Midweek Open Thread
If Maduro had a daughter. By A.F. Branco.
Happy hump day TAH! We’re already on the final Wednesday of January, 2019. Hope you guys are having a good week. February and the weekend are almost upon us. Time for this site’s equivalent to the work week’s Bingo Free Space, your midweek open thread.
Category: Open thread
FIRST!!
Keep practicing Skyjumper. Friday WOT is only 2 days out now. Maybe it will warm up enough so my clock will advance and the keyboard will thaw out.
I would recommend you get a ruling on what a MOT FIRST is worth, but you really don’t want that humiliation. You do have my congrats.
I wasn’t really trying to be first 5th/77th FA, but just came in from outside and my fingers where shaking so bad from the cold (- 46 with wind chill here in Cheese Head land) that one of my near frozen digits just accidentally tapped “FIRST!!”.
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it. 😉
I know the feeling! It’s a frigid 66° here in the land of fruits and nuts. It’s not much but it is some small compensation for the insane politics here.
Not first
And here’s hoping that the rest of you are having the good week that I’m not.
I’m on vacation, so that’s nice. My Mother-In-Law collapsed yesterday and had to be transported, which scared the hell out of us, but they released her after a few hours. Food poisoning.
Hope your week improves.
Thanks TOW, and best wishes / prayers for your mom in law. No vacation for me for a while.. closest I’ll get is my trip to FDIC in April.
IVs and Zofran man..best of luck to her.
Present and accounted for.
Fifth
A fifth of a gallon used to be four fifths of a quart.
Then the metric system sent shockwaves through the drinking community.
Then the GIQ disappeared.
At least we still have beer in pounders.
It’s a good week, they’re mostly all good weeks these days.
AOC might not be Maduro’s daughter but she’s certainly Bernie’s apostle.
Watching her detonate heads in DC has been entertaining, especially as she tries to stick it to the Democratic Leadership…long known for their tolerance for new ideas and outsiders. Just ask her mentor Bernie how well the Democrats tolerate non-corporatists amongst the pure.
She’s cute, isn’t she? Kind of like a Tasmanian devil – as long as you don’t let them get near your fingers, you’re okay.
Just gotta love all the Dems excoriating the rich. Have to wonder how many of them will get told to go piss up a rope by the richest seven folks in the US -all Democrats- after all this talk of 70-90% taxes on the ultrawealthy.
In a Socialist paradise everybody is first, after the boss.
In Soviet paradise TV watches you.
In Mother Russia, the president assassinates you.
TWUNT. I can’t wait to watch her and then DemComms self destruct.
Oh, come on, you guys! You’re far too nice about this.
You gotta give the girl a chance to PROVE what she REALLY can do!!!
Me – I’m breathless with anticipation to find out just how things will go with her.
Sorry, but her PROVING what she REALLY can do sounds like a pr0n movie series to me.
This looks like it’s turning into a struggle between the new generation of Democrats and the “old guard”. The newer generation is more socialist. In fact, additional Democrats are starting to embrace the “Sanders-Cortez” model in hopes of capitalizing on a new trend.
They’re talking about trying to run a primary challenge to Cortez, this would be interesting to watch. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if she defeats the primary challenge. This recent election was not just about a Democrat victory in the House. It was also about the victory of a new group of Democrats.
On this date in history, 30JAN:
1945 – US Army Rangers and Filipino guerrillas executed a flawless rescue of 486 POWs from Camp Cabanatuan north of Manila. The Raid at Cabanatuan, also known as The Great Raid, was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines. On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas liberated more than 500 from the POW camp. After the surrender of tens of thousands of American troops during the Battle of Bataan, many were sent to a Cabanatuan prison camp following the Bataan Death March. The Japanese transferred most of the prisoners to other areas, leaving just over 500 American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison. Facing brutal conditions including disease, torture, and malnourishment, the prisoners feared they would all be executed as General Douglas MacArthur and his American forces returned to Luzon. In late January 1945, a plan was developed by Sixth Army leaders and Filipino guerrillas to send a small force to rescue the prisoners. A group of over a hundred Rangers and Scouts and several hundred guerrillas traveled 30 miles (48 km) behind Japanese lines to reach the camp. In a nighttime raid, under the cover of darkness and a distraction by a P-61 Black Widow, the group surprised the Japanese forces in and around the camp. Hundreds of Japanese troops were killed in the 30-minute coordinated attack; the Americans suffered minimal casualties. The Rangers, Scouts, and guerrillas escorted the POWs back to American lines. The rescue allowed the prisoners to tell of the death march and prison camp atrocities, which sparked a new rush of resolve for the war against Japan. The rescuers were awarded commendations by MacArthur, and were also recognized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A memorial now sits on the site of the former camp, and the events of the raid have been depicted in several films.
