spoken by Americans with such false sincerity — false because our actions don’t match our words. These young men and women sign up to risk their very lives to protect us — and this is what they get in return:

    Then he goes on to list the things that he could do but doesn’t for the troops;

    1. They get sent off to wars that have NOTHING to do with defending America or saving our lives. They are used as pawns so that the military-industrial complex can make billions of dollars and the rich here can expand their empire. By “supporting the troops,” that means I’m supposed to shut up, don’t ask questions, do nothing to stop the madness, and sit by and watch thousands of them die? Well, I’ve done an awful lot to try and end this.

    Yeah, well, by running your fat mouth, you extended the time our troops have been engaged in these wars, dingus. You’ve given aid and comfort to the enemy who, through your idiot meanderings through the English language saw a light at the end of their tunnel and thought they could just wait us out. And it’s worked out very well for them. Has the violence ended in Iraq? But you told us that the violence in Iraq would end when our troops were gone, but it hasn’t has it?

    3. How many of you who say you “support the troops” have visited a VA hospital to bring aid and comfort to the sick and wounded? I haven’t. How many of you have any clue what it’s like to deal with the VA? I don’t. Therefore, you would be safe to say that I don’t “support the troops,” and neither do you.

    Yes, I do, asshole, and you could if you weren’t such a dick. or if you weren’t expecting an ass-whooping the moment your oversized face came through a VA hospital door. Chickenshit.

    5. Help a homeless vet today? How ’bout yesterday? Last week? Last year? Ever? But I thought you “support the troops!”? The number of homeless veterans is staggering — on any given night, at least 60,000 veterans are sleeping on the streets of the country that proudly “supports the troops.” This is disgraceful and shameful, isn’t it? And it exposes all those “troop supporters” who always vote against social programs that would help these veterans. Tonight there are at least 12,700 Iraq/Afghanistan veterans homeless and sleeping on the street. I’ve never lent a helping hand to one of the many vets I’ve seen sleeping on the street. I can’t bear to look, and I walk past them very quickly. That’s called not “supporting the troops,” which, I guess, I don’t — and neither do you.

    If your grocery bill didn’t consume most of your millions, you could, moron. So instead of hiding behind whatever this grand statement is, do something and show a little gratitude for what you’ve been given by this country where a talentless hack can roll around in his millions for entertainment.

    I support you, and will try to do more to be there for you. And the best way you can support me — and the ideals our country says it believes in — is to get out of the military as soon as you can and never look back.

    And please, next time some “supporter of the troops” says to you with that concerned look on their face, “I thank you for your service,” you have my permission to punch their lights out (figuratively speaking, of course).

    Just because your fat ass doesn’t actually do something to support the troops doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t. He adds that he hires vets and gives them tickets in his movie theater. That’s a good start, Michael, now do some of the things you claim the rest of us should do for veterans. Crack that wallet of yours open and pay them for being what they are so you can be whatever that is that you are over there.

    From Fox News, James E. Koutz, the National Commander of The American Legion replies;

    “What I can say is that The American Legion fully supports all the men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, always has and always will,” Koutz told FOX411.“We don’t need to make a New Year’s resolution for that.”

  • Nanny Bloomberg urges NYers to keep perspective

    If you hadn’t heard, two New Yorkers have been pushed from subway platforms into the paths of oncoming trains this month. Now, I’m pretty sure that if legal gunowners had shot two people this month in New York, the Mayor would be calling for tighter gun control. Look at his blather since recent shootings. But, instead of fanning the flames of fear in this case, he’s urging New Yorkers to keep their perspective;

    “It’s a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York,” Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.

    Yeah, “overall safety in New York” sucked for Sunando Sen, the latest victim and it will probably suck for the next victim, but it’s so out of character for the mayor who freaked out over transfats, 40-ounce soda pop, and breast feeding babies to tell people not to panic. His rhetoric in regards to gun control has been maniacal fanaticism.

    Probably because there’s nothing that he can do to prevent the next platform death, or nothing he can do to look like like he’s trying to prevent the next subway platform death.

  • Marine’s home vandalized in IL

    Biermann sends us a link about Lance Cpl. Chris Van Etten who lost both his legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan last summer. He returned home this weekend from the hospital for a few days before he returned to the hospital for treatment, but someone decided that a restful stay in his hometown was more than he deserved;

    What was supposed to be and has been a very happy homecoming took quite a turn Christmas Eve morning when a neighbor knocked on the door to tell the Van Ettens about the derogatory words written on the side of their house as well as the raw eggs splattered on it in several locations.

    While police were called in and a report was filed, Chris said the biggest help came from the community, which helped them cover up that ugly, hateful message within an hour.

    Here’s a raw video of the aftermath;

  • Movie Shooting stopped by off duty cop.

    Well it seems that the copycats are out again. This time it is my hometown of San Antonio. The shooter managed to wound at least two people before he was shot by a off duty cop.

    Two people were wounded late Sunday when gunfire erupted at a local movie theater, sending panicked moviegoers rushing to exits and ducking for cover, police and witnesses said.

    A lone suspect was in custody after being wounded by an unidentified law enforcement officer, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.

    Also it seems that the theater was not the original target and was not random.

    According to reports, the gunman’s original target was a China Garden Restaurant where he was employed.

    Officials say the man was looking for a female co-worker, and when he learned she wasn’t there, he produced a gun. The weapon jammed when he tried to fire it in the restaurant, and some of the patrons fled across the parking lot and into the nearby theater.

    Also there is something else that makes this worse.

    The shooting occurred last night at about 9:25 p.m. at the Santikos Mayan 14 movie theater during a showing of “The Hobbit.”

  • Stealing from “Toys for Tots” in Aurora

    Daniel sends us a link from CBSDenver which proves why we need a Stolen Valor Act. Stealing toys from needy kids is pretty low;

    Local spokesman Gunnary [sic] Sgt. David Bull told CBS4 the suspect may be a man who calls himself Gunnary [sic] Sgt. Mix. He was described as being a black male who is between 40 and 50 years old.

    Officials believe the man may have gone to multiple stores, including dropoff locations in Denver and in the Southlands area in Aurora, and pretended he is an official Toys for Tots pickup person.

    Bull said the toy drive’s real pickup personnel come to the stores in Toys for Tots shirts and have credentials that they show.

    Apparently, this dude has no ID and depends on folks’ goodwill for his dastardly scheme. He not only steals the toys, he takes the collection box, too.