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Category: Usual Suspects

  • PA’s Rendell to balance budget on veterans’ backs

    The shape of things to come with a federal government run by Democrats? Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania’s governor, has proposed cutting veteran benefits in the state to balance the budget (Public Opinion link);

    “It is a shame that in this environment that we are taking veterans’ benefits from them and using them as a political football in a budget battle,” Rep. Rob Kauffman, R-Chambersburg, said.

    [Rep. Bryan] Barbin [D-Johnstown], who gave an impassioned plea for the bill and its requirement for a study by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs in consultation with those who would be affected before various types of veterans’ facilities could be closed.

    Barbin said such cuts should not be viewed from a partisan perspective, saying that the state should keep its promises to its veterans.

    “This isn’t a Republican issue or a Democratic issue; it’s an American issue,” he said

    According to an email I got this morning, this is what is on the chopping block;

    Eliminated:
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania budget proposal announced by Governor Edward G. Rendell on February 4, 2009 includes no funding to continue operations of Scotland School after June 30, 2009. Scotland School for Veterans’ Children is a tate-owned and operated residential school for children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters of veterans.

    American Battle monuments, armory maintenance and repair.
    ___________________________________________________________________________

    Cut:

    General Military and Veteran’s Affairs operation(s)

    Funeral details for deceased veterans

    Matching funds for education transition

    Funds for nursing home care in PA Veteran’s Homes

    Veteran’s assistance grant funding, or grant funding that provides
    financial assistance to low income veterans

    Funding for the Paralyzed Veteran’s Pension grant program

    Rendell’s alternative is to raise taxes, so it may just be a threat. But in 2005 facing Bush veterans budget cuts, Rendell said;

    “During this time of war, it is absolutely the wrong time for our federal government to step back from any of its commitment to our veterans,” Rendell said. “To do so would be penny-wise but pound-foolish.”

    Did the war end, Ed?

  • Speaking of World Can’t Wait

    One of the refugees from IVAW sent me a fund raising letter he got from World Can’t Wait (the organization founded by a lifelong communist) a few months ago. They were trying to solicit $12,000 to send Matthis Chiroux around the country to interdict recruiters’ influence in schools. Here’s the main part of the letter;

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    Notice the side bar. There’s a wonderful testimony from a NY teacher about a visit by Matthis Chroux and Elaine Brower;
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  • Protest against Gen. Petraeus in Seattle tonight

    Nucsnipe writes to tell us that General Petraeus is scheduled to speak tonight at the World Affairs Council in Seattle. Of course, the moonbats of World Can’t Wait spot an opportunity to do some fund raising;

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    Some background on World Can’t Wait from Discover the Networks;

    Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can’t Wait (WCW) is a direct action movement seeking to organize “people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration.” The organization asserts that removing President Bush from office “will be like removing a forty-pound tumor from your gut.” WCW vows “to send Bush, Cheney and the rest of those fascists packing. … After that, there are people in ‘World Can’t Wait’ who are working for everything from reforming the Democratic party, to building a 3rd party, to revolution.”

    This is the first protest that I know that’s been directed at General Petraeus since the Inauguration. If there’s anyone in the area that can get to the site on such short notice, I’d sure appreciate some pictures.

  • Interview with Robert Chiroux

    I guess now that IVAW member Matthis Chiroux is home in Alabama, the folks down there don’t much like him. My inbox was chocked full of Chiroux-related material this morning. I wish they’d been this upset with him before he’d come home. A local TV station in Huntsville interviewed Dr. Chiroux;

    Chiroux says his son continues making the rounds spewing anti-war messages while collecting money.

    The father says he supports his son’s freedom of speech, but not when it’s just to make a profit.

    “It comes a point in which you have to do the greater good. The greater good is to provide warning,” added Chiroux.

    The former sergeant’s dad told WHNT NEWS 19 his son just spoke at a church in Auburn last weekend. He’s not sure if money was collected, but offers advice to potential donors.

