Seven Years of TAH
Today is our blogoversary. Seven years ago I got booted from Right Nation and it was like the millionth time I’d been booted from various forums (including the History Channel) and I decided to start a forum that couldn’t boot me. It began as an opinion blog like the millions of others and became a military-oriented blog through about two years of knocking around until I found my niche in the military community. I’m truly humbled by the fact that thousands of you choose to spend a couple of minutes everyday with us. I’m truly humbled by the friends I’ve made over the last seven years.
I’m proud of the blog, but I’m always cognizant of the fact that I couldn’t have done it without you and the established bloggers who found some value in my idiot ramblings through the English language. We’d probably be just one of the countless voices in the wilderness without support from Matt Burden and Jim Hanson at Blackfive, Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, all of the guys (especially DrewM and Andy) at Ace of Spades and Michelle Malkin.
I guess it was five years ago that I took on COB6 and TSO as co-bloggers and that truly changed our direction and improved our success. We have about 20 others who can write here and do so occasionally when their muses poke them. I appreciate everything that they’ve done for me without pay over the years. Hondo being the most recent who has been a great help in both writing posts and research on phonies.
But, we’ve always been a reader-driven blog which is why most of the posts I write come from you guys so we can talk about the things that interest you, with some Stolen Valor busts mixed in. We write about ten posts everyday because I’ve found that to be the magic number – to talk about everything you want to talk about. But more than 10 posts leave nothing to talk about tomorrow. So that’s how I arrived at the number.
I’ve had a number of offers to work for other blogs and news folks, but my loyalties remain with this blog mostly because I don’t like to be told what to do and no one else offers me the opportunity to bust phonies. I treasure my friendships in the Stolen Valor business with Doug Sterner, Mary Schantag and Don Shipley, as well as Scotty and the Guardian of Valor folks who all fill my inbox with tips when I need them most. And the ex-wives and ex-girlfriends who also dish dirt on their ex-es.
The ladies at Victory Girls wrote to tell me that their first anniversary is also today, so stop by and throw kisses at them.
Category: Pointless blather
Happy Anniversary to you Jonn and TAH! 7 years… time flys on by doesn’t it?
I guess I showed up to read this blog about the time TSO and COB6 started writing here. Over the years there’s been a number of blogs that I would read on a regular basis, get bored with, and move on. That’s never happened here and unless you go all Chuckles Johnson on us, it’s not likely I will leave! Thanks for the read and thanks for letting put up the occasional post!
Jonn,
Discovered you through Blackfive’s links to your blog a few years back. You and everyone else that contributes always writes great stuff. Thanks and keep at it!
Happy Blogaversary to you Jonn, and to TSO and COB6 as well! You guys kept me grounded and sane during my last deployment with some serious nutters! Jonn, please keep up the good work, you guys ROCK!
Congratulations!!
I’d like some cake please. Last week was the Air Force’s 66th birthday and there wasn’t a cake to be seen.
Happy Birthday and Anniversary.
RN–there’s a place that takes me back…to places I don’t want to go. Best thing that ever happened to me there was when Lisa gave me the boot.
Longtime reader and infrequent poster here to just say Congratulations and thank you for all you do, especially all you do for us vets.
keep slaying the posers guys. 7 more years.
*Stands….starts the slow clap!!!
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap
Only been here a few years but you guys are the BEST.
This blog is one of my regular internet destinations. Thank you, Jonn and TSO, and your fellow occasional bloggers for creating a terrific virtual watering hole. This Ain’t Hell is a place where the guests are informed, entertained, and share their views. The TAH bloggers bring out the best in their audience, and I have many times almost spit out my drink while reading comments.
Congratulations and thanks for everything on TAH’s seventh anniversary!
I never realized how MANY SV posers there are. Keep up the good work guys!
Congrats, Jonn; may you and the other co-bloggers keep up the great work…
“I guess it was five years ago that I took on COB6…
I had been enjoying the “Crotchety Old Bastard” blog, and when COB6 announced that he was shutting it down and going to be over here on occasion, I followed to see what was going on over here. Haven’t left. This is my first blog read in the morning, and I am apt to hit it several more times during the day as I pass by my computer or am here doing my graphic design thing. Congratulations Jonn, and thanks for putting up with this bunch that calls itself, “The TAH Official Commenters Group”. You post em, we’ll leave our marks on em.
SEVEN YEARS … of cyber/suicide illegal activities of the United States of America’s Stolen Valor Reich then you all got bounced off your ISP…. How funny is that..? I told you all millennial soldier and marine punks “the LRRP 41 Cometh”.
If you thought you had a headache, pain-in-the-ass, and lack of sleep last week, Jonn V. Lilyea and Mark C Seavey..?
Can you weenies spell… usainvestigators.com in W/DC..?
