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Category: Shitbags

  • Ultimate phony soldier sentenced

    Back in April, I wrote about Yupeng Deng, the ultimate phony soldier who not only didn’t have a military career, but recruited other phonies and built a whole unit of Chinese nationals who hoped that by joining the ranks of phonies, they would achieve US citizenship.

    Well he pleaded guilty yesterday;

    Deng pleaded guilty to one count each of theft, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeiting an official government seal, and a Los Angeles County judge sentenced him immediately.

    Deng also pleaded guilty to felony possession of child pornography, which stemmed from a computer search by authorities investigating the military scam. He was sentenced to 16 months for that charge, but the time will be served concurrently with the rest of his sentence.

    Besides the prison sentence, Deng was ordered to pay about $200,000 in restitution. Ten other counts were dismissed as part of a plea deal.

    This is how he was finally busted;

    Walnut city councilman and U.S. Army veteran Joaquin Lim sensed something was amiss when he saw Deng’s troops at civic events held by the Chinese immigrant community. At a flag-raising ceremony honoring a Chinese holiday, Lim stopped one of the recruits and asked to see his military ID.

    “There were actually typos on the ID card,” Lim said. “Right away, I knew something was wrong.”

    It was another veteran who discovered the large-scale plot to defraud his own countrymen. We know phonys when we see them, so it’s our responsibility to report it, since not many others will take the time.

    Thanks to John for the link.

  • Hippie dirtbag appears in Syria

    NotSoOldMarine sends a link to the story that hippie shitbag, Dennis Kucinich magically appeared in Syria and praised murderous tyrant Bashar al-Assad saying that Assad is “highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians.” Well, maybe the ones who are still alive and not clinging to life in a hospital somewhere.

    But the Ohio Democrat released a statement Tuesday saying he was misquoted by Syrian media.

    Well, no shit, Sherlock, just by being there you give the thug propaganda material.

    Syrian state media quoted Kucinich as saying during the press conference, “President Bashar al-Assad cares so much about what is taking place in Syria, which is evident in his effort towards a new Syria and everybody who meets him can be certain of this.”

    Kucinich isn’t saying who paid for his trip, but I think we all know, don’t we?

    However, the Ohio Congressman did not rush to blame Syrian state-run media, saying in the same statement that the mistranslations were “unfortunate [but] … not a willful intent to mischaracterize my statements or my efforts in the region.”

    Some have pushed back on Kucinich’s explanation for the quotations. Foreign Policy writer David Kenner notes that Kucinich does not speak Arabic, and that since the original Syrian news article was in English, no translation would have been necessary.

    Fuckstick moron.

  • LA schools; Homework is racist

    ROS and Eleven-Bravo sent us a link to the LA Times which makes the case for reducing homework in LA schools because it’s keeping students back, somehow from something;

    For while the days of actual Jim Crow laws in California may be gone, Latino and African-American school children are profoundly segregated and at a serious disadvantage.

    Imagine how segregated they’re going to feel when they get culled out of the herd of employable people because they think they can bitch and get a lesser work load out in the real world (not to be confused with the MTV show).

    From LAWeekly Blogs;

    Based on the theory that homework is more likely to be completed by kids with a secure home life and involved parents — aka, the white middle class — LAUSD is forcing teachers to cap homework at 10 percent of a student’s grade, beginning next month.

    “The policy is intended to account for the myriad urban problems facing the district’s mostly low-income, minority population,” writes the Los Angeles Times today.

    Yeah, less education is the answer to the myriad urban problems.

    Alvaro Ramirez, a junior at the Santee Education Complex, doesn’t have his own room and his mother baby-sits young children at night. “They’re always there and they’re always loud,” he said, explaining his challenges with homework.

    Not at all like a workplace, huh? It’s funny, but many educators have discovered that every time they make demands on a student, the student at least meets those new challenges…and students who aren’t challenged also meet those expectations.

    And they wonder why the world thinks Americans are unemployable.