Very timely HMC Ret.
Just finished reading the book “Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission” a couple of weeks ago.
Great read, amazing story but totally blown away by the amount of atrocities committed by the Japanese.
While the death rate in German POW camps was 4%, the death rate in Japanese POW camps was 27%.
There is “The Knights of Bushido” which chronicles Japanese War Crimes and “The Scourge of the Swastika” which chronicles what the Germans did, both are good reading!
Just three years later Nathuram Godse would kill Ghandi, ostensibly due to Ghandi’s desire to work with Muslims to create a unified India. Godse found Ghandi’s ideas as too complacent regarding Islam and disliked Ghandi’s pretense of a monopoly on the truth.
Godse and his collaborator Apte would hang in November of 1948 for their parts in the assassination.
A subtle reminder that speaking unpopular ideas to a crowd not desiring to hear them is never a very safe path to pursue.
Five weeks later, Third Army set up a company-sized armored task force commanded by CPT Abe Baum to rescue the POWs of Oflag XIII near Hammelburg fifty miles behind the German lines. It…did not end as well.
Note: Some historians have stated that Patton ordered the Hammelburg raid because he knew his son-in-law (captured in North Africa in 1943) was interned in the camp. Patton himself denied knowing this. I will leave it at that…
This is a mix of regulars and militia (Guerrillas). We had a similar arrangement with Great Britain during the colonial period, as well as doing revolution with regards to the Continental Army working with the state militias.
The Philippines was US territory during World War II. They were going through the process of eventually being an independent country when the Japanese invaded.
While waiting for MacArthur’s return, the Filipino guerrillas continued fighting against the occupation forces. They even used an impressive human intelligence gathering system to be able to feed MacArthur details about what specific Japanese officers did and even what they ate.
Not sub-arctic cold here at Casa de Sparky annex, but gonna suck tomorrow nevertheless.
Just shoveled off Granma’s roof, only slide off once.
I’ve finally succumbed to the wife’s constant whining about my advancing years and bought a snowblower. For years the shoveling was something I enjoyed a great deal.
Outside in the fresh, cold New England air…working up a sweat…
After using the new machine a couple times this year, I should have purchased one twenty years ago. Made really short work of the 8 inches of light powder we got up here last night, and a week ago Sunday made it really easy to clear the foot of snow…probably a third of the time it would have taken to shovel.
I’ve got 8.75 feet of snow piled up in my yard, never mind my neighbors’ yards. Any time you want to use the snowblower here, feel free. Just knock on the door and I’ll give you hot tea and cookies to stoke the fire!
Well at 9000 feet above sea level
We have missed the Alberta Clipper
No -20 here …
sunny with blue sky’s
Temp 42
Text from my insurance company says I’m in the path of Winter Storm Jayden, and is offering tips on how to file a claim.
Winter Storm Jayden. *sigh*
I got one from USAA.
I’m kinda offended, I grew up in New England so they should know that I know how to deal with a little cold weather.
Natural gas heat, backup gennie, fire place, a cord of seasoned hardwood, top hat type propane heater, chainsaw, axes up the yingyang.
On second thought, upping my insurance *might* not be a bad idea.
Yep, USAA. My whine there is in response to the weather guessers now naming winter storms and the like, for the dramatic effect, I suppose.
Hurricanes have been named for a while now, and deserve it. Hurricane George in 1947 was the first.
21st
Century.
πth!
nth!
In the middle of a ‘puter rebuild on the other machine.
