Category: “Teh Stoopid”

  • HuffPo Gets Punked

    Oh, this is rich.

    I know few regular TAH readers are HuffPo fans. Well, recently they showed their “mad journalistic skilz”.

    Seems that HuffPo South Africa published – then retracted – some obvious bullsh!t masquerading as an op/ed piece. It seems that someone purporting to be a feminist from South Africa wrote a piece advocating that voting rights be withheld from white males to “wrestle control of the world back from white males”. The restriction wouldn’t be permanent – only “for 20 years (just less than a generation)”.

    The claimed “author” was, of course, fake.  And the person who actually wrote the ridiculous trollbait HuffPo swallowed apparently did it to prove a point:  that the HuffPo would publish anything that fit their editorial worldview, regardless of truth or suitability.  Seems as if the article didn’t even meet HuffPo’s own guidelines for publication.

    Oh, did I mention that the HuffPo went so far as to post an article defending the obvious bullsh!t before realizing it was bullsh!t?  They were forced afterwards not only to run a retraction, but to explicitly state that they were in favor of universal suffrage.

    Heat Street has an article giving more details. It’s a hoot.

    “Mad journalistic skilz”, indeed. “Gullible morons” is more accurate.

    But hey, we’re talking the HuffPo. We should expect no less!

  • Chuck Schumer; crocodile tears, hypocrisy and chaos

    Chuck Schumer; crocodile tears, hypocrisy and chaos

    Chuck “I think we can nail him” Schumer is back at it. He will not be one-upped by Pelosi’s “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it….”.

    Back in 2013, recall, a GOP effort to defund ObamaCare in a federal spending bill led to a 16-day shutdown of the federal government. Democrats were irate (as they always are when Republicans advance their policies), and none more so than Schumer, who explained how his party was above the fray.

    “You know,” he said on ABC’s “This Week,” “we could do the same thing on immigration reform. We believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say, ‘We’re shutting down the government, we’re not gonna raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’?”

    But, he added ominously, “it would be government chaos.”

    So, the Republicans were harum-scarum in 2013, now the Democrats are righteous rebels in 2017.

    New York’s senior senator doesn’t like the fact that Republicans mean to insert provisions for border-wall funding and deportation of illegal immigrants in a must-pass bill to keep the government funded past April 28. So he’s threatening a filibuster to block passage — which would result in furloughing government employees, just like last time.

    Back then, Democrats called it “hostage-taking.” Now they’re blaming Republicans for leaving Democrats no option but to take hostages themselves. Or, as Schumer put it: “They will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy.” Meaning: When they do it, it’s reckless; when we do it, it’s principle.

    Go get ’em Chuck, maybe you can convince them with some crocodile tears, your hypocrisy has no limits.

     

    Chuck Schumer calls for chaos

  • Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of . . . Dumb

    I’ve been busy lately, so this article was a bit delayed.

    Seems as if a certain       dipstick jerk     “fine fellow” (or perhaps a group of Dandy Remarkable Guys) is at it again.  My friend Birdie tells me that I’ve been “found” – again.

    This time, I’m once again SF.  But this time, I’m apparently a member of the 20th Special Forces Group.  Or maybe I’m a former member of 20th SFGA; Dingus WetPeaBrain (and/or his cronies, if he had any) wasn’t exactly clear on that point this time around.

    (sigh)  And once again . . . Doofus Maximus ­­of the Skydiving Clown Kind and/or his cohorts, if any, are out to lunch.  As usual.  You’d think they’d learn a lesson after being wrong at least 15 times previously, but I guess not.

    The guy they’ve wrongly identified as me this time around doesn’t need the grief, so I’m not going to publish his name or photo here.  Suffice it to say that I’ve never been assigned to 20th SFGA – so this new guy being me is a “NO GO” from square one.

    But hey, at least they’ve been pretty consistently identifying me as an Army BAMF lately.  I’m no longer being misidentified as a Navy SEAL or Diver.  (smile)

    OK, recap time.  As I noted above, this is now at least the sixteenth damn time that Blunder ChickenChoker and/or his friends have erroneously identified someone else as being me.  The true total is probably higher; I’ve doubtless missed one or two of their bogus “identifications”.

