This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Shitbags

  • Why does Michael Yon hate dead people?

    If you haven’t been paying attention, and I don’t blame you, it gets boring after a while, but Michael Yon made a big deal about the number of people he blocked from his Facebook page yesterday. Our own TSO was on that list. So was Blackfive, but Blackfive made a point of posting on the braggart’s page. Before the end of the day, I found myself blocked because I asked “Who is this Michael Yon everyone is talking about?”

    Now I’m in that not so exclusive club…I was feeling left out for a while.

    Yon messaged me that he suspects me of being CJ Grisham now and I’m supposed to email him from my AKO account to prove I’m not CJ. Yeah, I’m going to answer all of those security questions at AKO just to email dickweed.

    Anyway, I was wondering why does Michael Yon hate dead people;

    If I blocked everyone on this blog who disagrees with me once, It’d be me, all by myself, clicking my ads all day long (that’s not a metaphor for masturbation, by the way). Even TSO disagrees with me sometimes.

  • Lawyers and PTSD Bullshit

    The news today in regards to SSG Robert Bales, the sergeant who apparently murdered 19 Afghans last weekend, is that he’s meeting with his shyster lawyer, according to Fox News;

    John Henry Browne flew to Kansas Sunday ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year Army veteran, who is being held in an isolated cell at Fort Leavenworth’s military prison.

    Fort Leavenworth spokeswoman Rebecca Steed said Bales would be able to meet Browne in what is described as a privileged visit. Along with medical visits, such meetings are generally more private than others conducted in the prison.

    That expert said charges were still being decided and that the location for any trial had not yet been determined. If the suspect is brought to trial, it is possible that Afghan witnesses and victims would be flown to the United States to participate, he said.

    The Christian Science Monitor reports that the legal team is planning a defense based on Bales’ supposed PTSD;

    The details will be unique to Sgt. Bales. But inevitably they boil down to what hundreds of thousands of GIs have experienced over 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan: the sometimes almost unbearable stress of violent combat and the strains of military life on individuals and their families.

    In Bales’ case, according to initial reports from family members and the Seattle attorney they have engaged, that includes injuries during three previous tours in Iraq, witnessing at close hand the death and dismemberment of fellow soldiers, and financial difficulties on the home front at Joint Base Lewis McChord near Tacoma, Wash.

    Yeah, “hundreds of thousands of GIs” who haven’t killed even one civilian, beat their wives, rammed their car into a bridge, pulled the trigger on themselves [insert your own attempt at violence that you haven’t committed]. “Unique to SSG Bales” is an understatement. I’m not going to speculate on what caused Bales to go downtown and blast away at innocents, but I do know that there are many people on this blog who suffer from PTSD and there’s not one who I wouldn’t welcome into my house without bothering to lock up my gun safe. I’d like to think this blog is part of their self medication, I know it’s part of mine. That’s why I don’t try to restrain discussion here.

    But I hope this cock-holster lawyer takes into account the “hundreds of thousands of GIs” who he’ll be affecting by calling the choices his client made “PTSD”. Of course, I’m hoping against hope here, but there’s always a chance.

    And for all of you visitors here who are trying to shame us into dialing back our criticism of SSG Bales and his f*ckstick lawyer, kindly GFY. While we sympathize with his family, nothing they ever wrote on their blog has anything to do with what he did, which is why I haven’t linked to it.

    We are professional soldiers who know bullshit when we see it…and this blog is an ongoing discussion of that bullshit. Save that “innocent until proven guilty” shit for the jury. We are not bound by the constitution here. And we’re all pretty pissed off that the choices that SSG Bales made will affect the people we care most about when they’re in Afghanistan…wanna talk about fairness? The people who’ve done their duty, stuck to their own lofty principles despite repeated tours of duty in the war against terror, are the ones who will ultimately pay the price for Bales’ actions. I can’t change that, but I will push back against attempts to smear them with a broadbrush like this dickweed lawyer will try.

  • Brother of Darrell and Darrell sentenced for threatening Arpaio

    Well, I don’t know what his brothers’ names are, I’m just guessing from his appearance, but Adam Cox won’t be getting any jail time for threatening Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family on the internet according to MyFox Phoenix;

    A man described as a President Barack Obama fanatic pleads guilty to threatening to kill Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

    Naw, that can’t be true, Stick Boy is an Obama supporter? But they’re all so gentle and well-spoken. Someone made a mistake. I blame Ed Schultz for making him a criminal, though. I mean that hate radio just drives people to that shit, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t listen to Limbaugh.

    He ought to count his lucky stars that he didn’t go to prison with that name.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • 3-2-1 Daily Kos blames Limbaugh for Afghanistan shootings

    The only thing that really surprises me about this is that took almost a whole day for the Left to make the connection;

    Yeah, the reason the American Staff Sergeant in Afghanistan went and killed those 16 people is because he was forced by AFN to listen to Rush Limbaugh;

    I lived in Asia several years ago and the only English-language station on the radio dial was Armed Forces Radio. I was homesick and had to listen to Rush Limbaugh’s daily rants out of desperation to hear my beloved English being spoken.

    I guess the radios in Asia don’t have off switches. If she wanted to hear her “beloved English”, she could have gone out made some friends, the stupid cow, instead of using this vacuous excuse for listening to Rush Limbaugh.

    The Rush Limbaugh Show is being broadcast to troops on bases all over the world. However, America has too much at stake, to allow this seedy, ugly-spirited man to roll around in the minds of vulnerable young men. These soldiers are thousands of miles from home, getting shot at by an enemy indistinguishable from our Afghan allies, for a war whose rationale nobody even remembers any more. They need something better than an education in anti-Muslim hatred.