Yesterday I got a letter from the American Legion inviting me to join them and thanking me for my [non-existant] military service. Offered some trinkets for joining.
Makes me think they just may wind up with some posers amongst the cadre.
Pics or it didn’t happen. We can have a “What Should Graybeard Pose As?”
contest.
What is the MOS/NEC for combat sticky bun baker.
If memory serves me it’s:
ID10T
But don’t hold me to it.
FIRST Entry to the “What should Graybeard Pose As?”
Battle of the Alamo Survivor. With the lack of history taught these days he’s a shoe in. Gave him the courage to lead the break out assault at Macho Grande.
I have pics of myself in my 1830-1860’s era mountain-man outfit at the Sam Houston Folk Festival, so we can use that to prove I’m the lone survivor of the Battle of the Alamo.
Breaking out of Machi Grande is one thing. Getting over it is quite another.
Macho Grande. Machi Grande is 5 clicks south.
I never got over Machi Grande, either.
Veteran of the Battle of Serenity Valley.
Veteran of “Operation Bughouse”, the first Battle of Kendathu.
Viper Pilot, Battlestar Galactica
Blue Blaze Irregular.
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As long as one is going to be a fabulist, go big.
I first read “the Battle of Senility Valley.” And thought it apropos.
Where we carried the CRS-77. Gotit.
OK, challenge accepted.
But I’ll need some guidance as how to post the pic here without putting it somewhere else on the interwebz…
Check email, GB.
Wilco.
Am going to bring up Nathan Phillips again (AKA Nathan Alan Phillips, Nathan Richard Phillips), Native American Indian, who embellished his Marine Corps Military service time…
Jesse Watters of “Watters World”, FOX News, did am excellent 4 minute video that addressed the Facts about Phillips. It is worth watching.
“The Media has turned a Blind Eye to the Native American Activist’s hatred, lies and past after the Covington Catholic Confrontation.”
The video evidence pretty much proves that he is a lying POS, caught in the act and no other news outlets even care.
RGR 4-78:
AMEN on EVERY word you wrote…
👍👍
He served their purpose and that’s that. No need to revisit the matter. No need to set the record straight. Certainly, there’s no need for truth. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and his family.
2/17 Air Cav:
Wonder what ever happened to “What’s Her Face” (HER Indian name)…
😉
To be fair, they aren’t going to call out their own incompetence and fake news promotion.
I gave my liberal sister a heads up when it first happened, telling her how it would go down. Have not heard from her.
I’ve been messing with my friend that lives in the lower 48 and is experiencing this cold snap. Lines like “Do you know what we call -15 degrees here? We call it October”. I’m also reminding him that I live a 4 hour drive away from the Arctic Circle and it is warmer here than it is there.
In all seriousness, for those of you in this unusual (for your areas) cold snap stay warm. Keep clothing loose and in layers. Don’t touch anything outside with bare hands. If you do you can get contact frostbite instantly. Wear contact gloves. Those really thin wool ones work well for that, just don’t wear them as your only gloves.
It’s getting real down here. There was this light frosty stuff on the windows of our vehicles this morning.
Only in the 60’s today, panic and hoarding of bread and milk is going on.
Trying to figure out how to change this fancy thermostat to “heat” mode.
The struggle is real.
My pipes are still in good working order. Supposed to get a bit chilly tonight, again, around -23F or some such thing, but I have chocolate ice cream and popcorn, so I’m good to go.
-27 in my AO this morning. People are freaking out like this never happens. I looked yesterday. It hits -20 about once a year in here for the last 30 years. I guess everyone just forgets about it after it warms up.
“Don’t touch anything outside with bare hands”
My sister ( the other one) once licked the frost on the metal railng and got her tounge stuck. My dad came out with hot water and burned it for her.
Cold water will suffice and is recommended.
Zero here and windy for a few days. BFD but looking at the Midwest actual temps is something I do not remember seeing in many years. I have seen minus 47 in the BGR area cica 81-82 and a minus 38 on the same lot circa 92-93. Those were dead calm am temps.
long long winter this year.
