Someone wrote to tell us about a radio host in St Louis, MO by the name of Dave Glover beseeched listeners to help Alisa Jenkins, a widowed mother who had lost her husband in Iraq about 18 months ago. The story goes like this;
Eighteen months ago, she and her children were hit with the devastating news that Anthony had been killed in action.
At this time, Alisha is struggling with the hardship of supporting her family on her own.
Their utilities have been turned off, and she is behind on her rent and car payment. She is trying to put on a brave face for her children, but has realized that they need help. Now, the most pressing issue for her and her children is being able to stay warm through the winter.
And it’s hard to believe that a mother could burn through $300,000 of tax free insurance money and the monthly check from the Army as well as the Social Security check for the fatherless children. I think someone ought to check up and see if she really has lung cancer, too.
So this poser goes by the name Nathan Seal, yea real original. He is claiming to be a Lieutenant in the Navy as well as being a SEAL. Oh and least not forget the CAR, standard poser issue. I made a screen shoot as back up when he deletes his account to hid the proof. Thanks to Extreme SEAL for finding this POS.
Country Singer sends us this video of an obese shitbag who admits that he dons a military uniform to get free food and drinks on Veterans’ Day “to protest the hypocrisy in this country”.
He finishes his little statement with “There is some glory in pretending to be a soldier”. First of all, who would be fooled by this wide load of shit in uniform? Secondly, if I were him, I’d consider missing a few of those free meals. It’s great that the Ninth Circuit has decided that this fat fuck deserves the right to defraud Americans by denigrating the uniform.
The stupid peckerwood says he paid $200 for his uniform…he probably spent as much on the uniform as all of the meals and drinks he’s received as a result of wearing it. Now that he’s put his bloated face out in public, I hope someone recognizes him the next time he tries his little scam and wipes that stupid grin off his face with a firm right cross.
The comments on YouTube are priceless, by the way.
So just like a similar case that happened Saint Xavier University a few years ago. Professor Michael Avery sent the email in response to a campus wide email asking support for care packages. According to the people over at “Above the Law”, he said the following below.
I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings. I understand that there is a residual sympathy for service members, perhaps engendered by support for troops in World War II, or perhaps from when there was a draft and people with few resources to resist were involuntarily sent to battle. That sympathy is not particularly rational in today’s world, however.
The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization. We have been at war two years out of three since the Cold War ended. We have 700 overseas military bases. What other country has any? In the last ten years we have squandered hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary foreign invasions. Those are dollars that could have been used for people who are losing their homes due to the economic collapse, for education, to repair our infrastructure, or for any of a thousand better purposes than making war. And of course those hundreds of billions of dollars have gone for death and destruction.
Perhaps some of my colleagues will consider this to be an inappropriate political statement. But of course the solicitation email was a political statement, although cast as support for student activities. The politics of that solicitation are that war is legitimate, perhaps inevitable, and that patriotic Americans should get behind our troops.
We need to be more mindful of what message we are sending as a school. Since Sept. 11 we have had perhaps the largest flag in New England hanging in our atrium. This is not a politically neutral act. Excessive patriotic zeal is a hallmark of national security states. It permits, indeed encourages, excesses in the name of national security, as we saw during the Bush administration, and which continue during the Obama administration.
Why do we continue to have this oversized flag in our lobby? Why are we sending support to the military instead of Americans who are losing their homes, malnourished, unable to get necessary medical care, and suffering from other consequences of poverty? As a university community, we should debate these questions, not remain on automatic pilot in support of the war agenda.
The author over at “Above the Law” does a good job at destroying Avery’s email. So head on over there for his full reply. Also 96.9 Boston Talks is asking for feedback on this email. They can be reached at this link.
The Huffinton Post must be sucking canal water for diarists these days. Our old buddy and recent contestant in our stolen valor tournament, Matthis explained to the brainless hippies in his typically verbose manner why there are no leaders of the OWS protests;
Being a leader in a movement I saw as plagued with too much leadership and not enough initiative on the ground, I tried simply to be an example of revolt. If anything, I hoped to use my position to assert new ideas and radical tactics. I tried to promote individual autonomy while myself pushing the bounds of acceptable dialogue to create a new cognitive space from which to organize; one not in service to a flag or a political party or a specific ideology, but exclusively to the values they all claim to monopolize.
While this approach made me stand out, ironically, as a leader, it also ‘learned’ me a powerful lesson: leaders are targets, and certain interests in this country know little ethical restraint when striking at them to strike at the movements and ideas behind them.
To be a leader on the left in the U.S. is to invite incredibly harsh scrutiny, and oftentimes harassment. From the state, from the populace, from the opposition and sometimes even from those you thought to be your friends. To stick one’s head up in a movement now-a-days is to beg that it get beaten down. Part of this ‘whack-a-mole’ practice is broader human tradition. Part is a matter of intent.