    “If anyone is encountering Matthis and feeling inclined to providing him with financial assistance, think carefully about what you’re doing, and what you’re providing financial assistance for,” added Chiroux.

    Chiroux says his son’s actions are hurting the family.

    The father has gone so far as to ask his attorney to demand his son stop causing harm to the family name.

    I noticed that last night, someone purporting to be Chiroux’s fiance dropped by to scold us for pointing out the inaccuracies in Chiroux’s fairy tales. I guess she needs up to stop attacking him so he can make some money and stop draining her savings account. She makes the same old “parents should support their children” BS that she probably used when she announced her engagement to the useless grifter to her own parents.

    Lemme tell you something, Alex, what Chiroux is doing to the soldiers with whom he served is far worse than anything I’ve done on this blog. In his latest ignorant speech in Alabama, he called the troops racists, rapists and murderers – and you approve of it. Maybe 35 years ago he could have gotten away with such slanderous speech, but this is the age of the internet, dear. The age of real freedom of speech. When Matthis Mole sticks his head up, This Ain’t Hell will be there to Whack him back down.

    And parents are supposed to love their kids, but they don’t have to tolerate their crap. As a parent of four kids about the same age as Matthis, I’m kind of an expert on the subject. When you’re a parent, then you can come and criticize the way we raise our kids. Dear.

    There’s going to come a day in the near future when you’ll wish I wasn’t speaking figuratively.

    And you’re right, this has nothing to do with politics – it has to do with your betrothed being a lying sack of shit. If these posts weren’t affecting him, you wouldn’t be here defending him, nor would he be stopping by to make a rare appearance.

    Tell Chiroux to get a real job and quit smearing the folks with whom he served, and I’ll stop writing about him. I hear air conditioning and refrigerator repair is big business in Alabama.

  • Chiroux’s father speaks up

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    The above picture is a screen cap of a video that was made over a year ago by the folks at the IVAW DC Treehouse. It shows Matthis Chiroux who babbles for nearly 10 minutes as his father, Richard Chiroux, stands beside him on Fathers’ Day 2008. I won’t link it but you can search on YouTube with Chiroux+father.

    Since then, Chiroux has blamed his father for forcing him to join the military. Chiroux also accused his father of abusing him when he was young. Apparently, Chiroux, the Elder doesn’t stand beside his son. This is a comment he left (I can’t verify it’s authenticity, but he seems to know intimate details of Chiroux’s pre-Army life) at the article that I linked yesterday;

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    I’d heard rumors that Dr. Chiroux had volunteered to join the Army to serve in the spot his son abandoned. I guess it’s true.;

    I offered some time ago to re-enlist in the the US ARMY specifically to serve in Iraq, both due to my son’s actions and my own Middle Eastern experience. That offer stands. I will serve at the front if my country asks it of me.

    I learned a long time ago that you can only teach your kids right from wrong and when they reach a certain age, you have to let them make their own mistakes and suffer the consequences. Every time they fall it’s painful for parents to watch them struggle back to their feet. It never gets easier. Good luck, Dr. Chiroux.

    Back to the reasons Matthis refused to deploy. Here’s a picture of him towards the end of his active duty time. Does this look like someone who hates the military?

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    Before you ladies start wetting yourself over the fierce combatant Matthis Chiroux, I blew the photo up and discovered that he’s firing blanks through the M240 machine gun. Notice how he cropped off the blank adapter on the muzzle. The picture is just a set up – like those John Kerry in Vietnam pictures.
    Here’s the blown up photo;

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    A real infantryman can spot blank ammunition.

    Oh, by the way, I snagged that photo from his Facebook profile so it’s not like it’s part of his life that he’s ashamed of like he lets on. It’s justmore proof that he loved the Army life, but he didn’t like actually being uncomfortable after his grueling tours of Germany and Japan.