Probably pull a dead Gopher out of the hole in PA
Morning report: Venus-> Moon-> Jupiter show in eastern sky before sunrise, nice clear sky.
Early AM temp was -22F, no wind to speak of, pipes flowing free, and all quiet on the western front.
I saw that this morning. On the return portion of my run, I saw the moon come over the eastern horizon. I saw Venus come over the horizon shortly after I finished my run and did my cool-down walk.
Towards the end of my cool-down walk, I looked eastward and saw, diagonally upward from left to right: Venus, crescent moon with dark side lighted, Jupiter, Alpha Scorpii (Antares)/Scorpio.
Then, in an arc further above the horizon from the horizon to the east to the horizon in the west: Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, space where Cancer would be (obscured by light glare), Gemini, Auriga. My back was to Gemini when looking at the Venus, moon, Jupiter combo.
I’m from Minnesota, I used to be a paper deliver. I had to deliver papers in this kind of weather during the winter. I remember pulling the first paper up from the stack, before putting it in my bag, and looking at the weather section. I would look at the graphics to see if I was about to get f(beep)ed the next few days.
I track my system coming down from Canada towards the lower 48. Minnesota and the adjacent states were in the direct path. Then, as they progressed, watching that air mass dropping temperatures in front of it while seeing temperatures go back to normal winter temperatures behind that air mass.
In one of the papers, they had a photograph of an Alaskan driving in car, top retracted, and the driver driving like he is doing summer driving. The driver was still dressed for cold weather, but not dressed the way we were about to be.
I remember a quote about how it was time to “share the wealth” and for the lower 48 to get their share.
The Federalist did a great job reporting Nathan Phillip’s “Non-Profit” Organization, Native Youth Alliance.
It is worth the read. You Be The Judge.
“Government Records Say Nathan Phillips’ Nonprofit is ‘Not In Good Standing, But He is Still Taking Donations”:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/28/government-records-say-nathan-phillips-nonprofit-not-good-standing-hes-still-taking-donations/
Dentures are not cheap.
Yep…as others put it, he lied thru his teeth.
😎
It is easy for him. 🙂
You mean to say he lied through his remaining four or six teeth?
What a surprise – NOT!
API & RGR 4-78:
You both crack me up!!!
🤣😂😅😆!!!!!
Yeah, all two of them.
…Literally.
I wouldn’t be surprised if his missing teeth is a result of a combination of improper routine oral hygiene, as well as getting into fights. Could also be some medical and dietary explanation.
He obviously hasn’t been spending those paypal bucks on his dentition.
Oh…one last thing and then I will get off my Soapbox about the Covington Students, Nathan Phillips and the Black Hebrew Israelites reference the incident that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial on 18 January 2019 during the March For Life
A 3 minute video WORTH watching…You Be The Judge.
“This is the side of the story between the Covington High school students wearing MAGA hats and the Native American Nathan Phillips that you didn’t see BECAUSE IT WAS DELETED FROM FACEBOOK:”
How ironic about the Governor of Virginia…he is a former
Pediatric Neurologist and a Gun Control Advocate.
Jonn featured him on TAH when Northam was running for office. Northam’s campaign to the folks of Virginia was that he was a Gulf War Veteran.
You Be The Judge.
“Virginia Gov. Northam Faces Backlash For Comments on 3rd-Trimester Abortion Bill: ‘Morally Repugnant'”:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/va-gov-faces-backlash-for-comments-on-controversial-third-trimester-abortion-bill
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=73065
They are sick. So now the Dems in VA join their brethren in New York in thinking it’s OK to kill an unwanted baby even after it’s been born alive. WTF?
To be fair, they are proposing changing their law so that is okay to kill the baby provided it is not all the way out of the birth canal. Also, if you kill a pregnant woman who hasn’t yet delivered, it I only one homicide and not two.
Then they need to modify the criminal statute.
Virginia Statute 18.2-71.1: “Any person who knowingly performs partial birth infanticide and thereby kills a human infant is guilty of a Class 4 felony”.
Virginia law defines a “human infant” to be a product of human conception that has been completely or substantially expelled or extracted.