    This time around, I’m allegedly a current or former SF SNCO.  The two times before this, supposedly I’ve been a current or former SF NCO and a serving Engineer 1SG (see here and here).

    Prior to that, I’ve been misidentified as both a retired SF Major and SGM; a serving Army officer; a retired law professor who served in the Army during the Eisenhower administration; a bona fide war hero with multiple high decorations for valor whose name I’m keeping private; 4 different Navy SEALs; a Navy diver; a deceased Army GO; a different longtime commenter at TAH; and a guy who occasionally writes a sports column for a newspaper in the Midwest.

    If you want to read the details, follow the second link above – and continue following links.  I’m not going to take the time to link each previous article individually; there are just too damn many of them now.

    Sheesh.  I guess dumbasses gonna continue being dumbasses regardless.  But you’d think that they’d eventually learn.

    Give it up, Dorkus WitLessOne.  You should be worrying about getting the help you obviously need instead of worrying about who I am.  Otherwise, I’m guessing this could end up your theme song someday.

    But if you – and any of your cronies – want to continue, just remember:  one of the best things about the First Amendment is that it helps us identify morons easily.  (Hat tip to longtime TAH commenter Bobo for the original version of that sentiment.)

  • Cali SB 807; Tax Exempt Teachers

    Cali SB 807; Tax Exempt Teachers

    WARNING: This is not Fake News, read at your own risk.

    Legislators in California recently introduced a bill that would offer educators major tax breaks in an effort to keep them in the classroom and combat the state’s growing teacher shortage.

    The measure quickly drew fire from taxpayer advocates who criticized it as politically inspired favoritism.

    Democratic senators Henry Stern of Los Angeles and Cathleen Galgiani of Stockton earlier this month introduced Senate Bill 807, which would exempt teachers from paying the state income tax – which would be the equivalent of a 4 percent to 6 percent salary increase – after five years in the classroom.

    I thought major tax breaks were for the hedge fund guys and zillionaires?

    “You’re not going to be able to get paid $50,000 a year and go live in the Bay Area, go teach at the local school…. we think it’s a pretty creative tool, we’ll see how the fiscal conservatives in this house want to approach this,” Stern told Fox 40.

    Are college freshmen or the new Yale PC term “first years” threatened with getting their kneecaps busted if they don’t pick a teaching career path these days?

    Fiscally conservative groups, including the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, criticized the bill. Jazz Shaw, writing on the group’s website, said that for lawmakers to pick certain groups to get privileged treatment is a slippery slope.

    “If you take an entire class of people based on their occupation and say that they are somehow ‘more deserving’ than everyone else and should be exempted from paying state income taxes, what other groups might qualify? It’s not hard to imagine quite a few of these ‘deserving’ professions being rather quick to have their hands out,” he wrote.

    You think? What about the doctors that save our lives? Police Officers? Wal-Mart greeters? Electricians? Pool Cleaners? Professional poker players? Pot dealers in Colorado? Perhaps they are jealous that illegal aliens and hookers dodge paying state income tax. It’s really anyone’s guess.

    The bill is expected to enter committee review by the end of the month and has so far faced no opposition from lawmakers in either party. It is unclear, however, what the estimated loss in tax revenue to the state would be if the measure is approved.

    No opposition? California teachers should ask the NEA leadership if they struggle to pay for housing, food and private schools for their children. Who would have thought that a union had fat cats up top like the meanies in Corporate America. Good grief. If this passes, like always, the middle class will carry the burden. I did notice the token male in the top four.

