Category: Shitbags

The Boston Herald, without giving TAH credit for breaking the photo of Lindsey Stone’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery last month, interviews her father, Peter, who claims he’s “appalled” by her behavior, while making excuses for her;

“She’s totally apologetic. She apologizes to anybody she’s offended,” her father, Peter Stone, told me last night. “She was reacting, I guess, to the sign instead of the place and didn’t intend it to be what it turned out to be.

“She had a lack of judgment,” added her father, who learned of the controversy yesterday. “I think they were just being funny, which is sad. It’s not how she or the family feels by any means.”

“Reacting…to the sign” isn’t an appropriate excuse. The sign was there to remind her to be respectful of the dead heroes who surrounded her. there’s a sign at the entrance to remind her, and signs all along the way to the Tombs of the Unknown. In her own words, she was “challenging authority in general”, but the authority, in this case was adherence to adult behavior. No one was asking her to kiss our collective ass, just to act like an adult, and she couldn’t do it.

“It’s not how she or the family feels…” That’s difficult to believe. I took my kids to the US Cemetery in Luxembourg when they were preteens and before we went inside, I lectured them about how they should behave and why. That’s what parents do. But apparently, not in the Stone household.

The thing that gets me is a month before we saw the photo, her friends told her that was wrong, but she left the photograph on her Facebook page – it was that important to her that she make her statement. Does she deserve the threats and being fired? Nope. And she probably won’t be fired. The company will wait until the whole thing blows over and then allow her and her co-worker return to work quietly.

Here’s a joint apology from Lindsey Stone and Jamie Schuh on Boston Herald.

Anyway, here’s the video of the interview with her father;
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I guess our douchebag friend, Lindsey Stone, discovered the reach of our little blog last night. My Facebook Wall is jam-packed with the image of her. I guess her employer is well aware of the type of person she is and her antics on the company’s dime;

Yeah, 3500 comments ought to get the point across. But the internet isn’t flawless. Please refrain from posting addresses and phone numbers. As we’ve seen in the past, sometimes the person who we target doesn’t live where the internet says they live and phone numbers change.

I’ve learned that everyone eventually gets their just desserts, so just be patient.

Meet Lindsey Stone, a self-proclaimed douchebag. See that picture? She thinks it’s hilarious because she’s being her douche bag self. Of course, she’s at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, and she thinks that doing what she’s doing is like smoking under a “No Smoking” sign.

This is just us, being the douchebags that we are, challenging authority in general

Whose authority, Lindsey? The folks enforcing the “Silence & Respect” are soldiers. The Tomb is property of the Army, more accurately, the soldiers who are interred there. Of course, the sign is just supposed to remind you of your own proper conduct, the proper conduct you were not taught by your parents, apparently. There is no authority to challenge, really, well, except your upbringing, which by the looks of things is lacking.

Of course, the reason that you think this is funny is because popular culture tells you that the more outrageous you are, the more popular you’ll be. I believe your generation calls it “pushing the envelope” or something. Congratulations, Lindsey, you found the outer edge of the envelope, outside the limits of what we as a civilized society will accept.

Of course, Lindsey’s friends told her that she was wrong, but she left the picture up on her Facebook thingie – right through Veterans’ Day, so she wasn’t chastised quite enough to make her feel any measure of shame for her behavior.

Thanks to JP for the link.

Edit by NSOM:

Pending a follow up from Jonn, do not post home contact information for anyone you think may be Stone. It may not actually be her, innocent third parties may live there and just because YOU’RE mentally stable doesn’t mean the next person to read her home address is too. Her workplace and work number are fine, home addresses are not.

Charities are good things.  They provide a way to help those who need help, without getting Big Brother (AKA “the Government”) involved.

And giving to charities is good, too.  Without folks willing to give, there wouldn’t be too many charities.

But if you’re going to give to a charity, you probably should steer clear of those run by people who did time for kidnapping.  Ditto those where less than 9% of donations end up actually going to the charity, with about 85% going instead to a telemarketing/advertising agency.  And those which have their official “headquarters” located in a vacant house owned by the charity’s founder.

Think I’m MSU (Making Stuff Up)?  Think again.  All of the things I’ve described above pertain to the Massachusetts Veterans Emergency Fund, founded by Gerald Anacleto.

That “charity” took in close to $470k in 2010 and 2011.  From that, the charity received just over $40k.

Interestingly enough, both Anacleto and the marking firm he contracted are required to report the percentages retained by marketing to the Massachusetts AG.  But they’re apparently telling folks that “100% goes to veterans” – when the typical “cut” for telemarketers raising funds is around 55%.

At least one complaint has been made to the Massachusetts Stat AG about the Massachusetts Veterans Emergency Fund.  Nothing was done.

And for some reason, the Massachusettes AG – Marsha Coakley – just doesn’t seem to want to discuss the matter.  Hmmmm.

Gotta love Massachusetts.  Apparently it’s OK there to lie about more than just phantom Native American ancestry.