To add, that proposed law conflicts with existing law (i.e. The willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of a pregnant woman by one who knows that the woman is pregnant and has intent to cause the involuntary termination of the woman’s pregnancy at birth.
YMMV
The Democratic Party of Virginia made the assumption that I had an NPC in my household. They sent what looked like a survey of “important issues”. Naturally, these where Democratic issues.
One of the items that they had was adjusting the law to no longer require a picture ID.
thebesig,
Starting in October 2020, Virginians boarding domestic flights will need to show a REAL ID Card to board.
Folks in Virginia who are Active Duty or Retired as well as DoD Civilians can still their Military ID Card or CAC Card if they choose not to get the REAL ID Card. This includes Dependents:
https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/drivers/#real_faqs.asp
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
If a Virginian does not obtain a REAL ID Card by 2020 and do not have an Active Duty or Retiree Military ID Card or CAC Card, then they can use the following to board an aircraft:
“The Transportation Security Administration indicates that it will accept the following identification documents:”
U.S. passport
U.S. passport card
DHS trusted traveler cards (Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, FAST)
U.S. military ID (active duty or retired military and their dependents, and DoD civilians)
Permanent resident card
Border crossing card
Airline or airport-issued ID (if issued under a TSA-approved security plan)
This pertains to all 50 States.
When I received this post in my email, I thought it was spam.
I had to do a “double check”.
Yup, this has made the rounds in Virginia. I show my military ID when they ask for ID at the airport.
The last time I flew domestically, I showed them my Military Common Access Card (CAC). I have my Retired Reserve ID Card that I’ll use the next time I fly.
This was in reference to no picture ID at the voting precincts.
The D-rats are in favor of Infanticide. Next they’ll go all-out for euthanasia encouraging it for the elderly and disabled as well as the Mentally Handicapped just like the Nazis did!
Wouldn’t surprise me. Yet, they keep calling us the present day Nazis.
Dr. Mengele would be proud.
For your consideration. GRAMMAR BAR JOKES; A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.” A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.” A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, slowly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.… Read more »
An angry palindrome walked into a bar and said, “Dammit, I’m mad!”
Ed, Ed, Ed…
5th/77th FA, the King of Battle, is a GEORGIA Bulldog Fan as well as a BAMA Fan…😉
AND most important, a WEST POINT Fan!
rtr…hbtd/godawgs…goarmybeatnavy…
😎
Oh, Well…This WAS a response to my FAVORITE Navy AW1 on Graybeard, but his comment went *Poof!*
🤗
yesum, our heat wave from the other day went poof also. Had all 4 seasons in one day. The weather changes have been as depressing as the oblowme years. The last day or so has been as cold as my final ex-wife’s heart. That one was so cold hearted I kept a few beers in her bra. This shall pass; supposed to hit the mid 70s by next week. If you don’t the weather in GA just wait a little bit, it’ll change. And to those who like to make fun of us Southerners about snow, ice, and very cold weather. HEY, it’s RARE down here and we are not used to it. You know RARE, as in a Northern College winning a National Championship RARE. godawgs/rtr/goarmybeatnavy Welcome Home AnotherPat, we miscreants have needed supervision and your excellent added research posts. I cleaned up at the betting window on this whole Phillips show. You may have noticed I was the FIRST to wager that he would turn out to be a lying, embellishing POS, and that the lame street media would either downplay, ignore or misrepresent that. Well duh huh, game set match. Since this idiot FIRST showed up I have lost two of my Former Marine Buddies, that were decorated Combat Veterans of the Viet of the Nam. The second one will be laid to rest this Saturday, with full Honors. Master Gunnery Sergeant Arthur A. Slocumb III, 24+ years RIP Tuffy. These other two posts you made today struck some nerves too. Mrs Trash from Carolackie scamming, “paid back 9,000$ so far”. Out of $100,000 stolen? Good luck seeing the rest of it. grrrr. And a triple grrrrr, God gonna get ’em, for the Virginia Story. I am a firm believer that a Woman’s body is hers. She can do what ever she wants to with it. That being said, I’m not in support of abortion for the sake of getting rid of an unwanted child. To me this is murder. If you don’t want a chance of a child, then place that birth control pill between your… Read more »
Airedale…poof…too easy.
