Gregory Charles Banks; the phony just passing through
So one of our readers is a Mason up in Connecticut and this dude passes through his lodge on the way back from his combat assignments. Sometimes he’s in ACUs, other times he’s wearing his blues, like in the picture above. Of course, he’s Special Forces (isn’t everyone, these days) and in addition to his duties as an Army officer, he’s also a counselor with two offices. The man is a freakin’ machine.
Well, he didn’t turn up in any of my databases, but, you know, he’s probably so secret squirrel that he wouldn’t, but CID can’t find him either. Nor can NPRC;
We’re told that his lodge just threw him a big celebration for his recent award of the Bronze Star Medal so obviously, he loves attention – so here is all of the attention you could ever want, Greg-baby. It looks to me like he stole a midget’s jacket.
Added; more pics;
I emailed these pictures to our counselor friend, Greg Charles Banks and asked if these are not him in the photos, and he hasn’t answered back. I guess he’s going with “identity theft” as an explanation.
OK, I just got an email from him and he admits that this is him in this picture taken at the lodge not wearing the uniform;
I don’t know, you judge.
Category: Phony soldiers
#451 – that’s the concern. He could be more of a manipulated victim here than a culprit, but time will tell. Banks does love soft and easy targets…and catered to troubled youth in his practice.
#452….hmmmm if he lived in Hartford I wouldnt mind investigating this weirdo since I live on the border.
My guess is that he probably did manipulate this Alex kid.
Not making Alex to be the victim. But why would Alex lie about his military service just like Gregor Fucker did?
Becuase he idolized Gregor possibly? Wanted to emulate him and be a storyteller too. Who knows, maybe Gregor has a following.
Only God knows at this juncture. This thing has taken so many turns to the deepest, weirdest spots on the internet that it’s blowing my mind a bit. It’s anyone’s guess.
Alex is not completely innocent by any stretch, but there may be more to the story here in terms of Banks manipulating him throughout the years; molding him into what he wanted.
@454 – Isn’t that what pedophiles do?
@455 – Precisely. This may just be the tip of the iceberg.
@455 – Precisely. This may just be the tip of the iceberg.
Oops…sorry – double tap.
Yep, that some real TCAP stuff going on there. Unless Gregor Focker didn’t do that, he just wanted a student that could help him with his con-work.
Won’t go out of my way to call him the P word yet. Only a matter of time before Alex shows up here defending his actions.
Well guess it could make sense. Sweet on boys since he might just hang out in Provincetown or something during his summertime.
Ex-PH2 – I’d never considered what wine might go best with SOS. Chianti would be too light, I think. Cabernet would overpower it, though. Maybe a good Merlot or a Pinot Noir.
We know who dip shit Alex is. Leave the future mayor of Moronsville out of this. It is tough when your dad aint around and you are raised by “two mommies”.
MrBill: I’d suggest hopped barley wine. (smile)
Seriously: I’ve found that a decent lager goes pretty well with SOS over biscuits w/scrambled eggs for dinner.
God, I love SOS…man fuel.
Oathkeeper: give this a try. Pretty easy to make, and tasty as hell. If you’re watching the salt, I’ve found that leaving out the salt and/or using the low-salt beef bullion doesn’t grossly affect the taste. And you can always add a bit of salt at the table.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=37168#comment-912394
@461 A nice Late Harvest White Riesling.
Gregory Charles Banks should not have a young kid, non-boot camp type or otherwise, doing his dirt work for him. He should man up and do this himself. He knows full well that no one he meets from TAH would do him bodily harm. No one is going to go to jail for the likes of him. So he could surrender his uniform(s) and associated bling himself. Unless he is just that big of a coward. But to have a virtual kid do it in his stead is just wrong, wrong, wrong. I agree with other posts though that there is more to the Alex and Gregory Charles Banks story than meets the eye. God help Gregory Charles Banks if the relationship is not all on the up and up!
@462 Aye-Aye Master Chief. I hit send before I saw your post. I will leave Alex out of this.
From Old Spice to SOS … Ah … There is only one thing that could be better … Bilge Wine.
@468 Okay I give up. What is Bilge Wine? From a non-Navy 1EACH type.
SOS over Texas toast and fried potatoes and a tall frosty lager.
So, Gregory Charles Banks may be a kiddy diddler? Why am I not surprised.
MCPO can confirm or correct, but I believe it’s cheap “wine” fermented on-board while underway from fruit/fruit juice/drink mix, sugar, and yeast. Navy ships technically proscribe all alcohol, but as with GO#1 in-theater: where there’s a will . . . . (smile)
One gallon of juice. One cup of sugar. One teaspoon of baker’s yeast. Mix gently. Put condom over neck of bottle. Put pin hole in tip of condom. Hide in bilge out of the reach of your CPO. Retrieve in 2 to 3 weeks. Good luck.
A Lost Cellar sauvignon blanc, with nice citrusy notes to support the lemony citric acid and garlic in the sausage.
And a good creamy gravy made from bacon grease, butter, unbleached flour, and just a soupcon of left over beef broth from the pot roast, plus some 2% milk, but no added salt is needed. Add the crumbled cooked sausage and stir to heat the sausage, then ladle over Texas toast, with a side of scrambled eggs with sausage, shredded cheese and chopped green onions plus some of the GRONs tails for color.
Or if you prefer, just make a frittata with the eggs and cut into portions, then add as a side to the sausage gravy on biscuits or Texas toast.
And drop the salt shaker and step away from it. Use other spices and herbs instead of salt. Cracked pepper is a great flavor enhancer when used sparingly. 🙂
AS TO AS TO AS TO gweggy charlie banks and his relationship with wee Alex, I have my doubts but will keep them to my self instead of voicing them. Suspicious, rumor, and inuendo can overshadow facts, and we DO NOT need that.