Last year, Gateway Pundit sent us this photo of Hallis Mailen to see what we could dig up on him;

At the time, in the countless profiles of him on the internet, nothing indicated he’d ever been in the military – that’s how proud he was of his service. But, he stopped by last month to threaten us with a lawsuit because we had poked fun at his dirty feet, so Hondo sent away to the NPRC for his records. It turns out that he was in the Army back in the early 80s. And he was indeed stationed in Korea.

So we were curious about what could have caused “ptsd FROM THINGS I WITNESSED WHILE IN SOUTH KOREA”. He was a Decontamination Equipment Operator in Headquarters Company, 2d Engineer Battalion when there was an incident on Ingman Range in Korea in which four NCOs were murdered and another wounded when two privates went berserk on the firing line. (By the way, according to the testimony, one of the murderers was spouting jihadist BS when he was apprehended).

Apparently, the entire company was on the qualification range that day, but according to the CID investigation, because of the terrain on the firing line, no one witnessed the shootings except the gunmen and the victims. So, Hallis may have HEARD the shooting, but he didn’t “witness” it as he claims. So, basically, he gets a pension from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs because he experienced that which all of us have experienced – hearing rifles discharged while on a firing range.

So, because he threatened us with a lawsuit and for no other reason, here are his records;

I don’t know what brain surgeon designed a firing range where the tower couldn’t see two firing points, but according to the above-linked report it happened and Mailen didn’t “witness” anything. But it figures that the VA would give him a disability rating for hearing rifle shots on a firing range when there are so many stuck in the queue who really deserve disability.

And he probably should still wash his stinkin’ feet.

Four Marines were targeted by egg-tossing vandals while the Marines were collecting for the Toys For Tots charity on a street corner in San Angelo, Texas. Apparently, the egg-throwing pillars of the community stole the eggs from Walmart and were tossing them at randomly selected victims in the early morning traffic. Of course, the Marines avoided being struck by the missiles, according to the Marine Corps Times;

The incident occurred shortly before 6 a.m., according to San Angelo police. The department received several calls about the occupants of a pickup truck throwing eggs at pedestrians and other vehicles in town.

The pedestrians were the Marines, volunteers for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, who had set up shop at the intersections of Arden Way, Avenue N and Sherwood Way to collect new Christmas toys to be given to less fortunate children in the community.

The truck almost hit one of the Marines as it sped by — and almost collided head-on with another vehicle — before hitting a traffic island a short while later, according to Lt. Mike Hernandez, a police spokesperson.

The driver, Hunter Holbert, 18, was arrested and charged with reckless driving and criminal mischief. Two other 18-year-olds, Brandon Garcia and Taylor White, and an unidentified juvenile male, all passengers in Holbert’s vehicle, were also cited for criminal mischief.

The Marines don’t think they were targeted because of who they are, but that doesn’t change the circumstances. The driver ought to get charged with attempted homicide for nearly running over the one Marine. That would be Texas justice.

That’s the sentence for Jared Loughner in a Tucson courtroom today. I guess that pretty much seals it for him, well, until someone decides that the gun should be punished instead. From Fox 10, the victims had their say;

Patricia Maisch, who helped tackle Loughner on Jan. 8, was the first to speak in court. “That beautiful day our mental health system failed us. For six that failure was devastating and unimaginable,” Maisch said.

Suzi Hileman addressed the court saying, “I will now walk out of this courtroom, and I will never think of you again.” She looked directly at Loughner, who sat still looking at her and listening.

Mavanell Stoddard, whose husband was killed in the shooting said, “You took my precious husband and ruined my whole life. He died saving me.” Her husband died trying to shield her from the gunfire. She said she hoped Loughner could can find Jesus, “I forgive you. I don’t hate you. I hate the act you performed.”

Congressman Ron Barber, injured in the shooting, said, “We saw the courage of strangers coming to our aid. We saw great kindness as we began our healing. Now you must pay the price.”

Giffords and Kelly addressed Loughner together. Giffords stood next to her husband as he read a strongly worded statement. Kelly said, “For the first and last time, you’re going to hear from Gabby and me…Pay attention.”

Kelly said to Loughner, “You tried to bring us into your dark, evil world. But know this, you failed.”

“You may have put her bullet through her head, but you did not put a dent in her spirit,” he said.

No word from Sheriff Dupnik, whose reputation took a hit that day that still hasn’t recovered. Although it looks like he salvaged his office in this election. We, the other victims, still haven’t heard from Linda Lopez who speculated that Loughner was an Afghanistan veteran.

The Associated Press reports that Breanna Manning has offered to plead guilty to some charges against him, but not the ones that carry heavy sentences, of course, that would take guts, or something else anatomical that he doesn’t seem to have;

Coombs says Manning isn’t pleading guilty to the offenses charged by the government. Rather, he’s offering to take responsibility for less serious offenses that are encapsulated within the charged crimes.

Even if the court accepts the offer, military prosecutors could still try to prove Manning guilty of the more serious charges. They include aiding the enemy, punishable by life imprisonment.

The article continues that he has chosen a trial by judge rather than by a jury of his peers. That’s probably the way I’d go, too. In the Army, a jury of your peers will end up being a bunch of sergeant majors