    LILY ESKELSEN GARCIA, NEA PRESIDENT
    Salary Breakdown (2015)
    Total Compensation
    $416,633.00
    Gross Salary: $303,934.00
    Allowances: $77,197.00
    Official Business: $20,594.00
    Other Compensation: $14,908.00

    BECKY PRINGLE, NEA VICE PRESIDENT
    Salary Breakdown (2015)
    Total Compensation
    $371,278.00
    Gross Salary: $268,594.00
    Allowances: $58,678.00
    Official Business: $35,903.00
    Other Compensation: $8,103.00

    JOHN STOCKS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
    Salary Breakdown (2015)
    Total Compensation
    $407,264.00
    Gross Salary: $304,709.00
    Allowances: $77,974.00
    Official Business: $23,972.00
    Other Compensation: $609.00

    PRINCESS MOSS, NEA SECRETARY TREASURER
    Salary Breakdown (2015)
    Total Compensation
    $429,851.00
    Gross Salary: $327,195.00
    Allowances: $62,962.00
    Official Business: $39,273.00
    Other Compensation: $421.00

    National Education Association Salaries

    Speaking of housing and food, during the crash of 2008, then NEA Secretary-Treasurer Lily Eskelsen received a base salary of $248,349 and allowances of $54,285 for a total of $302,634. Also at that time, NEA President Reg Weaver raked in a whopping $686,949. I bet they struggled to make mortgage payments on their beach houses that year and could only eat out six days a week, bless their little hearts.

     

    Legislators in California introduce bill to exempt teachers from state income tax

     

  • Maj. Gen. Darrell K. Williams demonstrates death by limp grip.

    I am sure all you steely eyed warriors in the Army have at least seen the Beretta M9 at some point.  Holding one seems to be intimidating for a few folks.  Can any of you Army guys explain this new technique in weapons handling?

    The good General appears to be demonstrating some kind of new MTC (modified tea cup) grip.   Thumb clinched at a perfect 45 degrees and some kind of new RMTF (radically mangled trigger finger).  The problem I see here is way too much NTH (nose to hammer) space.  He has great duck lips for the Pew Pew Pew but if the slide brings that rear site just under the helmet…for a brief moment there is no glare in your sight picture.

    I thought the MTC grip with the RMTF was something new in the Army.  But after doing a bit of research I found that others have been demonstrating proper NTH space.

    Can anyone explain this new method to me?  General John Wick  here has me mystified.

  • Gee . . . Thanks, SCoaMF

    Iran recently tested a new and highly sophisticated air defense system.  They obtained the system from Russia.

    The system is based on Russia’s S-300 missile.  The NATO designation for the original system is the SA-10; since the original version was first deployed in the late 1970s, Iran doubtless received a more modern variant.  The first linked article is unclear regarding precisely which S-300 variant Iran received.

    The S-300/SA-10 system and its descendants are quite capable.  They are regarded as some of the best currently-deployed air defense missile systems in the world.

    So, why do I say – completely sarcastically, of course – “Gee . . . thanks, SCoaMF” in the title above?  Read on.

    It seems that Iran and Russia signed the contract for Iran to purchase the system back in 2007; the system was to cost Iran $800 million.  However, international sanctions associated with Iran’s nuclear program prevented delivery.

    The US-Iran nuclear      giveaway      “deal” removed those sanctions. That in turn allowed Russia to deliver the system to Iran last year.

    And anyone with the common sense to pour p!ss out of a boot knew a priori exactly that would happen.

    In other words:  the previous       gang of utterly naïve imbeciles screwing things up “by the numbrs” in  DC        Administration in effect approved delivery of that system to Iran.  So in the event of hostilities with Iran US military aviators will now have to face one of the most sophisticated SAM threats in the world – a threat that wasn’t present prior to the US-Iran nuclear      giveaway       “deal”.

    Oh, and that $40 billion in Iranian assets we released in the Iran nuclear     giveaway      “deal”?  That was 50 times more than the $800 million cost of Iran’s new S-300 system.  So not only did the previous       DC gang of feckless fools        Administration green light installation of Iran’s new SAM system, they also reimbursed Iran for buying the damn thing – 50 times over.

    Hell, the $1.7 billion cash ransom the US paid Iran to release 4 US citizens a bit more than a year ago alone paid for Iran’s new system – more than twice!

    I know I’m repeating myself but I’ll say it again anyway:  “Gee . . . thanks, SCoaMF.”

  • How’s she gonna get her rocks off?

    How’s she gonna get her rocks off?