Sheesh…Some People…🤔
“She Made Up a Son To Collect Benefits For 17 years. Now She’s Going To Prison.”
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article224622295.html
“A 61-year-old Fort Bragg widow will spend 14 months in federal prison for using a fictitious son to collect more than $100,000 in veterans’ and Social Security benefits.”
“Between 2000 and 2017, Elizabeth Hayes Cox stole more than $68,000 in Social Security money and another $44,000 from the Department of Veterans Affairs on behalf of Oliver McCain Cox, a minor who did not exist, according to her 2018 indictment.”
“Prosecutors said Wednesday Cox presented a fraudulent birth certificate to receive benefits on behalf of her then-husband who was a disabled veteran. Cox had married her husband while he was in prison and received payments for their made-up dependent child.”
“Her Raleigh attorney, Kevin Marcilliat, asked for a more lenient sentence that would allow Cox to spend half the time at home with her real daughter Aimee Newman, a retired Army captain in Eastover.”
“He noted that Cox, who is recovering from hernia surgery and uses a walker, is making progress with mental health treatment and that the VA has recovered roughly $9,000 of the money since 2017….”
Who says crime doesn’t pay? Payingher $10300 net.
As to (see what Hack did there?) the Jussie Smollett attack incident, Hack Stone consulted his Magic 8 Ball, and he is now confident to make the following predictions:
1. After approximately one week, a senior member of the Chicago Police Department will release the following statement; “After an extensive investigation, we are unable to substantiate the claim that Mr. Smollett was assaulted the morning of January 29, 2019 in the vicinity of of 300 E North Water St between 1:00 and- 3:00 AM. This does not mean that this assault did not occur, but we cannot establish that the events occurred when and where as described. The Chicago Police Department requests that anyone who may have information to contact us immediately.”
2. Shortly afterward, a spokesperson for Jussie Smollett will release a statement stating that Jussie Smollett has checked himself into an undisclosed hospital to be treated for “exhaustion”.
3. Producers of Empire will release a statement saying that Jussie Smollett will temporarily be leaving the show to take care of personal issues, and they wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to his returning from the show.
4. This will all get swept under the rug, and somehow it will all be Donald Trump’s fault.
Reading that story last night. No way that actually happened.
It must be true. There he was at 2:45 a.m. in 15 degree temps with a noose around his neck. And in his second version of what happened, his assailants were wearing MAGA hats and screamed: “This be MAGA country, yo bitch-ass ni**ah.” This is clearly all Trump’s fault. If there were no MAGA hats, there would be no assaults against black men in Shotcago.
The Shotcago PD has just admitted that after reviewing hours of security camera CCTV tapes there is only one minute when Jussie whathisname was off camera when the claimed assault could have occurred. Also, the two unidentifiable persons who appear on video released by the coppers are reported by a neighborhood watch group to have walking in the opposite direction where Jussie claims his attack occurred. Another interesting factoid: Jussie claims he was on his cell phone with his manager when the attack supposedly occurred, yet neither of them called 911. Jussie didn’t call 911 until over 40 minutes after he said the “hate crime” occurred. I am calling bullshit, fake news and a fake hate crime. Looks like a Munchausen’s fake hate crime.
Between Jussie Smollet, the SNOWFLAKE in the link here and a few others, one could produce a TV Show titled “IN SEARCH OF Victimization”!!!
https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2019/01/30/progressive-moron-is-really-triggered-by-the-blackface-of-coal-miners/
In 1991, a woman and her 13-year old daughter were sexually assaulted and murdered. Police eventually made an arrest and the assistant prosecutor obtained a conviction. The defendant shouted, “I didn’t do it!” when the verdict came in back in 1995. He went to prison. The years past: 10, 15, 20. And guess what? He hadn’t done it. DNA evidence established that another man was responsible. He was released and the prosecutor stated there would be no attempt to retry him. He wasn’t guilty. What he shouted out in the courtroom was indeed true. So, how did this happen? An unscrupulous lawyer who withheld exculpatory evidence, that’s how. His name you may recall. It is Michael Nifong, the same slithering bastard who played a similar game years later against members of the Duke lacrosse team.