  • Update on HOA vs. Homes For Our Troops skirmish

    Claymore sends us this link to an update from WJBF Channel 6 TV station on the post I wrote yesterday concerning Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean Gittens and his family who trying to build a home with assistance of Homes For Our Troops;

    A Columbia County family is one step closer to getting a brand new home. After lots of controversy from our viewers after our story aired, the Homeowners Association president reached out to Homes For Our Troops Thursday night with a solution.

    That solution includes architectural changes like adding more shutters but not extra room.

    The president for Homes For Our Troops says they’ll build a home for the Gittens, regardless of whether its in Knob Hill, or not.

    Personally, I wouldn’t move to that neighborhood for nuthin’. The home owners association has already made it clear that they’re a bunch of insufferable pricks – who would want to live among them? The Gittens have to go through all of this crap to build a perfectly suitable home – imagine the guff they’re going to get after they move in to the neighborhood. Screw that. I hope the Gittens move somewhere they’re appreciated.

    Here’s the original TV report;

  • Update on phoney SEAL Salhem Dreasden/Dan L McGrew

    Since the story first came out there as been a collective effort to find who this guy is. Everyone seems to be pitching on on this on. Also this case of stolen valor is has gotten help from the racing community as well as the military one. I added additional information to the original post so I just talk about the newer info.

    We know what his real name is Dan L McGrew. There is a interesting post about him from someone who know him. The more I read, the more it sounds like someone else we know.

    You did the same thing to Marvin. Remember Marvin? You burglarized the local Masonic Temple here, and you stashed a bunch of your stolen property in his shed. Were you planning to recreate yourself a high ranking Mason? Perhaps the son of one?

    Then there’s the issue of the hot checks you wrote. Two thousand. Ten thousand. Somewhere in between.In any case, my house was harrassed for over a year by people from Steve’s Git-n-Go, Carrow’s, Some bowling place (a hot check for a bowling ball, Dan?!), etc., etc., etc. All this because you used my address to open your bank account with Wells Fargo! Your probation officer finally gave me a stack of his business cards so that I could just start referring people to him (which I did).

    Oh and it seems that he is claiming that he has won awards at the HIN Austin.A friend said that he would help out by asking around the to see if anyone has heard of him at any event he attended.

    Also he is pretending to have a Afghanistan deployment on a youtube account that was linked back to him.

    But the best part is this statement made from the post listed above.

    I guess I should probably be indignant, even outraged at your insinuation that I had a hand in destroying your life there.But you know what, Dan (and your name is Dan – not Sahlem), I’m not. I’m only slightly irritated – really more amused than anything. Your current drama seems to be nothing more than one more episode of the same tired sitcom. Your life there was like your life here: a fragile house of cards (ie: lies) you created for yourself. And when it all falls down, Liar Dan the Pathological convinces himself it’s someone else’s fault (again). Take some responsibility, Dan.

    But given your history, I don’t understand your upset. Hasn’t it always been easy for you to simply move on and create yourself a whole new backstory to con people with? It’s like a game to you. You kinda remind me of the character Leonardo DiCaprio played in that movie “Catch Me If You Can”.

    Wow, I swear that sounds like someone we know, but who?

    Oh and as a special treat I am offering a two for one phoney deal today. Saw this on the news last night.

    After fleeing the Navy in 2006, 26-year-old Royce Allen Eagle lived in Alaska under a false identity until last year when authorities tracked down his fingerprints

  • Matthis still in your schools

    I know there must be some Philadelphia tax payers in this crowd that are upset that a phony Afghanistan veteran and admitted rapist is lying to your kids in the schools that you fund.

    He still claims he is an Afghanistan veteran. In this video, he claims he “trained up” for his six days at the Bagram Baskin Robbins. He tells the kids that soldiers are trained to shoot civilians.

    He spews out statistics about 1 in 3 women being sexually assaulted while they’re in the military. 1 in 5 men are sexually assaulted during their terms. He gets those figures from a study that sent out hundreds of thousands of surveys and got only few thousand surveys back. One third of the women and 20% of the men who responded claimed to have been sexually assaulted. Not a very scientific survey.