As SGT Friday used to say ‘Just the facts, sir.’
@472 Sounds pretty good to me. If you ain’t got the horse…you ride the mule.
Coal oil added to alcohol was substituted for scotch whiskey in the musical ‘South Pacific’.
@475 When I was a little kid and had the “croup” as they called it, I would get a spoon full of sugar saturated with coal oil. It would cut the tar out of anything in your throat.
Did someone say MUSICAL?
Fabulous!
@465/Hondo – I’ll check it out! Thanks…I had some for the first time a few years ago and it’s my kryptonite. Could eat buckets of it. Going to pass this recipe over to the galley for hasty makin’!
Oathkeeper: you’re welcome, amigo. The recipe source also has a USMC variant (the one I linked is the Army version), which uses soy sauce vice Worcestershire and adds garlic. I make the Army version, but add garlic and onion powder and only use half the salt (and use low-salt bullion). If your background is Navy/USMC, you might find the USMC version more familiar.
Or as was called on the boat, “kickin chicken”, a homage to Wild Turkey.
And if in fact the youngster is the victim of Banks, here’s my sincere hope 1–he gets removed from the situation most ricky-tick, 2–he gets the REAL help he needs, 3–Banks gets ass-plowed by everyone in every prison he hits for the rest of his days.
YMMV.
Shitbag.
I used a little Mrs Dash tonight, otherwise, my recipe works for low-salt stuff. No soy, no Worcestershire. Too cold here for cold drinks. I had hot tea instead. And a frozen Snickers for dessert.
And Green Thumb has surfaced and returned to the fold. My world is all better now. 🙂
Speaking of “spirits”… This is from an old Homer & Jethro spoof sung to the tune, “Sink the Bismark.”
Oh, we didn’t sink the Bismarck and we didn’t fight at all.
We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball,
Chasin’ after women while our ship was overhauled,
A-livin’ it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6rYqI8z_4
–ghp
#480 – absolutely agreed.
Must add that the only thing which improves all the already submitted suggestions for SOS variants is to start with wheat berries, grind them into flour and use that (mixed with some regular AP flour) to make biscuits. Then proceed with the gravy making, optional sides, and eggs as you wish.
Of course, we also make something we call egg mess. Starting with frozen hash browns (shredded), add some chopped onions and fry in your choice of fat (we usually use a combination of butter and olive oil) until quit crispy. Add shredded cheese (it melts better if added and warmed now), then eggs and scramble all. SOS gravy served over that with biscuits on the side is quite tasty. Looks rather disgusting, but yummy stuff. If there is no gravy, we also add salsa and whatever else is handy to the egg mess.
And Hondo? No salt is needed on anything! At least not in this household. We just don’t like it, and never did.
Does anyone use lard for cooking anymore? A friend of mine told me of an episode when he was vacationing in Europe. The locals were enjoying fries served in a paper cone, and of course, they bought some, which he swears were delicious! They found out the secret: those fries were cooked in *GASP!* lard! My late Great grandmother lived to see age 99, and she still ate eggs cooked with lard, bacon, and many other things today’s “experts” swear should have killed her before age 50!
It’s that dang hydrogenated vegetable oil, that crap is a toxic soup. Lard is the isht!
Lard is good. Good for you, too. But render your own for maximum health benefits.
Bacon grease is lard. Lard comes from piggies. You can get it with less salt from low-salt bacon, too.
I usesd 1 tsp bacon grease, 1 tsp butter, and a half cup of beef broth (onions in it), plus two soup spoonfuls of unbleached flour, then milk, then the sausage, and a bit of Mrs Dash. SO good.
BREAKING NEWS:
New photos of Gregory Charles Banks, licensed therapist in the State of CT and National Board of Cetified Counselor (NCC):
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Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“I may not be a US Army Officer, but I look fabulous in the uniform”
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“Strive to be the best at what you are and what you are not”
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“When challenged in life, trick an 18 year old to play act lawyer and public relations professional in order to conspire to destroy evidence of a crime”
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“In the face of overwhelming evidence and when dealing with Valor Thief Hunters and Law Enforcement, create the most unplausible story – and stick to it”
Has gweggy banks run into a sticky wicket that he can’t get through or out of? Oh, pity-pooh. 🙁
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“Licenses and certifications are over-rated, perverse gratification and ignoring unresolved childhood issues is the recipe for and will propell you to success”
@486, believe me, I work in health care and to see the damage that modern refined foods have done to people on a daily basis is staggering. Hydrogenated fats & oils along with refined carbs are the NUMBER ONE cause of this nation’s fastest growing disease which is Type II Diabetes and let alone the biggest cause of our obesity epidemic. Now lets add in the addition of heart disease and cerebrovascular accident(CVA/Stroke) and the cost of our modern refined diet is even more staggering.
Lard, olive oil, and butter are what the human race survived off of for hundreds of years and even though our life expectancy was low due to the of proper sanitation and modern medicine. The human diet back then was what nature provided, not some chemistry lab, and that is why your grandmother lived so long.
Now, then to get back on track. Gregory Charles Banks, you are a world class loser. Even though you do have an edgemucation, you are still in the same Loser Ego class as William Derek Church, Paul K. Wickre, and so many more that have had the misfortune of claiming valor that they did not earn.
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“Like others, like me … Here are words to live by … Make-Over Time”
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
“I am not good enough, I am a dumbass, and people hate me”
Gregory Charles banks deserves every bad thing coming his way.
Ha!! 500!! beat ya, Sparky!!!!
I hope karma reaches up and bites Gregory Charles banks on his fat poser ass.