  • Pete King vs. Code Pink

    [Name removed by request], an IVAW refugee, wrote to me this morning about a local controversy in Long Island over Republican Congressman Pete King’s YouTube video in which King laments the excessive coverage of Michael Jackson’s inevitable demise. Here’s the video;

    King (and [name removed by request]) says that our focus should be on the troops and their expanding and changing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan – that our media should be geared towards the folks who keep us comfortable rather than on “some pervert”.

    Well, [Name removed by request] writes that Code Pink is mobilizing their drones on Facebook to spam a poll on Newsday that asks asks if King should apologize.

    [Name removed by request] writes:

    I’m losing my f*****g mind knowing that we’ve got a Soldier in Afghanistan who’s been captured and sold to the Taliban and meanwhile America doesn’t give two sh**s because they’re more concerned with Michael Jackson… So for me to see this in my facebook news feed today, I’m thinking the hippies need another reality check….

    Now I’ve had my issues with King in the past, but f**k it, he had a lot more experience with the a$$holes I was surrounding myself with- so when he knew I was associated with IVAW and refused to talk to me, I forgive him for that. Being a professional politician, he knew better than I did.

    Now the peace groups are massing to try to sway an online vote on Newsday’s website to condemn King for his words. I say f**k that, I support King in the idea of HONOR OUR F*****G TROOPS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY and not MJ.

    To me, Code Pink is just grasping at straws here. They’ve gone goofy if they think Americans are going to take the side of Michael Jackson ahead of our troops, but, they’ve spammed the poll pretty well – as I’m looking at it, almost 60% are demanding an apology. So, if you’re inclined, click over at this link and let Code Pink know we can play that game, too.

    While I was sitting in the waiting room at Walter Reed this morning, I was thinking the same thing while CNN was going gaa-gaa over the memorial in LA today. Then I get home, turn on Fox and see the same putrid crap – who cares what Jesse Jackson remembers about Michael Jackson – seriously.

    Meanwhile, only the milblogs seem concerned about the missing soldier in Afghanistan. What’s up with that?

  • UN coaxes OAS to act on Honduras

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    The United Nations’ Secretary General, who can’t see anything to complain about when Chavez nationalizes private property in Venezuela, or when Ortega does the same in Nicaragua, or when Correa of Ecuador lends moral and material support to terrorists, urged the Organization of American States to step in and “restore the Constitutional order” in Honduras. From El Universal;

    The Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, requested Monday the restoration, under the auspices of the Organization of American Estados (OAS), of the “constitutional order” in Honduras, where president Manuel Zelaya was stopped and expelled by the military.

    The OAS must assume “a leadership role to find a peaceful solution so that the constitutional order can be restored”, said Ban.

    Those are some real pretty words – except that the Constitutional order has been restored. Zelaya was the fella who violated the Honduran constitution as I explained yesterday. The bloodshed in Honduras is because the OAS, Chavez, Correa, Fernandez and Ortega won’t keep their fingers out of Honduras.

    If Ban is so concerned about the deaths yesterday, he’d be telling the OAS to step back instead of pursuing a path towards more blood shed.

    And if Zelaya had a brain in his head, he’d throw up his hands, too. He got off easy compared to a lot of deposed Latin American leaders of the last century.

    If he becomes too much of a pest to the Honduran government, they’ll have no other option than to kill his dumb ass so he can’t return. Sure he’d be a martyr, but he’d be dead.

  • Chiroux…again

    NYC Vet sent me the lastest report of a matthis Chiroux siting. Apparently, he had time to think about incorporating his confessions of a few months ago (when Kris Goldsmith accused him of bragging about raping a Pinay girl). He’s expanded his story to make himself out to be some kind of dauntless killing machine. From OANOW.com;

    Chiroux said he refused deployment to Iraq because he believes it is an illegal occupation and that the Army fosters a culture of abuse and torture.

    Now, after obtaining a general discharge, Chiroux is still speaking out against the Iraq War.

    He told the congregation Sunday there’s “a Fourth Reich movement right here on our shining society on the hill.”

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