    According to Matthis, 1 in 4 homeless people in NYC are veterans and veterans are the largest demographic among the homeless. More accurately, more homeless claim to be veterans than they claim to be from any other demographic. Most of the homeless veterans I’ve talked to wouldn’t know an M16 from an E-tool.

    And you’re all drug-adled sociopaths teetering on the edge of suicide like him.

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  • This is why DC doesn’t have a voting member of Congress

    The residents of DC send complete knuckleheads to Congress whenever they get the opportunity to vote, that’s why they have no vote in Congress. When they thought they were getting two Senate seats when Clinton took office, DC residents had a straw election to prepare for the event – they elected Jesse Jackson who isn’t even a resident of DC to be their senator.

    Take this complete moron Eleanor Holmes Norton that is their non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. With all of our economic woes, wars with no end in sight, homeless lining the streets, she wants us all to dance away our troubles;

    The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today revealed two Norton efforts that she believes respond to the recent insistence of people to dance on the National Mall, an indication, she says, of public frustration with the underuse of the Mall for people-related activities. The Congresswoman, in conjunction with “So You Think You Can Dance” producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe, the Dizzy Feet Foundation and the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, will host National Dance Day on Saturday, July 30, 2011, on the National Mall.

    Yeah, the Park police shut down the Mall for a lot of these types of activities because of the criminal element that the events attracted. A workmate tells me that a woman was sexually assaulted in front of her family on the National Mall a few years back.

    So what inspired her to advance this new project and why would I mention it on a Milblog? Adam Kokesh and Medea Benjamin;

    Norton said she was glad that police showed restraint and avoided arrests of people dancing at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, but understood the frustration of some tourists who were cleared from the Lincoln Memorial for a period of time. A lawsuit, which would-be dancers lost in the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2011, and the arrests of dancers at the Lincoln Memorial last week have not stopped the desire of people to dance on the Mall, however.

    Now that’s inspirational. The Footloose Remake reaches Stage Two.

    Thanks to Suzie for the tip.

  • More SWAT antics; Another mystery solved (UPDATED)

    Old Trooper sends us this article which clears up the mystery that we discussed several months ago in regards to the Department of Education need for newer shotguns;

    Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

    “He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,” Wright said.

    According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

    As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for was not there – Wright’s estranged wife.

    “They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids,” Wright said.

    Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright’s search warrant.

    The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife’s defaulted student loans.

    That the Education Department has a SWAT Team is scary enough, but to think they’d use that SWAT Team to collect on a student loan is right out of some frightening futuristic novel.

    Nice intel gathering, by the way.

    Maybe they could have knocked politely and asked the man if his ex-wife was there or set up surveillance on the house to catch her when she came outside. or are they just justifying the purchase of new scatter-guns and the expenditures for a useless SWAT Team.

    It seems to me that the locals should have asked the feds for some sort of evidence that the lady in question was present in the target house instead of just riding along for the adventure of it all.

    BooRadley sends this link to a news video.

    UPDATE: OK, so the original article was yanked, so I put a link to the cache copy. Apparently it wasn’t because of a student loan…or something;

    Education Department Press Secretary Justin Hamilton said in a statement to The Lookout that the department “does not execute search warrants for late loan payments.” He said the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) “conducts about 30-35 search warrants a year on issues such as bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds.” Hamilton said the department cannot comment on this particular case until the investigation is over, but did add that the claim the warrant was executed for late loan payment is untrue. The raid was related to a criminal investigation of Wright’s wife.

    Ya know it really doesn’t matter why…what matters is that the freaking Department of Education is executing search warrants with their own SWAT team to the wrong people. Busting down doors, dragging people out into their lawns, cuffing them and stuff them in the back of cop cars with their grade school-aged kids. The wrong people.

    The Department of Education has one function – making loans and grants to students and states. WTF are they doing with a SWAT Team? They can explain the reason a hundred thousand different ways and it makes no difference to me.

    And what doofus, Barney Fife MFer spends his whole life training to be on the Education Department’s SWAT Team? For f**k’s sake.

    I’m waiting for the Census Bureau SWAT to raid my house because I chased off the census taker last year when she told me that the federal government needed to know who lived in my house.