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Category: Shitbags

  • Don’t pose for pictures you wouldn’t want your Mom to see

    Idaho2run sent us this link from the Air Force Times;

    “Da Dumpt, Da Dumpt …. Sucks 2 Be U” is written under the photo, which was emailed to Air Force Times.

    In the picture, tech sergeants and staff sergeants stand with junior airmen surrounding the metallic casket, similar to those used to carry war dead home to the U.S.

    The purpose of the photo, its inscription and its intended audience are not known.

    Yeah, if Abu Ghraib has taught us anything, don’t do stupid shit and, more importantly, and I can’t stress this enough, don’t take pictures of it.

  • Hawaii 5-0 and the Pearl Harbor veterans

    Claymore and Bill have sent us links to the story about the trouble at the Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony between the veterans, their hosts and the production crew of the TV show “Hawaii 5-0”. Apparently CBS issued an apology;

    I’m a fan of the show (well, more accurately, I’m a fan of Grace Park) and I’m fairly shocked that they’d treat actual Pearl Harbor veterans like this.

    The main character is supposed to be the son of a Pearl Harbor veteran and the show has always spoken reverently of the battle at Pearl Harbor and the men who fought there that day. It’s unfortunate that the reverence didn’t carry over to the moment they were actually confronted with real veterans.

    The only way they can get me back as a weekly viewer is to have more scenes of Grace Park running along the beach in a bikini for no apparent reason.

  • Vandals destroy wreaths at Philly memorial

    Toothless Dawg sends this link to an article about a serial vandal at Philadelphia’s Korean War Memorial;

    For the third December in a row, custodian James Moran says he’s picking up the pieces by the war memorials at Penn’s Landing.

    This afternoon he called police after discovering five wreaths destroyed. They were placed by the Korean War Memorial on Veterans Day.

    “We have young men and women dying in Afghanistan and Iraq for our flag; it’s a disgrace this goes on every single year,” Moran said.

    Moran says flowers were torn off or stolen. Moran found what was left strewn across the plaza or stuffed in a trash can.

  • No, you don’t have a choice

    VTWoody sends a link to some silly shit in California (where else?). It seems that the do-it-yourself giant Lowes pulled ads from a Muslim reality show “All-American Muslim” after an advocacy group “Florida Family Association complained that the show was “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.”

    So some California State Senator, Ted Lieu, D-Torrance is calling for a boycott of Lowes because the retail giant’s decision is “un-American” and “naked religious bigotry”.

    “We want to raise awareness so that consumers will know during this holiday shopping season that Lowe’s is engaging in religious discrimination,” he said.

    In addition to an apology and reinstatement of the ads, Lieu said he hoped Lowe’s would make an outreach to the community about bias and bigotry.

    So a company isn’t allowed to make decisions based on their consumers’ wishes without some government moron interfering. Last I heard, Lieu had to change the privacy settings on his Facebook page because he was getting so much criticism yesterday. So he can’t handle criticism much like Lowes. Funny how that irony thing works, huh?

  • Another Toys for Tots phony

    Derek Walls told everyone he was a Marine Corps colonel for years while he ran his paintball range and volunteered in the local annual Toys for Tots drive. Then he was arrested for raping a 16-year-old employee at his tanning salon. The local prosecutor dropped the charges for a lack of evidence and Walls asked the Florida Today newspaper to write about the good he’d done in his community and not the allegations against him.

    The Florida Today staff did what they were supposed to do and checked his military records. Turns out he spent a few months in the Marine Corps and was discharged a Private First Class back in 1988 – but that’s almost like a colonel, right?

    t. Col. Michael Powell, deputy director of the Marine Corps’ Assistance & Investigations Division, told FLORIDA TODAY in an email that he “cannot confirm or deny any other action on this case.”

    In his interview with FLORIDA TODAY, Walls would not discuss whether lying during the past two decades was necessary to contribute to his community and would not delve further into his military record.

    “There are certain things Marines don’t want to discuss,” he said when FLORIDA TODAY pressed for further explanation. “Some things are better left not talked about.”

    Yeah, well, in a conversation on Facebook with his rape victim, he told her was dying within a few months of a “mutant strain of the Gulf War syndrome”. It looks like he should have clammed up long before the interview with some journalists who commendably did their jobs.

    Thanks to Brian for the link.

  • Red Cross: Gamers are safe from war crime prosecution

    TT sends a link to from Huffington Post which updates the bit I wrote about the red Cross wanting to regulte war crimes in cideo games;

    The International Committee of the Red Cross says media reports that it is investigating whether the Geneva Conventions apply to video games are false.

    The Swiss-based humanitarian group assured gamers Thursday that “serious violations of the laws of war can only be committed in real-life situations.”

    The ICRC says it is nevertheless interested in working with video game makers to promote a better understanding of international humanitarian law because some companies also develop war simulations for armed forces.

    Yeah, that’s what I said when I wrote the piece. I read their committee report and it didn’t mention video games, but it did mention how they want to change the “violent culture” that they feel turns youths into violent soldiers. In other words, like I said before, they want to regulate video game violence.

    And if they didn’t want to stick their nose where it doesn’t belong, why didn’t Alexandra Boivin say that when she was questioned initially? It took them more than week to craft the statement? I trust the terrorist-huggers at the Red Cross about as far as I could throw their headquarters.

  • Hundreds of remains of fallen heroes sent to the dump

    ROS, VTWoody and Old Trooper have been sending us links to this story in the Washington Post about how Air Force personnel somehow decided to dispose of the remains of hundreds of fallen warriors at the local landfill;

    The landfill disposals were never formally authorized under military policies or regulations. They also were not disclosed to senior Pentagon officials who conducted a high-level review of cremation policies at the Dover mortuary in 2008, records show.

    Air Force and Pentagon officials said last month that determining how many remains went to the landfill would require searching through the records of more than 6,300 troops whose remains have passed through the mortuary since 2001.

    So, find the fucksticks who did it and make them sort the shit out under the strict supervision of some combat warriors. They must know who did this dastardly deed. Find ’em and fuck ’em. It’s one thing when bureaucrats did that screwy shit at Arlington, it’s quite another when active duty people do it.

  • Who is the victim here?

    UpNorth sends us a link to wonderfully heart warming story about a fellow named Anthony Miranda and his intended victim. For a hint on how the story turns out, that’s Miranda in the mug shot;

    The victim was sitting in his car near Kenneth Avenue and 55th Street about 11:30 p.m. Friday when [Anthony Miranda] came up to the car and asked him for a light, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

    The man in the car replied that he didn’t have a light, and the other man pulled out a handgun and demanded the driver’s valuables, Mirabelli said. The driver handed over his cash, wallet and valuables, and the gunman then ordered him out of the car.

    At some point, the older man was able to grab hold of the handgun, and during a struggle, the robber discharged a round, striking himself in the ankle, Mirabelli said.

    The victim was able to hold the robber until police arrived. When he turned the robber over to police, the victim told them that he participates in Ultimate Fighting Championships,

    See, doesn’t that story just warm the cockles of your heart?