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Former SF sergeant goes nuts in neighborhood
I figured I’d better scoop the LA Times on this story. I found this picture on Facebook of a fairly famous former special forces sergeant who is apparently suffering from combat fatigue and murdered an unknown number of innocent victims of the shrubbery variety under the cover of darkness. You’ll notice the smug look of […]
LA Times “explains” reason for releasing the latest “scandal”
Claymore sends us a link to the LA Times which recounts the editor’s explanation on a live chat for their decision to release the photos that the military has slavishly denounced as “inappropriate; In a live chat on latimes.com, Editor Davan Maharaj explained the decision to publish the material, especially the pictures, even though the […]
TAH in MSNBC
Jeff Black, from MSNBC emailed us for a comment on the latest non-scandal that we discussed yesterday, the “photos with dead suicide bombers thingie”. I responded; Jonn Lilyea, a retired Army sergeant who writes the blog “This Ain’t Hell,” said Wednesday that the media overly emphasizes negative stories about the troops and underplays positive stories. […]
Latest non-scandal photos scandal
Apparently, the LA Times has some photos given to them by a member of the 82d Airborne Division that has members of that unit posing with the remains of a suicide bomber while smiling. I know it’s shocking, isn’t it. Who can dare to smile at the death of a suicide bomber? The Stars & […]
TAH on Business Insider
Our first foray into the world of Big Journalism happened this morning. They posted my photo series on the 3rd Sustainment Command’s Casing of the Colors while I was in Fort Knox last week. You can see the whole thing here.
Inanimate objects attack Capitol Hill
I don’t know what kind of journalism this is but I’m sure someone is proud of themselves for dehumanizing the situation. Fox News link; You have to read three paragraphs into the story before you find out that there was a driver; Two men ran from car but were captured by police, according to WTOP […]
Washington Post: Gated communities breed fear
Edward Blakely, who apparently thinks that guns, not people kill people, writes today in the Washington Post that gated communities killed Trayvon Martin; Though gates reroute traffic, they do not lower crime. Instead, in these controlled spaces, an “us vs. them” mentality festers: Leaders of gated communities need to show that there is value to […]
AP: Navy pilots “sent” their plane into apartment building
Now sometimes people are just neglectfully stupid. Sometimes they simply suffer from very human faults. And sometimes they print headlines like this: If you write for a living as an editor or headline monkey and you put that out you’re either a.) grossly incompetent or b.) so filled with anti-military vitriol as to be incapable […]
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