    Remember Hank Johnson, the Democrat congressman from Georgia who was reluctant to transfer Marines from Okinawa to Guam because their added weight might cause the latter island to tip over and capsize? Well it appears the Dems have another congressional aspirant who slept through science classes. Brianna Wu, a transgender activist and prominent social justice warrior who is running for the 8th Congressional District seat in Massachusetts, has expressed a fear of a deadly risk that most of us, frankly, likely have never considered. From the Washington Times:

    “The moon is probably the most tactically valuable military ground for earth,” the tweet said. “Rocks dropped from there have power of 100s of nuclear bombs.”

    SpaceX announced Monday it is planning to launch a tourism venture to the Moon in 2018.

    After users on social media questioned her scientific literacy, the congressional candidate clarified that the tweet was “talking about dropping [rocks] into our gravity well.”

    Small space rocks can indeed do nuclear-weapons-scale damage if hitting the Earth at orbital speeds. But launching one from the moon, even setting aside issues of aiming, would still require escaping the satellite’s gravitational field, a task that requires the power and thrust contained in a huge rocket.

    In true Democrat fashion, when Ms. Wu came under fire for her foolish fear, she blamed her victim status on sexism:

    “…that’s the danger of being a woman on the internet!” she exclaimed.

    I don’t know about you but this chick sounds like Democrat presidential material to Ol’ Poe.

  • The world according to Ramos

    The world according to Ramos

    Apparently Jorge Ramos thinks that Mexico won the war or has annexed the entire continental United States while we were taking a siesta.

    Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that “it is our country, not theirs.”

    “I am an immigrant, just like many of you,” Ramos said in Spanish, as translated by the Media Research Center. “I am a proud Latino immigrant here in the United States. My name is Jorge Ramos, and I work at Univision and at the Fusion network.”

    “And you know exactly what is going on here in the United States. There are many people who do not want us to be here, and who want to create a wall in order to separate us,” he said.

    “But you know what? This is also our country. Let me repeat this: Our country, not theirs. It is our country. And we are not going to leave. We are nearly 60 million Latinos in the United States,” he continued. “And thanks to us, the United States eats, grows and, as we’ve seen today, sings and dances.”

    “So when they attack us, we already know what we are going to do. We are not going to sit down. We will not shut up. And we will not leave. That is what we are going to do,” he added.

    He sounds more like an activist than a journalist. Maybe he can open up his $6,000,000 digs to some of his fellow Mexican countrymen and give them three hots and a cot.

    “The taboo issue of an open border should be tackled. Not now. Politically it is impossible even to discuss that. But I don’t see why we can’t have in North America the same immigration that they have within the European Union,” Ramos said toTime magazine in 2014.

    The U.S. should not enforce its immigration laws even after illegal aliens kill Americans, he said during a CNN interview in August 2015, because that would be “completely unfair” to the illegal population. In June of 2016, Ramos told a crowd of illegal aliens gathered in Houston, Texas, “I think you the DREAMers are the Rosa Parks of this time.”

    Jorge believes in open borders, condones lawlessness and thinks it is unfair that we enforce our immigration laws even if illegal aliens rape, murder and pillage us. Silly us. He must not watch the news and see how open borders has worked out in Europe.

    On being both Mexican and American, Ramos stated: “I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country. I am from both countries. It took me many years to make peace with that thought, and that I was never going back to Mexico.” Jorge Ramos

    “I’ve never ceased to be Mexican. I have two passports, and I vote in elections in both countries. I’m deeply proud of this privileged duality. The best thing about America is its embrace of diversity. The worst thing about America, of course, is the racist and xenophobic attitudes that tend to emerge now and then.” Jorge Ramos

    Ramos came to the United States in his 20’s on a student visa yet waited until 2008 to become an American citizen, perhaps he spent some time here illegally. He speaks out of both sides of his flap and is a self-absorbed pompous blowhard that cant make up his mind if he is Mexican or American. President Trump needs to expedite his plans to stop this blatant Mexican encroachment.

     

    “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Jorge Ramos: America Is ‘Our Country, Not Theirs’—‘And We Are Not Going to Leave’