That is the home of PRUDENTIAL Associates, LLC., a global Risk Management and Security Consulting firm serving clients for over 45 years. http://www.prudentrisk.com.
PRUDENTIAL Associates also has an investigative and digital forensics division including an all in-house laboratory. They do not sub-contract digital forensics work, they perform it themselves in their truly state-of-the-art lab.
More at: http://usainvestigators.com/computer.html
They provide their clients ( Paul K. Wickre ) with comprehensive risk management and intelligence acquisition solutions all over the world.
Your illegal cyber/suicide activities is nothing new to these proven and tested solutions provider trusted by clients such as Microsoft, The Discovery Channel, and the United States Government.
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BLUB …BLUB …. BLUB….. BLUB….!
I found this blog a little over a year ago and stuck around. Don’t remember what I was looking for when I ran across it, but I think it was those photos of Ballduster McSoulpatch that kept me coming back and it just went from there.
So, as they say worldwide:
Bonne Anniversaire!
!Feliz cumpleaños!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!
Buon Compleanno!
and many, many happy reruns!!!!
Here’s to 7 more years!
Only been here a couple of the years. Disturbing that Jonn can see how often we check in and how long we stay. I really do have a life other than checking in here. Really! I’m not really here all the time…I just forget to log out. Really. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Thanks for TAH and the folks that post here….except for you know who..Psal and WiTlEss
Happy Anniversary and thank you for providing a place where I can count on a daily dose of insight and thought provoking commentary laced with humor. Here’s to many more years!
Look who showed as a present to be ridiculed some more!
Well didn’t take the dillwad long to chime in, always latching onto the coattails and licking the bung hole of another psychopath.
I came here a little over a year ago and keep a tab open to here at work. I found a phoney and needed help busting him so I found Guardians of Valor when they were just a Facebook page. They kept linking to here so I decided to see what all the fuss was about and haven’t left since.
Hey, look! dumbass witlessandwandering knows how to copy and paste stuff! Whoopee effin’ dooo!
Not sure how many years I’ve been stopping by Jonn, I just hope there’s many more years to come.
Congrats on the first 7, and thank you for giving us all a place to ‘hang out’.
Well, Jonn, you know my story, as do others. I followed Jonn over here from rightnation, and keeping up with COB6, when he had his own blog, as well as with the crew at Blackfive. Then I got the news that COB6 was coming over here and it just cemented things for continuing with this blog. When TSO came into the fold, as well, it showed me how small the milblog community really is/was, since TSO and I knew several of the same people outside of the blogosphere. It’s hard to beleieve that I have known Jonn for so many years now, going back almost 10 to be exact (yeah, Jonn, I still remember your rightnation moniker, too) and it’s been fun.
To: ShOrTRaNgePeNis 41
I am quite certain the firms you referenced here are not to happy withh the negative publicity you have just provided. In fact, when one searches these firms, no doubt, TAH will pop up, with your drunken mug square in the middle of the page.
Good job you moron.
As a CPP and PSP and one who regularly works with such firms, YOU and people like you (loons, wackos, those legally classified as bat shit crazy, etc …) are not the typical types of spokepersons for security firms.
Have a nice day …
BREAK
Jonn,
Congrads. Keep up the good work and fight.
To your staff of writers … keep writing so we have a single sourse of relevant info that concerns Vets.
And to all the dickweeds who visit here … spread the word.
That is all!
Well, I added the mugshot to his comment, a practice I intend to continue. If he wants attention, I’ll give it to him.
I’m a civilian college student waiting on a med waiver I might never get, so I don’t have anything in common with most people here but I’ve learned a lot from lurking here about what matters to Veterans, what I can do to actually “support the troops,” and the reality of SV.
I’ve turned a couple of my buddies on to TAH and it’s opened their eyes to SV and all the other stories y
HEY dumb asses….. I was found NOT GUILTY… soooo you are cyber/harassing me… with my mug shot for whipping the ass of a Navy SEAL poser..? OH… OH….. You all are in trouble now..! Pure defamation n cyber/harassment illegal activites.. It IS against the West Virgina cyber/laws to do such things for your entertainment or punishments upon others on the internet. I know you know that….
Soooo everybody who is a bonafide cyber/suicide blogger… stay close, hang around your phones today, OK… big doings going on as I write this…
By the way..? This is you-all’s TAH blog anniversary.. Anybody want to bet the real-deal LRRP 41…? I got a hundred dollars on it…
Um, Dallas, I’m only posting your mugshot on your comments, so if you want it to stop, don’t comment. I’d also point out that sending your idiot photoshops to my wife might be considered cyber harassment by local cops. More than this. So you should spend more time at the Hair Club for Men than at your computer.