    Of course, the commenters all knew this before Hillard made her intellectually vacant knee jerk connection;

    Well, how many domestic shooting sprees can we indirectly connect to right-wing hate radio?

    True, if we weren’t in Afghanistan those Afghan people would still be alive, but would this person have gone off on an American school somewhere?

    Hate radio in a gun-crazed society is just a bad combination either way you look at it. Consider that as all the vets suffering possible PTSD come home to stay.

    I think we were damned lucky that during the Vietnam war era hate radio wasn’t as prevalent or successful as it is today.

    Maybe if we could just disarm the Wing Nuts;

    Hate Speech and Men with Guns is a bad combination. You’d think these Westpoint [sic] grads doing military planning would know this shit is bound to happen when you feed armed troops a steady diet of hate speech.

    Yeah, cuz Limbaugh is immediately followed by an hour of that fuzzy, reasoned bunny, Ed Schultz on AFN.

  • Update on Patty Murray’s lies

    Yeah, I’m hanging on to this like a pitbull with a chew toy. This is in reference to the post I did last week about [Chair of the Senate’s Veteran Affairs Committee, Democrat-Washington] Patty Murray’s response to one of her constituents in Washington State. The constituent asked Murray why there are so many illegitimate recipients of VA benefits for being POWs. Murray responded that on July 7, 2009, she asked Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Shinseki to look into the situation. Then she said that on May 14, 2010 Shinseki responded that DVA had completed a scrub of the records and had found only two such phonies.

    Our insurgent on Capital Hill could find no such communication from Shinseki, so he asked me to call yesterday and ask for a copy of the letter from Murray to Shinseki, July 7, 2009. And I did, I talked to a polite young man by the name of Ben and told him the story and asked that he send me a copy of the letter. He went through all of the motions, then came back on the phone and said they were having trouble locating the letter, could he take my contact information and email me a copy. So we did that.

    Having not heard anything, I called back this morning. Funny thing, when I called on my cell phone, which I used yesterday, my call went straight to v-mail. But when I called using a different phone, someone picked up immediately. I asked the young lady if I could speak to Ben and after leaving me on hold for a minute or so, she came back and told me that Ben was unavailable, but that she was familiar with my inquiry and that they were checking with [someone] to see if they’re allowed to share that letter with me and that they’d be getting back to me.

    A little bird told me that no such letter exists, and they’re just hoping that my inquiry dies on the vine, but they must not know me very well. My next stop is the Washington Post, or the Washington Times, whichever finds this story more interesting.

    Ben asked me for the URL of the blog twice, so; Hi, Ben.

  • UN: Brad (Breanna) Manning tortured

    So after a 14-month investigation, the UN special rapporteur on torture has decided that the US government is guilty of cruel and inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning (who prefers to be called Breanna) and he’s officially accused the US.

    Manning has been in custody for almost two years and was held in solitary confinement at Quantico – more than likely for his own protection. Of course, the UN investigator isn’t concerned with Manning’s safety. I’m sure the UN considers any imprisonment cruel and humane as long as the US is doing it. The Guardian:

    Mendez, who runs the UN office that investigates incidents of alleged torture around the world, told the Guardian: “I conclude that the 11 months under conditions of solitary confinement (regardless of the name given to his regime by the prison authorities) constitutes at a minimum cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of article 16 of the convention against torture. If the effects in regards to pain and suffering inflicted on Manning were more severe, they could constitute torture.”

    I wonder what the UN would conclude if they released Manning into the general population and he was raped daily or killed outright by some prisoner who still had the flame of patriotism burning in his dark soul. I’m pretty sure that if I were ever in prison, I’d prefer solitary confinement. But then, I don’t think I’d be a willing participant in some of the activities that men’s prisons are known for. That might not be the case with Breanna.

  • Like, b w/u in spirit…man.

    As an admittedly petty aside, Coffee Strong has cancelled their “memorial” outside the gates of JBLM for the sixteen Afghans killed in the Stryker soldier’s shooting spree. They told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that they cancelled it because they didn’t want to appear “anti-military”.

    Their supporters and members (a who’s who of Seattle area anti-military left-wing radicals) didn’t seem to feel that way. CS’s event page on facebook is filled with regretful apologies that they can’t get away from the bong tonight. In other words nobody was going to show up.

  • Taliban vows revenge for yesterday’s killings

    Yeah, I know, it’s kind of not news at all, since they kill Afghans for everything, but now the Taliban is promising to extract revenge for the shooting spree yesterday, supposedly perpetrated by a US soldier. So I wonder how many Afghans, the Taliban will kill in the name of revenge (Fox News link);

    “If the perpetrators of this massacre were in fact mentally ill then this testifies to yet another moral transgression by the American military because they are arming lunatics in Afghanistan who turn their weapons against the defenseless Afghans without giving a second thought,” the statement said.

    Yeah, it’s a real contradiction, since the Taliban have an actual strategy that includes turning “their weapons on defenseless Afghans”.

    On another note related to this, Michael Yon, who I’ve pretty much ignored up until now, has blamed our fellow Milblogger, CJ Grisham for the shooting.

    I guess Yon is working for the Taliban these days. It’s charming, not so much, that he parrots the Taliban line. Just to give you an idea of his misinformation that he’s disseminating on Facebook, he also said that the weather was good enough for protests in Afghanistan yesterday but protests didn’t happen, while people who are actually there are telling me that the weather was pretty miserable there which kept the goat ropers inside.

    So much for being embedded from thousands of miles away. Guess which one of these tags are for you, Mikey;