Yeah, when you’re a leader, you probably shouldn’t be an immoral piece of shit liar…I guess he didn’t want to admit that in his wordy treatise on a subject about which he knows nothing.
Matthis was forced out of the IVAW because he went against the mjority of the group’s actual veterans, he lied about the extenet of his service and his reasons for resisting the war. I guess he still wo’t admit his own failings to himself, so we have to keep reminding people.
Adirondack Patriot sends a link from the Albany Times Union in regards to the bad day that former weapons inspector Scott Ritter had in court today.
Ritter asked Wednesday for a new trial, basing his request on an appeals court ruling in New York that records from two previous incidents in Colonie in 2001 should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial.
Defense attorney Gary Kohlman argued the New York ruling entitled Ritter to a new trial because prosecutors based much of their strategy on the argument that Ritter had a history of illicit online sex.
“It became, as I feared, the tail that was wagging the dog at trial,” Kohlman said in court
So that’s three times that Ritter has been convicted of soliciting sex from detectives he thought were teenage girls. You’d think he’d learn, right?
Paula Brust, a member of the Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, testified for the prosecution that based on Ritter’s history, he is at risk to offend again.
“He is not able to manage his offending in the community despite sex offender treatment,” she said.
Of course, Ritter told the jury that he knew they were detectives and he followed through because he was depressed because Darth Cheney headed efforts to disparage him when he tirned against the Iraq War, and hoped to be arrested. He should be ecstatic that he’s been convicted, then, huh? Of course his convictions in New York were two years before the Iraq War.
In a nation chocked full of crybabies, in a political party of largely crybabies, how do you manage to stand out as a the biggest crybaby in history? Well, you sue because you lost an election because of your voting record which adhered slavishly to the party line, like crybaby Ohio’s Steve Driehaus.
It seems, according to US News, that the Susan B. Anthony List pro-life group campaigned against Driehaus because of his pro-abortion voting record, so Driehaus, using th president’s executive order, written to give cover to Democrats who voted for his healthcare regorm plan, to call Susan B. Anthony List’s attacks “lies”.
And you’d think that a judge with half a brain would toss out the case, right? Well, not Obama appointee U.S. District Court judge Timothy S. Black who allowed Driehaus to go forward in an attempt to enforce the Lawyers’ Employment Act.
What is equally curious, however, is why Judge Black has allowed the case to move forward and why he did not recuse himself from it since, as Barbara Hollingsworth reported Friday in The Washington Examiner, he apparently is the former president and director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati. As seeming conflicts of interest go this one is a real humdinger.
And as TSO says, they say the Stolen valor Act has a chilling effect on political speech, but they allow this crybaby shit go forward.
So TSO sent me this article from CNN about Iraq war veteran Robert Rissman, 22 who is on the streets of LA after being discharged from the Army. he tells Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a turd in his own right how Rissman was in a “Quick Reation Force” who saw action “night after night” and suffered from PTSD and was discharged because of his suicidal thoughts. CNN shows his DD214 in the video below;
They also show a picture of him and his unit standing on the ramps of some FISTVs (fire support vehicles) so i started wondering about his ‘acton” Night after night”. I blew up a screenshot of his DD214 n the video;
He was a 13D, artilleryman on a FIST Vehicle. Not much action there. Before you Red Legs get bent out of shape, stick with the story for a minute more. The DD214 says he was in Iraq december 2008 until August 2009…so how much action was tyhere to see? It was after the surge. And if he saw “action” “night after night”, wouldn’t he have a CAB? there’s none on the DD214, in fact there are no awards for anyone who would have the record he’s claiming to have, beyond the “everyone” awards….there’s nothing wrong with that, mind you, but it doesn’t match his blather to CNN.
Well, what cinched it was this comment on another article about Rissman from someone claiming to have served with him;
BIGGY MIKE says:
October 23, 2011 at 8:18 AM
Are you serious? Look, this is a very serious issue about homeless veterans, but you have honestly chosen the wrong veteran to come talk about this stuff. I was overseas with this young kid. He was far from always seeing action, they were rarely deployed out, and nor was this kid in any sort of “action” ever. Those of us that are still in the unit saw this and was highly outraged at the fact that the media didnt do any sort of background check on this person. This person was discharged from the army for a myriad of reasons, nothing to do with PTSD or anything of that nature. We have done more and seen more on our currently deployment that we did lasty deployment. 1 person from our BRIGADE earned a CAB (Combat Action Badge) from last deployment. That is 1 in about 2500 soldiers. Serious issue, wrong person to feature.
One guy from the whole Brigade earned a CAB…one guy saw “action” – that’s why they call it a “Combat ACTION Badge”. So what did Rissman see that gave him PTSD? Did he see the civilian contractor spill the sprinkles for his sundae on the floor at Baskin Robbins? Did his pickle on his Whopper have a dust bunny on it?
CNN giving these numbnuts a platform without looking into their background does nothing for the homeless veterans or the REAL PTSD victims.