I’m a civilian college student waiting on a med waiver I might never get, so I don’t have anything in common with most people here but I’ve learned a lot from lurking here about what matters to Veterans, what I can do to actually “support the troops,” and the reality of SV.
I’ve turned a couple of my buddies on to TAH and it’s opened their eyes to SV and all the other stories you guys cover that no one else will.
Thanks for doing what you do Jonn, TSO, and all other contributors. And thank you to all the Veterans here not only for your service but for sharing your experiences and insight.
Thanks for being here Jonn and the rest of the crew. Great to hear from people who have been there. I did my 4 years and moved on, unlike Witless who hasn’t ever achieved anything worthwhile in the last 40 years.
Here’s to you, Dullazz.
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Wow seven years?! Only three more until ten.
I must of started coming here in 08′ or so then, TSO’s take down of Votevets and Jon Sotlz(is that how you spell it?) brought me to this destination. Don’t comment nearly as much as I used to, a combination of redundancy and lack of time have discouraged me. I still peruse and leave an open window in the background though.-Cedo
Nice work on the anniversary fellows. I like having this as a forum to keep in touch with other like minded veterans. It’s good for me as a resource as I’m deep behind enemy lines in a VERY blue area; They think they are working on converting me, HA! I’m establishing a beachhead and they don’t even know it.
Be safe ladies and gents.
ANCCPT
Ah … I will have to admit. I have been rendered speechless by Widgetfield.
That mugshot reminds me of a creepy old pedophile that likes to dress up as a clown and go to birthday parties…
[…] Seven years is like a lifetime in blog years. Jonn and the gang at TAH have been bringing the funneh, telling the stories of troops, exposing frauds for Stolen Valor and informing and entertaining us for a long, long time. […]
Like many others, I followed a link from Blackfive and stuck around. Congrats on the first 7. Here’s to 7 more.
And Dullass? Wickre called. He needs the brain cells back. It’s his turn to write a blistering post.
Congratulations, Jonn! I’m a little late to the game, only having discovered TAH about a year ago, but now it’s an almost daily visit.
Can’t see how posting a mugshot is in any way actionable. A mugshot means someone’s been arrested, which in Dallas’ case is absolutely true. Many people who are arrested and photographed are not ultimately convicted. It doesn’t negate the fact that they were arrested and photographed.
I rarely comment here. Mostly because by the time I think of something to say, either Jonn, one of the authors, or one of the many, many wonderful commenters has already said it!
But I did want to say Happy Anniversary and congrats on 7 years of great blogging. And many more!
Cheers,
XBradTC
Jonn,
Congratulations and thanks for giving me somewhere to vent and hang with fellow vets. May you continue to have success and many more years!!!
And Dallas, go fuck yourself you fucking moron!!!!
Congratulations, Jonn. Thank you for your service and the new service you provide here. Great lolz and great info on poser scum.
Happy Anniversary !!! There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t read your page at least once.
Your take on almost everything is the one I was going with but couldn’t put into words as good as you can !!!
Happy Anniversary.
And my John some roses for your anniversary !!! He’ll give you a great big SMOOOOOOSH !!!!!
Jonn/Hondo et al – congratulations
Witlessfeld: (Middle finger upraised) “Upstick post asswards!”
Happy Anniversary TAH!
Dullass, you may now return to your regularly scheduled medication.
Congrats Jonn, great site, keep up the good work, and the good fight vs. the bedwetters like Psul, and that bald-headed pervert in the mugshot which, of course, is a public record, and can be published anywhere by anyone.
Happy Blogoversary, all!
Thanks, Jonn, for starting it and having the good sense to add others to assist. Thanks to everyone who contributes here, whether top of the page posts, great comments, or research in the background.
Now, pass me a piece of that cake, please!
Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday Jonn! I hope you have many more of both!
On a side note it is also my daughter’s birthday. So you’re in good company celebrating today. She’s in college so I’m just sending her money and I’m be double clicking on the ads today for you also, from all 6 of the gadgets in my house.
Nice to see even a poser shows up to wish you more years of successful blogging.
Congrats!
Thank you for providing an outlet for my opinions and rants, I’m a short timer here compared to most but I appreciate being welcomed from day one by folks whose opinions have value to me.
Nicely done Jonn, best wishes for continued success with this blog or with whatever gig you choose to pursue!
the LRRP 41 Cometh
Right in the monkey’s ass.
BTW–while my knowledge of the legal system is admittedly limited, based on far less contact with the po-po than, say, you or Psulie-boi Wickre (Google hit!) I find it pretty unusual for even a misdemeanor charge of disorderly intoxication to be ajudicated in barely a month.
Care to tell me another story, DullASS?
Oh and thanks for providing the entertainment as well, in addition to the intelligent exchange of ideas here you also attract a fair number of clowns and jokers. Their obviously well articulated and insightful commentary never fails to amuse, often to the point of tears….