Let’s hope that crooked bastard is still disbarred.
He is.
If any served in the Blue Water Navy during VN, this applies to you, and it’s good news. I hope this benefits some of you buttwipes: Court rules VA must pay disability benefits to ‘blue water’ Vietnam veterans By: Leo Shane III 1 day ago WASHINGTON — A federal court ruled Tuesday that the Department of Veterans Affairs cannot deny disability benefits to thousands of Vietnam veterans who claim exposure to cancer-causing chemical defoliants simply because those vets served in the waters off the country’s coastline, and not inland. The ruling marks a major victory for so-called “blue water” Navy veterans who have fought the department for years over the denials. VA officials have said the existing scientific evidence doesn’t justify the presumption of toxic exposure for the group and have strongly opposed legislative efforts to overturn their decision. But the 9-2 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturns past court opinions backing up VA, saying that Congress never intended to exclude servicemembers in the seas around Vietnam when they awarded presumptive benefits for certain illnesses related to Agent Orange exposure. Lawmakers hope for swift action this year on ‘blue water’ Vietnam veterans benefits Both leaders of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee are trying to revive the legislative effort that stalled last month. Under current department rules, the blue water veterans can receive medical care for their illnesses through VA. But to receive disability benefits — worth up to several thousand dollars a month — they must prove that their ailments are directly connected to toxic exposure while on duty. That’s not the case for other Vietnam veterans, who are presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange and other defoliants known to cause serious and rare cancers. So while a veteran who served on the shoreline could receive disability payouts after contracting Parkinson’s Disease or prostate cancer, another vet who served on a ship a few miles away would have to provide evidence of direct contact with hazardous chemicals. Advocates have said that, given the time that has passed since the war, obtaining… Read more »
Makes sense to me. If one cannot prove cause and effect, the presumption should be that it exists. Does this mean that some sailors will receive benefits that they should not? No doubt it does, but so does the cases involving the brown-water boys and the soldiers, airmen, and Marines who were on land.
Riddle me this, 2/17. How does someone (a Vietnam veteran) who can’t possibly have ever come in contact with Agent Orange be presumed to have done so? If Lawn Dart Danny was still alive and had prostate cancer would it be presumed that his cancer was caused by Agent Orange? (I don’t recall any Ranch Hand ops on his aircraft carrier.) Cuz I fail to see how crewmen on carriers, cruisers, and other combatant ships ever came in contact with any defoliant on board ship. And sailors whose blue water ships docked in RVN ports didn’t go walk-about in defoliated jungle.
Also, last I heard, over a quarter of US males are likely to develop prostate cancer if they live into their 60’s. I know at least half a dozen guys in my age range or older who have developed prostate cancer and none of them, save one, ever served in the military. The one that did serve was stationed in the US & Germany. Are we just going to start presuming the impossible cuz it feelz good to give them these VA bennies?
Well, I understand your take and it’s not unreasonable PROVIDED that one the condition you lead with is established. The way I understand it is that there exists a rebuttable presumption that certain medical conditions occurring in any Vietnam Veteran be presumed to be chemically caused. That is not to say that showing the impossibility of that is barred, at least as I understand it.
I don’t have a problem with the presumption that a particular ailment was caused by exposure to Agent Orange. I have a problem with the presumption that because someone was somewhere in the theater of operations of the Vietnam War they were ispso facto exposed to Agent Orange. That is complete bunk. Over 98% of the men who even served on the ground in RVN were never exposed to Agent Orange because only a small portion of the country was sprayed with it. I spent about a week to ten days on the ground in an area that had been defoliated with it; that was the only time in my many weeks in the bush and overflying it I saw it. Once vegetation is sprayed with it, it turns brown, just like weeds sprayed with Roundup. If you weren’t in a line company or some other unit in a sprayed area, you weren’t exposed to it unless you were part of the spraying operation itself. There is no way crewmen on blue water ships were exposed to it at sea. So, I fail to see how there is anything unfair about what the VA has done re proof you were somewhere you were exposed to it.
