Category: “Teh Stoopid”

Dan sends us a link to an article about Scott Garrow who wandered off into the woods in Washington state to test his survivorman skills. From KIROTV;

The Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that Scott Garrow of Lacey watches a lot of the show Survivorman and other TV shows about surviving in the wilderness and decided to try it himself.

Police said Garrow told family members of his plans, but he is now days overdue. Up to 30 searchers spent Tuesday hiking in the woods, and driving miles of gravel roads in the forest looking for Scott Garrow but

they had to stop at night when it got too dark to see anything. Garrow’s wife dropped him off in the Capitol Forest on Thursday morning. Relatives say the man is almost obsessed with researching wilderness survival.

Well, if he’s wearing the doo-rag with the SEAL Trident on it, that will probably keep him warm and fed.

I’m off on my own Survivorman journey today to downtown DC, so I’ll probably be off the net most of the day, but there are several other folks to keep you entertained throughout the day.

SO I went to his Facebook page and dug up the picture you guys were talking about.

Apparently, ignorant of the history of the Gadsden Flag, the city council of New Rochelle, New York has ordered a Gadsden flag removed from their armory because it has been, in recent years, adopted by the Tea Party. But since 1775, it has flown with the Navy flag as a remembrance of the first flag flown on a US Navy vessel, presented to the commander-in-chief of the Navy, Commodore Esek Hopkins by Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden. The city council was informed of this long history of the relationship of the flag to Naval and Marine heritage, but, since US history began on January 21st, 2009, the long history of the flag matters naught to the city council. Says Fox News;

The United Veterans Memorial and Patriotic Association of New Rochelle is fighting the decision, ordered by City Manager Chuck Strome after complaints that the flag is a symbol of the Tea Party movement, according to World Net Daily.

But Strome did an about-face after Peter Parente, president of United Veterans Memorial, sent Strome the history of the Gadsden flag, which is flown beneath the U.S. flag on many military sites, according to World Net Daily.

Then the New Rochelle City Council overruled Strome, voting 5-2 to have the flag removed.

According to the Washington Examiner, the council objected to the flag because they said Parente is a member of the Tea Party and wants to display the flag to push a political agenda.

Nearby Deerpark, NY has decided to raise a Gadsden flag in support of veterans in New Rochelle.

A small Orange County town is throwing its support behind a New Rochelle veterans group seeking to return a Revolutionary War-era flag atop the city-owned former armory.

During a noon ceremony Monday, the town of Deerpark plans to raise its own yellow Gadsden flag on the town’s flag pole in front of Town Hall, the town said in a news release.

The Thomas More Center is taking up the legal battle for veterans of new Rochelle.

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center commented, “Their outrageous decision to confiscate a cherished symbol of our War for Independence smacks of pure partisan politics. Many Americans fought and died for our independence under that flag, and the Law Center will take available means to return the Gadsden Flag back on the Veterans’ flag pole. As one Revolutionary War hero said, we ‘have just begun to fight.’”

Continued Thompson, “Using the City Council’s reasoning, they would remove the Stars and Stripes from flagpoles because both Democrat and Republican Parties, as well as most political candidates, use the Stars and Stripes in their campaign messaging.”

Someone needs to take the city council and spank them in the town square, under the Gadsden flag for being immature little dicks.

Danny Nightingale was jailed last year for possession of a handgun that he been given by Iraqi allies for the work he did with them. The handgun had been shipped to him in his belongings when he escorted the bodies of two of his mates home. After he was convicted and imprisoned, the Court of Appeals overturned his sentence but left up to the prosecutors the opportunity to prosecute the case again. And they’ve decided that was what they wanted to do;

Sgt Nightingale has spent 11 years in the SAS and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other operations around the world. A trained nurse, he invented a battlefield dressing which is named after him.

His lawyer, Simon McKay, is confident of winning the retrial.

“The prosecution here are going to have to prove that Sgt Nightingale had knowledge that he was in possession of a firearm,” he said. “His defence is that he is suffering from a permanent brain injury.

“That resulted in him completely forgetting he was in possession and that essentially will be the issue before the court martial.

Thanks to our buddy, Aunty Brat for the link.

Adam sends us a link to a local story in Tennessee in which wounded warrior Master Sgt. Michael Trost was tossed out of his local mall for speeding on his Segway, an Americans with Disabilities Act device he needs for walking long distances after being wounded in Afghanistan;

“A security guard approached me and said I was going to have to take out the Segway. I told him it was an ADA, or a handicap piece of equipment. I had the handicap sticker on it. He goes, not in this mall,” described Sgt. Trost.

According to the mall, their policy does “permit the use of battery powered scooters and segways inside the shopping center by people with disabilities. They must be operated in a safe manner.”

Trost says he was operating in a safe manner. But after some back and forth, the mall security guard told him he was speeding.

I wonder if he caught MSG Trost on radar.

Reminds me of this stereotypical mall cop.

Posted without comment.

Well, OK – one comment:  I don’t exactly see them being a big seller in the Middle East. (smile)

Old Trooper sends us a link to a video discussion on Fox News’ The Five as they discuss the “Amazing Race” celebration of Vietnamese communism. I never thought I’d ever say it, but Bob Beckel hit the nail square this time;

For more see what some guy named Mothax wrote at that place called The Burn Pit.