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Category: “Teh Stoopid”

  • Training is hard

    MCPO NYC USN (Ret.) sends us a story about some police training at the a police academy in Owing Mills, MD that somehow went wrong;

    The 40-year-old just joined the University of Maryland police force this summer. He was in training with city police. His training class was using an area with abandoned buildings when his instructor accidentally shot him in the head.

    […]

    “There’s no acceptable explanation why there were live rounds at a training exercise,” (Baltimore City) Mayor Rawlings-Blake said. “I was so angry. I was almost speechless to think that something like this could happen.”

    Yeah, no, all guns are always loaded – never point a gun at something you don’t intend to kill, because you probably will. Kill it, that is. I know that y’all know that, but, I guess if police academy instructors are shooting their students in the head, it bears repeating.

    Carry on.

  • What IF…

    The whole gun control argument got a giant dose of reality the other day.

    Okay so this was a hoax/prank/hack (or something), but for a fleeting moment some television watchers in Montana were likely doing a mental inventory of their guns and ammo; while some few others, it is Montana, after all, were reconsidering their anti-gun stance.

    TV hack attack warns of Montana zombie apocalypse

    Viewers in Montana who were no doubt already on the edge of their seats waiting for the results of “teen cheaters take lie detectors” were suddenly confronted with a bigger calamity on Monday. The CW station of KRTV was interrupted by an emergency alert for a zombie apocalypse. Viewers were told that “the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living” in several Montana counties. KRTV confirmed someone had hacked into their emergency alert system and “there is no emergency.” Phew, back to those dirty adolescent cheats then.

    Reckon it’ll take a REAL Zombie Apocalypse to change some minds about the evil guns, but…

  • Does “Global Warming” Influence Asteroids?

    No, of course not – they’re exoatmospheric.  But apparently at least one CNN anchor thinks it does.

    CNN’s Deborah Feyerick interviewed Bill “The Science Guy” Nye on air recently.  After discussing the recent New England blizzard with Nye and it’s possible connection to “global warming”, she asked him the following question:

    “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming, or is this just some meteoric occasion?”

    Yes, teh stoopid appears strong in this one.  As does the agenda.

    Such biased and ignorant sources are the main source of most Americans’ “news”, such as it is.  And many Americans are so scientifically illiterate they don’t know they’re being had.

  • Ron Paul: don’t hate me, I’m a veteran

    So in reaction to the backlash from his preaching to us yesterday about Chris Kyle and mangling Biblical verses, Ron Paul decides that he should hide behind his short career as an Air Force OB/GYN;

    Ron Paul - Kyle veteran

    Yeah, hiding behind his DD214 and Christ – that’s always good. Paul can’t find a just war in our entire history, I guess they’re all “unconstitutional and unnecessary”. But, then, Paul endorsed IVAW member Adam Kokesh for Congress. And that statement about “a policy non-violence would have prevented this” – whose policy? A policy of non-violence on a gun range? In Texas? In the war against terror? WTF are you talking about you creepy turd?

    And for those who think Paul didn’t write this one – why are his initials after the gobbledygook?

  • Anti-Gun Overreaction, Part 2

    Well, it appears we have another installment in the never-ending saga of “stupid overreaction tricks” concerning guns.  This one comes to us courtesy of a school in Arizona.

    Poston Butte High School in Florence, AZ, issues its students laptop computers.  Since these are school property, the school mandates that they not be used for “sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures.”  Students also cannot send, create, forward, or access pictures that are “harassing, threatening, or illegal.”

    This policy recently got a young man in trouble.  A freshman student downloaded the picture of an AK-47 lying on what appears to be the flag of the Former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.  He liked the picture and made that his Windows wallpaper background.

    That’s it.  No depiction of shooting, no threatening or obscene message, no picture of anyone getting shot or shot at, no “blood and guts”.  Just a photo of a static display consisting of a former Communist state’s flag with the iconic weapon of the Soviet era lying on it.

    A teacher saw the “scary photo” – and turned the youngster in.  The school initially suspended the young man for 3 days for violating “school policy” regarding laptop use for using the photo as his Windows wallpaper.  When pressed, they later shortened his suspension to one day.

    I’m not kidding.  Here’s the article – along with a video showing the “scary and threatening photo” in question.

    Apparently they hire idiots with no common sense to work at Poston Butte High School.  Sheesh.

  • Sandy Hook Explained…

    Our pal CJ put this up on FB. I don’t want this to go un-noticed.
    The ugliest truth about Sandy Hook

    Guns are part of the right-wing lunatic fringe of fear, the Obama-loathing, government-hating, minority-despising, science-scoffing quarter of Americans existing in a shadowy permanent grief state over the 1950s, over a white-bread America where they were king that never was and never will be. Guns are the talismans that ward off change in the world, that protect them from all their stalking fears, the wand of hope that someday society will indeed break down — isn’t it fracturing already, with gay marriage? — and they will assume their rightful place as unquestioned kings once more, with their AK-47s set proudly on their kingly hips and their freeze-dried meals nourishing them through the long night of the tardy Mayan zombie apocalypse.

    Aside: This IS from Chicago?  And I have read and re-read this article looking for a hint of irony.

    High-capacity clips? Gun checks? Mass shootings? Slaughters like Newtown catch our fleeting attention, but they are only the daily gun death toll concentrated in one spot at one time. The problem is handguns.

    There you have it TAH readers.

  • Note to Women From The DIA

    This has been making the rounds. Cracked me up.

    File under mixed messages or DOH!
    Fashion Advice at the DIA: ‘Makeup Makes You More Attractive’

    A week after women were cleared to serve in combat, Defense Intelligence Agency employees got a different message. “Makeup makes you more attractive.” “Don’t be a plain Jane.” “A sweater with a skirt is better than a sweater with slacks.” “No flats.” “Paint your nails.” “Don’t be afraid of color.” And, “brunettes have more leeway with vibrant colors than blondes or redheads.”

    The linked article DOES offer an oops from the DIA brass,  but…

    I’m wondering if I should start following these guidelines?  Jonn, TSO?

  • The racist race

    Coca-Cola has released an ad pre-Superbowl called CokeChase, and perpetually outraged Arab Americans are…um…outraged about it;

    From Reuters;

    “The Coke commercial for the Super Bowl is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world,” Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies, said in an email.

    “What message is Coke sending with this?” asked Abed Ayoub, [American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee]’s director of legal and policy affairs. “By not including the Arab in the race, it is clear that the Arab is held to a different standard when compared to the other characters in the commercial,” he said.

    CBS declined comment. Coca-Cola spokeswoman Lauren Thompson said Coke took a “cinematic” approach with the ad, employing the characters as a nod to movies of the past.

    “Coca-Cola is an inclusive brand enjoyed by all demographics,” she said in an email. “We illustrate our core values, from fun and refreshment to happiness, inspiration and optimism across all of our marketing communications.”

    Ayoub said ADC intended to contact Coke and CBS Corp on Thursday to “hopefully start a dialog.”

    “I want to know why this happened and how can we fix this if possible before Sunday,” he said.

    As a cowboy and former Vegas showgirl bus driver, I’m offended, too.