There were indeed plenty of odd folks exposed to it in many conditions other than walking through it in the jungles. A former coworker who was a transportation officer (USAF) had all sorts of stories from his days on the assorted docks in Viet Nam – leaking barrels of the stuff. Everyone who handled any of that was most certainly exposed, and it is quite unlikely that it is documented anywhere.
Other friends worked on the aircraft and vehicles that transported it inland.
When you think of the opportunities for exposure that can never be proven, yet plenty of folks who can each testify that they saw dozens of unnamed troopers proximate to it you can understand why the blanket presumption was made.
How many of those leaking barrels ended up on Navy vessels for a ride from one port to another? Who all may have been exposed to it? Following the same logic, it may be entirely fair to cover the blue water guys as well.
It’s about time that those who were exposed to it are covered. You bet, I would prefer that only those with proven exposure to it be covered, but if it’s anything like the guys who died after DS/DS/DS from the crap they were exposed to waiting for treatment for something “they” say didn’t happen can be very deadly. I had a very dear friend die very painfully – he was far from a whiner, but he never got proper treatment simply because he could never discover just what sort of treatment he needed. His civilian docs tried many things, only to discover they were ineffective. Had they known to start with, his condition was treatable.
Really, so men who never set foot on the ground in RVN, but served on carriers, cruisers, etc. should collect VA benefits for prostate cancer, Parkinson’s or any number of other diseases when there is no conceivable way they were exposed to it just because it feelz good. And we are not talking about exposures in the middle east. If we are just going to hand out bennies to anyone with a Vietnam service medal, then I want my $3K per month.
“VA officials have insisted the total is closer to $5.5 billion”
That number, 5.5 billion. It keeps popping up in the news lately.
First!
Ah, I mean 97rd.
Sheesh…Some People…
And What The ??????
“Co-Sponser of Late Term Abortion Bill Apologizes. Says She Did Not Read The Bill”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-co-sponsor-of-late-term-abortion-bill-apologizes-says-she-did-not-read-the-bill
“Democratic co-sponsor of a controversial Virginia bill that would repeal restrictions on third-trimester abortions is apologizing to her constituents for supporting the legislation, saying she didn’t read the bill or know how far it went….”
You Be The Judge.
Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran wants to prohibit spraying pestides from March to August to protect Fall Cankerworms. Her reason is Virginia birds need to have adequate food supply to live, i.e. the moths that evolve from these worms.
“Virginia Del. Kathy Tran Submitted Bill To Save Caterpillars On Same Day As Late-Stage Abortion Bill”:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/31/kathy-tran-caterpillars-same-day-abortion/
“The Democratic Virginia delegate who has recently come under fire for sponsoring a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow the termination of a pregnancy up to 40 weeks old, is also the chief patron of a bill that would protect the lives of “fall cankerworms” during certain months.
“Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran introduced “House Bill No. 2495 – Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months” on Jan. 9, the same day as “House Bill No. 2491 — Abortion; eliminate certain requirements.”
“Tran came under fire Tuesday for her support of legislation that would allow an abortion to be performed just moments before the birth of a child.”
Maybe someone in the Old Dominion needs to sponsor a bill to do away with Demon rat VA Del Kathy Tran. At the very least I make a motion for the deployment of the Continent of Insults. I know it is usually reserved for Valor stealing POSers. However, someone that is all for protecting moths and murdering babies may need ordnance expended.
Her and the guvanator was on the nasty news this pm. “You took what I said out of context.” I thought NE Sen Ben Sasse was gonna fall over.
Those trembles the people in VA are feeling are not earthquakes. It’s the Founders spinning in their graves.
SMH
I think she should donate all her organs and then take herself out. Think of all those poor peeps needing transplants who could benefit. Plus, there would be food for worms and birds eat worms.
Yeah, Kathy Tran is getting all the ridicule she deserves. She deleted her Twitter account shortly after and there’s a lot of backlash over this.
When asked if the bill permitted killing an infant at the moment of birth, she squirmed out an answer. It was obvious she was uncomfortable in having to give an answer.
Virginian’s deserve better representation than this.